Outgoing President, Bill Young, introduced the new officers to the membership at the October
meeting and passed the gavel to Don Evans.
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From our resident patent drawing practitioner, Gus Benard: Gus has very generously offered to donate the money ordinarily charged for gas (approx. $20) for each sightseeing trip that NIA members take in his plane If an NIA member would like a sightseeing trip in Gus's plane (a two-seater) they only have to make arrangements with Gus and whatever it takes to fill up, Gus will pay for it and the equivalent amount is donated to the NIA by the member passenger. How's that for club spirit? Thank you so very much, Gus. That is truly a generous gesture.
One member has already taken him up on it (Ian Burns) and we got a check for $20 Now you must be aware that obviously it is a small plane, not suitable for rough weather, no more than one passenger at a time (200 lbs maximum -- preferably less) and at Gus's convenience.
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April 17,18 & 19, 1998, In Long Beach on the Queen Mary Reservations for booths for the trade show must be made early, so we must start thinking about it as soon as possible.
There will be two inventors/companies to a booth if we order a block of six. A minimum of six booths qualifies as a block for a discounted price. There is a "Speed Marketing" course offered that is part of the package, with materials for study and guidance.
Products accepted for the Invention Convention must be new products, technologies, inventions or innovations that are not yet a household brand name. Products which are not acceptable for the show are products such as ceramics, art, jewelry, clothing, baskets or gift items.
There are several real benefits to showing at an inventors trade show. There will be media coverage; there will be public input and comments; there will be other exhibitors to talk to and learn from and very important is the experience gained for when one goes to an industry specific show. There is also the chance that a buyer or licensee will walk by the booth and a deal can be struck just from that first contact. The odds are obviously better with the more costly industry specific shows, but it can happen.
More information should be available at the November 22nd meeting. In the mean time check out
their really sharp web page on the
internet: http://www.inventionconvention.com
You'll love it!
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From the "Inventors' Network of the Capital Area" (An inventors organization, like us, in the Washington D.C. area.) It's a breakthrough for the electrography industry.
THE TURBO-ENCABULATOR USED SUCCESSFULLY IN INDUSTRY
For a number of years now work has been proceeding on perfecting the crudely conceived idea of a machine that would not only supply inversely reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. Such a machine is the "Turbo-Encabulator." Basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and magnetic fluxes, it is produced by the medial interaction of magnetic reluctance and capacitive directance.
The original machine had a base plate of prefabricated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurveling bearings were in direct line with the pneumetric fan. The latter consisted of simply of six hydrocoptic immovable vanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar focal points, that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the lotus/delta type placed in panendermic semi-beloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdle spring on the "up" end of the grammeters.
Forty one manestically spaced grounding brushes were arranged to feed into the rotor slip-stream of a mixture of high S-value phenelhydrabenzamine and 5% reminative tetryliodeheximine. Both of these, if used in liquid form, have specific periosities when measured against P= 2.5C - 6.7 where N equals the diathetical evolute of retrograde temperature phase disposition and C is the Cholmondatic evolution of annular grillage coefficient. Initially N was measured with the aid of a metapolic refractive pilfrometer (for a description of this ingenious instainment, see L.E. Rummelverstein in "Zeitschrift Fur Electrotechstaticschitten and Donnerblitszen" Volumns VII & VIII) but up to the present time nothing has been found to equal transcendental hopper dadoscope. (See "Proceedings of the Peruvian Academy of Skatological Sciences" June 1914.)
Electrical Engineers will appreciate the difficulty of nubing together a regurgitative purwell and a supremative wennel-sprocket. Indeed this proved to be a stumbling block to further development until, in 1942, it was found that the use of anhydrous mangling pins enabled a kryptonastic bolling shim to be split and ferruled. The early attempts to construct a sufficiently robust spiral decommutator failed largely because of a lack of appreciation of the large quasi-piestic stresses in the gremmin studs; the latter were specially designed to hold the roffin bars against the spamshaft. When, however, it was discovered that wendling could be prevented by a simple addition to the living sockets, almost perfect running was secured. The operating point is maintained as near as possible to the h.f. rem peak by constantly frommaging the bitumongous spandrels. This is a distinct advance over the standard nevel sheave in that no drammick oil is required after the pahse detractors have remissed.
