Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
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| 20100300826 | NON-CONDUCTIVE TRAILING CABLE GUIDE An electric vehicle powered by a trailing cable, the vehicle including a cable guide for guiding cable onto a reel as the cable is paid out and taken up. The cable guide comprises a pair of adjacent, double flanged concave rollers in alignment with each other so that th... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20090211860 | WIRE AND CABLE ORGANIZING SYSTEM A simple and effective wire and cable management device includes a housing generally in the form of a rectangular cuboid having opposing front and back walls, opposing top and bottom walls and opposing first and second side walls. A reel is disposed within the housing a... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090178895 | System for self-adjusting height and direction of a movable power cable This invention relates to a system for automatically self-adjusting the height, length and direction of an electrical power cable connecting a movable machine, such as a crane, to a fixed electrical power supply. One end of the cable is wrapped around a reel which is ar... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090127047 | Cable Drum Apparatus for supplying electrical energy to a mobile working machine in the off-road sector, wherein a supporting arm is provided on the working machine, and a drum for accommodating a cable is mounted on the supporting arm. A slip ring body is arranged in the interior... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090026032 | CONDUCTOR CLAMP FOR A TRAILING LINE A conductor clamp (4) for a trailing line (5) which is secured to crabs (7) which can be moved along a carrier rail (1) comprises a support (8) for the trailing line, a clamping device (9) for securing the trailing line to the s... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20080142324 | SIGNAL RECEIVING MECHANISM A signal receiving mechanism includes a cord reel, a cord wound around the cord reel, a signal receiving element assembled to a top of the cord reel, a grounding unit, and a pivot unit for rotatably connecting the cord reel to the grounding unit. The cord reel includes ... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20080093187 | Reel for maintaining fiber optic cable assemblies A cable assembly reel including a drum defining an exterior surface for receiving a length of wound cable and including at least one access panel therein for providing access to an interior cavity, and at least one flange removably attached to the drum defining an openi... | 04/24/2008 |
| 20080011569 | Method and system for determining parameter distribution, variance, outliers and trends in computer systems A system and method for generating statistical reports showing distribution, variance, outliers and trends for parameters across a set of computer systems is provided. The reports are generated based on audited data for each system that pertains to the parameters. A dis... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20070209895 | Cord reel assembly and vacuum cleaner having the same A cord reel assembly according to the present disclosure includes a power cord; and a cord reel around which the power cord is automatically wound when the power cord is separated from an electric power source, the cord reel from which the power cord is automatically un... | 09/13/2007 |
