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...that the Slinky toy was the result of a failed attempt by engineer Richard James to produce an antivibration device for ship instruments? His goal was to develop a spring that would instantaneously counterbalance the wave motion that rocks a ship at sea. Instead, he developed the Slinky.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4125035 | Control mechanism for spray guns and the like Apparatus is provided for manipulating and controlling the movement of a tool, and specifically a spray gun, through a plurality of predetermined motions. The apparatus includes, in a preferred form, a rectangular frame having crossing supporting rods ext... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4078670 | Cable-operated power manipulator The movement of rotation of each element of the manipulator arm about the shoulder, elbow and wrist pins is controlled by a motor and a cable consisting of two oppositely-acting lengths by means of a pulley-block which carries at least two lengths, two pa... | 03/14/1978 |
| 4065001 | Manipulator A manipulator includes a first arm assembly having a base end portion and a free end portion and attaching means on which the base end portion is pivotally mounted by first pivotal means for pivotal movement about a first pivotal axis. First power means a... | 12/27/1977 |
| 4000819 | Control arm for a power manipulator The control arm for a remotely operated power manipulator comprises a system for carrying out a number of movements and position detectors for each movement. The number of possible movements of the arm is equal to the number of possible movements of the m... | 01/04/1977 |
| 3995756 | Load handling apparatus A load handling apparatus including a frame, an apparatus head mounted on the frame and rotatable in a horizontal plane and an arm mounted on the apparatus head. The arm has an inner portion which is in the form of a parallelogram linkage with two paralle... | 12/07/1976 |
| 3976206 | Articulated master slave manipulator An articulated master slave manipulator has a lower arm pivoted at a main idler pulley at one end of an upper arm, and a counter-balance mass pivoted at an idler pulley at the other end of the upper arm. A coupling system maintains the angle between the a... | 08/24/1976 |
| 3958740 | Automatic component assembly machine and method relating thereto A programmable manipulation machine for picking up a succession of small components, such as semiconductor chips, and placing them precisely in predetermined positions on a work-piece, such as a substrate. The machine includes a vacuum chuck assembly whic... | 05/25/1976 |
