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The Breakroom => The Water Cooler => Topic started by: modeng200023 on November 12, 2011, 05:10:38 AM

Title: Searching for ideas
Post by: modeng200023 on November 12, 2011, 05:10:38 AM
Having a few thoughts kicking around in my head and not getting anywhere, I did a web search and found this site www.freepatentsonline.com (http://www.freepatentsonline.com) Hadn't come across it before and have just spent ages looking through different inventions.

Following the recent deletion of a topic I looked up 6508315 and now can understand why it might have been taken down.

John
Title: Re: Searching for ideas
Post by: welafong1 on February 18, 2012, 11:12:50 AM
dear john
thank you for the replie i have been trying to get as many of these plans, blue prints. that i can what i am looking for is a different way to make one. a whole lot less expansive. some thing the average person can build.
thank you
Richard Westerfield
Title: Re: Searching for ideas
Post by: modeng200023 on February 18, 2012, 02:21:26 PM
Good luck Richard, there are many ways of approaching this tool and a search through the patents should give you a broad idea of what has been done before.

John
Title: Re: Searching for ideas
Post by: Lew_Merrick_PE on February 19, 2012, 05:50:47 PM
John & Richard,

Can you give details about the mechanism you wish to build?  There are numerous means of converting pressure into hammer-strokes -- as well as purely mechanical means as well.  What are the requirements?  What are the limitations?  If we can construct a product specification, the design (tends) to follow moderately easily.
Title: Re: Searching for ideas
Post by: BillTodd on February 24, 2012, 04:38:54 PM
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Following the recent deletion of a topic I looked up 6508315 and now can understand why it might have been taken down.

Because of a patent???  A patent only grants a licence to commercially exploit an invention or device. Anyone can make an exact copy of one for their own use.