Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7029226 | Cargo carrying deck for the tractor of a semitrailer truck Cargo carry apparatus (220) for a tractor (500) of a semitrailer truck includes a rotatable deck (222) mounted between the fifth wheel (502) and the cab which pivots from a vertical position to a horizontal position until the deck rests u... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6968788 | Vehicle carrying rail road car with deck access fittings A rail road car has a deck for carrying wheeled vehicles. The vehicles are loaded from the ground by use of a movable ramp that is positioned next to a separate coupler end of the rail road car. The car has deck access fittings mounted between the trucks near a coll... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6474489 | Collision attenuator A train collision attenuator mounted on a leading end of a train for attenuating the force of impact between a moving train and a pedestrian or motor vehicle. The train collision attenuator includes an energy absorbing assembly and a mounting assembly. Th... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6283040 | Adjustable height rail car A railroad car with adjustable floor and roof sections that allow a user to convert the car from a bi-level to a tri-level car. The overall height of the car can be reduced, which results in reduced costs because the need to stockpile bi-level and tri-lev... | 09/04/2001 |
| 5216956 | Truck train system having a removable first truck and a second truck with a load platform and an extendable center sill A truck-train system uses a first ("A") railway dolly or bogie to support the front or fifth-wheel hitch end of roadable truck-trailer. It uses a second ("B") railway dolly to support the rear or roadable wheel end of the same truck-trailer. The first ("A... | 06/08/1993 |
| 4825778 | Extensible rail car A rail car is adjustable in length to accommodate the mounting thereon of cargo containers of various lengths and widths, such as the presently employed 20 foot, 40 foot, 45 foot and 48 foot lengths and 96 and 102 inch widths. Length adjustment is effecte... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4469369 | Module element of city bus or like vehicle and bus assembled on the basis of such module elements A module element (1) comprises a transverse window section (2) of the body, open at the ends thereof, a chassis unit (4) including a pair of wheels (20) disposed under a window (12) and connected to the window section (2) by means of a suspension (21), an... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4360112 | Two-way extendable crane trolley A two-way horizontally extendable trolley 22 comprising a trolley frame 51 and wheels 52 for supporting trolley frame 51, a first horizontally elongated trailer frame 54 slidably mounted on frame 51, and a second horizontally elongated trailer frame 55 sl... | 11/23/1982 |
| 4311322 | Self-locking folding outrigger assembly A folding, self-locking outrigger for a load transporting vehicle, the outrigger disposed on a side of the vehicle such that the outrigger is movable between a first position wherein the outrigger is disposed substantially adjacent the side of the vehicle... | 01/19/1982 |
| 4180172 | Load carrying vehicle trailer A load-carrying trailer of a transport vehicle has mounted therein a load platform of which a rear section is adapted to be moved slidably in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the trailer. A front section of the load platform is divided laterally ... | 12/25/1979 |
| 3966075 | Cargo container The combination of dimensionally standard cubical box-like cargo containers and dimensionally substandard rectangular, box-like receivable cargo containers adapted to be selectively used independent of and engaged within standard cargo containers, said st... | 06/29/1976 |
