Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6298502 | Modular portable washstand A central steel column serves as a core module for a portable washstand. The column extends upwardly from a horizontal foot, and has foot pumps which communicate with a water intake tube and with water spigots. In addition, the central column has fastener... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6286693 | Rack support system for plastic pallets A metal deck is received on the front and rear beams of a conventional rack system and is specially configured to receive a conventional nine leg plastic pallet. Weight and cost efficiency in the deck is achieved by concentrating the deck mass in those se... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6234087 | Machine dispensed modular pallet A modular pallet system has two or more pallets, each of which has four legs and which is capable of standing on its own as an independent unit. The pallets are formed to dimensions which are a fraction of conventional pallet sizes, such that one pallet a... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6186078 | Low profile material handling platform A deck is defined by closely spaced molded ribs with pairs of ramped tine entry openings molded adjacent each edge which are tapered to provide maximum clearance. A narrow lip extends at an angle upwardly from each edge, permitting the platform to be enga... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6086354 | Track-supported rotatable sheet support structure for twin-sheet thermoformer Multiple legs elevate a central ring bearing, to which a ring-shaped rotatable plastic sheet support carousel is mounted. The carousel is fitted with a ring gear which engages with a drive system to position the carousel and the thermoplastic sheets suppo... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5975879 | Rotatable sheet support structure for a twin-sheet thermoformer Multiple legs elevate a central ring bearing, to which a ring-shaped rotatable plastic sheet support carousel is mounted. The carousel is fitted with a ring gear which engages with a drive system to position the carousel and the thermoplastic sheets suppo... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5861572 | Universal shotgun shell wad The invention provides a universal shotgun shell wad that may be used by manufacturers to assemble a variety of shotgun shells with a wide variety of shot and powder loadings. Shotgun shells of the invention use casings of the type known in the art includ... | 01/19/1999 |
