Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7107645 | Suede shoe brush A brush for suede shoes, or any other object made of napped material, hasving a one-piece molded plastic handle having a hollow interior with a planar outwardly-facing bristle-mounting surface, a collar extending annularly about the bristle-mounting surface and a gr... | 09/19/2006 |
| 5077857 | Polishing tool A polishing tool for automobiles is provided having a main body of bristles and a crevice tool on opposite sides of a brush block and a handle with a further cleaning medium which has a multitude of uses including removing accumulations of foreign matter ... | 01/07/1992 |
| 4923316 | Golf club cleaning device A golf club cleaning device includes an elongated generally rectangular base having a first face provided with a concave recess lined with a sponge rubber material having an outer emery cloth layer. The recess is dimensioned to partially surround the grip... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4879966 | Underwater painting machine comprising a paint application device with pulsatory movement associated with a rotary smoothing device An underwater painting machine is provided comprising a brush for applying paint on the surface to be treated, driven with a reciprocal translational movement and cooperating with a rotary smoothing brush with axis parallel to the translational direction,... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4399580 | Two part shoe brush A combined shoe brush and dauber arrangement having two separate brush sections which matingly assembly to form the shape of a conventional shoe brush configuration. One of the brush sections operates as a dauber. Side hinges are provided for releasably s... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4008504 | Portable shoe shine apparatus A portable and compact shoe shine apparatus with a replaceable roller set which contains a brush, a shoe cream spreader and a buffer, and a casing for housing the said roller set and the shoe cream container. Functions of removing the dirt and clean the s... | 02/22/1977 |
