...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 |
| 7921563 | Method of making grille badge An example grille badge includes an outer member and an inner member configured to be snapped together. The inner member includes a living hinge to facilitate the connection to the outer member. The inner member is at least initially inserted into the outer member i... | 04/12/2011 |
| RE39940 | Screen plates and methods of manufacture The screen cylinder includes a screening plate having contoured grooves along an inflow side and a backing cylinder having a plurality of openings therethrough and disposed on the outflow side of the screening cylinder. The contoured grooves are elongated in the axi... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7290320 | Method of forming a steel wire oven rack for later porcelain coating A wire oven rack, capable of being later-coated with porcelain, including, a plurality of elongated steel wire members joined together to form an oven rack having an outer surface. The plurality of elongated steel wire members are made from a steel rod material cont... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7252325 | Work vehicle cab screen A side screen for the cab of a work vehicle, such as a skid steer loader, comprises a panel having strips defining openings therebetween. A high percentage of the area of the screen is open for visibility. At least one reinforcing member, such as a rib, is formed in... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7125491 | Screen and process for manufacturing a screen of this kind A flat or cylindrical screen includes rods and rod-bearing supporting elements. The rods have protrusions in the side walls which are received into inversely shaped recesses in a supporting element. The screen is manufactured by bending the supporting elements open ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7121759 | Grating system A grating system includes a first welded subassembly and a second non-welded subassembly joined to one another. The first subassembly includes spaced elongated bearing bars and spaced elongated cross bars extending transversely to the bearing bars. The second subass... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7121004 | Method of fabricating security door A security door for a gate or building opening is formed of a metal frame that defines a pair of hollow stile frame members and upper and lower hollow transverse rail frame members. Each of the frame members has an inner face with an attachment flange projecting the... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7093395 | Sports floor particularly for gymnasiums A floor composed of a plurality of modular elements comprises a first subassembly consisting of a base component and a first intermediate element and a second subassembly consisting of a second intermediate element and a top component forming a point elastic floor. ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 6968665 | Pool grating and a method of installation A grate for a swimming pool structure is constructed by placing a multiple of grate bars in an elevated position above the gutter which is parallel to the pools edge including any curvatures. The grate bars follow the curvatures of the pool's edge. When in the eleva... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6935678 | Reinforced payload container A reinforced payload container may include a panel forming at least one of a floor, a sidewall, and a front wall. A first plurality of ribs may be attached to the panel and may include a first free edge and a first panel edge. A second plurality of ribs may also be ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6931708 | Interior and exterior grille inserts and method for making same An exterior grille insert includes a central opening. An interior grille insert conforms to the shape of the interior opening of the exterior grille. The cutting of the interior opening of the exterior grille forms the interior grille. Either the interior grille or ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6922896 | Method for fabricating slat-screen assembly A method for fabricating a slat-screen assembly is provided, wherein the slat-screen assembly is formed by at least one slat member, at least one spacer member and an axial member that penetrates through the slat member and the spacer member, allowing a plurality of... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6915552 | Porcelain oven rack A porcelain coated steel wire oven rack. The preferred coated steel wire oven rack includes a plurality of elongated steel wire members joined together to form an oven rack having an outer surface. The plurality of elongated steel wire members are made from a steel ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6872466 | Method and apparatus for repairing screens A method of plugging an area of damaged mesh in a sifting screen. The method is applicable to screens in which woven wire mesh is stretched, tensioned and secured over a supporting frame containing a plurality of windows and in which local damage to the mesh is in a... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6713190 | Reinforcement for a moulded filtering screen support frame A method is described for making a reinforcing wire frame for embedding in a moulded polymer support frame over which woven wire cloth is to be stretched and secured to form a sifting screen. The method involves locating lengths of cut wire substantially equally spa... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6694697 | Grating with crimped intersections Main bars end intersecting cross bars each have mated slots in their aligned edges. Deformable pairs of arms on one of the sets set of bars are crimped into openings in the other set of bars at the bar intersections to hold the bars together and make a st... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6426003 | Screening device and method of manufacture A screening device (e.g. screen plate or screen cylinder) is manufactured relatively inexpensively and easily yet has uniform screening openings (e.g. screening slots) even when of a width of less than 0.5 mm. A plurality of wires having first and second ... | 07/30/2002 |
