Re: patently frustrated

Very interesting you should be talking about casein and plastic. I am
interested in Franklin Enos' casein process. I am intrigued by casein in
that it is perhaps harder than gum. I was wondering about Enos' patent that
he went off of in the very beginning. Sam told me that his archives are in
Louisville, and perhaps the copy of the patent is there in his files. I got
the article off of Unblinkingeye.com and also thanks, Gene R., for the
article you located. That is the one I started with that gave the actual
number of the patent. But Mark N was able to locate that patent no. and it
seems it is for the manufacture of a toy, hence something is incorrect, and
it seems I would have to look thru thousands of patents around the yr 1870
in order to locate the correct one. Maybe I'll have enough free time to do
so, but if there were a better search program, like, for instance, an index
of the patents around the year 1870, it'd be soooo much easier.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Maxey" <written_by@msn.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: patently frustrated

>> Hi Bob,
>
>
> Well hello there.
>
>
>> It is a patent on casein. I have the inventor/applicant, a John Robert
>> Johnson, and a possible date (1870) and a possible number (201) but I
> cannot
>> locate anything with those parameters. I think the date or the number is
>> wrong but I can't just scroll thru all the patents, it seems, of the year
>> 1870. Oh, I think it is a British patent. I've tried the uspto.gov and
> the
>> http://gb.espacenet.com/ but still cannot seem to get to what I want.
> I've
>> tried boolean operators too. I'm obviously either doing something wrong
> or
>> one of my details is wrong.
>
>
> Very small world. Except for a few lists devoted to fountain pen makers
> and
> collectors, nobody asks about casein much past why is it so special, what
> is
> it about casein, why is the material no longer available to crafters, or
> (in
> my case) fountain pen makers?
>
>
> Casein is a well misunderstood plastic and quite wonderful indeed. It is
> my
> second favourite plastic for pen manufacturing; the first being celluloid
> nitrate.
>
>
> I know all about casein. However, I guess I must first ask you if you are
> talking about the commercial plastic once widely available and used by
> various manufacturers of items like pens, decorative items like jewellery
> or
> other such items? In other words, Casein Formaldehyde and its variants?
> Why
> are you interested in casein?
>
>
> I have written about its history, its manufacturer, and the more than 100
> trade names and/or manufacturers of casein. So perhaps I can fill in
> whatever blanks you need filled in, if you cannot find the patent you
> seek.
> I am quite knowledgeable about casein.
>
>
> Were you aware that making casein takes more than a year? Imagine that,
> one
> year to make an inch thick slab of plastic. No wonder modern materials
> took
> over. Generally speaking, the raw material is laid down one millimetre per
> day then cured in formalin/formaldehyde. There is more to the process; it
> is
> time consuming and I have simplified for brevity.
>
>
> For those that are confused and wondering what the heck casein is, casein
> is
> a plastic made from milk.
>
>
> So pick Bob's brain, it is filled with the arcane, profound, and
> frightening.
>
>
> Bob
> …
>
>
Received on Thu May 12 13:44:40 2005