Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6520898 | Process of making a compartmented container An E Bliss compartmented container comprising an erected E divider blank about which a Bliss body blank has been erected with its endwalls adhesively laminated to endwall panels of the E divider. The E blank comprises a rectangular piece of corrugated fib... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6499655 | Compartmented container An E Bliss compartmented container comprising an erected E divider blank about which a Bliss body blank has been erected with its endwalls adhesively laminated to endwall panels of the E divider. The E blank comprises a rectangular piece of corrugated fib... | 12/31/2002 |
| 5975413 | Shipping container A shipping container of corrugated liner board material comprising an erectable body wrap and a folded pair of bi-wall blanks. Each end wall of the container is a composite comprising an end wall panel of the body blank overlying an end wall of a bi-wall ... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5950915 | High strength stackable container A stackable container comprising an erected H divider and a body wrap, both of corrugated cardboard material. The H divider has a laminated partition, opposite ends of which have a pair of end wall panels, each having an integral corner post flap. The flu... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5683221 | Lift platform with cart stop A ramp section for a load platform has one or two elongate rectangular stop plates pivotally mounted in the ramp section adjacent a rear edge of the load surface of the platform. Each stop plate is coaxially fitted with a pawl having an angularly spaced a... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5513943 | Load elevator with columnar power assemblies A pair of lift columns telescopically contain a companion pair of tubular runners and a companion pair of fluid powered linear actuators to reciprocate the runners. The actuator circuit includes a flow divider with a pair of idler rotors keyed together fo... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5449267 | Liftgate platform with latchable retention ramp A lift platform has a retention ramp whose forward edge is pivotally connected to a rear edge of the platform by a hinge that permits inversion of the retention ramp to a stowed position overlying the platform. A latch member is mounted on a lateral edge ... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5369939 | High speed lidder A lidding apparatus has a pair of brake shoes which elevate a box from a conveyor, the box being decelerated by the brake shoes. A lidding assembly includes an opposite pair of grooves with a release configuration for supporting a flat lid blank but allow... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5277275 | Mechanical platform closer for cantilever style liftgate In a parallelogram linkage system whose swingable outer end supports a platform turnable between horizontal and vertical positions, the parallel arm has a hub to rotatably support a crank member. The companion lift arm of the linkage carries an actuator p... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5246103 | Jewelry container A shallow rectangular frame has a hanger by which it can be suspended. The frame internally mounts a compartment-defining sheet with vertically oriented partitions. Upper ends of each of the compartments have hooks from which to suspend elongate articles ... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5090238 | Oil well production testing Oil well production fluid is gravitationally segregated into different phase within a tank whose top has a regulated exhaust line to remove any gas phase. An outlet end of the tank has a water phase discharge line from a lower region and an emulsion phase... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5044278 | Electrically ignitible cartridge system A cartridge has a case of an electrically non-conductive material. A head of the case is typically formed with a coaxial through bore seating a terminal assembly comprising an annular electrode within which is an annular insulator holding a central electr... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4989641 | Rotary selector valve A multi-port valve internally supports a rotatable trunnion having an elbow passage between a nozzle portion of the trunnion and a lower end outlet that communicates with a test port of the valve body. The outer end of the nozzle has an axially reciprocab... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4918886 | Raceway system for modular wall panels A modular room divider panel includes a raceway along its lower edge which contains and shields one or more multi-wire power harnesses that are protected from unauthorized access by lockable raceway cover plates. The harness comprises a pair of connector ... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4891862 | Hinge A self-closing hinge comprises a pair of hinge leaves pivotally interconnected by an offset hinge pin. One leaf has a flanged head projecting substantially radially with respect to a sleeve of the other hinge leaf, within which the hinge pin is mounted. T... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4883588 | Underwater filter system Radwaste contaminated effluent generated by an underwater source is filtered by a submersible filter system employing cannister shielded filter cartridges. The system has a submersible frame that fixedly mounts a coupling for each filter cannister. Each c... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4865404 | Interlock for multi-drawer cabinet A multi-drawer file cabinet having an interlock mechanism to prevent opening of more than one drawer at a time. The interlock mechanism includes modular lock bars for accommodating half-height and full-height drawers in any desired combination. A security... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4836736 | Level ride liftgate with ramping action platform A main frame pivotally supports the forward ends of a laterally spaced apart pair of parallelogram linkage systems. Each linkage system comprises an upper link and a two section lower link, rear ends of which are pivotally interconnected to a rear shackle... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4824614 | Device for uniformly distributing a two-phase fluid A flow splitting junction of a pipeline network for a two-phase fluid is internally fitted with a static mixer, a multi-duct stratifier and a divider wall. The turbulent fluid exhausted from the mixer is separated by the stratifier into two separated sets... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4819299 | Self-closing hinge A self-closing hinge comprising a pair of hinge leaves pivotally interconnected by an offset hinge pin. A spring tang is formed integrally with one of the hinge members and has a distal end that has a head projecting substantially radially with respect to... