Stop in for a cup of coffee

Hence my earlier point! Hah!
Mr. Browning got in a squabble over royalties with them. Royalties were at the time a foreign concept. He was smart enough to see simply selling his design was short sighted. He recognized how many units they could sell. He was both a shrewd businessman and ahead of his time with regard to mechanical design.
Yep. Just been reading a little about him here and there. Seems like his partnership with the bicycle manufacture F.N. helped enlighten the companies in the U.S.