Carol,

There are usually illustrations but as I indicated earlier it means looking
through the entire week of the Official Gazette, either paper or microfilm,
but available at UPenn.

Jim

At 02:58 PM 11/20/2003  -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks! Looks like I'll be doing that. But since I don't know what it is,
>I'm a little worried I won't recognize it in the records.
>
>Carol
>--
>Carol A. Nickolai
>Anthropology
>University of Pennsylvania
>email: [log in to unmask]
>voicemail: 215-751-8989, 0077#
>
>[log in to unmask] wrote:
> >
> > There are volumes for the patent records, listed
> > chronologically.  I know that the University of
> > Delaware's library has the series, if you can't find
> > them anywhere in Philadelphia.
> >
> > Steve Shisler
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 11/19/2003 8:51:25 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for the website. The database is searchable only by patent number
> > > before 1976, and I have only the dates. Any ideas on how to match the
> > > date to the patent number?
> > >
> > > Carol
> > > --
> > > Carol A. Nickolai
> > > Department of Anthropology
> > > University of Pennsylvania Museum
> > > email: [log in to unmask]
> > > voicemail: 215-751-8989, 0077#
> > >
> > >
> > > Scott A. Wieczorek wrote:
> > > >
> > > > --Boundary_(ID_GHa8DpLQfpBnmL3i5JL47w)
> > > > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
> > > > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
> > > >
> > > > Another option, especially if you have the patent numbers is to go to
> > > > www.uspto.gov.  There you can look through an online
> > > database with scanned-in and
> > > > viewable original patents.
> > > > Hope that this helps.
> > > > Scott Wieczorek
> > > > Historical Services Consultant
> >