Klyf Brown on sun 21 jul 02
I have never seen one of these, so I am thinking that I may have
invented a brand new clay tool. Of course, as soon as I put out this
post someone on list will say they built one back in '75 and are still
using it.
I figure I can spend a bunch on lawyers and get me a patten on the
Gatling Extruder. Then I will build a zillion of them and get bloody rich
and spend my fortune on more lawyers defending the patten. Thats
gotta be fun and a half.
Or I could just post the idea here and let anyone build one if it sounds
like a good idea, even Baily.
The Gatling Extruder is for those of us who build a piece out of four
or five extruded pieces (foot, base and/or top, body, lip and handle)
and are of the "let em hang" school of thought, but don't want to do all
that waiting between die changes and then try to get the different
pieces to the same moisture content.
The Gatling Extruder is built on a freestanding pipe stem base. That is,
a two foot square base of angle iron with a seven or eight foot pipe
standing upright. Instead of a single tube, this disign has from two up
to five boxes welded to a pipe that slips over the stand, or they could
be welded to the stand itself for a non adjustable model. If you use
human power, the extruder handle just slides around from one box to
another. For my model, the lazy man design, a pneumatic ram is
mounted on a pipe that slips over the stand, rests on a pipe welded to
the stand and pushes on another pipe welded above it's own pipe,
thus allowing for rotation. In the retracted position it swings from one
tube to the next. Put a bag over the first cylinder and let the piece
hang as long as you want.
So there it is, out in the open for any and all to build.
Have fun
Klyf Brown in New Mexico usa
Richard Jeffery on mon 22 jul 02
just the title is enough to get the imagination racing...
obviously designed for limited mass production....
surely the Geneva convention would have a view on the use of such a beast?
Richard Jeffery
Web Design and Photography
www.theeleventhweb.co.uk
Bournemouth UK
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Sent: 22 July 2002 03:19
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Subject: Gatling extruder, New invention?
I have never seen one of these, so I am thinking that I may have
invented a brand new clay tool. Of course, as soon as I put out this
post someone on list will say they built one back in '75 and are still
using it.
I figure I can spend a bunch on lawyers and get me a patten on the
Gatling Extruder. Then I will build a zillion of them and get bloody rich
and spend my fortune on more lawyers defending the patten. Thats
gotta be fun and a half.
Or I could just post the idea here and let anyone build one if it sounds
like a good idea, even Baily.
The Gatling Extruder is for those of us who build a piece out of four
or five extruded pieces (foot, base and/or top, body, lip and handle)
and are of the "let em hang" school of thought, but don't want to do all
that waiting between die changes and then try to get the different
pieces to the same moisture content.
The Gatling Extruder is built on a freestanding pipe stem base. That is,
a two foot square base of angle iron with a seven or eight foot pipe
standing upright. Instead of a single tube, this disign has from two up
to five boxes welded to a pipe that slips over the stand, or they could
be welded to the stand itself for a non adjustable model. If you use
human power, the extruder handle just slides around from one box to
another. For my model, the lazy man design, a pneumatic ram is
mounted on a pipe that slips over the stand, rests on a pipe welded to
the stand and pushes on another pipe welded above it's own pipe,
thus allowing for rotation. In the retracted position it swings from one
tube to the next. Put a bag over the first cylinder and let the piece
hang as long as you want.
So there it is, out in the open for any and all to build.
Have fun
Klyf Brown in New Mexico usa
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