It may be not be news to some, but I found this nice collection of photo-related patents, here:
sites.google.com
Built by an indivudual like us, it looks like.
it is valuable in the sense that, from what I have experienced, the Google Patents search feature is no longer.
As an example, a year ago, I was looking for a detail about an Ansco Buster Brown folder, and Google Patents came through, found the 1915 original filed document describing the mechanism. No more, though - and I wonder why.
Of note is that the U.S. Patents Office archives public access is now limited to stuff after 1960, as far as I can see, and I may be wrong. A little upsetting if true...
Patents - From the focal plane to infinity
Patents, classic camera patents, Argus patents, Bolsey patents, Carl Zeiss patents, Contessa-Nettel patents, Ernemann patents, Goerz patents, Graflex patens, Speed Graphic patents, Hüttig patents, Ihagee patents, Kalart patents, Kodak patents, Krügener patents, KW patents, Minox patents, Nagel...
Built by an indivudual like us, it looks like.
it is valuable in the sense that, from what I have experienced, the Google Patents search feature is no longer.
As an example, a year ago, I was looking for a detail about an Ansco Buster Brown folder, and Google Patents came through, found the 1915 original filed document describing the mechanism. No more, though - and I wonder why.
Of note is that the U.S. Patents Office archives public access is now limited to stuff after 1960, as far as I can see, and I may be wrong. A little upsetting if true...
