Sidney chapter to host guest speaker

Sidney chapter to host guest speaker

The Sidney Chapter of the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International will meet Saturday at 6 p.m. at Dale’s Smorgasbord in Piqua.

Guest speaker will be Stanley A. Meyer, a businessman and free-lance inventor from Grove City.

His scientific and engineering background covers many fields of endeavor—heart monitors for the medical profession, the Validator System for financial institutions, the Nivax Actar System for the oceanography field and a special concept for Star Wars technology.

Meyer’s latest projects involve water fuel cell technology as a means of helping end the energy crisis. Many energy patents have been granted to Meyer over the years.

He founded and served as chairman of several high technology businesses. He also co-sponsored other business activities in the international market place.

Meyer is working on a book entitled “With the Lord, There Is Purpose.”

Tickets for the meal must be obtained from Terry Billing or Ernest Heintz. Walk-ins are welcome after 6:45 p.m.

The book

“With the Lord, There Is Purpose.” The archive holds no copy, no manuscript and no other mention of it. If it was finished, nobody has produced it; if it was abandoned, this notice is the only record that it was ever begun.

The list before the water fuel cell

The four things named here — heart monitors, the Validator System, the Nivax Actar System, and a concept for Star Wars — are Meyer’s own account, given to a church supper’s publicity, and none of them is corroborated anywhere else in the holdings. They are recorded because they are specific enough to be checked by somebody who has the patent record or the company filings, which is more than can be said for most of what he said about his earlier career.

Checked on 2 October 2026. None of the four appears under his name in any federal register:

• Patents. His US patents before 1985 are the solar ones (the 1976 solar heating system, the 1981 multi-stage solar storage system) and the hydrogen ones from 1982 on. There is nothing on heart monitors, bank validation or oceanography.
• Copyright. His registrations from 1978 onwards are drawings for the light-guide lenses, the solar silo and the hydrogen devices. None is titled Nivax, Actar or Validator.
• Trademarks. The USPTO has no NIVAX mark at all. ACTAR and VALIDATOR marks exist, but they belong to unrelated companies. Meyer's own marks are SOLAR SILO (filed 1 October 1980), WATER FUEL CELL and MEETS ALL ENERGY NEEDS (26 April 1983), and five filed in 1997.

That does not make the list false. Work done as an employee is patented and registered in the employer's name, and the one earlier job a newspaper confirmed in his lifetime was as an electronics technician at Battelle (Grove City Record, October 1976). The family's account is that a bank cash machine came out of that work, and a bank validator would fit it. So the place to look is Battelle's contracts and patents of the 1960s and early 1970s, not Meyer's own.

The date of the supper is Saturday 20 June 1987, at Dale’s Smorgasbord in Piqua — the second speaking engagement the archive can put on a map, and the second of them in this corner of west-central Ohio, forty miles from the Bradford church he preached at five years earlier.

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