Did You Know...
...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7213724 | Table tennis ball delivery device A table tennis ball delivery device adapted to be secured to or adjacent the side of a table tennis table for directing a ball to a player upon the activation of a switch by the player. The device includes a chamber for carrying a supply of table tennis balls, a bal... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7055717 | Disposable pill dispensing chute liner A pill dispensing device and method in which the part of the device 10 which comes into contact with the pills is disposable so as to prevent cross pill contamination. The device 10 is a disposable, columnar insert comprised of a funnel-like ingress ap... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6913263 | Target holding device A target holding device is disclosed. Preferred embodiments of the invention includes one or more of the following features. First, an automatic reloading feature of the invention allows a first replacement target stored in a target storage region of the device to s... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6385830 | Electric wire supplying apparatus An electric wire supplying apparatus comprises an electric wire transfer tube 27 provided at its tip end with a notch 28a, a nozzle 32 disposed on the tip end of the electric wire transfer tube 27, a transfer tube fixing holder 23 fixing the tip end of th... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6345728 | Component feeding method and apparatus A rotary device has thereinside a driving device as a driving source for rotating a rotary block and opening and closing a shutter, and also includes a rod for transmitting a driving force to the rotary block and the shutter, a lever and a shaft for direc... | 02/12/2002 |
| 5425473 | Screw feeder A receptacle having a floor with parallel slots to receive and collate screws in a collating section and to queue them in a queuing section of the slots which has an intersecting escapement for depositing screw individually into receivers. The receptacle ... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5111965 | Apparatus for feeding pipette tips An apparatus for automatically feeding pipette tips is disclosed. The apparatus includes a carrier for receiving the pipette tips, one at a time, and for presenting the tips to the pipette of an associated apparatus, such as a blood analyzer. The apparatu... | 05/12/1992 |
| 4891234 | Spaghetti sipper A device for sipping and consuming pasta products such as spaghetti is made possible by the inclusion of a pawl on the pathway of the pasta from the container to the consumer of the pasta.... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4735344 | Device in an automatic vending machine for holding objects dispensed by the latter The objects drop into a tray (1) from which they can be removed through a dispenser opening (2), the latter being closed by a first flap (3) that gives way when one reaches therethrough. Behind this flap (3), a second flap (17) is arranged which blocks th... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4354615 | Alternator mechanism for dispensing machine An article dispensing apparatus including a plurality of spaced vertically disposed inclined shelves, each shelf having a first and second side by side supporting surface adapted to support an associated first and second row of articles. First and second ... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4276995 | Garment-hanging station on a conveyor A garment-hanging station associated with a garment-treating station, such as a tunnel finisher, is located along a rail section which slopes downwardly in the advancement direction and on which a plurality of successive clothes hangers is suspended. A si... | 07/07/1981 |
