Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7331305 | Device for mounting boat apparatus to boat deck For removably coupling a boat apparatus, such as a boat seat or table, to a boat deck, a base plate having a clamping slot is attached to the boat deck and the boat seat or table or the like is supported by a base assembly having a clamping bolt. The base assembly i... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7021814 | Support extension for stage apparatus There is disclosed a support extension for mounting stage equipment. The support extension may be attached to a rail. The support extension may include a body and a bolt. The bolt fits into a channel in the rail. The support extension may be quickly easily attached ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6929226 | Twist lock mounting system A twist lock mount for quick mounting and positioning a device to a support includes a mount receiving member attachable to or integral with the support and a mounting member attachable to or integral with a device to be mounted. The receiving member provides a chan... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6533238 | Versatile anti-tip bracket for an appliance A bracket for properly positioning and preferably preventing the tipping of an appliance includes first and second, generally perpendicular legs extending from a central bracket portion, with the first leg being longer than the second leg. Each of the leg... | 03/18/2003 |
| 5887840 | Pick-up truck tie down anchor A tie down anchor for a pick-up truck stake pocket is described, in which an elongated flexible cord is formed into an elongated loop including a bight at one end. An elongated bolt member is mounted to the cord adjacent the remaining cable end in transve... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5548979 | Horizontal axis clothes washing machine with tub suspension A horizontal axis clothes washing machine. A rotatable clothes basket has a generally longitudinally extending and generally horizontally disposed axis of rotation. The clothes basket is rotatably attached to a generally surrounding first member (which is... | 08/27/1996 |
