...that the first rickshaw was invented in 1869 by an American Baptist minister, the Rev. E. Jonathan Scobie, to transport his invalid wife around the streets of Yokohama?
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5170543 | Pin tenter clamp with stripper plate A pin tenter clamp for a tenter apparatus has a clamp base on which tenter pins are disposed. The clamp base is provided with a hinge about which a clamp top plate is pivotable. A resilient, elastomeric clamp pad is disposed on a side of the clamp top pla... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5005271 | Conveyor chain for machines for tensioning lengths of material The invention relates to a conveyor chain for machines for tensioning lengths of material, with pairs of outer fishplates and pairs of inner fishplates flexibly connected by chain joint bolts and with support members for grippers or needle plates. The pai... | 04/09/1991 |
| 4882820 | Tenter frame chain with low friction slide block The present tenter frame chain includes a plurality of links, each link including upper and lower interconnected loadbearing plates, and a low friction slide block sandwich between the upper and lower interconnected plates. The slde block is formed of mat... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4723345 | Chain conveyor of a fabric web stretching machine A chain conveyor of a fabric web stretching machine includes input and output sides of the machine, an endless roller chain having a forward and rearward running parts, chain links, chain bolts absorbing longitudinal chain forces, stretching devices dispo... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4558496 | Combined pin and nipper chain The pin-nipper chain consists of holders detachably secured on links and is composed of two holder parts of U-shaped cross section. On the underside of one of the holder parts a slider is detachably fastened in a sheetmetal part. On an inner side of the o... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4403379 | Chain for a tenter frame with tentering clamping and needle combination links A chain for a tentering frame includes links which carry so-called tentering hooks and needles for holding a fabric web to a movable conveyor forming the tentering frame. Each link (9) carries an intermediate support member (7) which holds at its free end... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4271569 | Tenter apparatus for fabric web tenter machines Tenter apparatus for fabric web tenter machines comprises a hook body carried by a circulating conveyor, a tenter table fixedly connected to the hook body and serving as support for the fabric web edge, and a hook flap pivotally mounted on the hook body a... | 06/09/1981 |