United States Patent Drawings

Scope and content: Elisha Otis's elevator was the first with a safety catch to guard against the breaking of the cable. The Otis Company would become the premier manufacturer of electric elevators.

Scope and content: While the later half of the 19th century saw a series of patents for barbed wire, it was this one that has proven to be the most enduring. In 1874 Joseph Glidden, an Illinois farmer, patente More

Scope and content: Stills similar to the one represented in this drawing were used to make distilled liquors and were commonly used to America during the early 19th-century. General notes: Exhibit no. 554.0011.

Sketch of Ferrata's Piano Attachment Invention from US Patent 644244. The patent was granted in 1900. This photo was extracted from: File:US644244.pdf

A drawing included in Georges de Ram's 1925 patent for "a shock absorber for the suspension arrangements of vehicles". US patent US1529878A. Depicts a design for a hydraulic lever arm type shock absorber.

Figure 2 from United States Patent 4,347,280 which is this file: File:US4347280.pdf The figure depicts the cross section of a material designed to minimize the shock of impact of batting in baseball and also o More

A traced and colorized version of the artwork from U.S. Patent 2,105,480 – Safety Belt. An arrow has been added to indicate the operation of the device. This is the type of safety belt used in U.S. military ai More

US3124991A Vibrato tuning device for stringed musical instruments

Illustration of U.S. patent 1926420A.

"embodiment of an aircraft consistent with the [patented aircraft supplemental thrust device]. The aircraft includes a forward fuselage, a rear fuselage, a midwing, a vertical fin, a ventral fin, a horizontal More

U.S. Patent 560,351 The rounded part, labelled “c”, is placed inside the mouth, while the rolling pin at “f” is used to roll against the outside of the cheek, allegedly producing dimple-like dents.

U.S. Patent 556,248 This invention relates to a novel device for automatically effecting polite salutations by the elevation and rotation of the hat on the head of the saluting party when said person bows to t More

Figure-1 from U.S. Patent Re19,412, "Aircraft and Control Thereof," dated January 1, 1935, E.F. Zaparka, inventor. This patent describes, and this image shows, a movable "microflap" similar to the fixed Gurney More

Patent drawing for Glaser guitar string bender, figure 2, patent 4354417, title Tone Changer for Stringed Instrument.

Patent drawing for Hennessey guitar string bender, figures 1, 2 and 4, patent 4658693, titled Rear operated control device for guitar.

U.S. Patent 0,454,622 - System of Electric Lighting - 1891 June 23 - Apparatus devised for the purpose of converting and supplying electrical energy in a form suited for the production of certain novel electr More

Diagram of Patent 1,345,655 Wood Screw Pump.

Aerial Camera used during WWII for military purposes by the US Army against enemy's submarines

Diagram of Patent 1,345,655 Wood Screw Pump from US Patent Office. Image to be used in A. Baldwin Wood and Wood Screw Pump. Image from Patent Office website

Diagram of Patent 1,345,655 Wood Screw Pump from US Patent Office. Filed 1913; Patent finalized 1920. Image to be used in en:A. Baldwin Wood and en:Wood Screw Pump. Image from Patent Office website.

Figure 1 from Anton Schwarzkopf's patent for the Shuttle Loop roller coaster (patent US4165695, "Amusement ride with vertical track loop"). The image shows the overall layout of the ride.

Inner workings of a "flip clock" where a digital display is driven by a system of gears and motors.

First External Rotor Motor by Emil Ziehl, patent drawing, US patent 662,484 (November 27, 1900). Deutsch: Patentzeichnung des ersten Außenläufermotors, US-Patent 662 484 (Electric Top For Gyroscopes) erteilt More

A US patent drawing from 1900 (cropped)

The drawing is from the 1958 U.S. patent for a rocker-roller balance board designed by Frederic George Ludwig of Woodbridge, Connecticut. In the online database of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the vers More

The drawing is from the 1958 U.S. patent for a rocker-roller balance board designed by Frederic George Ludwig of Woodbridge, Connecticut. In the online database of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the vers More

The drawing is from the 1958 U.S. patent for a rocker-roller balance board designed by Frederic George Ludwig of Woodbridge, Connecticut. In the online database of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the vers More

Balloon catheter

Drawing for a Game Board, 01/05/1904. Drawing for a Game Board, 01/05/1904. This is the printed patent drawing for a game board invented by Lizzie J. Magie. From the U.S. National Archives. Item from Record Gr More

Patent sketch Public domain scan of aircraft design drawing, technical diagram, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bordina's bifacial solar cell patent

Image from U.S. Patent 2,409,470

Diagram for US Patent 17,722, the Brown truss, granted to inventor, Josiah Brown Jr., of Buffalo, w:New York, who w:patented it July 7, 1857

A Christmas bubble light, as depicted in a drawing in US Patent #2,353,063.

Page 2 from US en:Patent 995600 by Jonas E. Heyser, depicting a lockable male anti-en:masturbation belt. The rest of the patent document: Page 1, 3, 4, 5, 6.

These are the patent drawings for a device intended for amusement and exercise for babies and small children. The inventor was Helen Campbell of Yakima, Washington. The 1924 U.S. patent for this device was a More

Figure from patent US2113329A issued by Kodak, describing the structure of a chromogenic print.

