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 |
| 8166636 | Apparatus with a centering device for positioning and cutting a laminate A mold houses a least one cutting die that defines a die axis. The mold has at least one punch aligned with the die axis and movable in a reciprocating manner that cooperates with the at least one cutting die to cut the laminate into the laminations by carrying out ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8124150 | Process and apparatus for controlling the preparation of beverages A dispensing apparatus for hot beverages is provided with means (4,5) to filter hot pressurized water through ground edible ingredients such as coffee, tea or herbal remedies in a chamber, means (17,18,20) of monitoring real-time data concerning brewin... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8109451 | Shower spray device and related delivery nozzles There is described a shower spray device including a lower plate with a plurality of nozzles and an upper plate with an inlet for the water supply. An elastic sealing element is interposed between the two plates to delimit therewith a chamber for distributing water ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8100079 | High performance planing hull provided with a trim tab system A high performance planing hull, designed in particular for boats with drives of fixed or non-steerable type. The hull comprises an additional volume, which is integrated in the immersed part of the stern of the hull. The additional volume extends substantially in l... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8079244 | Device and method for bending a metallic strip A device and method for bending a metallic strip (1), particularly for manufacturing die cutting blades. The bending tools (20, 30) are capable of being rotated about a common axis (15) and wherein each tool (20, 30) is further capable of... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8070405 | Self drilling bolt with anchor An anchoring device having a tapered, at least partially threaded shank with a front end, a drilling head and at a rear end thereof, a torque applying head and an anchor coaxially enveloping a front portion of the shank. The arrangement is such that during drilling ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8037931 | Hybrid water heating system A hybrid heating apparatus heats potable water with waste heat from heat recovery units and insolation from solar collectors. A single circulation pump circulates fluid between at least one heat exchanger and each of the heat recovery units and preferably the solar ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7950794 | Solvent based inkjet ink formulation A solvent based ink formulation for inkjet printing, particularly on plastics and non-porous surfaces, including 1-40% by weight of a ketone solvent, 10-90% by weight of a mixture of cosolvents, 0.1-10% by weight of a (co)polymer binder, 0.1-10% by weight of dispers... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7815847 | Mass production of tridimensional articles made of intermetallic compounds A process for mass production of three-dimensional articles made of intermetallic compounds based on titanium and aluminium by an electron beam melting technology. The articles are produced in successive sections from powders of the intermetallic compound with which... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7780000 | Anti-theft display container An anti-theft display case for manufactured products; in particular, display cases that can be opened and re-closed to contain the product to be displayed and provided with means of maintaining the case closed up to completion of sale, so as to prevent the unauthori... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7619022 | Flame retardant polymeric compositions The present invention provides flame retardant thermoplastic moulding compositions comprising: A) from 65% to 99.5% by weight (with respect of the total weight of the final composition) of a polyolefinic polymer particularly selected among polypropylene... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7615953 | Apparatus and process for controlling and adjusting the operating of electric motor actuated devices Controlling and adjusting of the operation of a device actuated by an electric motor are carried out by shutting down the electric power supply of said electric motor at a plurality of time intervals during the motor operation, measuring in the time interval the vol... | 11/10/2009 |
| D602913 | Holder for MP3 player | 10/27/2009 |
| 7351219 | Method and instrumentation for cooling a surgical incision An infusion sleeve of an ultrasonic vibrating needle. The sleeve is collapsible and serrated or scalloped at a distal end. Fluid flows through a passage between the needle and the infusion sleeve in a direction from the proximal end of the sleeve to a distal end of ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7328048 | Wireless telephone headset built into eyeglasses The present invention relates to a wireless telephone headset for communicating with a wireless device, wherein the headset is built into an eyeglass frame, which includes a first temple and a second temple connected by a middle portion and the eyeglass frame has an... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7320348 | Forest rejuvenation and preservation A method of rejuvenating and preserving a forest by transforming wood waste. Tree species are identified in a forest area. Equipment is then selected or modified based on the identified tree species. Wood waste of the identified tree species is gathered and transfor... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7309236 | Apparel with meridian pathway markings Apparel on which is printed markings that represent meridian pathways and acupuncture or acupressure regions. The printed markings distinguish in appearance from each other. The apparel may be worn to facilitate instructing, practicing or performing a skill or exerc... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7293826 | Folding chair with an anti-pinching device A folding chair includes first and second parts each having at least one leg, a total number legs of the first and second parts being at least three. A third part of the chair forms a seat and is pivotally connected to the first and second parts. A connecting assemb... | 11/13/2007 |
