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 |
| 7584906 | Fluid dampening mechanism incorporated into a water delivery system for modifying a flow pattern An assembly for converting a fluid flow includes a housing having an inlet end for receiving the fluid flow and an outlet end for issuing a converted and output fluid flow. One or more rotatable components are supported within the housing, in a path contacting the i... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7303151 | Shower head assembly A shower head assembly includes a hollow handle and a head. A base plate is engaged with the head and a rotatable member is connected to the head and a fixed plate is secured to the rotatable member. Two tubular members are located between the fixed plate and the ba... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7168634 | Debris resistant collar for rotating stream sprinklers A sprinkler head having a deformable member forming a collar is disclosed. The deformable member allows the sprinkler head to resist entry of foreign grit or matter within the sprinkler head, and allows the sprinkler head to eject or force out foreign matter from wi... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7124527 | Identification assembly An identification assembly for protectively storing information related to an animal wearing the assembly includes a bracelet storage body having a cavity defined therein. The cavity can be configured to store and protect an information-bearing medium on which the i... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7066407 | Shower head assembly A shower head assembly includes an outer housing, an inner housing, a catch cap, and an impeller. Thus, the catch cap catches the water flow and introduces the water flow through the water inlet hole into the air chamber so as to reduce the water flow rate, thereby ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7017835 | Rotary atomizer for particulate paints A rotary atomizer applies particulate paints with good color matching by reducing paint droplet size deviation and then optimizing the other paint spraying parameters. Paint droplet size parameters are reduced by using a bell cup having reduced flow deviations, incl... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6988676 | Turbine drive rotary spray cleaner A spray cleaner (10) is provided for rotatingly cleaning an interior of a vessel or the like. The spray cleaner has a main body (12) and a rotating spray body (14). The main body is at a proximal end of the spray cleaner, and the rotating spray ... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6988678 | Garden hose nozzle provided with a whirling action A garden hose nozzle with a rotary outlet includes a hose nozzle, a hose-connecting, and a water valve. The features of the present invention lie in: the rotary outlet is of a rotary structure. The front end of the hose nozzle is provided with a passage notch, where... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6863230 | Atomizing nozzle and method for manufacture thereof An atomizing nozzle (20) for use in a misting system and a process (200) for manufacturing the atomizing nozzle (20) are provided. The atomizing nozzle (20) is made up of a nozzle body (24), a metallic orifice insert (26), a... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6827295 | High pressure misting nozzle with a freely movable nozzle pin A high pressure misting nozzle is disclosed having a nozzle stem body with a fluid inlet and a first chamber in communication with the fluid inlet, a fogger nozzle attached to the nozzle stem body, the fogger nozzle having a nozzle orifice and a second chamber in co... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6793151 | Apparatus and method for centrifugal material deposition and products thereof A centrifugal dispensing apparatus with a centrifugal dispensing drum that can be divided into compartments and that has at least one open inner volume for retaining a volume of flowable material, an exit aperture for each open inner volume for allowing flowable mat... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6676017 | Personal interface device and method A personal device is provided. The personal device includes an identification verification system that receives first identification data from a physical identification device, such as by inserting a driver's license into a card reader that is adapted to ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6533194 | Shower head Shower heads are disclosed providing for varying types of spray. One spray head provides three different spray patterns, with two of the patterns having pulsing impellers which can pulse at different speeds from each other.... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6412710 | Sprayer device having various kinds of outward flows A sprayer device includes a housing coupled to a water reservoir, a block having a passageway and a number of outlets. A locking member is slidably received in the passageway of the block to block some of the outlets of the block alternatively when the bl... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6276614 | Shower head structure A shower head structure includes an outer housing, a water exciting vane wheel, a water outlet cover, and a water guide barrel. The outer housing contains a ball connector, and a sealing ring pressing the ball connector. The water exciting vane wheel incl... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6199771 | Single chamber spray head with moving nozzle The present invention provides a fluid discharging apparatus that delivers fluid in a substantially uniform distribution. The movement of the apparatus is a wobbling motion, preferably combined with some rotational motion. The wobbling motion is generated... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6186414 | Fluid delivery from a spray head having a moving nozzle The present invention provides a spray head assembly with a moving spray nozzle that delivers fluid in a substantially uniform spray distribution. The movement of the spray nozzle is a wobbling motion, preferably combined with some rotational motion. The ... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6098899 | Pulsating spraying device A pulsating spraying device includes a housing having an inlet for a liquid under pressure, and a plurality of discharge openings for discharging the liquid; an inlet chamber communicating with the housing inlet; a plurality of pulsating control chambers ... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6027043 | Spraying device particularly useful as water mini-sprinkler A spraying device includes a nozzle head formed with an axial bore connectible to a source of pressurized liquid, an outlet orifice through which the liquid exits in the form of a jet, and a connecting passageway connecting the inlet end to the outlet ori... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5984204 | Sprinkler device for dispersing water or other liquid Water is supplied under pressure to a sprinkler device which produces one or more laminar flow jets. A high speed rotor intercepts only the boundary layer of the jets in a manner to impact violently upon the boundary layer. This produces a novel mode of o... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5927611 | Enhanced performance atomizing nozzle An atomizing nozzle (40) includes a body (44) having an fluid inlet end (50), a fluid outlet end (52), and a channel (54) located between the inlet end (50) and the outlet end (52). A free floating plunger (46) resides in the channel (54). The plunger (46... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5542719 | Stationary standby sand spreading unit for roadways A standby sanding unit for emergency sanding of icy roadways has a plurality of sand hoppers that are connected to a tank holding air under pressure. The hoppers have hopper type bottoms that have nozzles attached to the bottoms so that when air under pre... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5372307 | Rotary sprinkler stream interrupter A sprinkler includes a stationary body portion including a fixed nozzle, and a rotatable rotor plate mounted in a hub in vertically spaced relationship to the nozzle. The rotor plate is adapted to receive and redirect a stream emitted from the nozzle. The... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5121463 | Hot air pulse generator for blowing out heated air in a pulse-like manner A hot air pulse generator, particularly for use as a hair dryer, includes a housing enclosing an electric heater and air blower for generating a continuous flow of heated air through a passageway leading to a nozzle. A gently curved baffle arranged across... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5022588 | Water toy having umbrella spray pattern A water toy has a cylindrical deflector mounted on top of an upright hollow pipe that is rotatable about a vertical axis. Pressurized water introduced into the pipe is ejected from a nozzle fluidly interconnected with the pipe wupwardly onto the deflector... | 06/11/1991 |
| 4735361 | Jet deflecting sprinkler head A fluid dispersing apparatus suitable for use as a sprinkler in water irrigation applications whereby a jet of fluid is reflected from one or more rigid surfaces to preserve fluid particle speed. The reflecting surfaces are shaped to provide a variable bu... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4570857 | Flow regulator and spray nozzle including same A flow regulator comprises a sleeve fixed within a body member and formed with an opening serving as a metering passageway, a second sleeve displaceable with respect to the fixed sleeve so as to vary the effective size of the metering passageway, a spring... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4392617 | Spray head apparatus An elongated member is provided in the discharge orifice of a spray head nozzle so that the fluid being sprayed is discharged as a hollow stream resulting inter alia in a better and more complete atomization of the fluid in coaction with a low pressure pr... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4356974 | Spray nozzles A spraying device is described comprising a nozzle formed with an outlet orifice through which the fluid issues in the form of a jet, and a cup-shaped member having a thin wall defining an open end of slightly larger diameter than the outlet orifice. The ... | 11/02/1982 |
