| Show r PATENT r by b Cu tl J S Patent Office to Com ll of OI r pj Washington Oct fi nine hun thousandth patent from the tho United States patent office was v s Issued Saturday and to It was attached the pf of Patent Commissioner om Moore Mool bhe he patent tent was wall an tu Improvement on traveling stairs st such as are aro I IO used in hotels hot ll and other large buildings and amI While Mr Moore Mo re ordinarily attaches only enl his last name with his initials lie signalized the tho attainment of the tho nine hundred thousandth by b using his lila full name of oC Edward Bruce Moore In the early history of ot the thu nation the law 15 that thil patents should be bo by the tue president as the thc P was or is si during the tho first pl l 11 I signed Press Pr st Washington It tt covered a II alCiCe device for rOI making ashes and anU tile the document itself Is said to bo he no owned by n II collector Mr 11 l i Moore looi estimates that the th hi one millionth patent will be Ijo reached r in hi ii the year oal J I tn J As 11 going to show the thc inventive tendency of if the American mind as ns compared with other countries Mr 11 Moore calls alls attention OttentiOn to thin the fact that n tills this thih Is nong anong o UK th newest of oC nations and Is only one among antong many the total of patents Is Issued sued by b the United States is i not ot very NT far Car below helo the thc total for tor all till other othel countries for all flu ll time The Issuance Iss i nce of foreign patents up lii to date of or lost last reports r port was aR only 11 or oi 3 0 III In excess eXcl of the tho th total for this thi country |
