Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7431057 | Paintball filling system and method A system for simultaneously filling a plurality of paintball pods with a reduced incidence of spilling includes a housing, a pod support, a reservoir, and a valve. The pod support includes a plate with at least one aperture configured to maintain at least one paintb... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7335188 | Lumbar puncture fluid collection device A device for collecting spinal fluid during a lumbar puncture or other medical procedure includes: a) an upper, generally cup-shaped portion including an open top, an upper cup side wall, an upper cup base plate at a lower end of the upper cup side wall, and a drain... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7308919 | Refill apparatus for multiple containers A refill apparatus for multiple containers is provided, which comprises a single piece, integrally molded primary container for holding matter. The basin of the container is comprised of a bottom with a plurality of apertures that are arranged in rows and columns fo... | 12/18/2007 |
| 6827113 | Massively parallel fluid dispensing systems and methods The present invention provides highly automated fluid delivery systems and related methods with significantly improved throughput relative to preexisting technologies. In particular, the invention relates to a fluid dispensing system that simultaneously produces mul... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6651706 | Gasoline pump system and method In a gasoline pump system, means for concurrent filling of more than one car, tank or container with gasoline or other liquid petroleum products, comprising a display for guiding car drivers to a gasoline pump system having an outlet available for fueling... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6601619 | Dispenser for church communion cups A communion cup dispenser made in accordance with the present disclosure includes a number of tubes that hold the cups prior to the dispensing operation. A dispensing mechanism releases one layer of forty cups into an empty communion tray per one cycle of... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6457611 | Pill dispenser loader A loader for an automated pill dispenser has a plastic body with two rows of pill cavities which are positioned to overlie pill compartment blocks in the speciality pill dispensing carousel of a conventional automated pill dispenser. Two guides affixed be... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6170540 | High speed depositor with positive displacement pump and stepping motor The high speed depositor allows the manufacturing plant, e.g., a modern large bakery, to double the production of the batter, filling and icing lines. The depositor is comprised of a food quality positive displacement pump, a high torque stepping motor, a... | 01/09/2001 |
| 5992709 | Dispenser for viscous liquids A viscous liquid dispenser (1) having a dispensing container (6) with a dispenser bottom (2) having a multiplicity of drainage holes (3) a grooved track (5) within the inside wall of the dispensing container parallel to and above the dispenser bottom, and... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5911253 | Container and liquid dispensing apparatus and method of application thereof The invention provides a container dispensing apparatus and a liquid dispensing apparatus. The container dispenser includes a housing, axial bores for receiving a column of containers and a central, axial bore, a vertical bar attached to and uprising from... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5560404 | Oil drain and disposal device An improved oil drainage and disposal device comprising a generally box-like container having a large opening formed eccentrically in one surface of the container to permit a plurality of oil containers to be inserted into the interior of the container fo... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5465767 | Premeasured fluids packaging, storing and dispensing apparatus and method A system for packaging, storing and dispensing discrete quantities of fluid has front and back sheets of fluid impervious material bonded together along seal lines to define a plurality of tubular containment channels including fill ports and discharge po... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5456298 | Portioned metering head for food products A device for providing a measured portion of food product on demand in which a portioned metering head has an inlet to receive the food product under pressure and an outlet to discharge the food product onto the food-receiving medium. There is a disk in t... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5289846 | Automatic liquid replenishing system An automatic water replenishing system is designed for use with multiple dye vats used for tinting eyeglass lenses, but the broad principles of the invention could apply to other systems used for replenishing individual ones of plural vats or reservoirs w... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5148841 | Filling apparatus for filling receptacle with metered weights Filling apparatus for filling receptacles, the apparatus comprising a feed member connected to at least one filling spout via a flow control member connected to an output of a weight processing unit having an input connected to a weighing member in order ... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5080146 | Method and apparatus for filling thermal insulating systems A method for filling insulated glazing units is disclosed. The method utilizes a vacuum chamber in which the insulated glazing units are placed. The insulated glazing units and vacuum chamber are evacuated simultaneously. The units are then refilled with ... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5016690 | Dosing device on a filling plant, in particular for liquid and pasty products, and process for its operation The dosing device is provided with a storage container (1), in which is located a shaft (3) under the filling height of the product (23). The shaft has at least one bore (5), in which a bilaterally operating piston (6) is depressed by a driven actuating s... | 05/21/1991 |
| 4844298 | Apparatus for automatically dispensing accurately a predetermined quantity of liquids required to be stored at constant temperatures Apparatus for automatically dispensing accurately a predetermined quantity of a liquid required to be stored at room temperature including a syringe pump, a liquid tank, and a pump displacement mechanism for moving the syringe pump between the liquid tank... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4830068 | Device for the simultaneous quantitative regulated filling of liquid or soft plasticized substances, such as butter, margarine, pastes or the like by means of nozzles into adjacently arranged containers A device for the simultaneous quantitative regulated filling of liquid or soft plasticized substances, such as butter, margarine, pastes or the like, by means of nozzles into adjacently arranged containers with the assistance of at least one control eleme... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4810471 | Vacuum manifold for extraction processing A vacuum manifold for solid phase extraction of a plurality of liquid samples from reagent tubes removably connected by valves to a vacuum chamber through a removable vacuum tight cover closing. A plurality of parallel flow paths are provided through the ... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4778079 | Method and apparatus for selectively controlling the divided discharge of a paste substance from the cavities in a dispensing carrier A method and apparatus of controlling the dividing of a paste composition from the dispensing cavities in a carrier in which floatable pistons in the cavities regulate the amount of paste composition which is discharged from the respective dispensing cavi... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4734261 | Duplex pipette A duplex pipette comprises a housing, a pair of cylinders separately formed in the housing to extend substantially in parallel to each other, first and second piston members each having a lower end portion slidably received in one of the cylinders and a h... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4712594 | Liquid storage and delivery system for protective mask A liquid storage and delivery system for use with protective masks having hand-operable bulb siphon pumps in line with conduits extending from a canteen assembly to the drinking mouthpiece of the protective mask. The system includes structure to allow a u... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4675163 | Laboratory device A laboratory device having a bifurcatable actuator plate assembly superposed and in coaction with a support plate means for securing a plurality of pump-actuated pipettes therebetween and responsive to the actuation thereof to accurately dispense liquids ... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4208852 | Process for the aseptic packing of products and machine employing said process An aseptic packing machine comprising an enclosure defining a space swept through by a stream of sterile air and means for producing said stream of air. A station for producing containers, a filling station, a closing station and a transfer device coopera... | 06/24/1980 |
| 4143688 | Apparatus for selectively dispensing pasty substances Apparatus for dispensing pasty flowable substances, and particularly for dispensing substances such as mustard and catsup for deposit on buns. The apparatus comprises a closed container having a plurality of compartments for containing mustard and catsup.... | 03/13/1979 |
| 3949746 | Animal injector apparatus A hypodermic syringe apparatus includes a contact member having an apertured front plate and a hydraulic cylinder reciprocated mounting plate supports a group of hypodermic needles in slidable registry with the front plate openings, which pierce a liquid ... | 04/13/1976 |
