Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| 20090151578 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR MOUNTING PRINT SCREENS AND THEIR USE IN PRINTERS, AS WELL AS A SCREEN FRAME AND A SCREEN-PRINTING MACHINE A screen-printing process uses screens each having a frame in which is tensioned a respective mesh. Each of the meshes is tensioned and data representing tensions in the respective meshes is stored in respective memories carried on the frames of the meshes. Subsequently... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090120310 | PRINTING SCREENS A printing screen for use in screen printing at least one deposit of a printing medium onto a workpiece, the printing screen comprising: a first, facing sheet which includes at least one printing aperture through which a deposit of a printing medium is to be printed ont... | 05/14/2009 |
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| 20080302258 | SCREEN PRINTING STENCIL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME An exemplary screen printing stencil includes a frame, a screen mesh and a metal foil. The screen mesh is stretched tightly in the frame. The metal foil is attached on a surface of the screen mesh. A screen printing pattern is defined on the metal foil by a laser machin... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080289519 | Metal Stencil Foil Attachment to Screen Mesh Methods and apparatuses for attaching metal stencil foils to screen mesh using thermoplastic materials. Mechanical, rather than adhesive, attachment of metal stencil foils to screen mesh is accomplished by melting thermoplastic material so as to encapsulate portions of ... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080060536 | Printing screen and method A printing screen has a first metallic layer that is electroformed and has a number of apertures in the metallic layer. A second metallic layer is electroformed over the first metallic layer. The second metallic layer forms a frame around groups of the apertures.... | 03/13/2008 |
