A guy was driving down the street in a sweat because he had an important meeting and couldn't find a parking spot.
Looking up to heaven, he said: "Lord, take pity on me. If you find me a parking place I will go to mass every Sunday for the rest of me life and give up me whiskey!"
Miraculously, a parking spot suddenly appeared.
The guy looked up again and said: "Never mind, I found one."
U.S. patent issued to boyIn 1988, a U.S. patent was issued to 11-year-old Richard G. Woodbridge for the brush he designed to clean out sawdust accumulating in chain saw cuts to avoid sawdust build-up that otherwise can cause the chain saw to jam (No. 4,748,745). The brush is stationary, mounted on two brackets above to the chain saw blade, and is used by turning the chain saw upside down and moving the bristles through the saw cut. He was inspired by the bristles along the back of windshield snow scrapers. As the son of patent attorney Richard C. Woodbridge the boy had help in adding an optional brush agitator that would tranfer vibrations from the chain to the brush to improve the sawdust removal rate.« |
