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...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7552888 | Kite reel A kite reel device having a rectangular housing providing a cylindrical frame and a spool having ribs with a v-shaped outer edge, the spool being rotatably mounted onto a cylindrical axle located within a center aperture of the frame. A reel providing a handle is mo... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7387275 | Fishing leader dispenser A fishing leader dispenser having in combination a leader spool having leader wrapped thereon and a protective cover which resiliently fits over the leader on the leader spool. This leader spool includes a tubular hub having an enlarged central opening, a pair of sp... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7350737 | Adjustable lead, cord, rope or sheet storage device A storage device (1) for storing a lead, rope, chain, solid sheet or elongate material, including a body (3) including one elongate backbone (4) and at least one elongate tine (5) interconnected thereto (12) but separated from by a... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7293734 | Apparatus for storing and dispensing pliable, elongated articles An apparatus for storing and dispensing pliable, elongated articles such as electrical cords or cables. The apparatus features a reel, an axle and a bucket, with the axle being co-axial with the reel and with the bucket. The reel is mounted on the axle in the bucket... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7273074 | On-machine-seamable industrial fabric having seam-reinforcing rings An on-machine-seamable industrial fabric includes rings in the seam region. In one principal embodiment, the rings are between the seaming loops at the two ends of the fabric and enclose at least one cross-machine-direction (CD) yarn. As such, the rings strengthen t... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7246703 | Guitar string case A packaging system for musical instrument strings comprising: a cylindrical disk-shaped casing comprising a top casing member and a mate-able bottom casing member; and at least one insertable string module, said module comprising a flat disk for supporting a wound s... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7114603 | Extension cord holder An extension cord holder is provided. The extension cord holder has a main body. A first holding portion and a second holding portion are disposed on the two sides of the main body, and these two portions are in communication with each other. A first wheel assembly ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7040257 | Retractable leash device A retractable leash device is comprised of a housing with a handle, and a leash wound around an internal reel. The reel is biased by a spring to automatically retract the leash. A momentary unidirectional lock in the housing is arranged to be normally disengaged fro... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7032854 | Cord shortener A cord shortening device includes a housing having a first portion and a second portion. One of the portions includes a post configured to windably receive a first section of a length of cord. At least one of the portions has an opening at one end for mating second ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7017848 | Cable reel A hand-held cable reel (1) is provided comprising a central cable receiving core (2) mounted between a pair of disc-like end flanges (3) having through holes (4) for receiving cable which can then be anchored on the flange (3) by, ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6994105 | Refined pipe reel structure A modified structure of pipe reel incorporates a main frame, which is provided with a pipe groove to accommodate the water pipe. The first end of the water pipe is placed at the central outlet of the swing frame, while the second end is placed at a preset cross groo... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6716083 | Balloon weight The present invention provides a balloon assembly including a balloon, and a balloon weight. The balloon weight has a plate having a perimeter, and an annular outer flange disposed on the plate. The outer flange has an outer surface. The invention also includes a cu... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6517022 | Cable storage device A cable storage device for providing a storage for cable. The cable storage device includes a housing assembly including a housing member; and also includes a handle member being attached to an exterior of the housing member; and further includes a spool ... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6398146 | Device for maneuvering a shutter or roller-type closure member and process for manufacturing such a closure member A device for winding a strap or strip of material for maneuvering a shutter, roller blind or equivalent device comprising a member for winding and tensioning the strap disposed inside a box formed by two shells each including at least one edging extending... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6299095 | Light strand storage device A storage device for light strands includes a hollow housing having a shaft rotably mounted therein. The housing includes a bottom wall, a pair of opposing side walls, a rear wall, an open top and an open front. Attached to the front edge of the bottom wa... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6260803 | Kite tether control with attachment to the body A multi-tether kite control device uses a racheting mechanism to rewind the tether reels. The mechanism is activated by a pull-string attached to the belt or torso of the operator. By repetitively moving the device away from and toward his body, the opera... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6123282 | Trolling system for baseball and player endorsements The trolling system for obtaining player endorsements on a baseball includes a drop cord, a reel which contains and holds the wound-up drop cord and a retractable ball basket. The retractable ball basket is attached at a terminal of the drop cord opposite... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6076759 | Christmas lights organizer A Christmas lights organizer for reeling an elongate flexible element, such as a string of Christmas lights, therearound. The Christmas lights organizer includes a spaced apart pair of panels with a spaced apart pair of inner rods extending therebetween. ... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6070825 | Forearm casting device A forearm casting device has a body, a closed face fishing reel secured to the body towards a first end thereof and a spool for winding fishing line. A hood is located over the spool. A line guide pin is displaceable between a retracted position substanti... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6065709 | Cable storage reel A device for coiling or uncoiling a wire, cable or the like, comprising two cap members. Each cap member has an axis, a circumferential wall portion terminating in a free circumferential edge at one end and gradually merging into an end wall portion at an... