Did You Know...
...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7086517 | Cargo system roller/lock/power drive unit tray integration An apparatus is provided for housing cargo-moving devices in a cargo handling system. The apparatus comprises a variable width tray having a wide section, a narrow section, and a transition section for connecting the narrow section to the wide section. The narrow se... | 08/08/2006 |
| 6973767 | Beverage bottling plant and a conveyor arrangement for transporting packages There is now provided a beverage bottling plant for filling bottles and like containers with a liquid beverage filling material and a conveyer arrangement for aligning and distributing packages containing filled bottles and like containers. The conveyer arrangement ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6871036 | Belt driving apparatus and image forming apparatus using the same A belt driving apparatus which inhibits a belt meandering so as to improve a printing quality and rapidly starts a printing motion at a time of starting the apparatus such as a time of turning on power or the like, and an image forming apparatus using the same. The ... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6822207 | Continuous product conveyor having a brick baking hearth A method and apparatus for merging the processes of hearth baking and conveyor baking to offer the benefits of the two processes while eliminating many of the shortcomings. In one aspect, the present invention is a horizontal food-grade product conveyor to transport... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6779414 | Inspection method of continuously variable transmission belt An inspection method is provided which can achieve sufficient reliability of a continuously variable transmission belt without spending much working time. The inspection method of the continuously variable transmission belt assembled through supporting an element la... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6523775 | Conveying apparatus A conveying apparatus. The apparatus includes an air-cooled hydraulic driving unit, a hydraulic motor, a conveyor and a connecting element. The air-cooled hydraulic driving unit includes a hydraulic pump, an electrical motor, pipes, a flow regulator, and ... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6431450 | Barcode scanning system for reading labels at the bottom of packages on a conveyor A conveyor with narrow apertures enables barcode scanning devices to be mounted under the conveying surface so they may scan and read data from tags and labels located on the bottom surface of material being transported by the conveyor. Multiple apertures... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6390270 | Escalator In an escalator having a plurality of steps connected to an endless chain and moved along an endless path, a rotation locus of step forward wheels at both end portions is shifted toward end portions of the escalator relative to a rotation locus of the cha... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6186316 | Method and device for the precise electrolytic deposition and etching of metal layers on circuit boards and conductors foils in continuous systems The invention concerns a process for precise electrolytic precipitation and etching of metals up to the marginal area of printed-circuit board and printed-circuit film panel in a continuous-cycle plant. In continuous-cycle plants, the panels are grasped b... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6186318 | Endless belt coveyor unit for a stamping press An elongated low profile sheet metal tray has a bottom panel adapted to seat on the bolster plate of a stamping press under a die set. The panel supports adjacent upper and lower runs of an endless belt directed around guide rollers and a drive roller sup... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6161682 | Car washing machine and system A car washing apparatus having a continuous conveyor that moves along a conveyor path and a guide rail with an upper surface on which wheels of the vehicle roll thereby moving the vehicle from the proximal end to the distal end upon conveyor movement. The... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6141522 | Image forming apparatus using an endless belt In an image forming apparatus, such as an electrophotography-basis copying machine or laser printer, ribs are provided on and along both side ends of the inner surface of an intermediate transfer belt. Rib guides are provided on both ends of a drive roll.... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6082141 | Device for stepwise bending of glass sheets Glass sheets are bent in stages into the final shape in a horizontal position in two successive bending stations. The glass sheets heated to bending temperature are laid on a fabric carrier arranged resiliently on a rigid support frame. The glass sheets a... | 07/04/2000 |
| 5904240 | Endless belt conveyor unit for a stamping press An elongated low profile sheet metal tray has a bottom panel adapted to seat on the bolster plate of a stamping press under a die set. The panel supports adjacent upper and lower runs of an endless belt directed around guide rollers and a drive roller sup... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5819383 | Brush conveyor and needling machine equipped with this conveyor A brush conveyor, such as a velvet needling machine, has an assembly of contiguous brushes disposed in transverse rows, and a drive source for this assembly of brushes which forms a conveying plane having a predetermined direction of displacement to const... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5814566 | Belt assembly There is disclosed a belt assembly including: (a) an endless belt capable of repeated cycling over rollers having a first side edge and a second side edge and defining a center region between two side regions, wherein a low friction composition comprised ... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5688219 | Device for transporting copies inside a folder equipped with a cutting cylinder Device for transporting copies inside a folder which is equipped with at least one cutting cylinder for cutting individual copies from a web, the copies being transportable from the cutting cylinder to at least one copy-guiding component, and groups of ta... