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Weight Motor

Description: Patent for a weight motor. This invention is meant for the use of driving fans to circulate rooms. This "invention refers to the winding mechanism wherein a drum on which the cord is wound and the first gear wheel are independently rotatable in one direction on the winding shaft, the latter having keyed thereon two ratchet wheels which engage respectively, pawls on the drum and on the gear wheel" (line 13-20). Illustration included.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Rackley, John Clavin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

House-Moving Truck.

Description: Patent for a simple, easy to use house-moving truck that goes under the sills of a house after it has been lifted from its foundation. It has "a swiveled caster, which is held in place by means of removable plates and braced by removable rods held in eyes of screw-rods, which pass through the bed-plate of the device and engage in the sleepers or sills of the building to be moved" (lines 19-24).
Date: September 10, 1895
Creator: Davis, Mace
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator Attachment

Description: Patent for cultivator attachment improvement "for the purpose of thinning cotton plants to save chopping" (p. 1, lines 9-10). Improved cultivator attachment is used in conjunction with cultivator shovel to cause intermittent deposition of soil on plants to achieve thinning.
Date: July 3, 1906
Creator: Teeter, William Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fan Attachment.

Description: Patent for providing "auxiliary fan blades attachable to a fan having permanent blades whereby to increase the fan surface, by attaching the auxiliary blades, or reducing the fan surface to its normal area by detaching the auxiliary blades" (lines 10-15). Its "intended for use in connection with the fan employed on the Ford car, although not limited to this particular use" (lines 16-19), including illustrations.
Date: April 25, 1916
Creator: Goss, Charles E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rake.

Description: Patent for "a rake in which the rake fingers are capable of being lifted from contact with the ground and moveable independently rearwardly extending fingers, which are positioned between the rake fingers for the purpose of cleaning the rake" (lines 10-15).
Date: June 10, 1919
Creator: Phillips, William C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Culinary Time-Indicator

Description: Patent for a culinary time indicator. This invention is designed to be immersed in cooking liquid that rings a bell when said liquid reaches a desired heat level. Illustration included.
Date: June 2, 1908
Creator: Wolfe, Samuel Section
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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