Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 1,061,142 - Fluid Propulsion Patent Wrapper Page 52

852 IX Forwarded from Div I Examiner of Interferences. June 1912. Nikola Tesla, 2-218. DEPA...MENT OF THE INTERIOR, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C., Room No. 142 All communications should be addressed to "The Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C. 440 Very respectfully, Paper No.1 [INTERFERENCE.] 190 Care, Kerr, Page, Cooper. & Hayward, 149 Broadway, New York, N.Y. Please find below a copy of a communication from the Examiner concerning your application for "Fluid Propulsion, filed Oct. 21, 1909, Ser.No.523,832.... U.S. PATENT OFFICE. INTERFt 4: N JIV SIDA JUN 18 1912 MAILED. EBMoore. Commissioner of Patents. 34919 Your case, above referred to, is adjudged to interfere with others, hereafter specified. and the question of priority will be determined in conformity with the Rules. The statement demanded by Rule 110 must be sealed up and filed on or before the ... day of.. JUL. 1. 5. - 1912.....19.0..., with the subject of the invention, and name of party filing it, indorsed on the envelope. The subject-matter involved in the interference is A machine for propelling or imparting energy to fluids, comprising in combination a plurality of spaced disks rotatably mounted, and having plane surfaces, an enclosing casing and ports of inlet at the axial and-outlet at the peripheral portion of said casing respectively. The interference involves your application above identified and an application for "Apparatus for Propelling Fluids", filed by Ira H. Spencer, of Hartford, Conn., whose attorney is Arthur B. Jenkins, of Conn.Mutual Bldg., Hartford, Conn. The issue is claim 5 of Spencer and your claim 5. F. W.B. 8.5. Haskell Acting ext