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...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.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7239060 | Brush DC motors and AC commutator motor structures with concentrated windings Structures of direct current motors or ac commutator (Universal) motors which use a concentrated winding on the rotor with coils wound around the teeth. The number of commutator segments is higher than the number of rotor teeth. Several coils are wound around the sa... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7210637 | Selectively configurable misting apparatus An apparatus for dispersing mist in a predetermined area includes means for obtaining water from a water source and means for dispersing the water as mist. A connecting means connects the obtaining means to the dispersing means. Upon the obtaining means obtaining wa... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7199711 | Mobile floor cleaner data communication In a method of communicating data from a mobile floor cleaner to a remote receiver a data communication is initiated from a communicator of the mobile floor cleaner to the remote receiver and data is communicated to the remote receiver with the communicator. ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7172658 | Cleaning liquid dispensing in a mobile hard surface cleaner A hard surface cleaner includes a motorized scrub head, a fluid recovery device, a primary cleaning liquid component container, a cleaning agent container, a flow control device and a fluid flow path. The flow control device is configured to supply a flow of cleanin... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7083121 | Modular automatic spray gun manifold A modular automatic spray gun manifold is provided. The manifold includes a plurality of spray gun modules arranged in an array in laterally spaced relation from each other. A junction element is arranged at an upstream end of the manifold. The junction element incl... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7066403 | Sprinkling system and method The invention relates to a sprinkling system. The system comprises a body portion comprising a housing and a spike depending downward from the housing, wherein the housing comprises a lower platform and an upwardly open U-shaped groove aligned along a center line of... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7051399 | Cleaner cartridge A cleaner cartridge includes a container having an interior cavity, in which cleaning agent can be stored. A first end of conduit is fluidically coupled to the interior cavity. A second end of the conduit is connectable to a chemical dispenser. ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7014126 | Sorting machine for diverting an article from an article stream A sorting machine for diverting an article from an article stream generally includes a manifold, a first valve supported on the manifold and a second valve supported on top of the first valve. The manifold has a first blow-off conduit and a second blow-off conduit f... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7004513 | Pipe coupling methods A pipe coupling method includes an inlet insert, a clamping ring, a clamp and the forming of a flange on an end of two adjacent pipes. A clamping ring includes an inner groove sized to receive the flanges of the two adjacent pipes. A first end of the inlet insert is... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6942166 | Sprinkler pipeline assembly and related sprinkler A sprinkler to sprinkle water running in a pipeline over both its sides through sprinkler heads mounted on the pipeline, wherein (i) the pipeline comprises first water pipes and second water pipes connected to each other alternately so as to be freely disconnectable... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6830203 | Self-discharging drip irrigation A self-discharging drip irrigation system includes at least an elongated drip irrigation hose for operatively extending from a water supply, an emitter for directing water from the drip irrigation hose to a cultivating area, wherein the emitter comprises a flow regu... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6779744 | Automobile undercarriage cleaner Vehicle undercarriage cleaners clean the undercarriage of vehicles. Dirt, mud, salt, chemicals, snow and other materials accumulate on the undersides of vehicles. The vehicle undercarriage cleaner removes these materials without requiring the user to manipulated dur... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6394368 | Irrigation emitter device A irrigation emitter device for delivering water to various points along a length of a hose. The irrigation emitter device includes a primary hose. The primary hose is elongate and has a first end and a second end. Each of a plurality of secondary hoses h... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6315219 | Misting-system fluid-atomization manifold A fluid-atomization manifold (50) for use in a misting system (20) configured to distribute a fluid (24) and to render that fluid (24) into a mist (26) is provided. The fluid-atomization manifold (50) has an input connector (54) coupled to a connector (44... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6237860 | Method and apparatus for spraying pressurized water A spray apparatus includes a pump for pressurizing water, a drive unit for driving the pump, a flow regulator for regulating the flow of water pressurized by the pump, and a modular spray assembly. The modular spray assembly includes piping connected to t... