European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse August the stars and stripes to Flor inventor David Gutman wifi steel bars that Are part of his ear observing inventors by Ken Allen associated press avid Gutman finally perfected his Riede Syrl a catching he Doest own a so Gulman bolted the bumper to a Kitchen table and ran headlong into the object it ii Worts it push then pushes right Back Gutman is one of thousands of backyard people with doing something and the mechanical ability to carry Iceni Many of these latterly Thomas Delsora troop to the Patent office to who is moved to Philadelphia years ago from new where had worked in a machine his inventions include a escape that a person to the Nail guide that prevents battered thumbs and two car bumpers designed to protect t dont Gotama explaining Why tie spends so Moth time on to protect Pedes Tri f met tart Fuget lost or to Loie us car or so now i Gutmans like Many designed Inta Kyard Are unusual in take the car the list talented in was a complicated system of Springs and rods that ran out and embraced the pedestrian struck by a although Gutman approached several no the latest bumper is consisting of two tempered steel rods that curve Down and out from the the rods Are connected by a Cross piece that theoretically acts As a scooping the Pedes Trian up and onto the his fire which can also be used As a window drops Down one Side at a with a Camar orangemen preventing it my coming Down out of control Gutman tested the crud looking prototype by descending on it from the Root his the Only invention to make him any Money to the Nail it ii designed primarily for Nalli and that cant be held and hammered without damage to the and Gotman put those into production he Laid he made about just enough to pay the Cost Al getting the an official of the u Patent Orice said that about a Quarter of the patents issued go to people like the Independent inventor is still a Force to be reckoned said Isaac director of information for the office of there Are some who do make he they do it if there we rent the Promise of some remu there is still a need for Fleischmann said the Patent office employees engineers to investigate the applications made each it takes about 18 months to get a although they can be granted in As few As nine months for Environ mental and Energy saving All an invention has to do to be patented is to meet our three criteria it must be it must be an that the inventor must know what he is and the invention must have some practical Fleischmann a simple Patent like Gutmans would Cost around complicated patents Cost More to get be cause of lawyers the Patent office charges s230 per Fleischmann said Modem living by Gary Pedersen associated press George Wheeler has spent most of he last Hal Century on his hands and the last 3d alongside his the wheelers Are my me clog Isle people who study in fact they Are two of Only a dozen or so in Ameri Ca who study nothing bul the Hay crawling at Wheeler still is going he spends More ume in the us than he used and More time at the As he and his wife put together yet another Book on their i just fell into All said i had a sixth Grade teacher interested in nature later i attended Harvard and worked with a professor involved in ant he eventually turned Over his work to since Wheeler has covered much of the United Stales and parts of Central America in search of the Little it makes no difference to him if they to he careful with my Ajmer All these years they have become sensitive from All this crawl ing its not old its just a Hazard of the there Are As Many As species of ants in the said 500 of them in the United states and 180 in when people can name five species we think that pretty he but when we Tell them there Are 180 in they Are Wheeler taught for Many years at the University of North he married his once a nude in one of his about 10 years Aga when he she got a Job with the desert research Institute of Nevada and they moved to they have a lab with Glass cases full of observation nests and extensive and they have students to do some of their we Send our students into the higher elevations to find we Are getting too old for but in the summertime we still manage to get out to study ant the couple is working on a Book to Docu ment the ants of that work is interrupted at times by other specialists asking for help on the Wheeler specially ant we Are the Only ones mho ready have worked on larvae and we Calls irom everywhere on he sail Wheeler said the study of ants centers on what effect they have on what they what eats them and where they requests to identify a specific ant Are and the Shockn go to their match it and Send Bock the All in a Days Nevada Mym ecologists George Wheeler a knee to
