http://www.google.com/patents/US1556364

http://www.google.com/patents/US1322968

...I could only find a couple of patents for the Solar Electric Company, both issued to John C. Smith...DB has better luck than I do finding old patents!

Looking for better Gulf items: signs, globes, cans and paper - especially porcelain Gulf flanges, and Gulf A-38 & A-62 ad glass...