Did You Know...
...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6055741 | Apparatus for draining washed products, particularly agricultural products The apparatus has a plurality of conveying elements (20) that are connected in series, and have two parallel toothed belts and steel carrier sheets connected thereto. The belts are respectively guided over deflecting wheels (15), where the conveying eleme... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5637148 | Apparatus for coating board-shaped piece material on both sides A method and an apparatus for coating printed circuit boards on both sides are described in which the printed circuit boards are transported through several consecutive processing stations of a coating installation. In a first coating station, one side of... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5557857 | Apparatus for the aftertreatment of photopolymerizable printing plates An apparatus for the aftertreatment of photopolymerizable printing plates with means for generating an environment with at least one predetermined condition and a transport device to carry the plates during and for transport of the plates through the appa... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5552262 | Process for production of photopolymerizable flexographic printing plates High volume manufacturing process for flexographic printing plates comprises wash out, drying and post-exposure. During drying the printing plates are transported with a plurality of endless conveyors. The transport speed during drying/post-exposure is lo... | 09/03/1996 |
| 4132012 | Drying tower for the inner diameter of elongated tubes A tower for drying the inner diameter of elongated tubes includes a plurality of endless synchronously driven pintle conveyors having vertically ascending and descending support paths for the tubes and an air manifold system operative to force heated air ... | 01/02/1979 |
