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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 |
| 7287663 | Lined pressure vessel and connector therefor A pressure vessel is disclosed which includes a lower metallic dome having a lower rim portion, and an upper metallic dome having an upper rim portion, a plastic liner disposed within the upper and lower metallic domes, a metallic band disposed between the plastic l... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7090091 | Large volume container for holding liquid media A large-volume container for holding liquid media is composed of two shell-like end parts each having a ring-shaped flat contact surface, and at least one sleeve-like middle part composed of two ring segments and provided with two ring-shaped flat contact surfaces a... | 08/15/2006 |
| 6619502 | Vertical corner transition arrangement for semi-membrane tank In the vertical corner transition arrangement for semi-membrane tanks disclosed in the specification, curved horizontal sides plate of a semi-membrane tank wall are welded to one side of a vertical extruded aluminum modified I-beam with a vertical tapered... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6055713 | Container and method of forming A unitary, four-side container having a bottom is formed from two smaller container units each of which originally has a bottom and four upstanding sides. A corresponding side of each of the smaller units is removed from the level of the associated bottom... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5979686 | Liquid storage tank A liquid storage tank can be manufactured with improved efficiency and greater strength by creating bent sheets to form the sides and bottom portions of the tank. The interior corner of the bend is reinforced by an extrusion weld. Two or more of the side/... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5908135 | Sleeve pack A sleeve pack to be used with a pallet base and cover to form a container for shipping bulk goods comprises four vertical walls arranged such that each vertical wall is orthogonal to two adjacent walls. At least one vertical wall of corrugated plastic is ... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5777343 | Uranium hexafluoride carrier A container complying with ANSI.RTM. N14.1 for containing uranium hexafluoride (UF6) which minimizes entrapment of contaminants, thereby increasing the decontaminability of the container. The container includes a cylindrical shell welded to two... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5465856 | Plastic container having injection-molded container components A container constituted of injection-molded plastic components, the components having the property of enabling discrete particles thereof to be securely joined to each other under the action of heat and pressure. The injection-molded components form a pai... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5454480 | Flangeless fuel tank A flangeless fuel tank formed of two interfitted cup-shaped tank halves welded along the overlapping portion of the tank halves. Locating protrusions stamped into each tank half provide registration of the halves prior to welding. Spacing dimples stamped ... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5346096 | Radiation-shielding transport and storage container A radiation-shielding storage/transport container has a cast-iron vessel having an open end defining an end face, a steel ring engaging the end face and forming at least one annular seat, a weld unitarily bonding the ring to the end face, and a cover secu... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5305946 | Welding process for clad metals A weldment, such as the wall of a pressure vessel, is formed from segments, each of which includes a steel substrate, a protective layer of tantalum which is exposed to the interior of the vessel and an intervening layer of copper which lies between and i... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5046638 | Seamless pressure vessel with recessed indentation An improved chemical pressure vessel for storage, shipping and pressurized dispensing of fluid chemicals is formed with a seamless fluoropolymer inner liner permanently encapsulated within a metallic overpack. To protect the liner from the heat of welding... | 09/10/1991 |
| 4805795 | Butt-welded cans and process for manufacturing the same There is here provided butt-welded cans made of steel plates having a carbon concentration of 0.02 to 0.09% by weight, the aforesaid butt-welded cans being characterized in that a coating film for preventing the adhesion of melted metal particles is appli... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4790472 | Methods for manufacturing a toroidal pressure vessel A toroidal pressure vessel comprises two annular, complementarily formed axial sections which are intersecured along a duality of annular joint lines that circumscribe and are mutually offset along the axis of the toroid. The axial sections are formed by ... | 12/13/1988 |
