Evening Star Newspaper, August 9, 1925, Page 63

: MAGAZINE SECTION ILLUSTRATED FICTION AND FEATURES he Sty Stat HUMOR Part 5—8 Pages Discarded Old Models to Be Sold to Public by Patent Offic BY WILL P. KENNEDY. WASHINGTON, D. ¢ SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 1925. E : m[f’,"fi "‘,‘;‘lii".lfm{:?l"n;;rs:“:%fi‘“;":a*_T. First House Cleaning of Sort Ever Conducted by Government Will Give Opportunity to Purchase Antiques, Some of Which n o gant et i . or a tapework trap, or ni- | - = ” % erse wheels within e | Passed Under the Watchful Eyes of Thomas Jefferson. as First Official in Charge of ‘Nork—Space Occupied by Old Models [ .,“"“,Z)iif;:”,i“‘ !)"',‘ :t':';,,‘,‘;,,‘.\:,,‘i(:,‘m e M‘};}f,{‘r‘;':,,,‘;,fii,‘s w! | Which Were Used Up to 1880, Must be Turned to Other Uses—Freak Devices Among Those Which Represent Early Activ- | &% Ih“ S u nited States Patent Office. swan-drawn floating 1 569. This was prope 1t's a very special sale, specifically a rized by act of Con the first of its kind ever held. Everything that goes on sale is a guaranteed an constructed | ities of the Great American Monopoly System. aling and steered by h: attachment. 0 guard agal v of persons tique all of th w before 1880; all are individually hand-{ wttles picked up by mi most of them are of elabo- | dark, Joseph Harrison of Phi 1in 1871 invented a spiked band for be hip. > fact that a special W experts repre. 11 of our countr: museum scientific au- sorting over those of pate: and the official n n pc s surrour sharp poin hat it thorities are now models to select those of the highest | poison bottle historical interest to be preserved for | B A ther abal posterity, every single, individual and | was patented b - separate device, mechanism and sam- | | of Philadelphia ple of human ingenuity is historic. | | vessel with a Some of them passed under the visa | | that : S Rand aloscit of Thomas Jeff n. who as Secre- | | tle " i that tary of State was our first Patent { L b Commissioner, when the Constitution | e self provided for the ting of | 3 et . > 10nopoly rent. preserved for at dramatic D sed by th were ng sale by Thornton, de ‘ pitol, 'who I 2 n Patent Com- | - ) the British captured | zust 24, 1814, and the | | irned the m >s of their | ‘ cannon toward the Patent Office, this | ¥E hunds a 2 assiduous “keeper” planted himself | Oxe » 3 f th hostile guns and his | . e . st treasures and cried out | by ha i ¥ as he | his breast come men so . Are vou Englishmen or Goths or vandals? This is the Patent Office, / depository of the iity and inven- | o cir ability tions of the American Nation, jn T X of the ’ which the whole civilized world is in s “ucco se dirt_farmers terested. Would you destroy it? Then y made by Jeffers Da et your charge be over my dead | Motte. 8. C.. who d 2 pat Providence zave timely support to | 11874 E this impassioned plea, for at that cru cial moment a terrific thunderstorm | : broke, followed by a deluge of rain. | | L I which sent the military detachment Fcier0 Slows 1 scurrying to cover and which at the | | : = same time extinguished the fire the | | British had started at the White | House. Some of these models to be sold are also survivors of the two great fires that swept the Patent Office: One in 1836, which practically wiped out the 4 PR establishment, and in which some { 4 | establishment, and_in which some| Dafent Office ooT0s Robert Fulton's wn sketches of his »e mery ar s nse L?/w Governments Clermont machinery and the vessel as it proudly steamed up the Hudson in ] 1870; and the other which started eve September 24, 1877, and destroyed the the increasing - de “model room” then the great museum of the nation, which contained some 200,000 models- of American invention sides other treasures In this some §£7,000 mode. were consumed by the flames k ok ok Th those who are seeking ‘‘some- thing different,” a relic of the ts on w ¥ vagaries of the human mind, a visual her atents in 18 reminder of how fellow man through d on a R S symmetry the centuries has sought new ways of doing thin trophy of our me e | “The seif-tippini hat or a chanical and industrial developmeént | vice 1s of modern origir n since 1790, when Jefferson approved | 1896 by mes ( Boyle of S only three patents (for making pot Wash., who assigned one-h and pearl ashes, manufacturing can | rights t hn Neill of the same p! r dles and manufacturing flour and| his e intricate arrange meal) to an average of more than 800 St weekly, many of which have revolu- fonen tionized industry—this Patent Offiee Many and varied gale of old models in a veritable treas: