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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7360271 | Apparatus for cleaning a machine tool An apparatus and a method for dislodging contaminants from a surface of a machine tool. A machine tool has a spindle and a housing disposed around the spindle. The apparatus includes a support plate, an arbor, and a cleaning member. The arbor is disposed on the supp... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7194780 | Kiln cleaning apparatus An apparatus for cleaning deposits from the interior surfaces of a kiln. The apparatus utilizes a directed high-pressure fluid jet to remove deposits adhering to elements within a kiln. The pressurized fluid is delivered to the fluid jet through the shaft of a rotar... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7070491 | Machine tool with fluid actuated helical adjustment of abrasive elements The application describes a honing tool for use with a CNC machine. A fluid actuator provides the mechanism for causing radial adjustment of abrasive elements. The actuator consists of a piston and cylinder assembly mounted within the tool and powered by cooling flu... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7056201 | Cylindric drum with sanding elements The invention concerns a cylindric drum for a sanding/polishing tool which in its drum surface is provided with a number of undercut axial grooves for mounting one or more axially displaceable sanding elements, where an annular groove has been provided either in the... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7008311 | Lapping tool A lapping tool capable of increasing the accuracy of a lapping operation, extending the life of lapping tool itself, adjusting a lapping diameter, and coping with the lapping operation of various diameters, comprising a lapping tool body having a lapping part on the... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6722967 | Floating sander device A resilient sanding mechanism is provided for sanding the contours of a working surface, such as an aircraft body. The mechanism comprises an elongate frame having a frame axis, a sander mechanism pivotally engaged to the frame and having a sanding surface disposed ... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6106370 | Pipe cleaning and burnishing tool and method The pipe cleaner attachment includes a housing, a shuttle, and a shuttle guide. The housing has a closed end, an open end, a key and two brush levers and brush pad guide slots. The shuttle guide is a rod clamped in a bore through the closed end of the hou... | 08/22/2000 |
| 5566666 | Rotating tool A rotating tool includes e hub having a central section for attaching the hub to a rotatable shaft and a disc-shaped hub section surrounding the central section. The central section and the hub section are comprised of an elastomeric material and formed a... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5136816 | Edge sharpener for skis According to the present invention there is provided an apparatus for sharpening an elongate edge, especially the blade edge of a ski. The apparatus comprises an abrasive disc set in a housing, a motor unit for rotating the disc about its axis, a guide su... | 08/11/1992 |
| 4397658 | Feed control means for honing and like machines An apparatus for controlling the application of feed motion to a working member in a machine such as a honing machine including a working member mounted on a support structure or mandrel and movable thereon into engagement with the work surface, mechanism... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4328647 | Inside, outside honing tool Tools for honing an exterior cylindrical reference surface and for honing an interior cylindrical surface concentric with but offset from the reference surface each have a cylindrical feed sleeve slidable axially along the outside of the tool body. As the... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4302909 | Stressed internal face lapping tool An apparatus for lapping an external circumferential arcuate face of a workpiece includes an axially split, radially resiliently expandable sleeve having an inner face constituting a lapping surface, an axial clamping arrangement for immobilizing the slee... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4103461 | Grinding tools for cylinders A grinding tool for the inside of cylinder has a motor driven stem carrying a hub on which is a notched hub member detachably securing ends of three flexible legs. A shoe having a fixed grindstone is pivotally attached to each of the legs and is releasabl... | 08/01/1978 |
