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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6779715 | Counter mechanisms Counter mechanisms for measuring the useful life of a reposable or disposable device include an actuator that drives a counter each time the device is used, sterilized and/or two or more parts of the device are fitted together. A display may be provided to display t... | 08/24/2004 |
| 4473742 | Counter wheel assembly with improved drive clutch mechanism An improved counter wheel assembly comprising an indicia wheel, a reset gear, a reset control mechanism for resetting the indicia wheel to a zero position, a drive gear, and a drive clutch for selectively engaging the indicia wheel to the drive gear. In o... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4341326 | Gasoline pump reset lever lock apparatus A gasoline pump computer reset lock apparatus has a mounting bracket for being attached inside a gasoline pump housing. A bolt or plunger is moveably positioned in a plunger housing attached to the mounting bracket. The plunger is in a locked position whe... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4273995 | Fuel pump counter transfer pinion A fuel pump register cost counter having a transfer pinion permitting count transfers from the units to the tens counter wheel at a substantially predetermined maximum torque through a torsion spring connection between input and output gear sections of th... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4230937 | Fuel delivery safety limit mechanism A fuel dispenser with a resettable register having a safety limit mechanism for limiting the amount of fuel dispensed by means of a gear trip mechanism indexed by the register to trip a shut-off valve after an adjustable safety limit is dispensed. The tri... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4142672 | Counter wheel assembly with improved reset control mechanism A resettable register counter wheel assembly with a modified reset gear control mechanism having a modified reset gear pawl pivotal about an axis transverse to the wheel axis for selectively engaging and disengaging a reset gear and a reset control pawl p... | 03/06/1979 |
| 4019031 | Register price wheel structure In order to increase the "sale" or "cost" registering capacity of a standard, conventional three-wheel register (counter) used in gasoline dispeners, a modified price wheel has been developed as a substitute for the lowest-order price wheel of a conventio... | 04/19/1977 |
| 4009373 | Electro-mechanical counting register A register designed to count and display cost on a gasoline dispensing pump. The register has a 100 cent wheel which is driven by a stepping motor. As the 100 cent wheel rotates it biases a spring which, after the 100 cent wheel has completed a revolution... | 02/22/1977 |
| 3999704 | Reset detent mechanism for rotary counter A fuel delivery pump with resettable volume and cost counters having counter resetting means with a zero detent mechanism for accurately positioning the lowest order number wheels of the counters at zero.... | 12/28/1976 |