hunting decoys that the ure trove. %3k tecn et inpan) - You will find there: Devices to keep Sievers, jr., of Ames, Nebr vise you from snori contraption to one of ‘the most elab \ put on the delivery end of a hen to embled a cow, and mark each e she lays: implements of several would beauty tortu to mold the human selves s form ~ feminine, restore facial sym o) thit would metry or imprint an_ intriguing dim grazing while the h a one-wheel vehicle to be attached birds in r or thre a railer” to the almost extinct in the si horse: a velocipede for water trins or In the dayvs of the m ecars, Mat 2 quadricycle for land or water: a thew C. Campbell of Philadelphia. ir cannon to fight off skulking ented one resemd A whale, with Indians, or one with an umbrella at- Eottine o blowing devices which tachment to ward off hot-shot from was expected to be very popular with the sun: a mistake-proof bottle for children as a concession at an amuse poison; a sleeni jacket that will ment park . bhack: spectacles for chickens: a have been numerous, and i Jus hot-air or hot-water heated cont that Svante Anderson of Chicago got a pat. contains its own plumbing system: | ent on a mouthpiece, something like wearing apparel that pipes the surplus | 1+ horse's bit He explaine that heat of your body to vour cold feet;| snoring is caused by breathing with fish bait with a mirror attachment to the mo ypen, thus allowir 1 large 3 attract the female of the species: a and broken volume f air to enter railroad. gate shoots ahead of a 5 the glotis.” He claimed his inventior i omotive to prevent grade-crossing | S e breaks up the volume of air and resu Tul'l“n“ 'w soil 'u\l‘ hors f'n;‘ i\im" = i lates the way in which the lips come house to thwart cyclones: a balloon e s raflway, and chicken hopples. 3 | “Another anti-snoi device re. e e eon even | S@areh Koom of the Patent Office Thomas E.RODETLSON, | scmbieq an “ear trampet, extending of a Baron Munchausen, for they are s 5 T = " om the mouth of the sleeper to his e aceimiaish o 5 (Reush? g - | < Commtissioncr of Patents, | o & hat the mole bt the most th o e eminen | process, they will be disposed of— | plicants were so aroused that in 1793 | 1 ‘ULE) s atus & ¢ of 'this ic o g Soantn most of them being sold, probably by | the law was made more liberal. | mspeetmq }O&;YL of e e [ century in which thev had to find new | the General Supply Committee—or | \yhile the United States was thus | collection, of155000 A third snore-curber cor of & i and better ways to make the most of | destroyed as *junk e | early fostering inventive genius and Pad i chin strap which holds the mouth § Gicly: Miraited. phvsicat “prowe! “"“.;,.f'}f‘."‘“‘,?‘;"“?""“.'f'.’fl Zappraisal is be: |affording it protection, it is interest- | alent Models- from opening and forces the sleeper Ind" sucl roppin s cow's | ing ma e rear of an old stable [ing to note that it was not until the| be to breathe through the nostrils tail holder or <e tail for a horse,|on G street between ~Sixth and |introduction of the steam engine | ShQY{i‘é- to be dis- \Andrew Jackson, jr. of Munci sleep-inducers ‘bed-bug buster” or | Seventh streets, which is costing the | ihat the patent system was crystal- | peyst_ b {11 Tenn., took pity on poor biddy, and { a tumble flytrap: a cane with an eye-| Government §200 a month rent. |lized in England. Since that time| 4 got a patent on an eye-protector for glass in the handle, a chair in which * k% % | not an important advance has been | lavernment | chickens to shield ~them inst you are fanned as you rock, with at-\ /NpE patent Office quit requiring [Made but has been the subject of £ [other fowls that might attempt to tachments whereby vou churn butter | | rios atent OFice it requiting |, ents peck them—one that may easily be or rock the cradle as you rest from s = Pullted In fconnex v, 3 3 ed so a to prevent blindness. o e S S et Teom: | tion with the applications for patents | The United States patent system is = jcHoNeRieD a8 (ol ey ens iluin o Bock e el | about 1880, except in an occasional (now a model for the world, and other | niture shop, hark back to the day |2ho one that can be adju s S e O e it of | case where the invention is difficult | coutries. are molding theirs after | that George' W. Tuttle of New York, | “Picken. RS O R Sk an dis | ©f understanding from the verbal de- |ours. {on September 4, 1847, submitted draw- | Another pecullar conttenrion, is ¢ charges o face; an|Scription. So the assemblage of | It should be emphasized that the {ings, a model with specifications and | JoP-WaReeq, VR, (OIETEO : illuminatec