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Has anyone here ever patented anything coin related ?
comoncents
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I have a very crude example model made and would like to talk with someone who has had something patented before. Wasn't it a board member that invented that slab caddy case ?
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<< <i>OT a little but my GG something granfather was Joseph Jenks Jr (1632-1717) was credited with recieving the first patent in America. He also supposidly (sp) made the dies for the Pine tree shilling (look at your Red Book. I'm going from memery here) >>
Sorry, but the first patent was issued in 1836 to J Ruggles for "Traction Wheels." I used to work at the USPTO.
History of the United States Patent Office
The Patent Office Pony
A History of the Early Patent Office
Chapter 2 -- Invention Comes to British Colonial America
[Pg 11]
CHAPTER TWO
INVENTION COMES TO BRITISH COLONIAL AMERICA
Joseph Jenks Sr., age 41, iron founder, of Colebrook, Buckinghamshire, widower with two sons, was persuaded in 1643 to emigrate from England to Lynn, Massachusetts, to operate an iron-smelting and foundry business. In that year, Robert Bridges had taken bog iron ore found in Saugus, Massachusetts, to London and persuaded a group of wealthy English gentlemen and merchants to join him in forming the Company of Undertakers for the Iron Works. The company advanced £1,000 to commence the work. The Company of Undertakers chose Mr. Jenks to go out from England and operate the iron works. Mr. Jenks left his two sons, Joseph Jr. and George Jenks, in England with instructions to join him in America later. He successfully set up the foundry, and personally cast the first article, an iron pot holding about one quart. This pot survives in the Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts. The iron works apparently operated for about twenty-five years before it became unprofitable. [footnote 1]
In 1641, the Massachusetts Bay Colony granted an exclusive right for the manufacture of salt. It appears that this was for the establishment of an imported industry in Massachusetts, and not for an invention.
But in 1646, Massachusetts granted its first exclusive right for use of an invention. The inventor was Joseph Jenks Sr. The General Court recognized that he had made speedier engines for water-mills and also mills for making scythes and other edged tools, and it allowed him fourteen years without disturbance from others who might set up similar inventions. Mr. Jenks purchased the right to manufacture scythes at the iron works, and in 1655 he was granted a second exclusive right for seven years to manufacture an improved grass scythe. Apparently, the common scythe of the day was short, thick, heavy and slow. Mr. Jenks made a scythe blade which was thinner and longer and was thickened on the back side for support. For over 300 years the scythe of commerce remained substantially unchanged in shape from that of Mr. Jenks.
[Page 11 illustration: Pine tree shilling]
In 1652, Massachusetts was short of coinage for use in its internal commerce. It decided to coin its own money, despite the fact that the English policy, at least unofficially, prohibited the colonies from coining their own money. Joseph Jenks Sr. was chosen to make the dies for striking [Pg 12] the coins. He made dies for threepenny pieces, sixpenny pieces and shillings. They were to be of sterling silver, and by weight were to have five-sixths of the silver weight of the corresponding English coins. This lesser weight would tend to prevent their export from the colony for their silver value. Each was stamped with "Massachusetts" and a pine tree on one side, and on the other side "New England, Anno 1652," together with the number of pence in Roman numerals. There is a story that Sir Thomas Temple, representing the interests of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, showed samples of the coins to King Charles II. When the King asked what kind of tree was represented on the coins, Sir Thomas answered that it was a royal oak tree, the tree which saved the King's life. The King answered that the colonists were "a set of honest dogs," and proceeded with the business at hand.
In 1654, Joseph Jenks Sr. built a fire-engine for the city of Boston to deliver water in case of fire. There were few such engines in the world, and Paris did not get its first for another 50 years.
Joseph Jenks Sr., died in his early eighties, leaving a large family of descendants. His son Joseph Jenks Jr. came over from England in 1645, two years after his father, to operate iron forges and saw mills. He could not find sufficient water power to operate his mills available in Warwick, Rhode Island, so he moved in 1671 to the vicinity of Pawtucket Falls in Rhode Island to build a mill, and incidentally to found the town of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Joseph Jenks III was a distinguished citizen of Rhode Island. His two principal claims to fame must have been that he was the royal governor of Rhode Island from 1727 to 1732, and that he stood seven feet two inches in his stocking feet. We shall hear more of this family later.
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I currently have 3 patents and 2 more patents pending. Only they aren't coin related, they are all for gelatin capsules and tablets. I'm a Pharmaceutical Scientist, the companies I work at have Patent Lawyers that we work with to get a patent.
The first step is to document the invention so a legal record is made of when the invention was first invented. Then you write a summary of the invention. Like what is the invention, what problem does the invention solve in a unique way, what prior art are you aware of and how does your invention differ. Then you write a broad description that attempts to encompass every permutation that could be done which incorporates your idea and any way that it could also be applied (so that others can't easily get around your patent) then you write a narrow descriptive example of your preferred invention. Then you write your claims in appropriate legalese.
Patent it Yourself
Not that I did my own legal work or suggest that you do yours, just that you'll have a better idea how to go about things.
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<< <i>SORRY FRETCHER but YOU are wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 >>
Sorry to rain on your parade, Jenks was not issued a patent. However, it is a nice story