Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7192025 | Sheet feeding apparatus Apparatus for feeding sheets and other flat articles, especially with varying thickness, or from stacks of varying height, includes a device called a prompter. The prompter (136) comprises a body (137), a drive roller (142), mounted on and drive... | 03/20/2007 |
| 6902135 | Device for guiding a web A device for guiding a web includes a frame, a first angle bar angled with respect to the entering web direction and supported by the frame for movement along a first path, the first angle bar having a first and a second side, a second angle bar angled with respect ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6193640 | Paper feeding in a folder Folders in a web-fed rotary printing press are associated with two spaced horizontal planes. Each of these planes is provided with a superstructure carriage that supports a plurality of turning bars. Each of the superstructure carriages can be displaced h... | 02/27/2001 |
| 5749567 | Printing method and apparatus A method and apparatus for forming books comprising pages of coated paper interspersed with pages of newsprint paper. The book is formed by providing a moving web of coated paper, providing a plurality of moving webs of newsprint paper, printing the movin... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5685528 | Paper web feed for a folding apparatus A pair of partial paper web receiving superstructure units are placed above a transverse folding unit in a folding apparatus. Either a drawing unit or a longitudinal folder and its associated folder hopper inlet can be placed between the superstructure un... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5320334 | Method of printing a book having pages of newsprint and pages of coated enamel pages A method and apparatus for forming books comprising pages of coated paper interspersed with pages of newsprint paper. The book is formed by providing a moving web of coated paper, providing a plurality of moving webs of newsprint paper, selectively perfor... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5303909 | Paper web guide assembly with three forming levels A paper web guide assembly utilizes a plurality of longitudinal formers that are arranged in three levels. The formers in the upper level receive a web from a first six plate width press while the formers in the intermediate and lower levels receive web s... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5121910 | System for interleaving and mixing a plurality of webs, particularly slit webs received from a printing machine To permit web portions (16, 17; 18, 19; 20, 21) slit from longitudinal webs (2a, 2b, 2c) to be selectively interleaved or interlaced, with or without turning over, pairs of turning bars or rods (6, 7; 8, 9; 10, 11; 12, 13) are located in essentially verti... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5048810 | Apparatus for adjusting an anglebar or a compensator roller in a folder of a printing press An anglebar and/or a compensator roller in a folder of a printing press is adjustable. A motor has an output shaft operatively connected with the anglebar and/or the compensator roller to, when driven, adjust the position of the anglebar and/or the compen... | 09/17/1991 |
| 4984773 | Method of and apparatus for composing a press imposition An apparatus and a method are disclosed for composing an imposition in terms of an arrangement of printing plates on selected of the image positions on selected units of a printing press to print a given edition, by first assigning each section of this ed... | 01/15/1991 |
