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1969 design patent - Apollo CM shelter on LM descent stage
On 15 Mar 2007 15:43:06 -0700, in a place far, far away, "Rusty"
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: On Mar 15, 1:42 pm, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote: "Rusty" wrote in message ups.com... On Mar 15, 10:28 am, OM wrote: ...Some Rockwell engineer saw his kid do just that with the Revell "Rainbow Landing" kit and decided to patent it before someone else did just for CYA purposes. OM This means there may be a patent out there for a LM ascent stage attached to an Apollo service module. That would be a one way trip. You know, I figure the crew of Apollo 9 must have been pretty nervous. "What do you mean the descent stage of Spider won't stop firing? What do you mean we can't rendezvous with Gumdrop?" "Dammit Rusty, you barfed all over the firing circuits!!!" Ok, two threads with barf jokes is enough for one month. More than that, I'd say. Probably two more than we needed. |
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1969 design patent - Apollo CM shelter on LM descent stage
On 15 Mar 2007 13:16:21 -0700, "Rusty"
wrote: This means there may be a patent out there for a LM ascent stage attached to an Apollo service module. That would be one way trip. ....Funny, ISTR mention of an AAP project where an unmanned space telescope was proposed using that exact configuration. The LM ascent stage would have provided a docking port for a reservicing module, and the 'scope itself would have been mounted where the front hatch would have been normlly. The SM would have been more of a PAM at first, with the remainder of the fuel intended to be redirected to the RCS for the remainder of the mission. I can see reaction wheels being used instead, tho. OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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1969 design patent - Apollo CM shelter on LM descent stage
Google the difference between a "patent" and a "design patent" and you might be able to glean why they probably didn't care very much. What people think of when they hear the word "patent" is really a "utility patent". "Design patents" are really just a copyright or trademark, like the shape of the Coke bottle. Those late night commercials for patent attorneys are probably touting design patents without specifically saying what those are. And thus are scams... I have 13 utility patents, but, as I invented them as part of my job at various companies, they got the rights. Well, I still get bragging rights.. :-) |
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1969 design patent - Apollo CM shelter on LM descent stage
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:59:06 -0500, robert casey wrote
(in article . net): Google the difference between a "patent" and a "design patent" and you might be able to glean why they probably didn't care very much. What people think of when they hear the word "patent" is really a "utility patent". "Design patents" are really just a copyright or trademark, Well, not exactly, but more similar to those than to a "real" (e.g., utility) patent. like the shape of the Coke bottle. Exactly. Similarly, the shape of the TiVo "peanut" remote control, etc. Those late night commercials for patent attorneys Actually, I strongly suspect a great number of those (most?) are not actually patent attorneys either. Just like you don't need to be an engineer to invent something, you don't have to be an attorney to file paperwork with the government. are probably touting design patents without specifically saying what those are. And thus are scams... Yep. -- You can run on for a long time, Sooner or later, God'll cut you down. ~Johnny Cash |
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1969 design patent - Apollo CM shelter on LM descent stage
robert casey wrote: What people think of when they hear the word "patent" is really a "utility patent". "Design patents" are really just a copyright or trademark, like the shape of the Coke bottle. That original Coke bottle is in the American Museum of Modern Art, BTW. It's considered the classic example of where the ergonomics of hand friendly design met high art in a perfect conjunction. Pat |
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1969 design patent - Apollo CM shelter on LM descent stage
Pat Flannery wrote:
robert casey wrote: What people think of when they hear the word "patent" is really a "utility patent". "Design patents" are really just a copyright or trademark, like the shape of the Coke bottle. That original Coke bottle is in the American Museum of Modern Art, BTW. It's considered the classic example of where the ergonomics of hand friendly design met high art in a perfect conjunction... ....which was then, of course, replaced by the crummy-assed ersatz plastic facsimile some years back. What I can't figure out is -- with the advances in high-density, high-impact plastics that have given us all these bottles which look and feel like glass, why the hell haven't they brought back that good old-fashioned simple, elegant, just the right amount, classic Coca-Cola bottle? You know, the "tall boy" original Coke bottle, and my own favorite, the 7oz "pony" original Coke bottle, which I remember as a kid being just the right amount for when I needed just a quick drink of soda to cool off at the ballgame. -- .. "Though I could not caution all, I still might warn a few: Don't lend a hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools!" --grateful dead. __________________________________________________ _________ Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org "Mikey'zine": dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org |
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1969 design patent - Apollo CM shelter on LM descent stage
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:13:30 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote: robert casey wrote: What people think of when they hear the word "patent" is really a "utility patent". "Design patents" are really just a copyright or trademark, like the shape of the Coke bottle. That original Coke bottle is in the American Museum of Modern Art, BTW. It's considered the classic example of where the ergonomics of hand friendly design met high art in a perfect conjunction. Pat It was not until they started calling transonic and supersonic aircraft "Coke bottle shaped" that it had any significance. Alan |
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1969 design patent - Apollo CM shelter on LM descent stage
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:12:50 -0500, Mike Flugennock
wrote: What I can't figure out is -- with the advances in high-density, high-impact plastics that have given us all these bottles which look and feel like glass, why the hell haven't they brought back that good old-fashioned simple, elegant, just the right amount, classic Coca-Cola bottle? ....Actually, the 20oz plastic bottle *is* in most markets "Coke-shaped", as are the 32oz ones. It's the 2 and 3-liter ones that aren't. OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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1969 design patent - Apollo CM shelter on LM descent stage
Mike Flugennock wrote: What I can't figure out is -- with the advances in high-density, high-impact plastics that have given us all these bottles which look and feel like glass, why the hell haven't they brought back that good old-fashioned simple, elegant, just the right amount, classic Coca-Cola bottle? You know, the "tall boy" original Coke bottle, and my own favorite, the 7oz "pony" original Coke bottle, which I remember as a kid being just the right amount for when I needed just a quick drink of soda to cool off at the ballgame. And they really made sense from an energy usage point of view also; We had a Coca-Cola bottling plant in town that took the empty bottles, washed then out with boiling hot high pressure water to sterilize them, refilled them, and back to the stores they would go. A bottle could be refilled hundreds of times over a multi-decade lifetime, and possible never move out of a five-mile radius distance from the bottling plant. I once found a refillable beer bottle from 1939 in a case of beer purchased during the late 1980's. Disposable glass beer bottles are crazy; instead of refilling them, you have to melt and cast all-new glass. Pat |
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