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 |
| 7137568 | Apparatus and method for flow diverter A flow diverter for diverting an initial flow stream of pressurized fluid from a source of pressurized fluid. The flow diverter comprises a housing having an upstream end, an inlet opening in the upstream end, a downstream end generally opposed to the upstream end, ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 6257498 | Method and apparatus for an agricultural air handler An economical and compact air handler specially configured for use in agricultural applications is provided. The agricultural air handler includes a shroud formed to surround a rotating shaft having a propeller attached to each end of the shaft. The prope... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6257502 | Misting systems An integrated multi-head device for effectively converting liquid into mists directed forwardly and laterally of the device. The device may be used by itself or combined with a fan for efficiently entraining the produced mists in the fan's airstream.... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6223995 | Method for cooling golf greens and other vegetation A device and method for cooling a vegetation covered surface, such as a golf putting green. Said method includes providing an air stream, injecting water into said air stream, and projecting the combined air/water mixture over and onto the surface to be c... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6152382 | Modular spray unit and method for controlled droplet atomization and controlled projection of droplets The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for controlled droplet atomization and controlled projection of atomization droplets. More particularly, the present invention is a spray apparatus that produces uniform sized atomized droplets cont... | 11/28/2000 |
| 5485956 | Agricultural sprayer An agricultural sprayer for injecting pesticide into an airstream being directed at foliage to protect the foliage from insects, vermin or the like. The air is generated using fans that pulls in air axially and directs the air outward in a radial directio... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5172861 | Agricultural sprayer An agricultural sprayer for injecting pesticide into an airstream being directed at foliage to protect the foliage from insects, vermin or the like. The air is generated using fans that pulls in air axially and directs the air outward in a radial directio... | 12/22/1992 |
| 4347978 | Agricultural sprayer An agricultural sprayer, particulary effective for use in orange groves or orchards utilizes a high velocity, high volume axial flow fan which directs air through a plenum chamber in which the air is divided to flow towards opposed lateral openings at the... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4078365 | Tree nut windrowing blower with automatic oscillating blower discharge A mobile ground vehicle is provided intended to move along a path oriented in predetermined position relative to the vehicle and blower structure is mounted on the vehicle and includes an outlet opening outwardly from the vehicle laterally of the aforemen... | 03/14/1978 |
| 4026469 | Apparatus for spraying bushes and trees Apparatus for spraying trees and especially citrus trees comprising a mobile source of pressurized air adapted to be propelled along a path parallel to a row of trees to be sprayed; at least one nozzle connected to the source and having a throat in the fo... | 05/31/1977 |
| 3993582 | Pulse fog generator Disclosed is a portable, pulse-jet engine powered fog producing device in which the hot engine components are mounted on one side of a vertical plate and the fuel and insecticide supply tanks are mounted on the opposite side of the plate and in which the ... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3943688 | Harvesting machine A fruit harvesting machine consisting of a wheeled support on which is mounted a vertically extending housing containing a pair of transversely arranged blowers, one above the other, the housing having a laterally directed, vertically extending, laterally... | 03/16/1976 |
