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The Patent Office is responsible for the registration of designs and trade marks and was formerly known as the Patents, Designs and Trade Marks Office. The Intellectual Property Office became an operating name of the Patent Office on 2 April 2007.

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31 boxes of archival material, including Grimshaw Brothers Limited financial records, company stationery, promotional literature, letter books, constitutional records, employee records, client records, technical literature and copies of articles written by H Grimshaw, 1866-1967

Business records of Grimshaw Brothers Limited
Articles, journals and text books used in the course of research at Grimshaw Brothers & Co. Ltd.

Research reference material
Research material produced and used by Grimshaw Brothers & Co. Ltd.

Research
Papers relating to legal matters, and the company's compliance with company law.

Legal Records
Research articles and patents by Harry Grimshaw.

Research articles
25 patent specifications relating to chemical manufacturing processes.

Chemical manufacturing patents
Patent and patent specification 16372 for an invention for the fireproofing of textile materials held by Harry Grimshaw, 1902-3. Patent and patent specification 17434 for improvements relating to the fireproofing of paper, cardboard and similar materials, 1902-3. Correspondence regarding a possible infringement of patent 16372, dated 1905. Leaflet advertising fire extinguishing products manufactured by The Pyrene Company Limited.

Patents relating to fireproofing
Research material relating to the development of Dairy Heat Pumps and Heat Recovery Units undertaken by the British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association, Berkshire, mainly dating to 1955-1965. The collection is comprised of correspondence, test data and data analysis, laboratory reports and photographs. Much of the material was annotated by former dairying engineering researcher A.S. Cromarty retrospectively.

Research Material relating to Dairy Heat Pumps
Draft and published scientific reports mainly written for the journal 'Shinfield Progress'. The series also includes a small amount of research data filed with the papers and a patent granted to researcher A.S. Cromarty.

Research reports on heating and cooling of agricultural products
Day Books and files compiled by D W Alford during the private venture funded research project to develop the first working oscillogyro, known as the Research Oscillogyro and the Pre-Experimental Oscillogyro.

Papers relating to the Ferranti Private Venture Research and the first working oscillogyro
Folder containing copies of Patent 1 466 980 for 'Improvement to Fluid-Storage Heat-Exchangers Particularly for Heat Recovery from Vapour Compression Refrigeration Systems' and research papers 'Combined Milk Cooling and Water Heating', 'Water Heating and Heat Energy Recovered from a Refrigerated Farm Tank' (2 copies with annotations). The file also includes ten pages of graphs and a typed data sheet for the 'Water Heating and Heat Energy' paper.

Published papers and associated material by A S Cromarty

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