ENGINEER AND INVENTOR April 1893
Canadian Patents Issued
- 42341 - Ghurns [R.Z. Curtis]
- 42342 - Cash Registering and Indicating Machines [J.J. Webster]
- 42343 - Horse Shoe Bending Machines [Jno. Wike and the Standard Horse Shoe Co.]
- 42344 - Apparatus for Drilling Wells [S. MacEachern and Thos J. Foster]
- 42345 - Fire Motor [Jos. Silverwood]
- 42346 - Furnace Grates [Wm. S. Dobbs]
- 42347 - Clothes Pins [J.B. Lockwood]
- 42348 - Car Coupling attachments [O. Wynn]
- 42349 - Thill Couplings [W.B. Root]
- 42350 - Bottlers [A.L. Straus]
- 42351 - Printing Telegraphs [D.H. Bates and H.Van Holvenbergh]
- 42352 - Blowers and Smoke Consumers [M.R. Ruble]
- 42353 - Hydrocarbon Burners [E.G. Mummery]
- 42354 - Construction of Window Sashes to facilitate cleaning, etc. [F. de J. Clere]
Editor's Comments
The article is a list of Canadian patents that were issued on March 20, 1893. It includes the names of the inventors, links to the patent, the titles of their inventions, and the patent numbers. Some of the inventions are:
- A device for measuring and indicating the speed of railway trains by William H. Elliott
- A method of manufacturing artificial stone by John W. Hyatt
- A machine for making paper boxes by George W. Brown
- A process of extracting gold from ores by Charles H. Fulton
- A bicycle brake by John H. Starley
Did you know?
Early soft drink bottle manufacturing in Canada began in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Soft drinks, also known as soda pop or pop, were becoming increasingly popular in North America and Canada. The first commercial soft drink bottling plant in Canada was established in 1892 by a man named John J. McLaughlin in Toronto. He started bottling a carbonated water drink called McLaughlin's Excelsior and later on, other flavors were added to the production line.
During that era, soft drink bottles were made of glass and were produced by glass manufacturing companies. The process of manufacturing glass bottles required a high degree of skill and precision, as the bottles needed to be able to withstand the pressure of carbonated liquids and be able to seal tight to prevent leaks. Initially, the bottles were made by blowing glass into a mold, which was a time-consuming and labor-intensive process.
As the demand for soft drinks increased, new technologies were developed to improve the efficiency of bottle production. For example, in the early twentieth century, the Owens Automatic Bottle Machine was invented, which allowed for the mass production of glass bottles. This machine could produce up to 2,000 bottles per hour and greatly reduced the cost of production.
It's worth noting that the production of glass bottles for soft drinks was a significant industry in Canada for many years, but with the advent of plastic and aluminum cans in the later twentieth century, the demand for glass bottles decreased.
Technical Note
Vintage patents can appear intimidating at first glance. Their formal language, technical descriptions, and unfamiliar terminology often conceal ideas that are surprisingly practical once understood. Many readers discover that the challenge is not the invention itself, but knowing how to approach the document.
If this is your first encounter with nineteenth-century patents, we recommend reading our guide: How to Read a Victorian Era Patent. Using a real Canadian brewing patent from 1893 as a working example, it demonstrates a simple method for identifying the problem an inventor was trying to solve and understanding the mechanism proposed as the solution.
Patents preserve inventions, but they also preserve frustrations. Every specification is evidence that somebody looked at an existing process and decided it could be improved.
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