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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5000636 | Thread lock The method of making a friction locking fastener of the type having in the thread grooves a first deposit formed of a mixture of an uncured epoxy resin and a radiation-curable, film-forming material, and a second deposit of a fluid curing agent and a radi... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4891244 | Method and apparatus for making self-locking fasteners A method of making locking threaded fasteners having on the threaded surfaces thereof locking patch material formed by the accumulation of fused thermoplastic resin particles. The fasteners are advanced through a heating zone followed by an application zo... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4851175 | Method for making O-rings A method of making O-rings by depositing a filament of a liquid hot-melt material onto a rotating spindle, or directly upon the shank of a rotating fastener.... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4847113 | Thread lock The method of making a friction locking fastener of the type having in the thread grooves a first deposit formed of a mixture of an uncured epoxy resin and a radiation-curable, film-forming material, and a second deposit of a fluid curing agent and a radi... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4764579 | Packaged adhesive An adhesive mixture comprising a multiplicity of contiguous deposits of a curable but uncured fluid resin and a fluid curing agent for the resin, said deposits being separated by a thin flexible barrier film of cured resin resulting from the interaction b... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4686272 | Packaged adhesive An adhesive mixture comprising a multiplicity of contiguous deposits of a curable but uncured fluid resin and a fluid curing agent for the resin, said deposits being separated by a thin flexible barrier film of cured resin resulting from the interaction b... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4545712 | Thread lock A threaded fastener having a deposit of a fluid polymerizable resin in the bottoms of the thread grooves, a fluid polymerizing agent overlying the resin in the thread grooves, and a strong non-tacky protective film covering the agent. The fluid resin and ... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4508759 | Method and apparatus for making friction locking threaded fasteners A threaded fastener having an annular ring of yieldable friction material in the thread grooves thereof and bonded to the sides of the threads, in which the material is of substantially uniform thickness on the sides of the threads from adjacent the root ... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4501041 | Process of forming friction A novel friction nut having friction material substantially filling the interior thread groove from end to end except for substantially less than a full convolution at one or both ends, in which the thickness of the deposit of friction material does not s... | 02/26/1985 |
| 4428982 | Thread lock The method of mass producing threaded fasteners having in thread grooves thereof deposits of locking material having a dry non-tacky surface outer surface which permits bulk storage of the fasteners which comprises continuously advancing a series of faste... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428981 | Method and apparatus for making friction locking threaded fasteners The improved method of making externally threaded friction fasteners which comprises directing a stream of particles of thermoplastic friction material onto the threaded surface of the fastener which has been heated to a temperature sufficient to fuse the... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4420604 | Admixture of 2,4,6-tris(dimethyl aminomethyl)phenyl as a curing agent for an epoxy thread locking composition A thread lock fastener and the method of operation thereof, in which threaded members are locked together by a locking compound including epoxy resin cured in place by approximately an equal amount of Tris (dimethylaminomethyl) phenol as an activator. The... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4399166 | Friction lock for threads Method and apparatus for providing friction producing ring patches on externally threaded fasteners which comprises depositing a fluid wetting agent on a predetermined thread area, supplying thermoplastic resin powder particles to the fluid deposit to for... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4325985 | Thread lock The method of making self-activating thread lock structures which comprises depositing a fluid material including an uncured fluid resin in the thread grooves of a threaded member; immediately thereafter, while the material is still in fluid condition, ap... | 04/20/1982 |
| 4321885 | Ring patch for nuts Apparatus for the quantity production of friction nuts prepared for subsequent fusion of thermoplastic resin particles deposited in thread grooves therein, in which the nuts are supported with their axes vertical, a fluid slurry of the particles in a liqu... | 03/30/1982 |
| 4285378 | Thread lock A friction material in the form of a substantial percentage of cured or polymerized powdered nylon and/or teflon resin is mixed in a binder which is mainly fluid epoxy resin and an activator therefor, and applied to the threaded portion of a threaded memb... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4279943 | Method of providing ring patch for nuts Quantity production of friction nuts prepared for subsequent fusion of thermoplastic resin particles deposited in thread grooves therein, in which the nuts are supported with their axes vertical, a fluid slurry of the particles in a liquid carrier is intr... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4268544 | Method of applying friction materials to threaded article A method of providing a uniform tightly adhered solid substantially continuous deposit of a friction-producing resin, such as nylon, in the bottom of the thread grooves of a threaded metal member, preferably of the type in which the threads' surfaces are ... | 05/19/1981 |
| 4262038 | Coated internal threads and method of producing same A nut having a threaded opening in which the sides of the threads are substantially uniformly coated from root to crest thereof with a thermoplastic material; also the method of producing the article in which an excess of powdered thermoplastic material i... | 04/14/1981 |
| 4081012 | Thread lock Thread locking structure in which the separate fluid parts of a two-part adhesive (such as an epoxy resin and an activator) are applied in circumferentially related relation to the threads of a threaded member such as a bolt. At least one pair of adjacent... | 03/28/1978 |
| 4059136 | Thread lock Thread locking structure in which the separate fluid parts of a two-part adhesive (such as an epoxy resin and an activator) are applied in circumferentially related relation to the threads of a threaded member such as a bolt. At least one pair of adjacent... | 11/22/1977 |
| 3950579 | Method of coating surface The method of forming relatively thick deposits of polymeric material on a surface of small threaded articles which comprises forming a thin coating on the surface of a solution of the polymeric material, at least partly drying the coating to eliminate so... | 04/13/1976 |
