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!!
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7331584 | Chuck with nutating gear reduction A tool chuck may include a chuck body that supports chuck jaws. The chuck body may define a longitudinal axis. A driven gear may be mounted for rotation on the chuck body. The rotational axis of the driven gear may be parallel to the longitudinal axis of the chuck b... | 02/19/2008 |
| 4799837 | Multi-component chucking system, particularly for rotary machine tools, such as drills, boring tools boring mills and the like A multi-component chucking system, in particular for concentric or true-rotation tools, has a recieving body (1) optionally having a chucking shaft, with an engagement surface (8) extending at right angles to the axis of rotation (2) and a coaxial retenti... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4632407 | Inside/outside chucking device For selective outside or inside chucking of a workpiece on a lathe use is made of a base unit split to provide a set of three or more holding segments capable of being either contracted for grasping the exterior of a workpiece or spread for grasping the i... | 12/30/1986 |
