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Case
Study 1 - The Prismatic Cassette Case
My daughter kept getting my audio-cassette tapes muddled up with hers by
putting them into the wrong cases. Because the identification of
the contents of a cassette case relied on the inlay card, one had to do
away with the dependence on the inlay card in order to solve the problem.
One therefore needed to be able to know what cassette tape was in the case,
without relying on the inlay card.
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Study 2 - The Double-Jawed Clamp
This invention resulted from the need to avoid grasping the jaws of
a clothes peg when picking one out of a bag of them. Having operating arms
and jaws at each end of the clamp, meant that you always got
hold of the operating arms. A search revealed that double-endedness
was known, but that no one had solved the problem of the spring in the
middle.
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Study 3 - My Idea concerning Recovery of Sounds from the Past
When I established WYBROW INNOVATIONS, in 1990, I had an idea involving
the recovery of sounds from the past. However, it was just an idea,
and in order to test it, I needed access to very expensive equipment, and
archived data on fossils.
I wrote an account of the idea, and sent it to myself by protected post,
and "sat on it" for about 8 years!
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Study 4 - The Clockwork Generator
In 1986, I noticed that my son was having difficulty winding up the motor
of a clockwork engine and putting the engine on the railway track.
I realised that if the action of winding up the clockwork motor could be
separated from the action of placing the engine on the track, he would
find it easier to play with the train set. The ready availability of an
electric train set suggested to me that all that was needed was a clockwork
generator to supply electrical energy to the track in order to drive the
electric engine. My son could then wind up the clockwork motor of the "motor-electric
generator" combination, and hence cause the electric engine to travel
around the track. However, as will be seen from the next section on the Clockwork Generator, I was to lose out when Trevor Baylis's Clockwork Radio surfaced!
© Dr
Brian R. A. Wybrow CSci, C.CHEM, MRSC; Ph.D. (Lond.)
Member of the Institute of Patentees and Inventors
Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining
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