VERY INTERESTING???

[E7]

Surfing around and found this on the Sergent Engineering website:

http://www.sergentengineering.com/

Note from Frank Sergent

Sergent Engineering experienced record profit in 2017, but what about the future? Sergent Engineering has been around for almost 20 years now and I am very proud of what has been accomplished. For 20 years, I have personally been making couplers. It's time to think about what comes next. I don't know when (so don't bother asking), but sometime this journey will end for me. I love my customers and refuse to leave them out in the cold. Consistent with that goal, I am placing all the coupler designs in the public domain now. If you are interested in having your own copy of these designs Click here.

Sergent Engineering has never been a typical business. No doubt, this news is further evidence of that fact. My hope is that other small (and large) manufacturers will follow suit and allow their designs to live on in perpetuity rather than allowing good products to die in a virtual intellectual property trash heap as a result of changing markets, business interest, and aging owners. We have done many things first. How's that for one more first from Sergent Engineering?


The files below are free to download. Sergent Engineering makes no guarantee that they are suitable for your particular needs and it is up to you to determine that. Other than that, no strings attached. If you find you can 3D print your own couplers, more power to you. If you find you want to sell products you create from these files, you are free to do that without royalties on these designs. We encourage it! We invite you to share your experiences in using these files with the Sergent Engineering Groups.io group.

These are the same files used to generate product sold by Sergent Engineering designed by Frank Sergent. The patent covering the Sergent Engineering locking mechanism expires at the end of 2019. Until that time, Sergent Engineering irrevocably grants all entities free and unlimited use of that patent.

A non-binding request is made that any literature describing commercial products based on this design claim origins in the Sergent design (and please don't misspell the name).

Included here are designs for the die cast couplers as well as the investment cast couplers. Sergent Engineering has made significant investments in tooling for the die cast couplers and encourages anyone interested in obtaining those die cast parts to contact Sergent Engineering rather than unnecessarily duplicating that exercise.

[2railjon]

What an awesome way to bow out of the business!!
Two thumbs up!!