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SELECT DISTINCT patent.*, YEAR(date) as year FROM patent WHERE (date >= '1878-00-00' AND date < '1879-00-00') ORDER BY type ASC, date, patent

Total of 15 patents found where: Year is 1878

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T / S Patent Date Description Patentee Category Assigned To
 1878
D 10,678 May 14, 1878 Design for Lamp Shades
Head shaped gas lamp shade
HEMINGRAY, Robert
HI Hemingray Glass Co.
R 8,304 June 25, 1878 Improvement in Couplings for Lightning Rods
Coupling for lightning rods where the ends can be screwed together (see 90,578)
REYBURN, William S.
HUNTER, Edmund A. W.
Lightning Rod Coupling 1/2 of Hunter's right to Byron P. Moulton
R 8,429 September 24, 1878 Improvement in Lightning Rods
Star shaped lightning rod made of 4-edged angle iron with a sheet of copper pressed over the outer surface and then twisted (see 92,551)
VERMILYA, Leland D.
REYBURN, William S.
HUNTER, Edmund A. W.
Lightning Rod Rights of Vermilya to Reyburn, Hunter, and Byron P. Moulton
R 8,459 October 22, 1878 Improvement in Lightning Rods
Lightning rod made of iron with strips of copper attached longitudinally and twisted (see 91,530)
FARLEY, Henry W.
Lightning Rod Charles H. Smith and John Hewitt
U 199,264 January 15, 1878 Improvement in Metallic Necks for Glass Vessels
Metallic neck for glass vessel
COTY, John T.
HU  
U 199,506 January 22, 1878 Improvement in Insulating Underground Telegraph Wires
Underground cable insulated by wrapping with cotton, hemp, or jute and saturating it with paraffin and inserting the wires in heated metal pipes flushed with air to remove moisture.
BROOKS, David
Cable  
U Specimen known 200,124 February 12, 1878 Improvement in Telegraph Insulators
Hook in glass held in crossarm by pin (Brooks & La Bastie)
BROOKS, David
Hook  
U 200,973 March 5, 1878 Improvement in Glass Furnaces
Glass furnace
BROOKFIELD, James M.
Furnace  
U 201,059 March 5, 1878 Improvement in Lightning Rod Connections
Coupling for lightning rod with matching male and female threads applied to the ends of rods and then the whole galvanized to make one continuous rod section
SMITH, Charles H.
Lightning Rod Coupling  
U 201,544 March 19, 1878 Improvement in Insulators for Telegraph Wires
Threads of segmented internal threads to match segmented pin
MATTHEWMAN, Joseph
Thread  
U Specimen known 201,615 March 26, 1878 Improvement in Insulators for Telegraph Wires
Oil cup insulator
JOHNSON, Walter C.
PHILLIPS, Samuel E.
Oil  
U 202,578 April 16, 1878 Improvement in Machines for Making Lightning Rods
Portable machine to make lightning rods mounted in a wagon
PATEE, Theodorus H.
Lightning Rod Machine  
U 204,257 May 28, 1878 Improvement in Lightning Conductors
Sheet metal strips connecting lightning rods to gutters
SPANG, Henry W.
Lightning Rod Conductor  
U 204,359 May 28, 1878 Improvement in Lightning Rods
Lightning rod that is hollow and ribbed with galvanized iron core and points fitted along the rod
MUNSON, David
Lightning Rod  
U 208,487 October 1, 1878 Bottle Stopper
Bottle stopper
OAKMAN, Samuel
Bottle  

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