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 |
| 6382427 | Pistachio separator An apparatus for separating hulled and unhulled pistachios includes a rotating drum and a conveyor for depositing pistachios onto the drum. Rotation of the drum frictionally separates hulled and unhulled pistachios.... | 05/07/2002 |
| 5660282 | Method and apparatus for separating resource materials from solid waste A method of separating solid waste materials, in the form of dried particles of substantially uniform size, into constituent materials on the basis of density, with primary stage processing utilizing one or more fluidized bed and cyclonic separator assemb... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5590789 | Process and devices for sorting thermoplastic components from a mixed stream Thermoplastic articles are removed from a mixed waste stream and are sorted by heating the articles along the path of the waste stream to different softening temperatures of the different types of articles before the articles contact the separating bodies... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5303826 | Method and apparatus for separating different plastic products A method and an apparatus for separating of different plastic products, which plastic products are comminuted, purified, and dried in a conventional way. The dry particles are fed to a heated, movable support base. Plastic particles, having a lower soften... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5066388 | Process and apparatus for disengaging and separating bitumen from pulverized tar sands using selective cohesion Process and apparatus for disengaging organic, bituminous material from pulverized bituminous ores and for recovering a concentrated mixture of the bituminous material and water. Wherein the apparatus comprises a pulverizer to pulverize the ores to be pro... | 11/19/1991 |
| 4975182 | Waterflow differential electrical charging process for ores The invention consists of forming an aqueous slurry of water and particles of ore carrying both metals and/or minerals which are passed at relatively high speed along an electrically isolated path in contact with electrically insulating materials and in t... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4892647 | System for segregating trash A system for segregating trash into discrete fractions including a separator assemblage consisting of a staggered multiple-tiered heated belt system or separating thermoplastic materials from other substances. Each heated belt unit is modular and seated i... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4557826 | Method of and apparatus for separating tacky contaminants from a stock suspension According to the method the stock suspension is moved across a mass force field due to gravity or centrifugal acceleration in the form of stock stream or current and contacts a pick-up surface moved in conjunction with the stock stream and at substantiall... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4543733 | Fluidity of a continuous transverse flow magnetically stabilized fluidized bed In a magnetically stabilized fluidized bed in which the bed particles continuously move transverse to the flow of the fluidizing fluid, the bed particles have increased fluidity when the bed is operated at or substantially near the locus of transition bet... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4526679 | Removal of low melting particles from unground coal liquefaction residue A mixture of low melting particles and high melting particles is heated to a temperature above the melting point of the low melting particles and below the melting point of the high melting particles thereby melting the low melting particles and forming a... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4269699 | Bioadsorption alteration of iron sulfide surfaces The sulfide surfaces of finely-divided impure iron sulfide-containing minerals such as pyritic ores or coals are rendered hydrophilic by the adsorption of conditioned, inorganic sulfide-oxidizing bacteria. This adsorption of conditioned bacteria occurs in... | 05/26/1981 |
| 4140344 | Extraction of organic matter from marine sediment Marine sediment contains organic matter which can be extracted to provide a source of energy, by extracting the organic matter from the marine sediment when in the form of a slurry, and separating the organic matter from the extracted material.... | 02/20/1979 |
| 4013505 | Method of deinking printed wastepapers A method for deinking printed wastepapers in a system of separators through which printed wastepapers, previously impregnated with surface-active agents and alkalis, and repulped in the presence of an organic hydrocarbon compound and high-adsorptive flake... | 03/22/1977 |
