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I made a new sewing machine part!

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September 24, 2017, 12:15 PM
ScreamingCockatoo
I made a new sewing machine part!
Big Grin
It's a guide plate system for silicone edged graphics.
The edge is pressed into a channel in an aluminium frame.




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/N6jzXsyyx2o





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September 24, 2017, 01:33 PM
BurtonRW
I'm not an IP attorney, but I'd say you should take that video down until you have a patent in-hand.

Then, sell it to Brother.

-Rob




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September 24, 2017, 03:07 PM
41
It would costs you $10,000 or more to do the research and have a patent filed.

Also, there are different guide plates out there for different tasks.


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September 24, 2017, 05:49 PM
ScreamingCockatoo
From my research, the only guides available are for hemming.
Everyone makes them for general work. There's really no patent on cloth folding before stitching. It's kinda public domain, industry common knowledge.
But, for specialty work, most are custom made for each system.
And to get one, you buy the entire system or have something made.
Finding a fabricator that can even understand what you want is a challenge.

This is a specialty item, but for someone who doesn't want to spend $50K on and automated system when they only make a few of these displays a year.





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September 24, 2017, 06:33 PM
Rey HRH
Started the video but had to stop. Kept remembering that sewing scene from Better Call Saul.



"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
September 24, 2017, 06:46 PM
Woodman
You're a one-a-month inventor? Big Grin
September 24, 2017, 07:10 PM
ScreamingCockatoo
I've got another I haven't uploaded yet... Razz





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September 24, 2017, 07:49 PM
ScreamingCockatoo



Link to original video: https://youtu.be/_hqYH6-b7LU





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September 24, 2017, 10:55 PM
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There was a gunsmith in PA that had a knife sharpening fixture to do all sharpening angles and other tools like scissors, etc.

He said he had given up on getting a patent due to the cost and research involved. His profit margin would take years to offset the patent costs.

I would just continue making your jigs until someone tells you to stop.


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September 25, 2017, 04:31 AM
ScreamingCockatoo
And even then, I won't.
They're basically industry standard accessories.





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