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The United States Patent Office has issued more than 4,400 mousetrap patents. [3] The gun-powered mouse trap proved inferior to spring-powered mousetraps descending from William C. Hooker's 1894 patent. However, the 1882 patent has continued to draw interest–including efforts to reconstruct a version of it–due to its unconventional design. [4]
Image title: Patent # 269, 766 Improvement in Animal Traps by James A. Williams, 1882 Record Group 241 Selected Patent Files, 1840-1952 Records of the Patent and Trademark Office HMS Record Identifier 569160 HMS Asset Identifier HC1-94140081 HMS Folder Identifier HF1-107033944 ARC Identifier 1122319
The spring-loaded mousetrap was first patented by William C. Hooker of Abingdon, Illinois, who received US patent 528671 for his design in 1894. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] A British inventor, James Henry Atkinson , patented a similar trap called the "Little Nipper" in 1898, including variations that had a weight-activated treadle as the trip.
U.S. patent 618,704 – Method of Manufacturing Filaments for Electric Lamps; GB 189700207, Maxim, Hiram Stevens & Silverman, Louis, "Improvements in the Firing Mechanism of Automatic Guns", issued 30 October 1897 GB 189607468, Maxim, Hiram Stevens, "Improvements in Automatic Guns", issued 27 February 1897 , gas action for machine guns
James Henry Atkinson (c. 1849–1942) was a British ironmonger from Leeds, Yorkshire who is best known for his 1899 patent of the Little Nipper mousetrap. [1] He is cited by some as the inventor of the classic spring-loaded mousetrap, [2] [3] but this basic style of mousetrap was patented a few years earlier in the United States by William Chauncey Hooker in 1894.
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Egbert v. Lippmann, 104 U.S. 333 (1881), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that public use of an invention bars the patenting of it. [1] The Court's ruling was colored by its view that the inventor had forfeited his right to patent the invention by "sleeping on his rights" while others commercialized the technology.
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