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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4549624 | Wheelchair direction control means A third caster wheel is mounted between the main wheels of a power wheelchair to engage the terrain over which the wheelchair travels. Turning of the wheelchair from a straight line course as a result of uneven terrain is immediately corrected by initiall... | 10/29/1985 |
| 4436243 | Storage file for slides and tissue blocks The storage file is of the temporary type, made up of a box stamping comprising initially a flat sheet such as cardboard provided with appropriate fold lines. The fold lines define a top, left and right sides, a bottom and front and rear ends for folding ... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4333598 | Method of brazing honeycomb and panel assemblies Rather than spray coat face sheets of honeycomb panels with powder braze alloy or using foil strips of braze alloy between honeycomb core and face sheets, individual ribbon segments of brazing foil are positioned between successive honeycomb cell vertices... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4307648 | Method and apparatus for measuring the dynamics of a piano performance The dynamics of a piano performance are measured by measuring the dynamics of each individual note played. This measurement is accomplished by measuring the "near terminal velocity" of the hammer shank associated with each note, the velocity determining t... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4241576 | Gas turbine engine The gas turbine engine includes a centrifugal fan having radial blades for receiving inlet air through inner entrance openings to spaces between adjacent blades. The air passes through outer exit openings from the spaces between the blades. Stationary inn... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4176851 | Child's bumper bike The child's bumper cycle is similar to a conventional child's tricycle except that a 360° bumper ring lying in a horizontal plane completely surrounds the single main wheel of the cycle to replace the normal smaller rear wheels. The ring itself has four ... | 12/04/1979 |
| 4157805 | Molding apparatus for a composite billiard ball An example of the shock resistant transparent polymer sphere is a billiard or pool ball. The molding apparatus includes lower and upper mold halves defining juxtaposed concave hemispherical surfaces to define a spherical mold cavity with a top fill openin... | 06/12/1979 |
| 4064426 | Night light An improved night light structure is arranged to be received directly in an electrical wall outlet and supported by the plug blades received in the outlet socket. The night light itself includes a capacitor in series with a miniature light bulb such that ... | 12/20/1977 |
| 4036048 | Hardness testing device A frame body has a base portion for supporting a specimen and an integrally extending arm portion above the base portion for guiding a penetrating probe. Force is applied to the probe to urge it against the specimen. A portion of the frame body is in the ... | 07/19/1977 |
