1989.

Bruner cannot compete with an expert in designing and fabrication of real fine jewelry. Bruner can play on the field, but he's not in the game. He doesn't have the same experience as a wise old cat at the game.

Maybe some have other backgrounds before getting into this field, like selling used cars perhaps, or even dealing in diamonds. Maybe they've even worked with hospitable beds! These examples (strangely not too far from the truth) goes to show that some people don't care what they sell, and they don't know anything technical, but they are good at promoting.

Others are known to have made a business with a stolen idea from the working man, and even publicize that they took out patents on another's idea and did the public a favor by mass-producing. Others just inherit the idea, and are perhaps convinced that it is good, but don't really know, as they were in another field before.

I have seen, and anybody can check the struggle Bruner had to invent a ring that opened. He did not know how to work with springs in rings, so that is why he eliminated the need for springs and bragged about it Bruner has patents issued way before the P.F.F. that were a disaster, he even used Phillips screws to attach the steel springs, much like you would see in small car parts, or grandfather clocks. That shows that anybody can get a patent as long as you are different. The patent archives are full of weird ideas, one that comes to mind was the hat tilter invented by Abraham Lincoln . As you walked down the street you could tip your hat to a lady without even touching it. When Bruner saw the P.F.F., he knew then that he could not compete! Then he saw the Taiwan paper ring as the answer to his invention to eliminate the springs. That was his bright idea!

Now "Galling" doesn't look like too good of an idea huh. (eh?) In Bruner's desperation to plagiarize, this is what he ended up with. It is like eliminating the brakes on a car because they are too complicated.

"Galling", an old time enemy to moving parts that has long been forgotten, has vindicated us. Napoleon knew about that.

It appears that some people don't realize yet that we have moved on to the twenty first century.

That does not qualify Bruner as an expert, and could explain why they don't know what they are doing. They are very qualified as promoters.

In the mean time now you see why before they know it the customers are back with all those problems with the rings not working as advertised, coming lose and falling off their finger without notice. That is why the SuperFit just pops open if you hit your hand on a hard surface. SuperFit refer to it as opening inadvertently.

And now you know the rest of the story.

--Paul Harvey