Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4825779 | Table for toilet A table specialized for toilet use has a spindle with exceptional access supporting a roll of toilet paper, a tabletop supported by legs at a height and an angle optionally usable by one seated in the ordinary way on a flush toilet seat. An edge retains o... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4750783 | Coacting infant/toddler seat/car seat/stroller system A system for supporting an infant in different modes of use includes co-acting infant carrier by which an infant can be carried in arms or supported on a surface at a selected angle, an infant/toddler car seat into which the carrier with the infant can be... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4731904 | Spring system for stabilizing bifold door hinged positions A spring system for stabilizing bifolding door hinged positions includes an integral "C"-shaped spring with at each end of the "C"-shape a respective straight shank formed at right angles to the plane of the "C"-shape in parallel spacing from each other. ... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4726273 | Combination press for die-sets A bench press for small die sets has a rack and pinion that can serve several purposes; as a manual-power drive, as an adjustable stop, when the bench press has a power drive, and as an index that adjustably fixes orientation of the top plate relative to ... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4725999 | Timer system for medicine taking A medicine timer provides a frame mounting a series of compartments in a row for holding medicine such as different kinds of pills, either in containers or not. Associatable with each compartment is a respective timer head, by means of detachable electric... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4725289 | High conversion electrostatic precipitator An electrostatic precipitator with an inlet and outlet duct having corona forming discharge electrodes to ionize the particulate in the gas stream, and multi-lateral stages of collecting zones to collect particulate from the gas stream by impingement and ... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4721066 | Self-adjusting fail safe friction heater system An improved friction heater with driveshaft that rotates one frictional part relative to another interfitted with it provides, on the driveshaft, screw-and-inertia member to release frictional force between the frictional parts when the frictional parts a... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4717832 | Tidal and river turbine An improved hydroelectric system provides automatic adjustment for both tidal (reversing) and river (one way) type flow. A plurality of parallel, axial flow auger-type impellors are mounted in a horizontal plane on a floating, inverted-dry-dock type vesse... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4709922 | Barbell support apparatus for weight lifting exercising A barbell support apparatus for weight lifting exercising which has an overhead pulley that supports and guides a single support cable. The support cable is attached at both ends to a barbell. The pulley is suspended from a suspension system that provides... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4708393 | Pocket seat cushion An inflatable seat cushion system has an envelope that will fit in a conventional coat pocket or pocketbook of a user when deflated for storage, includes an envelope having an open side with the open side affixed to the back of the inflatable portion. Whe... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4708265 | System for automatic measuring and dispensing of grain and powder food products A practical and simple system that automatically measures and dispenses grain and powder type food products, such as sugar and flour contained within a canister type holder. The system consists of a drawer compartmentalized into precisely measured divisio... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4702381 | Towel protector A system for displaying but protecting while displaying bath and hand and kitchen towels and the like provides for use with a towel bar over which a towel is deployed in the usual manner, a protector or protective cover, size-matched to the towel bar pref... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4700944 | Multi-function weight lifting exercise system A multi-function weight lifting exercise system has upright guide tracks that carry on opposite faces a detachable bar carriage and a detachable weight carriage. A quick release low pulley apparatus that works with the bar carriage and weight carriage may... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4695107 | Integrated circuit sockets A novel integrated circuit socket provides splash-preventing capillary action improving half-round section pins that seat better by means of a conical longitudinal shape that wedges in holes in conventional printed circuit boards. The pins have P.C. board... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4688376 | Adjustable carriage for electric string trimmers A plural-castor-mounted lightweight tubular frame has a central resilient housing-clamping mechanism adapted for holding a string trimmer having a tapered or other conventional-shape housing at a desired level for trimming weeds or grass. Mechanical advan... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4687208 | Court ball game A court game has a plurality of spots on which duckpin shaped "S"-balls are initially positioned in a pattern relative to a greater plurality of pins in a pattern. Players in turn try to score points by caroming a soft rubber ball off an "S"-ball and stri... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4679338 | Snow removal system with adjustable snow impeller gate A snowblower with a power driven intake and discharge fan in a housing has at the front an open face exposing the fan and a transition housing detachably attachable over the open face. The transition housing has a slidable plate or fan cover that rises an... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4672944 | Mini-kitchen A portable charcoal-heated cooking system for mounting to the coaming of a pick-up truck bed has a steam chamber and a grill chamber, each partly defined by a multiple flat-plate-reflection housing structure that in the grill chamber evens-out radiant hea... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4672865 | Thermal wire stripper An improved thermal wire stripper of the type having a slotted metal thermal strip tensioned between the ends of a pair of upstanding, parallel electrodes, provides a gauge selection rotatable member mounted on one of the electrodes and having successive ... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4669140 | Pocket folding tool and knife system A folding pocket tool and knife of the type having paired handles pivotal to a blade for enclosing or extending the blade depending on pivoted position has an improved implement holding tool block that passes through an implement and co-acting with this, ... