...that a workman who left the soap mixing machine on too long was responsible for making Ivory Soap? He was so embarrassed by his mistake that he threw the mess in a stream. Imagine his dismay when the evidence of his error floated to the surface! Result: Ivory soap, the soap that floats.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7228881 | Wood processor A wood processor including a motor vehicle having a bed structure, a clamping device on the bed structure for clamping a wood log and positioning it in a first processing position, a power saw for cutting predetermined length members from the wood log, and a splitti... | 06/12/2007 |
| 6732774 | Multi-purpose farm apparatus A multi-purpose farm apparatus capable of being easily transported and which can be used to perform a variety of tasks. The multi-purpose farm apparatus comprises a trailer, a combination baler and wood splitter and a hydraulic system mounted thereon. The combinatio... | 05/11/2004 |
| 5243901 | Firewood banding machine This invention is directed to bundling and banding machine that forms and bands bundles of firewood into the shape of a stable wood pile that can be easily removed from the machine, transported as a banded bundle and when deposited at its final destinatio... | 09/14/1993 |
| 4840015 | Method of continuously processing and packing elongated articles such as coherent pairs of chopsticks and an apparatus for carrying out the method A method and an apparatus for continuously processing and packing elongated articles such as coherent pairs of chopsticks include continuously advancing the articles in the longitudinal direction in a track and centrally aligning the same during the conti... | 06/20/1989 |
| 4269242 | Combination log cutter, splitter and bundler Disclosed herein is a combination log cutter, splitter and bundler for reducing in size logs, preferably to a fireplace length. In addition disclosed herein is a portable device which in one operation saws the wood to an appropriate length, splits the woo... | 05/26/1981 |
| 4223432 | Shim bundle and method of making the same Several courses of random width, low-grade tapered wood shingles are stacked in an elongated trough with the butts of shingles of adjacent courses disposed at opposite sides of the trough to form a substantially continuous stacked shingle lay-up. A cutoff... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4219057 | Timber to firewood processing machine In abstract a preferred embodiment of this invention is a processing machine which takes a felled tree, delimbs the same, feeds the thus trimmed timber through the machine which cuts the timber into fireplace lengths, splits the thus cut logs in one or mo... | 08/26/1980 |