Did You Know...
...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5969315 | Display device for the number of heatings performed A display device is described which indicates the number of heatings performed, especially for the purpose of autoclave sterilization. The display device comprises a temperature-sensitive mechanical element which essentially reversibly transforms from a f... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5689098 | Postage meter with improved postal lock A postage meter has a secure housing and a printing means and accounting register within the secure housing. Formed in the secure housing is postal lock. In the postal lock, a door is movable between first and second positions relative to a cavity. When t... | 11/18/1997 |
| 4658123 | Postage meter shaft assembly A shaft assembly, including a main shaft, is used with a postage meter of the type including a base supporting the main shaft. A printhead is mounted to the outer end of the main shaft so the main shaft and printhead rotate together. The main shaft has a ... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4629870 | Tamper proof odometer A tamper resistant and tamper-proving odometer construction. Driving of the odometer mechanism in the reverse direction to lower the count is prevented by a one-way locking mechanism associated with the lowest order digit wheel. A marking mechanism is ass... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4532415 | Number wheel counters An electrical impulse operated number wheel counter with coaxial number wheels (2); transfer pinions (8); a reciprocable pawl (12) engaging the first number wheel and a solenoid (20) driving the pawl, has a series of leaf springs (33) carried on the solen... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4365147 | Rotary drive anti-overtravel device Two embodiments of a fuel pump cost counter anti-overtravel device having a controlled coil spring clutch for selectively clutching the cost counter drive train to a fixed drum for preventing cost counter overtravel at the termination of a fuel delivery.... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4365146 | Rotary drive anti-backlash device A fuel pump cost counter anti-backlash device having a follower rotor connected by a reverse bias spring to the cost counter drive train for removing any inertia overtravel in the drive train at the termination of a fuel delivery and a controlled coil spr... | 12/21/1982 |
| 3938737 | Counter for measuring apparatus such as a water meter or the like A counter for measuring apparatus such as a water meter or the like includes a first number wheel for a low decade; a drive shaft for driving the first number wheel; an additional number wheel for values of a lowest decade; a clutch coupling for coupling ... | 02/17/1976 |
