The works' paper in the 1930s: Schott, the Bodles, and the machinery men

1931–1942 · CLASS 1 · PAST THE FASTENERS

John F. Schott: Blair's partner on the floor coverings holds his own line beside them: No. 2,129,607, "Method of making rubber articles," of 6 September 1938, and No. 2,295,363, "Pillow," of 8 September 1942 — a foam pillow patenting out of the works two years before the latex-foam program opens in earnest — and No. 2,327,001, "Pore surfaced foam rubber and method," of 17 August 1943, to which the company filed a disclaimer in December 1944, a notice the 1944 Index itself prints. Schott's name then runs through the cushion and sponge entries below — with Blair on the molding apparatus of 1943, with Charles L. Glaes on No. 2,320,425, "Combining foam rubber," of 1 June 1943, and with Blair and Luxenberger on the latex-foam grant of 1945 — and into the parent channel, where the Daly and Schott cellular-receptacle grant of 1948 stands in the chemists' entry. One reading caution is printed here because the record demands it: the drawing sheet of the 1936 floor-covering patent carries a signature a casual eye reads as "John T. Schott"; the printed specification heading governs, and the man is John F. Schott in every record the search read.

The two Bodles, printed as printed: The lists give two Bodle names on the works' paper and this section does not merge them. John P. Bodle, No. 2,120,458, "Waterproof seam and method of making same," of 14 June 1938 — the waterproof seam again, a solo grant beside Blair's 1929 seam patent of the fastener years. Virgil H. Bodle, No. 2,275,603, "Perforating method and apparatus," of 10 March 1942; then the sponge and cushion grants with Blair of 1943 and 1949 in Blair's entry above, the second printing him of Los Angeles; and in 1950, with Blair and Dosmann, the sprayed-rubber grant that closes Blair's entry. Whether the two Bodles were kin the patent record does not say, and this section does not guess.

The machinery and process bench at line size: Charles J. Futter and Blair, No. 1,865,625, "Rubber sole construction," of 5 July 1932, and No. 1,965,180, "Waterproof sole and method of making same," of 3 July 1934 — the structured record's title carried here, the Index printing the same grant as "Waterproof shoe." Eugene W. Herzog and Futter, No. 2,200,333, "Article of footwear," of 14 May 1940 — the works' lone entry in the 1940 lists. Claude D. Mason alone, No. 1,987,782, "Toe protector for footwear," of 15 January 1935, and at the end of the works' own paper, No. 2,382,248, "Composite rubber and fibrous material and method of making same," of 14 August 1945. And 1939 stands in this section as it stands in the lists: read whole, the 1939 Index carries no Mishawaka-company entry at all — a blank year in the works' paper, printed as a finding, between Herzog's footwear of 1940 and the war program that follows.

Sources:

1. Index of Patents Issued, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1938, 1939 (read whole; no company entry), 1940, 1942, 1943, and 1945 — the grants as itemized.
2. PubChem patent records for U.S. 1,865,625, 1,965,180, 2,120,458, 2,129,607, and 1,987,782 — the works' titles as the patents themselves carry them.