Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 1,119,732 - Apparatus for Transmitting Electrical Energy Patent Wrapper Page 56

752 specify "one or more" means a mere duplication of such parts. This mode of expression has always been permissible under the Patent Office practice. Similarly in claims 38 and 39, (former 39 and 40), the conductors referred to are B and C, which may be duplicated without in any way affecting the invention. Claims 42 and 43, (former 43 and 44), have been corrected. It is believed that claims 13, 14, and 28 to 33 are not fatally functional. If, as appears to be the fact, applicant is the first to produce a sensibly uniform distribution of surface density on a high tension circuit, by arrangement of its parts, he should be permitted to word his claim in the broadest possible. language. It is to be noted, however, that applicant is not claiming any high tension circuit on which the surface density is uniform, but one in which the arrangement or construction of the outer conducting boundaries effects the desired distribution, so that the claims are in fact perfectly definite as to the means employed. Similar considerations apply to claims 36 to 44. Claim 1 has been amended to cover a combination instead of a single element, as the combination is distinctly novel. the claim is believed to be allowable. Claims 2 and 3 are allowed. Claim 4 is also a combination, and the "conductor of large radius of curvature" (coil B) is not disclosed in the reference. Similar considerations apply to claims 4 to 9. All these claims, as amended, cover combinations which produce new results, and they are therefore thought to be allowable. As for claim 10, the Faraday disclosure does not include a resonating circuit of high potential and a surface of "smaller curvature", or any element having an equivalent function, to permit the escape of the charge as in applicant's invention. The remaining claims are also differential from the Faraday disclosure. For instance, claims 11 and 12 call for a resonating circuit, which is obviously not found in the reference. 56 371 54 -7