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 |
| 7942278 | Baking rack for chickens and other fowl A baking rack is provided. The rack includes a plurality of relatively straight wires that are each disposed in parallel to each other and an outer wire establishing a perimeter of the rack and extending along opposing ends of the plurality of wires, the straight wi... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7314144 | Shoe shelf for adjustable organizer system A shoe storage shelf assembly is suitable for mounting to an organizer system and has at least one storage shelf with a top side, an underside, a depth from front to back, and a width from side to side. The shelf is configured for use as a standard storage shelf in ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7051886 | Solid soap with connecting and keeping means By use of a connecting and keeping unit, solid soap is easily kept and used by connecting, in one line, several kinds of solid soap, each different in usage. The unit is constructed by burying a support body equipped with a connecting unit for connecting several cak... | 05/30/2006 |
| 5996820 | Hanging rack for beef jerky A new jerky hanging rack for facilitating the curing of meat strips which have been seasoned with a preferred recipe of ingredients by supporting the meat strips a finite distance apart allowing aeration of the meat strips until cured. The inventive devic... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5362190 | Method for gathering cut tobacco stalks An apparatus is provided for increasing the efficiency of gathering cut tobacco stalks, particularly burley tobacco stalks. The apparatus includes a metal tobacco stick being of a length sufficient so that the stick can be pushed into the ground with a po... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5193443 | Skewer for barbecuing A skewer device for barbecue cooking foods such as shish-kabob. The skewer device has a rod to which the food is attached and a pair of support members slidably retained on the rod at opposite ends of the food arrangement. The support members are ring-lik... | 03/16/1993 |
| 4924768 | Multi-purpose baking and roasting rack A multi-purpose baking and roasting rack which includes a drip pan and a plurality of upwardly directed generally vertically oriented skewer rods positioned above the interior surface of the drip pan each adapted to support and pierce a food item to be ba... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4754884 | Carrier device for an overhead suspension transport system A carrier devices is described for an overhead suspension transport system. The device has an angular carrier member with a first arm pivotally mounting a hanger bracket which is adapted to be supported on a rail system by means of rollers. A second arm e... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4162015 | Display for fishing rods A display for fishing rods, the display comprising a wall mounting member, a rigid base member extending outwardly from and substantially normal to the wall mounting member, and first and second rows of thin elongated projections extending outwardly and u... | 07/24/1979 |
| 4139248 | Filing system for vertically suspending documents Disclosed herein is a filing system for vertically suspending large documents. The filing system comprises in combination the filing cabinet and a strip attachable to the document and mountable within the filing cabinet. The filing cabinet in a preferred ... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4076126 | Multipurpose display rack A display rack has a tubular extension arm with a plurality of hangers extending transversely from it. A holder and a support bracket are secured by a flexible bands to an upright pole member. One end of the extension arm is seated in the holder and a sup... | 02/28/1978 |
| 3997050 | Jewelry caddy A jewelry caddy, which can be used to display jewelry commercially or which can be placed on a dressing table or vanity and used to store jewelry in an easily accessible place, comprises a base structure having an upstanding elongate element rotatively at... | 12/14/1976 |
