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The Shop => Tools => Topic started by: BillTodd on November 11, 2012, 03:23:35 PM

Title: Nothing new under the sun : the flip-up threading tool
Post by: BillTodd on November 11, 2012, 03:23:35 PM

I was just browsing google patents (for reason that are beyond secret ;)) when i found this :

Patented 1883

(http://www.google.com/patents?id=4k90AAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&img=1&zoom=4&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U1J6xVsU_j8s2qKD-cYw6bUODkvGQ&ci=196%2C603%2C691%2C488&edge=0)

http://www.google.com/patents?id=4k90AAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=272139&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

Title: Re: Nothing new under the sun : the flip-up threading tool
Post by: doubleboost on November 11, 2012, 03:46:42 PM

It is very hard to think of something thad has not been thought of before
John

Title: Re: Nothing new under the sun : the flip-up threading tool
Post by: Rob.Wilson on November 11, 2012, 04:17:10 PM

 :lol: :lol:  some folk do think its a brand  new idea   :loco: 


Rob

Title: Re: Nothing new under the sun : the flip-up threading tool
Post by: doubleboost on November 11, 2012, 04:34:52 PM

Rob
Was there not a big post about the same subject a couple of years ago
 with some heated debait
John

Title: Re: Nothing new under the sun : the flip-up threading tool
Post by: andyf on November 11, 2012, 04:43:39 PM

Quote from: doubleboost on November 11, 2012, 04:34:52 PM

Rob
Was there not a big post about the same subject a couple of years ago
 with some heated debait
John

Yes, but the heat was generated by folk who didn't understand how it could work; no-one claimed it was a new idea.

I wonder how many other good ideas are lying  forgotten and gathering dust in patent offices around the world.

Andy

Title: Re: Nothing new under the sun : the flip-up threading tool
Post by: Bluechips on November 11, 2012, 09:04:19 PM

Quote from: doubleboost on November 11, 2012, 03:46:42 PM

It is very hard to think of something thad has not been thought of before
John

I remember back in the 70's or early 80's a company came out with a gapless automotive piston ring.  When they tried to patent it, turns out it was already patented in the 50's.  The 1850's!  For use in steam engines, of course.

Mike

Title: Re: Nothing new under the sun : the flip-up threading tool
Post by: platypus20 on December 03, 2012, 06:34:50 PM

So the one I build isn't the worlds first??

Title: Re: Nothing new under the sun : the flip-up threading tool
Post by: Fergus OMore on December 03, 2012, 07:25:20 PM

In recent years(?) Martin Cleeve toolk out a provisional patent for a swing tool.

Blackgates and Hemingway both have or had kits for it.

I wrote today to a certain lady about -was it April 1976 and it appearing in Popular Mechanics.
It's also repeated in ME and EIM

Norman

Title: Re: Nothing new under the sun : the flip-up threading tool
Post by: Pete49 on December 03, 2012, 09:53:39 PM

Thanks for that Bill.  :mmr: I was going to google Bogs version when I had finished reading nthe forums new posts and you saved me a job :)
Pete