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Automatic Water Cut-Off

Description: Patent for improvements to automatic water cut-offs adapted to be useful "in the event of the falling of temperature to freezing or any other predetermined degree of automatically cutting off the flow of the water." (Lines 18-22).
Date: November 13, 1917
Creator: Goodridge Wilson B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Regional Water Plan: Region H, 2016, Volume 1. Main Report

Description: Water plan for Region H describing water resources and suppliers in the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water management strategies, water conservation methods, drought response plans, financing methods, and the process of creation of the plan.
Date: November 2015
Creator: Region H Water Planning Group
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Band-Saw

Description: Patent for improving band-saws for lumber "which can be inexpensively produced, which will not readily crack or otherwise deteriorate in use" (lines 15-18) by "reinforc[ing] the gullets of the teeth that the tendency for cracks to form at this point will be reduced to a minimum" (lines 33-35).
Date: September 28, 1920
Creator: McCormick, Merton H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Regional Water Plan: Region I (East Texas), Volume 1. Main Report

Description: Water plan for Region I (East Texas) describing water sources and suppliers in the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water management strategies for suppliers and counties, water conservation plans, drought response plans, financing of the plan, and the process of creating the plan.
Date: December 1, 2015
Creator: Alan Plummer and Associates
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail-Bag Catcher

Description: Patent for improvements of mail bag catchers. This patent proposes improvements on the construction and arrangements of mail bag catchers including the alteration of the jaw and the addition of springs. Includes illustrations.
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Davis, Tomie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Drilling Tool.

Description: Patent for a bit that can be attached to a rotary tool for drilling wells. It features a means for using water to dislodge any accumulated mud from the tool.
Date: April 5, 1921
Creator: Clore, Franklin H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lumber-Dolly.

Description: Patent for a lumber dolly, which has an anti-tilting device that can be used while loading or unloading the dolly.
Date: August 3, 1909
Creator: Lott, Andrew Gains
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lifting-Frame.

Description: Patent for a lifting frame for hoisting engines, which allows a car to be put under the engine easily.
Date: May 4, 1909
Creator: Knox, Hiram
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Standard for Logging Cars.

Description: Patent for a new and improved standard for logging-cars. This design "consists of a pivoted standard connected by links to a lever a short distance from its pivot, so that when the lever is turned out of alignment with the links the standard will be firmly locked in position. . . . The object of [the] invention is to provide a standard for cars and wagons which can be readily turned down out of the way when loading, and which, when turned up into position, will be firmly and securely held" (lin… more
Date: August 2, 1887
Creator: Minnock, Edmund Junius
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Telegraph-Transmitter.

Description: Patent for an improvement to telegraph transmitters of the pendulum type in which signals are transmitted through use of a series of dots and dashes.
Date: June 2, 1914
Creator: Moore, Leo I.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cultivators.

Description: Patent for the improvement of cultivators using adjustable blades and is adaptable to use different types of blades for a variety of other uses, including illustration.
Date: January 15, 1861
Creator: Alexander, J. T. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Motor.

Description: Patent for a new and improved motor. This design consists in the reciprocating "bar, the shaft mounted in the lower portion of the chair, the drum on said shaft, cord coiled around the drum and connected to the bar, the rest secured to the upper end of the bar, and the spring coiled around the said bar between the chair-seat and the rest" (lines 1-6).
Date: April 30, 1889
Creator: Lovejoy, De Soto
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hook

Description: Patent for a self releasing log hook to rapidly move logs from one location to another. It provides simplicity in structure, effectiveness in operation and inexpensiveness in manufacture.
Date: January 9, 1912
Creator: Knox, Hiram
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Shaving and Sawdust Conveyer.

Description: Patent for improvements that increase the efficiency and safety of conveyers that move sawdust shavings from the saw mills to the furnace or storage rooms. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 1, 1891
Creator: Ross, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wick-Regulator for Lamps.

Description: Patent for "an improvement in those lamp-wick regulators which consists of a threaded rod operated by a nut and connected to the wick, whereby the wick may be raised or lowered by operating the nut; and the invention lies in an improved connection between the wick and rod, by which the wick can be raised with more uniformity and ease." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 20, 1894
Creator: Harding, Walter L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Folding Wagon-Top

Description: Patent for an improved portable vehicle top such as is used upon farm wagons and the like. The wagon-top is constructed so that it may be easily removably connected with a wagon, so that it may be folded when attached to the wagon, and so that it may provide improved means for releasably connecting the supporting leg of the top proper with the standards which carry the top.
Date: January 4, 1916
Creator: Safford, Edward B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Flue-Cleaner.

Description: Patent for a cleaner for a chimney, that is composed of multiple parts and is adjustable.
Date: June 28, 1892
Creator: Pharr, Walter
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Metal Tie

Description: Patent for a metal railroad tie. Illustrations included.
Date: May 16, 1911
Creator: Caton, Augustus B. & Carter, Ernest A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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