Quotables
"I watched his countenance closely, to see if he was not deranged ... and I was assured by other senators after he left the room that they had no confidence in it."
U.S. Senator Smith of Indiana ; After seeing Samuel Morse demonstrate the telegraph.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7140076 | Reinforcing member for a knob for a lock A knob for a lock includes a knob body and a reinforcing member. The knob body has a side, and a neck extends outward from the side of the knob body and has a slot. The reinforcing member is mounted around the neck and has a stop that is engaged in the slot of the n... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7115038 | Shaft-hub connection A shaft-hub connection for transferring a torque between a shaft (1) and a hub (3) with the aid of at least one drive element (2). To enable a torque transfer which is practically resistant to wear, even under the effect of transversal forces, t... | 10/03/2006 |
| 6776553 | Connection point Proposed is a connecting point between two tool parts with a device, comprising an elastic element, for effecting a defined angular position of rotation between the tool parts. Said connecting point is characterized in that the elastic element (23) in a first... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6554526 | Fastening device A fastening device for interconnecting two parts, comprising a longitudinally variable bolt designed to be inserted through a hole in a first part and engage the edge of an opening in a second part. The bolt is further configured to rotate about an axis t... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6481917 | Tie-boltless shaft lock-up mechanism An apparatus for preventing movement of a wheel on a shaft comprises a nut concentrically disposed on the shaft. A spring is disposed on the shaft and is operatively adjacent to the nut such that the spring can be biased towards the wheel. A first clampin... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6447199 | Table spider column connection A sleeve type locking device, whether it be a hollow sleeve, a set screw configured device, secures a table base column to its associated spider, as within a counterbore, upon tightening of its supporting rod, during assembly and interconnection of such s... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6336373 | Rotary electromagnetic actuator A drivig rotary shaft and a follower rotary shaft are rotatably carried in a housing of a rotary solenoid. Operating members fixed to the rotary shafts by clips are operatively connected to each other by gears, and a locked member is locked non-movably by... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6257798 | Universal joint coupling A slip joint assembly provides radial clearance compensation between a slip joint yoke and a receiving member. The slip joint yoke has a plurality of male splines formed externally thereon. The receiving member receives the splined yoke therein and has fe... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6186698 | Connecting element In a combination of a construction member with a connecting element the construction member is provided with a groove having opposite, inwardly mutually divergent, planar side wall portions. The connecting element, as viewed longitudinally, is formed as a... | 02/13/2001 |
| 5980353 | Connecting device for connecting a fan blade to a rotor of a motor if a ceiling fan The connecting device includes rotor and blade mounting segments each secured on a rotor and a fan blade at a respective connecting end thereof. A socket end of the rotor mounting segment extends in a radial direction relative to the rotor, and has an ins... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5823499 | Drive apparatus with a resilient coupling for a power seat A drive apparatus includes an electric motor, a speed reducer and a coupling member located between the motor and the speed reducer. The output shaft of the motor and the input shaft of the speed reducer are provided with longitudinally extending grooves ... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5810506 | Device for coupling tool parts A connecting device or coupling between two coupled tool parts including a first tool part (3) which has a driver (5) and a second tool part (7) which has a groove (9) includes a connecting place or location (1) which is characterized by the fact that it ... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5807180 | Constant velocity universal joint shaft and inner race combination A constant velocity joint shaft and inner race combination is provided. The combination includes a shaft having an annular shoulder and a splined section generally adjacent to the shoulder. An inner race with a splined bore is fitted over the splined sect... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5674026 | Shaft coupling structure of drive shaft A shaft coupling structure for a split type drive shaft comprises an internally splined female shaft, and externally splined male shaft coaxially received in the female shaft to establish a spline-connection. A play suppression member is interposed betwee... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5645366 | Shaft coupling structure of drive shaft A shaft coupling structure for a split type drive shaft comprises an internally splined female shaft and an externally splined male shaft coaxially received in the female shaft to establish a spline-connection. A play suppression member is interposed betw... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5638887 | Tumbling unit having cylindrical liner A retaining rod is provided for forcing a tight interfit between adjacent segments of a liner of a casting shake-out unit, sand reclaimer, rotary media drum, or a tumbling unit. The adjacent edges of the liner segments have triangular grooves which combin... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5545842 | Radially mounted spring to connect, lock and unlock, and for snap-on fastening, and for mechanical, electromagnetic shielding, electrical conductivity, and thermal dissipation with environmental sealing A mechanism for connecting and disconnecting, locking and unlocking, and holding members to one another, including snap-on fasteners, and at the same time providing mechanical, electromagnetic shielding, electrical conductivity, and thermal dissipation, c... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5489074 | Thermal protection device, in particular for an aerospace vehicle The thermal protection device is made up of a plurality of juxtaposed unit modules each comprising a fairing element provided with fixing tabs and thermal insulation integrated in the fairing element. The gap between neighboring fairing elements is limite... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5411348 | Spring mechanism to connect, lock and unlock, members A mechanism for connecting and disconnecting, locking and unlocking, and holding members to one another, and at the same time providing mechanical, electromagnetic shielding, electrical conductivity, and thermal dissipation, coupled with environmental sea... