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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[March 18

PURCHASE OF PROPERTY AT 1 3 0 1 WEST S T O U G H T O N STREET, URBANA. ILLINOIS (3) Director Havens reported that University representatives contemplate further negotiations for the acquisition of this property through purchase, rather than through condemnation proceedings as authorized by the Board, and requested instructions. O n m o t i o n of M r . J o h n s t o n , t h e p u r c h a s e of t h i s p r o p e r t y , a t a price not to e x c e e d $32,500, w a s a u t h o r i z e d w i t h t h e u n d e r s t a n d i n g that if t h e n e g o t i a t i o n s a r e s u c c e s s f u l a n d t h e p r o p e r t y is p u r c h a s e d f o r this p r i c e , t h e c o n d e m n a t i o n p r o c e e d i n g s will n o t b e i n s t i t u t e d . T h i s a c t i o n w a s taken by the following vote: Aye, M r . Clement, M r . Dilliard, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Jones, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins; no, none; absent, M r . Kerner, M r . Page, M r . Williamson. RECOMMENDATIONS OF T H E UNIVERSITY PATENT COMMITTEE (4) T h e University Patent Committee submits, with the concurrence of the Chairman of the University Research Board, a series of recommendations relating to inventions. That the rights of the University in the following inventions be released to the University of Illinois Foundation for further study, development, and possible patent application, subject to any rights that the United States government may have in each particular case : 1. Series-fed logarithmically-periodic folded dipole antenna — Keith G. Balmain, Research Assistant in Electrical Engineering, inventor; developed without the use of government funds. This is an antenna capable of covering a very wide range of frequencies with uniform characteristics. The novel feature of the invention is the use of folded dipole antenna elements connected in series with the wire (or wires) of a feeder. 2. Transit automatic fare system — Michael Blurton, Research Assistant in the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, inventor; developed without the use of government funds. This is a system of automatic passenger-operated fare collection and statistical data recording for bus transit, rail transit, or commuter railroad use. 3. Electrostatic impact probe for measurement of the mass flow of solid particles in a gas-solid suspension — Robert C. Dimick, Research Assistant in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, inventor; developed with the use of funds from a subcontract with the Project S Q U I D , Prime Contract No. Nonr-3623 (S-6) with the United States Navy. This invention consists of a probe for measuring the mass flow of solid particles suspended and transported by gas flow in a pipe or duct. Other uses for this probe would be to monitor the mass flow in the pneumatic transport of powdered coal or powdered materials used in manufacturing processes and to determine how well antistatic protection measures were working in the transport of explosive air-powdered grain mixtures in flour and feed mills. 4. Log-periodic cavity-slot antenna — Paul E. Mayes, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, and V. A. Mikenas, Research Assistant in Electrical Engineering, inventors; developed with the use of funds from the United States Air Force, Contract No. A F 33(657)-10474. This invention was designed to meet the need for broadband antennas which do not protrude above a large conducting surface, for use in high-speed aircraft and missiles and for some applications on the earth's surface. 5. Reduced-length dipole and monopole antennas and antenna arrays — Paul E. Mayes, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, and David T. Stephenson, Research Assistant in Electrical Engineering, inventors; developed with the use of funds from the United States Navy, Contract No. N123(953)30508A. This invention relates to a method of reducing the length of dipole and monopole antennas and, thereby, also reducing the size of certain antenna arrays which use dipole or monopole elements.