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Combined Rule and Square.

Description: Patent for new and useful Improvements in Combined Rules and Squares which makes it "possible to form a rigid straight rule or one or more rigid squares" (lines 24-25), including illustration and instructions.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Grossman, Edwin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Auxiliary Seeding Attachment for Planters

Description: Patent for an attachment to existing hopper fed planters intended for larger format seeds (corn, cotton, etc.), to allow their use in distribution of smaller format seeds (cabbage, onions, etc.).
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Whitworth, John Allen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Quick-Acting Vise.

Description: Patent for a quick-acting, easily operated vise "in which the jaws are automatically held closed upon the work until released." Its simple construction enables it to be inexpensively and efficiently manufactured.
Date: August 14, 1917
Creator: McCullough, Daniel B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Boll Harvester.

Description: Patent for improvements to the cotton-boll harvesters. "..has for its principal object the production of a structure which will quickly and readily strip the unopened bolls from the cotton stalks"( line 9-14)
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Smith, Millard Elmor & Simmons, J.T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Internal-Combustion Engines.

Description: Patent for an invention relating to the attachment for internal combustion engines that will provide moisture through the form of liquid or vapors. Other objectives and illustrations of invention are included.
Date: August 14, 1917
Creator: Potts, Hugh
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn-Topper.

Description: Patent for corn-toppers for cutting off the heads of Kafir corn, milo maze, and other similar grain plants.
Date: August 28, 1917
Creator: Pletcher, Thomas S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Railway-Switch.

Description: Patent for new and useful Improvements in Automatic Railway-Switches, "particularly to automatic railway switches for use in street railways or steam railways" (lines 13-15), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Eisenberg, Louis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Internal Combustion Engines.

Description: Patent for an attachment to internal combustion engines that allows for vaporizing part of the fuel mixture to introduce air and steam that aid combustion efficiency.
Date: August 16, 1917
Creator: Lynch, Floyd W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Watering-Trough.

Description: Patent for a valve that controls the flow of drinking water from a reservoir or tank into a trough. It can be operated by domestic animals and automatically shuts off when they are finished drinking.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Atkinson, George C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Well-Boring Drill.

Description: Patent for for a rotary well boring drill designed to have a simple yet durable structure.
Date: August 14, 1917
Creator: Reed, Clarence Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvements in Oil-Burners

Description: Patent for improvements to oil-burners. The text contains a description of the unique improvements and is accompanied by explanatory illustrations.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Harrington, Edward A
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvements in Baling-Presses

Description: Patent for Improvements on Baling Presses. The patent contains an explanation of how the improvements function and their purpose, and is accompanied by illustrations of the machinery.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Ezell, Umberto D
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tramping Mechanism.

Description: Patent for self-throttling tramping apparatus to be used in conjunction with cotton gin.
Date: August 14, 1917
Creator: Boyles, Homer A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vending-Machine

Description: Patent for a vending machine designed to dispense liquids, including illustrations.
Date: August 14, 1917
Creator: Elder, Thomas Jefferson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Traffic-Signal.

Description: Patent for a traffic signal apparatus for installation in automobiles, including illustrations.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Valdes, Salvador M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trailer.

Description: Patent for "...an improved construction and arrangement of trailers and has for an object that provision of means which will allow as easy turning movement where a number of trailers are connected while admitting of strain between the various trailers, whereby they are propelled properly around a curve." (lines 5-15) including illustrations.
Date: August 28, 1917
Creator: Watkins, Leigh
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hydrocarbon-Burner.

Description: Patent for hydrocarbon-burners to provide a novel and improved burner for coal-oil, petroleum, or other liquid fuel.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Hewett, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spading-Machine.

Description: Patent for a spading-machine that "can be propelled by any mechanism desired and which has soil engaging devices mounted in a novel manner whereby, as the machine is moved forwardly, said devices will be forced downwardly into the soil and then lifted upwardly so as to lift or break the soil." (lines 11-17) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 28, 1917
Creator: Robinson, David M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk-Cutter.

Description: Patent for a stalk-cutter that will improve the effectiveness of stalk cutting by readily attaching to a plow or tilling machine, increasing the draft, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 14, 1917
Creator: Gable, Gus
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Time-Controlling Mechanism.

Description: Patent for new and useful Improvements in Time-Controlling Mechanism "designed more particularly for the automatic operation of electric switches, circuit closers, and the like" (lines 13-15), including illustrations and instructions. A main object of the invention is to provide a time controlling mechanism for alarm clocks to "intermittently operate the electric switch or other movable member at pre-determined intervals" (lines 19-21).
Date: August 28, 1917
Creator: Gerdes, Herman Henry.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gin Brush

Description: Patent for gin-brush relating to the speed and convenience in removing and replacement of rotatable brushes for cotton gins.
Date: August 7, 1917
Creator: Murray, Stephan D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hat-Box

Description: Patent for improved collapsible hat box, which may be folded into a small compact mass.
Date: August 14, 1917
Creator: Fechner, Albert H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gate-Operating Mechanism

Description: Patent for an improved gate operating mechanism to allow vehicles to approach the gate and the gate move to the open position and to move to the closed position has passed through the gate opening. Includes illustrations.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: McDaniel, James M. & McDaniel, Claud M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Swingletree Clip

Description: Patent for providing an improved form of swingletree clip which is simple in construction, may be cheaply made and in which the eye which connects the hook to the clips swiveled so that the hook may rotate and thus there will be no change of disengagement between the draft connections and the swingletree.
Date: August 14, 1917
Creator: Leasman, John D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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