Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4970378 | Gearing for reset trip odometer Geared drive for reset trip odometer in which a transfer tooth on each of the rotatable odometer wheels is immediately ahead of the tooth space in the circular track on the wheels for tracking the wide teeth of the associated transfer pinion gear and late... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4970377 | Odometer An odometer having a reset mechanism with a single spring that has a torsion section acting on the reset mechanism to bias pinions into engagement with the odometer wheels and a compression section for biasing the pinions into a predetermined axial positi... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4531050 | Tape counter A tape counter with the structure where a substantially U-shaped frame is provided with digit wheel engaging grooves vertically notched on both side plates thereof, a digit wheel shaft axially mounting digit wheels is fitted on both ends to said engaging ... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4499370 | Zero-reset type counter A zero-reset type counter comprising an order shift pinion built in an inner space formed between two adjacent digit wheels in order to make the space between the adjacent digit wheels as small as possible and to form a compact counter as a whole. The zer... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4314149 | Daily mileage recording unit A daily mileage recording unit, of the type comprising a plurality of drums mounted side by side on the same shaft and supported in rotation by a frame, a swinging member mounted to pivot with respect to the frame, a series of gears carried by the swingin... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4284881 | Digit wheel counter An improved mechanical counter including digit wheel means stepping pinion means which are movable between first and second positions, engaging and disengaging, respectively, the digit wheel means, and a resetting mechanism including a resetting rake, whi... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4264806 | Electromechanical pulse counter Electromechanical pulse counter with a housing, wherein a current carrying spool and coil means is secured, whereby the spool and coil means surround an iron core, an air gap defined between the iron core and an armature anchor, preferably in the form of ... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4244515 | Preset counter A preset counter has a case and one or more counter units. Each counter unit has a number wheel, a first intermediate wheel in mesh with the number wheel, a preset wheel and a second intermediate wheel in mesh with the preset wheel. Said first intermediat... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4221327 | Miniature counter having zero reset push buttons A counter comprising a U-shaped frame, a plurality of digit wheels each having a heart-shaped cam, pinions respectively located between adjacent digit wheels for shifting the digit, a zero resetting bracket which supports the pinions and including a plura... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4197452 | Counters reset to zero by push buttons In a counter reset to zero by a push button and adapted to be mounted on a tape recorder or the like, there are provided a U shaped frame including a bottom plate, a pair of side plates, a spacer parallel with the side plates, a plurality of pinion aligni... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4096377 | Counter mechanism A resettable mechanical counter having a plurality of number wheels and transfer pinions is mounted in a molded plastic housing in which are integrally formed fixed bosses that index the transfer pinions when the number wheels are reset. The transfer pini... | 06/20/1978 |
| 4028530 | Counting devices A counting device of the kind having coaxial number wheels each with a reset cam and transfer pinions mounted on a shaft which is displaceable relatively to the number wheels the pinions being located between successive number wheels with each pinion mesh... | 06/07/1977 |
| 3977599 | Counting devices A counting device of the kind having coaxial number wheels each with a reset cam and transfer pinions mounted on a shaft which is displaceable relatively to the number wheels the pinions being located between successive number wheels with each pinion mesh... | 08/31/1976 |