Public domain photograph related to the history of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Consolidated Engineering Corporation Mass Spectrometer Patent 2341551

Patent illustration of a wall construction

Coulter patented several different geometries that work with the Coulter Principle. (Image from US Patent #2,656,508)

This is a drawing from a United States patent, issued on March 10, 1857 to Samuel Warren of Lebanon Pennsylvania, for a light cradle strengthened by extra bracing.

Page one of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office filing by Charles Darrow for a patent on the board game Monopoly, filed and granted in February 6 1935. Original image available online at the U.S. Patent and T More

Excerpt from diagram of 351749 for Dinsmoor Vehicle

Drawing for a Game Board, 01/05/1904. This is the printed patent drawing for a game board invented by Lizzie J. Magie. From the U.S. National Archives. Item from Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and T More

Design patent for Drinking Bird. Public domain scan of print / book page depicting birds, ornithology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Design patent for Drinking Bird. Public domain scan of print / book page depicting birds, ornithology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Excerpt from diagram of 653,224 for Duryea motor vehicle

Cross section view of an ion trap mass spectrometer from Patent 5399857 "Method and apparatus for trapping ions by increasing trapping voltage during ion introduction" US Patent Issued on March 21, 1995

A Patent sketch (D187,001) for the Fender Precision Bass

Diagrams of Leo Fender's lap steel guitar design from 1944 patent application, emphasizing the design of the guitar pickup.

Sketch of Leo Fender's lap steel guitar design from 1948 patent application, emphasizing design of guitar pickup.

Diagrams of the tremolo system on the Fender Stratocaster from 1954 patent application.

Vertical sectional view (partly in elevation) of a liquid cooled reactor from "Neutronic Reactor" patent awarded to Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard

Vertical section view (partly in elevation) of a liquid cooled reactor shown in Fig. 37, and taken as indicated by line 38—38 in Fig. 37 from "Neutronic Reactor" patent awarded to Enrico Fermi and Leó Szilárd

Fleischer Studios' stereoptical (a.k.a. stereo-optical, or setback) camera, for producing three-dimensional effects in animation, roughly similar to Disney's multiplane camera. From the patent by Max Fleischer More

Fleischer Studios' stereoptical (a.k.a. stereo-optical, or setback) camera, for producing three-dimensional effects in animation, roughly similar to Disney's multiplane camera. From the patent by Max Fleischer More

Fleischer Studios' stereoptical (a.k.a. stereo-optical, or setback) camera, for producing three-dimensional effects in animation, roughly similar to Disney's multiplane camera. From the patent by Max Fleischer More

Fleischer Studios' stereoptical (a.k.a. stereo-optical, or setback) camera, for producing three-dimensional effects in animation, roughly similar to Disney's multiplane camera. From the patent by Max Fleischer More

Inner workings of an in-sink garbage disposal unit

Page 2 of George Eastman's patent no. 388,850, for his film camera and roll film.

Page 3 of George Eastman's patent no. 388,850, for his film camera and roll film.

Page 1 of George Eastman's patent no. 388,850, for his film camera and roll film.

Patent drawing of Gibson Moderne Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Perspective and enlarged sectional patent drawings of an unreleased Gillette razor, known in-development as Atra (not to be confused with the 1977 twin-blade, swiveling-head razor known as Atra in the U.S. and More

Illustration page of one of Gillette's early razor patents, granted on November 15, 1904.

Front page of Gillette's razor patent.

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US Patent US2423448 for the Haight Fist Gun Public domain photograph related to motor parts, engines, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A mechanical filter for a sound reproducing apparatus and its electrical equivalent circuit.

Mori's bifacial solar cell proposal. npn structure with electrical connections in the cell's edges

Excerpt from diagram of 487,572 for ORE CAR by F. A. Huntington

Excerpt from diagram of 411,196 for "Vehicle" by F. A. Huntington

Inglis footbridge from its 1916 patent

Patent #144.111, awarded to Interstate Aircraft & Engineering Co. on March 12, 1946, for an aircraft design derived from that of the XBDR-1.

B62K25/283 Axle suspensions for mounting axles resiliently on cycle frame or fork with pivoted chain-stay for cycles without a pedal crank, e.g. motorcycles. Inventor Bernard Hooper, Robert Victor Trigg Current More

US Patent for Finnish JaTiMatic Sub Machine Gun

Diagram of the first joke buzzer, later joy buzzer, from United States patent application 1845735, by Soren Sorensen Adams.

John Augustus Just's U.S. patent 712,545 for dry milk processing

Kanne Chamber, W. R. Kanne, Monitoring Gas for Radioactive Xenon, U.S. Patent 2,625,657, January 13, 1953. Filed Nov. 28, 1945

Deutsch: Darstellung eines Kruesi-Rohrs in Fig. 4. Darüber in Fig1 & 2: Kabelmuffe

Excerpt from diagram of 517,344 for carburetor by John W. Lambert

Excerpt from diagram of 178,166 for Corn-planter Mechanism by George Lambert

Excerpt from diagram of 954,977 for Friction Driving Mechanism by John W. Lambert

Excerpt from diagram of 761,384 for Friction Driving Mechanism by John W. Lambert

Excerpt from diagram of US761384 for Friction Driving Mechanism by John W. Lambert

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Public domain scan of a technical diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Drawing of the first William F. Ludwig pedal patent: Drum and cymbal playing apparatus.