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...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20080028893 | BALUSTER DRIVER TOOL AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME A baluster driver tool for rotating a baluster to threadably secure it to a support. The driver tool includes a housing having a connector at one end for connecting it to a drill and a baluster-engaging member at the opposite end for receiving the baluster. The baluster... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028894 | Ratchet Wrench A ratchet wrench with interchangeable sockets is of the type incorporating an elongated casing formed of two half-shells in which a hub is positioned inside which slide a finger, a ratchet and an assembly of front, median and rear toothed wheels and their associated too... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028895 | BOTTLE OPENER A bottle opener has a handle, a magnet and a screw-band. The handle has a front end, a rear end, a top surface, a bottom surface, two sides and a hook. The hook is formed at the front end of the handle and curves towards the bottom surface and allows a person to remove ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028896 | TOOL FOR USE WITH A GAS METER A tool for use with a as meter shut-off valve having an elongated member with a first end and a second end and a transverse or diagonal section extending between the first and the second end. Both the first end and the second end have a plurality of slots of differing s... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028897 | Anti-Slip Socket with Uniform Wall Thickness A socket includes a coupling end coupled with and driven by a driving tool and a driving end for engaging with a fastener to be driven. The driving end includes a peripheral wall portion having six inner faces on an inner periphery thereof for coupling with and driving ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028898 | Torque wrench reversal extension An extension tool for a torque wrench has a drive end associated with a fastener and a driven end associated with the torque wrench that face 180° from each other. The drive end defines an axis of rotation and the driven end is co-axial with the axis of rotation, which... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028899 | Hand tool A hand tool having a handle assembly with a bearing mechanism providing for continual axial loading to be applied while a torque is applied via an attached lever arm. The lever arm is mounted to the handle assembly proximate a junction of the handle assembly and a drive... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028900 | Driving tool having rotatable coupling A driving tool includes a tool stem having a non-circular spatial engaging member and having one or more flat surfaces, a tool shank having a non-circular socket opening and having one or more curved surfaces for pivotally receiving the spatial engaging member of the to... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028901 | Method and apparatus for cutting material according to a pattern Magnets secure a pattern and a material on a magnetically-attractive substrate, so that the material can be cut accurately and precisely in accordance with the pattern. The magnetically-attractive substrate includes a top layer of a resilient or other material that is w... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028902 | Dual roll, variable sheet-length, perforation system A method and apparatus (20) for intermittently cutting a moving target web (26) includes rotating a knife roll (32) having at least one knife member (44) to provide an operative knife-member speed, and rotating an anvil roll (34) havin... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028903 | Package opening blade and method A knife has a handle. A blade extends from the handle and has opposite first and second sides. The blade has a notch. A first region extends along a proximal portion of the notch and has a double grind. A second region extends along a distal portion of the notch and has... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028904 | Sealing Device Of Suction Type Placing Table A sealing device of a suction type placing table directed to achieving smooth feeding and discharging of an even laminate of sheet material which largely changes in volume depending on suction and that can keep a desired cutting accuracy is provided. When a sealing devi... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028905 | Method And Device For Cutting Off A Thick-Walled Pipe The invention relates to a method for cutting off a thick-walled pipe 3, wherein the pipe to be cut comprises an inner circumference closer to the longitudinal axis of the pipe and an outer circumference further from the longitudinal axis of the pipe. The method ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028906 | WHOLE MUSCLE SLICER AND SEPARATOR A whole muscle slicer and separator that solves the product separation problem and other problems found with an ordinary slicer. The invention is where one embodiment includes a special peel out finger bar comb that peels out every other product piece onto a conveyor an... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028907 | Cutting Machine To enable the amount of air capable of bringing smoke to the vicinity of a discharge opening of a gas discharge chamber to be sent into the gas discharge chamber. A cutting machine has gas discharge chambers arranged side by side by partitioning the inside of a table, b... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028908 | Miter Saw The miter saw includes a base assembly, a rotatable table rotatably connected to the base assembly and having a plane, a saw assembly including a motor and a blade disposed on an arbor, and a pivot arm pivotally attached to the table and supporting the saw assembly. The... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028909 | Adjustable ruler of the band saw machine An adjustable ruler of the band saw machine includes: a ruler-guider plugs in the band saw machine over the bench and a mesh portion along the long axis on one side of the ruler-guider. There is a holder on the extending end of the ruler-guider. An active wheel pivots i... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028910 | Suspended Bracing System for Acoustic Musical Instruments A suspended bracing system is disclosed that allows the sound board of an acoustic instrument, such as a guitar, to vibrate more. As a result, the instrument projects more tone and volume than that provided by conventional guitar sound boards. Conventional sound boards ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028911 | AUDIO DEVICE HAVING DENSE SOUND ENHANCING COMPONENT A musical instrument having strings, a wooden body and a granite veneer bonded to the wooden body. The granite has a density of at least 1.7 thousand kilograms per cubic meter and optionally can have a thickness in the range from about 4/64th of an inch to 44/64th of an... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028912 | Musical instrument stand A musical instrument stand is disclosed that includes at least, a pair of legs pivotally secured to a support portion and disposed within a leg retention channel of the support portion when the support portion is in a closed position, and extracted from the leg retentio... