...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7210486 | Process and device for conveying a wrapper strip in a machine of the tobacco processing industry Process and apparatus for operating a machine of the tobacco processing industry. The process includes guiding at least one wrapper strip along a conveyor path from a wrapping strip supply to a garniture device, and fixing the at least one wrapper strip in at least ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 5529077 | Cigar wrapping device A device for rolling wrappers onto cigar bodies, includes a lower roll unit (10) with a first pair of parallel rolls (14, 16) lying in a horizontal plane and rotatable in the same direction about their own axes for supporting contact with a lower half of ... | 06/25/1996 |
| 4305408 | Automatic cigar wrapping device A device for applying a chevron-shaped cigar wrapper blank onto a rotating double cigar body as the body is being rotated in a mechanically driven nest where certain driving rods of the nest are modified to provide clearance for a tuck lifter that initiat... | 12/15/1981 |
| 4103692 | Cigar wrapping machine and method A machine and method for continuously applying wrappers to a stream of bound cigar bunches.... | 08/01/1978 |
| 3943944 | Apparatus for making and separating wrapped cigar bunches Apparatus for wrapping cigar bunches has a first conveyor consisting of two endless belts having filler-engaging stretches which cross each other in space and move a single file of bunches lengthwise while simultaneously rotating the bunches about their a... | 03/16/1976 |