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Rofl - try 'Google 3D printers' ??? Same rules apply to printing your own £50 notes for personal gain.

 

Patent protection means duplicate for payment and you're history without authority.

 

We can open safes, cars, houses etc - doesn't mean we own them or their contents??? Hacking your PC doesn't mean I have commercial rights to your key strokes and history.

 

Sleep easy is my policy - if you want to test the wrath of Schlage or Assa or Kaba or Evva feel free

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To help on this topic , the patent for keys is on the 100% shape and design of the key itself , so as mentioned above these machines NEVER make a 100% copy so keeping the making of these sections fully legal . They make a close copy which sort of looks like the original but more so will enter the key hole . Hence again not making a copy of a patented design .

 

Anyone and everyone in the industry can buy and use these machines which to be honest many people have been for many years buying and using the Easy Entey machine which is around £7.5k so made the purchase of it a hard choice to make for the everyday key cutter shop .

 

Ignore the greatly cheaper price on the Xcut , there are further newer improvements over the old competition .

For example improvements in the following

 

Brighter user panel

Simple menus and user friendly

Computerised setting of the cutter

And the reader ..

Lifetime touch buttons

Double reader pins

Faster reading

Motorised cutter guard

Light in cutting area

No need to remove original keys

 

Just a few things I can think of but I hope these all help .

 

Any one of our distributors can supply the X cut. And supply a Demo for you ..

 

I can also provide personal demos on these machines. If anyone wants to see how they work

 

But again

please feel free to contact your normal supplier and they will help you and Hickleys help them with full back up service etc ..

 

https://www.hickleys.com/diagnostics/xcut.php

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The other side of the Patent is Mass Production ,

So -- Can the Xcut Mass produce keys  = No ! 

If a key blank producer like JMA / Silca Mass produced a Patent Protected key they this would break the law,  as the Xcut can not produce High or fast volume of keys, again this does not break Patent laws. 

Also 

Any Keys that also say Copyright (And a year) are now legally out of their copyright period as well . 

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Rofl - try 'Google 3D printers' ??? Same rules apply to printing your own £50 notes for personal gain.

 

Patent protection means duplicate for payment and you're history without authority.

 

We can open safes, cars, houses etc - doesn't mean we own them or their contents??? Hacking your PC doesn't mean I have commercial rights to your key strokes and history.

 

Sleep easy is my policy - if you want to test the wrath of Schlage or Assa or Kaba or Evva feel free

 

What a load of tosh.

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Regardless of the patent issues, I got the chap to copy one of our Pextra restricted keys, when he was demonstrating this machine at one of the shows and yes it did copy the bank and it did go in the cylinder but it also snapped as the machine produced a very weak key, due too the complicated section. So let's just say I'm not worried :-)

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Tbh there has never been an issue with the safety shield apart from user error .

I still have my first machine from 8-9 months ago and this has always been perfect .

 

I know of the issue you mention , the person using the machine slammed closed the shield with their hand - in error - and in doing this they damaged the motor itself .

 

New motor fitted and education for the user not to touch the shield and it's working perfect .

 

Hope this helps

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Regardless of the patent issues, I got the chap to copy one of our Pextra restricted keys, when he was demonstrating this machine at one of the shows and yes it did copy the bank and it did go in the cylinder but it also snapped as the machine produced a very weak key, due too the complicated section. So let's just say I'm not worried :-)

That's very strange as the Pextra section actually can not be copied ???

 

Reason is the section has an overhang on the profile so the machine will never make a key on its own to fit directly into the lock .

 

If the user then uses a laser machine to - THIN the key as you mention then it is possible but this is then down to the user messing around with the key itself .

 

Hope this helps

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