Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8146927 | Wheeled golf club bag carrier A wheeled golf club bag carrier (1) having a base (2) with a tubular wall (3) extending upward a predetermined length. Wheels (4) attached to the underside of the base allow a user to roll the wheeled golf club bag carrier. One or more fi... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146194 | Buffing apparatus The present invention is a buffer device that is designed and configured to successfully and adequately buff and polish any desired surface without causing fatigue for the user, as well as without creating any swirl marks. In order to provide for such a product, the... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139357 | Laptop elevation device A laptop elevation device (1) that attaches to a bottom surface (13) of a laptop (12). Each laptop elevation device has a fold-up leg (2) pivotally or hingedly attached to a base (3). An arm (5) is pivotally attached to the ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8113608 | Cabinets and mirrors selectively mounted on hinges supporting room doors on door frames, hinges for such mountings, and methods for so mounting A cabinet and a door are each provided with hinge sets having hinge parts secured thereto so that they can be separately mounted on the sane hinge parts that are mounted on a door frame and are connected by a hinge pin for each hinge set that support the door on the... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8069899 | Vertically attached golf cart canopy A vertically attachable golf cart canopy having a folding canopy which allows other accessories, such as coolers and sand bottles, to be mounted underneath. The golf cart canopy has three components: a securing frame (1), canopy support bars (2) and ( | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069871 | Vented protective canopy housing for grill A protective canopy housing (1) for a barbeque grill (2) having a canopy (6) with a vent opening on a top (22) with an elevated vent cover (8). The canopy is supported by supports (5a, b and c) attached to a gr... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8050032 | Laptop elevation device A laptop elevation device (1) that attaches to a bottom surface (13) of a laptop (12). Each laptop elevation device has a fold-up leg (2) pivotally or hingedly attached to a base (3). An arm (5) is pivotally attached to the ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8033603 | Vehicle seat neck protection device A vehicle seat neck protection device (8) that protects and supports the nape of the neck (4) of a user wherein the device (8) has a body (27) of a predetermined size and shape and a convex surface (6) for positioning the device ( | 10/11/2011 |
| 8025905 | Method for reducing allergencity in indoor spaces According to this invention, allergenicity in an indoor space is reduced by denaturing allergens in allergen reservoirs that are capable of producing respiratory or skin reactions and physically removing the allergens from the allergen reservoirs in the indoor space... | 09/27/2011 |
| D645242 | Decorative shoe lace flap | 09/20/2011 |
| 8011037 | Swaddle A swaddle wrap to calm and comfort an infant has two panels. One that is both wide and long enough to wrap entirely both of the infant's arms and a second one to then wrap around the infant's torso and secured arms that then are attached between the legs. Hook and l... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7997751 | Pressure-actuated light device with holding portion A pressure-actuated light device (1) with a holding portion (2) that allows a user to hold the pressure-actuated light device in a user's hand. The pressure-actuated light device comprises a housing (3) which houses a light emitting diode (“LE... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7979917 | Rear break away ballistics vest A rear break away ballistics vest (1) having a front section (36) and a back section (11) that are securable to one another. The front section (36) has a first side front section (16), a second side front section (17) and an... | 07/19/2011 |
| D641455 | Basin | 07/12/2011 |
| 7954187 | Swaddle accessory A swaddle accessory to restrain an infant or child's arms has a single panel that is both wide and long enough to wrap entirely both of the infant's arms, hook and loop fasteners to secure the arm restraints and pockets to contain the hands to prevent them from brea... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7934348 | Structural truss with crimp/clamp A structural truss (3) with crimp/clamp (18) wherein the truss (3) includes disposed U-shaped channel chords (2) and struts (1) interconnected to one another at alternately extending apices (6) wherein successive segments of... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7917967 | Front break away ballistics vest A front break away ballistics vest (1) having a front (36) and a back section (11) that are securable to one another. The front section (36) has an upper front section (18) and a lower front (12) section. A first clip (38... | 04/05/2011 |
| D623961 | Container | 09/21/2010 |
| 7743577 | Structural truss with crimp/clamp method of making same A structural truss (3) with crimp/clamp (18) and method of making same wherein the truss (3) includes disposed U-shaped channel chords (2) and struts (1) interconnected to one another at alternately extending apices (6) wher... | 06/29/2010 |
| D618454 | Lottery scratch ticket holding device | 06/29/2010 |
| 7730548 | Ballistics vest pad cover A ballistics vest pad cover (4) having at least one side that is transparent, thereby permitting a user to easily view the condition of the ballistics vest pad (3). In addition, because at least one side is transparent, a user will be able to readily d... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7645354 | Audio device having dense sound enhancing component A musical instrument having strings, a wooden body and a granite veneer bonded to the wooden body. The granite has a density of at least 1.7 thousand kilograms per cubic meter and optionally can have a thickness in the range from about 7/64th of an inch t... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7631658 | Water supply system A water supply system (1) having at least one pressure pump (9), at least one pressure tank (3) and a plurality of water tanks (2) and (36). A submersible pump (37) is connected to a well (38) and a main water tank ( | 12/15/2009 |
| 7628423 | Riding lawnmower outrigger A riding lawnmower outrigger (1) having a hollow outer tube (5) secured to a riding lawnmower (2), a telescoping inner tube (6) which locks within the outer tube (5), a vertical tube (11) connected to the inner tube (6 | 12/08/2009 |
| 7622672 | Electrical housing knockout device and method A electrical housing knockout device (4) having a bracket (5) with a horizontal side (7) perpendicularly secured to a vertical side (6) and a sleeve element (8) connected to the horizontal side (7). The sleeve element (8 | 11/24/2009 |
| 7530509 | Manure-grinding fertilizer spreader An improved manure-grinding fertilizer spreader having at least two progressively bladed cylinders 17 at a bottom of a funneled mobile hopper 11 with a grinder base 12 proximate a discharge aperture 13. The mobile funneled hopper is hand-... | 05/12/2009 |
