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...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7357954 | Process for preparing instant rice and product thereof Milled rice grains are primarily immersed, and at least surface layers of the grains are converted to the alpha-type. The rice grains are then preliminarily dried and consummatively polished, and are further subjected to secondary immersing and secondary alpha-type ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7093718 | Inline sifter A booster 8 extending in an internal area 53 of a sieve 7 is attached to the outer circumferential face of a rotating shaft 6. The booster 8 has four blades 82, which are radially extended from the outer circumferential face... | 08/22/2006 |
| 6829840 | Circular vibratory fluid bed dryer A two-deck apparatus, one deck above the other, is provided for enabling drying of approximately twice as much material with very little increase in heat used to dry the material, when compared to a single deck dryer. The fan usually provided with dryers of this typ... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6579041 | Pre-screening element for pneumatic particle transport systems A pre-screening element for use with pneumatic discharge systems for transport of powdered material has a housing having an inlet and an outlet, a first vane array, having a plurality of strip-shaped first vanes arranged inside the housing and spaced apar... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6216875 | Vibrating screener An improved vibrating screener includes a tangential input system for the material to be processed, combined with a channel internal to the machine and for directing air down through the center of the unit to assist the screened material flowing down the ... | 04/17/2001 |
| 5873469 | Vibrating screener An improved vibrating screener is disclosed as including an inlet system which provides for tangential input of the material to be processed by the screener. A spacing frame is provided in connection with the tangential inlet in order to separate material... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5593043 | Rotor for mechanical air classifiers A rotor for mechanical air classifiers of the type having a hollow cage-like rotor is provided with a plurality of entering openings for air and classified material, the entering openings being generally equidimensionally shaped.... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5411150 | Culling device for vacuum cleaners and other equipment Culling device for vacuum cleaners and other equipment which is made either as uni-functional (1) or two-functional (16), a part of which enclosure (6) is most frequently made of transparent materials, the device itself being made as tube, handle, part of... | 05/02/1995 |
| 4477339 | Cyclone classifier The invention is a cyclone-type particle classifier. It comprises an upper body section, with an inlet for a particle laden gas, and a lower conical section where classification occurs. The lower section comprises an inner foraminous portion and a coaxial... | 10/16/1984 |
| 4300267 | Total fiber recovery method and apparatus A total fiber recovery method and apparatus are disclosed which will recover substantially all of the usable fiber contained in discarded waste material comprising a mixture of fibers, motes and trash. The method consists of conveying the input material i... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4229286 | Apparatus and method for removing dust from tufts of opened cotton fiber Apparatus and method for removing dust and trash from tufts of opened cotton fiber stock includes entrance and exit ducts for airborne transport of the tufts to and from a housing having passages for the tufts therethrough, a screen disposed therein, a pa... | 10/21/1980 |
| 4178232 | Apparatus for separating solid materials A rotary drum air separation system separates mixed solid materials into a light fraction and a heavy fraction with substantially no stagnation of material in the air drum. It further provides for processing high volume urban solid waste without first siz... | 12/11/1979 |
| 4040948 | Device for cleaning flock formed by natural fibers, especially cotton flock, of dirt particles This disclosure relates to apparatus for cleaning natural fibers of their contaminants by passing the same through a pair of rotary drum sieves each having a porous peripheral surface subject to a vacuum whereby natural fibers adhere to the porous periphe... | 08/09/1977 |
