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...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8100259 | Carrier apparatus for fastener A carrier apparatus for carrying at least one fastener includes a back plate, at least one inserting hole defined on the base plate, a restricting hole defined on the base plate communicating with the at least one inserting hole, at least two elastic flanges, and a ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 7520385 | Packaging substrate and presentation of small hardware In a packaging arrangement for smoothly and conveniently providing small hardware items to an assembly line operator, the items are fastened onto a flexible band, lined up in the order in which they are to be installed on an article being assembled. The band is divi... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7350643 | System and device for keeping bone screws ready A keeping-ready device for bone screws and a keeping-ready system comprising this keeping-ready device are described. The keeping-ready device has a surface, in which a plurality of orifices for accommodating the bone screws is provided. The keeping-ready device all... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7341146 | Screwdriver with dual cam slot for collated screws A screwdriver for driving collated screws including a slide body coupled to a housing for reciprocal displacement in a cycle including a retraction stroke and an extension stroke. A lever pivotably mounted to the slide body carries at one end a cam pin received in a... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7249701 | Power actuated gun with fastener feeding track and automatic firing An automated power actuated gun which drives a fastener assembly having a plate frictionally engaging a nail or stud into a hard substrate or surface such as concrete that has attached thereto a fastener feeding assembly. The fastener feeding assembly is formed with... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7207095 | Process for forming elongated flexible strip of nailing caps A process for forming an elongate strip defined by a plurality of adjacent but sidewardly spaced pressure caps used for securing an underlayment to a substrate. A plurality of essentially identical strip segments, each containing a plurality of substantially identic... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7198446 | Connected fastener having separation facilitator The object of the invention is to secure straight travelability for a fastener during the driving of the latter, simplify the connecting fastener production process, simplify the cleaning of the work site, and prevent work-attending damage to the flooring. In a conn... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7168601 | Packaging device for fasteners An apparatus is provided for packaging fasteners such as screws, that is to be worn by a user. The packaging device includes a tray with a plurality of wells, each well accommodating the shank of a respective fastener. An attachment device is used for securing a tra... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7159291 | Continuous riveter and continuously caulking method of blind rivets Disclosed is a continuous riveter capable of firing blind rivets in succession to caulk sheet metal or the like. A seal member 71 located on the oil chamber 6 side and a seal member 72 located on the air chamber 4 side are provided in an ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7156230 | Device for holding hose clamps in a predetermined position A device for holding hose clamps in a predetermined position, wherein the hose clamps each have a clamping part projecting radially away from a circumference of the hose clamps and wherein the clamping part has a projection extending in the circumferential direction... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7108130 | Strip of fasteners and loader of such a strip for equipment for driving such fasteners A strip includes fasteners (1), each having a shank (2) which is pointed at one end (4) and bears a head (3) at the other end. The fasteners are respectively engaged by their shanks (2) in guide and damping blocks joined together i... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7090077 | Magazine strip A magazine strip (2) for fastening elements (14) includes a strip-shaped support strap (4), a plurality of uniformly spaced from each other, transporting recesses (8) for a stepwise displacement of the magazine strip (2) in a magaz... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7070050 | Tool holder for compound needles, and shipping unit For keeping knitting tools (2) in readiness and mounting them on knitting machines or other loop-forming machines, a tool holder (4) is provided, which is formed by or contains a transport rail (5). The transport rail (5) has two clamping... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7051875 | Holding strap for curved screwstrip A curved screwstrip comprising in combination a plastic holding strap and a plurality of threaded fasteners. The plastic holding strap has a greater mass in its top half than in its bottom half so that shrinking after extrusion will tend to have the holding strap ad... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7025551 | Fastener clip for use in supplying fasteners to a fastener driving tool A clip of fasteners for use in attaching a structural panel to a metal substrate comprises a plastic strip with openings characterized by inwardly-extending ribs for gripping and supporting fasteners that comprise a forward self-drilling portion, a rearward self-tap... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7021462 | Fastener carrier assembly and method of use A fastener carrier assembly used to secure rows of fasteners in a workpiece using a conventional driving tool. The fastener carrier assembly includes a plurality of fasteners, an upper strip and a separate lower strip. The upper strips include a plurality of interco... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7007364 | Tag nailing system A nail module for nail attachment of metal tags to hot steel includes a nail and a fracturable carrier. The nail has a pointed shank and a head. The carrier houses the nail and has a delivery end and a female socket end. The carrier delivery end is adapted to receiv... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7004704 | Flute positioner A flute positioner is provided for positioning a fastener in a tool barrel, and includes a body, a throughbore extending through the body, and at least one holding member extending into the throughbore. One or more extensions may extend radially outward from the bod... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6974030 | Magazine for screws A screw magazine includes a form-stiff framework (1) having a front side (4) and a back side (5) between which a plurality of mutually spaced-apart bores (10) extend, each one of which is delimited by an endless limiting wall (11) ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6966440 | Tape-packaged headed pin contact A non-intrusive surface mount interconnect that provides a through-hole interconnect to the opposite side of a PCB board. A headed pin (head up/shank down) can be picked by standard placement equipment from a specially configured pocket tape using a hole that is tig... