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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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7430958 | Double blade peeling device for vegetables and fruits A double blade peeling device for vegetable and fruit comprises a handle attached to a vegetable and fruit retaining member and a body of screw, the handle can drive internal gears to rotate, so as to make the retaining member and the body of screw to rotate as well... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7302886 | Hulling apparatus and method A hulling apparatus having a main frame, a moveable support frame, a rotatable drum fixed in position relative to the main frame, a housing supported by the moveable support frame and a hulling chamber formed by the placement of the drum inside the housing. A contac... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7296511 | Rice hulling roll driving apparatus in rice huller In a rice huller, a first small-diameter pulley and a second large-diameter pulley are attached to a first roll shaft. A first large-diameter pulley and a second small-diameter pulley are attached to a second roll shaft. This configuration makes it possible to switc... | 11/20/2007 |
| 6347579 | Husking apparatus A husking apparatus supplies cereal grains between a pair of rotating rubber rolls through a guiding chute, rubs and husks them. A roll diameter marker for indicating an abrasion degree of the diameter of one of the rubber rolls is provided near the minim... | 02/19/2002 |
| 5873301 | Roll type husking apparatus with inclined guide chute A husking apparatus for cereals comprises a pair of rolls provided parallel to each other with a clearance therebetween, and an inclined guide chute situated above the rolls. The guide chute slides down cereal grains between the rolls, and the rolls rotat... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5361689 | Method and apparatus for blanching nuts Two counter rotating rollers are provided having elastomeric exterior coatings into which ribs and grooves are formed for intermeshing to blanch nuts at a pinch point therebetween. Grooves in the lower roller hold nuts as ribs on the upper roller pass acr... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5146846 | Roller assembly for grain shellers A roller assembly for grain shellers, the assembly including a metal sleeve having locking lugs fixed therein, a sleeve of flexible material bonded to the exterior of the metal sleeve, the locking lugs being adapted for connection to a mounting hub, there... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5134928 | Peeling rollers for vegetables Peeling rollers for vegetables, particularly root crops each comprising an hourglass-shaped core roller having a recessed portion defined and an outer cylindrical elastomer member concentrically surrounding the core roller, thereby constituting a space en... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5131322 | Roller assembly for grain shellers A roller assembly for grain shellers, the assembly including a metal sleeve having first and second apertures therein, a sleeve of flexible material bonded to the exterior of the metal sleeve with portions of the flexible material sleeve extending into th... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5110382 | Method for making a roller assembly for grain shellers A method for making a roller sleeve assembly comprising providing a metal sleeve, forming apertures extending radially through the sleeve, bonding a flexible sleeve to the exterior of the metal sleeve and permitting the flexible sleeve material to fill ce... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5024148 | Coating removal device for granular materials A device for removing coatings from granular materials such as hull-encased meats of grains. The device includes a housing within which is journaled a rotatably disposed drum. A wall is also mounted within the housing, the wall angling downwardly and bein... | 06/18/1991 |
| 4815370 | Rice press rollers In a rice pressing apparatus having mating rollers mounted in parallel at a specific gap, each roller comprising a slightly tapered metal hub of aluminum or an aluminum-zinc alloy, a removable rubber sleeve and retaining caps at each end to maintain prope... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4800810 | Impact rice huller A vertical type impact rice huller which is free from the occurrence of collision of the grain is disclosed. The apparatus comprising a vertical rotary shaft; an unbrella type feeder rigidly mounted on an upper portion of the shaft and adapted to turn wit... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4662274 | Rice-hulling roller This disclosure relates to the structure of a roller for hulling rice. The roller comprises a core including a cylinder, a boss section on the interior of the cylinder, and a rubber layer provided on the outer circumference of the cylinder. The cylinder i... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4448115 | Apparatus for hulling pistachio nuts A pistachio huller is provided wherein a means having projections pushes unhulled nuts between the surface of the means having projections and a surface of a means having slots, the slots being narrower than the pistachio nuts to be hulled. The projection... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4377110 | Auto-control equipment of hull-removing roll in rice-hulling machines An apparatus for separating hulls from unhulled rice having a fixed rotating roll and a movable rotatable roll located in pressure contact with the fixed roll. A control rod connected to a biasing spring holds the movable roll in pressure contact with the... | 03/22/1983 |
| 4357864 | Pneumatic grain conveyance rice mill A rice mill comprising grain feed means, grain husking means connected to said grain feed means, paddy removing means connected to said grain husking means, first grain elevating means connected to said paddy removing means, grain polishing and whitening ... | 11/09/1982 |
| 4295420 | Automatic control system for hulling machine An automatic control system for a hulling machine including a fixed rotary hulling roll, a movable rotary hulling roll, means for moving the movable rotary hulling roll toward and away from the fixed rotary hulling roll to adjust the gap between the two h... | 10/20/1981 |
| 4194445 | Self-adjusting husker A grain husker has two decorticating rollers which are accommodated in a housing, one of the rollers being rotatable about a stationary axis, while the other roller is mounted on a carrier which, in turn, is mounted on the housing for pivoting relative th... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4066012 | Roll type huller A roll type huller including a housing, a pair of hulling rolls parallelly spaced apart within the housing, a main shaft carrying one of the rolls and supported by the housing rotatably about a fixed axis, and a counter shaft carrying the other roll and s... | 01/03/1978 |
