Show th thousands of ideas for inventions but few get through patent office every minute of the day in these united states thousands of persons are having productive brainstorms bearing now ideas in the bathtub or chewing pencil stubs as they gle through the final phases of their invention of the hundreds of thousands of ideas produced few of them get through the patent office but this lot relatively small as it is appears large enough judging from the rapidly filling shelves in the patent room of the chicago public library notes a writer in the chi cago dally daily news here every month are added any where from sixteen to twenty one heavy volumes describing the pat ants issued by the united states for the last month each patent is num bared and described in the anven tor s application by drawing and text the idea of the patent record is to give anyone who wishes a peek at the workings of any patent that catches his fancy or upon which he might want to improve patented articles usually bear the number of the license the patents are issued at the rate of about 3 a month in 1936 a total of 39 were issued in 1935 40 in 1934 46 in 1932 when so many people were home thinking there were 53 issued everything is listed in the patent books next to a description of a scientist scientists s new method for the re covery of acid from oil 01 products might nestle the new vege table conceived by a resident of harrisburg Harns burg the air cooled shoe with a spring bellows in the heel by an anguilla mass man the dis appearing ink specially conceived for marking laundry a machine to slice ham thinner or a snugger homier leak proof burial vault the invention of a couple of Detroi |