Did You Know...
...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4606660 | Printer kit for letter sorting machines A printer system is configured as a kit for retrofitting the input consoles of existing letter sorting machines of the type used by the U.S. Postal Service. Such machines require that an operator, stationed at a console, enter sorting information for each... | 08/19/1986 |
| 4601396 | Method and device for sorting flat and indexed articles A method and device for sorting flat and indexed articles are disclosed, the method involving two passes. In the first pass, articles having a destination common to a very large member of articles are sorted and distributed to N/2 receptacles (10), the re... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601394 | Zip code sorter for article labeling system A zip code sorter for an article labeling and stacking system of the type having a labeling head for applying address labels to articles and a stacker for stacking the addressed articles, the labels having control marks identifying the end of a zip code g... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4566595 | Device for classifying handled objects A device for classifying handled objects. This device comprises a mechanical sorting system and an electronic control system. The former comprises two storage devices, each organized in the form of a queue or line, i.e., the objects can be removed in the ... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4520447 | Sorter with automatic discharging unit A sorter with an automatic discharging unit has: a preliminary stacking section having a discharging mechanism for stacking therein paper sheets intended to be stacked in a given stacking section while paper sheets are being discharged from the given stac... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4507739 | Sorter system for postal matter A letter sorting machine (LSM) system of the invention has a plurality of LSMs, each having a feeder, a reader, horizontal convey paths, bins with a push-out mechanism, an elevator mechanism, a separating mechanism for separating the postal matter from th... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4503977 | Postal matter sorting apparatus An apparatus for sorting postal matter or mail to a plurality of stacking bins arranged in a row in accordance with the result of optically scanning and reading ZIP codes and taking out the mail from the stacking bins to a conveyance section arranged alon... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4503976 | Envelope tracking system for mail sorting machines An improved envelope tracking and control system for a mail sorting machine of the type which reads a sorting code imprinted on each envelope and deposits the envelope in the proper sorting bin by deflecting a diverter gate associated with the bin. Each d... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4482059 | Sorter with automatic push-out mechanism The invention provides a sorter with an automatic push-out apparatus. The postal matter is transferred to an empty tray after the corresponding stacking section is full of postal matter. When the number of pieces of postal matter to be stacked at the stac... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4479187 | Classifying apparatus with automatic removal device An automatic removal device of a classifying apparatus has a control circuit which includes a first detector to effect detection as to whether postal matter stacked in a stacking section provided with a removal mechanism is in a removal ready state before... | 10/23/1984 |
| 4456127 | Document handling machine with two stage collection compartment for grouping documents Rows (14, 16) of documents are conveyed in a shingled "two-up" fashion between low speed input rollers (18) and then to high speed rollers (22) which burst the shingled documents. After bursting, coded indicia (44) on each document are read by a photocell... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4432458 | Electronic control system for monitoring and controlling the movement of an envelope through a mail sorting machine An electronic control for a mail sorting machine having a single envelope guideway and a plurality of deflecting gates arranged in pairs. The control includes a plurality of tracking circuits interconnected in series with a circuit associated for each gat... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4358017 | Mail direction system An addressee's internal mail is accompanied by a director card having machine readable indicia placed thereon for identifying the given addressee. A carrier, holding the addressee's mail and director card is passed under an optical character reader which ... | 11/09/1982 |
| 4314644 | Zip sort registration system A method and apparatus for segregating articles, such as envelopes (14a, b, or c) bearing address labels (15) into separate groups, with all the articles in each group having the same unique mark (such as a zip-code-area mark). The apparatus includes a ri... | 02/09/1982 |
| 4307293 | Optical reader kit for letter sorting machines An optical reader system configured as a kit for retrofitting the input consoles of existing letter sorting machines of the type used by the U.S. Postal Service. Such machines require that an operator, stationed at a console, enter sorting information for... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4247008 | Method and system for sorting envelopes The present invention deals with a microprocessor implemented method and system suitable for use in a mail sorting machine to sort the envelopes into common groups, assign each group a particular sort bin and generate a coded bin designation signal. The e... | 01/27/1981 |
| 4140627 | Mailing sorter having parallel delivery conveyors and parallel sorting conveyors with chain-speed mail separation Mail is sorted by scanning zip code data, delivering the scanned mail from a delivery conveyor to a sorting conveyor and altering the speed of the sorting conveyor when there is a change in the zip code; zip code batches cannot be interrupted by missing p... | 02/20/1979 |
| 4117975 | Mail preparation, sorting apparatus and method There is disclosed apparatus for marking and then sorting of articles by code or address marks which bear the identifying marks in a grid or code area locateable by one or more guide elements which may be separate and distinct from the marked code. More p... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4090611 | Method and apparatus for sorting documents Method and apparatus for separating bundles of envelopes containing information-bearing documents according to preselected sorting scheme. Documents are marked with iron particle deposits, in coded format, prior to being placed in the envelopes. The locat... | 05/23/1978 |
| 4034341 | Automatic postal-code-number reading system A postal code detection system is described having a prescanning apparatus operable to detect the position on a mail item of a postal code. The pre-scanning apparatus detects word length, character height of each word, and word position. Based on the latt... | 07/05/1977 |
| 4014784 | Sorting apparatus Stacking apparatus and method for generally flat objects, particularly useful for the stacking of magazines by zip code. According to the invention, a continuous input stream of the objects is alternately diverted in preselected numbers pursuant to a shif... | 03/29/1977 |
| 3995741 | Method of sorting mail using a coded postage stamp Postage stamps selected in accordance with destination, are cancelled on mail by activating radiation which also establishes a destination code that is machine readable. The destination code is formed by a pattern of color zones on the cancelled postage s... | 12/07/1976 |
| 3933094 | Substrate having colored indicia thereon for read-out by infrared scanning apparatus In a method for making a business reply envelope having binary bar code indicia imprinted thereon for identification or read-out by infrared scanning apparatus, the steps of providing a plurality of printing inks, each of said inks being of a color which ... | 01/20/1976 |
