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Patents.

 Subject
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Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:

Schickel family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3671
Abstract Schickel family papers include correspondence, applications, a housing survey, inquiries and replies, licences, patents, financial records, payroll, blueprints, drawings, specifications, advertisements, brochures, trade catalogs, contracts, orders, political letters, progress reports, and other records pertaining to the business interests of Norbert H. Schickel, Sr., particularly relating to his involvement in Ithaca, New York housing and real estate development, engineering, investments,...
Dates: 1905-1965.

Seth L. Sheldon papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 33 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065246740]
Identifier: 1228
Scope and content

Letters patent for a can opener, correspondence between Seth Sheldon of Ithaca, N.Y. and H.A. Holgate (consulting engineer of Philadelphia), who wished to act as agent, contract, unsigned, between Sheldon and Holgate.

Dates: 1904.

Stuart Otto papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2389
Abstract

Papers relating mainly to Otto's contributions to the development of household refrigeration by gas. Included are records of the SORCO Manufacturing Company, Scranton, Pennsylvania, and its successor, the Gas Refrigeration Corporation, New York City. Also, Otto's correspondence concerning the refrigeration industry; files relating to patents on refrigeration machinery; and a typescript history of his involvement in the refrigeration business.

Dates: 1918-1940.

Thomas McCarty patent

 Collection — Manuscript box 77 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065254181]
Identifier: 282m
Scope and content

Patent given to Thomas McCarty for an improvement in saw mills. Signed by Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, and dated April 8, 1835.

Dates: 1835.

William H. Baker Graphics

 Collection
Identifier: 6946 G
Abstract

This is a collection of textile machinery blueprints, patent drawings, sketches and broadsides.

Dates: undated

William H. Baker Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6946

William H. Simmons patents

 Collection — Manuscript box 2 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239638]
Identifier: 258m
Scope and content

These two patents were issued to William H. Simmons for an improvement in spring-vehicles and an improvement in carriages. Both are dated February 22, 1887.

Dates: 1887.

William Markham and S. W. Puffer miscellany

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 851
Scope and content Includes Hampshire County, Massachusetts deeds, notes, writs of excution, and other legal items; also, material relating to patents on voting machines, farm account books, a stock register, and flock records of American Merinos for Elm Place, Avon, Livingston County, New York. Also, a ledger for the Rochester Fluorometer Company, trustees' minutes and accounts of the Chaffee-Reece Arms Company of Rochester; a letter book of S. W. Puffer, and catalogues for Franklin Academy, Shelburne Falls,...
Dates: 1799-1909.

William S. Barnard and William N. Barnard papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 16-5-211
Scope and content Papers of William S. and William N. Barnard, including illustrated notes on local fauna made by William S. Barnard while in Brazil in 1870; correspondence relating to the Barnards from 1883-1913 and 1935-1936; transcripts of testimony in patent infringement lawsuits; and patents awarded to William S. or William N. Barnard. Much of the correspondence concerns patents and patent infringements; letters of 1935-1936 concern research on William S. Barnard. Correspondents include Burt Green...
Dates: 1870-1936.