May 14, 201510 yr Author Patent huh? lol. One might be surprised at the possibility though. When I was with ADL our team got a patent on a swing link. Swing link. You know that mechanism that drives an old time steam Choo Choo? Yah. If there's no patent on any particular element of what I've done in this particular narrow application, one could go for a utility patent. It's a very narrow patent that lets you patent things in narrow uses. For example the bearings combined with the eccentric cam described in a manner that uses the spring effect drawing on the Young's modulus of elasticity of the steel bar to maintain a given Pounds per square inch of force - yadda yadda yadda - - ad nausieum. Of course one needs a motive to go through the bother and money ain't going to work here coz - - ain't no commercial manufacturer ever going to go through this exercise and cost for a consumer item. That I'd love to see, but who'd pay for it? Nope, this'll be something some heir of mine puts in a yard sale some day and maybe just friggin maybe a young hungry penniless wood worker will realize what it is. Might make his day. So, if you want, you can take this and make your fortune selling these gizmos and I'll only ask you to send me postcards of all the wonderful places you travel to on the billions you earn. See ya in the funny papers.
May 15, 201510 yr OK, but you'll be sorry! Many years ago, I thought it would be neat to buy all that stuff they sell on late nite TV and open a brick and mortar store. Of course, I didn't do. I was going to call it "Not Sold In Any Store". Now they have "As seen On TV". About 15 years ago, I rigged up a mini Scuba tank and regulator to power an air nailer. Now someone is selling the same thing with CO2 thru the various woodworking outlets. That's me- a day late and a dollar short.
May 15, 201510 yr Author Well there is the front cash to get anything up and running. Power nailer huh? HA~!!!!! Years ago I came up with a great idea: It was a way to get a monster ( or small) Extension Ladder up and down the side of a building without having to pull it back. Obviously I'd been painting a huge old voctorian house with a 40 foot heavy ladder. I put little 4" wheels on the end of the ladder and just yanked on the rope. Poof up and down it went. So I went for a patent and started manufacturing and selling them. This was long before Home Depot and Lowes.. I had been pushing them everywhere, shows travel eons on the telephone sending samples all over the place - - you name it. I had got my self in the position of possibly getting a handful of accounts with the nation's largest lumber retailers. wow. I was looking at hundreds of thousands worth of regular business. I was all set. But they all wanted the same thing from me. Insurance I needed 2 million dollars of product liability insurance. So I went looking for insurance. I'd have mortgaged my house for the premium if I had to. No one would sell it to me at any price. No one at all - - period. Turns out the ladder manufacturers can't get it either so all belong to a little consortium where they self insure. Same for rope. The Ladder makers were not interested in me entering the business and becoming their competition. They didn't want me to join their group. I imagine it's the same same for chainsaws and power tools of all sorts. Probably power nailers too Well that was the end of my ladder device business.
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