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IEifoJWWOll FOR1 llr. Rowe, ~atm.t Section, Boom l'll.S. 

November 22, l.933. 

1. There is attached :memorandwl w/spec1ticatims, claim.a, and drawing, 

tram ... Willia11 F. Friedman, an ~cvee ot the Signal Corpe. 

2. It is requested that the necessar,y steps be taken to secure a patent 

on this invention as it is believed to OOJl18 under .All-850-60. 

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MEMORANDUM TO: 

WA~ DEPAR1"1_~ 

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL. OFFICER 

WASHINGITON 

November 1~, 1933 

Research and Development Division 

(THROUGH War Pl~s & Training Di vision) 

1. Attached hereto are draft specifications, claims, and a 

drawing covering a ·new type or cipher machine upon which letters 

patent are desired. It is requested that they be .forwarded to 

the Patents Section with the request that they be prepared for 

submission to the Patent Office. 

2~ This cryptograph represents a modification or the principles underlying cipher machine type 114-l.34-T2, which is now 

being constructed at the Signal Corps Laboratorles. It is not 

intended, however, that the development referred to be in a:ay 

way affected by the present invention, which represents an alternative scheme that mS¥ be desirable to develop at some future 

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Speci.fications, claims, 

and drawing. · 

William F. Friedman, 

Signal Intelligence Section. 

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WHEREAS, in pursuance of said employment I have invented certain impro:vements in 

for which I am about to make application for Letters Patent of the United States; and 

- WHEREAS, the nature of my employment, and the conditions and circumstances 

under whi~ ·said invention was made, are such as to justly and lawfully entitle the Government of the United States of America to have a non-exclusive license and right to make and 

use said invention throughout the United States, its territories and dependencies, together 

with any and all improvements thereon and inventions relating thereto that I have made, or 

may hereafter make, while employed and engaged by the United States Government; 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises I do hereby give and grant unto 

the Government of the United States of America a non-exclusive license to make, to have 

made, to use and/or to sell, said invention. a described in the specification executed by me on 

the .......•.................... day of ............................. ! .............. , 192 ...... , together with any and all improvements thereon and inventions relating thereto made by me while employed or engaged by the 

United "!tates Government, or for which I may hereafter make application for Letters Patent 

while employed.or engaged by the United States Government~ reserving to the applicant in 

each case the unrestricted possession of all other t»atent rights not hereby or otherwise 

licensed to the Government of the United States of .America. Said license hereby granted or 

agreed to be granted shall extend tm:<>ughout The United States. its territories and dependencies and shall continue in force for the full term for which said Letters Patent may be 

granted. 

Signed at ··-····-····-············---··-···········• State of ............•..................... this .......................... day of 

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Witnesses: Signed: 

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• P E T I T I O N 

TO THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS: 

Your petitioner .... , ..................... 11.WMJ. . .f.t ... r.UD.At., ............. a.~ ................................... . 

citizen .... of the Uni.tad States residing· at .. t.ht. .. C.l.t7.:-llf .. ~:aahlngtoa ............................ . 

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................................................................................ pral9J ... that Letters Patent may be granted to 

·-----~---·-···:without payment of fees, pursuant to the provisionp of: the Act of March 3, 

1883, c. 143; U. S. Statutes, XXII, p. 625, as amended by the Act of April 30, 1928, 

f'or the improvement in ....... M~l. .. AllfffJUIUtA1'1.B0 ... 8!8f!QI. .............................................. . 

set forth in the annexed Specification. 

And .............. hereby givl ... irrevocable control of ... NA ....... a.ppli~ation for Letters 

Patent to the Secretary of War, and appointsRobert V. Laughlin and Charles A. Rowe 

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or either of them, whose post-office address is care of the Chief. of the Air Corps, 

Munitions Building, Washington, D. c., attorneys with full power of substitution and 

revocation to prosecute this application, to make alterations and amendments therein, 

h1• .· to sign .............. name .... to the drawings, to receive the Letters Patent, and to transact 

all business in the United States Patent Office connected therewith. 

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S P ~ C ! F I C A T I 0 N 

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: 

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f h o t e Um · s 'd· t!1'•8h1tt&£ton · · thR~ ntatrlot ot ted tates res1 ing a .......................................... 1nor: ............................ . 

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of which the following is a specification: 

The invention described herein may be manufactured and used by or for the Government for governmental purposes, without the payment to me of any royalty thereon. 
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