[TheForge] Power hammer questions/Frosty

Sat Apr 12 23:49:01 2003

First, you need to be able to read "tiff" files. You can download a free 
tiff reader from Alternatiff:

http://www.alternatiff.com/
This is a plug-in for your browser. It requires registration, but there 
is no charge for use.

You can get this info from USPTO via the Help button.

Next, go to this web page (search by number):
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/srchnum.htm

Type in the patent number (707246) and push Search. You will get a 
mostly blank page saying full text is not available (due to the age of 
the patent). You can see the pages as graphic images, however, and this 
is why you need a tiff reader. Push the images button toward the top of 
the page. After a fair bit of data transfer goes by, you'll see page 1. 
It took me maybe 30 seconds using a 56k modem. Use the print button of 
the tiff window, not the main browser print button. Now push the -> key 
(not the ->| key) and it will load the next page. I sometimes have a 
problem loading a page that going back and then forward again fixes.

You'll need to pick one of the other search pages if you don't know the 
patent number. I have had poor luck finding patents on the USPTO via the 
various text or author searches. I usually use some other patent service 
(such as Frosty's European one) to come up with a patent number, and 
then I download the patent from USPTO (assuming it is a US patent, of 
course).

Steve Smith

Jerry Frost wrote:
> Evidently esp@cenet "improved" their search engine by removing the patent
> number search option. I've just spent half an hour searching through their
> site and couldn't figure out how to just look at a patent by number.
> 
> I got close by using boolean operators and a word search. In fact I found a
> 1922 Massey hammer patent with a linear spool valve that looks WAY more
> complicated than the 1902 patent. I also discovered I couldn't access the
> description, you have to pay for the text.
> 
> I guess I'll have to learn how to search the US patent server. <sigh>
> 
> Bummed.
> 
> Frosty
> ------------------------
> If it ain't forged
> it ain't real.
> Wrought iron is.
> The FrostWorks
> 
> Meadow Lakes, AK.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Smolen" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 10:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Power hammer questions/Frosty
> 
> 
> 
>>No luck with the patent number. Is there a prefix to 707246?
>>Thanks,
>>Bob
>>----- Original Message -----
>>
> 
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