Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| 8123033 | Container for beverages A container for beverages has a container body, an electronic device provided with a display for displaying electronic images, and an additional element for holding the electronic device on the container body and including an element connected with the electronic de... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8075363 | Device and composition for blowing a soap bubble A device for soap bubble blowing has a tube through which a bubble is blown and which is provided with protrusions and recesses, and a ledge of a special shape on its walls, wherein the tube can be fitted in a lid which is joined with a container intended to keep a ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8016215 | Head for showering and the like A showerhead has a housing provided with an inlet for flowing of water into the housing and a plurality of openings; and a plurality of adjustable inserts associated with the openings, provided with water channels, and formed so that the inserts are individually mov... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7993330 | Method for rejuvenating and tightening human skin utilizing a cryogenic applicator A method for tightening and rejuvenating skin utilizing a cryogenic applicator, which includes the steps of holding a handle of a barrel of the cryogenic applicator in a hand, fluidly communicating the barrel with a source of a biocompatible non-toxic cryogenic flui... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7977905 | Electric drive An electric drive which has an inductor with poles, an armature having a plurality of windings and rotatable relative to the inductor and its poles, and a control unit which, when a respective one of the windings of the armature approaches a respective one of the po... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7954970 | Bottle for beverages A bottle for alcoholic or non alcoholic beverages has a hollow body part defining an inner space for filling an alcoholic or non alcoholic beverage, at least one electrical/electronic device integrated in the hollow body part without interfering with a content of th... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7934272 | Water-acting device for personal hygiene A water acting device for personal hygiene has a housing connectable with a water source, a hollow water issuing element connectable with the housing and having an inner passage for passing of water, and means for sealing the water issuing element relative to the ho... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7845497 | Shower box A shower box for accommodating a shower handle with a shower head and also a hose connectable therewith, the shower box comprising three trays each in an unfolded condition follow one another in a longitudinal direction of one piece with one another and include a ce... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7838280 | Device for squeezing of biological mass of cultures A device for wringing a biological mass of cultures has a substantially vertical container having a bottom provided with a discharge opening, a rotor means located under the discharge opening and including at least two rotors which are rotatable toward one another t... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7833782 | Apparatus for growing biological mass An apparatus for growing biological mass has a container for accommodating a biological mass in liquid to be grown in presence of light, a plurality of light sources in an interior of the container, a first movable plate which has passages for the light sources and ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7832043 | Toothbrush A toothbrush has a body, and a brush member connected to the body, the brush member including three brushes which are arranged at an angle relative to one another so as to provide two side brushes and one intermediate brush extending between the side brushes and to ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7824905 | Biological reactor A biological reactor for growing a biological mass has a tank with an interior for growing the biological mass, a plate movable in a substantially vertical direction and an interior of the tank, and a valve means provided with the plate and configured so that in a l... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7670305 | Device for showering and turbo-rotative water treatment A device for showering has a housing and a rotatable massaging element arranged in the housing so that it is rotatable by water and capable of massaging with the simultaneous discharge of water. A rotary unit is located in the housing and is connected with the massa... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669274 | Device for restoring light permeability of motor vehicle headlight lenses A device for restoring a light permeability of headlight lenses of motor vehicles has a holder, a working layer attached to the holder and adapted to clean and polish a surface of a headlight lense when the device is moved relative to the latter, and a sponge-like e... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7661624 | Aerodynamic lifting-thrusting propulsion device An aerodynamic lifting-thrusting propulsion device has a frame with an axis, relative to which the frame is arranged with a possibility of rotation, a cardan joint having a cross, at least two aerodynamic surfaces, each of which is mounted on the cardan joint with a... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7657949 | Hollow shower panel A device for showering and the like has a body having a front wall, a peripheral wall and an open rear side with an edge configured to abut against a wall, hose means associated with the body for supplying water for taking a shower, a throughgoing receptacle formed ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7632784 | Sintered ceramic composite lead with superconductive nano-architecture A sintered high temperature superconducting (HTS) ceramic electric lead formed as three-dimensional (3D) HTS macro-ceramic solid product with honeycomb-like superconductive nano-architecture comprises substantially uniformly aligned nano-size HTS ceramic crystal gra... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7585284 | Body rubbing device A body rubbing device has a housing having a lower side adapted to face a body part to be acted upon and an upper side, the housing having an upper surface which is upwardly convex and is elongated in a longitudinal direction to define a substantially oval shape, th... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7562938 | Device for supporting a person in a sitting position A device for supporting a person in a sitting position has a substantially horizontally extending supporting element placeable on a supporting surface substantially at a level of a person's pelvis when the person is in a sitting position, and two substantially verti... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7556455 | Method of dynamic transporting of object with flow of carrying medium In a method of the energy-saving dynamic transporting of object with a flow of a carrying medium, action are applied to the carrying medium which are created in an action element during a process of conversion of an energy supplied to it, so that the flow of a carry... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7168882 | Road barrier A road barrier has a bottom part and a top part which extends upwardly and forms in the top part at least one downwardly inclined side surface so that when in a case of an accident a vehicle hits the road barrier from a side of the at least one downwardly inclined s... | 01/30/2007 |
