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Glass Manufacture dated November 5, 1918

Description: Patent for apparatus to improve the overall quality and efficiency of glass production. This includes both window and sheet glass. It assists in developing sheet glass through blowing, drawing, and ladling.
Date: November 5, 1918
Creator: Thomas J. McCoy
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Carpenter's Implement.

Description: Patent for a carpenter's implement designed to be easily carried within one's pocket, with illustrations.
Date: August 5, 1919
Creator: Smith, Evander A.
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Boll Weevil Catcher

Description: The objective of the invention is to improve to catching and destroying boll weevils with a device that is easily attached to a cultivator. This device includes "receptacles filled with an insect destroying liquid." (lines 23-24).
Date: July 5, 1921
Creator: Ploch, Alex
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Automatic Fire and Burglar Alarm.

Description: Patent for automatic fire and burglar alarm. A cord extends from the casing of the alarm mechanism to a window. The alarm is triggered either by weight of a window opening or the cord is burned by fire.
Date: March 5, 1918
Creator: Mann, Oscar O. & Whitley, William H.
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Process of Purifying Oil

Description: Patent for using aluminum chlorid compounds to clean crude oil. Which is apart of the petrochemical process of oil purification.
Date: August 5, 1919
Creator: Miller, Albert E.
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Catch.

Description: Patent for an improved catch (latch) to hold open gates that will "prevent a rebound of the gate" (lines 20) and is "simpler, less expensive, and otherwise more convenient" (lines 29-30) to manufacture and use.
Date: March 5, 1918
Creator: Borah, Dee.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animated Sign

Description: Patent for a display apparatus to be implemented as animated advertising signs which successively display different images by controlling the timing of changes in the colors of light used to flood the front and to backlight the display surfaces. The images are created in such a way that certain elements created in certain colors become absorbed or are made invisible when illuminated by certain colors of light. An apparatus controls the cyclical changes of the colored lights used by the sign.
Date: September 5, 1922
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
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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.
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Check-Book

Description: Patent for a foldable check book. Illustration is included.
Date: October 5, 1920
Creator: Exline, Marcus P.
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Antileak Composition.

Description: Patent for improvements in antileak composition in order to prevent leaks in liquid holding containers like radiators, boilers, etc.
Date: July 5, 1921
Creator: Shrum, Will N.
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Boll-Weevil Exterminator.

Description: Patent for Boll-Weevil Exterminator. Aims to provide a novel and improved apparatus for gathering the boll weevil and squares by air suction to catch insects and pests.
Date: February 5, 1918
Creator: Harrison, James H.; Hall, Samuel E. & Gholson, John M.
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Automatic Lock for Cotton Gins

Description: Patent for an automatic lock for cotton gins. It provides an automatic latch having a constant tendency toward the latching position, but yieldable to the opening of breast of the cotton gin. This is to prevent accidents involving the removing of obstruction in the gin happening to those removing the obstruction. Illustrations are provided.
Date: February 5, 1918
Creator: Henson, W.M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Airship-Destroyer.

Description: Patent for a new airship-destroyer with the new ability to fire pellets and bombs in various directions and differing altitudes (lines 8-12), to ignite fuses to prime the device for firing at a predetermined altitude (lines 13-19), to incorporate a bomb to explode upon contact with the airship (lines 20-24), and to provide the projectile with a rocket to propel it to a greater altitude (lines 25-28).
Date: November 5, 1918
Creator: Saladiner, Joseph M.
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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

Bending-Machine.

Description: Patent for a new machine providing "a simple, efficient and easily operated fluid-pressure actuated machine" for the straightening of railway rails (lines 12-14)
Date: November 5, 1918
Creator: Keely, William
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Advertising-Sign.

Description: Patent for an advertisement sign with a translucent display band that illuminates different sections of letters, numbers, or figures, in various colors, giving the appearance of animation.
Date: August 5, 1919
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Battery Terminal Fastening

Description: Patent for fastening "the rubber caps or tops on the cells of storage batteries in various ways." (Lines 12-14.)
Date: May 5, 1920
Creator: Hawkins, Alda F.
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Lantern-Top

Description: Patent for a lantern top that provides sufficient ventilation for the lamp or lantern. The arrangement of the lantern top provides sufficient communication between the interior of the lantern and the surrounding atmosphere to insure steady burning.
Date: October 5, 1920
Creator: Moore, Thomas Lindsay
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Knife-Sharpener.

Description: Patent for improvements in knife-sharpeners that can be clamped onto a table or similar object, including an illustration. The device has also been "adapted for use in connection with a pair of bits or cutters having convex cutting edges disposed in confronting relation, the bits or cutters being capable of adjustment to present new portions of the respective cutting edges for effective work as the occasion requires" (lines 17-23).
Date: February 5, 1918
Creator: Kirlin, Wiliam B.
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Level-Indicator.

Description: Patent for a new and improved level indicator, intended for use with airplanes and other flying machines to indicate the angle of ascent or descent, as well as when the machine is on a level keel. The level indicator is designed to have a water-tight casing and weatherproof joints and has brackets to secure it to the airplane.
Date: November 5, 1918
Creator: Westbrook, Homer S.
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Lawn Mower

Description: Patent for a lawn mower in which the means for adjusting the intermediate blade has been created so that a groove for a predetermined depth can be cut, and easy removal of the blade when it is desired to sharpen the same. Additionally, a ground-engaging roller is included to keep the machine at the same level so that the knife will cut into the ground at an even depth.
Date: December 5, 1919
Creator: Coniglio Carmelo
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Line-Type-Casting Machine

Description: Patent for a line type casting machine that focuses on improvements to the pot charging device and uses a type of float mechanism (as opposed to a thermostat) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 5, 1918
Creator: Wilmans, Lloyd I.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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