Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
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| 20060201224 | Hot cut aluminum billet saw A process and apparatus for extruding aluminum into products, wherein aluminum logs are first heated to a predetermined temperature in a furnace, then are cut into billets of predetermined lengths, and then the billets, while still hot, are extruded into predetermined p... | 09/14/2006 |
| 20050247097 | Oval cross section metal tube producing device and producing method It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel aluminum tube of an oval cross section that has a wider range of applications and added values. A disk-shaped metal slug (21) is impact-extruded with the use of a die (14) and a punch (13) ... | 11/10/2005 |
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| 20050126246 | Solid shapes extrusion A method of forming a generally L-shaped extrusion from a body of aluminum alloy, the extrusion having good flatness and straightness without the use of a straightening step. The method comprises the steps of providing a body of a precipitation hardenable aluminum alloy... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050034502 | Hot cut aluminum billet saw A process and apparatus for extruding aluminum into products, wherein aluminum logs are first heated to a predetermined temperature in a furnace, then are cut into billets of predetermined lengths, and then the billets, while still hot, are extruded into predetermined p... | 02/17/2005 |