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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| 20090242688 | Anti-tangle elastic wire for coiled hoses and wires An anti-tangle means for coiled materials; such as a coiled electric wires, coiled lawning hoses, compressed air hose, and coiled telephone wires, is provided. The means is comprised of a long elastic wire and a case for rewinding the wire. The rewinding elastic wire pe... | 10/01/2009 |
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| 20080217464 | PACKAGING DEVICES AND METHODS OF PRODUCING SAME A packaging device has a core that is connected to a sheet of material by a flowable material that sets or cures to harden, such as a two part expandable polyurethane foam. The sheet of material has a plurality of cells that the flowable material enters from a partition... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080121751 | Packaging System and Roller Receiving Device for a Packaging System for Fluids A roller receiving device for a packaging system for fluids, the packaging system including a container for receiving a fluid; a roller and a roller receiving device for receiving the roller and for holding the roller on the container, the roller receiving device has a ... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080023581 | TAPE DISPENSER A desk or office accessory, such as an adhesive tape dispenser, has a base holding one, two, or more smaller office sub-components or devices that may be removed from the base, used as preferred, and then optionally returned or reattached to the base. The sub-components... | 01/31/2008 |
| 20070209246 | Advertisement system An advertisement applied to the surface of a core element concealed by an amount of material wound about the surface of the core element such advertisement revealed as the amount of material unwinds from the surface of the core element. ... | 09/13/2007 |
| 20060102774 | Winding tube A winding tube is provided for a web-shaped semi-finished product or finished product. The tube comprises a cylindrical, elongated tube body having an inner wall. A data carrier that can be read in a contactless manner and that contains data about the web-shaped semi-fi... | 05/18/2006 |
| 20060076454 | Carrier reel, carriage method using the carrier reel, and method for manufacturing electronic device A carrier reel according to the present invention is constituted by a flange portion having a first surface and a second surface which is opposed to and substantially parallel to the first surface, and a hub portion which is provided between the first surface and the se... | 04/13/2006 |
