Re: Tesla US Patents

["Terrell W. Fritz" <twftesla-at-xxxxxxxxxx>]

I could not get CPC Lite to work with Windows 2K /IE5.5 to view the patent
office's site but Alterna-TIFF browser plugin worked rather painlessly.  No
nice PDF conversion but you can see and print...

http://www.mieweb-dot-com/alternatiff/

The page you want at the patent office (www.uspto.gov) to look up numbers is:

http://164.195.100.11/netahtml/srchnum.htm

or for text.  Note that they have only scanned the old patents without anyway
to search them for text yet.

http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html

Bart got all the Tesla patents but I am sure that are other Tesla coiling
related patents now on-line too!  The patent office has some pretty nice search
features to dig things up ;-))

Thanks Bart for figuring all this out.  It will be wonderful having easy access
to all the old patents!!

Cheers,

        Terry


At 07:09 AM 11/19/2000 -0600, you wrote: 
>
> (Terry, hoping you will let this one go through) 
>
> Hi All, 
>
> (Please reply to me directly off-list if you have questions): 
>
> I spent last weekend at the US Patent Office internet web site. They've
> recently updated their range of patents and now go back to the 1700's. The
> old patents are scanned images. Browsers require a plug-in to view the
> images. Well, the plug-in I used (CPC Lite) had the option to save the files
> to harddisk as pdf files. Needless to say, I downloaded each Nikola Tesla
> patent (one page at a time). This last week, I used Adobe Acrobat 4.0 to
> assemble the patents, created a list with bookmarks, etc.. and cut myself a
> CD. 
>
> Today I decided to upload the patents to my server for all who are
> interested. You must have the Acrobat Reader plugin to view, print, etc..
> these patents (reference www.adobe-dot-com for the Reader). BTW, the Reader is at
> version 4.0. If you are still using 3.0, you should upgrade to the latest
> version. Some features created with Acrobat 4.0 will not work on the Reader
> 3.0. 
>
> Here is the address to my simple site map. Go down to "Tesla" then click on
> "Nikola Tesla U.S. Patents". This will open up the file "Patent.pdf". 
>
>
> <http://www.classictesla-dot-com/sitemap.html>http://www.classictesla-dot-com/site
> map.html 
>
> If your interested in saving the patents to your hard drive, go to the
> following address, right click on the patent, and save to disk. 
>
> <http://www.classictesla-dot-com/Patent/>http://www.classictesla-dot-com/Patent/ 
>
> Note: the file "Patent.pdf" is a patent index with bookmarks. As long as the
> files are in the same directory as this file and saved as it's original name
> to your hard drive, the bookmarks will work. 
>
> The patent file sizes range from 100k to 1.2M bytes, so if your internet
> speed is slow, they may take a little while to load. 
>
> Enjoy, 
> Bart