Posted by tall german on April 08, 2023 at 16:08:51 from (184.63.148.72):
In Reply to: Inventors posted by rlp in Co. on April 06, 2023 at 12:02:34:
We were at a 50th anniversary a couple of years ago and I talked to the couples son who is a career mechanical engineer at John Deere. It came up in our chat about patents for all their new equipment. He said that JD had a whole legal team that does nothing but patent work. They patent every piece of every machine they make. No wonder the patent process is so slow. In the day, Thomas Edison patented over 1200 items made in his shop alone. The process must have been much quicker and easier.
One time, I came up with the idea for a "flushable cat toilet". Basically, it was a bottomless box covered with 1/2" hardware cloth. It slid into another box with a bottom. You put the cat litter in the inside box. The cats did their job. When the litter needed to be changed, instead of throwing the old litter away, you lift the inside box up and shake it, straining out the big chunks. You take them out and put them on the garden shake the litter around and reassemble the system back again. It worked well. You could reuse the litter again a couple of times before you started over.
Popular Science had a article called Wordless Workshop where you could send ideas in to their column which I did. It was only a couple of months until Rubbermaid came out with the same concept and most likely, made a pile of money. Oh, Well!!
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