THE SOLICITOR. 



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on these requests it is frequently necessary to make exhaustive 

 researches in the Patent Office, Accordingly much time and careful 

 consideration are necessarily required to be devoted to tliis work. 



During the present year 9 applications for letters patent were 

 filed; in the pre\aous year 7 such applications were presented for 

 prosecution, making an increase of 2 cases. Of this number 5 patents 

 were allowed and 1 disallowed. During the preceding year 4 patents 

 were allowed and 2 disallowed. The following table shows the details 

 of the patent cases on which action was taken during the fiscal year 

 1910: 



Applications pending and presented for patents ivhich were prosecuted by the Solicitor for 

 Department employees during the fiscal year ended June SO, 1910. 



Applicant. 



Q. Q. Bradford 



F. O. Plummer . . . 

 George F. Mitchell 



C. S. Smith 



D. M. Rogers 



Bureau or Office. 



Experiment Stations. 



Forest Service 



Plant Industry 



Forest Service 



Entomology 



Invention. 



Knife for tapping rubber trees . . . 

 Improvement in hypsometers. . . 



Shrub and plant trimming ma- 

 chine. 



Improvement in wood impreg- 

 nation. 



Insect-destroying bomb 



Harry D. Tiemann ... Forest Service. 

 Do I do 



L. R. Maynard and Animal Industry. 



K. E. Parks. 

 Alexander G. McAdle. Weather Bureau. 



Do 



.do. 



Harry B. Shaw 



Harry D. Tiemann 



Do. 



Do 



L. W. Page and Aller- 

 ton S. Cusbman. 



Plant Industry. 

 Forest Service.. 



.do. 



.do. 



Public Roads. 



Process for regulating and main- 

 taining humidity. 



Process of rapidly drying timber 

 and other moisture-bearing 

 substances. 



Milk cans or containers 



Plant protector 



Combination thermograph and 

 hydrograph. 



Camera support 



Process of drying timber and 

 other moisture-bearing sub- 

 stances. 



Process of rapidly drying timber 

 and other moisture-bearing 

 substances. 



Apparatus and process for con- 

 trolling humidity of gases in 

 drying operations. 



Process for mixing and prepar- 

 ing hydraulic cement concrete. 



Disposition of applica- 

 tion. 



Patent granted Oct. 25, 



1909. 

 Patent granted Feb. 1, 



1910. 

 Pending. 



Do. 



Interference declared; 

 issue decided in favor 

 of D. M. Rogers and 

 patent granted. 



Pending. 



Patent granted Nov. 6, 

 1909. 



Disallowed. 



Patent granted 



29, 1909. 

 Pending. 



Do. 

 Do. 



Do. 



Dec, 



Do. 



Do. 



COMMITTEE ON PERSONNEL. 



It is gratifying to note that the committee on personnel has not 

 been called upon to consider as many cases during the past fiscal year 

 as during the preceding year, only 4 cases coming before it in the 

 fiscal year 1910. One of these cases was dismissed, in another the 

 resignations of two employees were accepted, in a third two empjo^'ees 

 were dismissed and one employee transferred to other duties; the 

 fourth case was pending at the close of the year. Realizing your 

 earnest desire that the personnel of this Dei)artment should be of the 

 highest character, the committee has not spared any ])ains to go to 

 the bottom of every case brought before it. The fullest onport unity 

 is afforded all parties concerned to present their case, and the testi- 

 mony is re(hu;ed to writing by a stenographer in this Office, who acta 

 as secretary to the committee. 



