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...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4331077 | Printing element with shock absorber feature A marking element assembly including a yoke which is driven by an arm. The arm is connected to a slider block which transfers motion to the yoke. The yoke has an interior channel for slider block free motion, with drag, after a marking element connected t... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4318340 | Variable tape advance imprint marker A continuous motion ribbon imprinter moves with and marks a moving web on a packaging machine and has an easily set control adjusting step-by-step advance of the ribbon across the type block to accommodate wide variations in the size of the printed indici... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4276828 | Constant pressure assembly for hand operated label printing machine A hand operated label printing machine in which a series of labels are serially fed onto a printing platen in response to the squeezing of a hand lever so that they may be imprinted with selected indicia. The hand labeler is equipped with a constant press... | 07/07/1981 |
| 4227456 | Printing pressure buffer mechanism or constant pressure printing mechanism for hand-operated label printing machine In a hand-operated label printing machine, including a hand lever and a printing head attached to the hand lever; a printing pressure buffer mechanism or a constant pressure printing mechanism which comprises: in a first embodiment, a spring-actuated enga... | 10/14/1980 |
| 4214521 | Rolling parallel printer A rolling parallel printer in which a pressure element is driven through a swiveling motion each printing cycle and a pressure segment thereof rolls off a line of type. The pressure element is connected to a mechanical linkage which minimizes the sweep of... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4208964 | Constant pressure printing mechanism for hand labeler A contant pressure printing mechanism for use with a hand labeler which prints a label: an actuating lever, which is pivotally connected to the frame of the hand labeler, is divided into a hand lever and a printing lever, and both of these levers are also... | 06/24/1980 |
| 4206704 | Constant pressure printing mechanism for portable label printing machine or the like A constant pressure printing mechanism for use in a portable label printing machine, or the like: a pressing member is attached to a hand operated driving lever which carries the printing head and which is pivotally attached to the machine frame; a separa... | 06/10/1980 |
| 4206703 | Constant printing pressure mechanism for portable label printing machine, or the like A constant pressure printing mechanism for use in a label printing machine: the platen is pivotally secured to the machine body; the pivotally supported, hand operated printing levers include a projection, which engages a pivotally supported platen liftin... | 06/10/1980 |
| 4205607 | Constant pressure printing mechanism for portable label printing machine A constant pressure printing mechanism for a portable label printing machine, or the like, comprising a driving member which is disposed on either the movable hand lever or the stationary hand grip of the label printing machine and a pressure receiving me... | 06/03/1980 |
| 4196664 | Hot die and foil printer In a printing press comprising a type-bearing heating block, means adapted alternately to apply the block under pressure along a printing surface onto a sheet to be printed located on the surface and to release the block therefrom, and means to interpose ... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4051780 | Label feed mechanism for portable labeling machines A feed mechanism for feeding an elongated strip of labels in a portable labeling machine. The label feed mechanism intermittently advances the label strip with an indexed movement in response to the manual gripping and releasing of a grip lever which acts... | 10/04/1977 |
| 4050379 | Inking apparatus An inking device for record media includes a self-contained ink reservoir bordered by a holder portion as one wall of the reservoir, and a backing plate as another wall adjacent a porous rubber electro pad. The backing plate includes a plurality of chamfe... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4048913 | Apparatus for repetitive imprinting at uniform increments on a continuously moving web A printing apparatus for webs continuously moving along a path wherein a printing head is cyclically displaced along a further path which includes a portion extending substantially along the web path, the printing head engaging the web against a displacea... | 09/20/1977 |
| 4044676 | Printing mechanism A printing mechanism comprises a housing, providing a print head carrying a flat type face, and a platen for supporting a forwardly moving sheet that is interposed between the platen and the type face. The platen includes an extended planar portion adjace... | 08/30/1977 |
