Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7246728 | Container and lid assembly An assembly for facilitating the use of paint applicator accessories in connection with a plastic container is provided. The assembly includes a nozzle device housed within a container lid and having a suction line, which extends into the paint container. The assemb... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7182280 | DC power spraying tool A DC power spraying tool includes a housing having an inlet opening, a discharging opening, and a motor cavity, a liquid container for containing a liquid colorant therein communicatively connected to the inlet opening of the housing, a spray nozzle extended from th... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7143958 | Misting bottle system A housing has walls terminating with an opening and a circular aperture adapted to hold a bottle. A fan assembly has a motor within the housing. The fan assembly has propellers exterior of the housing. The fan assembly has a rotatable shaft and a button. The button ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7143763 | Device for washing nasal cavities and collecting catarrhal matter The invention relates to a device for washing the nasal cavities with a nebulized treatment liquid. It comprises a base body, a atomizer chamber containing a washing liquid, means for nebulizing the liquid in said chamber and dispensing the atomized liquid to the na... | 12/05/2006 |
| 6933019 | Method of applying a uniform polymer coating A method of applying a polymer coating uses a nebulized aerosol of solubilized polymer solution having high-viscosity droplets and low-viscosity droplets to form a textured antireflective surface. Air or other gas is used to direct the nebulized aerosol toward the s... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6896200 | Hand-held applicator device for applying a layer of fluid droplets A hand-held device for applying a layer of fluid droplets on a target or subject is provided. The device includes a housing with a fluid reservoir. The device further includes an inlet port in the housing for receiving pressurized fluid. A rotatable brush roll in th... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6827290 | Side handle mist sprayer A side-handle mist sprayer has a mist-liquid container (3) with a side handle (1) vertically above a container base (2). A finger aperture (4) is positioned between a front container extension (5) and the side handle. A spray-trigg... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6601778 | Centrifugal humidifier with sawtooth ridged impingement surface A centrifugal humidifier having a rotatable body for propelling water outwardly on to an impingement surface that brake up the propelled water into droplets which are then entrained in a stream of air and discharged to the surroundings, wherein the imping... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6415990 | Metering dispenser for powder and granules A hand-held, pneumatically propelled, metering dispenser for powdered or granular products such as pesticides, the dispenser having a manually operated pneumatic pump, a product canister, a metering scoop insertable into the product canister in operative ... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6098901 | Apparatus for dispensing slurry A slurry dispenser dispensing slurry by a pair of counter-rotating wheels is provided in a chemical mechanical polishing process used in manufacturing integrated circuits. The slurry dispenser is driven by variable speed motors at a predetermined speed em... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5915627 | Method and apparatus for spattering masses A system for applying a viscous mass upon a surface comprising a housing having a spout and a reservoir for carrying the viscous mass, an abutment spaced from the reservoir, and an impeller rotatably mounted proximate the reservoir having radially extendi... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5893515 | Mist generator A device for generating a spray of mist or fine droplets includes a spinning rotor within a mist chamber. The rotor has inner walls which taper conically outwardly from the open bottom of the rotor to a hole near the top of the rotor. Liquid is pumped by ... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5842642 | Method and apparatus for spattering masses A system for applying a viscous mass upon a surface comprising a housing having a spout and a reservoir for carrying the viscous mass, an abutment spaced from the reservoir, and an impeller rotatably mounted proximate the reservoir having radially extendi... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5788156 | Segment rotary nozzle A device for spraying a liquid has a rotating surface, preferably one with an edge apron which is angled obliquely toward the outside, from whose possibly serrated outer spraying edge the liquid is flung out. The rotating surface is partially covered by a... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5752662 | Atomizer An improved atomizer comprises an atomizing mechanism, a housing mounted over the atomizing mechanism, a rotor mounted on the housing, the rotor having a number of blades made of flexible material mounted thereon, and a delivery tube connected between a b... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5346132 | Mist generator A device for generating a spray of mist or fine droplets includes a spinning rotor within a mist chamber. The rotor has inner walls which taper conically outwardly from the open bottom of the rotor to a hole near the top of the rotor. Liquid is pumped by ... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5338495 | Portable misting fan There is disclosed an integral portable fan and atomizing head unit forming a portable cooling unit adapted for direct attachment to a fluid reservoir such as a bottle, formed by a unit having an upper chamber and a lower chamber and a connector secured t... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5246167 | Droplet application device and method A droplet applicator (3) utilised for the application of concentrated chemicals, e.g. fertiliser, pesticides or herbicides. The applicator device (3) is comprised of a plurality of fibres (9) extending and rotatable about a central hub (8) such that upon ... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5216952 | Brush-type dampening unit in a rotary printing machine A brush-type dampening unit in a rotary printing machine, includes at least one revolving carrier member having a multiplicity of brush bristles arranged thereon a pan roller dipping at least partly into a dampening-fluid pan, and revolving in a direction... | 06/08/1993 |
| 4986475 | Method and apparatus for spraying fluids A spray device is used to deliver a liquid, liquid containing a solid or a solid in a shaped flow onto a surface. The spray device can be used to deliver the material downwardly, laterally or upwardly in the form of droplets, a curtain or a mist. The spra... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4790482 | Sheet metal liquid atomizer The invention relates to a liquid atomizer having a liquid atomizing rotor rotatable about an axis, and designed to feed a liquid into its inlet, along a liquid flow surface of the rotor and through its outlet as an atomized spray. The liquid flow surface... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4553700 | Centrifugal sprayer having hollow cone feeder A centrifugal sprayer of the type having an electric motor driving a disc element, and coupled to a feed mechanism suspended in immersion in a container of liquid to be sprayed, including an external axially supporting bushing surface about the cone feede... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4392614 | Portable paint sprayer A portable paint spraying device for generating a paint spray by centrifugally impelling liquid paint from the edge of a vertically oriented spinning disc. The disc is driven by an electric motor which also drives a conveyor screw used to lift the paint u... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4381664 | Methods of and apparatus for the detection of airborne particles A method of measuring the containment efficiency of a biological safety cabinet comprises releasing an aerosol of identifiable droplets within the cabinet and then sampling ambient air in the proximity of the cabinet so as to determine if particles of sai... | 05/03/1983 |
| 4323195 | Rotary-type melt applicator A rotary-type melt applicator for forming pavement markings comprising a hopper for containing a marking composition having a composition outlet in its bottom and a plug-shaped member for opening or closing the outlet, with or without an oil bath surround... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4252763 | Method and apparatus for cement lining of pipes A pipe lining apparatus includes a distributor head which throws cement mortar centrifugally against the interior of a pipe, a trowel which smooths the cement mortar and a liquid coating spray applicator which applies a curing control substance to the tro... | 02/24/1981 |
| 4235377 | Portable paint spraying device A portable pump spraying device includes a container for the liquid to be sprayed, a housing positioned above the container having a spraying chamber, a pumping unit to elevate the liquid to the spraying chamber, and a rotating disc in the spraying chambe... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4199108 | Apparatus for building up and repairing a refractory lining Apparatus for building up and repairing a refractory lining of an industrial oven or like hot-running vessel comprises a disc rotatable in a horizontal plane in either direction for centrifugally depositing a granular refractory material on a portion of t... | 04/22/1980 |
