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...that the Slinky toy was the result of a failed attempt by engineer Richard James to produce an antivibration device for ship instruments? His goal was to develop a spring that would instantaneously counterbalance the wave motion that rocks a ship at sea. Instead, he developed the Slinky.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7097027 | Scoop for transferring granular material A scoop includes a molded one-piece plastic scoop body having a bottom wall portion and a sidewall portion that extends from the bottom wall portion and that cooperates with the bottom wall portion to confine a material-holding space for holding granular material to... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6695127 | Bucket for a bucket elevator A bucket is provided for a bucket elevator of the type including a plurality of buckets supported on an endless belt. Each bucket is in the form of a container having an open top end which includes a plurality of spacer elements molded integrally on the b... | 02/24/2004 |
| 5575937 | Molded bakery proofer tray A molded proofer tray (10) for use in commercial bakeries, includes threaded inserts (28) molded directly into the outer end (14) walls for removably receiving mounting pins (30) to facilitate repair if damaged. A female embodiment (40) is also provided.... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5375896 | Bucket mechanism, particularly a ship unloader Proposed is a bucket mechanism, particularly a ship unloader, which includes at least one rotating traction member with receiving elements fastened thereto. The receiving elements are formed of a stiff supporting member, with an elastically yielding mater... | 12/27/1994 |
| 4927004 | Feeder In order to improve the accuracy of spacing, direction and velocity, a feeder for feeding discrete objects one by one has a belt which circulates at a controlled speed. The belt carries a series of buckets formed by four flaps which are normally closed bu... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4805780 | Sorting machine, in particlar for small parcels A sorting machine with trays which are moved in an endless path extending in a vertical plane in such a manner that the trays face upwardly both in the lower and upper run of the path, the trays being pivotally suspended between two synchronously driven c... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4770288 | Belt-type bucket elevator A belt-type bucket elevator in which each bucket is connected to the belt by two movable fastenings arranged one behind the other in conveying direction. Each bucket is divided into front and rear bucket portions along a dividing plane extending between t... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4719059 | Process of handling and transferring a molded product A material handling device for transferring a formed good from an injection molding machine includes a pair of spaced tracks. Inner ends of the tracks are positioned below a mold carried by the machine with the track positioned transversely to opening and... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4560139 | Bakery proofer appliances A proofer container for use in the baking industry fabricated of high-density material exhibiting substantial imperviousness to environmental contaminants. A unitary structure is provided with a suitably shaped dough-receiving receptacle and is configured... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4518498 | Metallurgical slag filtering apparatus which effects uniform charging of a conveyer belt A filtration apparatus comprised of a rotary drum having a plurality of internal vanes for conveying slag material is presented. The slag is conveyed upwardly by the vanes, after which is falls freely onto a conveyer belt passing longitudinally through th... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4392566 | Bulk material handling and reclaiming equipment A bulk material handling and reclaiming device of a nature that can be added to or substituted in known reclaiming installations. Bulk material such as coal delivered by a conveyor from a mine normally is delivered by a conveyor in large quantities during... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4336876 | Mechanical handling apparatus for reclaiming material from a stockpile A stockpile drum reclaiming machine is operable in either direction has a twelve faced drum carried on a gantry provided with wheeled bogies running on rails over the length of the stockpile. The faces are arranged in pairs each pair with an interior angl... | 06/29/1982 |
| 4184585 | Endless band conveyors The load-bearing components of an endless conveyor band are of composite construction, each component comprising two or more moulded plastics modules assembled together. The modules may be attached together by releasable connections. Where there are three... | 01/22/1980 |
