FULLERTON DESIGN - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Associate Design Engineer, United Defense

Robert Fullerton is also known "world wide" as a photographer and three-dimensional relief wood sculptor. The best example of his combined talents can be seen in the " Snow Eagle" and the patented " Snow Hawk" snowmobile concepts. Back in the late 60's, these concepts and the implementation of design was revolutionary in the form, function and simplicity in design. This uniqueness of the simplicity of design, and its fruition, can be read in an article by Popular Mechanics especially after their evaluation test of the Snow Eagle. It will be decades until another tracked vehicle design company attempts to come to the forefront of the military and design community; even then their designs will prove to be heavy, awkward, and limited in their concept and function of that vehicles mobility and ability. The particular snowmobile concepts of the Snow Eagle and Snow Hawk were realized, designed, developed, (as well as hand-crafted) entirely by Robert Fullerton; when he was starting in his shop (while he was working in conjunction with Jack McCormic of Eagle Engineering) while he was in Sacramento just, off of Sunrise blvd and Highway 50. He soon after, the completion of the Snow Eagle, moved back to Lake Tahoe. In 1982, major growth of this company occurred when Robert Fullerton invented the "ZipNut®; which, now, will be well known as the "Fullerton nut"; a revolutionary fastener concept that Robert developed while he was simply watching the ABC national broadcast of that years Indianapolis 500 race. During this national yearly event, it soon became a question to him of "why couldn't they save pit time by"... and the concept of the "Fullerton nut" was born and napkin sketched. He submitted and was awarded a patent for this design and then began the three tiered process of its development. In just a few years (later) his concept was competatively introduced to the NASA space agency during their national multi-corporate competative internal search for a tool to solve their delima that they were having on the Hubble Telescope Repair. Fullerton entered, and won, this contest, as a sole contestant, against three of this countries largest aerospace manufacturers engineers (Northrop, Grumman, and McDonnel Douglas). Soon after, NASA quickly accepted the "ZipNut® concept, having a segmented thread fusticonical design to solve their problem; as well as the new special on-off tool (that was also developed after this contest at the Mcdonnell Douglas Airforce Base in one of t heir aircraft hangers on the concrete floor) for use on both the Space Station as well as (twice) on the Hubble Telescope wide field planetary field repair (1991). Robert Fullerton also owns, and holds, several patents on automatic, torque-sensing transmissions; designed for fields as perse' as automotive, wheelchair, heart pump, bicycles, or low thermal conductive inertial braking system (conceptually a Shuttle braking device) as well as multiple "Fullerton Nut™" designs. Following that growth event, with NASA, came a series of poison pen attacks specifically meant to gain possession of that designed invention. The onset of this "Greed" became prevalent when a jelous opportunists saw, and begame enamoured with the thought that they might grab and own this design for themself. The onset, and frequency, of this affliction came to the forefront so often it became named as a type of affliction when the affected opportunist became exposed. It was so obvious, and occured so often, that it gained its own diagnosable affliction of its own; what the NASA McDonnell Douglas Shuttle engineers coined as the "ZipNut® virus". This became obvious, starting with his ex-lawyer up to, and included what was the former current CFO of the company in 2010 on. These continual attacks were specifically designed and implemented that it did, eventually, lead to the depletion of the company's financial ability to maintain itself in the attempt of the opportunist to "grab the nut" and run; thus, the company filed and was granted bankruptcy in 2013. These, and multiple, attacks towards the posession, and purloining, of the patents subsequently led to the final filing, and thus granting, of the bankruptcy; now leading to the inevatable re-formation of Fullerton Design; which had been a privately held company since 1970. Fullerton Design, now again, is a privately held company headquartered in Incline Village, Nevada.