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by the condensation of phenols and formaldehyde, but that the product itself had been described several times many years ago and that my principal invention was the manner of producing a better product under special conditions and made it available for commercial purposes.  I told him also I had several patents pending for wood and fibre impregnation, grind stones, dynamos & motors etc.
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He was very secretive told me that he uses formaldehyde and that our processes were similar.  That the day I had showed him my product some months ago at the Bank in Yonkers it had occurred to him that he could
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duplicate my sample on the strength of some observations he had made some time ago while trying to manufacture [[strikethrough]]an [[strikethrough]] new antiseptic compounds.  He said he too had applied for patents.  From what I have seen and from the little he has told I believe that all what he has done is to run against the insoluble condensation product and after he had seen my sample tried to duplicate it.  But  if what he showed me are his results he is very far from the goal yet because his stick was brittle and porous while his disc was to small and thin to serve as a criterion.  He took the Warburton car
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