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- 5 May 1944 

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Forwarded herewith is a communication from the U.S. Patent Office 

dated 2 May 1944 concerning your patent application S.N. 107,2·44, filed 

23 October 1936, entitled 11Cryptographs 11 • Since this application was placed 

under the three year rule of 35 u.s.c. 37, an amendment will not become due 

in this case until 2 May 1947. 

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Patents & Inventions Counsel, Legal Division 

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All communications respecftttg this application should give the serial number,· 

date of filing, and name of 

Addrese rmlv 

The Commiesioner of Patentl, 

and not any official by name 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

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Please find below a communication from the EXAMINER in 

the applicant 

charge of this applicat~on. (() .. ~ 

GPO 16-27315-2 . ~Comml83iomr of Patenta, Applicant: ;v.. 1. f'riediaan 

N1111am D. Hall, 

C/o ~atent ~ection, 

t~niei' o:f the Air Corps., 

;Jar Lept., 

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MAY 2- 1944 

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107~244 

Oct. 23, 1936 

CRYPTOGHAPHS 

Responsive to the e~e.nd•nt......nt:.,_F_~J~.~ ,,}.f~ 1944: 

. ·'l'he claims now in the case are 2 - 15. 

Claims 2, 4 - 8, 11 ~ 14 appear to be allowable. 

' Claim 3 would appear allowable 1.f the indefiniteness 

of. "electrically associated" were sv·bided. So far as the 

claim sets out the electrical association is immaterial~ 

The Hebern pawls and the like effect permutative and stepwise displacements just ss we11 as they could do if the 

parts were in electrical association. This 1s true since 

claim 4 s~ems to set out an operative device without the presence or .electrical association of parts. Claim 4 appears to· 

be allowable and claim 3 is rejected es unpatentsble over 

claim. 4 in the electrical association cr1tic1zad wh1chhas 

been added to the ms ttar a.llo·Nable in claim 4. 

Claim 9 would appear allowable if s1gnif1~aryce were 

given to ''elactricaily related" arid. commutators. It is thought 

th~t a commutator can be wholly mechanical. 

~la1m lQ would appear allowa'bl_fl) it' ~aperiodic'• 

were quslfified. If the machine is run long enough the same 

arrangement as the original will be set up. 

Claim 11 appears allowable<aa stated1&bove. 

·Claim 15 ia again rejected for reea.ons of record. 

s+nce an issue has been reached. this rejection is ma~e f1nal~ 

This 1a e FINAL RRJECTION. 

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Serial No. 107,244 -2~ 

·• If and when the a·ppl1pation mentioned on page 2, 

].1ries 1 - 3 bas beeome a patent the identify ng data thereof 

should be added; provided this application is still pending • 

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