Patents and patent applications
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Wood, Arthur Bernie, 1921-1986
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content: A. Bernie Wood Papers
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content: A. Bernie Wood Papers / Series 5: Patent and Trademark Materials
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1975 - 1976
label: Date
content: 1962 - 1969
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0962, Subseries 5.1
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The patents and patent application materials are arranged chronologically by issue date. Some of the patents did not issue, and therefore only the serial application number or relevant information is provided. Overall, the patent files contain originals and copies of correspondence, drawings, application forms, and in some instances, examples of Wood's inventions such as the beverage cup holder or the carton forming pattern in cardboard pattern form. An example of the carton forming pattern (US Patent Serial No., 455,463) as Wood envisioned it as a Golden Arches Dessert box is in Series 4, McDonald's, box 12. Wood's photocomposition font storage device invention relates generally to improvements in photographic compositors, and it relates particularly to an improved character (storage devices and optical retrieval) and projection system. Wood worked with the Varitype Division of Addressograph Multigraph Corporation to prepare and prosecute his patent application. Documentation includes correspondence, pencil drawings on tracing paper, and product literature from Varitype.