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Automatically-Adjustable Headlight for Locomotives

Description: Patent for an automatically adjustable headlight for locomotives or streetcars which rotates when the vehicle is tilted going around a curve to allow the light to shine around the curve.
Date: March 2, 1909
Creator: Cooper, William M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Buggy Tops

Description: Patent for an attachment for buggy tops. Illustration included.
Date: March 2, 1909
Creator: Fullerton, Phillip Y.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Advertising Clock

Description: Patent for an advertising clock. This invention is designed to display advertisement at regular intervals. Illustration included.
Date: March 2, 1909
Creator: Barnett, John Beverly & Turner, W. N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Baling-Press

Description: Patent for a new baling press design with description of parts and their functions, with illustrations.
Date: March 2, 1886
Creator: Bryan, Walter S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Seat Recorder.

Description: Patent for a new and improved car-seat recorder. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the following elements: a car-axle, the depressible car-seat, and the recording apparatus arranged alongside the seat and consisting of friction feed-wheels, a paper strip, meshing spur-gears, and a puncturing device arranged vertically, a lever which operatively connects said seat and apparatus, and gearing which connects the latter with the axle, whereby movement of the car operates said apparatus a… more
Date: March 2, 1886
Creator: Bywaters, Joseph K. & Burke, John Y.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for the Manufacture of Ice.

Description: Patent for a new and improved ice maker. This design calls for "two or more sheets of galvanized iron or other metal set in a tank of fresh water, one on either side of the evaporation-pipes, and held in a position parallel to each other by anchors or yokes that connect them" (lines 15-20). This eliminates the need for strong (ammoniacal) brine and is a faster, more reliable, and less leaky ice-making process than previous ones that used said brine.
Date: March 2, 1880
Creator: Zilker, Andrew J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Battery Connector

Description: Patent for a battery connector that will bind the, "posts and nuts of batteries."
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Hale, Noah
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Boll Separator.

Description: Patent for "cotton boll threshing machines." "Obejct of the inventions is provide means for crushing, agitating, and opening the dry cotton bolls and removing the fiber of seed cotton,,, without breaking the fiber and lowering the grade of the staple."
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Patterson, Warren A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Safety Attachment for Locomotive-Cabs.

Description: Patent for a locomotive engine safety device involving a detachable protective carrier that releases from the engineer's cab allowing escape from the locomotive engine cab in case of danger, including illustrations.
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Uttz, William A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Stop Device for Printing-Presses.

Description: Patent for improvements to safety devices (springs, belt shift levers, guide members, rock shafts) that can be attached to a printing press to create automatic stops. These safety devices can be used to address possible accidents or emergencies by fastening down on a specific section of a printing press.
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Brown, John Walter R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automobile-Top.

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements in Automobile-Tops." (lines 5-6) and is related to "tops of automobiles having two or more seats." (lines 9-10) includes illustrations.
Date: March 2, 1920
Creator: Stewart, Henry W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Auxiliary Door-Lock

Description: Patent for an auxiliary door lock, that may be used with any type of door, and that is portable, with illustrations.
Date: March 2, 1920
Creator: Shirley, William Arthur
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Stretching and Tying Device.

Description: Patent for a "device capable of enabling the wires of a fence after the latter has been erected or during the construction thereof to be readily tightening to the desired tension without necessitating the removal of staples or other devices for fastening the fence-wires to the posts." (Lines 12-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 2, 1897
Creator: Kirby, Thomas W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trowel.

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements in Trowels." (lines 8-9) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 2, 1920
Creator: Parker, Barton J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wheel Hub.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wheel-hub. This design "relates to that class of wheel-hubs which are made up of several parts in order that they may be cast in metal; and the object of the invention is to adapt the mortise-piece of the hub to be cast independently of the flanges, to form a positive clamp for the shoulders, and the protect the bearings from sand" (lines 8-15).
Date: March 2, 1886
Creator: French, Stephen H. & Maltby, William J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cultivators.

Description: Patent for "Improvements in Combined Plow and Cultivator" (lines 4-5), including illustrations.
Date: March 2, 1875
Creator: Roquemore, Peter D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Knockdown Show-Case.

Description: Patent for a showcase that may be easily taken apart for transportation or storage. It is also easy to replace broken panes of glass, and the parts "mutually brace and support each other" (lines 20-21).
Date: March 2, 1897
Creator: Mistrot, Felix E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hub.

Description: Patent for a wheel hub that "provides for preventing circumferential movement of the inner ends of the spokes, for bracing the spoke-engaging spider, and for locking the spoke-tightening device for preventing the accidental loosening thereof." (Lines 13-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 2, 1897
Creator: Millen, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

T-Square

Description: Patent for a t-square. Illustrations included.
Date: March 2, 1909
Creator: Whaley, James N. & Self, James H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for an improvement to the plow by providing a plastic or plastic-like material to help sticky, thick soil and clay to glide over the surface and decrease frictional resistance, including illustrations.
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Fleehearty, Edward L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Printing by Lithography

Description: Patent for improvements in lithography printing that further help reproduce worn or difficult engravings, as well as transfer and make impressions into engravings with slight loss of effect, while also providing a means in which the engraving or stone can be prepared expeditiously and inexpensively. (lines 10-25)
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Ray, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Metal Railway Tie

Description: Patent for metal railway tie. Illustration included.
Date: March 2, 1909
Creator: Robinson, James R. & Sugrue, John F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Toy.

Description: Patent for a toy which features a rabbit figure that moves in such a way as to "simulate the galloping of a rabbit" (lines 61-62). Illustrations included.
Date: March 2, 1920
Creator: Fermier, Victor Emanuel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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