re away rats and | models now being sorted over for|steam engine marked the line over | asked that a patengfbe issued to him [ 0 DU COEE T SUETER e - nice: an ¢ ; to fit any | S2le is by no means up-to-date. | which the world stepped from the |for a “machine for exercising chil- | jioreq to carry one or more persons height of preac lover's mate, a. | They do. however. represent every |pid manual power 1o mechanical | |dren” or invalids, claiming,that the | SIheC. o Sarmy o0, 6F mMORC FERAOTE fording conveniences to the sparking | Phase of human endeavor looking to- | power. So that is the greatest single combination of a_ spring or set of | CRSTIET PORL Nk one wheel swain, not the le £ which Is an|;:;:rn“ "‘:_‘:5_ 'j’i“:';‘:'l ';’( an] l\;m;m"h‘:l | event in the world’s industrial history. ;;‘*r:{‘l:u.;s“;l\iuh s u‘u, pensory appa- Cosfanali s Tatiotil iy = ‘ effectual barr e s il ses, o as hol e o e | ratus” will enable the child to bring | 'oUching grounc effectual burrier 1 rate fathers | T oSS N uced to use: There | , While we are noting the freak con- | |1ts feet conveniently in contact with | * ok x % S Taot biles | practically nothing in the world, made | traptions and bizarre id that | the floor while its body upported as a_bootjac] snolieless unicycle |practically, notning 1n the world, made | nave been patepted. we must not| {iin o s bod pported | accordion-style railway gate driven by si or clockwork; a Vv man, a 2 c e = ¥ > 2 ac o the front of oco- educationnl halloon on which the child | has approved patent rights upon it. ”\‘I?-]nqk g r"T‘\ ~‘<h‘"»| (e lr?m” | One man secured a patent for cur- | ;o five. thp;]- (sn‘:tu h‘f’w:"(il e :1 Stutiies geography. and astronomy e |and these-early.inodels are: thes fore- | Cinoeysnob IICEALY & Cleer s BOURE |ing a victim of worms by fishing for | " Bl = 25 Bt aien : runners of the most remarflable de.|for the fantastic vagaries of the I'them in the stomact cate Jprcdeniin fundde ol s eniican L she plays: an envelope in which to|IU 0 s hiatiaal ot I aven” nvent ) . tomach with a delicate | crogsing, to prevent slaughter of pack furniture; an automatic furnace. | velopment of human ingenuity ever | Iagination of “WIIESEE WUAT Or: jlls e mud. thuy allver Hook, live stock, with a steam whistle at fire #tarter; a grave eacape or coffin | KNOWILER Sny coutitiyieriln any age | Lt s sl e CUnoT o ons 0L mart | Somewhat in & class is the model of | Vg Stock: tenteny Frihas Se Warter; 5, Erove encope oF SEER | e MR T RIS, can business. All of our great in- Alpheus Myers, M. D., of Logansport, | lAchment, was patented in 1885 b out when an alarm riugs; a refriger.| Beyoud say doult this 1s ths mosblbotie AL/ MATEIRC Urine niey {Ind, submitted in 1854, “and desi” | " 1n yms Goys when men har . . “what have yauts o |inventive netion in the world, With | mo aosclirli aspendent ipon: Souie | nated a “tapeworm trap™* This con- |\ it dorn $or " horde" the atiter old models are being sold— |only one-sixteenth of the population, | Farert TR T enaive and. ox- | sists of two gold spring jaws having | nOSON (% fariimed of, Mitchell R f them will be given away to |one-half the world’s patents have | hore TIBtan O e e hops, | Serrated teeth and operated by a tris- | o5 nerly of Mundell, Ark. ot & institutions—to save Uncle Sam some | been fssued in the United States, now | PEnSive laboratories and workshops, |ger. The patient was to be starved | REle wiealea. y : ~ ) : | . Tatie Tnited Stutes, v st talent of the coun- o several agis be starved | iant on a single-wheeled vehicle worthwhile money, rather than to | numbering well over a million and a in which the 'LT?( talen % c | for several days until the tapeworm | 1 h consisted.»f a metal arm, at- realize any .considerable amount by | half, Diring theilast decade, figuring | T a5 constancly engaged in deyelop- | became very hungry; then the trap, |(:cheq to the suddle on a horse, ex- the sale. There are in all some |the additions by immigration and the | NE New ldeas, in improving methods baited with swectmeats, would be cau- | IR0 1 8 T ind ’ f ! s chines, so that the work of Hously Inserted in the vietas e call- | tensible to about a vard behind the | 000 which are packed in more | death records, about one person mi“"'j machiubs; gy bt ¢ y inserted in the victim’s throat. | 1= S i a toel redt S that reneil 16} ot PR e the world may be better done with | As the hungry worm sought the de- | 20FSe; and with a whe st e which are buried the hopes and am. | or other. - Eighty thousand asked for |12boF, and for a decreased cost. . e sprung, . gripping” the worm by the (Ol Which & man or woman could bitions of thousands of the inventors, . Historic models are being sorted . A . head and he could then be drawn out | Stand while driving the horse = It a e inventors, | patents last year and more than half de g . - e Was expected to be a cheap make- though each was successful in secur. | that number got them. out of the 155,000 old modeis for . . i through the throat and mouth of the | jyir “for a carriage, and a vehicle ing his patent. They are all now| The most fundamental and revolu.