Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7992813 | Powder based granules disintegrating and sizing device A powder based granules disintegrating and sizing device having a drive shaft in a horizontal direction inside a casing, a rotor fixed to the drive shaft, a sizing stator having an inclined surface, a gap section A where the powder based granules settles being forme... | 08/09/2011 |
| 6655615 | Device for mincing organic substances A tearing mill for comminuting fruits (3) is equipped with a tearing bed (15) with tearing elements (4) and delivery vanes (5) for the fruits (3). Directly upstream of the tearing elements (4) in terms of the delivery direction (v), openings (16) for the ... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6070815 | Grain milling machine In a grain milling machine, a milling chamber 25 is defined by a gap between a cylindrical body 24 and a rotating body 23, and grinding plates 27 and 28 are arranged on both facing surfaces of the milling chamber 25. On the surface of at least one of the ... | 06/06/2000 |
| 5975441 | Apparatus for separating rocks from soil An apparatus for separating stones from stone-laden earthen material, particularly material that has been previously discarded from stone quarries, includes a hopper having a conveyor that feeds quantities of stone-laden earthen material unto a bed of spi... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5834048 | Dietary food supplement A method for preparing a food supplement. The food supplement consisting essentially of at least 70% by weight of an oil seed constituent, at least 8% by weight of an additional plant constituent and at least 4% by weight of yeast wherein oil seed constit... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5511731 | Screen construction for flour mills A rotary mill, particularly designed for the milling of flour, includes a screen assembly within which the hammer assembly rotates. It consists of a fine inner cylindrical screen surrounded by a coarse support screen. The cylindrical end edges of the scre... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5505392 | Mill having a rotary drive coupling An adjustable length rotary drive coupling comprising a first rotary shaft provided with at least one tooth and a second rotary shaft provided with a plurality of abutment surfaces spaced apart along the length thereof associated with each the tooth. One ... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5447276 | Crushing mechanism According to the present invention a crushing mechanism having at least two pairs of co-acting rollers, each roller having a hub with a plurality of teeth extending from a circumference thereof, the pairs of rollers being mounted in open cage fashion and ... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5421528 | Leaf and stem fractionating and separating hammermill for dry fibrous products An improved mechanical fractionation system (20) for processing of xanthophyll-containing vegetative crops and the like to yield economically valuable end products, and particularly a relatively xanthophyll rich high protein, essentially friable when dry ... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5284514 | Apparatus for coating food with bread crumbs The invention concerns an apparatus and process for making foods coated in bread crumbs. The apparatus has a crumbing apparatus for converting loaves, of bread into breadcrumbs; a coating location whereto fresh crumbs are delivered from the crumbing appar... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5249750 | Traversing roll breaker apparatus This apparatus (10) for reducing lumps of coal, and the like, on a grid (14) disposed over a material-receiving area (16) includes a carriage (12) guided across the grid (14) on a track (44) by a drive system (50) and having roll assemblies (60) mounted t... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5150844 | Apparatus for size reduction of heavy solid waste materials Multiple size-reducing actions of heavy solid waste are carried out during each unidirectional rotation of a ballast-weighted drum rotor means having impact-cutter bar means projecting in fixed position about its drum surface. Feedstock contacts the rotat... | 09/29/1992 |
| 5004074 | Overfill filler pipe assembly In order to avoid a liquid overfill condition and detect a maximum liquid level in a liquid containing reservoir 12, a filler pipe assembly 10 is provided in which an elongated filler pipe 14 has one end 16 integral with the liquid containing reservoir 12... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4848919 | Pinned mill for mixers A pinned mill for a mixer having a mixing mechanism has a motor outside the mixer container and a rotor inside the container and spaced apart from its walls. The rotor is rotationally drivable by the motor and is at least partly surrounded at a tangent by... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4830291 | Waste material reversible hammer mill A reversible downdraft rotary hammer mill for processing waste material in which breaker plates and a grate assembly are cooperatively arranged so the terminal ends of the grate assembly are laid back to form with the adjacent terminal ends of the breaker... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4796818 | Chip slicer improvement A method and mechanism for slicing oversize wood chips including a housing, a cylindrical drum rotatable within the housing, an anvil rotor rotatable within the drum and having a plurality of arms with a blade mounted on each of the arms to move chips alo... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4711167 | Fruit juice squeezer A fruit juice squeezer is disclosed for obtaining fruit juice from fruit by pressing and cutting, which includes: a squeezer body having a reservoir means for storing said fruit juice, a handle rotatable with respect to said body, and mincer means compris... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4629134 | Roll crusher A roll crusher for discarded storage batteries or other types of bulky scrap has two rotors provided with axially spaced-apart annuli of teeth which cooperate with rows of teeth provided on a grate normally adjacent to the undersides of the rotors. The gr... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4610397 | Comminuting equipment The invention involves equipment comprising what may be referred to as a cutting head cylinder or unit provided with discharge passages and adjacent cutting edges and an improved impeller rotatable in the unit for directing a product or material introduce... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4504506 | Method for chopping olives A method for chopping olives comprises feeding olives into an abrading zone in a pulper having at least one rotatable brush which clears a screen extending around the periphery of the abrading zone. The brush is rotated to abrade the olive meat between th... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4443912 | Method and apparatus for removing solid particles from a pasty mass An apparatus for removing solid particles from a pasty mass, in particular for removing bone particles from a mass of meat particles, in which the mass is advanced through at least one slit-shaped channel defined between two walls spaced apart in parallel... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4326674 | Device for the homogenization of material to be crushed A device for the homogenization of material to be crushed particularly for crushing coal to uniform grain size comprises a first conveyor for feeding the material to be crushed which has an upper section and a lower section which extends downwardly away f... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4235382 | Method and apparatus for rechipping wood chips A wood chip rechipping method and apparatus are provided wherein a slotted, cylindrical drum rotates about a concentrically mounted rotatable anvil rotor having a plurality of arms, each of which has a blade at its outer extremity. The drum and anvil roto... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4189104 | Deboning machine with bone expeller Deboning machines of the type in which an auger conveys ground meat and bone materials through a perforated conduit from one end thereof while exerting pressure on said materials to force meat components out of the conduit through the perforations thereof... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4138066 | Food grinder A food grinder has an upstanding base unit within which is included an electric motor. A worm-driven gear linkage serves to deliver motion from the motor. Defined in one side of the base unit is a receptacle within which is received a cassette. The casset... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4069980 | Process and apparatus for mechanical separation of a combination of meat and bone into useful fractions In known processes and known apparatus for mechanical separation of a combination of meat and bone into useful fractions, the combination is conveyed as by a screw through a screen, which constitutes a portion of an elongated cylindrical conduit, and soft... | 01/24/1978 |
| 3964715 | Flesh and skin separating apparatus and method for fruit and vegetable products A flesh and skin separating device for fruit and vegetable products utilizing a rotating pneumatic tire bearing against the circumference of a perforated drum and driving the flesh of such products, previously doctored upon the drum surface, through the p... | 06/22/1976 |
