Re: ozone-generators (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:53:11 -0600
From: Gomez Addams <gomez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ozone-generators (fwd)


On Apr 16, 2004, at 9:46 AM, High Voltage list wrote:

> Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 20:19:55 +0930
> From: Matthew Smith <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: ozone-generators
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> Mark S. Rzeszotarski, Ph.D. wrote:
>>    A basic ozone generator is described in U.S. patent # 3,198,726.
>> It
>> briefly discusses preventing oxides of nitrogen.  You can download it
>> at
>> http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html.  Search by the patent number,
>> and
>> include the commas in the patent number.
>
> Matthew replies:
>
> Thanks for that Mark.
>
> FOR ALL WHO CAN'T VIEW THIS DOCUMENT -
>
> Sadly, the USPTO seems to be one of the US Govt. departments that
> hasn't
> addressed it's Web accessibility obligations under Section 508...
>
> I can't get this site to work under Linux/Mozilla, but have managed to
> get the
> page to load with Konqueror.  Mac users having a problem may like to
> try Safari,
> since it shares the Konqueror codebase, AFAIK.

  Safari does okay, but the USPTO's web page design, and choice of image
file format,
(PNG?  TIFF?  I can't remember right now) causes Safari to display the
images at too
large a size, without scroll bars in the frame!  I've never seen any
other web site
that has this problem with Safari - it's very annoying.

  Fortunately, one can still download the actual scanned images of the
documents,
which I prefer to have anyway, so that's what I do.

> I don't know the legal status of these patents, otherwise I'd convert
> to PDF and
> post on my server for convenience of others on the list.

AFAIK, all US patents are a matter of public record.

> If anyone knows if there is a PDF-only mirror of the USPTO library,
> please share!

I wish.