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TV Microscope at M.U.

Description: Photograph of two Midwestern University faculty members operating a TV microscope. One member is looking directly into the microscope, while the other is observing the screen display.
Date: January 20, 1969
Creator: Cochran, Jimmy W.
Partner: Midwestern State University

Card Holder

Description: Patent for card holders meant to help better display business cards and other forms of advertisement on surfaces such as windows.
Date: March 4, 1919
Creator: Hill, L. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: Airmen Held For Murder]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of two Sheppard Air Force base airmen are being held by Wichita Falls police in connection with the beating death of motel manager.
Date: February 9, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Wrench for Rotary Well-Drills.

Description: Patent for a wrench designed to assist in working with rotary well drills. The wrench is adapted for unscrewing the coupling that attaches a drill point to a pipe section, as well as for detaching the pipe sections from one another. The advantage of the wrench is in allowing convenient detachment of the parts of a well drill quickly and efficiently.
Date: October 21, 1913
Creator: Lebus, George Franklin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well Drilling Apparatus.

Description: Patent for an improved well-drilling apparatus. Improvements made to bull wheel shaft and the sand reel and casing line shaft so they may be operated independently of each other while utilizing the same source of power.
Date: January 14, 1919
Creator: Thorniley, Clarence W. & Thorniley, Charles, D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Drill Wrench

Description: Patent for a wrench for drill pipes used in drilling wells. Illustrations included.
Date: February 18, 1913
Creator: Osborne, William Rush & Lebus, George Franklin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lavatory.

Description: Patent "relates to improvement in wash basins, tubs, sinks, trays, and the like and especially with reference to the provision of improved means for flushing the waste pipe or duct thereof and for preventing overflow in the case the supply of faucet or faucets should be left running..."
Date: April 6, 1915
Creator: Kavanagh, Joseph A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Internal Pipe-Gripper

Description: Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Internal Pipe-Grippers" (lines 6-7) such as "an improved tool for removing pipes or casings from drilled wells (lines 14-15) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 5, 1913
Creator: McConnell, Scott R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Underreamer.

Description: Patent for an underreamer with improved construction and increased operating efficiency; including illustrations.
Date: December 9, 1913
Creator: Wagner, Warren
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spark Plug.

Description: Patent for a spark plug with the capacity to afford an intense spark, prevent leakage of current, and to preclude fouling of the plug in carbon.
Date: October 24, 1922
Creator: Bronson, Fred L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pump

Description: This patent is for pumps. This patent allows for the pump barrel to be readily disengaged from its normal positive engagement with the well tube for removal from said tube for repairs or any other reason.
Date: March 19, 1918
Creator: Perry, Sherman V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sprinkler

Description: Patent for lawn sprinkler that is simple, convenient and inexpensive device that can be easily and quickly attached to a garden hose and which the device has simple means for placing the same into operative or inoperative position.
Date: September 7, 1915
Creator: Houston, Hugh Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Drill-Collar.

Description: Patent for a new design for collars to be used on water-flushed rotary drills, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: Myers, George S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gripping Tool

Description: Patent for improvements to gripping tools for tubing and other round objects with illustrations.
Date: September 26, 1919
Creator: Drake, Charles W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Core-Drill.

Description: Patent for a rotary drill for drilling into and removing solid core samples of hard formations encountered in deep oil wells. It is designed to remove the core sample intact so the composition of the formation can be analyzed.
Date: May 1, 1917
Creator: Smith, Thomas B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pipe-Tongs

Description: Patent for an improvement on the existing design of pipe tongs, the improvement will allow for one individual to hold the tongs, adjust the size around the pipes, and screw or unscrew the pipe alone. Previous designs required two or three individuals.
Date: March 9, 1920
Creator: Hill, Richard Dennie
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pipe-Wrench.

Description: Patent for a pipe-wrench that can "be adjusted to fit accurately pipes and rods from the smallest to the largest of those in more common use, that will grip each with almost any desired degree of force and yet will not materially mar or injure it, and that may also be used for ends not usually possible with pipe-wrenches" (lines 12-18).
Date: October 15, 1895
Creator: McCauley, John H. & Winfrey, Edgar M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Pipe Tongs Support.

Description: Patent for pipe tongs supports to provide a pipe tongs support that will permit a pipe tongs to be so balanced that it will tend to maintain itself in a horizontal position which is the position in which its use is required.
Date: August 3, 1915
Creator: Hoffer, Temple B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Device for Recovering Tools from Wells.

Description: Patent for a device to lift and recover tools, such as drill-bits, that have been dropped or lost in wells. The device features two prongs that may be engaged to grip or secure in a "biting hold" (line 50) various objects, illustrations included.
Date: September 9, 1919
Creator: Scott, Augustus B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fuel Rod Coupling

Description: Patent for a new type of fuel rod coupling, or "sucker rod," meant to increase the durability of pipes and rods used in drilling operations.
Date: June 3, 1919
Creator: Sheldon, W. J. & Allen, C. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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