Re: Cooling attic (and home) by spraying water on roof (shingles) - good/bad?

[Ralph Hertle <ralph.hertle@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Some Guy wrote:
> Probably another reason why you don't see this in residential
> settings:
>
> Patent 4175703: Spray cooling system for gable roof
>
> http://www.freepatentsonline.com/patents/us/417/4175703/4175703.pdf
>
> In the USA, you can patent almost anything, regardless if it is
> similar to what is already in practice, or what is generally "known to
> those skilled in the art".
>
> In this case, the above patent (granted in 1979) at the time the use
> of evaporative roof cooling was well known for industrial / commercial
> flat roofs.  How this guy got a patent for use on a gable roof is
> beyond me.
>
> The patent office is full of examples of things we don't see as
> consumers because some bone-head thought he could get rich by
> patenting something trivial and obvious.  All he ends up doing is
> wasting his money on a patent.
>
> I would think that the patent has now expired.





BTW:

In searching for the roof spray patent I found this:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/patents/us/417/4173930/4173930.pdf
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/patents/us/417/4173930/4173930-002.tif

That may be prior art that precedes one of the latest patents from NASA
--- its for a golf ball that has aerodynamically more efficient
ellipsoidal dimples. The wonder of socialism at work In America !!!


........

The water spray idea could be a nice product business where there is
plenty of water. There may be room for some new inventions there.


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Ralph Hertle
Vice President and Trustee
National Society of Inventors