It's official! My patent has been published!

[Jim in Idaho]

I've been checking the Patent Office website for days, waiting for it to be published. I'm really happy to have the process finished.
The patent can be seen here:
Patent Images
Jim

 

[Toecutter]

Congratulations!!!

 

[Digger Pop]

Impressive. Congratulations! !

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Sweet, congratulations on all of your hard work!

 

[N/A]

Congrats!! When do we get a video showing it in action?

 

[Jim in Idaho]

Congrats!! When do we get a video showing it in action?

Here's a video from the fall of '16, using the prototype.

 

[Jim in Idaho]

Many thanks, guys!

Jim

 

[USMC Reaper]

Great job!!

 

[Rookster]

Looks good. Good luck with it.

 

[Mudflap]

Detailed and well laid out. You have a lot of work in this. Congrats!

 

[against the wind]

Congratulations,, hope you find lots of gold and make lots of money.

 

[Simon1]

Congratulations Jim, now when do you appear on Shark Tank ?

 

[Holyground]

Congrats!

 

[Jim in Idaho]

Many thanks, guys!
Simon, I'm hoping somebody will take it on a royalty basis. I will probably build them myself until then, but I'm too old to spend 8 hours/day working in the shop, though I do that for fun in the winter.
Jim

 

[63bkpkr]

Mr. Jim, Congratulations as submitting a patent takes a lot of work, time, thought, care and it becomes a part of the inventor! Well Done!.............63bkpkr

 

[RustyGold]

Congratulations Jim. Well done!

 

[A2coins]

Congrats Well done

 

[Gare]

VERY WELL done Jim. It looks like a extremely complicated idea. Proud of you !!! Did you do a Patent search your self ? Did you go through one of these places you see on tv that tells you to let them help you.The reason i ask was i went through one of those polaces and it cost me 3 or 4 thousand dollars before i realized they was more concerned getting my money
proud to know you sir :0!

 

[dts52]

Congratulations. That is quite an accomplishment.
Good luck.
dst

 

[Jim in Idaho]

VERY WELL done Jim. It looks like a extremely complicated idea. Proud of you !!! Did you do a Patent search your self ? Did you go through one of these places you see on tv that tells you to let them help you.The reason i ask was i went through one of those polaces and it cost me 3 or 4 thousand dollars before i realized they was more concerned getting my money
proud to know you sir :0!

Many thanks, Gary. I did it all myself, including the prior art search. That alone took over 30 hours. I turned up exactly one possibly conflicting patent, but it was different enough the Patent Office didn't quote it. They did find more, when they did their search, but they were all things I hadn't claimed as my idea anyway. Not sure why they used them. This idea really is unusual, and thinking outside the box of typical gold recovery gear. Ideas are weird! I had built several different recovery devices, for dry recovery, and all failed. I had mentioned to a friend in BC that what I needed on the best of those was a flexible bottom, but it was another year before the light came on, and I came up with a rotary device. Once it dawned on me, it only took a couple of weeks to build the prototype, and try it out. Ideas derive from trying to solve problems, and you have to be involved with things to face the problems in the first place. This all sprang from dry prospecting for diamonds in western Wyoming....go figure...LOL
Jim