Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6800052 | Corrugating machine and corrugating roll design for the same A corrugating roll design for a corrugating machine including a pair of parallel, spaced apart, corrugating rolls which rotate in opposite directions on their respective rotational axes, the rotational axes being spaced apart a predetermined distance, and each of th... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6565498 | Composite roll for manufacturing heat transfer tubes In a composite roll for manufacturing heat transfer tubes that has two or more grooving rolls having protrusions where at least one of cross sectional shapes, lead angles relative to a rotation direction and sizes is different, by coaxially combining the ... | 05/20/2003 |
| 5406706 | Manufacturing method of the body of a caliber roll A caliber roll for rolling consisting of a roll main body having a caliber on the outer circumference and provided with a shaft hole penetrating in the shaft central direction, and a roll shaft inserted into the shaft hole of the roll main body, in which ... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5391135 | Rolls for hot dipping bath A roll for hot dipping bath includes at its outer peripheral surface at least one spiral groove for the discharge of dross. In this roll, the outer peripheral surface existing between the adjoining groove portions includes a rough surface, capable of appl... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5359773 | Manufacturing method of the roll main body of a caliber roll A caliber roll for rolling consisting of a roll main body having a caliber on the outer circumference and provided with a shaft hole penetrating in the axial direction, and a roll shaft inserted into the shaft hole of the roll main body, in which a compre... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5179986 | Method for improving fiberboard mat moldability A method of conditioning a fiberboard mat having upper and lower surfaces for molding it into a three dimensional object by making a first series of internally directed discontinuous incisions in the fiberboard mat upper and lower surfaces; making a secon... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5176785 | Applicator device for a laying machine using a composite material tape Applicator device for a laying machine with mobile head, for laying a composite material tape on a surface of application, said device comprising a rotary application roller carried by a mount fixed to said mobile head which applies said roller against sa... | 01/05/1993 |
| 4733446 | Roll The surface of a roll has built-up weld layers which are arranged in bent waves such that the growth of initial fine cracks which occur on the surface of a roll are prevented. The surface of the built-up weld layer is finished smoothly so that the wavy we... | 03/29/1988 |
