Date: |
Summer 1962 |
Client: |
Gerry Mountain Sports, Boulder, Colorado |
Task: |
Develop a "universal rock crack" to test mountain climber's pitons of different styles and sizes. |
Result: |
Effective testing of strength and toughness of different pitons, information client to present a trade publication. |
Date: |
Summer 1971 |
Client: |
Gerry Manufacturing Company, Boulder, Colorado, Margaret Hansson, president now with M.S. Hansson, Inc, 2220 Norwood Ave, Boulder, CO 80304, tel 303-442-0459 |
Task: |
Develop safety specifications and test methods for different styles of back-pack child carriers. |
Result: |
These safety standards were adopted by the safety committee of the Juvenile Products Manufacturers' Association. |
Date: |
1997 |
Client: |
Cecelia Fleishner of Long & Jaudon, Attorneys, Denver, CO |
Task: |
Demonstrated the proximity of flame necessary to ignite a campfire "gel" starting material, and demonstrated that ignition would not "blow the bottle out of my hand" as claimed by percipient witness |
Result: |
Ignition tests showed that the bottle of campfire igniter must be within 6 inches of a flame, not the 4 feet as claimed by the individual. Bottle mounted on a horizontal bicycle wheel did not rotate the wheel when mouth of the bottle was ignited with a match. |
Date: |
1973 |
Client: |
Bill Ris, Attorney, (deceased.) formerly with Wood, RIS and Hames, Denver, CO. |
Task: |
Demonstrated by flip-chart presentation that arsenate poison could not spontaneously transform to a volatile arsine, contradicting plaintiff's explanation of significantly different outcomes from two chemical analyses six months apart. |
Result: |
The energy of a rock on a hillside was shown to be analogous to the heat of formation of chemical compounds. Rocks don't spontaneously roll uphill; chemicals don't spontaneously convert to a higher energy of formation without a source of energy. Jury agreed with this presentation. |
Date: |
Summer 1999 |
Client: |
Vital Signs, Inc., Totowa, NJ |
Task: |
Demonstrate that certain polymers dissolve and accomplish air-breathing, then air-closure functions in a blood gas syringe by other than swelling upon contact with blood. |
Result: |
Video presentation of experiments, translation and narration in Japanese language provided persuasive testimony to defend patent infreingement litigation in Tokyo. |