Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7147731 | Flanged parts producing method, and heat-treating device and heat treating method therefor A spacer 44 is inserted between an upper end face 44a of a contact column 40, and a lower face of a flange 14. The flange 14 is supported at plural positions by supporting columns 42. In heating a shoulder portion ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 6821363 | Procedure for hardening at least one surface of a wall of a component and device for its execution A procedure for hardening at least one surface (S, L) of a wall (W) of a component (T), in which the surface to be hardened (S, L) is inductively heated with at least one inductor (2), in which liquid is filled into a gap (P) between the surface to be hardene... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6765181 | Inductor assembly An apparatus and process are provided for induction heat treatment of electrically conductive workpieces. The inductor assembly is formed from a single piece inductor that utilizes an electrically non-conductive top, side and bottom frames to hold flux concentrators... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6743309 | Method and apparatus for casting, hot rolling and annealing non-heat treatment aluminum alloys This invention provides a method and apparatus for casting, hot rolling and annealing of non-heat treatable aluminum alloys which comprises continuously casting, hot rolling and, in-line with the hot rolling line, heating the aluminum sheet using infrared heat. The ... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6582586 | Method of removing scales and preventing scale formation on metal materials and apparatus therefor Suppression and removal of scales are efficiently carried out in a steel material hot rolling process and the time of pickling treatment as a successive step is greatly shortened. In a water cooling step of metallic material 11 at a temperature of 100° t... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6506269 | High-strength and high-conductivity Cu-(Ni, Co, Fe)-Si copper alloy for use in leadframes and method of making the same A high-strength and high-conductivity copper alloy is disclosed which contains essentially of: (a) from 0.5 to 2.5 wt % of Ni; (b) from 0.5 to 2.5 wt % of Co; (c) from 0.5 to 0.8 wt % of Si; (d) from 0.05 to 0.15 wt % of either Mg or P or both; and (e) th... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6264765 | Method and apparatus for casting, hot rolling and annealing non-heat treatment aluminum alloys This invention provides a method and apparatus for casting, hot rolling and annealing of non-heat treatable aluminum alloys which comprises continuously casting, hot rolling, and, in-line with the hot rolling line, inductively heating the aluminum sheet. ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6030471 | Method for producing a hardened wheel A specialized induction facility provides localized heating in only the desired wear areas of a crane wheel while leaving the supporting material "as-forged" and ductile. The wear area of a crane wheel is hardened such that flanges extending out from a wo... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5911844 | Method for forming a metallic material A method for drawing a portion of metallic material having a known hardness. The method includes the step of applying a localized heat treatment to predetermined portions of the metallic material. Additionally, the method comprises forming the localized h... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5900081 | Computerized method for forging, quenching and tempering metal A CNC method for forging, quenching and tempering a metal material is composed of an automatic process of feeding a metal material, which is uniformly heated at a temperature of 1000° C. for about one minute by an induction coil and is subsequently forge... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5528019 | High frequency induction heating method for rocker arms Disclosed is a high-frequency heating apparatus including an elongated chamber in which a plurality of rocker arms are introduced, each of the rocker arms being attached with a chip and brazing filler such as a copper wax, a high-frequency brazing coil fo... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5444221 | High-frequency induction heating apparatus for rocker arms Disclosed is a high-frequency heating apparatus including an elongated chamber in which a plurality of rocker arms are introduced, each of the rocker arms being attached with a chip and brazing filler such as a copper wax, a high-frequency brazing coil fo... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5433800 | Scanning induction hardening A scanning induction hardening process in which a steel workpiece is surface hardened by progressively traversing its length with an inductor coil energized by an alternating electric current and immediately thereafter quenching the heated portion of the ... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5264053 | Production method for a vehicular endless track bushing A production method for an endless track bushing wherein high-carbon low-alloy steel is selected as a bushing material, the bushing material is quench-hardened without pre-carburizing the bushing material, and then tempered. In the quench-hardening, the b... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5218178 | Method of and apparatus for internal heating of solid bodies using electromagnetic induction Method and apparatus for internally heating solid bodies using electromagnetic induction. The method comprises generating an electromagnetic induction field and causing it to induce the flow of an electric current in a preselected portion of a solid body ... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5213636 | Method and apparatus of quench hardening of gear teeth surfaces A method for induction heating and quench hardening of helical gears provides a hardness pattern uniformly distributed to a controlled depth across and between the teeth surfaces by means of axial scanning of the workpiece and uniform quenching. Uniform q... | 05/25/1993 |
| 4743309 | Method for zone heat treatment of a metallic workpiece A method for zone heat treatment of metallic workpiece with a comparatively large cross-section, in which the workpiece is successively passed through a zone of higher temperature in such a way that the temperature of the workpiece initially rises steeply... | 05/10/1988 |
| 4711675 | Process for improving the sag-resistance and hardenability of a spring steel A spring steel having a good sag-resistance and a good hardenability comprises by weight 0.5-0.8% carbon, 1.5-2.5% silicon, 1.6-2.5% manganese and a member or members selected from a group consisting of 0.05-0.5% vanadium, 0.05-0.5 niobium and 0.05-0.5% m... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4531036 | Apparatus and method for inductively hardening small bores A method and apparatus for hardening a small internal passage in a workpiece wherein the workpiece is indexed into coaxial alignment between axially spaced inductor coils and an actuator telescopically inserts a magnetically permeable flux concentrating r... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4428782 | Production of aluminium alloy strip In the heat treatment of aluminium alloy strip, in which hardening of the material is effected by heat treatment to dissolve pre-existing precipitates in the metal matrix followed by quenching and ageing, the electrical conductance of the strip after quen... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4321097 | Blade fabricating process A process and apparatus for cleanly and efficiently fabricating winged lawn mower blades from unfinished milled blade blanks. The unfinished blades are positioned in a magazine and fed one after the other to a heating station where they are inductively he... | 03/23/1982 |
| 3988179 | Method and apparatus for inductively heating elongated workpieces There is provided a method and apparatus for inductively heating elongated workpieces having a central axis and mounted in workpiece receiving stations of an indexable turret. A single shot inductor located within the path generally followed by the indexi... | 10/26/1976 |
| 3944446 | Method of inductively heating and quench hardening camshafts A method of inductively heating and quench hardening an elongated camshaft having a central axis, an elongated body portion, at least three axially spaced bearing surfaces on the body portion, and axially spaced cam surfaces on the body portion and encirc... | 03/16/1976 |