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 |
| 4707965 | Process for attaching drinking straws to packaging containers and apparatus for carrying out the process When drinking straws are fastened to packs, it is particularly difficult to press the drinking straws precisely onto glue spots previously applied to the packs. For this purpose, it is proposed to determine the position of the packs on their conveyor and ... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4604852 | Process and apparatus for producing consecutive packages for drinking straws or the like A process and an apparatus for producing consecutive packages for drinking straws or the like in bands of straws. The drinking straws are extracted directly from a funnel-shaped vessel by a suction roller having straw-receiving grooves distributed uniform... | 08/12/1986 |
