About Us
Creating the Future
I have new connection tools with applications beyond my imagination. I want them to become available to people with a unique use for them. That includes patent ownership via partnerships and licensing. This would be better administrated through a global company that already does something similar.
I have a US patent pending and PCT patent to be filed in Canada and European Patent Office. This is at my financial limit.
I have started a small fire. I am only interested in people who want to dump gasoline on it.
Dale E. Van Cor,
Founder
My first career was writing 57 turn key software systems for 28 customers. The largest was distribution system for 7,000 hard goods and dated feed stock. The most complex was cost projection system used on parts with up to 34 steps, job runs up to 7 million, totaling almost a billion in sales over seven years. Multi-state payrolls for thousands; Millions of copies of a national monthly video newspaper to thousands of stores; Tens of millions of records of the daily production of chemical in manufacturing processes; Recycling business for purchasing, processioning and shipping metals, paper and glass; and more. Every system was a graduate course on the flow of creating, timing and archiving information.
My second career was spent trying to commercialize an idea. I invented and patented new gears and transmission systems. The software included producing the Gcode for 5-axis CNC machining to make a 4-speed and 8-speed prototypes. My gears could not be cut with conventional manufacturing equipment. The transmission changed speeds within one rotation which limited it to low speed applications. The worst part was it would cost tens of millions to create the engineering tools to predict failure. That is why I used Finite Element Analysis (FEA) on my threads to prove an even distribution loads. See Van Cor Transmission: vancortransmission.png
The Key Threads are my forth thread. The Conic Thread, Concentric Thread and Wave Thread have patents issued, software systems for engineering and fabrication, and commercial applications explored. The Wave Threaded nuts and bolts software included generating Gcode for 4-axis CNC machining. The Wave Threads on the nuts and bolts could be up to 25% stronger by evenly distributing loads. But, the rest of the bolt did not have that additional strength. It was not commercially viable enough. My goal was to find a big impact. See summary on Wave Threads nuts and bolts: TitaninumWaveThreadedFastening.pdf
That file has a link to standard and wave threaded nut and bolt stl files that can be downloaded and used for Finite Element Analysis or printed for destructive testing. It is also an important view of how I make parts at a resoultion of 40 microns.
Personal info: Married 35 years to Wanda who would only marry an interesting person. We have three kids. Meggan and her husband Eric have two teenagers. Sara and Jared are single scientists. I swim 20 laps three times a week and have exercised for decades due to a family history of heart disease. My father died after his sixth heart attack. An Echocardiogram in August, 2022 showed my heart is normal.
Investments
I started full time in 2008 with the goal of finding commercial applications to these four threaded concepts. Each required the development of menu driven software to engineering and fabricate parts to test and evaluate its potential. I have 4 out of the last 6 patents issued, 4 software systems for engineering, 3D printing and 4-axis machining. The Van Cor Threads, LLC formed in 2014 is for accounting of over $300,000 expenditures as of Dec. 2022.
Currently I am working with 4 Engineering Management grad students from Northeastern University putting together to manufacturing system that can fit inside a shipping container and be franchised globally. The Keyed Bricks will be made of recycled plastic composites.