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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7401718 | Arrangement for axial feed of a supply hose The arrangement is for the axial driving of a supply hose (11) for pressure medium or application medium in the form of fluid, gaseous or solid, granule-formed or powder-formed, material. The supply hose (11) is connected to a displaceable cartridge ( | 07/22/2008 |
| 7389900 | Floating wire guides A wire guide, for a drive assembly of a wire feeding assembly, of a welding system, has an elongate body which has with an outer surface, a length, and first and second ends. An elongate bore extends along the length of, and through, the elongate body. An aperture e... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7374074 | Wire feeder A wire guide (16), for a drive assembly (56) of a wire feeding assembly (16), of a welding system (10), has an elongate body with an outer surface, a length, and first (296A) and second (296B) ends. An elongate bore (255 | 05/20/2008 |
| 6959849 | Drive roller assembly There are described drive roller assemblies for pulling print media within, or in conjunction with, a printing apparatus. In one embodiment the assembly includes a rigid drive roller having a hard outer surface in conjunction with a pressure roller having a deformab... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6086011 | Automatic band charging device for strapping packing machine Front end portions of respective bands drawn out of two band reels are guided in substantially parallel relationship by means of band guide 11. When the band reel in use becomes empty, band feeding unit 30 is driven in reverse to thereby discharge a rear ... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6073916 | Powered cable feeding system A device for removing a plurality of cables from a plurality of reels and thereafter feeding or advancing the cables to, for example, a conduit. The device includes a pair of rotary members positionable relative to each other such that the cables are fric... | 06/13/2000 |
| 5934537 | Device for pushing or pulling using gripping Lateral elastic deformation of Drive wheels (12) is used to grip and to push or pull elongated members by powered rotation of Drive wheels (12). This arrangement allows two wheels on a single shaft to be used in place of more cumbersome arrangements of mu... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5906306 | Conveying continuous web having cross-direction tension An apparatus for handling a continuous web in a continuous processing operation wherein the web incorporates therein one or more stretched elastic-type elements having retractive forces active in the cross-machine direction, and limiting shrinkage of the ... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5899373 | Wire measuring apparatus An electrical wire length measuring apparatus is capable of minimizing any error of the wire feed amount of respective wire per each measurement cycle and can realize more accurate length measurement of the wires. The measuring apparatus includes a plural... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5839613 | Device for pushing a tube of plastics material for internally casing a metal piping to be renovated A pushing device which includes a frame supporting at least one powered train of wheels the drive surface of which is made from rubber for driving a plastics tubing through friction and for imparting thereto a continuous motion inside of a metal piping to... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5836499 | Conveyor apparatus for the transport of door panels A sectional door (20) having a plurality of panels (21, 22, 23, 24) including, a body portion (25) of the panels spacing and joining longitudinal edges (40, 50), one of the edges (40) between adjacent panels on a first panel having a substantially concave... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5611194 | Tuck roller with improved web tension control An improved tuck roll apparatus includes a drive roll, backup roll and tuck roll driven by clutch for tensioning and driving a pouch web without slippage on said rolls and for feeding the web to a filler wheel of a pouch filling machine. The tuck roll app... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5553763 | Feeding of offset, collated forms During the feeding of offset continuous collated business form webs to the slow rollers of a burster, it is important to insure that the top web properly passes through the slow roll section. By providing a number of puller wheels having aluminum cores an... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5184788 | Apparatus for guiding and more particularly coiling webs of material An apparatus for coiling webs of material, more particularly webs of material (5) arriving from a ribbon casting machine, and for coiling the webs of material (5) if necessary. For the purposes of guiding and coiling, brush rollers (20, 21, 23-26) are use... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5109690 | Tension apparatus A tension apparatus for imposing a predetermined tension on a wire-like member which is used for a stator or a alternator. First and second rollers are rotatably supported on a supporting means in such a manner that a space between the first roller and th... | 05/05/1992 |
| 4991762 | Bar guiding device for bar feeders of machine tools The present invention relates to a bar guiding device for bar feeders of machine tools. The device is composed of at least one group of wheels angularly distributed around the bar and rotatably supported so as to be peripherally in contact with the bar.... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4964583 | Method of transporting rapidly quenched ribbon and apparatus therefor A method and an apparatus for transporting a rapidly quenched ribbon from a cooling roll to a winding reel by a pinch roll are disclosed. The pinch roll comprises a brush roll and a solid roll for transporting the ribbon such as to maintain an adequate te... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4925011 | Method and apparatus for conveying plate-like parts of different thickness The apparatus for conveying plate-like parts, especially circuit boards, of varying thickness, comprises an upper roller and an associated lower roller between which the plate-like objects are fed, and a gear-tooth system, connecting the lower roller with... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4829320 | Belt drive for thermal printer A thermal transfer printer employs a relatively small diameter platen roller 20 flanked by a pair of sprockets 3c which support endless timing belts 2. A clamp 7' for gripping the leading edge of a sheet 6 to be printed is mounted laterally across and bet... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4828158 | Pinch roller driving mechanism A pinch roller driving mechanism used in a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus including a rotary head comprises: a pinch roller arm driving member provided on a pinch roller pull-out gear to rotate in the same direction as the gear; a pivotable ... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4804126 | Yarn conveying apparatus A yarn conveying apparatus is disclosed, and which comprises a pair of circular discs, each having a yarn engaging front surface. The discs are mounted for rotation about respective axes which are inclined with respect to each other, and such that portion... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4790164 | Roller entry guide A roller guide assembly for guiding rolled material between the passes of previous and subsequent roll stands, the assembly being provided with a pair of guide rollers supported for rotation about parallel axes for engaging opposite sides of the rolled ma... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4779784 | Mechanical means for preventing the twisting of a fiber optic cable while temporarily storing the same A mechanical figure eighting apparatus is disclosed which permits a fiber optic cable to be deposited on the ground in a random or figure eight configuration. Fiber optic cable is passed over a rotating drive wheel and is held in frictional engagement wit... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4760946 | Device for turning a moving web In a device for the guiding of a moving web (1) that has on its inner side a contact-sensitive surface (3), the web (1) separates two zones (13, 14) in the guide region from one another. The outer zone (14) is formed by a housing (7) connected with a redu... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4657165 | Mechanical means for preventing the twisting of a fiber optic cable while temporarily storing the same A mechanical figure eighting apparatus is disclosed which permits a fiber optic cable to be deposited on the ground in a random or figure eight configuration. Fiber optic cable is passed over a rotating drive wheel and is held in frictional engagement wit... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4630071 | XY recorder An XY recorder in which a recording paper is moved on a platen along the X axis in accordance with one variable and a stylus is moved along the Y axis in accordance with another variable, employs a controller to control the paper movement in several diffe... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4591882 | Printer electromagnetic clutch drive A printer such as a thermal printer includes a reversible motor, a paper feed driver angularly movable through a desired angle in response to operation of the motor, a paper feeder rotatable for feeding a sheet of paper, and an electromagnetic clutch oper... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4264027 | Improved capstan drive for a tape The driving arrangement for a magnetic tape is comprised of a drive shaft having a smooth surface and a pressure roller having a high surface friction coefficient. The circumference of the drive shaft is provided with a thin layer of the borides, nitrides... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4242709 | Strip media drive system A strip media drive system has a pair of rotatable strip media packs for reeling the strip media therebetween. An endless belt couples the rotation of the media packs together. A belt tensioner creates a greater tension in a portion of the endless belt le... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4235419 | Storing device for a cable fixed on either of its ends A cable storage device having an operating pulley which is driven by a spring for retraction of cable which is payed out from the device is provided with a friction clutch interconnecting the spring and the pulley so that the clutch slips when the spring ... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4212436 | Tape transport apparatus having a central capstan A transport apparatus for tape-like recording media in which a central capstan having a resilient peripheral portion simultaneously drives two tape reels. According to the invention, this peripheral portion has regions of different resilience produced, fo... | 07/15/1980 |
| 4089452 | Orientation apparatus for multiple twisted wires Pre-twisted multiple wires having N twisted sections per full-twist pitch, where N is a predetermined constant integer, are juxtaposed to a roller which carries plural conformal seat means in a circumferential manner. The arcuate spacing between adjacent ... | 05/16/1978 |
| 4058245 | Yarn control mechanisms and the like A rotating yarn control element comprises a hub portion with a number of pins spaced around the periphery of the hub portion to define for the yarn a zig-zag path which degenerates with increasing distance from the axis of rotation of the element into a l... | 11/15/1977 |
| 4055288 | Front drive cartridge-tape player system with fast forward and reverse modes A fast forward cartridge tape player includes the conventional cartridge receiving cavity and cylindrical capstan. The capstan is rotatably driven about its vertically positioned longitudinal axis by a motor actuated flywheel, and it is located to forcibl... | 10/25/1977 |
| 4049216 | Method and apparatus for generating constant tape tension in a tape transport apparatus A method of generating constant tape tension in a tape transport apparatus of the type in which the supply and take-up reels of tape are simultaneously driven by surface engagement with a driving capstan. The method involves the utilization of a flexible but r... | 09/20/1977 |
| 4019665 | Feed device for rod or striplike material The invention concerns a feed device for feeding rod or striplike material, the device having two or more feed members which are arranged to lie behind one another along a feed path of the material. Each of the feed members carries a plurality of grippers... | 04/26/1977 |
| 4015447 | Method and apparatus for positively feeding yarn A plurality of yarn feeding assemblies are mounted about a circular multifeed knitting machine. Each assembly comprises a U-shaped hanger bracket and a shaft is rotatably mounted in the arms of the bracket. On each shaft one or more yarn feeding units are... | 04/05/1977 |
| 4002278 | Method and apparatus for feeding a filler cord for slide fasteners A method and apparatus for feeding a filler cord for insertion into and through a longitudinal space defined by successive convolutions of a coiled slide fastener element, the filler cord being looped in the course of its travel from a bobbin to a mandrel... | 01/11/1977 |
| 3993259 | Front drive for a reversible tape cartridge A semicircular thrust arm has an anvil at one end and a rotatably mounted idler wheel at the other. The arm is pivotally mounted at its central portion in a predetermined tape player locale. A pushbutton activated lever mounts on the player and is aligned... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3968917 | Record feeding apparatus and method There is disclosed a method of feeding record webs or sheets and apparatus for carrying out the method. The record feeding apparatus is shown in conjunction with a printing apparatus having a print head assembly, platen structure, a mechanism for severing... | 07/13/1976 |
