Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7353572 | Snap hook A snap hook having a hook shank and a gate keeper. The hook shank includes a main body and a hook member. The hook member has a hook bowl and a hook bill with the hook bill and the main body defining a gateway opening therebetween. The gate keeper has an open positi... | 04/08/2008 |
| 5899512 | Lifting hook Lifting hook having a safety latch (10) arranged in a cavity (11) in the hook, which latch can be swung outwards and which is locked in closed position thereby that, by a spring (22), it is displaced to support, with end surfaces of slots (12), against a ... | 05/04/1999 |
| 4152814 | Swivel hook An improved swivel hook is disclosed which has a tubular body, a swivel, a hook-like portion pivoted to one end of the body, and a locking pipe mounted on the body for limited axial movement. The swivel hook can be locked in the locking pipe simply by pus... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4044429 | Locking safety pin and key carrier An improved self-locking safety pin unit or device has been devised in which a thumb and finger rotatable sleeve is adapted, when turned in one direction, to raise and then turn or swing, an upper, loop-like, latching or nose part under resilient spring p... | 08/30/1977 |
| 3983607 | Safety hook The safety hook disclosed herein includes a hook body that is comprised of a general cylindrical shank and a curved bill that defines a hook throat and terminates in a bill tip. An L-shaped latch member is arranged to close the hook opening and to be latc... | 10/05/1976 |
