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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 |
| 7838781 | System for determining the mass of an item in motion A method (51) for measuring the mass of an object such as a letter (10) in motion. An apparatus (12) for carrying out the present invention includes a pair of rollers (16, 18) through which a letter passes. One of the rollers (16) ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 5302473 | Current collector for electrochemical device A current collector for use in a battery wherein the current collector is coaxial with the battery axis and is fabricated with a plurality of pairs of layers of electrically conducting material with alternate layers having different conductivities. An ani... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5228006 | High resolution beam former apparatus An array of receiver elements in a radar or sonar system is synthetically elongated resulting in a narrower beam pattern. This is accomplished by sampling each output signal of the receiver elements, converting the signal to I and Q components for determi... | 07/13/1993 |
| 4874324 | Underwater electrical connector A connector having a metal shell which would normally be subject to galvanic action in an underwater environment. The metal shell includes a protective plastic coating of polyphenylene sulfide resin electrodeposited thereon and over a portion of which pla... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4873512 | Active shaft grounding and diagnotic system In a steam turbine-generator system wherein the turbine shaft is subject to an electrostatic charge buildup, an active grounding system continuously maintains the shaft at substantially ground potential. A feedback circuit is connected between two brushes... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4627355 | Joint release mechanism A separable joint for a two-part oceonographic sensor package wherein the two parts are cylindrically shaped and joined by a cylinder of chemically tempered glass. A pyrotechnic device inside the unit will, upon command, activate to shatter the glass ther... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4625707 | Core drill apparatus Drilling apparatus for trepanning a difficult to work material. A drill member includes a very thin wall cylindrical cutting head integral with a shank portion, with the assembly being machined from the same piece of stock to insure concentricity. A fluid... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4541247 | Steam turbine gland seal control system A high pressure steam turbine having a sealing gland where the turbine rotor penetrates the casing of the turbine. Under certain conditions the gland is sealed by an auxiliary steam supply, and under other conditions the gland is self sealed by turbine in... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4530138 | Method of making a transducer assembly A method of making a transducer which has a head mass, a tail mass and a plurality of piezoelectric rings arranged in a stack with alternate electrodes, which are to be glued to the piezoelectric rings. The electrodes are of the type which have a surface ... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4216467 | Hand controller A hand controller having a control handle member supported by a hexagonal array of three pairs of oppositely-angled force sensors provides for creation of control signals according to degree of input manual effort in any and all linear and rotary directio... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4160232 | Low frequency dipole hydrophone transducer A dipole hydrophone transducer which includes first and second magnetostrictive arms and associated windings. One arm includes a radiation target for acoustic energy for production of proportional signals in the windings and the other arm includes a count... | 07/03/1979 |
| 4160231 | Low frequency dipole hydrophone transducer A dipole hydrophone which includes a radiation target for acoustic energy and a counterbalancing mass. A first multilaminar magnetostrictive arm is connected to the radiation target at its center gravity and a second multilaminar magnetostrictive arm is s... | 07/03/1979 |
