Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| 20110061981 | Cable Dispensing System The cable dispensing system includes multiple parallel coils of flexible non-insulated cables separated by multiple parallel insulating discs. The insulating discs have hubs to which the inner portions of the coils are fixedly coupled. The insulating discs and coils are... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110024543 | SPOOL FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS CABLE AND METHOD A spool for a telecommunications cable. The spool winds-up and pays-out the cable without accumulating twist in the cable. The spool can also pay out a distal end of the cable and mount a proximal end of the cable. Because no twist is accumulated in the cable, the first... | 02/03/2011 |
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| 20100253121 | CHILD SAFETY SEAT ATTACHMENT BELT RETRACTOR SYSTEM Retractor systems for securing child safety seats in vehicles are described herein. In one embodiment, a child safety seat includes a web operably coupled to a spool of a web retractor movably positioned under the safety seat. The web can include a first end portion tha... | 10/07/2010 |
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| 20090108116 | Winding Wheel Set for a Curtain A winding wheel set for a curtain comprises a base and a roller, wherein the roller is rotatablely disposed on the base, in the base is formed an elongated slot for insertion of a string, thus making the string be wound on the roller comfortably, so as to prevent the fo... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090090804 | Fibre strip application heads The invention relates to improvements in fibre strip application heads for applying fibre strips (4) that are supplied with a support and protection paper (5), the fibre strip (4) to be applied being supplied with the immediate separation of the pro... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090014576 | Device for reeling and unreeling a power supply line A device for unidirectionally reeling and unreeling a power supply line includes: an upper bearing; a lower bearing; an upper cover; a lower cover; a rotary disc; a plug; a coil spring installed in the coil spring receiving space, on an outer wall of which a plurality o... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20080282496 | Vacuum hose reel A reel having a relatively large, hollow, winding drum and end flanges large enough to provide adequate capacity for the intended hose is rotably mounted in a frame. There are no swivel joints in the vacuum conduit. The drum has a slot for receiving the hose near one en... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080203240 | Lateral storage spool for overhead cable pathway A system including an overhead cable pathway structure and a cable storage device that mounts overhead to the cable pathway structure. The cable storage device including a storage spool and a cable pathway exit having a curved surface that guides excess cable exiting fr... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20070228204 | Load Limiting Seat Belt Retractor A seat belt retractor incorporating a force limiter to permit the restricted paying out of a seat belt webbing and a control mechanism for controlling the force limiting functions of the retractor. The arrangement includes a two part spindle within a retractor. On a fir... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20050092861 | Cord shortener A cord shortening device includes a housing having a first portion and a second portion. One of the portions includes a post configured to windably receive a first section of a length of cord. At least one of the portions has an opening at one end for mating second and ... | 05/05/2005 |