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4668029 | Stackable, portable filing cabinet modules A module of a filing cabinet houses in a pivotal-lid covered filing cabinet a pendent file. Four castors at respective corners retract upward into the housing for providing compact, fixed-location, vertically stackable storage of a plurality of such modul... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4663056 | Vacuum-sewage-collection system Holding tanks in an extremely simple vacuum-sewage system can provide high volume storage against emergencies such as vacuum pump failure, while providing under normal circumstances frequent, sudden, small-volume discharges in which any one holding tank d... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4653786 | Portable security lock A portable locking system for hinged door improves on the type having a right-angle end of a first member for engaging a strike plate in a door frame and second member with a right angle end for pressing against the door and laterally and detachably engag... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4650961 | Battery powered thermal wire stripper A wirestripper for thermal stripping a length of insulated wire includes a "V"-shaped flat metal strip of nickel chrome alloy 0.2 mm thick and having first and second arms 1 mm wide and 3.2 cm long extending from a vertex. The "V"-shaped strip is supporte... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4648145 | Folding pocket tool and knife A folding pocket tool and knife provides paired handles pivoted to swing around and be held together by a block in either the blade exposed or the folded position, doubly protrusive pivot pins at the handle free ends provide a choice of adjustable spanner... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4644704 | Rain gutter debris eliminator A system for preventing debris from a sloping roof from clogging a gutter provides a panel of fine screening such as insect screening stretched taut between an upper margin cemented to a roof and a lower margin cemented to the outer edge of a gutter. A pl... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4635657 | Nail polish dispensing system A system for preventing accumulation of partially used fingernail finishing materials includes four disk-shaped containers, each with a capacity for containing one application of a nail finishing material of a set, such as nail polish, cuticle remover, ri... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4633588 | Bump-feed filament vegetation trimmer means and method A bump-actuable filament feed for vegetation trimmers; when the cutting length of filament breaks or wears short, the user without interrupting cutting simply bumps the cutting head on the ground deploying a fresh cutting-length of filament. Bumping cause... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4632094 | Electro-mechanical heart compressor system An electro-mechanical heart compressor system for use in rendering first aid in cases of heart stoppage provides a constant-stroke-length, motor driven reciprocating plunger extending downwardly through a first or upper mounting plate. A second or lower m... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4625343 | Coping attachment system A system for use in swimming pool construction for temporarily holding a rounded coping to a wall form during pouring of concrete, making the coping a permanent part of the swimming pool but permitting quick removal of the wall form, includes, at interval... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4625708 | Stove guard A stove guard prevents small children from operating front-mounted controls of a conventional kitchen stove having an open door hinged at the bottom. The stove guard has a front panel portion for extending at a vertically outward angle across the front of... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4620514 | Internal combustion rotary power plant system An internal combustion power plant system provides a rotary engine and a rotary fuel/air mixture compressor for the rotary engine on a common driveshaft, coaxially mounting each end and supported between them by a gearbox which synchronizes operation of v... | 11/04/1986 |
| 4614853 | Permanent magnet steam generator An improved magnetic thermal generator has axially aligned, spaced-apart shafts, each with an electric motor at the outer end and on each inner end a permanent cylindrical magnet rotor with alternate north-pole and south-pole disposition of magnets parall... | 09/30/1986 |
| 4612738 | Rotary flail cutting and finishing tool head A rotary cutting and finishing head of the flail type can use common commercially available sandpaper or emery cloth or other sheet material. A hub of the type rotatable by drill press or hand drill, mounts, in plane, uniform length and width strips or ri... | 09/23/1986 |
| 4610086 | Drive notching tool A hand tool for sheet metal workers notches and soft-noses an end of a sheet metal drive in one operation, and saves time and prevents injuries as compared with use of tin snips to do the same job. Paired handles of the tool are held in one hand while, wi... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4601585 | Time display system An illusory time display system of clock hand or hands in a case too small in radial dimension to permit normal rotation of the hands around the case, provides nevertheless for normal rotation of the hands and accurate conventional display of time. The ou... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601579 | High intensity Fourier spectrometer A system for reducing wavelength error caused by angular motion of the moving mirror of an interferometer, such as a Michelson interferometer having fore-optics introducing a beam of radiant energy for impingement on the moving mirror, teaches reducing, w... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4597203 | Convertible snowblower using rectangular shroud interface A basic snowblower unit powered by an engine has a rectangular shroud housing a fan with a drive member associated with it. A considerable number of special units including lawnmower, vacuum-and-bagger, leaf picker, edger, rotary tiller, leaf blower, spra... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4584946 | Folding table system A folding table especially adapted for use with a central pole supporting it, as under a beach umbrella, has a central hub with provision for detachably mounting at any desired level on a pole and a radial array of spokes pivotally mounted on the hub and ... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4585178 | Coal car thawing system A system for discharging coal frozen in railroad gondola cars includes provision for passing current through the shell of a gondola to melt the icy interface between coal and gondola, and for dropping the frozen coal out of the gondola by inverting the go... | 04/29/1986 |
