I don't mean to add to the noise floor, but is there a reason you generated a bit.ly link for this? This isn't twitter with particularly restrictive character constraints; all it serves is obfuscation as far as I can tell.
It's so when your patent is disputed, you can cite things like "In column 9, lines 34-36 of document E2, it is disclosed that..." (I'm translating just such a dispute claim now. For a tampon applicator. I'd rather be learning about railroads.)
Man, the beginning of the patent makes this sound like the greatest invention ever. Let trains brave mud,rain,ice and anything. Except I think the US postal service has some prior art to the whole mud,rain and ice thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service_cr...
How long for OCR to become usable for something like this? Google's OCR transforms the readable "Locomotive Steam-Engine for Rail and Other Roads" to "BAIL AND OTHER ROADS"
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 62.2 ms ] threadMore info on the "first" US Patent. http://www.uspto.gov/news/pr/2001/01-33.jsp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Patents
http://bit.ly/8X7Ydw
I'm genuinely curious what the reasoning is.
http://www.cheapass.com/products/boardgames/cag034.html
http://bit.ly/8X7Ydw
http://www.google.com/patents?id=nrxzAAAAEBAJ
That's General Washington's signature in the middle, and Edmund Randolph's (first Attorney General) on the bottom.
The cabinet was the PTO in 1790.
After all, the 'rack and pinion' had been around for a while and the rack really is just a gear rolled out.