6/14/38 Letter: "The advice given in my last reading has
been challenging me. Last Sat. afternoon I stayed alone in
the office and quite prayerfully sought inspiration in the
matter of the suggested static eliminator tube which was
given on June 5th.
"An answer came to me which, beyond all attempts at a
solution, seemed to present some logical identity with the
description given, and yet conforms with electrical phenomena
as I know them. There is but ONE technical assumption -
which only trial and error beyond my financial capacity can
determine.
"If what I have outlined is an answer to this challenge, then
I have been permitted to go far toward my goal of service and
will have cause to be grateful.
"I am therefore submitting the whole subject matter to a
reading which I trust you can arrange for before the 25th.
Of course, I am anxious to hear the results, but I do want to
emphasize that the spirit in which this is submitted is
wholly to perfect a tool with which I can do greater things -
not for myself except in so far as my peace of mind is
affected by my family's welfare.
"Please advise me when the reading is to take place and if
it is necessary, in this case, to be in one particular
location."
DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED STATIC SUPPRESSOR TUBE
1. The theory of this conception involves the property of
the dielectric surface of an electrophorous to gather charges
of frictional or static electricity, and to provide means of
shedding such charges to ground. Further, the properties of
static discharges being originally of either a positive or
negative nature, the function of a rectifier is used to
reduce static impulses to uni-polar characteristics so that
the surface of the electrophorous will become charged, and,
with the arrangement provided, the charges will leak off to
ground. It is further reasoned that this arrangement will
differentiate between controlled broadcast carrier wave
fronts and static discharges because of inherent lack of
similarity between the two, and that such broadcast carriers
do not react to electrophoric absorption.
2. A vacuum tube of reasonably small proportions is provided
with a heater type of filament. The sheath of the filament,
being coated with an electron emissive element, is of an
insulating nature. The antenna is connected to the filament
sheath or anode. Around the filament sheath are mounted five
or six dielectric discs, spaced about an eighth to a tenth of
an inch apart. The SURFACES ONLY of the discs are
metallically connected together in series from top to bottom.
The bottom disc's surface is metallically connected through
the tube base to ground. This last disc and connection is
well below the effective path of electron emission from the
filament. The discs are supported by thin mica plates with
lugs projecting 180 degrees apart which are commonly fastened
to wire supporting columns secured into the glass mounting of
the tube elements but having no association with them
electrically.
3. Surrounding the discs and filament sheath is placed a
metallic cylinder cathode providing the remaining leg of the
rectifier circuit.
4. This tube circuit, of itself, provides a coherer, or a
detector, or a rectifier of the incoming carrier signal which
is fed to an audio frequency amplifying tube providing the
amplifying characteristics ordinarily obtained through the
conventional "first detector" in a regular, super-heterodyne,
radio-receiver circuit. The circuit of the tube is shown
herewith diagramatically as well as the general construction
of the tube elements. [See Source File Key #1497 for
diagram of Proposed Static Suppressor Tube re 1497-6.]
Dated at New York, N.Y. June 14, 1938
[Signed] [
1497], Inventor
Explained to and understood by me.
[Signed] [...], Witness
ATTEST:
[Signed] Meyer Nathenson, Notary Public
REPORTS
7/06/38 He submitted additional questions - See reading
1497-7
on
7/25/38.
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