Moseley Tremelo Patent

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Moseley Tremelo Patent

Postby Sarah93003 » Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:04 am

I mentioned this in a thread under another section and thought it might be more useful here. I was looking at the Patent number on my Celebrity's tremelo and wondered when the patent was issued. So, I went to the USPTO website and downloaded the patent. Semie A. Mosely applied for the patent on May 11, 1964 and it was granted on March 1, 1966. I downloaded the seven pages as images and if anyone would like to have the images just let me know and I'll email them to you.
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Re: Moseley Tremelo Patent

Postby rog43win » Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:23 pm

wow, Sarah......I wonder why it took almost 2 yrs for him to get the patent? Is that timeframe normal for such patents?

Roger

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Postby Sarah93003 » Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:02 pm

I'm sure it's much faster today with online applications, etc. If there are any issues at all they send it back so I'm not suprised it took that long with the manual system they had in the 1960's.
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Postby Veenture » Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:03 pm

rog43win wrote:wow, Sarah......I wonder why it took almost 2 yrs for him to get the patent? Is that timeframe normal for such patents?

Roger

I think I read somewhere that Leo Fender never bothered to get his Strat body design patented probably because of all the hassle and time involved...He only patented the headstock contour, not thinking that so many sharks out there were going to copy his Strat (body); the most recent 'steal' being done by Gibson (for that butt-ugly Hendrix Strat) :(

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Re: Moseley Tremelo Patent

Postby MWaldorf » Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:06 pm

Here's a link to a previous discussion of this patent, along with one of the pages:

http://www.mosriteforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1849&p=18947&hilit=patent#p18947
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Re: Moseley Tremelo Patent

Postby Sarah93003 » Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:57 pm

It took me a while to figure out how to convert from tif to jpeg, but hopefully it works!

Page 1 of the drawing

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Re: Moseley Tremelo Patent

Postby Sarah93003 » Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:58 pm

Page 2 of the drawing

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1965 Mosrite Celebrity Prototype with Vibramute
1972 Mosrite Celebrity-III
1977 Gibson MK-53
1982 Fender Bullet
1994 Gretsch Streamliner G3155 Custom
2005 Gibson Les Paul Standard Plus
2006 Jude Les Paul 12 String

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Re: Moseley Tremelo Patent

Postby Sarah93003 » Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:59 pm

Page 3 of the drawing

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1965 Mosrite Celebrity Prototype with Vibramute
1972 Mosrite Celebrity-III
1977 Gibson MK-53
1982 Fender Bullet
1994 Gretsch Streamliner G3155 Custom
2005 Gibson Les Paul Standard Plus
2006 Jude Les Paul 12 String

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Re: Moseley Tremelo Patent

Postby Sarah93003 » Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:00 pm

Page 1 and 2 of the Description

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1965 Mosrite Celebrity Prototype with Vibramute
1972 Mosrite Celebrity-III
1977 Gibson MK-53
1982 Fender Bullet
1994 Gretsch Streamliner G3155 Custom
2005 Gibson Les Paul Standard Plus
2006 Jude Les Paul 12 String

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Re: Moseley Tremelo Patent

Postby Sarah93003 » Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:00 pm

Page 3 and 4 of the Description

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1965 Mosrite Celebrity Prototype with Vibramute
1972 Mosrite Celebrity-III
1977 Gibson MK-53
1982 Fender Bullet
1994 Gretsch Streamliner G3155 Custom
2005 Gibson Les Paul Standard Plus
2006 Jude Les Paul 12 String


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