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To all of the Maid-O-Mist / Jacobus fans

ChrisJ
ChrisJ Member Posts: 16,231
in Strictly Steam
I just decided to look up one of the patent numbers on a Gorton vent and was kind of amazed to find out Edward Jacobus designed the overal type of vent quite a bit before Gorton.



<a href="http://www.google.com/patents?id=vKlrAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=2494293&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q=2494293&f=false">http://www.google.com/patents?id=vKlrAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=2494293&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q=2494293&f=false</a>

Notice it references two Jacobus patents at the bottom.

<a href="http://www.google.com/patents/US1547652?pg=PA1&dq=1547652&hl=en&sa=X&ei=A4AEUe-6N4mu0AGsiIHIDg&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=1547652&f=false">http://www.google.com/patents/US1547652?pg=PA1&dq=1547652&hl=en&sa=X&ei=A4AEUe-6N4mu0AGsiIHIDg&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=1547652&f=false</a>



<a href="http://www.google.com/patents/US2400297?pg=PA1&dq=2400297&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7YAEUcbANM-z0QHstIEI&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=2400297&f=false">http://www.google.com/patents/US2400297?pg=PA1&dq=2400297&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7YAEUcbANM-z0QHstIEI&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=2400297&f=false</a>



I'm actually not sure what the Gorton patent is about as it seems like the same design Edward Jacobus had.



Either way, technically Gorton's are a ripoff of the Maid-O-Mist though I doubt the originals had plastic internals.
Single pipe quasi-vapor system. Typical operating pressure 0.14 - 0.43 oz. EcoSteam ES-20 Advanced Control for Residential Steam boilers. Rectorseal Steamaster water treatment

Comments

  • BobC
    BobC Member Posts: 5,495
    Before lawyers

    All of this happened a long time before lawyers got their tentacles into industry. Patents used to grant you sole rights for a period of time and then all bets were off. That meants people could build on others ideas, the result was an explosion of products in the 19th and 20th century. Now we have been reduced to corporations trying to patent words, God forbid that someone bother to come up with a new idea.



    I assume Gorton saw the design and figured they could make it better. I don't know how long the MOMs will work compared to the Gortons but I know they work just as well.



    Bob
    Smith G8-3 with EZ Gas @ 90,000 BTU, Single pipe steam
    Vaporstat with a 12oz cut-out and 4oz cut-in
    3PSI gauge
  • Hap_Hazzard
    Hap_Hazzard Member Posts: 2,846
    Gorton's patent

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it had something to do with fish sticks. Using tartar sauce, maybe?



    :-)
    Just another DIYer | King of Prussia, PA
    1983(?) Peerless G-561-W-S | 3" drop header, CG400-1090, VXT-24
  • Sil
    Sil Member Posts: 72
    Montclair, NJ

    Cant just be a coincidence that both Jacobus and Gorton were from the same town...
  • Mark N
    Mark N Member Posts: 1,115
    edited January 2013
    Gorton

    This is from the Library



    www.heatinghelp.com/files/articles/1830/gorton.pdf



    Take a look at page 14. This catalog is from 1926.

    Maybe Jacobus worked for Gorton.
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