replying to Fake ID, Patent Ending wrote:
Fake ID: not a problem: the magnet would be a steady field produced by a
direct current.

However (to all) this is NOT a "patent". It WAS an application that has been
abandoned, almost certainly because a patent examiner asked the author (who
obviously knew almost nothing about which he was writing) to overcome an
objection the examiner made ("the government" didn't "fail"), and the author
was unable to do so.

For example, one (an examiner) would inquire as to how this instrument would
work as an "impaler" when such action would require the nails to also be
powerful magnets (of polarity opposite to the applied magnetic field)
themselves to even begin to work (by "repelling the nails into" a surface).

But even then, because the applied field falls off so rapidly, the tool would
have to be constantly moved forward, with very considerable force, to "impale"
the nail into the surface. There is already a simple and elegant solution to
that problem. It is called a hammer, and it doesn't require magnetic nails.

ETC. !

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