The Washington times., 1894-09-02
WORK OF THE INVENTORS.
Report of Commissioner of Pat
enfs SeNnnnr

ents Seymour.
The annual report Of Commissioner Of Pat.
ents Seymour has been submitted to the
Secretary Of the Interior. Il shows that DUR
ing the past fiscal year there were 81, ,s52
applications for patents, 1850 for designs,
1OS for reissues, ,193 caveats, 1,720 applica.
tions for trade marks, and s6S for labels.
There were q, ,496 patents granted, including
reissues and designs; 655 trade marks regis
tered, and two prints registered. The mum.
Der of patents which expired was Is, ,167.
The number Of allowed applications which
were by operation Of law forfeited for non.
payment OF the final fees was 1855. The
Total expenditures were 81, ,053, ,962, and the
receipts over expenditures were e12e, ,561.
The total receipts over expenditures now
placed 10 the credit OF the Patent ONCE In
the Treasury amounts 10 ca, ,409, ,967. The
receipts show a falling on Of S105. .2s6 from
the previous year, and expenditures decreased
S57, ,4s1.
AT the end Of the year the work In eight OF
the thir.y-four divisions in the oflce was up
TO date Three divisions were about four
months in arrears. The applications await
ing action number 1916.
The contract work for the Oficial Gazette.
covering the photo-lithographing Of the
D
cost as. .99S, and the republication Of expired
patents during the closing six months, 4,50O.
In addition, a total OF S113, ,642 TO the Puhlic
Printer for printing letter press, indexes titles
/ briefs and claims in connection with the on
I cial Gazette. The recent acceptance OF the
bid of the Norris Peters Company, Of this city,
/ for photo-lithographing and otherwise pro-
/ ducing Gazette plates, and in producing
/ weekly issues of patents and exhausted copies
| of patents, will result in performance of the
I work during the current year for s110, ,018,
I against S1S9, 600 for the last fiscal year.
/ Commissioner Seymour recommends the
| creation of classification division, involving
/ an aggregate salary increase Of S64, ,5e0 and
an increased appropriation OF $4,000 for the
| Scientific Library. The limited appropria-
I ton for the current year has resulted In 3
/ diseontinuance of the publication OF expired
/ patents, and the report recommends that their
publication be permanently established az q
/ cost not exceeding $4,000 ayear.
In referring to the photo-lithogrphic con-
/ tract the report says: The production OF the
/ Official Gazette by the photo-lithographing
process, so far as those pages are concerned
/ which include both drawings and claims,
arose In the beginning from the impossibility
/ of producing one part OF a page blythe photo
Iithographio process and printing another
part of the same page-the elaims-from
| type by another process Later processes,
| however. of phOto-enGraytng enable plates 10
be produced upon metal, so that they may be
distributed throughout the text when set in
type 1t is now easy TO do that which
4 when the present method was inau1urated
was impossible. The present edition of 1900
copies q week Is nearly the utmost thar, with
good results, can be produced by the photo
\ lithographic process. It IS already necessary
to enlarge the edition..