REEL AND REEL-RELATED PATENTS OF THE ENTERPRISE MANUFACTURING COMPANY. 1896-1940. ILLUSTRATED, DESCRIBED AND INDEXED. Compiled by Robert A. Miller.

2004 1st edition. Large 4to paperback (214 x 277mm). Ppiv,350. B/w illustrations and technical drawings of reels.

" There have been many patent-related references to reels of The Enterprise manufacturing Company in numerous publications in the past but, to the author's knowledge, this is the first attempt to list all patents granted to or obtained by The Enterprise Manufacturing Company from the first descriptions and accompanied by the original illustrations. [The useful text has been abstracted from] those redundant and often tortuously detailed descriptions [which] would have been impractical to reproduce in full here. And hopefully the abbreviated descriptions will better assist the reader in understanding the often complex devices that in the original patent application required up to five or more pages of small type to explain". Contents include: Acknowledgement and references; A bit of history; Discussion of the format; Alphabetical listing of reels with applicable patent numbers 1896-1940; Chronological listing of patents 1896-1940 with original drawings and synopses of original descriptions; Design patents; Discussion of a patent dispute.