Does Spending $800 on sneakers make me a man?

[The Scott]

Vince B., have you done anything of worth with this patent?  If not, then it's as useful as a patent on an automatic nose picker. 

Practically anyone can invent something, but what's needed is to invent something that is not only "innovative" but truly useful and, dare I say it...SELLS.

[Vince B]

Vince B., have you done anything of worth with this patent?  If not, then it's as useful as a patent on an automatic nose picker. 

Practically anyone can invent something, but what's needed is to invent something that is not only "innovative" but truly useful and, dare I say it...SELLS.

Most inventors get excited about the original device they came up with. They rush to a patent attorney and after tens of thousands of dollars might get a patent.

Most inventions don't make any money. I would guess that figure is over 80%. Sometimes clever ideas don't have much value.

I didn't have tool making skills so put off building the machine until 2001. The patent was granted in 1995. By the way, you have to apply for a patent in each

country then pay annual fees as well. It really isn't sensible to apply for a patent as an individual. Sell the idea to a company and let them do it. Of course,

dealing with gym equipment companies is a nightmare. You will end up not wanting to do anything at all.

I eventually bit the bullet and built the machine all by myself. Since 2001 it has had several major modifications. In 2016 the final prototype was finished.

Well, I merely modified the same machine. It is now much more user friendly and functions like doing seated dumbbell curls. Except you also have a separate

resistance for the supination movement. Thus, the machine has resistance in two degrees of freedom.

I have the machine with me and have been using it to test my hypertrophy theory. I also modified a Nautilus triceps machine that I superset with.

There is potential for this design to be sold but I am such a procrastinator I never get around to doing anything.

[AbrahamG]

Most inventors get excited about the original device they came up with. They rush to a patent attorney and after tens of thousands of dollars might get a patent.

Most inventions don't make any money. I would guess that figure is over 80%. Sometimes clever ideas don't have much value.

I didn't have tool making skills so put off building the machine until 2001. The patent was granted in 1995. By the way, you have to apply for a patent in each

country then pay annual fees as well. It really isn't sensible to apply for a patent as an individual. Sell the idea to a company and let them do it. Of course,

dealing with gym equipment companies is a nightmare. You will end up not wanting to do anything at all.

I eventually bit the bullet and built the machine all by myself. Since 2001 it has had several major modifications. In 2016 the final prototype was finished.

Well, I merely modified the same machine. It is now much more user friendly and functions like doing seated dumbbell curls. Except you also have a separate

resistance for the supination movement. Thus, the machine has resistance in two degrees of freedom.

I have the machine with me and have been using it to test my hypertrophy theory. I also modified a Nautilus triceps machine that I superset with.

There is potential for this design to be sold but I am such a procrastinator I never get around to doing anything.

Vince laying waste to the haters on a daily basis. 

[Vince B]

In 1991 after I applied for a patent the first time (Patent attorneys aren't very competent so you will need them for thousands and thousands of dollars) I attended the IRSA convention in San Francisco. I approached a rep from Cybex and wanted to show him my design. He refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement! I showed him anyway. He wasn't interested. Told me to build something 35 year old women would use!

Ten or more years later after the prototype was installed in my gym I had a rep from Nautilus Asia come to see the machine. He told me to send photos to their company. I never received acknowledgement of sending them or anything from them after that. So that was quite a disappointment. Here I was thinking I had something new and effective and two of the biggest gym equipment companies weren't interested.
Yeah, maybe I talked to the wrong people. Truth is promoting a product is a different skill from inventing one. I am straight forward and that is rarely seen in the corporate world from what I have experienced.
You literally can't trust anyone. So, what to do? I ended up building it for myself and my son will get it after I go.

[AbrahamG]

@Vince - What is your take on cock supination?

[Vince B]

In 1986 Titan Gym Equipment Company flew me to Adelaide, South Australia. I spent a week there helping the welder build my version of a leg press. I was promised $5000 plus so much for each machine built. Their version of the leg press had friction problems that caused scoring of the shafts. My design avoided that problem. On the Friday afternoon I was told their accountant was out of town. So I got paid zero! I hated being at the guy's house for a week as well. Oh, I was shouted to a nice dinner at the new casino there. All you can eat. I never did get paid and it made me angry to see my version of the leg press installed in gyms near mine. I met Allan after at a trade show and he had no shame at all. While I was in Adelaide a guy who sold a design to them was in the factory. He had cancer. I guess he didn't get paid, either! Titan Gym Equipment failed several times only to restart under a different name.
They had photos of some of my equipment hanging in the factory!

Another company in Queensland was copying my designs. The guy doing the drawings said it was great being influenced by me. What a nerve.

One guy in Melbourne copied some of my designs as well. One day in Sydney he gave me a nice Pec Deck machine. I never did build one of those contraptions.

I told him there was no money making gym equipment in Australia. Years later he sold his designs for $25,000 and started importing equipment. He told me I was right.

No wonder I ended up with a bad attitude. Arthur Jones told me criminals had more morals than gym owners. He also wasn't impressed with companies building gym equipment.

[Vince B]

@Vince - What is your take on cock supination?

Post of the year for sure!

[FitnessFrenzy]

I've got 99 pages, but my level of safety fat ain't none.

[IRON CROSS]

There is potential for this design to be sold but I am such a procrastinator I never get around to doing anything.

but U a very "successfull businessman" 




 

[Skeletor]

Almost 100 pages, great thread.