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5363620 | Stone mounting member A stone/mount combination being mountable to a wall. The stone/mount combination consists of a stone and two mounts. The stone has two parallel edges in each of which a slit is defined. Each mount has a body, a number of fine perpendicularly extending fro... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5307551 | Method of installing a filter belt on a filter housing mounted roller A method of installing a filter belt onto each of a pair of wind up rollers disposed on either side of a filter housing is disclosed. The filter belt is detachably secured at either end to a respective roller by a sewn in flexible element received in an u... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5275076 | Steel rule die having improved rule holders A steel rule die including holders providing a holding force assisting in retaining the die rules in their rule slots. The holders include a plurality of resiliently compressible polyurethane plugs positioned adjacent the rules at desired spaced apart loc... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5088235 | Turnstile control system A rotary gate control assembly includes a pivot rod on which the rotary gate is adapted to rotate and a cam having a continuous cam surface with a plurality of lobes disposed at spaced intervals therealong for defining a plurality of rotary gate home posi... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5085532 | Multiple ribbon mandril for multiple print head printers In medium to high volume printers using more than one print head, multiple documents may be printed side by side in one pass. Multiple rolls of ribbon are utilized on the ribbon mandril to accommodate the documents. The ribbon is kept taut across its prin... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5082390 | Latching, holding and locking spring apparatus A locking mechanism is disclosed which includes a garter-type canted-coil spring having elliptical coils with a coil height and a coil width measured, respectively, along a minor and a major axis of the elliptical coils for holding and locking a first and... | 01/21/1992 |
| 4826346 | Camshaft preferably for an internal combustion engine A camshaft for an internal combustion engine comprising a metal cam, a shaft inserted into a through hole formed in the cam and resin poured between the cam and the shaft to join them. The cam is formed with plural grooves which are formed in the inner pe... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4792713 | Lamination to rotor shaft retention method utilizing spring pins A lamination stack assembly comprising elongated, resilient spring pin members for exerting radially outward force when in deformed states, each laminate having an inner edge defining an opening for receiving the shaft. The spring pin members are disposed... | 12/20/1988 |
| 4660329 | Powered abrading tool A portable abrading or polishing tool including a motor which drives orbitally a head carrying a working pad to which sandpaper or the like may be attached, with the motor of the device driving a carrier about a first axis, and with the carrier mounting t... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4606671 | Coupling for connecting a hub and shaft The invention relates to a coupling for making a connection secured against relative rotational and axial displacement between a hub member and a shaft member. The shaft and hub members have engaging keys and grooves at the internal and external circumfer... | 08/19/1986 |
| 4579210 | Pressure plate unit for a motor vehicle friction clutch The pressure plate unit for a motor vehicle friction clutch comprises a clutch housing (1a), a presser plate (3a) arranged in the clutch housing (1a) and guided non-rotatably but axially displaceably on the clutch housing (1a) and a clutch spring (13a) of... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4502808 | Liner segments retention means This invention relates to the formation of a resilient retention rod or pin that inserts intermediate a pair of liner segments of a tumbling or casting shake-out unit, and which rod is formed having a series of inherent angular bends provided along its le... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4450856 | Means for releasably securing hand-wheel to valve spindle A large manually operated leak-proof corrosion-proof low-cost shut-off or stop valve for handling high pressure refrigerant liquids and/or gases comprises a valve body formed of two sheet metal hemispheres welded to the periphery of a circular metal valve... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4384805 | Fastening arrangement between shaft and gear A fastening arrangement for removably securing a gear or hub to a shaft by means of a spring wire clip which clip includes a curved portion formed by radially and circumferentially bending an intermediate portion of the clip for resilient engagement with ... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4364695 | Carving machine with auxiliary frame A carving machine which has a tubular framework that allows easy attachment of one or more supplemental frames and additional carving spindles to the base frame. The length of the machine frame also can be extended very easily to accommodate longer workpi... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4358215 | Key connection A key connection having the key shaped like a round helical spring and inserted, with possible preload, into the keyslots of a triangular cross-section shape.... | 11/09/1982 |
| 4311422 | Screw retainer A screw retainer comprises a substantially flat clip having a central resilient tang engaged by a screw for preventing withdrawal of the screw from an opening. Engagement of the screw with the tang also causes a reversely curved porton of the tang to enga... | 01/19/1982 |
| 4299512 | Means for yieldably coupling a shaft to counter wheels or the like A meter, counter, printer or a like device wherein a shaft carries one or more wheels whose angular position with respect to the shaft must be changed, either at regular or irregular intervals. The peripheral surface of the shaft has an elongated recess w... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4270310 | Support device for an upstanding plant support rod in a plant pot A support body portion extends inwardly from the top rim of a plant pot and has a substantially vertical channel therethrough bounded on the outer end by the inner surface of the pot, on the inner end by a rod support groove substantially parallel with th... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4231581 | Pneumatic hammer with twist retainer A pneumatic hammer is provided with a quick-change retainer which may be twisted between an open position in which a tool may be inserted or removed and a closed position in which the tool is locked within the retainer. A compressible lock rod is provided... | 11/04/1980 |
| 4225261 | Ball socket assembly with resilient locking key A ball socket assembly having a ball received in a socket member to swivel relative to the latter with the ball initially inserted into a first end portion of an elongated slot in the socket member and then shifted to the second end portion of the slot. A... | 09/30/1980 |