| 6987019 | Device for growing cells A device for growing cells has a container with a bottom; and a plurality of elements extending into an area for growing cells and formed as thin, elongated plates extending along the bottom one after the other at predetermined distances from one another. ... | 01/17/2006 |
| 7534160 | Precision machine tool A precision machine tool, comprising a table which is suspended so that it is substantially a swivelable table; a driving element for driving a tood during machining of a part; and a device for orienting said table, said orienting device including at least three ori... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7527231 | Device for holding shower accessories A device for holding shower accessories has an attaching element formed as a vacuum attaching element and having an axis, the attaching element being attachable to a surface in a plurality of positions by turning the attaching element around its axis, a holding elem... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7482708 | Apparatus for controlling power distribution two subsystems A device for controlling a power distribution to subsystems, has a power input to be connected to a power source, a primary power output to be connected to a primary device; at least one secondary power output to be connected to at least one secondary device; sensin... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7430932 | Device for telemonitoring the state of aerial power lines(variants) The invention refers to remote monitoring of power objects and is designed for collecting data on OHTL conductor status and passing such to data collection point (dispatch point for example). The invention's objective is to exclude necessity to produce and ma... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7416257 | Device for supporting a person in a sitting position A device for supporting a person in a sitting position has a substantially horizontally extending supporting element placeable on a supporting surface substantially at a level of a person's pelvis when the person is in a sitting position, and two substantially verti... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7405508 | Micromanipulator The invention relates to precision instrument engineering and can be used in order to create microdisplacements in micron and submicron ranges for cellular microtechnologies (by engineering, gene engineering, reproductive diology and medicine, neurobiology, microphy... | 07/29/2008 |
| D571979 | Cake | 07/01/2008 |
| D571978 | Cake | 07/01/2008 |
| 7373954 | Multi-ways water distributing device A water distributing device has one input pipe and two output pipes; a casing, and a turning rod located in the casing and turnable in the casing so as to provide a discharge of water in a first direction, a discharge of water in a second direction, a discharge of w... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7347882 | Method of manufacturing of abrasive tools A method of producing an abrasive tool, comprising the steps of preparing a blank of an abrasive tool including abrasing grains in a bond; placing the thusly formed blank in a container; covering the thusly formed blank in the container with at least a protective ma... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7329814 | Electrical cable An electrical cable has a first plurality of bundles each including a plurality of wires and connectable to a positive pole of a current source at one end, a second plurality of bundles each including a plurality of wires and connectable with a negative pole of the ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7315321 | System of and method for warning about unauthorized objects attached to vehicle bottoms and/or adjoining areas A method of and a system for warning about an unauthorized object attached to a bottom part of the vehicle includes storing images of vehicles or the data corresponding to the images in server means, examining a bottom of a vehicle by image producing means, transmit... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7314494 | Anti-detonation additive, and fuel provided therewith An anti detonation additive for fuel includes ethyl alcohol, and a stabilizer which contains ricinoleic acid. Also a fuel is provided with this anti-detonation additive. ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310851 | Cleaning device with disposable cleaning element A cleaning device has a cleaning element having an axis, an axial inner region and an axial outer region and being formed so that at least the axially outer region is bendable to follow a shape of a surface to be cleaned when pressed against the surface, a holding e... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7300442 | Method of destroying formations in a body A method of destroying formation in a body includes introducing a tubular member into a body to an area of a formation with a gripping unit movable between an open position and a closed position in which the gripping unit encloses a closed space to confine the forma... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7293812 | Power driven gripping device with various cross-sections A gripping device has a holder, two gripping elements movable relative to one another between an inoperative position in which the gripping elements are distal from one another and an operative position in which the gripping elements are proximal to one another so a... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293696 | Mailbox A mailbox has a housing having a plurality of walls, and a light source arranged so as to emit light into an interior of the housing, wherein the housing has at least one transparent wall through which the light emitted by the light source into the interior of the h... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7270298 | Personal flying apparatus A personal flying apparatus has a substantially horizontal element having a lower surface adapted to acted on by a wind upwardly so as to produce a wind-generated lifting force, and an inflatable element connected with the substantially horizontal element and filled... | 09/18/2007 |