Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7300371 | Apparatus for deflecting or inverting moving webs A diverting roller has a roller body having a longitudinal axis. A plurality of pairs of pulleys are rotatably mounted on the roller body adjacent a circumference of the roller body. An endless belt is looped around each of the pairs of pulleys in such a fashion tha... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7252026 | Strand oscillator assembly for choppers and method An improved oscillator assembly that can be used on a chopper for chopping strands of fiber and other long or continuous it items into segments. The improved oscillating assembly moves the items back and forth across the surface of a working layer of the chopper whi... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7188757 | Expander roller arrangement for the wrinkle-free guidance of webs An expander roller for the wrinkle-free guidance of webs in closed chambers comprises two stationary supporting bodies (7, 8) which are oriented with respect to one another at an obtuse angle in the proximity of a center plane (E—E). On both sides of the ce... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7175129 | Drive for magnetic tape adjustable for use with tapes of different widths A tape drive has a take-up reel assembly and a tape guide arrangement that are each selectively actuatable for interchangeable use with magnetic recording tape of a first width or a second width. The take-up reel assembly includes at least one actuatable, retractabl... | 02/13/2007 |
| 6336757 | Label printer A label printer for printing predetermined data on and issuing labels includes a tubular roll holder (101) secured at one end to a vertical wall (11a), a slide member (102) slidably accommodated within the hollow of the roll holder (101), and a roll retai... | 01/08/2002 |
| 5996658 | Feed roller The present invention relates to a feed roller (1) by means of which a felled tree (2) trunk is fed into a timber harvester for delimbing. The apparatus comprises a drive wheel (4) and at least one transmission means (5) arranged at the outer circumferenc... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5615961 | Material conveying method and apparatus and material processing apparatus A material conveying apparatus. A pair of winding and guiding rollers are spaced apart from a rotating drum. The winding and guiding rollers are adapted to guide a material according to the curvature of the rotating drum and wind it around a part of the o... | 04/01/1997 |
| 4776714 | Ink ribbon cassette with movable guide rolls There is disclosed a printer having a thermal print head and a cooperable platen roll. The platen roll is driven to advance a web of record medium and an ink ribbon into cooperation with the print head. The printer can use an ink ribbon cartridge. The pri... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4748909 | Transverse stretching apparatus for a moving web To simplify a transverse stretching apparatus and provide rollers which do not require a change in the respective axes of rotation, two rollers are located adjacent, parallel, and spaced from each other, in which each of the rollers have outer cylindrical... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4621756 | Web feeding mechanism A printer includes a print mechanism for performing printing operations and a print medium feeding mechanism for feeding a print medium past the print mechanism so that printing operations can be performed on the print medium. The print medium feeding mec... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4286706 | Belt tracking system An apparatus in which the lateral movement of a belt arranged to move along a pre-determined path is controlled. The apparatus includes a belt sensor mounted translatably on a belt support. As the belt moves laterally, the sensor translates therewith caus... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4221480 | Belt support and control system An apparatus in which lateral movement of a moving belt is controlled so that the belt moves in a pre-determined path. The apparatus includes at least one moving member having a plurality of spaced, flexible discs extending outwardly from the exterior sur... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4196803 | Self-aligning roller for belt conveyors A roller mounted for universal angular movement relatively to its nominal longitudinal axis of rotation so as to be angularly displaced by the weight and movement of the conveyor belt when the conveyor belt shifts away from running true. This angular disp... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4150773 | Guide roller construction for magnetic tape recording/reproducing systems, and especially for video tape systems To decrease forces acting on the edge of magnetic tape, typically wide tape (25.4 mm-1"), and thus prevent damage to the edge, the surface of deflection guide rollers is formed to be resilient and permitting axial deflection, but returning to the nominal ... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4122985 | Tape cartridge with self-aligning tape transport roller A tape cartridge is formed with a rotatable tape transport roller having a cylindrical exterior surface and a central bore into which protrudes a node from each inner sidewall of the cartridge to serve as trunnion axes for supporting the roller therein. I... | 10/31/1978 |
| 4060186 | Metal strip handling apparatus and method A strip handling apparatus and method which prevent slipping and weaving of strip in strip tensioning units and achieve close control of tension on strip entering a drag strip tensioning unit and leaving a drive strip tensioning unit.... | 11/29/1977 |
| 4048861 | Device for oscillating a rotating body along its rotational axis A rotating body, such as a pulley or a guide wheel, is oscillatable along its rotational axis. The rotating body is carried by a longitudinal support having a cam surface extending generally perpendicular to the rotational axis. The support is mounted for... | 09/20/1977 |
| 3964739 | Self-aligning and self-leveling pinch roll for magnetic card transport system A magnetic card transport system for an electronic typewriter comprises a reversible drive roller and a coacting pinch roller which form a nip through which a magnetic card is passed. The drive roll and pinch coact to move the card in opposite directions.... | 06/22/1976 |
| 3961736 | Rubber-covered self-centering rolls A self-centering roll includes a body, a first layer of rubber surrounding the body, and a second layer of rubber surrounding the first layer, the rubber on the first layer being softer and of lower density than the rubber in the second layer. Flexible pr... | 06/08/1976 |
| 3961737 | Self-centering rolls A self-centering roll has two tubular end rim portions mounted on a straight shaft by means of a deflectible end web connected to the outer end of each end rim portion. Each end web includes a bearing mounted on the shaft and a compressible member extendi... | 06/08/1976 |
| 3942697 | Hot strip rolling apparatus In hot strip rolling apparatus a driving roll stand is located between a rolling stand for producing the hot strip and a strip take-up reel. The driving roll stand comprises a pair of rolls capable of axial floating movement during take-up of the strip on... | 03/09/1976 |
| 3940043 | Adjustable-bow bar or roll axle An adjustable-bow bar or roll axle, useful for spreading slit sheets of paper and for other purposes, includes a hollow cylindrical shell. Two tension bolts extend along axes parallel to the centerline of the shell, and interconnect the ends of the bar or... | 02/24/1976 |
