Reading Techmatic / Readi-Tower

Reading Techmatic was a company in Reading Pennsylvania that was the original patent applicant for the "folding boom aerial water delivery apparatus for mobile fire fighting equipment." This patent application was filed 9 June 1965 and granted 10 Oct 1967. The patent was assigned to the Snorkel Fire Equipment Company, St. Joseph, Mo.The patent was US Patent Office No. US3346052A. The Boardman Company acquired Readi-Tower from Reading Techmatics in 1984 and added booms and telescopic platforms. Readi-Tower was sold to Aerial Innovations in the early 1990s.