Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7059229 | Counterbalanced advancing metal cutting saw An advancing power saw used for any metal cutting application. The power saw is provided with an oscillating mechanism that drives the saw up and down in a vertical direction. A hydraulic cylinder advances the saw toward the metal being cut while the saw is oscillat... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7055239 | Index cutter The invention relates to a device for producing a book page index for facilitating the search for certain sections in a book. The device includes a bearing surface (1) on which a pile (3) of pages is placed. According to the invention, an index notch o... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7000659 | Adzer mount assembly An adzer mount assembly having a slider box with a vertical slider and horizontal sliders. The vertical slider has an adzer which can be precisely positioned over a crosstie by hydraulic transverse movement of the slider box and vertical movement of the vertical sli... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6609546 | Furniture with distressed appearance A process for creating a distressed surface for an article of furniture, and an article of furniture incorporating a distresses surface. The process includes the steps of selecting at least one piece of material having at least one planar surface and oppo... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6595252 | Method of assembling a floor-bridging unit A method of producing the floor-bridging units, which increases production rate of the floor-bridging units. First rough lumber beams are fed through a planer, which planes the lumber to the required consistent size tolerance. The planed lumber is transfe... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6145557 | Machine for treating rail pads A machine for treating a track composed of two rails fastened to ties and rail pads interposed between the rails and ties has a machine frame supported on the track for mobility in a longitudinal direction. Mounted to the machine frame are two vertically ... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6095208 | Pallet notcher A pallet notching device for notching assembled pallets including a frame having a motive force device connected to the frame for driving a pair of vertically oriented rotating drive shafts and a blade assembly removably attachable to each shaft for rotat... | 08/01/2000 |
| 5735326 | Split jamb for a door frame opening and method of making a split jamb A method of making a base for a split jamb for a door frame opening, with the base having a groove for receiving the tongue of a slide of a split jamb, including the steps of providing an elongate panel, making a plurality of parallel cuts in the panel, w... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5680888 | Saw trimmer and method for trimming lumber pieces The saw trimmer is used for trimming lumber pieces. The saw trimmer comprises a conveyor for longitudinally moving lumber pieces across the saw trimmer. The lumber pieces are transversely disposed on the conveyor with reference to the longitudinal directi... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5358018 | Pole framing apparatus An automatic machine for performing framing operations on a power pole. The machine is controlled by a programmable logic control and interchangeable programs are provided to control the operation of the machine according to a pole frame specification. Po... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5219011 | Hinge slotting machine An apparatus for removing material from sheet goods to allow attachment of levered closures, such as cabinet door pivot hinges. Consisting in part of a main frame with a plurality of elongated support members of equal length. Having incorporated a plurali... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5005618 | Means for positioning arched halving-joints of frame portions and for milling bevels into these frame portions For positioning and milling halving-joints of arched frame portions a clamping rail is rotatably and movably mounted on a workable. Arresting means associated to the clamping rail engage counter elements of a gauge. Clamping means determine the position o... | 04/09/1991 |
| 4937943 | Power chain saw unit for cutting notches in a series of wooden roof rafters A guide shoe of a power chain saw unit is movable along a series of side-by-side roof rafters. A power chain saw of the power chain saw unit is connected to the guide shoe by rigid rods. When operated, the power chain saw cuts notches in the roof rafters ... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4760870 | Automatic dado and scoring machine A machine for performing dados, grooves, mortises, etc., of controlled depth in cabinet component parts and the like. Consisting in part of a main frame with a plurality of elongated support members of equal length. Having incorporated a plurality of tool... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4519429 | Log shaper A machine for forming a smooth surface on a cylindrical log workpiece as it is moved longitudinally past a cutting station which includes both shaping and planing blades. The same cutting pass also includes a cove cutting operation to cut a longitudinal c... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4506715 | Adzing bit assembly The adzing bit assembly includes a circular cutting bit with a circular edge formed by the merging of its flat face and its peripheral surface at an acute angle. A cutting bit shield abuts and covers the face of the cutting bit and extends to a diameter s... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4437501 | Contoured dunnage cutter A contoured dunnage cutter is provided for cutting partially circular arcs in timber dunnage separators, wherein, the partially circular arcs are precisely cut in shape and depth, and spaced at preset distances. The timber dunnage separator is positioned ... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4338051 | Profile cutting machine A machine for cutting a profile into the respective ends of a flat rectangular piece of rubberized material having a clamping table with an overhead reciprocating carriage that has a rotating profile cutter that cuts an interlocking profile at a single pa... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4326572 | Wood molding routing apparatus A wood routing machine accepts a length of wood stock, e.g., a length of preformed crown molding, and thereafter in automatic sequence clamps the wood stock at lengthwise spaced locations, routs evenly spaced notches along the length of the stock and afte... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4319931 | Method for notching pallets The method of notching the stringers of a ready-made pallet by a machine which has a first step which makes four vertical cuts in the stringers as the pallet passes by with the outer two cuts forming the sides of the notch; a second step which makes a hor... | 03/16/1982 |
| 4293011 | Rafter cutting machine Apparatus for cutting and notching beams to predetermined specification comprising spaced parallel loading and discharge stations for receiving and discharging beams to be treated, transfer jaws operable to seize a beam at the receiving station and move i... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4243082 | Rafter side slotter A machine for cutting one or two slots in the sides of a log intended for use as a roofing rafter, the machine including a pair of dado saws, means for moving the saws up and down past the sides of a log, and supports for the saws which are adjustable to ... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4223708 | Double mortise cutter and method of using same A machine for cutting a rectangular mortise in either or both sides of a log intended for building construction, with means for determining accurately the spacing of each mortise from an adjacent end of the log and/or from an adjacent mortise, and the met... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4132253 | Machine for notching pallet stringers A notching machine including a first cutting stage which makes four vertical cuts in the stringer, the outer two cuts defining the sides of the notch. The second cutting stage of the machine makes a horizontal cut which first separates a portion of the st... | 01/02/1979 |
| 4131143 | Apparatus for cutting floor truss web components A machine for producing web components for wooden floor trusses from dimensioned lumber cuts the web components with a high degree of accuracy and uniformity rapidly on a repetitive basis. Each workpiece, such as a 2 × 4, is cut by the machine into two p... | 12/26/1978 |
| 4112986 | Automatic dadoing machine Method and apparatus are disclosed for dadoing cabinet panels. The dados are cut by a plurality of routers selectively extended into the panel. The selection of the number of routers, translatory movement of each of the routers, and positioning of the pan... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4098310 | Apparatus for beveling truss components Apparatus for cutting off and beveling the ends of wood web components for trusses. A length of lumber is guided longitudinally into the machine against a stop and clamped near its lead end, following which the clamped portion is cut off to component leng... | 07/04/1978 |
| 4054165 | Grooved sheet material The invention provides a method, and apparatus for carrying out the method, of preparing a sheet material having two sets of grooves disposed one across the other, one set of grooves being continuous and the other set of grooves being formed in an intermi... | 10/18/1977 |
| 4005738 | Automatic dadoing machine Method and apparatus are disclosed for dadoing cabinet panels. The dados are cut by a plurality of routers selectively extended into the panel. The selection of the number of routers, translatory movement of each of the routers, and positioning of the pan... | 02/01/1977 |
| 3958339 | Cutting guide A cutting guide for precisely setting radial arm and table saw blades in the fabrication of lapped and dado joints comprises a generally wedge shaped body that is formed with a channel at a medial region and a seat at one end. A guide is provided in the c... | 05/25/1976 |
