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Metal-Bending Machine.

Description: Patent for machine enhancements for bending metal bars.
Date: December 12, 1916
Creator: Bussel, Herman

Projection Apparatus

Description: Patent for projection apparatus to project moving pictures on to screens.
Date: November 14, 1916
Creator: Norte, Francisco

Automatic Train Stop

Description: Patent for train signal to indicate it will stop.
Date: November 7, 1916
Creator: Bulla, Melbern B.

Automatic Train Stop

Description: Patent for Automatic Train-stop
Date: November 7, 1916
Creator: Bulla, Melbern B.

Cab-Signal and Automatic Stop

Description: Patent for a cab-signal and automatic stop that "relates to railway safety appliances and has particular reference to signals carried preferably within the locomotive cab." (lines 9-12) includes instruction and illustrations.
Date: November 7, 1916
Creator: Bulla, Melbern Bernie

Aerial Projectile and Launching Mechanism Therefor

Description: This document is a patent for the invention of the Aerial Projectile and Launching Mechanism Therefor. According to its inventor Frank M. Bell, the object of this mechanism is to fire aerial projectiles or torpedoes more accurately at their intended target. This mechanism can be called an anti-observation balloon/zeppelin weapon and it would see some usage by the Allied air forces during this conflict.
Date: October 10, 1916
Creator: Bell, Frank M.

Pocket Index

Description: Patent for Pocket Index
Date: September 26, 1916
Creator: Urmston, William B.

Purse.

Description: Patent for a small purse attached to the hand via a strap, including illustration of purse in use on hand.
Date: September 26, 1916
Creator: Urmston, William B.

Baling Press

Description: Patent for Baling Press
Date: September 5, 1916
Creator: North, George W.

Locking Device for Steering-Wheels.

Description: Patent for a new and improved locking device for steering wheels that secures the front axle of an automobile at an angle to prevent unauthorized movement beyond a small circle or curve, including illustrations.
Date: August 22, 1916
Creator: Coleman, Oscar F.

Belt Elevator and Conveyer.

Description: Patent for bucket conveyers to maximize the frictional engagement between the transverse curvature of the inner surface of the belt and the periphery of the pulley.
Date: August 8, 1916
Creator: Marston, Frederick

Packing-Box.

Description: Patent for packing-boxes to improve and simplify devices such as plunger pumps, piston rods, and valve stems.
Date: August 8, 1916
Creator: Snell, William T.

String-Fastener.

Description: Patent for string fastener of a simple construction to fasten a string after it has been arranged around a box, including illustrations.
Date: August 1, 1916
Creator: Hine, Frank B.

Type Writing Machine

Description: Patent for type-writing machine used to center heading on a document in typewriting machines. With the success of the invention, the carriage-spacing key is depressed once for each letter in the word being centered.
Date: August 1, 1916
Creator: Barker, Benjamin F.

Support.

Description: Patent for improvements in supports for cots or mosquito nettings with an objective to present a novel and convenient device that is applied in operative positions.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Pewther, Judson C.

Floor cleaner.

Description: Patent for a floor cleaner that cleans better.
Date: June 20, 1916
Creator: Crawford, Hezikiah H.

Safety Clamp For Starting Boxes.

Description: Patent for a safety clamp for locking the handles of starting boxes with slotting to receive a padlock.
Date: June 20, 1916
Creator: Henry, Ben B.

Account-Book.

Description: Patent for a new and improved account book that is arranged to improve accuracy of record-keeping and facilitate the referencing of different accounts.
Date: June 13, 1916
Creator: Zimmerman, Charles Levy

Direction-Indicator.

Description: Patent for a direction indicator that is "extremely simple, durable, efficient in operation, and inexpensive to manufacture" (lines 20-22). It is "an improved electrically operated direction indicator, in the nature of an arm pivotally mounted in a casing and operated by an electro-magnetically controlled lever [...] for indicating the directions in which the vehicle to which the device is applied, is about to move" (lines 10-17), including illustrations.
Date: May 16, 1916
Creator: Justus, Fred E.

Floor-Cleaner.

Description: Patent for an improved floor cleaner that allows for a belt or apron to be turned on to provide continuous motion in order to clean or scrub floors. The floor cleaner will also supply water to the belt, wring and catch dirty water from the belt, and tighten the belt.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Crawford, Hezekiah H.

Support for Telephones or the Like.

Description: Patent for "improvements in adjustable supports for holding telephones or the like" (lines 10-11). Patent includes illustration and specifications.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Priest, Charles C.
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