[IRON CROSS]

Another company in Queensland was copying my designs. The guy doing the drawings said it was great being influenced by me. What a nerve.

One guy in Melbourne copied some of my designs as well. 

                                 


: "safety fatso" invented dumbbell too 

[IRON CROSS]

In 1986 Titan Gym Equipment Company flew me to Adelaide, South Australia. 

was that before or after lending on the moon 

[IRON CROSS]

Any original ideas over there in Hawaii?

SURFING 

[IRON CROSS]

I've got 99 pages, but my level of safety fat ain't none.

yeah, "safety fatso" is absorbing other peoples fat 

[IRON CROSS]

Hope you're being sarcastic? Conker been banned for posting someone's personal info, you post stuff about people all the time, their photos, FB updates, photo shops, etc. If he's banned you should be thanking your lucky stars that you're not as well.

You're a crazy stalker and from what I hear a sex fiend. Anyone siding with you should take a look in the mirror, you're a fucking weirdo mate.

Do u 2 hump hairy Laurie  

[Griffith]

Conker wanted me to let everyone know he now has permanent ban and didn’t bail out of this fine thread on his own accord.

Also mentioned he is taking his summer vacation to Hawaii this year

Just passing on message here fuck all to do with me haha

So he finally cracked and got himself banned.

[IRON CROSS]

Dead Paki Plonker & his buddy , so touchy 

[pellius]

Philip Gilkey hang your head in shame. For a university graduate you failed here big time.

Who else on this board has invented any new gym equipment? What about you? Any original ideas over there in Hawaii?

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5413546.html

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5413546.pdf

"I" failed "big time"?

Really?

What have you done with precious patent? How has this benefitted you or anyone?
Even in a best-case scenario and it was actually brought to market what difference would it make? Is lack of bicep development a pressing issue in modern bbing? Maybe you should have designed a calf machine instead. There's a real problem that needs to be addressed.

All your life's work and energy directed at accomplishing nothing.

That's failure. Bigtime.

Fucked again.

[pellius]

Vince B., have you done anything of worth with this patent?  If not, then it's as useful as a patent on an automatic nose picker. 

Practically anyone can invent something, but what's needed is to invent something that is not only "innovative" but truly useful and, dare I say it...SELLS.

LOL @ "nose picker".

[pellius]

Most inventors get excited about the original device they came up with. They rush to a patent attorney and after tens of thousands of dollars might get a patent.

Most inventions don't make any money. I would guess that figure is over 80%. Sometimes clever ideas don't have much value.

I didn't have tool making skills so put off building the machine until 2001. The patent was granted in 1995. By the way, you have to apply for a patent in each

country then pay annual fees as well. It really isn't sensible to apply for a patent as an individual. Sell the idea to a company and let them do it. Of course,

dealing with gym equipment companies is a nightmare. You will end up not wanting to do anything at all.

I eventually bit the bullet and built the machine all by myself. Since 2001 it has had several major modifications. In 2016 the final prototype was finished.

Well, I merely modified the same machine. It is now much more user friendly and functions like doing seated dumbbell curls. Except you also have a separate

resistance for the supination movement. Thus, the machine has resistance in two degrees of freedom.

I have the machine with me and have been using it to test my hypertrophy theory. I also modified a Nautilus triceps machine that I superset with.

There is potential for this design to be sold but I am such a procrastinator I never get around to doing anything.

Yawn.

[pellius]

In 1991 after I applied for a patent the first time (Patent attorneys aren't very competent so you will need them for thousands and thousands of dollars) I attended the IRSA convention in San Francisco. I approached a rep from Cybex and wanted to show him my design. He refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement! I showed him anyway. He wasn't interested. Told me to build something 35 year old women would use!

Ten or more years later after the prototype was installed in my gym I had a rep from Nautilus Asia come to see the machine. He told me to send photos to their company. I never received acknowledgement of sending them or anything from them after that. So that was quite a disappointment. Here I was thinking I had something new and effective and two of the biggest gym equipment companies weren't interested.
Yeah, maybe I talked to the wrong people. Truth is promoting a product is a different skill from inventing one. I am straight forward and that is rarely seen in the corporate world from what I have experienced.
You literally can't trust anyone. So, what to do? I ended up building it for myself and my son will get it after I go.

I will sure your son will be thrilled and remember with eternal devotion and gratitude that his father left him a machine to exercise his biceps.

What a dad.

[IRON CROSS]

All your life's work and energy directed at accomplishing nothing.

accumulating  + 30 kg of "safety fat" on his body  is 1 of his big "achievements"   

[pellius]

SURFING 

That's true. Also, a guy named Kenneth Onion, who lives about 3 miles from me, invented “SpeedSafe” assisted opening mechanism for Kershaw Knives. He got rich and started his own company making custom knives. I also carry one of his blades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Onion

[IRON CROSS]

I will sure your son will be thrilled and remember with eternal devotion and gratitude that his father left him a machine to exercise his biceps.

What a dad.

so, others will get ZILCH  

[IRON CROSS]

That's true. Also, a guy named Kenneth Onion, who lives about 3 miles from me, invented “SpeedSafe” assisted opening mechanism for Kershaw Knives. He got rich and started his own company making custom knives. I also carry one of his blades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Onion

Damn, wanted 1 of those Millers Bros blades , but legally  importing that beauty into Au is a