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6003804 | Enhanced storage system for electrical appliances, powercords and adapters A storage system for organizing, handling and storing small electrical appliances with powercords and adapters, in an orderly and efficient manner for ease of access, and especially for handling and storing loose powercords. The system comprises a powerco... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5983836 | Multi-functional retractable pet leash apparatus A multi-functional retractable pet leash comprising a housing having integrally formed therewith a handle wherein the housing houses therein a first spooling mechanism which spools a flexible leash member for tethering an animal and a second spooling mech... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5975454 | Strap winder A hand held strap winder has an oval, planar base with a hand grip, a hub on which the strap is wound and a strap guide aligned on the major axis of the oval base.... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5915641 | Reel inside bucket A device for storing and managing an elongate flexible member having a first end and a second end includes a container, a spool, a foot plate, a retainer, and a knob. The container includes a base, a sidewall, and a first access hole. The spool is dispose... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5895299 | Lifesaving device A life saving disc adapted to be thrown with considerable accuracy to a person in distress. The disc is provided with peripherally arranged flanges for retaining a length of line as well as floatation rendering the disc buoyant in water. In use, line is r... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5857285 | Storage device for hooks and leaders A closed cylindrical storage device for fishing hooks and attached leaders wherein a hollow spool is captured within an outer shell. The hollow spool is divided into sections for containing the hook, and the leaders extend through gates and are wound abou... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5727745 | Enhanced storage system for electrical appliances, powercords and adapters A storage system for organizing, handling and storing small electrical appliances with powercords and adapters, in an orderly and efficient manner for ease of access, and especially for handling and storing loose powercords. The system comprises a powerco... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5683055 | Quick rewind chalk line reel A line reel includes a housing, a spool rotatably mounted in the housing, a crank and crown gear assembly rotatably disposed in the housing and a pinion located in the housing in meshed engagement with the crank and crown assembly for rotation therewith. ... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5470029 | Quick rewind chalk line reel A line reel includes a housing, a spool rotatably mounted in the housing, a crank and crown gear assembly rotatably disposed in the housing and a pinion located in the housing in meshed engagement with the crank and crown assembly for rotation therewith. ... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5366444 | Hand operated guide wire advancement device A device is provided for feeding a guide wire into a hollow needle inserted into a patient's blood vessel to facilitate use of the wire for sliding a catheter over the wire into the blood vessel. The device includes an elongate coiled tube adapted to reta... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5340084 | Fish tape reel and reel assembly with detachable accessory storage compartment A fish tape reel is formed by mating first and second hollow reel segments together, thus defining a fish tape enclosure for receiving a length of fish tape with a fitting on one end thereof. A fish tape access port is formed in at least one of the reel s... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5303874 | Device for rolling bed rolls A bed roll rolling device which enables a sleeping bag or the like to be tightly rolled up for transport or storage, the device being usable for successive manipulation to roll a succession of such bags, and removable for storage or to handle additional b... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5284306 | Fish tape container and method of use A special container includes a tubular body that has two spaced apart ends and is in the form of a semicircle having a gap of 60 arc degrees between the two ends. A coil of fish tape having two coils thereof welded together is contained in the tubular bod... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5127612 | Spring-loaded flexible kite strap handle and line caddy An apparatus used for securing sets of flexible strap handles of various sizes and shapes, and for retrieving, deploying, and storing the kite line attached to each flexible strap handle used when flying dual line kites. The invention includes an elongate... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5115648 | Anxiety transference ring organization An organization to therapeutically provide an alternative nervous nail-biting habit into a harmless biting and chewing of an extensible and retractable fishing line member rotatably mounted within a spool within a ring organization, whereint he ring organ... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5106056 | Fish tape reel and reel assembly A fish tape reel which includes first and second hollow annular reel segments mated together to define a fish tape reel having an enclosed annular fish tape compartment for receiving a length of coiled fish tape. The reel defines first and second spaced-a... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5086988 | Car cover deployment and storage system A car cover storage device for allowing easy, quick and convenient storage of a car cover. The car cover storage device of the present invention comprises a container having an opening with a axle disposed within. The axle is rotated by applying pressure ... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5074074 | Compact gun unplugging device A gun barrel cleaner comprised of an enclosed spool (150) which is made of two housings (10) and (60) that snap together and can spin freely beside one another. A wire rope (126) is attached to one housing (10) of the enclosed spool (150) and is fed throu... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5044089 | Power-operated measuring tape A measuring device in which a flexible steel measuring tape is wound around a spool within a housing. A motor-powered sprocket wheel has teeth engaged with openings spaced along the tape for extending the tape out of the housing. A separate electric motor... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5014879 | Lockable tube roller A device for winding up collapsible tubes, having open and closed ends, to allow full expression of contents from the open end and to prevent the wound tube from unwinding. The device includes an elongated slot shaped opening in one member or mandrel for ... | 05/14/1991 |
