Did You Know...
...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 |
| 7021475 | Over-door shoe racks A shoe rack for mounting to an upright surface, or for hanging over a door, includes a pair of plastic, vertical side frame members and a plurality of shoe-retaining bars positioned between the side frame members upon which shoes, boxes and the like may be supported... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7000877 | Bracket for clotheshorse Brackets for a clotheshorse are used in pairs. Each bracket has multiple collars that align respectively with multiple collars defined in the other opposite bracket. A vertical socket is formed at a bottom of the bracket in which a telescoping rod of the clotheshors... | 02/21/2006 |
| 5102020 | Manifest container for carrying documents with a railroad car A document shipping container assembly adapted to be coupled to a railroad car is disclosed. The document shipping container assembly includes a support member, a container, and a lid. The support member is attached to the railroad car and the document sh... | 04/07/1992 |
| 4951560 | Double deck rail car with baggage racks The present invention relates to a double deck rail car having baggage racks (10, 20) for each deck, characterized in that the top deck (1) is lowered beneath the rows of seats on the top deck in order to make sufficient room beneath the ceiling for bagga... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4947762 | Modular interior for railroad passenger cars An assembly unit for the interior finishing of passenger carrying vehicles, in particular of two story railroad car type, consists of modular prefabricated functional units each having at least one of the functions cable duct, loudspeaker, illumination, b... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4149221 | Combined baggage rack and light assembly A combined baggage rack and overhead light assembly for attachment to an interior wall of a vehicle includes a pair of parallel support arm assemblies extending outwardly away from the wall for receiving a grill which provides the baggage rack. An elongat... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4050614 | Vehicle luggage carrier A vehicle luggage carrier comprising a storage container having a front end portion, a rear end portion and lateral side portions, at least one front hook-type means operatively associated with the front end portion of the said storage container for engag... | 09/27/1977 |
