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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7185899 | Riser cart A riser cart including a cart support frame, a first swing arm post assembly and a second swing arm post assembly. The cart support frame has a plurality of wheels rotatably attached thereto. The first swing arm post assembly is mounted to the cart support frame. Th... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7175034 | Modular, adjustable display rack A point of purchase display stand for displaying products includes shelving, lights, cabinets, signs, baskets, and other items that may be supported on a slot wall positioned in the back of the stand. The slot wall may be made up of horizontal slots that allow the a... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7121418 | Store fixture with swing arms A store fixture for displaying apparel or other hangable merchandise employs a horizontal support bar that is supported at an elevated position, and at least one swing-arm hang bar is pivotally supported situated underneath the horizontal support bar. The swing-arm ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7083056 | Wall mounted storage organiser system A storage organizer system comprises a horizontal rail adapted to be securely mounted to a wall and a number of storage units adapted to be hung from the rail. Each unit includes at least one metal hook extending rearwardly from the unit for engaging the rail and a ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7043921 | Tube cooled combustor An innovative cooling tube assembly is disclosed for use in cooling the liner of a combustor in a gas turbine engine. Each cooling tube has a serpentine shape that conforms to the contour of the liner as the tube extends from one end of the combustor to the other to... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6986230 | Foldable support structure with hinged wall members A foldable truss member suitable for commercial displays includes a plurality of side members that are hingedly connected together. The side members include support members and bridging members having extensions. The side members are joined into a foldable structure... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6959824 | Retailing display rack with adjustable display arm A retail display rack having vertically adjustable upper and lower display arms associated with a tubular housing structure that is vertically oriented for mounting the upper and lower arms thereon at selectable heights. ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6955270 | Saddle rack A saddle rack assembly has a slide mechanism mounted to a support structure and capable of horizontal movement between an extended position and a retracted position. The slide mechanism has a cantilevered rail mounted to the support structure and a sleeve that rides... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6929269 | Transportable saddle rack and equipment carrier A saddle rack for transporting one or more saddles includes a vertical frame attached to a base frame, where the base frame has an expandable portion that telescopes out from the vertical frame. Saddle arms for supporting saddles are pivotally connected to the front... | 08/16/2005 |
| 5259521 | Tack rack This invention relates to a portable Tack Rack having sturdy framework construction and to a collapsible equestrian Tack Rack which may be readily assembled and disassembled. The Tack Rack includes two (2) rigid rectangular frames connected such that the ... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5074223 | Free standing stacking shelf with collapsible legs A free standing stacking shelf system is provided wherein the stacking elements of each shelf are selectively collapsible or foldable with respect to the shelf and can be selectively locked into a predetermined angular disposition with respect to the shel... | 12/24/1991 |
| 4759520 | Free standing foldable panel structure A free standing foldable panel structure has a plurality of panel sections which are foldably joined together along their edges. One of each pair of adjacent panel sections has a foldable tab at each end thereof these tabs being adapted to fit into slots ... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4707940 | Amphitheater display with end caps A kit for forming a variable sized bay-shaped display comprises rear well sections coupled together, bay dividers formed of hinged panels, and end caps covering the hinge of the divider to which it is attached.... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4655354 | Foldable display rack A preassembled, foldable display rack that is movable to and from an open display position and a folded closed position without the assembly or disassembly of any of the component parts thereof, the display rack including a plurality of vertical support m... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4569143 | Structural frame A display device comprises a plurality of frames each comprising two uprights and two cross members, bounding a rectangular space in which a rectangular flexible sheet is supported in tension by tensioning devices displaced in the corners of the frame. La... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4566211 | Modular display unit A free-standing or hanging knock-down-type modular display apparatus embodies a plurality of display panel-supporting frames hingedly interconnected side-to-side by one or more flexible and detachable unitary hinge-connectors allowing adjacent frames to b... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4508231 | Wall unit The disclosure relates to a wall unit of the type to which shelves and other article supports can be fitted and which can be used, for example, as part of a store display structure. In a preferred embodiment, the unit is made up of an assembly of identica... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4428136 | Adjustable multi-bay display A display unit for merchandise wherein a plurality of bays are created against a wall or partition. The bays are formed from a series of pairs of angularly arranged vertical panels secured to the wall and spaced from each other; the space between each pai... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4299507 | Two-piece controlled motion hinge coupler joint Relative rotational movement is allowed between two longitudinally extending articulated members connected by a joint while at the same time longitudinal relative translation of the members is restrained. Each joint is composed of two substantially identi... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4288937 | Display structure A plurality of generally rectangular frames (21) releasably hinged together and having display panels (36) mounted in display areas defined by the frames. Each frame is of tubular metal of rectangular cross section and includes a horizontal top frame memb... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4155311 | Stackable modular shelf apparatus A stackable modular shelf apparatus including at least two vertically stackable frame modules and a multi-sided intermediate shelf, in which each frame module includes a plurality of generally rectangular individual frames corresponding to the number of s... | 05/22/1979 |
| 4108316 | Interconnectible structural tubular members An interconnectible structural support member for use in a support structure. The support member comprises an elongated U-shape tubular member defining opposed side arms and a bridge arm extending across a common end of each of the side arms. Each of the ... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4102276 | Decorating or shelf system A shelf system having a series of support surfaces which are retained in cooperative, spaced relation by an article constructed from a blank of material which is cut and scored in a predetermined manner so that it may be subsequently folded into the finis... | 07/25/1978 |
| 4029211 | Folding clothes rack with stabilizing hinges and shoe supports A plurality of upright standards are provided spaced along a horizontal zigzag path and a plurality of pairs of upper and lower horizontal spacing and support members extend between and have their opposite ends pivotally supported from the upper and lower... | 06/14/1977 |
| 3967734 | Hand delivery truck Improved foldable hand delivery cart made up of a main and a pair of side or wing panel sections interlockingly hinged together by means of hinge elements which extend for substantially the entire lengths of the panel sections and simultaneously form stru... | 07/06/1976 |
