Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7735764 | Hammer assembly A hammer assembly (51) for a glass bottle breaking apparatus comprises a shaft (52), a series of collars (53) secured on the shaft (52) and spaced one from another longitudinally of the shaft (52), a series of links (58) eac... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7264029 | Flail pan for delimbing and debarking apparatus A flail pan for use with a delimbing and debarking apparatus. The flail pan has a first section which extends from the first side opening of the apparatus beneath the first flail and a center section which is spaced vertically and horizontally between the first and ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7165881 | Methods and apparatus for high-shear mixing and reacting of materials Methods and apparatus for high shear reacting and/or mixing of moving fluid streams of materials employ an interdiffusing and reacting zone formed in the space between two stationary surfaces, the surfaces being spaced apart a maximum distance of the sum of the thic... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7098360 | Processes employing multiple successive chemical reaction process steps and apparatus therefore The invention provides processes and apparatus for the production of materials requiring a plurality of chemical reaction steps. In the prior art the number of reaction vessels is minimized by performing two or more reactions together in the same vessel. Instead eac... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6994330 | Process for high shear gas-liquid reactions A reactor produces a gas-in-liquid emulsion for providing increased interfacial contact area between the liquid and the gas for improved reaction of the gas with the liquid, or more rapid solution or reaction of a difficulty to dissolve or immiscible gas in or with ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6938687 | Apparatus for transfer of heat energy between a body surface and heat transfer fluid In apparatus for heat exchange to and from a body surface using a heat transfer liquid a heat exchanger comprises a plurality of elements within a casing connected axially against one another with spacer tube elements. Each element has its periphery spaced from the ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6598813 | Cutting device, processing equipment, and cutting method An impacting body is mounted rotatably to a spindle provided on a principal plane of a rotor. The impacting body is mounted so that a predetermined fitting gap is provided between the impacting body and the spindle and a part of periphery of the impacting... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6039277 | Pulverizer A pulverizer which reduces solid materials having moisture content to a powder-like material in a single pass through the pulverizer. The pulverizer of this invention utilizes a plurality of radially extending flexible chains associated with anvils orient... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6032883 | Apparatus and method for comminuting glass fibers An apparatus for comminuting glass fibers is disclosed. Within a housing are a plurality of weighted members or hammers, flexibly connected to and spaced about a rotatable shaft. A drive member rotates the hammers about the shaft to define a rotation circ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5944268 | Multi-flail glass pulverizer The invention relates to a glass pulverizer 6 in which two rotatable flail assemblies 39 and 46 are housed within two contiguous drum-like housings 8 and 16 respectively. One housing 8 has an inlet 10 on one end and the other housing 16 has an outlet 20 l... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5887804 | Apparatus for comminuting glass An apparatus for comminuting glass is disclosed having a housing. Within the housing are a plurality of weighted members or hammers, flexibly connected to and spaced about a rotatable shaft. A drive member rotates the shaft, causing the hammers to rotate ... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5697563 | Chain beating type crusher A chain beating type crusher includes a crusher vessel (3), a shaft (7) provided centrally thereof and capable of being rotated at a high speed, and a plurality of beating chains (11) provided in a plurality of axially spaced-apart stages in each of which... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5678773 | Waste processing method and apparatus therefor To provide a high-efficient apparatus for minimizing the volume of dust to be buried in the ground or processed in incineration process by crushing a waste article such as wasted electric appliances, separating an individual material component, and discri... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5660338 | Apparatus for disposing of light bulbs Apparatus is provided herein for disposing of light bulbs, e.g., fluorescent bulbs. The apparatus includes an open-topped cylindrical container covered by a removable lid. A hollow cylindrical light bulb feed chute is perpendicularly attached to, and exte... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5630556 | Portable apparatus for comminuting gypsum wallboard Portable apparatus for comminuting gypsum wallboard includes a rigid truck trailer platform having two hoppers mounted thereon. Rotary milling units are in one hopper and a chain mill in the other hopper. Wallboard is sequentially passed through the hoppe... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5415515 | Garbage bag opener An opening device for opening bagged refuse to liberate the contents of the bag, in which garbage bags are transported along a conveyor, and a plurality of endless chains having tines attached thereto are operated above the conveyor. As bags pass under th... