Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7310917 | Hinged frame spreader A hinged spreader board of a pre-set length with shaped ends is pivoted open inside a frame to mate with the inside faces of the sides of a frame and maintain the sides apart by the length of the board while attaching the frame to a wall. Additional hinged sections ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 5785473 | Cargo restraint system A plurality of vertical rod assemblies restrain the movement of cargo during transport on a floor of a carrier having source of fluid which is at about atmospheric pressure while the carrier is being loaded and which is pressurized after loading, e.g., a ... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5454673 | Horizontal connector for shipping containers A horizontal connector interconnects adjacent ISO shipping containers. The connector has oppositely disposed locking arms which engage the inside surfaces of the respective container corner fittings. A push block assembly moves in a first direction to rot... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5370342 | Retractable centerline guide and vertical restraint device A self-erecting guide for centering and for vertically restraining smaller than full width pallets in a transport vehicle, such as an airplane, having a floor structure and rollers connected to the floor structure and defining a roller plane for rollingly... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5269639 | System for shipping products and stabilizing them from shifting sidewise on vehicle A system for shipping product on a vehicle comprising a series of rectangular containment elements surrounding a plurality of products thus together constituting a plurality of units with a T-shaped support positioned between each of the containment eleme... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5205602 | Motor vehicle boot insert A removable motor vehicle boot insert (1) comprises two rigid insert portions (2, 3) which overlap at 10, 11 on assembly within a boot A to follow the contour of the boot A. Flexible wing portions (15, 16) of a side wall (6) of each insert portion (2, 3) ... | 04/27/1993 |
| 4344726 | Cargo handling apparatus Cargo loading and unloading systems, particularly for military aircraft such as helicopters, including right and lefthand restraint rail assemblies having longitudinally spaced lock mechanisms which are adapted to provide lateral and forward and aft restr... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4294185 | System for securing containers in a ship's hold A system for securing two containers in a cell in a ship's hold wherein, at the midpoint of the length of the cell and at at least one side of the cell a flanged guide device is attached to the ship's structure, which guide device cooperates with two guid... | 10/13/1981 |
| 4203372 | Container securing device Apparatus for transporting containers in a compartment such as an airplane and releasably fixing the containers in individual storage positions. A carriage movable in opposite directions and track transports the containers sequentially to respective stora... | 05/20/1980 |
