Showing posts with label outboards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label outboards. Show all posts
Sunday, September 03, 2023
Sunday, August 13, 2023
Sunday, June 04, 2023
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Thursday, November 24, 2022
Thursday, September 15, 2022
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Monday, August 29, 2022
this is another example of home made being better than anything the factory designed.
it originally looked lousy:
and he put it on a beautiful boat
you can see the custom work and build at https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10226438689692162&set=pcb.10159778981029435
Saturday, July 30, 2022
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Thursday, July 14, 2022
According to US Navy records, the 1943 Evinrude model #4375 Navy Heavy-Duty LightFour 9.7 hp, four-cylinder outboard, was responsible for the rescue of over 700 men from bombers or fighters forced down in the North Sea or Pacific.
designed for military use , the shaft was 15" longer than the standard shaft and could be spun 360 degrees allowing it to reverse.
It came with a rebuild kit, which consisted of many key parts for "in-the-field" repairs. As noted in the ad, this outboard was used by the Navy in drop-type lifesaving boats – boats that were dropped from bomber bays as survival equipment to rescue aviators forced to ditch at sea.
Monday, March 21, 2022
Sunday, March 20, 2022
Larry Stevenson spent months buying outboards on Ebay while taking care of his wife during chemo... then they hit the road with a 26' box truck and picked them up, all over the country, and had a lot of couple's quality time on the road trips
Larry met Jane when they were still just teenagers attending college. After falling madly in love, Larry enlisted in the Navy, and after Jane graduated, they got married.
Their first duty station was in Maine, the 2nd was Guam. After the Navy, Larry started working part time for UPS while completing university. In 1987, they purchased a summer home in West Boothbay Harbor, and when Larry retired in 2000, they settled in Sequim, Washington for the winters, where Larry served as a Coast Guard SAR Controller, Group Duty Officer, Vessel Examiner, public education instructor, and motor lifeboat crewmember at Coast Guard Group Port Angeles, WA.
It was in 2004 when Jane’s diagnosis and treatment for Stage IV ovarian cancer, would cause Larry to look for some diversion to fill the hours he spent caregiving by her side
During the days of Jane’s aggressive cancer treatments Larry spent hours researching and buying hundreds of outboard motors on eBay and through other websites and classifieds.
In 2006 Jane went into remission and the pair set off on a cross-country journey to pick-up his nearly 300 outboards in a Penske 26’l box truck. They left Washington and traveled through 20 states and across 6,500 miles. They filled the truck more than once and had to deadhead from Niagara Falls to Maine to unload before setting out again.
The trip brought Larry great joy, but soon after the journey, Jane’s cancer returned and she succumbed to the cancer and left this world on in 2013.
After Jane passed, Larry decided that that the joy he had felt in amassing them with Jane would only be recaptured by sharing them and he split 400 outboards between the LeMay in Tacoma, and the Boothbay Railway Village in Maine
Most car guys are familiar with a Muncie transmission, and are conversant about the M21, M22 etc. But, did you know the Muncie Gear Works corporation also made outboards, rocket parts, and deep freezers?
The first president of Muncie Gear Works was H.L. Warner and he was later succeeded by T.W. Warner. Both men would become well know for their association with Warner Gear Division of Borg Warner and Warner Machine Products, a subsidiary of Essex International.
The company rapidly grew manufacturing clutches and transmissions and the growing amount of time required to manage Muncie Gear caused the Warner's to leave and focus on their other business. Dr. William A Spurgeon became the new president. He was replaced by his son Kenneth A Spurgeon in the early 1920's, who remained president until his death in 1967.
In the 1920's Muncie sold their transmissions to companies like International Trucks and the Ford, but the stock market crash and the depression had them adapting and they manufactured transmissions for potato diggers, automatic coal stokers, air conditioners, deep freezers etc
They got into the outboard motor business in 1930 making many brands such as Muncie, Neptune, Sea Gull, Skipper, Mighty Mite and also Sea King brand for Montgomery Wards, as well as the Motorgo and Waterwitch brands for Sears.
In 1942, Johnson outboards, who licensed their patent to OMC (Evinrude, etc) took Muncie to the Supreme Court over patent infringement over the cavitation prevention plate https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5914a2d0add7b0493469e88f and the ruling set a standard for ALL patent law, about the "late claiming" doctrine announced in Muncie Gear.
This interpretation invalidates patent claims presented by amendment more than the statutory period after public sale or use only. It's now known as the Muncie Gear Doctrine.
Read the following, or try https://casetext.com/case/outboard-marine-mfg-v-muncie-gear-works
Summed up, as best I can figure out the lawyer speak, which is not easy to understand, the Muncie Gear Doctrine pertains to "claims directed to an invention disclosed
but not claimed in the [original patent] application may not be added to
the amendment more than the statutory period (of patent upgrades and updates) after public use."
In Muncie Gear, the Court explicitly found no disclosure of the
later claimed invention (anti cavitation plate) in the original (patent) application.
Moreover, the
rule of law announced by the Court as the rationale for its decision
focused solely on public use or sale two years prior to the "first
disclosure" of the invention to the Patent Office.
Further, the
Court's holding invalidated the claims (of patent infringement) because of public use or sale
two years before the invention in issue "was first presented to the
Patent Office."
The Court had, at most, created a "late disclosure" doctrine
wherein claims submitted via amendment two years after public
sale or use would be invalid only when unsupported by the original (patent application) disclosure.
The Supreme Court believed that the original application in Muncie Gear "wholly failed to disclose the invention [then] asserted" by the patentee.
Fifty-two years before the Muncie Gear decision, the Supreme
Court announced its definition of "new matter" in Topliff v. Topliff.
"New matter" is a term of art in patent law referring to that
which is added to a patent application and directed to an invention beyond the original disclosure. The Topliff Court explained
that a patentee has claimed new matter when he amends his application to "change the invention" or introduce "what might be the
subject matter of another application for patent.'
In Muncie Gear, the Court recognized that, "The [original] specifications and drawings indicated an anti-cavitation plate which
the specifications said 'prevents cavitation,' but it was in no way
asserted that the cavitation plate was new, or that it was being
employed in any novel cooperative relation to the other elements."' It was not until two years after public use or sale of a
device embodied in the claims in issue that the patentee in Muncie
Gear claimed the anti-cavitation plate as his invention .' The patentee had therefore changed his invention, as the claims submitted
via amendment were then directed to the anti-cavitation plate
rather than the originally emphasized anti-torque plate. Thus,
the patentee in Muncie Gear went beyond the original disclosure
to include new matter in each of the claims in issue.
When World War II broke out they manufactured 37mm gun carriages, aircraft parts, rocket parts and a outboard drive for barges that would be the for-runner of the inboard/outboard of today.
Muncie became a major supplier of rocket parts to the Army, for the Viet Nam conflict.
there comes a time, for a few, when they decide it's time to quit collecting and sell off the museum full of stuff they've spent a life time acquiring. Of course, others are "going to restore it someday". Here's a museum in the Netherlands that was just auctioned off
Sure, there's a lot of the usual stuff... but I'm bored of looking at the usual normal stuff. So here's some of the interesting stuff instead:
a Briggs and Stratton made to power an outboard!
A ship's whistle! Hand crank on the other side
Saturday, March 19, 2022
Johnson outboard in the US Army supply system, date on the motor plate is 6 24 54
the manual from the military tells you how to sabotage the motor in case of enemy and how to bury it properly so they can't use it
there once was a time when you could walk into a store and buy a beautiful kit like this. A long time ago, when my grandpa was a young guy
https://www.facebook.com/groups/49655829434/posts/10159520389404435/
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