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6823990 | Nail holder strip A nail holder strip, having a plurality of nail holders including a support base, for holding and supporting a nail, and a passage in the support base for receiving the nail. Additionally, each of the nail holders includes a stiffening stem positioned adjacent to th... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6814231 | Strip of collated fasteners for fastener-driving tool In a fastener driving tool, a carrier for holding a plurality of fasteners comprises a plurality of sleeves, each sleeve holding an associated fastener. Each sleeve has a body with an axis and a bore, the bore extending axially through the body and the bore being fo... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6783001 | Magazine with a magazine strip for a screwdriver A magazine for a screwdriver. The magazine is provided with a magazine strip used to store screws which can be successively inserted into and extracted from an object. The magazine strip has a central web and a flange running along each edge. The magazine has a guid... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6779959 | Belt of nails for nailers A belt of nails for nailers includes an outer belt, an inner belt and multiple nails. The outer and inner belts are parallel and respectively have multiple cylindrical outer and inner brackets connected in a straight line with connecting ribs between adjacent bracke... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6761268 | Screw-holding belt A screw-holding belt (20) has a belt body (2) made from a plastics and having cutouts (8) that are formed at a pitch ‘P’ in and along side edges of the belt body so as to intermittently drive it. Passage holes (5) are formed at the sa... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6722497 | Magazine for fastening elements A magazine has an elongated carrier strip (12) which carries several fastening elements (13) arranged one behind the other. For each fastening element (13), the carrier strip (12) has several receiving surfaces, each receiving surfaces be... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6708821 | Fastener collation strip and debris exhaust mechanism For use in a fastener driving tool, a fastener assembly includes a plurality of fasteners arranged in a row, each fastener including a head and an elongated shank and a carrier including a plurality of connected carrier sleeves for receiving and surrounding a portio... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6705464 | Belt for collated nails for air-driven nailing gun A belt of collated nails for use with an air-driven nailing gun is disclosed having a plurality of nails, a plurality of flexible nail guide caps connected in series and respectively capped on the points of the nails and adapted to guide the nails into the workpiece... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6679415 | Fastener collation strip having magazine rail-engaging members defining point-contact tip regions A fastener collation strip has pairs of vertically aligned rail-engaging members or projections which have convergent sides disposed within at least two mutually orthogonal planes such that lower and upper tip regions of the rail-engaging members or proje... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6676353 | Self-drilling, self-tapping screws A clip of fasteners for use in attaching a structural panel to a metal substrate comprises a plastic strip with openings characterized by inwardly-extending ribs for gripping and supporting fasteners that comprise a forward self-drilling portion and a rea... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6604665 | Pneumatic nailer coiled collation strip A collation strip for use within a nail gun is fabricated from a suitable polypropylene composition and has a relatively large thickness dimension, however, in order to impart enhanced flexibility to the thickened collation strip, the collation strip is p... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6519997 | Rivet gun Automatic feeding blind rivet guns and method facilitating rapid installation of blind rivets with good freedom of movement of the operator. The blind rivet guns receive a carrier holding a substantial plurality of blind rivets in close side by side proxi... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6494322 | Arrow head screwstrip A plastic screwstrip has a holding strip carrying a plurality of screws in a side-by-side relation as adapted for feeding, into an autofeed screwdriver. To assist in identifying which of two distal ends of the screwstrip are to be fed into the screwdriver... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6394268 | Nail-type fastener collation strip with fastener guide rings, and combination thereof A collation strip, and a collation strip assembly, comprises a plurality of fasteners upon which a plurality of collar members are disposed, the collar members being interconnected by means of a plurality of web members. Undersurface portions of the colla... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6135278 | Nail magazine A nail magazine including a plurality of guide sleeves (2) for receiving each a nail-shaped fastening element (1) and arranged in a row next to each other in a spaced relationship with respect to each other, with each guide sleeve (2) including two end re... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6074149 | False threadscrew and screwstrip A threaded fastener having a threaded shank with threads on a forward portion of the shank near the tip of greater size than threads on a rear portion of the shank. A collated screwstrip comprising a plastic holding strap holding a plurality of such faste... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6044972 | Nail magazine A nail magazine including a plurality of guide sleeves (2) for receiving each a nail-shaped fastening element (1) and arranged next to each other in a spaced relationship toward each other, forming a row of guide sleeves (2), with each guide sleeve (2) ha... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6036013 | Screw feed belt A screw feed belt is used to hold a plurality of screws and includes an elongated strap, a plurality of positioning rings, and a plurality of connecting ribs. The strap is made of a flexible material and is formed with a plurality of spaced-apart and alig... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6029814 | Blind rivet holder Since a distance of adjacent rivets held by a conventional blind rivet holder was large, a blind rivet holder which is smaller in the rivet distance, and which can accommodate a larger number of rivets in an accommodation case of a continuous riveter is p... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5984096 | Belt for holding and carrying a row of self-drilling ream screws A belt (10) has cylinders (12) formed integral with a body (11) to hold a row of self-drilling reaming screws (20) each having a head (25), a threaded shank (21), a drill tip (22) and reaming blades (23) disposed on the tip and near the shank. The belt fu... | 11/16/1999 |
