Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-22
PRINTING OF PATENTS
LARGE AMOUNT OF TECHNICAL
WORK AT THE G. P. O.

There is one branch of the public printing
which 1t is said the proposed reduction can
not reach. and that is the work done for the
patent Office. AS this branch of the service
Is self-sustaining, there is but little proba-
bility of the printing for that section of the
Interior Department being reduced, and al
though last year the cost was approximate
ly 100000, the only possible curtailment
would be the abandonment Of the records
used for preservation and reference by the
thousands Of attorneys having official bust
ness before the patent office.
The. specifications division Of the govern
ment printing office, known to the printers
as the rock pile owing to the effort re-
quired to set the average amount of type
prints the specifications of patents in the
familiar narrow measure used in the copies
Of patents sold to the public. and also re-
prints the same matter in shape for the
bound volume. Nearly three hundred men
and women have been employed on this
work for the past few years, the increased
NUMBER OF patents keeping pace with the
country's expansion. Forty-six typesetting
machines to be installed shortly to do
the work of this division.
The operation of the new trademark law
has considerably increased the amount Of
printing required for the patent office. The
law specifies that the marks shall be adver-
tised for thirty days before allowance and
the essential features are printed in both
large and small type for the weekly issue
of the Gazette, which is printed ia the d.
vision OF tilat name. The claims Of all pat
ents are reproduced in this publication, and
for the purpose Of clearness CT drawings
the type and cuts are large and are reduced
to small size by the photo-lithographic
process.
Besides the claims and trademarks. the
Gazette division handles a large weekly in
dex to Inventions, index to trademarks ap-
nYy,iQa orya n
court decisions on appeals. index and digest
of decisions, classification bulletins, labels
and prints, and a large number of other
smaller matters of less moment. The Ga
zette Is printed weekly, monthly, semi
monthly. semi-annually and yearly, the last
issue for the year containing an alphabet
cal list of patents and patentees for the
year The same application tables, official
notices and other matters Of general infor-
nation are carried through each volume
This division carries about seventy en-
ployes on the pay roll.
History Of the Constitution.
The first volume of a documentary his
tory of the Constitution of the United
States is being rapidly forwarded by the
folding room and will be ready for delivery
before many weeks. The bureau of rolls
and library has collected records, manu-
scripts and rolls deposited In the State De-
partment relating to the Constitution, two
volumes being necessary to give a COM
plete history of that document and events
surrounding its inception and adoption The
printing office has aided in rendering the
volume Of more than passing interest by
preserving the spelling, peculiarities of cap
italizati ton and authorizations of the original
manuscripts, and even indicating the eras-
ures and substitution of words and SEN
fences
The newly installed paste-making ma
chine for the use of the bindery at the gov
eminent printing Office has been thorough
ly tried out and pronounced a success by
those who have the handling of the i'm
mense amount of paste required by the big
printery. The large steam cooker Is said to
be especially desirable because of the
smoothness and even quality Of the prod
uct and the ease with which large quanti-
ties can be made. The machine is not run
to its maximum capacity at present, the
character of the work passing through the
bindery lessening the demand for paste and
glue.
Mrs. Nellie G. Stagge of the Gazette d.
vision was married last Wednesday to Mr..
James Backus of Philadelphia Pa
There have been delivered to the store
keeper seventy-two typewriter chairs of the
Latest ana most approved design for the use
of operators of the new LanstOn typesetting
machines.
Howard v Mills of the stereotyping foun-
dry was married al the First Presbyterian
Church last week to Miss Lille F. May or
this city.
M. q. Gordon is officiating as foreman of
the reserve division OF the bindery In the
absence Of Gen. F. F. Bogia. who Is at
tending the annual convention Of the Union
Veterans Union at Springfield, Ill.
A T. Maupin, formerly employed in the
second division. Is reported to be rapidly
recovering his health at the Soldiers Home
in Tennessee.