Searching for ideas

[modeng200023]

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 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

[welafong1]

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

[modeng200023]

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

[Lew_Merrick_PE]

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.

[BillTodd]

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.