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2026-10-04: Google Patents

Query: inventor "Alphonsus Kelly", priority before 2006-01-01 (https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Alphonsus+Kelly&before=priority:20060101). Result: positive (one family).

Found [web]

  • DE1528915A1, "Device for siphoning liquids", inventor and applicant Alphonsus Gabriel Kelly, Blackrock, County Dublin. Priority 1965-05-11, filed 1966-05-09, published 1970-01-15. Family members listed in BE, DE, GB, NL. Claim 1 (machine translation): a siphon for liquids containing entrained air or gases, in which the pressure in the riser leg is ... (truncated).
  • No patents found on Sagnac, optics or relativity.

Bearing on the claims

  • Not on the Sagnac claims. It is the inventor's own earlier work (his 1966 PhD siphon research) and confirms the biography. The GB family member's number was not retrieved (lead).