[or-roots] lumber carrier

Mon Sep 15 21:50:04 PDT 2008

Thanks Les.
I Googled before I read your message and discovered that Uncle Ralph's name 
was not on the patent, only Carl F. Gerlinger, the owner of the company. 
That same thing happened to my first husband, Frank Gates, when he invented 
the combination themometer-hygrometer-barometer when he worked for 
Bendix-Friez in Baltimore back in the 1950s and his name was listed at the 
bottom of the list on the patent after the Presideent, Vice President, Dept 
Supervisor and Head of the Department.  He did get a $25 bonus for his 
efforts.  Imagine the roaylties that comany has racked up over the years.
   I did find three other patents that Uncle Ralph did get credit for, so it 
was not a waste of time looking.
Coral W.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
Sent: 09/15/2008 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: [or-roots] lumber carrier

> Coral;
>
> Way cool! I believe you can check the patents at;
>
> http://www.freepatentsonline.com/1618330.html
>
> for free, you have to register and the form for that is an obnoxiously 
> long
> one, but it says "free patent info" so hopefully it isn't like a lot of
> other "Free" sites that are free to find out they have the info you want,
> but you have to pay to actually see it.
>
> I am sort of in the same boat as Pat, I never knew them by any name but
> "straddle buggie" until I was in Forestry School and one of my class mates
> wanted to know what those weird things were called when we were touring a
> sawmill and I told him that name. I don't remember who corrected me, but
> they thought it was pretty funny that I only knew the nickname.
>
> Les
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
> [mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us]On Behalf Of Coral
> Williams
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 6:53 PM
> To: or-roots mail list
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] lumber carrier
>
>
> Les,
> Thank you for calling to attention the 'lumber carrier' designed by my 
> uncle
> Ralph Hereth when he worked for Gerlingers at Dallas, OR (my home town) 
> and
> it was used at the Willamette Valley Lumber Company for as long as I can
> remember to haul lumber from place to place.  Uncle Ralph graduated from
> High School and immediately went to work at Gerlingers.  It is my 
> understand
> that his name is on the patent but this now has spurred me to check that 
> out
> for sure, to add to his history in my database.  Ralph F. Hereth was born 
> in
> 1909 and died in 1991.  He had many other patents that were used by the US
> Navy during WWII.
> Coral Williams
> in TX, a transpanted Oregonian.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
> To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
> Sent: 09/15/2008 6:28 PM
> Subject: [or-roots] lumber carrier
>
>
>>I would have to concur with that suggestion Bill; I think one of the
>>reasons
>> they aren't seem much any more is they were fairly dangerous. We always
>> called them straddle buggies.
>>
>> I find a couple of mentions of them at this site;
>>
>> http://www.speypages.com/speyclave/archive/index.php/t-27932.html
>>
>> straddle truck
>> –noun a self-propelled vehicle, having a chassis far above the ground, 
>> for
>> carrying loads of lumber or the like beneath the chassis and between the
>> wheels.
>>
>> Also called straddle carrier.
>> Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
>> Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc.
>> 2006.
>>
>> FINALLY;
>>
>> http://www.bidquip.com/AuctionDetail.aspx?recnum=FL-010677
>>
>> You will be able to see a pic of one, actually probably quite similar to
>> what got Mr Grimm if Bill and I are correct in our interpretation at that
>> URL, it isn't a  great picture, but if you really want a good look at it 
>> I
>> guess you could bid on it, starting bid $150!! I'd think it was worth 
>> more
>> than that for scrap?
>>
>> Okay, I stand corrected, it appears that they are still in use in the
>> lumber
>> industry, though the capicities listed at this site indicate they also
>> manufacture them for  such jobs as containers and other big lifting jobs;
>>
>> http://www.gerlingercarrier.com/history.htm
>>
>> Les C
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
>> [mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us]On Behalf Of Chris &
>> Bill
>> Strickland
>> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 2:48 PM
>> To: or-roots mail list
>> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Frank Grimm Family
>>
>>
>> > ... the sudden death of his father, Frank Grimm of Klamath Falls
>> Oregon who was killed instantly that afternoon by a lumber carrier.
>>
>> JFYI,
>>
>> This wording, and the date, would incline me to think this was not a
>> highway traffic accident with a log truck, but an accident, probably in
>> the mill, with a special vehicle, now obsolete, designed to carry stacks
>> of lumber, ala 
>> http://www.libbymt.com/news/2006/06/Hysterlumbercarrier.htm
>>
>> Glad to hear you are making progress!
>>
>> Bill Strickland
>> _______________________________________________
>> or-roots mailing list
>> or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
>> http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots
>> No virus found in this incoming message.
>> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com
>> Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.6.21/1672 - Release Date: 
>> 9/15/2008
>> 9:21 AM
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> or-roots mailing list
>> or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
>> http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots
>>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
>
>
>
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com
> Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.6.21/1672 - Release Date: 9/15/2008
> 9:21 AM
>
> _______________________________________________
> or-roots mailing list
> or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
> http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots
>
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com
> Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.6.21/1672 - Release Date: 9/15/2008
> 9:21 AM
>
> _______________________________________________
> or-roots mailing list
> or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
> http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots
>

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com
Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.6.21/1673 - Release Date: 9/15/2008 
6:49 PM