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Air Pipe Coupling

Description: Patent for the air-pipe coupling. This invention relates to improvements in couplers for air other liquid pipes. The improvement is primarily designed for connecting the fluid pipes of an air brake system between the locomotive and coaches of railway trains.
Date: September 23, 1916
Creator: Bonelli, Liborio C.

Churn Dasher

Description: Patent for a device used to make butter by churning cream.
Date: September 7, 1916
Creator: Davis, Thomas C.

Car-Door Seal.

Description: Patent for a lockable seal to be affixed to doors of passenger cars.
Date: October 20, 1916
Creator: Wright, Memory G.

Comb-Cleaner.

Description: Patent for a reusable comb cleaner which is cheap to produce.
Date: October 23, 1916
Creator: Schimmelpfening, Charles H.

Bearing for Baling-Presses.

Description: Patent for a bearing for cotton presses which allows for greater force and less friction.
Date: December 29, 1916
Creator: Taft, John A.

Vehicle Signal

Description: Patent for a vehicle signal. Intent of signal is to improve visibility of rear vehicle turn signals.
Date: September 7, 1916
Creator: Reynolds, Rohde

Washboard.

Description: Patent for a washboard, with improvements to the conventional washboard such as "having a scrubbing surface formed of transversely arranged, longitudinally twisted wires, which (...) have their ends cleated to the board which prevent displacement" (lines 15-19), including illustrations.
Date: October 24, 1916
Creator: Butler James. F.

Well -Bucket

Description: Patent for an improvement in well -buckets adapted for cleaning and drawing water from drilled wells.
Date: March 19, 1916
Creator: McKinnon, Thomas J.

Tie Mold

Description: Patent is for new molds to hold in place railway ties inexpesively.
Date: September 19, 1916
Creator: Shearer, F. C.

Motor.

Description: Patent for improvements in motors designed for motor-vehicle operation. Cheaper manufacture and less expensive fuel are included as claimed improvements.
Date: June 5, 1916
Creator: Edwards, Charles R.

Pressed Metal Wheel

Description: Patent for improvements to pressed metal wheels. This improvement is directed at the assembly and securing of hub members attached to the wheel.
Date: June 12, 1916
Creator: Simmons, O.G.

Feed Guide or Gage for Printing-Presses

Description: Patent is for improving feed guides and gages for industrial printers. It provides a simpler guide or gage to adjust as the printer is printing.
Date: December 12, 1916
Creator: Phillips, Lannes William & Haines, Luther B.

Process of Catalyzing Oil and Apparatus Therefor.

Description: Patent for improvements to oil boiling & processing to preserve its hydrocarbon properties by converting high-boiling oils to low-boiling oils using a specific apparatus for vaporization and a catalyst reheating device, such as a chamber furnace.
Date: March 14, 1916
Creator: Alexander, Clive M. & Taber Jr., George H.

Railroad Tie

Description: Patent for a type of support for the rails in railroad tracks.
Date: August 7, 1916
Creator: Huffman, Henry W.

Resilient Wheel.

Description: Patent for improvements in the structure of wheels.
Date: June 23, 1916
Creator: Avery, John M.

Rifle Bolt

Description: Patent for a new style of bolt for bolt action rifles. Designed with the purpose of fulfilling the same functionality as a bolt on the Springfield Rifle, while using less parts and requiring no other modifications to the Springfield rifle.
Date: October 2, 1916
Creator: Mudd, Thomas, O.

Hose Coupling

Description: Patent is for improved efficiency pipe couplers on railway cars.
Date: August 2, 1916
Creator: Krueger, F. W.

Oil-Well Screen

Description: Patent for an oil-well screen that provides a finer degree of filtering small particles from oil and gas.
Date: November 1, 1916
Creator: Scott, Clarence N.

Brace for Furniture.

Description: Patent for an improved furniture brace that uses wire "for connecting parts of beds, tables and chairs for the purpose of strengthening [...] in which the tightening means lies substantially in the plane of the tightening wires so that there is no twisting action on the tightening means" (lines 11-20), including illustrations.
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: Wittliff, Theodore H.

Aeroplane

Description: Patent for aeroplane with an improved carrying capacity.
Date: October 31, 1916
Creator: Millican, Joel W.

Building Block

Description: Patent for improvements in building blocks, so they would be stronger, but lighter in weight, and cheaper to transport.
Date: May 16, 1916
Creator: Boehm, Edward.

Bridle-Bit

Description: Patent for improvements in bridle bits, particularly bridle bits known as curb bridle bits. One of the objects is to provide means whereby the curb loop or strap is prevented from engaging the lips of the horse when strain is applied to the driving reins.
Date: January 11, 1916
Creator: Bass, James O.

Adjustable Head Gate

Description: Patent for "an adjustable gate adapted to be used in connection with irrigation ditches" (lines 10-12).
Date: February 22, 1916
Creator: Bogard, John H.
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