Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7857014 | Machine for metering microtablets A machine for metering microtablets into capsules has a metering surface subjected to vibration and to rotation about a respective perpendicular axis; and an unloading device, which is fixed with respect to and cooperates with the metering surface, and is substantia... | 12/28/2010 |
| 6802601 | Ink cartridge An ink cartridge is provided with a housing defining a body of the cartridge, an ink reservoir accommodated in the housing, an opening formed on the housing. The opening communicates with the ink reservoir through a fluid path. The cartridge further includes a stop ... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6435230 | Metering device A metering device has a filling material container with a metering disk. Metering bores for products such as microtablets are disposed in the metering disk. Underneath the metering disk in a transfer region, there is a capsule filling shaft which is dispo... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6419076 | Intermittent container discharge device in continuous-filling packaging system A discharge device which, in a retainer type continuous-filling packaging system, extracts full bags (bags filled with contents) from retainers that are continuously fed at a constant speed and discharges these full bags after converting the movement of t... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6311743 | Device for feeding tablets and the like to a packaging machine A device for feeding tablets in a blister packaging machine includes a vibrating container containing a mass of tablets. The vibrating container features a bottom wall, one portion of which includes tablet feeding channels, communicating with related slot... | 11/06/2001 |
| 5865220 | Apparatus for filling liquid crystal material A liquid crystal material filling apparatus which includes, in a vacuum chamber, a liquid crystal pot having a liquid crystal reservoir for storing a liquid crystal material. A groove part is coupled with the liquid crystal reservoir at a certain angle an... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5862839 | Method and apparatus for filling liquid crystal material A liquid crystal material filling apparatus which includes, in a vacuum chamber, a liquid crystal pot having a liquid crystal reservoir for storing a liquid crystal material. A groove part is coupled with the liquid crystal reservoir at a certain angle an... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5092378 | Communion cup filler The communion cup filler is a device that fills a full tray of communion cups all simultaneously in a matter of several seconds. It is made in one piece by injection molding. The rectangular central panel contains a number of conduits each leading to a dr... | 03/03/1992 |
| 4617974 | Apparatus for packaging tobacco portions To increase the efficiency of a packaging machine for tobacco portions (10) without adversely affecting the tobacco, two or more tobacco portions (10) are supplied to a packaging turret (11) at the same time. The tobacco portions (10) supplied individuall... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4324524 | Dust retention device The device is for retaining dust when particulate material is dumped through the device into a container. The device has a plurality of adjacent inverted-V shaped restrictors which swing about an axis along the point where the two leaves of the V meet. Th... | 04/13/1982 |
| 4221175 | Apparatus and method for planting seed An apparatus and method is illustrated wherein seedlings carried in spaced relation in cellular trays receivable for inversion with subsequent release into means for distributing the seeds over a larger area occupied by segregated portions of growing medi... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4015646 | Liquid dispensing apparatus A circular dispensing tray having an upturned peripheral flange is formed with a first plurality of apertures in a central circular area and a second plurality of apertures in a surrounding annular area divided from the central area by an upward step. Eac... | 04/05/1977 |
