There are two types of meaningful remuneration - self-esteem and money. The following top ten list is divided equally between these two types of rewards.
Money:
1. During the life of the patent, the owner of the patent rights can license those rights to others and thereby create stream(s) of residual income.
2. Owners of patent rights can prevent competitors from using the invention in the patent country. This increases the patent owner's market share.
3. During the life of the patent, the patent rights owner may well be the exclusive manufacturer creating a captive market!
4. When patent right owners desire to sell their business, owning patent rights traditionally increases value of the business when sold.
5. Owning patent rights to an invention that has a definitive end product simplifies litigation proceedings if necessary.
Self-Esteem:
6. Owners of patent rights can claim that their diverting discarded mattresses from landfills directly saves existing landfill space which is a social benefit to the community.
7. Owners of patent rights know they are helping the economy via their salvaging cotton, felt, foam and steel from discarded mattresses makes these valuable materials available for use in the market place.
8. Patent rights owners hold in their hands the ability to create new mattress recycling jobs.
9. The law is on the side of the patent rights owner!
10. The ability to use money to purchase patent rights extends beyond buying and into the actual implementation of the invention that would otherwise go unrealized.
The mattress recycling business is in its infancy and is growing to fill a real world need (Demand.) A human being with a box cutter is quite capable of tearing down 25 discarded mattresses per day. Tearing down means to physically separate the mattress into its original component parts for recycling.
The normal life of a mattress falls between ten and twenty years depending upon quality and usage. Thus, even if 100 percent of the mattresses being manufactured were perfectly "Green" beginning this day, the mattress recycling market would continue on for the next ten to twenty years as people discard old mattresses.
Using readily available soft product compactors, mattress recyclers can easily pack and ship cotton, felt and foam. It is the bulky steel inner springs that creates the problem for mattress recyclers.
What problems? First and foremost, in their manufactured configuration, inner springs are large and bulky and when shipped "as-is" the hauler transports a larger quantity of air than steel. It is anything but cost effective to haul air. By design, the springs themselves have what is called "memory." The person(s) sleeping on the mattress during its useable life have compressed these springs nightly for ten to twenty years and the memory of the spring returns the spring back to its original size and shape as soon as the people get off the mattress.
This same memory returns springs to their original size after compaction in a trash truck - perhaps you have actually witnessed springs flying out the back of a trash truck when they were released from the compaction pressure.
Secondary problems using landfills for disposal include unnecessarily wasting landfill space and damage to landfill operating equipment when the steel wires composing the inner springs become wrapped up - literally - the landfill machinery operating parts.
What the US Patent Pending Spring Compactor invention does, is remove the memory from the springs such that once they are compacted they remain compacted rather than springing back to their original shape. This addresses bulk and the final dimensions are smaller than the original. This removes the air from the inner springs so that transporters are hauling more steel than air. And, it actually increases the value of the scrap steel by complying with scrap steel buyer's required dimensions.
Those persons interested in buying the patent rights to this invention in countries other than the United States have one year from early February 2009 to do so. The United States Patent rights will be sold by license only.
