Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7211746 | Weigh-pan metering and blending method and apparatus A weigh-pan metering and blending apparatus having a holding chamber for receiving fiber from a fiber distributer and providing temporary storage of the fiber. The metering chamber meters the fiber received from the holding chamber, wherein the metering chamber incl... | 05/01/2007 |
| 4616722 | Weighing apparatus with compartmentalized weighing bucket A computerized scale in which each weighing bucket is formed by two side-by-side compartments and by a single door which shuttles back and forth between two positions beneath the compartments. Each time the door changes positions, it closes one compartmen... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4549619 | Combinatorial weighing apparatus A combinatorial weighing apparatus in which an operator manually supplies a combinatorial weighing apparatus with articles to be weighed is provided with hopper sets each of which has two weighing hoppers and a single movable pool hopper for supplying the... | 10/29/1985 |
