Annex: the Clark last company, the felt and regenerating houses, and what the search saw and excluded

1910–1942 · ANNEX FIRMS AT THEIR OWN STRENGTH · EXCLUSIONS STATED

The George C. Clark Metal Last Company: The works did not make its own lasts, and the firm that did was itself a Mishawaka patentee, carried here as the roster's annex head. George C. Clark's molding apparatus, Nos. 1,210,420 and 1,210,421, stand in the 1917 lists at residence strength; No. 1,263,208, "Centrifugal casting-machine," of 1918, assigns to the Clark Metal Last Company; No. 1,300,123, "Centrifugal casting-box," of 1919, prints Clark by then of Detroit, assigning to the George C. Clark Metal Last Company of Mishawaka — the man gone to the automobile city, the company and its paper staying on the river. The line runs to Chester R. Parker, No. 2,294,316, "Shoe last," of 25 August 1942, assigned to the George C. Clark Metal Last Co., Inc., of Mishawaka: the last trade patenting into the war years, in the city, in its own name. These are not the rubber works' patents and are not counted with them; they are the record of the trade that tooled the works, and the banked Businesses file's Clark entry owns the firm.

The felt and regenerating houses: Beatty Felting Company stands in the roster's first entry on the strength of Roos's 1898 assignment, printed there. The Rubber Regenerating Company stands on Price's and Warner's assignments of 1915–1919, likewise printed in their entry: a reclaiming house taking Mishawaka chemistry paper, its own seat not established by any record the search read, and no seat claimed for it here.

Seen and excluded, by the sweep's own rule: The lists were read whole, and they are full of Mishawaka residents patenting outside the rubber trade — the Dodge and Wheelabrator benches, which the banked file and the Businesses leg own, and the lone inventors the banked file's closing entry owns. This sweep saw them, did not take them, and prints the seeing so the exclusion is auditable: among them, John F. Amos of Mishawaka, No. 1,946,471, "Method and apparatus for molding hollow articles," of 13 February 1934, with no assignee printed — hollow-article molding that may or may not be rubber work, its face unread and the question carried open in the closing entry; Emery Dezso, a musical-instrument striker operator, 1949; Earl N. Dickson, an automobile door latch, 1949; William R. Jontz, a trailer dolly, 1950; Buford R. Smith, a sand drier, 1950; James E. Romine, a C-clamp, 1952; Clarence F. Coleman, a mouth protector, 1953; and Ralph C. Kersh of Mishawaka, whose household-appliance paper ran by mesne assignments to S. C. Johnson & Son of Racine, Wisconsin, 1950–1952 — a Mishawaka inventor whose work belongs to another city's famous house, printed here at the boundary, as the discipline requires in both directions. One near neighbor is excluded on the same rule and named so the exclusion can be checked: Edward C. Van Buskirk and Paul W. Butsch of South Bend, No. 2,484,434, "Method of making sponge rubber," of 11 October 1949, to the United States Rubber Company — sponge paper from the twin city, by the parent channel, with no Mishawaka name on its face; Butsch stands in this roster only where he patents with Clayton of Mishawaka, in 1948.

Sources:

1. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents, patentee lists, 1917–1919; Index of Patents Issued, 1934, 1942, and 1949–1953 — the annex and excluded entries as itemized.
2. U.S. Patent No. 2,484,434, face as reported — Van Buskirk and Butsch, both of South Bend, to the United States Rubber Company; the exclusion and its ground.