33 - Mathias HAAG (1791 - ) [1]
HAAG was an avocat in Trier.
On 4 January 1849 he filed an application for a brevet d’importation.[2] He filed an extensive 4 page description of his invention (in old German handwriting) together with a drawing under the title:
Nouveau système de chauffage à la houille, dit “Kohlenfüllofen”
Under the new procedure, whereby the Chambre de commerce was going to act as examination authority for patent applications, an arrêté royal had appointed as examiners François Reuter, professeur à l’Athénée and François Eydt, architecte de la Ville de Luxembourg.
However, a special committee of the Chambre de commerce, including the appointed experts, appears to have acted as examination committee since its report, issued on 1 September 1849, indicates that the committee as a whole was immediately convinced of the merits of HAAG's invention:
La Chambre de commerce réunie en commission, en présence de M. M. Reuter & Eydt, adjoints spéciaux délégués par le Gouvernement, il est fait l'ouverture de la demande du sieur Mathias Haag, avocat à Trèves, à l'effet d'obtenir un brevet d'importation de cinq années pour un nouveau système de chauffage à la houille.
La commission est d'avis qu'il y a lieu d'accorder le brevet d'importation demandé pour le terme de cinq ans, au minimum de la taxe.
The report was signed by the committee members, where the names of the following influential people appear:
Lamock, Reuter, Fischer, Mergen, Eydt, Krewinckel, Kuborn, _____
The patent was thus granted on 8 October 1849.
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[2] Haag had obtained a Prussian patent for 6 years, on 8 December 1848.
(24/02/2021)
