Patent Records
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Johnson, Victor S., Sr., 1882-1943
label: Collection Creator
content: Johnson, Victor, Jr., 1906-
label: Collection Creator
content: Aladdin Industries, Inc. (Nashville, Tenn.).
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content: Aladdin Industries, Inc. Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1889-1973
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0844, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Patent Records are divided into six subseries: correspondence, trademark correspondence, agreements, patents—Aladdin, Aladdin Radio Patents, and patents—others.  The patent correspondence, 1937-1963, is arranged alphabetically and deals with specific inventions and/or items such as portable stoves, thermal canteens, and vacuum bottles.  The vacuum testing correspondence, 1952-1960, is research and development related.  Aladdin sought assistance from a variety of companies to test its vacuum bottles.  Many of the letters are to companies that could not assist Aladdin with its testing requests.  Of note are the interim instructions for a vacuum bottle testing machine built for Aladdin by Vanderbilt University in 1955.  The agreements, 1919-1966, were made with employees and contain names, date of agreement, name of company, and in some instances, agreements for the assignment of patents. Patents specifically dealing with Aladdin are arranged by product type while "other" non-Aladdin patents are arranged chronologically.  The Aladdin Radio Patents, 1941-1954, are bound.