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To: Cosmo Kramer who wrote (1772)	2/15/1998 10:06:00 PM
From: Cosmo Kramer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6464

I was doing some stock research and I came across this tid bit. Notice the inventor does not want to patent her secret formula? And some question Joe's apprehension about going after certain patents? PS: If this goes public...I'm in Big time!! <G> Patricia Billings of Kansas City, Missouri has invented one of the most revolutionary---and potentially profitable---substances in the history of the modern construction industry: a building material that is both indestructible and fireproof. Born in Clinton, Missouri (1926), Billings studied art at Amarillo College in Texas. Her specialty was plaster of paris sculptures. Her detour from art into technology came in the late 70s, when a swan sculpture, after months of work, fell and shattered. Billings, who knew that Michelangelo and other Renaissance sculptors used a cement additive to give their plaster longevity, set out to create a modern equivalent. After eight years of experimenting in her basement, Billings succeeded, inventing a milky additive that acts as a catalyst: when added to a mixture of gypsum and concrete, it creates an indestructible plaster. But there was more: a scientist friend of Billings' realized that her new material was also incredibly resistant to heat. So Billings returned to her lab, and in eight more years she had created Geobond r. Geobondr products are so resistant to heat that after being torched with a 2,000øF flame for four hours, it remains lukewarm. Not even a 6,500øF rocket engine can make it burn. Because Geobondr is non-toxic as well as indestructible and fireproof, it is also the world's first workable replacement for asbestos. Billings has won two patents for her work, but she has kept the complete recipe for Geobondr a secret. And, true to her independent spirit, she has turned down a $20 million buyout offer from a company she was worried would bury the technology. Meanwhile, contractors have begun to use Geobondr; and Billings' material never fails to impress anyone who has seen a demonstration. Now a great-grandmother, Billings longs to return to her first love, sculpture. But she hopes first to see her revolutionary product embraced by the mainstream construction market, which it will certainly transform if it does.