Did You Know...
...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7083409 | Oil burning lamp An oil burning lamp has a fuel reservoir, a fuel expansion chamber releasably and sealingly coupled to the fuel reservoir, a burner assembly coupled to the fuel expansion chamber, and an adjustable wick. If the fuel in the fuel reservoir undergoes thermal expansion,... | 08/01/2006 |
| 6848901 | Apparatus for controlling characteristics of a flame The present invention provides methods and apparatus for controlling a flame. One embodiment comprises a reservoir for a flame-fueling liquid, a wick, and a collar surrounding the wick. The first end of the wick is within the reservoir and a flame-bearing end is abo... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6648632 | Lighter A lighter is disclosed as including a body and an button, the body including a piezo electric unit and a container for containing fuel under pressure, the body further including an at which a flame may he produced upon movement of the button relative to t... | 11/18/2003 |
| 5169306 | Multi-cylinder combustion structure for oil burner A multi-cylinder combustion structure for an oil burner capable of permitting a red-heated section of a double combustion cylinder to be uniformly red-heated while ensuring complete combustion irrespective of the amount of combustion, to thereby exhibit s... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5085579 | Powered chamber combustion system and burner therefor A forced draft gas burning water and/or space heater having a screen type vertically extending tubular burner provided with a deflector plate supported transversely within the burner tube for free vertical sliding movement therein on a vertical extending ... | 02/04/1992 |
| 4904181 | Combustion equipment The present invention relates to a combustion equipment to be employed for heating in domestic use or the like. The combustion equipment is provided with an air control cylinder having a closed bottom surface inwards of an inner flame cylinder, and an out... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4827949 | Method of treating tobacco and tobacco produced thereby A method of treating tobacco by contact with a monosaccharide is disclosed. Preferably, the monosaccharide is provided in an aqueous casing solution which is sprayed on a steamed tobacco. After the cased tobacco has been heat treated in a toaster it is re... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4790746 | Vaporizing fuel burner The present invention relates to a combustion equipment to be employed for heating in domestic use or the like. The combustion equipment is provided with an air control cylinder having a closed bottom surface inwards of an inner flame cylinder, and an out... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4653999 | Wind guard for lighters An elongated tubular body is provided into which a lighter is adapted to be received either (a) with its flame-producing parts exposed beyond the tubular body when there is no wind or (b) received within the tubular body when there is wind, the tubular bo... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4640679 | Flame shield for cigarette lighter and cigarette lighter including said flame shield An improvement is provided in a disposable lighter having a fuel receptacle, a pyrophoric sparking wheel lighting mechanism mounted on the top edge thereof, and a finger-actuated fuel-control valve adjacent the sparking wheel. The improvement is provided ... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4634374 | Windscreen for lighter jacket A jacket for receiving a cigarette lighter has a sliding windscreen which can be slid up from the jacket when the lighter is lit, to shield the lighter flame from the wind. The top of the windscreen has a chimney hole for venting the lighter flame. A cap ... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4531906 | Lighter case having windshield A lighter case having a windshield is provided. The lighter case includes a hollow case member adapted to receive therein a lighter through a top opening thereof and a windshield member adapted to be received in the case member and to receive therein at l... | 07/30/1985 |
