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INTERTYPE CORP

Overview
  • Total Patents
    446
About

INTERTYPE CORP has a total of 446 patent applications. Its first patent ever was published in 1911. It filed its patents most often in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Its main competitors in its focus markets textiles and paper, machines and optics are MERGENTHALER LINOTYPE GMBH, FIRM TYPOGRAPH G M B H and DRUITT PERCY WALTER.

Patent filings in countries

World map showing INTERTYPE CORPs patent filings in countries
# Country Total Patents
#1 United States 227
#2 Germany 89
#3 United Kingdom 60
#4 Canada 21
#5 France 17
#6 Switzerland 13
#7 Austria 7
#8 Denmark 7
#9 Spain 3
#10 Finland 2

Patent filings per year

Chart showing INTERTYPE CORPs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Freund Herman R 62
#2 Sperry Samuel E 40
#3 Willis Le Roy W 19
#4 Homans Thomas S 18
#5 Turner Ransom H 15
#6 Intertype Corporation 12
#7 Freund Herman Richard 10
#8 Goodbody Edmund M 9
#9 Sperry Arthur G 7
#10 Klingberg Einar G 4

Latest patents

Publication Filing date Title
US2761363A Photocomposing machine with automatic line repeat mechanism
DE964372C Photocomposing machine
US2704014A Photog-composing machine with line repeat mechanism
US2632368A Hand composing device
DE901259C Arrangement for the formation of related documents, e.g. Italics, using the photocomposition process
US2737239A Apparatus for correction and make-up of type matter for photographic printing
US2737097A Apparatus for forming guide indicia in the film of photocomposing machines
DE904732C Line exclusion device for photocomposing machines
US2672795A Portable photocomposing apparatus
US2708506A Automatic quadding and centering mechanism for typographical machines
US2698562A Method for photocomposition of continuous linear type matter
DE893290C Method and device for preparing printing forms in light typesetting
US2645168A Justifying apparatus for use in typographical photocomposing machines
US2672794A Font of matrices for kerning or producing composite type characters
US2659282A Method for correction and make-up of type matter for planographic printing processes
DE876806C Photocomposing machine
DE824890C Die for photographic typesetting machines
US2638824A Hand stick for use in producing type matter photographically
US2552882A Photographic type composing machine
US2552880A Photographic type composing machine