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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6098840 | Inclining slide for card dispensing device A card-dispensing device has a mechanism for forcibly modifying the attitude of the slide during the forward run of the slide from a horizontal attitude in which the slide is pushing a card forward to an attitude which is inclined through a fixed angle, a... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5409205 | Apparatus and method of feeding paper from the bottom of a stack using a reciprocating separator A paper feeder for a printing and bookbinding system incorporates a top load, bottom feed hopper having a cyclically operated platform for transporting paper signatures from a stack to a conveyor. The platform utilizes spaced supports of a high friction, ... | 04/25/1995 |
| 4919413 | Newspaper handling and collating method and apparatus Each interfaced loader and metering hopper combination of a newspaper assembling system includes improvements for producing ridges in the newspapers at various states where separation of the newspapers from one another is required. The ridges enhance sepa... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4884793 | Picker-stripper-feeder for envelope feeding apparatus Apparatus for stripping a single envelope from a stack of envelopes without misfeeding or double feeding is provided. The apparatus includes a picker blade which is articulated by a drive to impart of plurality of motions to the leading edge of an envelop... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4702467 | Multi-purpose feeder for successively delivering single sheet or multi-leaved articles from a stack thereof The feeder has a device which reciprocates across the bottom of a stack of articles so as to separate and feed the lowermost article of the stack during each feeding stroke of the device. The device has a pair of elongated members which extend in the dire... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4592634 | Apparatus to separate a single sheet from a stack of several similar sheets Disclosed is an apparatus for separating a single sheet from a stack of several sheets having the same non-round shape and the same size. The apparatus comprises a container with a recess for holding the stack, a base located underneath the container havi... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4557472 | Multi-purpose feeder for successively delivering single sheet or multi-leaved articles from a stack thereof Friction members, working together as an integral unit, rise up into engagement with the lowermost article in a stack to slightly raise it along the engaged portions thereof above the rest of the device as a forward stroke is commenced, thereby warping th... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4379383 | Inserter with improved ram mechanism An improved reciprocating ram for an envelope inserter includes a pusher which drives an enclosure from a ram pick-up station to an envelope station. Cycle time has been reduced by providing a ram return path which is beneath the elevation of the pick-up ... | 04/12/1983 |
| 3968959 | Document transport and separating device A document transport and separating device which utilizes opposing intermittent motion imparting devices having tips, the end of which are caused to move in an elliptical manner to feed, separate and align documents such as sheets of paper. One end of the... | 07/13/1976 |
