Toll Positions - Harvey Brody's Patents Live On

I love it when someone provides elegant solutions to problems. You know the type of thing - the wooden drawer in your wardrobe stops running smoothly and jams every time you open and close it - and then someone tells you to rub candle grease on the runners to make it run smoothly again. That's a fast, cheap solution to a daily problem - and although you might choose to have the drawer repaired by a carpenter, the candle grease works well in the meantime.

Now imagine it was you who provided the candle grease solution; further, if you had patented the solution and sold the candle grease in a dispenser just for this purpose, and had arranged the manufacture of this dispenser, selling it to distributors, then you control the whole process. You also earn money on each and every sale of your invention.

That's effectively what Harvey Brody did many years ago now as a young man when he invented the Zoom-Spout® Oiler. It is still being sold today - see the Zoom Spout Oiler being sold right now on eBay.