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OF THE

Patent Office Society

Published monthly by the Patent Office Society. Office of Publication 3387 Stuyvesant Place, N. W., Washington, D. C. Subscription $2.50 a year Single copy 25 cents

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M. L. Whitney, Business Manager (Room 180, U. S. Patent Office.) 3319 Stuyvesant Place, Washington, D. C.

N. E. Eccleston, Circulation.

Entered as second class matter, September 17, 1918, at the post office at Washington, D. C., under the act of March 3, 1879.

Publication of signed articles in this journal is not to be understood as an adoption by the Patent Office Society of the views expressed therein. The editors are glad to have pertinent articles submitted.

VOL. IX

JUNE, 1927

No. 10

PATENT OFFICE ROTUNDA ENTRANCE

The picture appearing as a frontispiece in this issue of the JOURNAL presents a view showing quite clearly the unique architectural features characterizing the main rotunda or entrance hall of the second floor of the Patent Office building. The large columns and supporting arches overhead not only give the impression of great strength and stability which is true to fact, but they display a beauty of symmetry and design that is at once attractive and very pleasing. The large chandelier and decorations on the ceiling are also in evidence and add much to the picture.

THE PROPOSED NEW PATENT OFFICE

QUARTERS

Considerable interest is felt by many whose duties bring them to the Patent Office in the plans and proposals in connection with the new Department of Commerce Building for which Congress has made initial appropriation and which is to contain about one million square feet of floor space. Present plans call for one entire end of this building to be devoted to the Patent Office and to be so constructed as to provide for the special needs of the Patent Office.

The central theme of the Patent Office end of the building is to be a mammoth public search hall and an equally large scientific library, each being about 245 feet in length, 50 feet wide and 27 feet high. These two main features and the other branches of the Patent Office work which are for the particular service of the public are all to be arranged upon the main floor so that access may be had to them without the use of elevators or stairways, and also so that the public search hall and the library can be kept open at night without giving entrance to the upper floors of the building.

The court yard between the search room and the library will be 80 by 245 feet, which is almost the size of the beautiful interior court of the present Patent Office building, where the court measures 100 by 270 feet, but which will lack the charm and beauty of the present court yard if the proposals to erect stacks in the new court yard for housing the records of the office are retained. Underneath all of these quarters will be the storage vaults for the millions of copies of patents which are to be arranged in steel stacks so that they can be sold almost as readily as theatre tickets are sold. The upper floors will be occupied by the Commissioners, the Board of Appeals, the Examiners of Interferences, the Law Examiners, and the 55 or more examining divisions.

JAPANESE PATENT OFFICIALS VISIT OFFICE

Early in March of this year, a delegation from the Imperial Japanese Patent Office visited this office. The delegation consisting of Y. Kitamurer, secretary of Japanese Patent Office, Nagao Uyeno, director of the chemical and electrical division; and H. Hitsumata, chief examiner of the mechanical division were introduced by Takashi Taniguchi, Chancellor of the Japanese Embassy at Washington. These gentlemen were shown the progress of an application from its receipt in the mail room until the patent was sent out. They were much interested in the hearings before the Examiner of Interferences and the Board of Examiners-in-Chief.

PERRY B. TURPIN

The sudden death of Perry B. Turpin on Sunday, April 10, came as a great surprise and shock to almost everyone in the Patent Office and a host of his friends in the city. He was a man almost universally known as he was born in Washington and had resided here continuously during the sixty-eight years of his life.

Mr. Turpin had hardly completed convalescence from a severe operation but had been attending to his work for a few weeks when he suffered an attack of grip which was quickly fatal.

He was resident manager and member of the firm of Munn and Company of New York and Washington and had been associated with the organization for forty-three years. This long association and the large business of the firm explains the extended acquaintance he had with the Office personnel. Affable of manner and kindly of disposition he did not fail to make and keep a multitude of friends.

He was a graduate of old Columbia College of this city, a Mason of elevated standing, a director of financial institutions and a member of social societies.

He leaves a widow and a brother, Thomas E. Turpin, and a sister, both of Washington.

Among those serving as honorary pallbearers at the funeral were Commissioner Robertson and Ex-Commissioner Newton.

PATENT OFFICE LECTURES

The first lecture after the New Year was given by Mr. O. P. Hood, Chief of the Technological Branch and Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Bureau of Mines. The subject was "Coal". Mr. Hood pointed out that coal constitutes a most important element in modern politics as well as engineering practice. The Future belongs to those nations that have coal and who know how to use it most effectively. No other country has the variety of forms of coal found in the United States. The need of greater economy in the use of coal led recently to an international meeting of coal chemists in Pittsburgh. The chief interest of the principal European nations in this subject appears to lie in obtaining liquid fuel from coal. During the World War one of the principal combatant nations had at one time only a few minutes supply of fuel oil available. The need of fuel oil for air ships, for the rapid movements of war ships, as well as the development of the Diesel engine with its great efficiency and economy of fuel, have led to much research on the conversion of coal into liquid fuel. A German chemist announced at the Pittsburgh conference that one million barrels of oil would be obtained from coal in Germany within a year. This amount however is obtained in the United States from the earth in less than one day. The problem of obtaining liquid fuel from coal has not therefore reached in this country the acute stage that exists in

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