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Low friction linear tracking tonearm- Thomas Bowden has patented his own version
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<blockquote data-quote="TLBLinear" data-source="post: 1151288" data-attributes="member: 28014"><p>fdsys - My patent is not on the basic principle of rolling balls. It was issued based on some possible ways to further reduce friction which you might have learned had you read my patent. Furthermore, I am not relying on the patented improvements to make the protoype work. Anyone is free to make and sell a similar design. I applied for the patent for personal reasons.</p><p></p><p>Steerpike - this lawyer is quite familiar with fundamental principles of physics, but regardless, physics doesn't care what I know - it either works or it doesn't. In this case, it does.</p><p>Furthermore, the photograph is not the current evolution of the design, it was an early prototype of the arm that I literally stuck onto one of my turntables so that the reporter could take a picture.</p><p></p><p>The design works quite well and it is theoretically superior to designs such as the Clearaudio Statement or the Rauna Cantus which have additional sources of inherent friction and permit deviations from a perfectly tangent alignment, as does the principle referenced in fdsys's sneering post above. </p><p></p><p>Say what you will but the sound speaks for itself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TLBLinear, post: 1151288, member: 28014"] fdsys - My patent is not on the basic principle of rolling balls. It was issued based on some possible ways to further reduce friction which you might have learned had you read my patent. Furthermore, I am not relying on the patented improvements to make the protoype work. Anyone is free to make and sell a similar design. I applied for the patent for personal reasons. Steerpike - this lawyer is quite familiar with fundamental principles of physics, but regardless, physics doesn't care what I know - it either works or it doesn't. In this case, it does. Furthermore, the photograph is not the current evolution of the design, it was an early prototype of the arm that I literally stuck onto one of my turntables so that the reporter could take a picture. The design works quite well and it is theoretically superior to designs such as the Clearaudio Statement or the Rauna Cantus which have additional sources of inherent friction and permit deviations from a perfectly tangent alignment, as does the principle referenced in fdsys's sneering post above. Say what you will but the sound speaks for itself. [/QUOTE]
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Low friction linear tracking tonearm- Thomas Bowden has patented his own version
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