| 5768783 | Method for fabricating a flat or centripetal wire Method of making a flat wire of the type comprising a plurality of bars in substantially axially parallel arrangement relative to one another and including wire slots contained inbetween. Said method comprises providing a plurality of bars and providing a... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5246579 | Screen device with quick release mounting A screen assembly for use with a solids-liquid separation screen device that allows for simply replacement or adjustment of the screen assembly. The screen assembly includes an arcuately shaped screen held between pair of side panels. When installed, the ... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5242583 | Wire screen clamp A clamp or clamping member for securing a screen to a support, the clamp having a clamping face adapted to engage the screen and an opposite face, opposite sides and opposite ends. The junction between the clamping face and at least one of the opposite si... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5237154 | Process for manufacturing a slotted hole screen A process for manufacturing a slotted hole screen made by mechanically joining a plurality of longitudinal members to a plurality of cross bars reduces joint roughness, burrs and recesses by including a step of covering the joints with a covering material... | 08/17/1993 |
| 5200072 | Screen plates and methods of manufacture The screen cylinder includes a screening plate having contoured grooves along an inflow side and a backing cylinder having a plurality of openings therethrough and disposed on the outflow side of the screening cylinder. The contoured grooves are elongated... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5190102 | Sintered metal substitute for prepack screen aggregate A prepack well screen assembly has a resistance welded outer screen concentrically mounted in radially spaced relation on a perforated mandrel, thereby defining an annulus in which a sintered metal prepack sleeve is loaded. The longitudinal spacing distan... | 03/02/1993 |
| 4832834 | Elastomer sieve screen A process of manufacture of a lattice configurated elastomer screen for classification, screening and washed of fragmented hard stocks of material. The process of manufacture of this lattice screen employs a cutting device with at least one rotary cutting... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4604156 | Method of fabricating a cylindrical multilayer screen A laminated, cylindrical, metal screen or molding element for vacuum perforation of plastic film or sheets, comprising two or more relatively thin cylindrical metal screens, each having a predetermined inside and outside diameter and each having a plurali... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4530146 | Process and apparatus for assembling the strips of a grille Apparatus and means for assembling strips in grilles, comprising a carriage (24) displaceable vertically on a sub-frame, and a device (26) displaceable horizontally on the sub-frame parallel to the slots in the strips, and comprising a table equipped for ... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4443499 | Method of making a focusing color-selection structure for a CRT The novel method comprises (1) producing in one major surface of a metal masking plate an array of substantially-parallel ridges separated by valleys or grooves, (2) removing metal from the other of said major surfaces in generally rectangular-shaped area... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4403541 | Heat trapping cooking grill The cooking grill disclosed has a series of inverted U-shaped channels for trapping hot convection gases beneath a substantially flat cooking surface. The channels are held together by one or more cross stringers which pass through sidewalls of each chann... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4356611 | Method of fabricating vapor-liquid contact grid An improved vapor-liquid contact grid apparatus which maximizes the generation of small drops and which is inexpensive to manufacture and easy to construct is disclosed. The grid apparatus consists of multiple layered grids, each grid being formed of upri... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4221038 | Method for forming a frame A method for forming a frame from an elongate strip of formable material and products formed thereby are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of notching the side edges of an elongate strip and providing slots in one edge; thereafter deforming the st... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4188700 | Method of constructing an attrition mill grate The cylindrical rotating grate of an attrition mill is constructed by welding a group of bars in close spaced parallel relationship, and then rolling this assembly into a cylindrical configuration. The meeting ends of this configuration are then welded, a... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4067094 | Load bearing vane structure for thrust reversal The vane structure fits within a side opening of an aircraft jet engine normally covered by a pivoted clam shell arrangement. When the clam shell arrangement is actuated, it swings from the side opening in a direction to intercept thrust gases normally pa... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4058432 | Process for producing a thin metal structure with a self-supporting frame A process for producing a thin metal structure with a self-supporting frame, such as a grid, characterized by forming a galvanic resistant coating on a first surface of a carrier member with the coating exposing portions of the first surface adjacent the ... | 11/15/1977 |
| 3995891 | Driver's overhead guard An inverted generally U-shaped overhead protective guard for industrial vehicles in which the overhead guard canopy or bridge includes a pair of parallel spaced hollow multi-sided members. Each hollow member has a plurality of longitudinally spaced notche... | 12/07/1976 |
| 3948013 | Cold forged steel grating A cold forged steel grating is formed of a plurality of spaced parallel bearing bars secured to one another by a plurality of spaced parallel cross rods engaged in openings in the bearing bars adjacent their uppermost surfaces with the metal of the bearin... | 04/06/1976 |
| 3938618 | Speaker grille screen and mounting structure A speaker system for a small radio device includes a cover plate having slots therein and a rigid grille screen having channels which extend into the slots. The cover plate and grille screen are generally planar and parallel to each other, and the channel... | 02/17/1976 |