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W H SMITH & SON LTD

Overview
  • Total Patents
    47
About

W H SMITH & SON LTD has a total of 47 patent applications. Its first patent ever was published in 1938. It filed its patents most often in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. Its main competitors in its focus markets textiles and paper, machines and consumer goods are SHERMAN JOHN Q, UNITED AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER CO and NIAGARA FOLD INC.

Patent filings in countries

World map showing W H SMITH & SON LTDs patent filings in countries
# Country Total Patents
#1 United Kingdom 28
#2 United States 8
#3 Ireland 6
#4 France 3
#5 Belgium 1
#6 Finland 1

Patent filings per year

Chart showing W H SMITH & SON LTDs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Edward Lanegan Frederick 4
#2 Lanegan Frederick Edward 2
#3 Flawn Percy Alfred 2
#4 Albert Evans 1
#5 Nicholson Harry Leslie 1
#6 Day Harry John Charles 1
#7 George Sexton Francis 1
#8 Edgeley B W 1
#9 John Tibble 1
#10 Cooke Arthur George 1

Latest patents

Publication Filing date Title
IE25600L Web-fed printing machines
IE25437L Web-fed printing machines
IE25446L Web-fed printing machines
GB723100A Improvements in or relating to mechanism for feeding stationery in recording machines of the addressing machine type
GB687534A Improvements in or relating to strip feeding devices for recording and manifolding apparatus
GB702063A Improvements in or relating to transfer copying or manifolding materials and their manufacture
GB703168A Improvements in or relating to intermittently actuated strip feeding apparatus for use with addressing machines and similar imprinting equipment
GB707879A Improvements in or relating to continuous stationary feeding apparatus
GB692926A Improvements in or relating to the duplicating devices of tabulating and like recordprinting machines
GB669767A Improvements in or relating to printers' galleys
GB692024A Film forming compositions
GB664166A A new or improved guard for die presses
GB648729A Improvements in stationery feeding mechanism for addressing machines
US2583064A Pad of continuous stationery
GB623984A Improvements in or relating to pads of continuous stationery
US2584212A Autographic register and the like
GB610555A Improvements in or relating to stationery feed mechanism for imprinting machines
US2565915A Feed device for autographic registers
GB627871A Improvements in or relating to pinwheel devices for feeding stationery through typewriters and like machines
GB622688A Improvements in or relating to autographic registers