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4806062 | Stowable lift for freight vehicles A forward platform section is hingedly connected at its forward edge to lower ends of a pair of runner assemblies that are vertically movably mounted in guides of a supporting framework. A closed rear edge of the forward platform section is hingedly inter... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4726900 | Stacked sheet filter element A thin and narrow sheet, having an inlet edge and an outlet edge, is formed on one surface, e.g., the top, with a continuous land that is parallel to the inlet edge. The inlet side of the land is coplanar with the inlet edge of the sheet or, alternatively... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4725185 | Fail safe brake for rail type lifts The load platform of a lift is carried by a runner mounted for vertical reciprocation along a hollow guide column. Within the column the runner and its load are suspended from a short length of a leaf chain that, in turn, is suspended from a powered verti... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4708583 | Process of recubing boxes A method and apparatus for automatically restacking palletized tiers of adjacent rows of loosely cubed laden produce boxes in a continuous fashion by recubing the boxes while automatically retrieving and stacking the successive pallets during the continui... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4696614 | Apparatus for recubing boxes An apparatus for automatically restacking palletized tiers of adjacent rows of loosely cubed laden produce boxes in a continuous fashion by recubing the boxes while automatically retrieving and stacking the successive pallets during the continuing recubin... | 09/29/1987 |
| 4661091 | Machine for manufacture of boxes with integrally reinforced walls Various configurations of boxes of a corrugated or fiberboard material are manufactured by a machine and process in which scored marginal flaps of the preformed box blank material are laterally wrapped around forming mandrels or fingers to define corner a... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4657527 | Flap folding mechanism for manufacture of boxes with integrally reinforced walls Various configurations of boxes of a corrugated or fiberboard material are manufactured by a machine and process in which scored marginal flaps of the preformed box blank material are laterally wrapped around forming mandrels or fingers to define corner a... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4648775 | Refuse pickup and compactor body A refuse compactor body has a tank section of an irregular polygonal right section that is uniform from end to end. The tank wall is made of rectangular pieces of thin very high tensile strength sheet metal and externally reinforced at spaced intervals lo... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4634014 | Disposable ashtray attachment for beverage cans A disposable ashtray for use on an open pop top beverage can. The tray is formed out of a flat blank of an aluminized paper sheet that has been scored to define a floor and erectable side walls for the tray. The floor is formed with (1) a passage to matin... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4631126 | Filter insert system A cylindrical insert for a pre-existing pressure vessel has an integral accumulator chamber defining a head for the vessel. Inner end surfaces of the accumulator chamber, along with the walls of the pressure vessel, define a filter element chamber, the in... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4596542 | Manufacture of internally reinforced boxes A mandrel has its face formed to define a negative impression of reinforcing elements to be formed into the walls of a Bliss box. The reinforcing elements may comprise tubular corner posts and/or intermediate hollow ribs or posts. The mandrel is mounted i... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4581005 | Manufacture of boxes with integrally reinforced walls Various configurations of boxes of a corrugated or fiberboard material are manufactured by a machine and process in which scored marginal flaps of the preformed box blank material are laterally wrapped around forming mandrels of fingers to define corner a... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4456033 | Perforated sheet stock flow restrictor A flow restrictor to minimize noise and cavitation, or other adverse effects, in regulating the flow of a high pressure fluid. The restrictor defines a myriad of tortuous, dissimilar, intertwined, and commingled energy dissipating chambered flow paths edg... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4398563 | Multi-tube flow restrictor A fluid flow restrictor for spanning a passage of a body to minimize noise and cavitation in a high pressure fluid flowing through the passage and undergoing a substantial pressure drop in passing through the restrictor. The device comprises at least one ... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4352373 | Disc-reel sound suppressor A sound suppressing fluid handling device wherein a relatively high pressure fluid is conducted through a substantial pressure drop, relatively noiselessly, by passage of the fluid through a myriad of tortuous energy dissipating passages formed between ad... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4345905 | Making of containers with tri-laminated end walls A machine for forming a container with full width 3-ply laminar end walls from a preformed cardboard container body blank having side and outer end wall ply forming panels along the sides and ends of a bottom forming panel and inner end wall ply forming p... | 08/24/1982 |
| 4316925 | Fiber reinforced cementitious castings A reinforced structural casting comprises a cementitious material having a unitary reinforcement of consolidated, collimated or other generally unidirectionally aligned or woven graphite or carbon fibers, sometimes carried in a preformed resin binder, the... | 02/23/1982 |
| 4315752 | Manufacture of H-dividers A machine, having a split mandrel and H-blank feed and fold means, for making a corrugated or fiber board H-divider in a single cycle of operation by feeding, erecting and gluing the H-blank upon itself within the mandrel gap. The vertical divider panels ... | 02/16/1982 |
| 4310323 | Method of manufacture of H-divider containers A process and machine for making a corrugated or fibre board two-piece H-divider container in a single cycle of operation comprising erecting and gluing the H-blank upon itself and then erecting and gluing the body blank therearound. The vertical divider ... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4290211 | Ventilating outsole An article of footwear having an improved outsole formed with uniformly distributed small apertures therethrough throughout its area, the apertures being of circular, oval or other curvilinear or angular or polygonal cross-section or any combination of th... | 09/22/1981 |
