Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6237387 | Entrance roller guide apparatus A guide roller apparatus has entry guide and an upper guide provided at an entrance side of an advancing path for a workpiece material to be rolled, and side rollers, upper and lower guide rollers and further tip end chips downward thereof are sequentiall... | 05/29/2001 |
| 5412970 | Guiding method for steel materials to be rolled and roller guide system therefor In a roller guide apparatus for guiding a steel material to be rolled into a rolling mill machine, a ratio (K/M) of an elastic constant (K [N/mm]) of the roller guide portion of a roller guide apparatus to a gradient (M [N/mm]) in a plasticity characteris... | 05/09/1995 |
