Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6902363 | Transit bracket assembly for motorcycles The apparatus for attachment to a non-inflatable part of a tandem, two-wheel cycle for rigidly mounting the cycle for transit purposes includes a bracket-like member adapted to be secured to the frame or other non-inflatable part of the cycle. A multi-part assembly ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6477968 | Combined dry dock and boat launching apparatus In a first embodiment the combination boat dry dock and boat launching apparatus includes two planar dock sections pivotally connected to each other. The dock sections include cradle straps for supporting the hull of a boat with the longitudinal axis of t... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6070153 | System and method for automatically investing a portion of a credit card interest charged amount in an investment account A system and methods for automatically investing, a portion of interest charged amount paid by the card issuer or the cardholder, on a credit card account, to an individual retirement account, taxpayer relief act of 1997 IRA, "Roth Act" or "Super IRA", co... | 05/30/2000 |
| 4197278 | Sequential removal of sulfur oxides from hot gases A method of removing particulates and sulfur oxides from a hot gas by controllably contacting the hot gas in a first spray-dryer zone with a selected chemically reactive absorbent for the sulfur oxides and then sequentially contacting the hot gas with the... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4115957 | Belt centering and replacement mechanism for belt sanders and the like The front idler roller of the belt sander is mounted by a yoke for swinging movement in a plane containing the axes of both the drive and idler rollers and for shifting movement along a path generally toward and away from the drive roller. A transversely ... | 09/26/1978 |
| 4101812 | Photographic flash unit An automatic flash-limiting arrangement for use in combination with a flash unit associated with a camera and arranged to automatically terminate the light flash produced by the unit when the subject has been properly exposed, the flash-limiting arrangeme... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4026658 | Automatic support system for a screed An asphalt finishing machine includes a tractor and a screed of the free floating type wherein the latter is towed behind the tractor by a pair of draft arms pivotally connected at their forward ends to the frame of the tractor. A pair of hydraulic cylind... | 05/31/1977 |
| 3943782 | Power hammer The striker is mounted in a barrel for axial reciprocal movement thereby to impart successive hammer blows to the end of a tool shank element extending into one end of said barrel. An actuator is connected to the piston by lost-motion means. A motor drive... | 03/16/1976 |
