Word: patently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that catch without slamming; increased visibility through bigger windshield area; sliding sunshine panels in sedan tops; "catwalk-cooling" grilles low-set on the catwalk apron between hood and fenders to scoop up the theoretically cooler air near the ground. Adopted by no manufacturer but approved by the U. S. Patent Office is an extra-special gadget invented by David O. Wilson of Santa Monica, Calif.-at the touch of a button on the dash, this rear-end device waggles a derisive tongue and gives a Bronx cheer to the horntooter behind...
...Tipped its hand on the New Deal thesis that existing patent laws foster monopoly. Intervening in a Supreme Court patent-violation suit against General Talking Pictures Corp. by American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the Department of Justice contended that "public policy cannot tolerate the extension of the patent privilege to control the use to which the consumer may put the article after it has been marketed. It is unnecessary to any legitimate exploitation of the patent, and is a vicious practice which the common judgment of the people will condemn and which the Government must outlaw...
...considerable confusion which the New York Times best expressed: "It would be odd indeed if an inquiry which began by attacking the evils of monopoly should end by attacking the evils of competition." Meanwhile, TNEC announced that its first attack would begin with hearings on November 14 on the patent situation in the glass industry and the proxy battle over the Chesapeake & Ohio Ry, last spring...
...month ago when the U.S. granted E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. a patent on a new product known as Fibre 66, which apparently has the elasticity rayon has always lacked (TIME, Oct. 3), chemists figured that silk might be on the verge of losing its only remaining big U.S. market-hosiery. Last week du Pont officials announced that they were considering sites for a $7,000,000 "textile yarn" plant, which will normally give work to about 1,000 employes. To the trade this meant that du Pont was ready to begin commercial production of Fibre...
...patent was awarded to Ernest Lee Jackson, the other to Ralph W. Peakes and Joseph S. Reichert. All three men developed their processes when they worked for the War Department, originally filed for the patents in 1929. Both patents are based on the same discovery -that wool becomes unshrinkable when soaked in tertiary amyl or butyl hypochlorite, chemicals related to bleaching powder. After a half-hour's soaking in this solution, heated to 104° F., the wool absorbs 1½% of chlorine. It can then be washed in hot or cold water without shrinking...