"Quasi-Rachet Fastener" (same size as 6-32 x 1/2" machine screw)
                            Trimnell/Everett, inventors, patented 1998
 

Call, send plans, discuss, budget, schedule. 505 764 8583 or 505 463 4211
KT Modelshop, 843 Armijo Road SW, Albuquerque, NM 87105

 
 

• Our company: the only "ma and pa" model shop in the country
• Our customers:
• What we can do to help you.
• What is involved: this is about costs
• Questions of scheduling; there is no time like "now"
• Non Disclosure Statements: we don't tell anyone about anything!

Kennedy Trimnell is a family owned business with a small
staff of skilled and creative craftsmen. Since 1985 we have specialized in designing and creating one-of-a-kind objects for customers all over the country. We are skilled in design and fabrication in the mechanical and plastic arts including logic systems design as typically used in commercial applications . We have a substantial soft goods department which deals in luggage,  toys, and similar objects.
Our art department occasionally becomes involved in the production of properties and effects for television commercials and feature films. main menu

                 "Flying Machine", Reuben J. Spaulding, Rosita, Colo. Sept. 1, 1888
                                             US Patent Number 284,340

Patent models serve several purposes:

• to convince yourself, your mentors, and possible investors that the idea is viable.
• to find out if an idea can be made to work.

• to explore, through experimentation, the parts of an idea which may be patentable.
• to enable communication with patent agents and the entire legal patenting process.  main menu

Prototypes are a movement towards the final production product. This is what they can help to do:

• demonstrate to possible manufacturers just how good your product can look and how well it can work.
• demonstrate  materials, processes, costs and indicate fitness for particular markets.
• do the same for investment groups, sales representatives, catalog marketers, etc..  main menu

We can build anything that will fit in our shop.  No Job has ever been to large or too small to consider.  To produce concept models and various forms of patent models we may need no more than a verbal sketch. For those with patents pending or completed patents who need prototypes for sales or further developement, we generally work from mechanical drawings or detailed formal descriptions. All of this is done on a bid basis.  Our goal is to see that you get exactly what you need at the most economical price and to assure you that the product we build will be the most efficient to manufacture.   See contracts and costs in main menu.

Automobile, T. Almond,inventor, patented December 19, 1899
 
 

Costs:  Every job is individually bid based on your descriptions, drawings, purpose, and degree of  finish of the model. The bid and initial consultation are free of charge.  We will furnish an itemized quotation covering planning, construction, drawings (if necessary), material costs and outside services. Since the range of our work is so varied, we can make no preliminary estimates until we have gone through this process. main menu
 
 
 

Terms and Delivery
This is pretty simple: If, after negotiation, we both decide to go ahead with a project, scheduling occurs on the que system.  Terms are generally 50% deposit and balance on completion.  Date of deposit determines ranking. main menu
 
 
 

Two documents are usual:

• A non-disclosure form, which means we guarantee not to reveal any of your sensitive ideas to anyone. We can provide this or we will sign yours. Usually done by mail.
• Our proposal: based on your drawings and requirements, signed by both of us, it becomes our mutual contract.  main menu

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