...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7217051 | Slitter module with optional cutter A slitting mechanism has one or more slitting shafts between rotating brackets. Each shaft has one or more slitting disks arranged along its length. Each disk has a cutting edge and the slitting mechanism can either enter or not enter a path followed by a web of med... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7137943 | Sheet preparation module architecture and control methods Sheets can be manipulated for punching, perforating and/or folding. The systems and methods according to this invention allow sheets to be punched and/or perforated in various configurations. The systems and methods according to this invention allow sheets to be fol... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7041188 | Method for producing miter fold labels A device and method for producing individual folded labels having miter folded tabs includes a first cutting station for partially cutting the ribbon of labels to form a tab at each edge of the ribbon of labels and an interior base cut. The ribbon of label remains i... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7011616 | Cutting cylinder for crosscutting a printing material web in a rotary press A cutting cylinder is mounted such that it can rotate and be driven and is provided with four cutting blades on its circumference, which blades divide the circumferential length into four sections arranged on the circumference of the cutting cylinder. ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6658818 | Process and machine for dividing a multi-layered web utilized in aseptic packaging into a plurality of individual webs of equal width A system of dividing an endless, wide multi-layered web of packing material into a plurality of individual webs of equal width and aseptically processing the individual webs comprises laser-cutting elongated slits into the endless wide multi-layered web a... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6640684 | Device for cutting blister packs in a blister packing machine In a device for cutting single blister packs from a blister band, a cutting member acts in a longitudinal direction with respect to the blister band, along the longitudinal edges thereof, so as to cut side extending strips of the blister band which extend... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6454690 | Method and apparatus for forming an apertured pad An apparatus and method for manufacturing a pad wherein a rotatable forming screen which has a generally cylindrical surface and at least one outwardly projecting nob is employed. The nob is positioned on the forming screen whereby the nob is circumscribe... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6431038 | Vacuum assisted method of cutting a web material An apparatus and method for distributing wear over a plurality of elements on a rotating member. In the case of a cutoff or perforation roll, a plurality of retractable cutoff or perforation blades can be actuated to be extended or retracted to selectivel... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6220999 | Method and apparatus for forming an apertured pad An apparatus and method for manufacturing a pad wherein a rotatable forming screen which has a generally cylindrical surface and at least one outwardly projecting nob is employed. The nob is positioned on the forming screen whereby the nob is circumscribe... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6159138 | Folder having a cylinder with retractable grippers and a cooperating cylinder with retractable copy guiding devices A folder for a rotary printing press, having at least one copy-guiding cylinder and, on the one copy-guiding cylinder, gripping devices for gripping one end of a copy, includes a cutting cylinder cooperating with the one copy-guiding cylinder, and copy-gu... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6132349 | Fold construction of corrugated fiberboard This invention relates to fold line structure of a corrugated fiberboard in which the fold lines have a shape like the letter V, along which the corrugated fiberboard sheet is folded. The fold lines extend perpendicularly to or at an angle other than a ri... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6071221 | Cardboard cutting kit A cutting device is provided including a base adapted for being fixedly positioned on a piece of material to be cut. Also included is a handle slidably mounted on the base. Next provided is a control assembly including a shaft slidably mounted on the hand... | 06/06/2000 |
| 5797830 | Multi use paper and card stock cutter A multi-use cutter is especially useful for cutting standard size paper and card stock into business card sizes. The preferred model of the multi-use cutter will measure six inches deep by fifteen inches tall by fifteen and a half inches wide and will be ... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5674344 | Loose fill packaging material Loose fill packaging material consists of elements (21) having a central liner (15) and a corrugated medium (17) on both sides of the liner. The element is made from fibreboard material. A method is disclosed of making the element by securing together the... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5098367 | Seat cover forming machine A device for fabricating toilet seat covers from paper sheeting comprises three paper shearing and folding assemblies positioned one over the other, each assembly including a drive roll, as well as two additional compression rolls which shear and fold the... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5054262 | Automated corrugated box processing equipment A device for the releasing of tabs found on the diagonally facing corners of tab-locked corrugated cardboard boxes. The boxes are moved along a track whereupon they are deformed to enable a release means positioned along the track to slip between major fl... | 10/08/1991 |
| 4983155 | Paper web cutter A paper web cutter for cutting across the width of a moving web of paper in locations along the length of the web, for severing the web in two sections. Two conveyors carry the web therebetween and hold the web against each other. One conveyor carries a c... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4898569 | Process, web of material and apparatus for producing packaging blanks In the production of packs, especially hinge-lid packs, from rigid packaging material (thin cardboard), hitherto individual blanks have been supplied in stacks and introduced into the packaging machine in succession. To make the handling of the blanks eas... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4691908 | Apparatus for interfolding Apparatus for interfolding webs, including two clusters of vacuum rolls, each in a generally hexagonal arrangement, each cluster having spaced apart web cutoff means and interfolding means, the vacuum rolls being arranged to develop four equal length path... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4618342 | Machine for processing web material A machine including a feeding group or station, a first rotative cutting or creasing station, a second rotative cutting or creasing station and a rotative stripping station characterized by a single drive motor driving the various rotating tools of the st... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4563930 | Machine for longitudinally cutting and grooving a length of material, especially corrugated board An apparatus for longitudinally cutting and grooving a continuously moving length of material. The device has at least two cutting and grooving units, each provided with separate cutting and grooving tools. The units are positioned at different vertical l... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4530687 | Dual cutoff system having diverging web paths A dual cutoff machine system is provided for cutting two continuously moving rigid webs into sheets by way of first and second cutting devices at different elevations. The cutting devices are along first and second web paths which diverge in a downstream ... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4142455 | Slitting apparatus Apparatus is disclosed for slitting a web of material such as paperboard utilizing at least two rotatable turrets disposed one above the other. Each turret has a pair of shafts adapted to have blades selectively positionable thereon by way of a master shi... | 03/06/1979 |