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Patents PDF
Patents PDF
Patents PDF
by Tony Scofield
Since the Patent Office has gone on-line (www.patent.gov.uk) all the patents
since 1920 (for GB; different dates for other countries) are now available over
the Internet. The US Patent office is also on-line at www.uspto.gov/patft/
index.html. A number of patents from around the world are also available
although not all are available as a full description. Some patents have
‘equivalents’ where they have been taken up in a number of countries.
Below is a list of ones I have located but locating relevant ones requires
putting in the correct key-words and it is almost certain that there are others
of interest that I have missed. I have only included those for which at least an
English abstract is available and the titles of non-English texts are normally
given in English. If readers know of others then please let me know, as I will
add them to the list. Letters to the office at Baerlein House over the years are
testament to interest, particularly for researchers, in the patents available. It
is quite clear that by far and away the most common area for patents related
to our dowsing interests is prevention of geopathic stress by interference
with ‘earth rays’ or grids.
Accessing the patents is relatively easy although it can be quite time
consuming if the pages of each document are downloaded as Adobe pdf
files to get the patent as it was published. I have spent several hours on-line
doing this!
To access the files go to http://gb.espacenet.com and use the quick search
facility to obtain the patent either by typing in the number (including the GB
or other prefix) or some key words, or to access the world-wide database
click on the Worldwide link and follow instructions. This gives you more
search facilities.
When the page with the brief description comes up you will see if the
full patent is available, as there will be an active link to click. When this
is clicked Adobe Acrobat reader will open (you will need this installed on
your computer – it is freely and widely available). To download each page
you will need to work through the document a page at a time by clicking on
the arrow buttons at the top of the page below the address bar. Save each
with Acrobat save facility and put them together off-line in Adobe Acrobat
or simply print each one off. It is quite time consuming probably because
the Patent Office does not want this service to be used for bulk commercial
downloading.
A quicker method is to download from the ‘Biblio’ page (the page with the
description of the patent; it also often has an abstract) as text files by clicking
on the buttons at the top. Not all patents are available this way, particularly
the older ones.
Methodology
Radionic Instrumentation
(Not seen but reported by various authors: Arthur Whiting, Victoria, BC, Canada, 1923 ‘Improvements in or
relating to apparatus for use in the diagnosis and treatment of disease’)
Games
Miscellaneous