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...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4474016 | Sterile cooling system A cooling system is provided for organs during transplant surgery. A disposable receptacle (10) has a sterilizable interior and is formed of a material that is sufficiently rigid to maintain its shape normally without collapsing but sufficiently flexible ... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4341308 | Container for bottles An improved container for holding and displaying a plurality of beverage bottles. The container is of the type typically fabricated from corrugated particle board and has a base and a cover. The container has an improved bottle holder which has first and ... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4324357 | Carton with air cushion end structure A carton which is folded from a generally rectangular blank and which has at least one end structure which includes inner and outer end walls disposed in spaced relation and defining therebetween an air cushion so as to facilitate the shipping of fragile ... | 04/13/1982 |
| 4303153 | Insulated carrying container for beverage containers A thermally insulated carrying container for an assembled plurality of beverage containers which is constructed entirely of a thin sheet plastic foam material. The carrying container is to include side flaps which are to be locatable in an open position t... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4223827 | Hazardous materials container A hazardous materials container comprises an outer shipping container and a one piece divider formed from a cut and scored blank of corrugated paperboard or the like. The divider element is alternately scored to provide a plurality of serially connected p... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4194678 | Shipping container and blank for forming same A shipping container formed by joining a base member having a floor, sides, and top with a reinforcing member having front and rear panels joined by a vertical support panel. These two members combine to form a crush resistant container. Preferably, there... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4173286 | Reusable resilient packaging A reusable resilient package particularly for the shipment of beverage cans is provided having at least two mating half sections, each containing at least one pair of mating recesses, one recess of each pair receiving half of a lengthwise section of a bev... | 11/06/1979 |
| 4146132 | Non-partition packaging dividers and method Packaging dividers are comprised of a plurality of axially linked-together separator sections. Each separator section is formed to have a preselected height and cross-sectional configuration which may be circular or cross-shaped. Each separator section is... | 03/27/1979 |
| 4142634 | Layer separator for a container A separator for supporting stacked layers of items within a container comprising a first plastic section having a honeycomb pattern embossed on its top surface for rigidity and to distribute any applied force equally in all directions and a second plastic... | 03/06/1979 |
| 4095693 | Ribbed carton An improved carton for packaging a plurality of multiple articles having a chime formed on one end thereof. The improved carton has a series of spacing means or ribs formed on at least one of the panels of the carton with the spacing means serving to abut... | 06/20/1978 |
| 4093068 | Packing sheet and packages formed thereby Packing sheet for packaging aerosol cans and the like is formed from two sheets for films of plastic. One of the sheets is vacuum formed to provide a plurality of blisters or bubbles, and the sheets are sealed together to seal air inside the bubbles. The ... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4067442 | Packaging glass bottles and other rigid containers A package and a method of safely packaging rigid containers, such as glass bottles, in a carton without using inner partitions to separate the containers. The containers are placed on a bottom wall of a corrugated or similar paperboard carton blank so as ... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4062448 | Support member for shrink wrapped articles An internal support member for a shrink wrapped package of identical articles arranged in a layer or layers on a base comprises a single generally rectangular sheet of relatively rigid material formed with at least two preferably six parallel folds that e... | 12/13/1977 |
| 3994398 | Bottle carton A carton for a group of capped bottles having sloping upper necks and cylindrical lower portions. The carton is formed from a single molded blank. It includes a rectangular top panel having an inner area slightly less than the composite area of the groupe... | 11/30/1976 |
| 3990624 | Disposable, open, punched cardboard container, particularly for bottles and various objects Cardboard support or disposable container consists of a single quadrangular cardboard sheet on which many longitudinal zones are formed by means of predetermined creasing lines; at these lines parallel ribs are formed by folding the cardboard sheet; the s... | 11/09/1976 |
| 3979882 | Packaging glass bottles and other rigid containers A package and a method of safely packaging rigid containers, such as glass bottles, in a carton without using inner partitions to separate the containers. The containers are placed on a bottom wall of a corrugated or similar paperboard carton blank so as ... | 09/14/1976 |
| 3955704 | Storage device An article storage device intended especially but not exclusively for use in storing the rotor assemblies of electric motors and comprising a block formed with a plurality of recesses each adapted to receive an article to be stored and each having a close... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3930579 | Multipack means for packaging a plurality of cathode ray tubes An improved multipack container is provided for accommodating a plurality of cathode ray tubes during transportation and storage. The altered construction includes basic top and bottom rigid closure members formed of flame retardant plastic material. Posi... | 01/06/1976 |