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028913 | SUPPORT FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENT A support for a musical Instrument manufactured from a firm yet pliable material which is slid under the supporting handle of an amplification device or slid between two stacked amplification devices by a finger hole at one end. The fingerboard or neck of a musical inst... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028914 | PAD ASSEMBLY FOR WOODWINDS, PARTICULARLY FLUTES Self-leveling pad assemblies are described having novel supports that include backing disks and compensating disks. The backing disks have inner and outer collars on its second surface and a flexible compensating disk supported on the outer collar creating a cavity betw... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028915 | Pedal assembly A pedal assembly has a base and a pedal. The pedal is pivotally mounted on the base and has two mounting sleeve mounted between the base and the pedal. A resilient element is mounted between the mounting sleeves. A retaining element is secured to the base. Each mounting... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028916 | TRAINING SETTING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM, AND GROUPING METHOD THEREOF AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM CONTAINING COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREFOR An apparatus, system, method, and computer-readable medium provides control for displaying, on a display device, a classroom screen with symbolic images representative of a plurality of slave instruments connected to a master instrument in accordance with actual positio... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028917 | Apparatus for Preparing a Playlist in a Sound Source Data Player and a Method Therefor An apparatus and method for preparing a playlist in a sound source data player are provided. For the preparation of the playlist, the position of a sampling of the sound source data is set by user's arbitrary selection or by searching out the thematic part of the sound ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028918 | GRAPHICAL MOTION COMPOSITION FILES AND METHODS FOR FORMATTING AND ORGANIZATION THEREOF A method and data structure for improving the utility of graphics compositions is disclosed. In one embodiment, composition files are created through the connection of patches in a composition editor. Automatically included with the created composition file is protocol ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028919 | ASSISTIVE APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PLAYING MUSIC An assistive music playing apparatus plays a music piece with musically acceptable notes even when the player inputs musically unacceptable notes. The apparatus provides a chord progression pattern, and comprises a note conversion device. A chord progression pattern def... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028920 | Musical instrument A musical device is disclosed that generates note tones, influences the sound of notes that are generated independently and performs a variety of user defined or user controlled activities. These activities include but are not limited to producing musical notes, determi... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028921 | SYSTEM FOR NEUTRALIZING EXPLOSIVE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES A system for executing a method for neutralizing an explosive device disposed within a targeted area. In operation, an artificial lightning generator of the system generates one or more electric sparks. Additionally, a spinning breakout apparatus of the system spins a s... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028922 | Ordnance neutralization method and device using energetic compounds This invention generally relates to a method and apparatus to neutralize ordnance, more specifically improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and unexploded ordnance (UXOs). The current invention provides a simple method to neutralize the ordnance by taking advantage of a ne... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028923 | HYDRAULIC STROKING DEVICE, PLANETARY GEAR AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION, AND CLUTCH APPARATUS A hydraulic stroking device that performs stroking action by adjusting a pressure of hydraulic fluid in a fluid chamber is disclosed. The hydraulic device includes a hydraulic piston, a sealing member, and a variable sealing performance mechanism. The piston is provided... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028924 | Hydraulic System With A Cylinder Isolation Valve A hydraulic system provides failure protection by incorporating an isolator adjacent a hydraulic actuator. The isolator has a first port connected to the hydraulic actuator and a second port with an electrically operated isolation valve connected between those ports. A ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028925 | Piston-cylinder unit A piston-cylinder unit has a cylinder, at least one pressure chamber, a piston that can be moved in the cylinder and that delimits the at least one pressure chamber, at least one pressure port leading to the pressure chamber, a pressure-limiting line in the piston leadi... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028926 | Swash ring compressor A variable displacement compressor is disclosed. The compressor includes a crankcase for receiving a fluid. The crankcase has a plurality of compression chambers in which the fluid is compressed. A plurality of pistons disposed within the crankcase and are configured fo... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028927 | Variable Displacement Swash Plate Type Compressor With Smooth Inclined Moving Feature Disclosed is a variable displacement swash plate type compressor with a smooth inclined moving feature which includes a cylinder block having a plurality of cylinder bores, a front housing disposed at a front end of the cylinder block to form a swash plate chamber, a dr... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028928 | Seal ring free piston structure A piston includes a cylindrical body having a neck formed on an outer periphery of the cylindrical body so as to form a first annular disk and a second annular connecting to the first annular disk via the neck, multiple through holes defined through the second annular d... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028929 | Piston A number of embodiments of a piston may have a shape that provides enhanced piston guidance. In such embodiments, the piston shape may include an axial profile that is configured to provide certain thrust load characteristics. ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028930 | Automated System for Detection of Chemical Compounds An automated system for processing a liquid test sample is provided. The disclosed automated system comprises a gas and liquid separator; an attachment for a first gas source that provides a flow of gas for transferring the test sample from a sealable sample container t... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028931 | Non-Evaporable Getter Alloys For Hydrogen Sorption Non-evaporable getter alloys are provided which can be activated at relatively low temperatures and are capable of efficiently sorbing hydrogen. ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080028932 | Method for the removal of mercury from a gas stream The present invention relates to a method for the removal of mercury from a gas stream. The method is characterized in that at a temperature above 170° C. the gas stream is contacted with a sorbent that as the active component is comprised of a mixture of substantially... | 02/07/2008 |
