$2 BILLION PER YEAR FOR
5 YEARS
There has been no other mention in this web-site of
the tardiness of BHP in licensing this invention to make about
$2 billion to $3 billion per annum profit. BHP were slow
to show proper interest in this invention until an Undermanager at CORDEAUX
Colliery (a BHP pit), in the Illawarra region of NSW, wanted to support
their pipelines in an improved manner. I was summoned to the Colliery
and recommended the W-STRAP
PLATES (see bottom red sketch) to address their services
(pipelines) support problems.
Years later I was summoned 'out of the blue' to TOWER
Colliery (another BHP underground mine) by Mark McCOLL,
who was the Development Manager of this mine. I telephoned Gerard
CLEARY, Technical Assistant at VALE
Engineering Pty Ltd, and together we developed a support device for
this underground coliery's service pipelines. With the involvement of
VALE Engineering Pty Ltd, TOWER
were supplied with an improved means of supporting pipelines which integrated
into the Mesh Strap roof support system.
Years before this visit to any BHP underground mine GORDONSTONE
Colliery, in central Queensland, were supplied one thousand (early version)
WK 970 wide-span brackets as early as in February, 1992.
GRETLEY Colliery, in the Hunter Valley region
of NSW, had been using the laser-profiled LW 490 brackets, manufactured
from Bisalloy 80 (very high strength construction steel) version, in
small numbers from just after mid-1992.
The FACE EMPLACED Services
Support invention's full range of support devices were not fully developed by
the middle of 1992 yet their potential was understood by BHP because
before the PATENT COOPERATION
TREATY Patent Application (PCT/AU92/00555)
was lodged in mid-October 1992 the three inventors had a meeting at
Cornelis BAAS' house in Dapto, NSW. Dr.
Peter GRAY attended that meeting, representing
BHP's interests. Early in the next year (1993), after the the
PCT Application was made, a meeting was held at the BULLIVANTS
premises in Unanderra on the south coast of NSW with the Manager of
that BULLIVANTS Office and two BULLIVANTS
representatives from Sydney. Again no licensing agreement!
Still later, on the Friday before the 1st of April in 1996 (which fell
on a Monday), there was a meeting with the General Manager of BHP LIFTING
& INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS
(Robert EDWARDS) and again Dr. Peter GRAY
- who by then had progressed from secondment to this arm of BHP to being
employed by it. Again no licensing agreement!
I have no doubt that BHP's plan was to assist my ex-brother-in-law*,
using a newly-written will by my wife suffering from terminal cancer,
to defraud me of the rights to this invention. They obviously
wanted to wait another year to accomplish this as the executors of my
wife's estate could delay the grant of probate till this time because
there was some discretionary taxation applicable till three years from
the date of her death with respect to the trusts established by the
executors of the estate for the children. Three years after her
death a higher rate of taxation was applicable concerning the children's
trust if probate was not granted.
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What do you call BUFFY -
a fraud, a grave-robber, a thief, ...... ?
(Most aptly a worried man! Who threw the rather large
rock which)
(broke the side window of the house I'm living in and why did
the)
(Real Estate Agent not require me to pay for the damage?)
Wherever this invention
has been it has hardly left a trace! |
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| Note: |
My cartoonist
had a brick-bat hurled at the front security door of the house
he's living in as well as a boulder thrown up his
drive and I'm not one bit jealous - I always knew that the
cartoonies
would cause more mental disturbance in these crooks than
the written presentation - they hate being mocked! |