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6065693 | Flowerbed irrigation shower A spray shower apparatus reconfigurable and adjustable for watering flowers and other plants planted in beds. The apparatus comprises a kit enabling modular assembly and enclosed within a common enclosure. The principal component of the kit is a rigid liq... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6053427 | Sprayer nozzle fluid supply system A nozzle fluid supply system for use in sprayers that combines the modular advantages of a dry boom system with the high capacity of a wet boom system. Pressurized fluid is carried by rigid tubes connecting adjacent nozzle holding members attached to the ... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5916367 | Spray head for a spraying tool Proposed is a spraying-tool head (1), for use in particular in foundries, which has a distribution plate (9) fitted to an adapter (7) and, screwed onto the distribution plate, a nozzle plate (11) equipped with spray nozzles (4). The adapter as well as the... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5799346 | Dual shower head device A dual shower head device having elongated tubular sections that are connected in a telescopic manner to form an elongated unit is disclosed. The elongated telescoping tubes serve to adjust the length of the device to fit a particular tub/shower enclosure... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5441202 | Misting system with improved couplers A misting system including a locking T coupler with an elongated tubular body having a first end defining an axially extending chamber therein with sidewalls that taper radially outwardly from adjacent the first end toward the center of the body. A tubula... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5385300 | Plant watering device The invention comprises a liquid storage container having a plant feeder outlet and a fluid transmission outlet arranged to accept a tube, the distance it inserts into the fluid transmission outlet determining the volume of fluid which is allowed to flow ... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5295506 | Flow control apparatus A flow control apparatus having a pair of substantially identical housings, each having a path for fluid passage therethrough bounded by an annulus; a resilient body; and substantially identical portions borne by the housings releasably engageable to inte... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5213688 | Shower water filter assembly A shower water filter assembly includes a housing having a cavity for a filter element which is relatively large relative to the cross section of the water pipe to which the assembly is attached. A water inlet and a water outlet to the housing couple to a... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5031837 | Drip irrigator A drip irrigator consists of only two substantially parallel discs spaced from each other by the depth of a labyrinthine path extending about a central region between these discs and between a liquid inlet and a dripper outlet and consisting of the materi... | 07/16/1991 |
| 4915300 | High pressure mixing and spray nozzle apparatus and method Disclosed is a high pressure mixing and spray nozzle apparatus generally comprised of three modules. The high pressure nozzle produces a more definite stream with less flair through the use of a linear compressed shock wave. The high pressure nozzle requi... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4913353 | Nozzle apparatus having angled orifice A nozzle tube has a centroidal axis extending therethrough from a first end to a second end of the tube. A bore also extends from the first end to the second end. The bore has a first constant diameter portion extending from the first end toward the secon... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4809911 | High pressure mixing and spray nozzle apparatus and method Disclosed is a high pressure mixing and spray nozzle apparatus generally comprised of three modules. The high pressure nozzle produces a more definite stream with less flair through the use of a linear compressed shock wave. The high pressure nozzle requi... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4791993 | Fire protection system Disclosed is an integral fire protection and ceiling structure for use in a building of the kind wherein false ceilings are employed. The fire protection system comprises a rectangular gridwork of pipe sections with four-way cast pipe fittings to which th... | 12/20/1988 |
| 4760961 | Modular sprayhead assembly A modular spraying assembly particularly adapted for use with automatic molding or dye casting machines which is characterized by a plurality of identical sprayhead modules which can be mounted in linear relationship to one another to form variable vertic... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4087049 | Aboveground sprinkling device for sprinkling system An aboveground sprinkling device for a spinkling system for lawns and gardens. The device has a sprinkler head at the center of its upper surface and has four sockets spaced at ninety-degree intervals around its side edge, all leading in to a central cham... | 05/02/1978 |
| 4078728 | Combined coupling and air nozzle A main body is provided having a fluid passage extending therethrough including inlet and outlet ends. The body further defines a branch passage having an outlet end portion opening outwardly of the body and an inlet end portion opening into an intermedia... | 03/14/1978 |
