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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4293274 | Vertical axis wind turbine for generating usable energy A wind turbine for converting wind forces into usable energy has a main shaft rotatably mounted in the axis of rotation for the wind turbine, and a pair of coacting complementary longitudinally extending vane members are connected to each other by a plura... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4281829 | Method and apparatus for ejecting single sheets from a stack of sheets in a tray A method and apparatus for discharging sheets one by one from a stack wherein a reciprocating ejector foot engages the top sheet of the stack and urges it against barriers positioned to intercept the corners of the sheet; the barriers are disposed oblique... | 08/04/1981 |
| 4058066 | Adjustable table An adjustable table wherein front and rear legs open to provide a rigid support for a pair of pivotably mounted upper legs, to which a table is pivotably attached; slotted arms adjust the position of the upper legs with respect to the front legs; and slot... | 11/15/1977 |
| 4027832 | Leader-pin A leader-pin to securely hold the leader of a film strip or magnetic tape for high speed unwinding and rewinding wherein the end of the film strip or magnetic tape is inserted between a split rod and the split rod is then inserted into an elongated, resil... | 06/07/1977 |
| 4026058 | Fish hook setter A Fish Hook Setter wherein a releaseable, spring-loaded sleeve is normally urged into a tube and is lockable in extended position; when a fish nibbles at the bait, deflecting the fishing line, the sleeve is manually released and moves back into the tube; ... | 05/31/1977 |
| 4025176 | Graphic communication system This relates to a high capacity, high speed random access filing system for graphic data. Graphic data on microfilm is placed in cartridges and the cartridges stored in a storage drum. The location of each cartridge is defined by a four digit address and ... | 05/24/1977 |
| 4018902 | Combination confection and holder A combination confection and holder providing a confectionary slab with a concavity and a holder therefore; the holder has bifurcated resilient arms having opposed convexities which snap fit into the concavities in the confectionary slab, which the arms s... | 04/19/1977 |
| 4008547 | In-ground swimming pool An in-ground swimming pool having a plurality of panels; the vertical edges of each adjacent panel seized between a front wall-joint and rear back-up joint having a rearwardly extending U-shaped channel to receive one side edge of a triangular brace; anot... | 02/22/1977 |
| 3994590 | Discrete frequency colorimeter A compact and portable colorimeter, including an integrally-formed probe having both a solid-state source of relatively monochromatic light and an optically coupled photodetector mounted therein. A power oscillator gating means is connected to the light s... | 11/30/1976 |
| 3966123 | Burner gun A burner gun to provide a narrow spray pattern under high or low fire conditions, having a nozzle with an elongated tunnel passage therein which nozzle is spacially adjustable with respect to a spray tip; the spray tip has an oil swirl chamber with an axi... | 06/29/1976 |
| 3944108 | Collector box A collector box comprising a receptacle with at least one generally hollow sleeve attached to receptacle with a passage therethrough extending in a generally vertical direction and a support slidable in the passage; the bottom of the support having an enl... | 03/16/1976 |
