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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7264694 | Retort heating apparatus and methods A retort heating apparatus for processing a feed material includes a heating chamber bounded at least in part by a side wall. A plurality of baffles are at least partially disposed within the heating chamber. Each baffle includes an elongated body having a top surfa... | 09/04/2007 |
| 6989082 | Hinged bottom cover for unheading a coke drum An apparatus for removing a bottom cover on a coke drum. A support structure supports at least the coke drum. A vertical actuator has a cover end attached to the bottom cover and a support end attached to the support structure, and is arranged to move the bottom cov... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6840764 | Apparatus and process for producing charcoal from wood An apparatus and process for producing charcoal in a kiln from hardwood. The kiln is constructed over an array of hardwood logs supported on a suitable platform. Fill material is used to form a surrounding jacket surrounding the hardwood, a sawdust layer is applied ... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6808602 | Coke drum bottom head removal system A coke drum bottom head removal system and method for deheading the bottom head cover of a coke drum comprises a carriage that is positionable beneath the bottom head cover, and a cart mounted to the carriage. Several clamps vertically mounted to the cart are positi... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6264829 | Low headroom coke drum deheading device A coke drum head is hinged to a coke drum body using a compound joint such as a trammel pivot, and the head is moved between open and closed positions using an actuator. In moving between open and closed positions, the head traces out a non-circular path ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6206941 | Apparatus and process for carbonization and activation of carbonaceous materials An apparatus for converting carbonaceous raw materials into a carbonized product and activating the product, includes a device for heating the carbonaceous raw materials to form a carbonized product, and equipment for activating the carbonized product and... | 03/27/2001 |
| 5779970 | Convection cooking oven with a cooled interior The invention concerns a baking ring furnace characterized by the fact that the two parallel rows of cooking chambers are separated by a unique central wall or interior film or space which is capable of being specifically cooled and made firmly attached t... | 07/14/1998 |
| 4948468 | Oil shale retort apparatus A retorting apparatus including a vertical kiln and a plurality of tubes for delivering rock to the top of the kiln and removal of processed rock from the bottom of the kiln so that the rock descends through the kiln as a moving bed. Distributors are prov... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4808286 | Apparatus and method for maximizing production of heat, gas, and electricity through the acceleration of hydrogen dissociation An apparatus for inducing and accelerating hydrogen dissociation in a cloud generated from feedstock fed into a chamber defined by the apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a device for thermally stimulating the feedstock to generate the cloud, a ... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4590174 | Olefin metathesis catalyst Olefins are converted into other olefins having different numbers of carbon atoms by contact with a catalyst comprising an inorganic refractory oxide support containing at least one of tungsten oxide and molybdenum oxide and a promoting amount of at least... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4476789 | Method of and apparatus for the production of charcoal The present invention provides a charcoal producing apparatus comprising a combustion chamber, a heating chamber, first passage means interconnecting the combustion chamber and a discharge flue and second passage means interconnecting the heating chamber ... | 10/16/1984 |
| 4273619 | Apparatus for continuously carbonizing and activating carbonaceous materials An apparatus for carbonizing and then activating carbonaceous materials in a continuous process consisting of an elongated, slightly inclined rotary retort into the higher end of which the material is deposited and from the lower end of which the product ... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4111757 | Smokeless and non-recovery type coke oven battery Coke from a non-recovery type coke oven is pushed onto a downwardly-inclined floor within a smoke hood joined along one edge of the coke oven. The coke is quenched by water discharge nozzles inside the hood. The coke is discharged through a gate at the bo... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4045299 | Smokeless non-recovery type coke oven A burner for oil or gas is controlled by a thermocouple to maintain a predetermined minimum operating temperature within ignition chambers employed to incinerate partially-burned distillation products conducted from the space above a coal charge in a coke... | 08/30/1977 |
| 3983009 | Method and apparatus for destructive distillation of solid wastes and recovery of distilled products A process for destructive distillation of solid wastes and an apparatus for achieving the process whereby organic solid waste material which has been shredded, is exposed to a pyrolytic process to remove water and organic materials by a pyrolytic process ... | 09/28/1976 |
