Did You Know...
...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7744170 | Weather resistant container for displaying building permits and storing construction documents A weather resistant permit display apparatus includes a base, a cover hingedly connected to the base and a permit display panel connected to the base inside of the cover when the cover is in a closed position. A transparent portion of the cover allows a permit mount... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7066536 | Child seat An adjustable child seat includes a backrest and a seat base and may be used with or without the backrest. The child seat includes adjustable arm rests. The height of the backrest and the depth of the seat base are also adjustable. The connection between the backres... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6582035 | Product display A product display includes a housing for sheltering and protecting a displayed product whether indoors or outdoors, a support frame mounted within the housing and adapted for displaying the product within the display and venting members for allowing air c... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6428123 | Product display A product display includes a housing for sheltering and protecting a displayed product whether indoors or outdoors, a support frame mounted within the housing and adapted for displaying the product within the display and venting members for allowing air c... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6382743 | Door-hinging system for news-stands The news-stand body comprises a rotation-moulded plastic shell. The walls of the shell are arranged in folds, and the hinge-pin mounting holes are provided therein. The hinge pin straddles the folds, which provides for a secure and rigid mounting. The edg... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6312067 | Organizing system for hunting safety An organizing system for hunting safety including a housing securable to a tree or the like. The housing has an open forward face. The open forward face has a pair of transparent covers hingedly coupled thereto. An area map is disposed within the housing.... | 11/06/2001 |
| 5732515 | Cemetery monument A cemetery headstone/monument intended to be anchored upright in or on a foundation includes a carved or hollowed-out portion which functions as a display area. The hollowed portion may extend through the width of the headstone from the front face to the ... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5664851 | Document display case A weather resistant case for displaying construction permits and the like. The case has a base member and a door hinged to the base member. A tack board mounted to the rear wall of the base member supports documents being displayed. The door has a transpa... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5071203 | Environmental housing for supporting video monitor outdoors An environmental housing is described and is especially adapted for supporting a video monitor outdoors in connection with a video merchandising system. The video merchandising system advantageously provides point-of-purchase advertising and promotion of ... | 12/10/1991 |
| 4038791 | Window greenhouse A window greenhouse prefabricated from a plurality of sections of extruded material and panels of predetermined lengths and sizes that may be assembled and mounted in an existing window opening on the window frame for which it was designed.... | 08/02/1977 |
