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ben62670
ben62670 Posts: 15,969
edited September 2008 in The Clubhouse
Well I have something so simple that it is driving me nuts. I have had many ideas that I have let go by. Many have made mad money with past ideas. I am tired of it. Any inventors in the house?
Ben
Please. Please contact me a ben62670 @ yahoo.com. Make sure to include who you are, and you are from Polk so I don't delete your email. Also I am now physically unable to work on any projects. If you need help let these guys know. There are many people who will help if you let them know where you are.
Thanks
Ben
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  • b_dick
    b_dick Posts: 53
    edited September 2008
    Years ago I had a couple of ideas searched at the patent office by a pro. Both ideas were essentially the same as things already patented. One patent was from the 19th century! Now when I get an idea, I figure the odds are good that someone has beat me to it and I save my money.

    In 1968, I wrote a letter to Road & Track magazine proposing active suspension for racing cars (this is not one of the two ideas mentioned above.) The letter was not published. In time computers advanced to the point that the idea became practical, successful (and eventually illegal.)
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited September 2008
    I had an idea for an automatic transmission for a ten speed bike. That was 25+years ago. Some guy I worked with, said that NO-ONE would be interested.

    It's now the norm in professional bicycle racing.:mad:
    I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE!
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  • kgingras
    kgingras Posts: 113
    edited September 2008
    obieone wrote: »
    I had an idea for an automatic transmission for a ten speed bike. That was 25+years ago. Some guy I worked with, said that NO-ONE would be interested.

    It's now the norm in professional bicycle racing.:mad:

    You're kidding right? No one in professional bike racing (I assume you mean road racing) is using an automatic transmission. Unless you are talking about electronic shifting but that is not automatic as you still have to select the gear.
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited September 2008
    kgingras wrote: »
    You're kidding right? No one in professional bike racing (I assume you mean road racing) is using an automatic transmission. Unless you are talking about electronic shifting but that is not automatic as you still have to select the gear.

    I think he is talking about bicycle not motorcycle.

    Either way I didn't know they used automatics in bicycle racing, if they do???
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  • kgingras
    kgingras Posts: 113
    edited September 2008
    Joe08867 wrote: »
    I think he is talking about bicycle not motorcycle.

    Either way I didn't know they used automatics in bicycle racing, if they do???

    I'm talking about bicycle racing. I've seen automatics on bicycles but they are purely for recreational riding. Not really a good idea either. A solution to a problem that does not exist.
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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,845
    edited September 2008
    http://www.freepatentsonline.com/

    fun site to check out patents given..people come up with some crazy chit
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited September 2008
    Yay, my 3 are registered there! Whoopidy doo!!! Made a company several million and I got a $1K bonus, effers....

    Freaking hell, I'm referenced 66 times, they're all ****!!!! Now where's my tin hat...
    There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin
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  • nms
    nms Posts: 671
    edited September 2008
    Professional, semi-pro, and serious recreational cyclists do NOT use automatic shifting on their bicycles!

    In fact almost no bicycle have automatic shifting. Trek has come out with a 3 speed "beach cruiser" type bike recently that has an internally geared 3 speed rear hub that shifts internally, but this is aimed at people who haven't touched a bike since their childhood.

    Full Disclosure: I fall into the "serious recreational" category ;-)
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited September 2008
    My bad. I thought I heard that pro cyclist were using an automatic gear mechanism.
    Really doesn't matter. It was an idea based on my limited understanding of centrifical clutches. Never really got into the design of it.
    I've had other ideas, but I'll save those for the PATENT office!!!
    I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE!
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited September 2008
    Heres something you might find interesting too, or not..... My Dad, who passed away in May, was pretty much a master fabricator in my opinion. Theres many things he made over the years, one in particular was on our brand new International pickup truck back in 1972. He had ordered it without a bed and made his own flatbed/toolbox bed on it and one of the things he put on it was a little winch system with an access hole out the back to put your tire wrench to winch down the spare tire, sound familiar:)

    Anyway I have no idea when that caught on or when they started putting those on vehicles but I sure don't remember anything like that in those years.....

    I also had an idea and never ran with it, I'm a carpenter and it seems like whenever it put up a step ladder somewhere on the job site the damn thing is never level, always fussing with it to get it to stand straight. I came up with a plan to put a couple of switches and a rechargable battery like a makita 9.6 on the ladder with a little motor and worm drive that would extend out the legs individually to straighten the ladder out on unlevel ground.
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  • kgingras
    kgingras Posts: 113
    edited September 2008
    nms wrote: »
    Professional, semi-pro, and serious recreational cyclists do NOT use automatic shifting on their bicycles!

    In fact almost no bicycle have automatic shifting. Trek has come out with a 3 speed "beach cruiser" type bike recently that has an internally geared 3 speed rear hub that shifts internally, but this is aimed at people who haven't touched a bike since their childhood.

    Full Disclosure: I fall into the "serious recreational" category ;-)

    I remember the infomercials a few years back for the bike with the automatic trasnmission. Too funny. Like shifting gears on a bike is such a chore.
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