Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7334660 | Seal assembly for a rack and pinion steering assembly A rack bushing seal assembly for a rack and pinion steering assembly that includes a bushing, a bushing liner and a locking material. The bushing defines an annular recess on an outer surface of the bushing. The bushing liner is positioned within the bushing. The lo... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7247006 | Method and apparatus for sealing an ultrahigh-pressure fluid system An ultrahigh-pressure fluid system, such as an ultrahigh-pressure fluid pump, includes an improved dynamic seal assembly that can withstand pressures above 40,000 psi, and more preferably, pressures up to and beyond 87,000 psi. The dynamic sealing assembly includes ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7191875 | Disc brake A disc brake includes a piston seal made of rubber that is shaped to fit into a seal groove on the inner surface of a cylinder of a caliper for a brake piston. To prevent braking effectiveness from being impaired, even if the temperature of a caliper rises in a disc... | 03/20/2007 |
| 6939051 | Bearing arrangement for a shaft A bearing arrangement supporting a sealing bellows around a shaft to permit axial and angular motion includes inner and outer bearing sleeves, and a rolling bearing having an inner race ring fitted around the inner sleeve with one end face engaging a shoulder in the... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6805360 | Regulator with segmented body The regulator connects to a high pressure fluid supply and regulates the pressure to a downstream apparatus. If an over-pressure occurs, it is vented to atmosphere. A segmented body reduces production cost. An elongate control stem engages a supply seal assembly and... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6719295 | Supplemental seal for the chordal hinge seals in a gas turbine In a gas turbine having a chordal hinge seal between an inner rail of each nozzle segment and an annular axially facing sealing surface of a nozzle support ring, a supplemental seal is disposed between the support ring and inner rail of the nozzle segment on a lower... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6666458 | Valve seal for rotary valve engine A ceramic composite valve seal for a rotary valve assembly for use in internal combustion engines having rotary intake valves and rotary exhaust valves which have a spherical peripheral surface, the valve seal being of two-piece construction surrounding t... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6644430 | Integral bushing assembly for a rack and pinion steering gear A fluid power assisted rack and pinion steering apparatus (10) for a vehicle includes a rack (40) connectable with steerable wheels of the vehicle, a housing (20) partially enclosing the rack (40) and defining a fluid chamber (39), a bushing (390 or 590) ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6467566 | Integral bushing assembly for a rack and pinion steering gear A fluid power assisted rack and pinion steering apparatus (10) for a vehicle includes a rack (40) connectable with steerable wheels of the vehicle, a housing (20) partially enclosing the rack (40) and defining a fluid chamber (39), a bushing (90) encircli... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6416058 | Packing seal with dynamic self-adapting lip The invention concerns a packing seal with its lip (1) placed in a toroidal housing (2) of a part (3) mobile in rotation and/or translation relatively to a part (4) and whereof the lip (5) ensuring the seal between the lining and the part (4) exerts on sa... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6402158 | Seal disk for bearings A non-contact plastic or rubber seal disk for bearings with improved sealing performance, which can be thrust into the seal groove of the outer ring concentrically with the bearing, with the bearing axis as center, without difficulty and so tightly as to ... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6322079 | Face seal A seal cartridge for a face seal comprising an annular housing having an inner and outer wall and a back wall; a seal ring composite in said housing; a first resilient member disposed between said housing and said seal ring composite for providing an axia... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6086070 | High pressure fluid seal assembly A high pressure fluid seal assembly is shown and described. The seal assembly includes a seal carrier having a bore through which a reciprocating pump plunger may pass, the seal carrier having a first annular groove concentric with the bore, and carrying ... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5988591 | Spool A packing mounting groove formed in a spool has a wider portion of a large groove width and a narrower portion of a small groove width, and a packing that is mounted in the packing mounting groove has a first portion that fits in the wider portion and a s... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5934323 | Spool It is an object of this invention to reduce air resistance, which occurs when a packing is mounted in the mounting groove of a spool. Reducing this air resistance facilitates the mounting operation and prevents compressed air from being contained in a gro... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5513674 | Sealing arrangement A sealing ring (10) includes an outer sealing region (11) with a sealing edge (18) which rests in the installed state against the surface region to be sealed, and a holder region (12) which is situated within the sealing region (11). To prevent or render ... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5467689 | Hydraulic cylinder and biased wear ring assembly for use therein A linear hydraulic cylinder (11) is provided of the type having a cylinder barrel (13;113) and a piston (21;121) reciprocally disposed in the barrel. There is a main piston seal member (55) which seals between the piston and an interior surface (37) of th... | 11/21/1995 |
| 4899983 | Anti-wedging pressure seal ring apparatus A valve plug having a valve plug housing shaped to fit in a bonnet cylinder of steam control valves has a pressure seal ring groove for holding a pressure seal ring therein. The pressure seal ring groove has a pair of walls and a bottom surface end and an... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4714259 | Sealing ring structure with stressing ring In a sealing ring structure comprising a sealing ring (1) made of a tough-elastic plastic material and a stressing ring (11) made of a rubber-elastic material, the sealing ring (1) is provided with an annular recess (2) on its sealing surface which rests ... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4268044 | Fluid connections to rotary members A connection for the supply of fluid under pressure to a rotary member. The connection comprising a rotary member having a rotary surface; a non-rotatory annular member having a stationary surface engaged with said rotary surface at an interface therebetw... | 05/19/1981 |
| 4252331 | Sealing arrangement A sealing arrangement for a two member couple, includes a sealing ring which is interposed between the two members of the couple and having a face which engages one of the members and two axially spaced edges. An elastically resilient ring is interposed b... | 02/24/1981 |
| 4165882 | Sealing means for slide gate An improved sealing means for use with a slide gate which is slidably mounted for opening and closing movement relative to a seat forming frame defining a fluid flow orifice. The sealing means comprises a resilient sealing member adapted to be received in... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4121838 | Shaft seal structure A shaft coaxially mounted within a cylinder is sealed with respect to that cylinder by means of an annular carrier affixed to the shaft and having its periphery facing the inner wall of the cylinder provided with an annular seal groove having an inverted ... | 10/24/1978 |
| 3930657 | Device for sealing between preferably movable parts A device for producing a seal between movable and/or stationary parts, such as a piston and a cylinder particularly under conditions of high fluid pressures, comprises a sealing ring having an O-ring configuration and fabricated of a material such as rubb... | 01/06/1976 |