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Drill.

Description: Patent for
Date: June 30, 1914
Creator: Weathersby, Fred Richard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle-Wheel Buffer

Description: Patent for an improved construction for a vehicle-wheel buffer which eliminates deterioration of its components found in ordinary type buffer. This invention implements an anti-friction mounting which allows the buffer to rotate freely.
Date: February 25, 1915
Creator: Kettler, Martin F.; M. F. Kettler
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Hoisting Liquids from Wells.

Description: Patent for an “apparatus for raising liquid from wells by means of a compressed fluid, such as air or other vapors or gas“ (lines 9-12). The apparatus leaves liquid from the well under normal pressure during hoisting or pumping, and allows for varying amounts of liquid to be extracted.
Date: October 28, 1913
Creator: McCall, Duncan D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Cleaning and Renovating Plant.

Description: Patent for getting knowledge on how to collect the cotton and make it usable.
Date: April 18, 1916
Creator: James C. Garner, of Dallas, Texas & Charles S. Reynolds, of Houston, Texas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Airship

Description: Patent for an airship of improved construction, which allows for the operator to change their positions to propel, raise, lower and steer the ship.
Date: November 10, 1914
Creator: John William Oman
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Armor For Pneumatic Tires.

Description: Patent for armor for pneumatic tires to prevent puncturing of the inner inflatable tube. To also provide anti-skidding lugs which connect to the flexible armor embodied in the tire casing.
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Chilton, William G. & Hobgood, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Aeroplane.

Description: Patent for an improved rotary airplane engine patterned after the Gnome type with extra blades attached to the engine cylinders.
Date: March 25, 1913
Creator: Decker, Harry R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil-Burner.

Description: Patent for improved design and function in oil burners, specifically on fuel nozzle and needle valve, allowing for greater control of gas that flows through to create combustion.
Date: January 27, 1914
Creator: Butler, Louis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Aerial Projectile

Description: Patent for an aerial projectile for use as an anti-infantry bomb, dropped by planes. Specifically, it is a fragmentation bomb hand dropped from planes that will not only deliver an explosive blast and the subsequent shrapnel, but deliver such a blast as to destroy itself so it cannot be reverse engineered.
Date: September 25, 1918
Creator: Bury, Thomas J. & Bury, Oney
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Closure for Refrigerators and the Like

Description: Patent is to "provide a simple and efficient construction of doors or lids for refrigerators, refrigerator cars, ice boxes, fireless cookers, telephone booths and the like, and as fire doors for storage houses, and wherever it is necessary or desirable to provide for facility of movement in opening or shrinking, due to head or cold, dampness or dryness, or other climatic or atmospheric or similar changes or conditions, while insuring an air tight, smoke, fire and bug proof, and heat insulating … more
Date: May 28, 1918
Creator: Seifert, John W. of Houston, TX
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Pipe Coupling

Description: Patent for improvement on the methods of controlling oil flow.
Date: September 2, 1919
Creator: Childs, William L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Compound Air-Compressor.

Description: Patent for an improved Compound Air-Compressor by having four cylinders, in pairings of a high pressure and a low pressure cylinders. The air from the low pressure cylinder will be fed to the high pressure cylinder. The pistons will work in succession rather than simultaneously.
Date: February 17, 1920
Creator: Jones, Oceola
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Treatment of Oil Emulsions.

Description: Patent for improvements in apparatus for treatment of oil emulsions by providing a means that will greatly assist in the separation of water from oil emulsions and which will aid the re-absorption or retention of gas.
Date: January 13, 1920
Creator: McKibben, Charles W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Artificial Tooth

Description: Patent for an artificial tooth that is better able to anchor to the mouth plate.
Date: July 5, 1918
Creator: Dee, Thomas W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Extracting Minerals from Ores.

Description: Patent for an apparatus that extracts minerals, especially sulfur, from ores. The apparatus features new and useful improvements, creating an automatic extraction that separates the minerals in a pure state.
Date: January 13, 1920
Creator: Shires, George M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trademark Certificate: Helen Corbitt's

Description: Certificate registering a trade-mark for "Helen Corbitt's" written in stylized text, in force from 1951-1971. It includes the official certificate and the application text explaining how the mark has been used.
Date: May 29, 1951
Creator: Corbitt, Helen
Partner: University of Dallas

Wild Well Control

Description: Patent for a device to help get oil or gas wells back under control from a distance if they have developed excessive gas pressure which may cause fluid to blow out of the well or fires.
Date: July 11, 1933
Creator: Whitwam, Wallace W.
Partner: Private Collection of Mike Cochran

Apparatus for Building Concrete Structures.

Description: Patent for an apparatus for building concrete structures that includes the method or process of erection.
Date: November 14, 1922
Creator: Sands, Edward E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Treating Hydrocarbons.

Description: Patent for an improved apparatus for treating hydrocarbons. This apparatus is for treating comparatively heavy petroleum and other hydrocarbon oils and their distillates and derivatives, in order to produce from such heavy oils a large yield of gasoline or other light, easily volatile liquids. This apparatus will be a safe and efficient way to produce large yield of gasoline and light hydrocarbon liquids from heavy oils and will be free from trouble arising from the accumulation of carbon.
Date: August 5, 1919
Creator: Andrews, Benjamin & Averill, Willard C., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Bale-Forming Presses.

Description: Patent for an attachment for bale-forming presses consisting of needles, wire storage spools, and a "yieldable mechanism" allowing the wire to pass (line 17) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 26, 1918
Creator: Freeman, Lawrence K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Compress.

Description: Patent for improvements to compresses. Invention for the receiving and compressing of multiple bales of hay, with further compression into a compact bale of great density. The invention additionally provides for the discharging of the compressed bale. Intent is to decrease volume of hay for economy in shipping.
Date: December 24, 1918
Creator: Paine, Herbert A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for the Conversion of Liquids, Fluids, and Oils.

Description: Patent for an apparatus for the conversion of liquids, fluids, and oils. This invention is to use high heat to change the original oils and fluids into oils and fluids of better quality and value.
Date: November 4, 1919
Creator: Adams, Joseph H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gasolene-Measuring Device.

Description: Patent for gasoline measuring device for improving service stations for patrons to see the amount of gasoline. Air pressure will transfer gasoline from tank into measuring device. Gasoline measuring device will be quickly delivered to patrons.
Date: January 25, 1921
Creator: McKallip, Jonathan C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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