Browning Patents: Comprehensive List Help?

[Badger Arms]

I've been doing a little research and, from various sources, I was able to find about 70 patents from John Browning. Well, I started a few years after his death and have been doing a patent by patent quest for more Browning patents. I've been searching the US Patent and Trademark Office's online database. Well, it looks like 40-60 more hours at this rate until I get to his first patent. Does ANYBODY have a comprehensive list of all 128 patents? I'm at 92 now. I need help to save me some serious time. I'm putting this all out in the open so you can see what I already have at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Browning and check my data if you'd like. I haven't double-checked it, but I think it's right so far. Please don't edit the page any, just post suggestions in the discussion section if you find something and I'll do the editing to try to stay within format.

Links? Patent dates? Patent numbers that aren't on my list? Typos? Broken links? Guns not credited? Maybe even unpatented items? Foreign patent references? This is primary research. I'm trying to compile data that I don't know where to find. Anybody in Utah that can go to the Browning museum and dig something up?

If anybody can help out, I'd be glad to email my excel spreadsheet with more detailed information on the patents. Thanks for the help in advance.

 

[rdbrowning]

Check for his autobiography, it has many listed.

 

[Badger Arms]

Thanks. I started with the list in the autobiography. Unfortunately, that list had many errors and I feel I might have done better doing the primary research at the Patent office to begin with rather than starting with that corrupted list. It almost felt like the information in the book was slapped together and/or intentionally sabatoged to make me do more work.

 

[Badger Arms]

I've got most of them. Anybody else know?

 

[Bullet Bob]

Find a copy of the 1985 Gun Digest, if you don't already have it; libraries often carry these - there's a 10 page article on this very subject. I used to love Gun Digest, which used to be for "serious students of the gun", and has now degenerated into a publication for anyone who can spell gun in three tries, with the exception of one or two articles.

 

[saltydog452]

Jmb..

Do you have as one of your references a book titled "John M. Browning
AMERICAN GUNMAKER" by John Browning and Curt Gentry? Ist edition printed 1964 by Doubleday and Co., Garden City, N.Y...

The book does not offer a comprenhsive list of all the patents, their respective dates, but does mention 81 specific models with illustrations, description, patent #'s and dates.

Hope this helps,

salty.

Edited to add: The book was bought about 25-30 years ago from K & S ARMS BOOKS..801 Randall Road..Edmond, Okla. 73034..405.341.4778.

I don't know if they are still in bussiness or not. The book was bought at a gun show in Oklahoma City, Ok. quite some time ago..

again, HTH..

sd.

 

[bogie]

When I tried to view some of the patents, I got nada - any suggestions?

 

[twoblink]

Someone sent me the patent to his bottom eject shotgun before..

There use to be a comprehensive list somewhere on the Internet..

Great idea, it will save me time later on when I need to see the patents; when I open up my own gun manufacturing company.

 

[Badger Arms]

To view patents, you need alternatiff. It's a windows plug-in that works great. Sometimes, you have to alter the settings on Quicktime if you have that installed.

Here's a link to the Patent Office's How-To page: http://www.uspto.gov/patft/help/images.htm

I've got the Gentry Book. Don't have to buy it yet as the local library has a copy and they have a very liberal renewal policy. Very helpful. I've found 118 patents by doing a patent-by-patent search through Classifications 42 and 89. If there are 10 more patents out there, they might not be in those classifications. Hmmmm. I'll look for the Gun Digest article. I've got the last 45 years of Gun Digest in boxes in the garage.

 

[Badger Arms]

Okay, just read the Gun Digest article. It was simply a digested version of the Gentry book with two erroneous patent numbers. Probably typos or transposition. I'm convinced that no comprehensive list exists. It's frustrating. Where did the number come from? Maybe that's a mistake too. I've got a contact in Utah who 'knows some people' that might help me find the missing 10 patents. Thanks for the help.