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Incinerator-Closet

Description: Patent for an incinerator closet with "the purpose of receiving human excreta so the contents may be dried out and burned up" (lines 11-13) within a fireproof device, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 28, 1918
Creator: Greene, George A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Garbage-Burner.

Description: Patent for a garbage incinerator, which has a rotating grate to speed up the evaporation of moisture from the garbage and produce quicker burning.
Date: February 2, 1909
Creator: Burwell, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Garbage-Furnace.

Description: Patent for an improved garbage-furnace which consist of a chamber having a grate for the reception of the garbage, a fire-box at each end, and a sand-box between the fire-boxes below the grate, grate-bars are arranged over the fire-boxes and extending from the bridge-wall, when the fire-boxes are ignited, garbage is introduced through the feed holes, the smoke, gases, fumes & etc. from the burning fuel and the garbage passed through a channel leading to the chimney. Illustration is included.
Date: March 10, 1891
Creator: Brownlee, Alexander
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Appratus for Treating Refuse Matter.

Description: Patent for "the perfection of an apparatus by the use of which night soil or garbage may be reduced to ashes in the shortest possible time and at a comparatively trivial expense" (lines 20-24).
Date: August 8, 1893
Creator: Carrico, Thomas W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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