The Patent Roster, Counted by Class and by Name

1898–1963 · THE COUNTS, WITH THEIR SEAMS SHOWING

The totals: The sweep holds 216 grants itemized in the entries above, in three classes, beside an annex of six that are not counted as the works' paper. Class 1, the works' own paper — assignee the Mishawaka Woolen Manufacturing Company, the Mishawaka Rubber and Woolen Manufacturing Company in its several stylings, or Mishawaka Rubber Co., Inc. — holds 139 grants, among them two acquired Winterhalter reissues, one grant shared with Bendix Aviation, and the two New Jersey sponge grants of 1942; two further Shaffer design entries of 1948 stand probable on the volume's cross-references and are not in the count. Class 2, the parent channel — inventor printed of Mishawaka, assignee the United States Rubber Company — holds 47 grants. Class 3, residence strength in the rubber and footwear trade with another assignee or none printed, holds 30 grants, thirteen of them Raymond B. Price's. The annex holds Roos's Beatty assignment of 1898 and the Clark Metal Last Company's five grants. Design patents run through all three classes — about a fifth of the Class 1 count — and are labeled wherever they are named.

The repeat names: George W. Blair, forty-nine grants, 1925–1954. Charles E. Bradley, nine grants and a reissue, 1917–1942. Conrad Ferrettie, eleven grants, 1927–1942. George L. Van Dinter, nine, 1928–1933. John F. Schott, fourteen, 1936–1948. Marion M. Cunningham, nine, 1937–1948, every one printed from South Bend. William J. Clayton, seven, 1943–1948. Claude D. Mason, six, 1928–1945, in both channels. Ray R. Hunt, five, 1933–1938. Raymond B. Price, thirteen at residence strength, 1915–1919. Adna D. Warner, six, 1910–1918. Virgil H. Bodle, five, 1942–1954. Lawrence E. Daly, five, 1948–1951. Alfred E. Shaffer, five designs and an overshoe-boot, 1947–1948. Thomas H. Doherty, six, 1955–1963, the last of the line. Behind them stand some seventy one- and two-grant names, every one printed in its entry at line size — the works' bench, the town's tinkerers in the trade, and the partners the lists pair and part again. The center of the record is where the entries put it: a footwear works that patented its boots, its fasteners, and its designers' drawings for thirty years, and a wartime laboratory that patented the making of foam for ten.

Sources:

1. The sweep's ledger, counted from the itemized entries of this addendum against the annual lists and the verified records cited in each entry; the counting rules and the two probable 1948 entries are stated in the entry itself.