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Areas of interest from a patent standpoint in these quarterly reports.
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Machine-read from the scan, so expect some errors. Lines that couldn’t be read are left out.
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Released through the Record Copy held at Mound Facility • buquerove Orvrations Office Under separate cover we are sending you the Mound. Laboratory Explosive Components Development Report for 1966 (LM eacTh of these reports carefully and feel that the follown.j. arens uiight he c interest from n patent stondpoint. Ivbricant far use with tritium is describe(i, paring a ',,,,,ecord of liweutton form on this JAI- the results of A number of tests And W.11 submix for your evaluati,on in the Immediate future. it to you On page 3 a system for the recovery of pletonium-213 is defind that this system was copied directly from a system designed by I.;SL, without modi4ication. Thus, the system is patent able o you should perhaps look to 1.131. to find the deeizner. On pas* 35 three adhesives are reported which were used for bonding lithium hydride components. ."r:fe work reported in this document completes a Sandia pyrchase order, but sImilar Yorwill continue under a LKL purchase order to find nitrooa-iree )ert-.-Yxides. 1 suspect that the compmnis -711. e rereirto
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Lm 1 41 our stud:tea on te 1.1141 , c.1tIonot 1,1. ce, a te coverI.on. to the crystalline form are descrP::!e. note that a procedure for the separatton. of varsvls jensity . nistoe is well-known,I utend to this ,Ire n to tee If we can Lad 4 ptntah rethod for ttm ptirr:ntion of boron combining the step* of sereeistiog the nor on particles into various density ranges and treating the material according. to the impurities present, flue review of te literature on ber. Ilium foam is presented wtth the lutllor o fei that some of the teehnicpes dest .,r; IA this i,orti..:onof the report cU lead to patentable vet studies for 4;c:ice ttme, Lion systems reamer to Case .3-34,2)5. The inform:It -Inn on tie that It was beat to 5.mluae in th:s ri s1fe d report. helium leak Ji is covered our Record of Invent .on entttled wls sent to yo-4 by uy letter of NoveuiJer 12 2 19(5, On the Gur face these additional measurements are somewhat misleadins since they were eade with the 'CSC leak detector, the instru ment ttlat the standard helium lenk V4S deeigne f-alibrate„ Other -T4ata not reported here have shown that
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on page 24 that a device to automatically load rETN tilt° detonators was made operational. ilowever, the device ts st -Ul being evaluated and I would rather watt until we have ,sonc11_,- sve results before I send you a descripvton of the tievi ,:e. txperience has taught us that the basic problem in desiWng mechanism for volumetrically loading MTN tato a pressing cavity to form detonator pellets is ettin a uniform distribution of the MTN into the cavity without air pockets and variations in density. If these problems have been overcome with the present device, I think that it would be worth evaluating from the patent standpoint. D.,..dley, I would Appreciate your review of these rep r any comments that you have will be welcomes. Vtry truly yours,