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5322104 | Flail drum machines and methods A flail drum system has an upper rotary chain flail drum and a lower rotary chain flail drum longitudinally downstream from the upper drum. Wood product advancing mechanism on the machine frame moves the logs forwardly while spreading them and creates a d... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5188500 | Device for tearing refuse bags A device (10) for continuously tearing bags containing material such as refuse is disclosed including elongated, flexible flails (14) secured to a rotatable rotor (12). The flails (14) are formed in the preferred form from steel wire rope cables (28) havi... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5184781 | Glass pulverizer The invention is a glass pulverizer in which two rotatable chain-type flail assemblies are housed within two contiguous, internally joined drum-like housings. One housing has an inlet on one end and the other housing has an outlet located on an end furthe... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5148844 | Flail drum system A flail drum system for delimbing and/or debarking small trees and logs has an upper rotary chain flail drum disposed above the path of travel of the wood product and a lower rotary chain flail drum disposed below the path of the product adjacent to the u... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5078328 | Poultry litter disintegrating machine The litter disintegrating machine is tractor drawn over a poultry raising area. Ripper teeth extended forwardly of and mounted on the side walls of the machine act with the forward edges of the side walls to provide a section of litter for travel between ... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5005980 | Sludge/soil mixing machine A mixing machine operable to receive quantities of waste material and an inert material in separate hoppers for conveyance to a mixing chamber for uniform mixing thereof in prescribed ratios is disclosed wherein each hopper is provided with rearwardly dir... | 04/09/1991 |
| 4960247 | Compost shredder A shredder specifically adapted for use in shredding compost, trash and similar material and includes a generally cylindrical shredding cylinder receiving compost adjacent one end thereof and discharging shredded compost adjacent the opposite end with the... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4947906 | Debarker This invention relates to a method of and apparatus for delimbing and debarking tree trunks and branches. The apparatus includes two elongated rotors which are parallel to, spaced from each other and mounted for rotation in the housing, flexible flail ele... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4875630 | Leaf vacuum and shredder A comminuting apparatus uses a vacuum hose to draw fibrous vegetable matter, such as leaves, twigs or the like, into a shredder for disintegration. A flexible hose leads to a shredding chamber surrounding a rotating shaft to which whips are loosely attach... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4796820 | Portable rock crusher A portable material pulverizer using chain links as flails to break up rock samples contained within the housing of the pulverizer is adapted to be fitted onto the frame and motor apparatus of a conventional chain saw or other hand carried drive structure... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4662570 | Apparatus for processing refuse to produce steel-making scrap Refuse scrap from incinerated refuse or nonincinerated refuse is dried and precleaned to a metal content in excess of 70% and is then comminuted and abraded in a hammer shredder with the comminuted material being subjected to air separation and magnetic s... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4654938 | Descaler head assembly for a descaling machine Descaler head assembly having peripherally successive and longitudinally successive series of descaler elements (11, 12). The assembly is made up of a central support shaft (15) which is securely threaded through a series of mutually separate, rigid holdi... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4572258 | Chain flail A flail device for use in conjunction with debarking or delimbing apparatus is disclosed. The device comprises a rotatable drum having a plurality of circumferentially spaced-apart rows of longitudinally spaced-apart openings, a plurality of rods extendin... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4214716 | Pulverizer This invention relates to pulverizers of the kind comprising a barrel having an inlet for material to be pulverized, an outlet, an upright rotor rotatable within the barrel and a plurality of hammers mounted on the rotor. Apparatus according to the invent... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4177954 | Hammer-roll recycling plant A rotor is mounted rotatably in a housing. A plurality of hammer cylinders are rotatably mounted on the rotor and are radially spaced from the axis of rotation of the rotor as well as being equidistantly circumferentially spaced from each other. Hammer cy... | 12/11/1979 |
| 4172481 | Flail device The flail device comprises a rotatable drum, a series of circumferentially spaced channels extending lengthwise of the drum, support means in each channels, a rod received in each support means, and flexible flails attached to each support means at longit... | 10/30/1979 |
| 3993256 | Waste mangler system and structure A waste mangler system, optionally provided with classification means, for processing garbage, municipal waste, and the like whereby to mangle or break up compacted garbage and other materials, break open bags and bales, and otherwise treat the refuse for... | 11/23/1976 |
