Bizarre Patents
Pet Toilet-Like Water Disk and Food Storage
One pet-friendly inventor patented "a device for watering pets, e.g., a dog or cat." The device, he helpfully noted, "has the general shape of a toilet."
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7222738 | Sorting system for multiple conveyor belts An apparatus and a method for sorting workpieces (204) includes multiple conveyors (201, 202), a scanner (208), an offloading device (216), a workpiece processor (218), and a computer (210). The computer has instructions for... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7007807 | Sorting system for multiple conveyor belts An apparatus and a method for sorting workpieces (204) includes multiple conveyors (201, 202), a scanner (208), an offloading device (216), a workpiece processor (218), and a computer (210). The computer has instructions for... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6283379 | Method for correlating processor and part temperatures using an air temperature sensor for a conveyorized thermal processor A method for aligning a boundary condition temperature in a thermal processor utilizes an air temperature measurement. During the thermal process, air temperature measured along an interval series forms an air profile and provides a reference to which the... | 09/04/2001 |
| 4745762 | Method and apparatus for cooling or freezing A video camera or other scanning device is employed to monitor the loading with articles to be frozen of an endless belt which passes through a freezing apparatus so as to freeze such articles typically by contact with liquid nitrogen or its cold vapor. T... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4605161 | Pattern-switching temperature control apparatus An apparatus controls the temperature of a multi-zone furnace based on a given temperature distribution pattern, which pattern is automatically modified zone by zone as the work being heat-treated is changed by using a memory storing a series of such patt... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4602904 | Method of obtaining temperature of an object being heat treated The present invention provides a method and apparatus for determining the temperature of an object as it moves through a heat treating furnace. The furnace includes a hearth adapted to move through it thusly enabling a number of objects placed on the hear... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4406399 | Method of controlling an enamelling oven Disclosed is a method of controlling an enamelling oven, in which a plurality of controlled variables such as temperatures: including a plurality of measured variables: are variable by any one of a plurality of manipulation variables such as the degrees of ope... | 09/27/1983 |
| 4276603 | Diffusion furnace microcontroller An automatic microprocessor-based control system for a diffusion furnace in which the controller is dedicated to a single associated diffusion tube to provide all monitoring and control functions necessary for a variety of diffusion processes. The control... | 06/30/1981 |
| 4095645 | Linear uniform heat wrap control A heat wrap control for a preheater in a paperboard corrugator adjusts the amount of wrap of a moving web about a heated drum as a linear function of web speed to effect uniform heat transfer to the web.... | 06/20/1978 |
| 4043747 | Pressure heat fixing device A pressure heat fixing device consisting of a pair of heated fixing rollers rotating in pressure contact with one another and a temperature means supported to contact with the surface of the heated fixing roller, characterized by the provision of a suitab... | 08/23/1977 |
| 4040563 | System and method of monitoring the peak temperature of a moving mass Monitoring the peak temperature of a moving mass, such as a flowing stream of molten material, has in the past been plaqued with problems. The present system and method overcomes these problems by oscillating a temperature sensor, spaced from the moving m... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4015440 | Apparatus for depositing carbon dioxide snow Apparatus for providing an expendable refrigerant which is emitted from a snow horn at a low velocity thereby enabling snow agglomeration at a close proximity to the horn exit and accurately delivering a charge of snow with minimum vapor loss. The desired... | 04/05/1977 |
| 3985294 | Furnace pressure control There has been provided a control for regulating the pressure excursions in a furnace having forced draft and induced draft fans. A pressure detector responsive to pressure in the furnace delivers an output indicative thereof. Circuit means, responsive to... | 10/12/1976 |
