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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7350799 | Coupling device for a handling trolley A coupling device for a handling trolley comprises a drawbar (22) arranged at the front of the trolley and designed to co-operate with the hook (24) provided at the back of a tractor, in particular a trolley preceding a line of trolleys. The drawbar ( | 04/01/2008 |
| 6874807 | Coupling device for a handling trolley A coupling device for a handling trolley comprises a drawbar (22) arranged at the front of the trolley and designed to co-operate with the hook (24) provided at the back of a tractor, in particular a trolley preceding a line of trolleys. The drawbar ( | 04/05/2005 |
| 5579698 | Transportation and installation device for heavy pipes An apparatus specifically tailored to transporting pipes in a tunnel is disclosed. A pair of low slung bogies are used to support and transport a pipe to pipe junction location. The bogies move over a pair of rails on rollers. The pipe rests on a set of i... | 12/03/1996 |
| 4527486 | Vehicle with selectively useable wheel sets A mine supply car has fixed, rail-engageable wheels, and adjustable selectively useable road wheels mounted in elongate frames along the sides of the car. The road wheels are mounted on pivot arms for swinging movement between raised inoperative positions... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4490086 | Self propelled load distributor vehicle A load distribution vehicle which is adapted to run on a rail track on or over a train of open topped cars for the purpose of loading the cars with particulate material such as mineral ore, broken rock, sand, granular food stuff or the like. The vehicle c... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4415051 | Multiple personnel transporter vehicle for low vein mines An improved, low height, electrically powered mine car is provided for transporting an entire crew (up to eleven persons) in a low vein mine shaft which includes strategically located and sized personnel and driver compartments for maximum load capacity. ... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4358238 | Collection, storage and disposal system for refuse, trash or any other applicable materials A train of tandem arranged, wheeled, refuse receptacles, pulled by a prime mover along a path, are successively moved over a dump chute to drop their contents when their discharge doors are successively tripped, the contents falling downwardly through the... | 11/09/1982 |
| 4254714 | Dual bottom trough gondola railway car A gondola railway car having a car truck attached to each end of a continuous center sill, a pair of generally vertical end panels, a pair of generally vertical side panels joined to the end panels, a plurality of cross bearers extending from the center s... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4236459 | Depressed center car An open top gondola railway car of depressed center design having stub sills and an end panel at each end of the car body which slopes outwardly and upwardly from an intersection with a generally permanently closed bottom having horizontal plate portions ... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4212250 | Mine locomotive A personnel carrier for use in an underground coal mine comprises a rail vehicle having driving cabs at opposite ends thereof with driving controls in each cab. Power is supplied from a battery mounted between the cabs to an electric driving motor arrange... | 07/15/1980 |
| 4060035 | Convertible rail-highway shuttle car An elongated shuttle car is provided having a set of undriven rail wheels and a set of driven road wheels. The rail wheels are movable between a lowered position wherein they support the shuttle car and a raised position wherein the shuttle car is support... | 11/29/1977 |
| 4007693 | Trackless train system A train system particularly adapted to be used in tunneling operation to outwardly move the loosened earth and rock or muck and, for that purpose, which is trackless and takes its lateral guidance from the usual utility duct which is required along the tu... | 02/15/1977 |
| 3990746 | Apparatus for and a method of storing and transporting lining sections in an underground tunnel driving installation A tunnel driving installation has an advanceable support shield and cutting means co-operating at the front end of the tunnel and a continuous tunnel lining disposed rearwardly of the support shield and constructed from individual lining sections. In orde... | 11/09/1976 |
