U.K. Patent 1867-603
This mechanical patent was registered by James William Lewis of Birmingham on March 4th, 1867. It covers all Beatrice and Gem style needle
cases and consists of a drawing and five pages of text. To review the details of this patent, select the appropriate page from the list
below. Once the page is display, click on it to enlarge the text. Or a PFD version of the entire patent is available at the bottom of
this list.
Drawing
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PDF for patent 1867-603
All mechanical patents were formally written and published in patent books in the year in which they were registered. Copies of these books can be found at a handful of libraries in the UK. This mechanical patent was originally searched at the Business and Intellectual Property Centre of the British Library in London in April/May2013. However, this library was unable to make copies at that time because the books in their collection were in a fragile state. Instead, copies were obtained from the reference desk at the British Library in Sheffield. The original drawing was missing, however a copy was available in Patents for Inventions – Abridgement of Specifications Class 112, Sewing and Embroidering Period A.D. 1867-1876 which was published in 1904. Details regarding how the original patent research was accomplished in 2013 can be found at Patent/Design Representation Research. A PDF formated copy of this mechanical patent was discovered while visiting the Business and Intellectual Property Centre of the British Library in London in April/May 2015 and was added to this webpage in June 2015.
