Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 511,916 - Electric Generator Patent Wrapper Page 31

38 can pay hom sorin rospeting this application should give G. L. M. N. Tesla, c/o Duncan & Page, DEPARTMENT #120 Bdwy., N.Y.City. 87. Room No........ (9-07 a.) All communication should le created to "The Commissioner of Petsats, Washington, D. C." of UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE, E INTERIOR, WASHINGTON, D. C., .... Subject: U.S. PATENT OFFICE MAILED NOV 22 1893 Nov. 22,, 1893. Filed Aug., 19, 1893, No. 433,562. Please find below a communication from the EXAMINER in charge of the application above noted. Blectric Generators. Johns. Encan Commissioner of Patents The examiner does not see what right applicant has to assume that a fly-wheel forms a part of the engine shown in the French patent to Jablochkoff of record. Reciprocating engines without fly-wheels were common and well known at the time said French patent, was granted. As an instance, see patent to Wood & Robinson, #78,853, June 9, 1868, "Rock Drills." The expression a piston free to move under the action of steam or a gas under pressure, does not convey any meaning to the examiner whereby applicant's engine could be distinguished from any steam engine, whether used with a fly-wheel or not. Claims 1, 2 and 3 are therefore still held to be met by the above mentioned French patent and are again rejected. Sardbelyſn