Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-02-02
A PAYING INSTITUTION.
How the Patent Once POurs None
Into the Public Treasury.

How the Patent Once POurs Money
Into the Public Treasury.
The report of the Commissioner OF Pat
ents for the current year sent in yesterday
furnishes another argument for the reduc-
ton of the present onerous fees charged
inventors. During the year q, i0l patents,
including trademarks and labels were Is
sued, an increase of II per cent. over the
issue of 1882, and the cash receipts were
Sl,l46S $40, being an increase of Sl37, ,O2O55
over the preceding year. The excess or re-
ceipts over expenditures last year was
about $500, 900 and the surplus OF earnings
over expenditures now standing On the
Treasury books to the credit OF the Patent
office amounts to 2,6T6, 476,24.
AS to the
Character OF the Patents Issued
last year first come the implements used
for breaking and preparing the ground,
such as plows, cultivators, and 500 cover
ers, subsoilers, weed turner's, harrows, etc.,
and for these there were issued last year
452 patents. Next come the machines tof
seeding and planting, such as grain drills
fertilizer Distributors, com, cotton, ano
potato planters, etc for which 532 patents
we're issued. Then come things used Tor
gathering the crops, Including mowers
harvesteTs, grain binders, corn shuckers,
etc, which show record of 2o3 patents
There were 10 patents Issued for articles
relating 70 propagation, such as plant anu
tree protectors, grating trellises, and toi
preparing the products OF the soil, such as
materials used in the dairy, in the thresh-
ing and winnowing OF grain, and in the
butchery Of stock and the utilization oil
the meat there were granted iSl patents
For the accessories to agriculture, among
which are classed bee culture, moth exter.
miDators, bare, wood, and iron fences,
there were issued 225 patents. For apph'
snces snd supplies of the printing office,
including addressing machines, stamps:
furniture, chases, blankets, paging and
numbering machines, type setting and dis
tributing machines, type writer's, BEDS
cases, and presses, 2l5 patents were granted.
The Class of civil Engineering,
which includes bridges, arch, draw, truss
floating, and suspension piers, &c, only "a
patents.
TIE lergest number of patents issued in
any one class was in that of electricity,
which received l,l5l patents, covering
alarms, annunCiators, batteries, conductors,
insplators, lights, msgnets, motors, tele-
graphs, telephones, transmitters, under
ground lines, and in fact everything to
which the electric current can be practi-
ca!Iy applied.
TIE inventions relating to raj ways, those
covering the way, such as trucks, rails,
frogs, switches, &C., received PSI patents,
while for cars, including fittings and mount
ipgs, there were Go patents.
1t will be a surprise TO many 20 know that
during last year alone there we're issued
2Oi patents for fire escapes. The most OF
the se we're applied Tor Just alter the hOrri-
bic hotel fire in Milwaukee, when there
was so great loss Of life.
In the class Of mCtallury, covering fur
naCss, operations, processes, &c, Tor the re-
dUction and manufacture Of metals, there
were l6T patents.
Household articles claim
a Good share Of the Attention OF In
VeotiYe Genius.
as for furniture OF every kind, from
pillow spring up to convertible bedstesd,
there were AZ patents, wh le Tor the ap-
pliances OF the laundry, from a clothes pin
TO washing machine, there were lS5 and
for stoves 437 patents. For processes,
machinery, and appliances for the
man lfacture and use of tobacco, there
were Gj patents; o. for glass, including
processes OF manufactures 80 for machines
for the treatment Of raw flax, hemp and
cotton, hair packers, &c; 50 for explosives;
lJ5 for firearms 90 for proiectlles; 33 for
ordinance and for packing and storing YES
sells 334.
In the class of textiles. including appli-
ances foy working silk; looms, their me2t.-
anism and products, knitting machines,
the preparation Of cotton and wool for
spinning; the dressing and finishing of
woven fabrics, manufacture OF cordage and
spinnine they were granted 276 patents,
while for Improvements in sewing ma
chimes there were issued 800 patents.