On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:33:23 -0400, STEALTHMAN <stealthman@iglou.com>
wrote:

                Page Four,  Application 972527 - Continued 

      ........................High quality surface configurations
39   of electronic avoidance should be able to focus or
      direct most, if 
40   not all energy into an area about five times the size
      of the aircraft, or less

                             [end of page four]

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       Page 5 was just a single patent claim trying
to protect all of the possible surface configurations,
which would never be allowed.
      The patent examiner objected to the disclosure
on several grounds including no example of a complete 
craft given.

      I was in a pickle now, 4 years had passed since
I conceived of the invention, I had no chance of
being able to manufacture the items, more and more
news stories were coming out about invisible airplanes,
I felt I should be protected for flat surfaces by Paper
Number 11 and the filing of an application mentioning
it before the one year rule, but mistakes were piling up,
even causing the filing date to be Sept. 1979.
        
      The Patent Office moves slow, with time between
office actions about 6 months on average then, and
even though I have no patience for waiting, I just
kept plugging along.

     In August 1980 I had hurt my back at work, and
quit the job because of extreme pain in my knees
around the clock, and even with the hobby business
of making stained glass and lead lamps, was going
broke.

     Natural gas went up in price, and my heating bill
ended up to be over $400 a month for two months,
and I had to abandon the house and move into one
room.

      I had purchased a parallel line drafting machine
and the proper calendared drafting cardboard for
patent drawings, and began spending 3 or 4 hours
a day working on the drawings and a more detailed
disclosure to have ready when the 1981 application
reached a dead end.

     I hid the work in the arm rest of the couch when
I was not working on it to keep my sons from seeing
it, more stories about the technology were in the 
news as more time passed, clearly this was something
that had to remain secret as long as possible.

      By autumn 1982 I had finished the long application,
made copies myself, wrote a declaration instead of an
oath declaring myself to be the sole inventor, and when
the office action came with final rejection of the faulty
and short 1981 application, I mailed the 1982 application.

      My youngest son had graduated from college in
May and had taken a job in Austin, and agreed he and
I and my other son could share an apartment there.
      So I just had a post office box as an address in
Pennsylvania, and loaded all belongings in the car
except for 10 boxes that I mailed to Austin, and left
Pennsylvania, arriving in Austin on December 3rd.
      
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