Comments on: Patents ~ Nutty or Novel? (Feb, 1929) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/08/24/patents-nutty-or-novel-2/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:12:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Firebrand38 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/08/24/patents-nutty-or-novel-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1070764 Firebrand38 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:58:27 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=8054#comment-1070764 Randy: You are the HEAT! I just needed to know what they called it to find the patent http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=5QBwAAAAEBAJ You'd think the author of the article would have cited the patents documents. Oh and from the patent description: "It’s utility as an implement of the twofold capacity described is unquestionable, especially when used in border locality’s, subject to savage feuds and guerrilla warfare. As a means of defense in repelling surprises and skirmishing attacks on those engaged in a peaceful avocation it is unrivaled, as it can be immediately brought into action by disengaging the team, and in times of danger may be used in the field, ready charged with its, deadly missiles of ball or grape." So yeah, you are supposed to cut the team loose and the bad guys don't have to stand still when you are firing grape shot at them. If you remember your history this was shortly after Bloody Kansas (1854-1868) so they must have seen a need for this. Randy: You are the HEAT! I just needed to know what they called it to find the patent

http://www.google.com/patents/.....BwAAAAEBAJ

You’d think the author of the article would have cited the patents documents.

Oh and from the patent description:
“It’s utility as an implement of the twofold capacity described is unquestionable, especially when used in border locality’s, subject to savage feuds and guerrilla warfare. As a means of defense in repelling surprises and skirmishing attacks on those engaged in a peaceful avocation it is unrivaled, as it can be immediately brought into action by disengaging the team, and in times of danger may be used in the field, ready charged with its, deadly missiles of ball or grape.”

So yeah, you are supposed to cut the team loose and the bad guys don’t have to stand still when you are firing grape shot at them.

If you remember your history this was shortly after Bloody Kansas (1854-1868) so they must have seen a need for this.

]]> By: Randy http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/08/24/patents-nutty-or-novel-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1070753 Randy Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:52:09 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=8054#comment-1070753 Most low-flying helicopters (police and military) have wirecutters fitted: http://www.magellanaerospace.com/_bin/products/wsp.cfm And in WWII the Germans experimented with attachments to their bombers to cut barrage-balloon cables: http://www.historyofwar.org/Pictures/pictures_he_111_cable_cutter1.html The cannon/plow was patented during the Civil War: http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2008/08/beating-plowshares-into-swords-cannon.html "But fire now, because the troops can't wait all day!" Most low-flying helicopters (police and military) have wirecutters fitted:
http://www.magellanaerospace.c.....ts/wsp.cfm

And in WWII the Germans experimented with attachments to their bombers to cut barrage-balloon cables:
http://www.historyofwar.org/Pi.....tter1.html

The cannon/plow was patented during the Civil War:
http://bayourenaissanceman.blo.....annon.html

“But fire now, because the troops can’t wait all day!”

]]> By: Firebrand38 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/08/24/patents-nutty-or-novel-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1070751 Firebrand38 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:56:26 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=8054#comment-1070751 Hip2b2: Actually that's the other quote that everyone overlooks http://bible.cc/joel/3-10.htm Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Hip2b2: Actually that’s the other quote that everyone overlooks http://bible.cc/joel/3-10.htm

Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

]]> By: Jari http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/08/24/patents-nutty-or-novel-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1070746 Jari Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:15:15 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=8054#comment-1070746 Just add a pointy hood ornament to that car, and it's ready for Death Race 1929. Just add a pointy hood ornament to that car, and it’s ready for Death Race 1929.

]]> By: Firebrand38 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/08/24/patents-nutty-or-novel-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1070742 Firebrand38 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:15:37 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=8054#comment-1070742 Too bad Billy Mays isn't still around...."It's a cannon! It's a plowshare! It's a plow cannon!" Yeah, that does sound more like Vince from Shamwow. Too bad Billy Mays isn’t still around….”It’s a cannon! It’s a plowshare! It’s a plow cannon!”

Yeah, that does sound more like Vince from Shamwow.

]]> By: Hip2b2 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/08/24/patents-nutty-or-novel-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1070739 Hip2b2 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:50:19 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=8054#comment-1070739 Rather than beating swords into plowshares, the "Cannon Plow" would beat plowshares into cannon. Now you soldiers out there stand still while I aim this thing; willya? Rather than beating swords into plowshares, the “Cannon Plow” would beat plowshares into cannon.

Now you soldiers out there stand still while I aim this thing; willya?

]]> By: Rick Auricchio http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/08/24/patents-nutty-or-novel-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1070717 Rick Auricchio Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:08:01 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=8054#comment-1070717 It seems like the plow horse would be the first casualty of that cannon. It seems like the plow horse would be the first casualty of that cannon.

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