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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 |
| 7216583 | Numbering process and numbering box to carry out the process The numbering box for typographic numbering in sheet or web fed printing machines, said box numbering with p digits k*n items on said sheets or web for allowing a sequential collecting of said items in the finishing and collating process of layers of q sheets or of ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 6705224 | Stamp apparatus In a stamp apparatus, a paper-sheet object is conveyed in the arrow direction between a presser roller and an impress hub having a predetermined character/symbol string. Since a cam is rotated in the arrow direction by a rotary solenoid, it makes the presser roller ... | 03/16/2004 |
| 4793251 | Process and apparatus for the processing of security-paper prints and identification of misprints The print carriers which bear security-paper prints arranged in longitudinal and transverse rows and on which misprints are marked are numbered in such a way that all security-paper prints arranged in succession in a longitudinal row, but excluding mispri... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4459910 | Embossing machine with indexing mechanism This disclosure relates to an embossing machine having an indexing mechanism including an indexing wheel carrying a plurality of embossing stamps which are individually rotated into association with an opposing anvil during relative opening motion between... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4415801 | Printer countwheel mechanism A printer countwheel mechanism in a time stamp machine keeps a running count of the number of groups of documents stamped by automatically advancing a countwheel to the next highest number when all documents in the group have been stamped. A document grou... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4403546 | Printing mechanism An improved imprinting mechanism is disclosed of the type particularly useful in document stamping machines which imprint on a document both the date and the time of receipt, and a serial number. A plurality of character wheels (30-58) is mounted for rota... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4328746 | Weighted modulus numbering apparatus Weighted modulus numbering apparatus is capable of printing composite numbers consisting of serial identification numbers and accompanying check digits which are determined in accordance with a system where the check digits for certain identification numb... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4265173 | Numbering machine with check digit function There is disclosed a numbering machine designed so that code numbers as well as check digits each consisting of a single-place digit are printed by means of a mechanical mechanism. The check digits are printed by a check digit type wheel having an arrange... | 05/05/1981 |
| 4241655 | Printer with indexed orientation of print head relative to web movement The invention contemplates a non-rotary printing machine which accommodates continuously moving web along a single path of movement, for recycled precision imprinting of specially characterized information; the printing involves cooperative use of a print... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4236446 | Check-digit printing means The invention contemplates a document printer for the automatically indexed sequential account numbering of successive documents, with the added feature of printing alongside each sequential number an automatic indication of the validity or invalidity of ... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4072100 | Numbering machine assembly especially adapted for use with printing machinery At least two numbering machines are connected to be operated simultaneously. Each printing disc in each machine is connected to control an electrical signal in dependence on which of each two consecutive printing faces on said disc is in a position to pri... | 02/07/1978 |
| 4055116 | Counting and printing mechanism with interchangeable unit printer wheel A unit designating printer wheel for a counter-printer device is arranged for convenient interchangeable assembly between the drive wheel and counting printer wheels. The unit printer wheel has a plurality of unit designating characters around the rim the... | 10/25/1977 |
