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Old 04-25-21, 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by T-Mar
Nubuo Ozaki, assignor to Yoshigai Kikai Kinzoku (Dia-Compe) filed the USA patent application for their brake safety level in October 1966 and it was granted in October 1968. The patent may have been filed slightly earlier in Japan.
Thank you! I thought it was a Weinmann design. Apparently it wasn't.
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