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5620518 | Powder coating system An apparatus for and method of coating an article by the use of electro-static attraction of ionized particles which are subsequently cured. The apparatus includes a first foraminous conveyor for carrying the article through a powder coating zone and a se... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5427227 | Baggage conveyor system A conveyor system (10) is manufactured or retrofitted to include porcelain enamel on steel pallets (22). The porcelain enamel on steel pallets (22) may have decorative designs (30). The pallets (22) are secured to pallet support members (16) that have whe... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5425440 | Device for the continuous conveying and turning of workpieces A device for continuous conveying and turning of workpieces has a drivable, endless, flexible troughed belt (12) with a plurality of bars, parallel in the direction of conveyance (F) and articulated to each other. In order to form the trough, each of the ... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5311981 | Baggage conveyor system A conveyor system (10) is manufactured or retrofitted to include porcelain enamel on steel pallets (22). The porcelain enamel on steel pallets (22) may have decorative designs (30). The pallets (22) are secured to pallet support members (16) that have whe... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5271583 | Automatic method and operating system for space construction A high-speed automated method and operating system is disclosed for constructing continuous-walled tubular structures in space having unlimited dimensions. The system comprises a relatively short tubular conveyor with a flexible endless conveying surface ... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5264037 | Powder coating system An apparatus for and method of coating an article by the use of electro-static attraction of ionized particles which are subsequently cured. The apparatus includes a first foraminous conveyor for carrying the article through a powder coating zone and a se... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5165526 | Conveyor system with panels containing visual information A conveyor, such as a baggage carousel, includes a plurality of transparent panels, each having a thin layer containing visual information affixed to its bottom surface. A series of adjacent panels can produce one complete visual unit such as an advertise... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5103712 | Ammunition reloading system and operating method An aerial inflight reloading system and operating method is provided for military combat aircraft using cannon or machine gun ammunition. In this system, a large ammunition carrying aircraft is equipped with an enclosed conveyor fitted with aerodynamic li... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5081938 | Method and apparatus for controlled bidirectional feeding of particulate matter A method and apparatus are provided for effecting bidirectional feeding of particulate material, such as in the bidirectional feeding of fuel to a circulating fluidized bed combustor. A feeder has a housing with at least one inlet in the upper portion of ... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5056782 | Ball return conveyor system for baseball pitching machine cages A ball return assembly for use with a pitching machine in a batting cage includes a conveyor having an endless loop belt with a transport surface provided with a plurality of spaced depressions each adapted to receive a ball. The belt is supported and gui... | 10/15/1991 |
| 4848539 | Method and conveyor for transporting articles A conveyor for transporting articles over a floor. The conveyor is a continuous belt the bottom run of which slides either on the floor or on a slider pad supported on the floor. The upper run supports the articles and slides on the lower run. The conveyo... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4758148 | Manufacture of concrete tiles In manufacturing concrete tiles a stiff concrete mass is molded and heavily compacted by means of a rapidly rotating pressing roller on sheet metal molding trays, which during the molding operation are supported by carriers having relief-like supporting s... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4601389 | Tubular conveyor system and operating method An enclosed tubular continuous mechanical conveying system and method are provided for transporting bulk material or passengers at high speed along straight, curved or twisting paths with unlimited length in three-dimensional space. The conveying medium i... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4373625 | Double-walled rotary tubular conveyor with stabilizing drive means A double-walled rotary tubular conveyor includes a stabilizing drive means which prevents the conveyor tube from moving backward, forward or sideways. Two pairs of driven rollers are located in the hollow interior of the conveyor tube. A rubber drive whee... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4368599 | Apparatus for transport and simultaneous surface-treatment of discrete commodities Apparatus for transporting, agitating, rotating and treating discrete objects, such as metallic parts, has an endless band which is trained over two sets of rollers and forms a trough between the two sets of rollers. The band is driven by at least one set... | 01/18/1983 |
| 4174033 | Double walled rotary tubular conveyor A conveying device having a flexible member with inside and outside surfaces and first and second end positions forming inlet and outlet orifices. Support mechanisms disposed intermediate the inside and outside surfaces and a drive mechanism for engaging ... | 11/13/1979 |
| 4078654 | Flexible coated wire cable conveyor structure A flexible coated wire cable conveyor structure which includes one or more flexible wire cables coated with a flexible plastic resinous cable-coating material, such as nylon, and novel means for attaching the conveyor flights to and supporting them on the... | 03/14/1978 |
| 3973446 | Web aligner A device for maintaining a predetermined alignment of a running web and more particularly maintaining the alignment of the belt of an endless conveyor comprising an idler spool over which the web or belt passes and which is laterally movable relative to i... | 08/10/1976 |
