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Solar powered deep well water pump?
No idea if it will work and I'm not looking to get rich and I don't have the time and resources to get a patent on it. Any suggestions as to where to submit it so I least get credit for it. It's a purely physical no solar cells etc.
It's a little different, I bounced it off my son and he didn't get the wide eyed "Yeah, your wacko dad " thing.
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- Nuff SedLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
If you have "no idea if it will work", then it's not an "invention" and thus not patentable, since the primary purpose of patents is to educate others about how things DO work, using your new disclosure.
Try to get some help to "finish" your invention before you disclose it to anyone, and then get some "Friendly advice" from your local patent attorneys.
"Getting credit" for it is "worthless" unless you're thinking of trying to make and sell one and want to avoid being sued by someone else who patents something similar later. There are official ways to do that without simultaneously blowing your chance at GETTING any patent.
- Mike1942fLv 78 years ago
Publish it as a booklet with copyright date and donate copies to several libraries and societies.
Set up a web site and publish it there with your name on it.
Seems pretty unlikely - what do you consider a deep well? If it is deeper than 32 feet then something has to be at the bottom to push the water up - rules of physics - and that takes a fair amount of power to get through valves and overcome friction besides simply lifting weight within a time frame.