Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| 6783277 | Stand up bag A standup bags made of a flexible material and methods of producing these standup bags. In particular, the standup bags have at least one substantially flat surface which is free of seams and folds. When the bag is filled with a flowable substance, the pressure exer... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6746388 | Method of designing a standup bag A standup bags made of a flexible material and methods of producing these standup bags. In particular, the standup bags have at least one substantially flat surface which is free of seams and folds. When the bag is filled with a flowable substance, the pressure exer... | 06/08/2004 |
| 5863499 | Light weight vented package for liquids A self-venting package (A) contains peracetic acid or other strong oxidants in a unit dose that assures sterilization of instruments and equipment in an automated sterilizing apparatus (FIG. 3) or of biological wastes in a biological waste comminuting app... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5857952 | Flat trapezoidal container of brightly printed thermally sealable film A flat trapezoidal container provides a generally frustoconical single cavity for snugly sheathing a flower pot. The container is specifically dimensioned sheath a flower pot so as either (a) to leave therebeneath, a surplus of film in an transition zone ... | 01/12/1999 |
| 4977724 | Heat sealed disposable paint bag and method Trapezoidal sections are simultaneously heat sealed and cut from a long strip of sheet plastic folded over double or in tubular form. Cutting one long corner and inserting air opens the interior volume of the trapezoid. Crimping the long ends horizontally... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4498591 | Openable flexible packet A thin flexible pouch-packet is disclosed which has concave deformations in the side wall to enhance opening of the packet.... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4464156 | Method of manufacturing parallelepipedic packing container provided with an opening arrangement A parallelepipedic packing container of the type which is provided with a sealing fin which extends over the upper end wall of the packing container as well as over triangular, double-walled lugs adjoining this end wall. The sealing fin comprises a narrow... | 08/07/1984 |