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"To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth--all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances."
Lee deForest, American radio pioneer ; 1957
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5452705 | Three-purpose tile cutting pliers A tile cutting pliers including a base handle and an actuating handle pivotably connected together by a pivot and a return spring and terminating in a respective cutter blade for cutting small tiles, wherein the base handle has a triangular stop bar longi... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5365915 | Tile cutting tool A tile cutting tool including two opposing cutters integrally and respectively extended from two pivoted blades and disposed in reversed directions, two jaw plates respectively fastened to the cutters at one side, a cutting wheel fastened between the cutt... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5331877 | Rotary blade assembly for a tile cutter A rotary blade assembly used in a tile cutter made of cylindrical inner and outer races, a plurality of metal balls installed between the inner and outer races, a pair of covers covering the inner and outer races so as to assemble the two races into a sin... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5303690 | Tile cutter This disclosure relates to a tile cutter including a generally horizontal base plate, a linear ridge fixed to the base plate, and at least one guide rail extending above and in parallel with the ridge. A slider is slidable on the rail. A manipulating leve... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5169045 | Manually-operated tile cutter A manually-operated tile cutter comprises mainly a base, a measuring piece, and a guiding bar. The base is provided at one end thereof with a stopper consisting of a stopper face perpendicular to the cutting direction and of a guide slot parallel to the s... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5040445 | Glazed tile cutter A glazed tile cutter capable of straightly or circularly cutting a glazed tile is provided. The cutter includes an elongated base upon which are two longitudinally mounted brackets and mounted therebetween, two parallel sliding rods on which two sliding p... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5040521 | Machine for cutting tiles, particularly sandstone ones This invention relates to a machine for cutting tiles, particularly sandstone ones, comprising: a guide rail; a cutting assembly mounted to move along said guide rail, guided by this guide rail and provided with a cutting tool; and a member for breaking t... | 08/20/1991 |
| 4922886 | Tile parting device A tile 14 to be parted along a pre scored parting line is grasped between a pair of elements 36 which contact one surface of the tile on either side of the line, and a further element 30 which contacts the opposite surface of the tile on the line itself. ... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4774930 | Anti-scuff boots for tile cutting equipment A set of anti-scuff boots for a tile cutter comprises a pair of loops made from a soft, durable material such as leather for demountably mounting on the breaking wings of the tile cutter. The loops are connected to one another and prevented from sliding o... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4693232 | Tile-cutting machine A tile-cutting machine consists of a main base on which the tile is placed, a guide rail mounted on the base, a handle on the guide rail so that it can move freely along the guide rail and has a part which presses upon the tile on its bottom end, a knife ... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4614138 | Cutter for plaster board and the like A cutter for sheet materials such as plasterboard and the like which employs a pair of axially spaced, copolanar circular blades with circumferential edges in adjacent noncontacting relationship. Both blades are driven but under conditions such that an ed... | 09/30/1986 |
| 4504003 | Apparatus for cutting ceramic tile A tile cutting apparatus having an elongated base with two pairs of spaced side walls, a guide for a cutting tool, and an adjustable tile abutment block and breaking bar to snap cut-off a portion of tile to be removed.... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4444174 | Tile parting devices The invention concerns a device for parting tiles, particularly ceramic tiles, along a predetermined path. The device includes measuring means having a caliper arrangement to measure the width of an area to be covered by a tile, a tile-receiving region in... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4378782 | Ceramic tile cutter A tile scoring and fracturing device in which spaced parallel links swingably secured at one end to a base and freely secured at their other ends to the ends of an elongated guide bar to form a rectangular assembly can be shifted to a parallelogram config... | 04/05/1983 |
| 4192282 | Tile cutter A unified tile scoring and fracturing device having a simple adjustment for making straight or diagonal cuts on a piece of tile. The tile cutter provides a guide rod above and parallel to the base of the tile cutter and a single control handle having wide... | 03/11/1980 |
| 4026262 | Tile cutter A tile cutter which comprises mainly a guide rod provided above and in parallel with a base of the tile cutter and a handle having fins with attachments, a movable cutter, a link, sliding plates and a cam. The handle is movably and slidably fitted in the ... | 05/31/1977 |
