Did You Know...
...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8084701 | Push button actuator A push button actuator unit has a housing that defines a passage extending along an axis. A push button assembly has components movable in the passage including a forwardly-biased push button at the front of the housing that is movable along and turnable about the a... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078040 | Heatable hose A heatable hose (1), in particular a respiration hose, having a flexible hose wall (4), shall guarantee through its design that a contact of the electric conductors or heating wires (14, 16) accommodated in the hose (1) and, thus, a short... | 12/13/2011 |
| D649884 | Pyramidal-shaped package enclosing a pyramidal shaped leveling device | 12/06/2011 |
| D649718 | Flexible strap portion of a hand encircling garment | 11/29/2011 |
| 8052182 | Handle and housing assembly with skirted seal A handle and housing assembly has a graspable handle turnable about a principal axis relative to a housing, structure extending from the handle along the principal axis through an opening defined by the housing, and a seal that turns with the handle and defines a th... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8006936 | Parachute deployment control In one form of the invention, a deployment control for releasing a rocket recovery device such as a parachute includes an electrical heating element extensible along a heat-severable reach of an elongate retainer capable of being wrapped closely about the recovery d... | 08/30/2011 |
| D641219 | Flexible, ribbon-tied, present-shaped food mold | 07/12/2011 |
| D639684 | Mason's guide line holders or similar articles | 06/14/2011 |
| D639683 | Mason's guide line holders or similar articles | 06/14/2011 |
| D639139 | Shackle related portion of a lock | 06/07/2011 |
| D628446 | Spider shaped flexible food mold | 12/07/2010 |
| D630904 | Spider shaped cupcake holder | 01/18/2011 |
| D630295 | Flexible, porous mesh, paint permeable filter-strainer bag with appended hook-and-loop closure-securing strip | 01/04/2011 |
| D628864 | Dual-sided, Christmas-tree-with-ornaments cookie cutter | 12/14/2010 |
| D628863 | Dual-sided jack-O' -lantern cookie cutter | 12/14/2010 |
| D628862 | Flexible, Christmas-tree-shaped food mold | 12/14/2010 |
| 7832238 | Combination and key operated locks with indicators Locks for luggage, travelcases, briefcases and the like that can be operated by setting a combination or by using a key include an indicator to provide a signal in response to use of the key. The locks retain relatively movable components in latched engagement when ... | 11/16/2010 |
| D625569 | Three bladed cutter for brownies and the like | 10/19/2010 |
| D623982 | Water sensor ornament | 09/21/2010 |
| D622576 | Detent hinge having spring-based axially and pivotally movable hinge halves | 08/31/2010 |
| 7748246 | Handle and housing assembly A handle and housing assembly includes a housing having front and rear sides. A handle is connected on the front side of the housing to a shaft that extends through the housing along a forwardly-rearwardly extending axis. The handle may turn the shaft about the axis... | 07/06/2010 |
| D618414 | Paint bucket liner | 06/22/2010 |
| D618130 | Jewelry item for protectively enclosing an insert element | 06/22/2010 |
| D617068 | Paint bucket liner | 06/01/2010 |
| D602227 | Disposable palette of food colorant | 10/20/2009 |
| 7497103 | Dual-acting latch and strike A latch has a pair of oppositely acting latch bolts slidable on a housing that are engageable with latching formations on a strike. The housing has a pair of substantially parallel posts configured to shield portions of the latch bolts during insertion into and with... | 03/03/2009 |
| D586059 | Paint bucket liner | 02/03/2009 |
| D586058 | Paint bucket liner | 02/03/2009 |
| D586057 | Paint bucket liner | 02/03/2009 |
| 7454933 | Handle and housing assembly A handle and housing assembly includes a housing having front and rear sides. A handle is connected on the front side of the housing to a shaft that extends through the housing along a forwardly-rearwardly extending axis. The handle may turn the shaft about the axis... | 11/25/2008 |
| D578373 | Front portion of the housing of a handle and housing assembly | 10/14/2008 |
| 7401484 | Low profile, lockable handle, housing and cover assembly A handle, housing and cover assembly includes an relatively thick oval handle sandwiched between a relatively thin oval housing base and a relatively thin oval cover. The oval exteriors of these three relatively movable components are of substantially the same size ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7398664 | Handle and housing assembly A handle and housing assembly includes a housing having front and rear sides. A handle is connected on the front side of the housing to a shaft that extends through the housing along a forwardly-rearwardly extending axis. The handle may be used to turn the shaft, to... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7363782 | Combination and key operated padlock with indicator A padlock for luggage that can be operated by setting a combination or by inserting and turning a key is provided with an indicator that normally displays a first state when the lock being used in a normal way as a combination operated padlock, but which displays a ... | 04/29/2008 |
| D567061 | Front portions of the housing of a handle and housing assembly | 04/22/2008 |
| 7347476 | Ramp door and frame assembly A ramp door suited to pivot about an axis that extends substantially horizontally along the bottom of a cargo compartment opening has features of lightweight construction that may be used separately or in combination with features of a frame assembly having an uprig... | 03/25/2008 |
| D558556 | Front portion of a handle and housing assembly | 01/01/2008 |
| 7306265 | Push button actuator A panel-mountable push button actuator assembly for operating a latch or other apparatus having a link, trigger or other operating element that must move a short distance includes a housing having a front portion configured to be inserted through a panel opening fro... | 12/11/2007 |
| D556538 | Front portions of a stepped recess housing assembly | 12/04/2007 |
| D553945 | Portions of a dual-action latch assembly | 10/30/2007 |
