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Weight-Motor.

Description: Patent for a fan, which includes improvements in the arrangement of gears and the addition of a casing with a weighted motor.
Date: April 20, 1915
Creator: McQueen, Charley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Means for Operating Fans &c.

Description: Patent for a way to mechanically fan oneself. The machine is "held in the hand and driven by pressure of the thumb applied intermittently to a vibrating lever" (lines 15-17).
Date: December 22, 1896
Creator: Flores, Alfredo
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Automatic Fans.

Description: Patent for "an improved device for keeping the flies off the table, bed, or other place; and it consists of a fly-brush constructed of a spiral spring attached to a shaft with rotary reciprocating motion, and provided along the convolutions of the spring with suitable wings" (para. 4).
Date: November 3, 1877
Creator: Boone, John Baxter
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Furnace.

Description: Patent for a simple, durable, and effective furnace that uses fuel economically and does not release smoke and gases besides out of the chimney. The furnace has a suction fan that draws the gases into the chimney.
Date: April 2, 1895
Creator: Wainright, Walter Wallace
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Portable Fan and Operating Machinery for Same.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fan. This design "is fluted or corrugated . . . its lines of corrugation radiating from a common point. By this peculiar formation [it is] enabled to concentrate the surrounding air during its movement, and direct and carry it in a body back and forth . . . [and a] heavy bead or bar follows the zigzag or corrugated outline of the bottom of the fan, and serves as a weight to keep it tending downward toward a position of rest. . . . The frame carrying the fan is supp… more
Date: March 16, 1886
Creator: McComas, Arthur William & Fitzhugh, Henry A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Power Fan.

Description: Patent for a new and improved power fan. This design consists in "the combination of the slowly-revolving spring-barrel and the toothed gearing, the pitman-rod operated from the revolving gearing by a crank, the fan-lever connected to the pitman-rod, a weight sliding upon the fan-lever, and a ratchet mechanism for automatically raising the sliding weight" (lines 78-84).
Date: January 10, 1888
Creator: Mason, James Alexander; Mulkey, Elijah F. & Houston, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Peanut-Harvester

Description: Patent for a peanut harvester which can be attached to a standard cultivator frame. It is designed to uproot and sever peanut vines, then deposit the newly aerated peanut vines back onto the ground.
Date: June 29, 1920
Creator: Byrd, Gordon W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Safety Device for Elevators.

Description: Patent for an improved elevator safety device that engages the brakes should the cable break or engine become inoperable to bring the elevator to a gradual stop, with illustrations.
Date: May 15, 1917
Creator: Davis, John L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fumigator.

Description: Patent for an improved fumigator that has a furnace, a fan casing, a fan inside the casing, a discharge in the casing, an air chamber with dampered openings between the furnace and the casing, a perforated partition between the furnace and the chamber, and a nozzle and hose coming from the driving device.
Date: August 21, 1894
Creator: Horne, Edward G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Cleaning Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a cotton-cleaning apparatus made up of "a stationary foraminous case or drum having an inlet-opening in the upper side of its small end, a rotary shaft extending centrally through the case or drum and having a plurality of spirally-arranged at the large end of the foraminous case and having a discharge-pipe for conveying the cotton to the point where it is to be deposited or discharged - as, for instance, into gins or gin-feeders" (lines 9-19). The cotton goes in one end, the cotton … more
Date: October 8, 1895
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
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Fan.

Description: Patent for a fan, which attaches to rocking chairs and is powered by the rocking motion.
Date: October 4, 1910
Creator: Sweetser, Charles
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Fan Attachment for Sewing-Machines

Description: Patent for improvements in fan attachments for sewing-machines, which can be applied to the fly wheel of a sewing machine and generate air draft during operation of the machine. This invention is also durable and inexpensive to manufacture, as well as simple in construction and operation.
Date: October 20, 1914
Creator: Warrell, John D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fan and Fixture Support.

Description: Patent for a fan and fixture support that can be used in connection with a common type of union box for electrical conduit installations. The device provides a support or hanger that can be installed either in frame or in concrete ceilings and partitions, and it prevents rotation of the device after installation.
Date: June 1, 1915
Creator: Murph, Donald H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rocking-Chair Fan.

Description: Patent for a rocking chair fan that spins when the operator begins rocking in the chair. It easily adjusts to any model of rocking chair and is noiseless.
Date: July 21, 1896
Creator: Martyr, Leonard W. & Martyr, Ernest E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fan.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fan. This design "consists mainly, first, in the combination with a swinging bar of metal or wood, or both, carrying the fans, of a balance-weight located at an angle to the line of the bar for the purpose of retarding its backward movement; and, second, in the combination, with a shaft and a hinge-connection uniting the fan-holder clamp to the shaft, of a removable pin by means of which the fan may be caused to move positively with the shaft or swing independently… more
Date: June 20, 1882
Creator: Cohen, Moses.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fan Attachment.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fan attachment. This design "consists of an attachment for rocking-chairs, cradles, &c., and having an oscillatory arm adapted to hold a fan" (lines 9-11).
Date: January 2, 1883
Creator: Cohen, Moses
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Fan Attachment for Rocking Furniture.

Description: Patent for a new and improved rocking-chair fan. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the fan-frame and fan, sleeve, cord, and the rocker, of the double clamping device for uniting the fan-frame to the rocker . . . and the connecting cord or wire" (lines 24-31).
Date: February 16, 1886
Creator: McComas, Arthur William & Fitzhugh, Alexander
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fan-Hanger.

Description: Patent for a ceiling fan hanger that allows the fan to be moved higher or lower in the room as needed and stays firmly in place at each height setting.
Date: March 12, 1907
Creator: McBee, Marshall E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fly Fan or Brush.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fly fan or brush. This design consists "[i]n an automatic fly fan or brush, a suitable hollow post terminating at its upper end in a casing, a crank-shaft and conical pulley located therein, and gearing connecting the crank-shaft with the pulley-shaft, in combination with a cord connected to the pulley and to a rubber band or cord passing around a pulley at the base of the post, said rubber cord or band at one end being connected thereto, a pitman-rod connecting th… more
Date: August 28, 1888
Creator: Rembert, Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fan Attachment.

Description: Patent for a new and improved fan attachment. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the sewing-machine table and the upright of the fan-supporting frame, of the triangular base provided with a rubber-covered base hinged to a sleeve adjustably fitted upon said upright" (lines 111-115).
Date: July 2, 1889
Creator: McComas, Arthur W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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