Undoubtedly the Turbo-Encabulator has now reached a very high level of technical development. It has been successfully used for operating the "Nofer" trunnions, and in addition, whenever a biescent skor motion is required, it may be employed in conjunction with a reciprocating dingle to reduce sinusiodal deplenaration. Editors note: I really never thought it was possible. It makes you wonder what's next?
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The Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program of the US Patent and Trademark Office will present a seminar on accessing patent and trademark information. It will be held 3 December starting at 8:30 a.m. in the University of Nevada, Reno, Getchell Library Projection Room. Representatives from the US PTO will describe the different types of intellectual property, explain application processes for patents and trademarks, the importance of conducting a thorough "public art" search, and more. The seminar is open to the public but seating is limited. To request a place, call Patrick Ragains at 784-6500x309, fax 784 4398.
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Excerpted, tweaked and revised from the Reno Gazette-Journal, Mar 27, 1997 As promised in last month's newsletter, here is the story of the Levi's jeans. It actually was the prototype of the Levi 501 jeans, invented in Reno in 1870, 127 years ago.
Jacob Youphes, born of Jewish heritage in 1831, was a native of Riga on the Baltic Sea. He came to America in 1856 and changed his surname to Davis, a more American name.
A very talented man, jack-of-all-trades and hard worker, Jacob Davis settled in the west where his hard work ethic was well suited to him. With entrepreneurial traits from the start, he was a coal dealer, tobacconist and brewery owner. He lived in Virginia City for a while and moved to Reno in 1868, where he opened a tailor shop at 31 Virginia Street, where the Virginia Street entrance to the Riverboat Casino is presently. It was formerly the Onslow.
Believe it or not, one of the Reno area's first industries was logging, due to the abundance of Douglas Fir and White Pine in the surrounding hills. A fair sized portion of Reno's population were loggers, so it wasn't unusual that one day a lady entered Jake Davis' tailor shop and requested a pair of extra strength pants for her very large husband, a burly wood cutter, too large for ready made pants. Also, the men in the logging and lumber industry were constantly complaining of the weak seams and skimpy pocket material in the work pants available.
That simple request for a pair of pants changed the fashion world forever. Jake proceeded to design a pair of work pants that no working man would ever find reason to complain about weakness. He took some 10 oz. cotton duck twill that he had been using to make wagon covers and sails, heavy thread for sailmaking, and to make extra sure of the seams, used copper rivets at the pocket corners. The cloth was purchased from Levi Strauss & Company, a regional dry goods distributor, which set the course of Levi's history.
The first merchant to sell Davis' pants as a retail item was James Ferguson, who operated a general store in Wadsworth, NV, about 25 miles east of Reno. He paid Davis $12 for four pair of pants -- three with copper rivets. Ads around 1915 offered 501's for $13.50 a dozen.
Davis contacted Levi Strauss offering a share of his riveted design if they would pay the $68 needed for a patent. They jumped at the chance and the 501's became the first item Levi Strauss & Co. massed produced. Only minor changes have been made over the years from that first prototype.
Levi Strauss & Co. paid $25,000 for a pair of 100 year old jeans (for their museum) found in an old Colorado mine, which is the oldest pair in captivity. The original pair, made for that logger in Reno, were large; 56 inch waist with 29 inch thighs. Historic documents, records and articles supply clues for searching for the original prototype: they wouldn't have any Levi Strauss markings, either white or light colored material, no trademark logo in leather, no "V" shaped orange stitching on the back pockets, but they would have the heavy thread and copper rivets to distinguish them from competitors pants. They were last seen on the big, unidentified woodcutter, in and around Reno in 1870 or 1871 when he disappeared. According to Jill Lynch, spokeswoman for Levi Strauss & Co., the missing jeans could turn up in an old trunk in someone's attic, or a pile of old rags, long forgotten, but very probably in or around Reno. Lynch is certain that, given Nevada's dryness and lack of many destructive insects found in other climates, the original prototype pants would probably be in excellent condition. The value would be inestimable. Good hunting, boys and girls...
Page done by Vince Chemist.
Created on November 22, 1997
Updated on November 29, 2005