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Learning
Tools And Research Material
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User Forums
Post pictures of your items and ask questions or just
learn from reading the posts from others
Ad
Database
View or upload ads from antique magazines
Bulb
& Socket Bases
View images of the most well known bulb and socket bases
Patent Utilities
Patent
Linker
Lets You Pull Up Any Patent PDF File Or Link One Directly
To Your Web Page
Group Patent Dbase
Lets
You Download The First Page Patent Picture Of Every Patent On A Single
Day To View On Quickly Your Local Computer
MultiView Search
Lets
You Search For Patents Using Advanced Methods And Provides Hyper Links
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I
have not had much time to get many items in the forsale area below.
Please keep checking back as I will start adding more items soon.
Items
For Sale
Cord
Balls & Adjusters
NEW - My cord
pendant adjuster project, as well as a good history about them.
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Socket
& Electrical Manufacturer's Items And Their History
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GECO
Sockets
NEW
- This section will allow you to date
and learn how to tell one GECO socket from the other.
Hubbell
This is where this site started from. Since this page
was done, there has been much more Hubbell history and information
found which will make for a complete redesign of this page and section
in the soon future.
Hubbell Patents
This section has some early patent research on Hubbell.
It is mostly complete with only a few missing patents which will be
added in when this section is re done into the new format
Wheeler Reflector
Co.
NEW - A history of The
Wheeler Reflector Company and tips on how to tell if mirror has been
replaced on a shade
Other Manufacturers
This section is a lot of incomplete
work and will be updated shortly. For now it serves to give you some
extended information on some companies, but will be a much better
tool when it is complete
NEC
This section is everything you ever wanted to know about the National
Electrical Code (NEC) but had no one to ask. Downloads of old NEC's,
meetings and much extended information is provided.
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Tutorial
And Early Lighting History
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The Lighting Time Table
To
read the entire tutorial, you can just click on the first link and
then continue to the next section at the bottom of each page. Or,
you can select links below of interest to you.
PRE 1900 SECTION
Overcoming Obstacles
About Early Electric Lighting, Generators, Arc Lamps,
The First Edison Socket, Menlo Park, etc.
The
First Fixtures
About The Start Of The First Incandescent Lighting
Fixtures
Light
Reflection
About Early Light Bulbs And Candle Power vs. WATTS
Edison-Bergmann
About Sigmund Bergmann And The Start Of Bergmann
And Company Lighting Fixtures
Lighting
Break Down
A Quick Break Down Of Different Lighting Time Periods
Styles
1881 to 1884
Bergmann Fixtures And Styles
Other
Pre-1888 Styles
About Early Companies That Sold Lighting Systems
And The Fixtures That They Sold With Their Lighting Systems
The
U.S. Elect. Co.
The United States Electric Company History And Early
Items
The
Brush Elect. Co.
The Brush Electric Company History And Early Items
Thomson-Houston
The Thomson-Houston Electric Company History And
Early Items
Westinghouse
About The Westinghouse Manufacturing Company History
And Early Mergers
Mid
1880's Styles
About The Start Of Electrical Supply Houses and
how new lighting styles came about
Pre
1900 Sockets
About Early Light Sockets And How To Tell The Difference
1887
New Items
1888
New Items
1890
New Items
1891
New Items
1892
New Items
1893
New Items
1894-1896
Items
1897
New Items
1898
New Items
1899
New Items
Above are catalog items sold in different years. There is no space
to duplicate items, so only new and unique items from each year
are shown. You would need to view the catalogs for yourself to be
complete as I am only highlighting items. You can view catalogs
here.
EXTRA INFO
Victor
Shade Holder
About The Victor Shade Holder, Atwood And The Standard
Holder
I.P.
Frink 1899 Items
About
Frink & Wheeler
New
Wheeler Inverted
Three Links About Mirror Reflector Manufacturers
And Their Items And History.
Wheeler Reflector
Co.
NEW - A history of The
Wheeler Reflector Company and tips on how to tell if mirror has
been replaced on a shade
Early Desk Lamps
Some Help In Telling Them Apart
Vitrite And Luminoid
About The Vitrite Holders And Early Vitrite History
Brush-Swan Holder
About Brush-Swan Shade Holders
Cord
Balls
My cord pendant adjuster project, as well as a good
history about them.
POST 1900 SECTION
About
1900 Styles
This section covers a basic into into the 1900 section
covering information about the 1899 transition, electrical code
changes, lighting influence, sharing and licensing of patents and
then into the new section of electrical specialty manufacturers,
Electrical Specialty Manufacturers
Harvey
Hubbell
This section covers some early history periods of
pre Hubbell-Grier, Hubbell-Grier, Harvey Hubbell, Hubbell Company.
It also covers a number of items that helped change lighting styles,
Benjamin
This section covers some early history periods for
the Benjamin Electric MFG. Co, as well as a small section on Dale
and The Federal Electric Company
Dale
Federal
Electric
This post 1900 section continues to be under current
construction
Please Check Back.
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HELP
WITH DATING BY PATENTS
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This
page is soon to become outdated as I finish linking all of the
patents to our new patent linker system. Try using some of our
new patent utilities shown in the links on your left. The information
below is only for either trying to use the patent office tiff
files or for tiff files we still have on our site. Soon all of
the tiff files will be replaced with easy to view pdf files.
PATENTS - Help viewing
full patents
If you would like to view and read the entire patent, the best
way is to read the TIFF files from the US Patent office. (we have
archived many here on this site here).
To view tiff files, you would need a GOOD plugin for a TIFF reader.
My experience shows that if you are using the QuickTime reader,
you can miss most if not all of the images because of cache problems.
The best reader that I have found to use is AlternaTIFF
It has many nice options and has never messed up on me. If you
wish to install it now, book mark this page or save it to your
favorites first so that you can come back here easily. Then go
to http://www.alternatiff.com/
and install the plugin. After you install it close your browser
and come back to this page. All of our TIFF links should then
work with no problems.
Some quick search tips if you go to the patent office online at
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.htm
You always need to use advanced mode to find older patents.
Be sure to always select Year 1790 to present
To search for a patent number type in: (PN/xxxxxx)
You type the number where xxxxxx is and it must have the ( ) around
it. Then click on Search
To look for all of the patents on the date May 8th 1900 you would
type: (ISD/19000508)
The format would be year month day (complete year 1900 not 00)
To look for Inventor name you could type: (IN/"HARVEY HUBBELL")
Or you could use (IN/HARVEY AND HUBBELL)
(TTL/LAMP AND SOCKET) TTL is what you would use to search the
title area of the patent
Patents
from 1790 through 1920 are searchable only by Issue Date and Patent
Number.
These kinds of searches shown above can only bring back patents
after 1920.
To search before 1920 you will need know the patent number OR
the date of the patent.
You can search a date using (ISD/XXXXX) then look through all
of the patents for that day.
To look for all of the patents on the
date May 8th 1900 you would type: (ISD/19000508)
The format would be year month day (complete year 1900 not 00)
Another method would be to search U.S. Class or sub classes:
Once you find an item of the same type that you are looking for,
the search result page will display the category that the patent
has been filed into. Example patent number 565541 is found in
Current U.S. Class: 200/420.
You can search for other patents that are in the same class and
sub class using the search terms:
(CCL/200/420) To search through an entire category and all of
the sub classes at once use the term (CCL/200/$)
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