|Preservation in the National Museum, 5 ) )‘*“‘»”’77,,««;@”?&‘,«%&%%; T jiar Shiin Wik s Daiecs could” quicEly stored in buildings that are costing |tionary patents have been born in | the Patent Office and other institu- VR s o e connenplow was_patented by g5 unt i ;'m-lo Sam very considerable amounts | this country, and been encouraged in ;wflsv Thismfleleflmf" v beiln_%hmflde \\.'a]ti;rl!::)e“ " i’nd x:."ls[;7 h:rnr‘n:m“::“ iAoyl or Taug and water.- or rent O 1 wan e hae dem | by & committee consisting of Thomas - 1 Moot , N. M P e NS S waee ent, v 15, Tiventirs, orithe el e e Bt o= commisailic #2h One of the trick Umbrellas of the colleatior. deaignen for use on the prairies of the | 45 & Substitute for <kiffs and port flies of inventors or other qualified [ provided for patent monopolies. Presi- | patents; Charles D. Walcott, secre- then far West, where agricultural |3 C Lo 0 8 % ced for recon- persons, were allowed the right to put | dent Washington, in his first message | tary and executive officer of the T l":m;l}sl kgl olt!en SHEROOLWILIE | g I warfare, or Tor & pless- D eims for ot e o odme | o Congress. recommended the: pas. | Smithsonian Institution, and W. G.|microphone—and hundreds of others|finds“no more striking illustrations |heels. He connected these beehive | beivinal inhatiante who raseated tha | Ure OF ferry boat—iwas invented hy Now the 2,700 boxes are to be opened sage of the patent act, and the patent Henderson, a nationally known pat- of that class. anywhere than in the Patent Office, as doors by a rod and then ran a con- white man’s invasion. Should the {Henry S. Blanchard of Cairo, IIL, in | 1883. i up and the special committee of ex- |law was passed by the first Congress, | ent attorney. The historic models| Credit to some unhonored inventors | these old models, taken from the |nection to a stri ! iz perts representing the Smithsonian | in_1790. Taetige’ pheabarmn. Lincoln's” mbdel, |should be given, 45 shows 1n-an ex. |icofin Boske fur which they have. so |as a lever. 80, Miised thet an pi | e o e Hillase| A hotalr or hot-water coat with a Institution, the United States Patent | The first patent was issued in 1790 | illustrating air cylinders to help lift | amination of these old maodels, for it|long been stored, emphasize. rooster retired for the night he walk- | to unyoke his oxen and Scastor the |head attachment was patented by Office’ and the patent profession is|—only three the first year; because |a vessel over a bar; Eli Whitney’s | develops that many devices which| We find that a man found it neces- | ed over this gangplank, thereby clos- hostll: tormentors with a 12;;':1 nrr- n | Robert H. Yoeman of Omaha, Nebr fn %6 over the 135.000 models and de. |1t was Jefferson’s idea. as the first |cotton gin; the first typewriter de- |never went into use served as guides|sary to open the little doors of his |ing the doors of the beehives, and as | ister, nails and gravel discharged from | It was designed especially to warm ide which should be preserved as|patent chief, that the usefulness of |vice; Edison's original graphophone; |to the production of the ultimately | many beehives early in the morning |he walked out the coming day he |the cannon set in the plow Beam >™ | the body while taking long drives i oric in the Smithsonian Institu. |an invention rather tham its novelty | Morse's original apparatus used in|useful nrticle or equipment or|and close them at night because the |swung the doors open again. Among the old models are aeveral | cold weather. The coat was lined In the Paient Office or in other fshould rule. In the first three vears | telesraphy: Alexander Graham Bell's | machine { night moths would sneak in and play | Our baby jumpers of foday, (o be|very extraordinary adaptations of (he ain of pipes or tubes and pstitut \fter weeding-out | there were 57 patents issued, and ap- ' primi telephone; Emil Berliner's' The realm g of human interest ha.Jc. He set his head to save his 'had in anj ment store or iur- | i clocipede idea. 1In 1863 Richard C. nued on Third Page)