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Arch and Instep Support for Boots and Shoes

Description: Patent for a removable arch and instep support as part of a shoe or boot.
Date: November 14, 1916
Creator: Rokahr, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Aeroplane

Description: Patent for aeroplane with an improved carrying capacity.
Date: October 31, 1916
Creator: Millican, Joel W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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.
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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.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Railway-Gate.

Description: Patent for a "strong, durable, efficient, easy of operation, and simple and comparatively inexpensive to construct" (lines 20-23) automatic railway gate. It "is to provide a swinging gate and automatic means of particular construction for operating the gate" (lines 11-14), including illustrations.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Turvan, Jim O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Destroying Insects.

Description: Patent for an apparatus used to kill insectects, particularly boll weevils on cotton blooms. The apparatus is attached to a wagon which is driven through a cotton field, and the device knocks off the boll weevil eggs and then suctions them into the device and destroys them by fire.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Morrow, James Morton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn-Header.

Description: Patent for a device for the removal of the heads of corn. The device contains a blade and attaches to a person's hand.
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: Hooper, Howard Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Agricultural Machine

Description: Patent for an agricultural machine that consists of a rotary cutter and a fixed horizontal cutter. Illustrations are included.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Evans, Lucias S.
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Compressor.

Description: Patent for a compressor. This is an improvement upon previous refrigeration and ice making machines.
Date: April 18, 1916
Creator: Fowler, Paul R.; Gingrich, John A.; Tongate, Willis B. & Ridge, James H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combination Emergency and Transmission Brake Mechanism.

Description: Patent for a combination of emergency and transmission brake mechanism on Ford automobiles that helps relieve the strain on the emergency brake mechanism.
Date: June 6, 1916
Creator: Fitch, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Chimney-Protector.

Description: Patent for a chimney protector that is "easy and cheap to manufacture which when applied to the chimney top of an oil cooking stove will prevent the drippings or over flow from utensils placed on top of the stove from running down the side" (lines 14-18), including illustrations.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Shiller, John J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment For Mowers

Description: Patent for an improving to attachments for mowers that can be attached to shoe of the sickle bar. This attachment helps to raise the grain or growth being cut and bring it into the path of the sickle bar. It also works to ensure the cut grain will fall away from the standing grain.
Date: February 15, 1916
Creator: Muller, Hermann W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bale-Tie.

Description: Patent for a new bale tie made from metal, with "integral interlocking terminal portions" (lines 25-26), including instructions and illustration. The bale tie is "strong in character, constructed at small cost, of a minimum number of parts, and capable of easy and expeditious manipulation" (lines 18-21).
Date: July 11, 1916
Creator: O'Riordan, John Eldridge
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Boll Thresher.

Description: Patent for a cotton-boll thresher which opens the bolls and separates the cotton. This thresher tries to improve on others by making them "strong, durable, efficient, and simple and comparatively inexpensive to construct" (lines 21-23); patent includes illustrations and specifications.
Date: May 9, 1916
Creator: Bryan, Andrew J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Air-Pump.

Description: Patent for an air pump improvement that simpler and cheaper to produce. It also provides a description of "the combination and arragement of parts" (lines 14-15), including illustrations.
Date: May 16, 1916
Creator: Runge, Friedrich Albert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Brake-Controlling Mechanism for Railway-Cars

Description: Patent for an "air brake controlling mechanism for use in connection with railway cars" (lines 10-12), one feature applies whereby if a wheel becomes derailed the brakes will be applied automatically. Includes illustrations.
Date: February 22, 1916
Creator: Halliburton, George M. & McBurney, Samuel L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bread-Knife.

Description: Patent for bread knives that consists of a plurality of knives spaced apart to cut the slices of uniform width.
Date: March 21, 1916
Creator: Roberts, Isaac F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Collapsible Box

Description: Patent for box made of pasteboard that collapses and remains as such until needed for use.
Date: January 11, 1916
Creator: Houghland, Frank E.
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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.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boll-Weevil Exterminator

Description: Patent for a new design to capture and exterminate Boll-Weevils; includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 22, 1916
Creator: Riewe, Fridrick
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Air Controlling Device

Description: Patent for an air controlling device that supplies air at a constant and unvarying pressure.
Date: February 22, 1916
Creator: Crotto, Frank E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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