Did You Know...
...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7370868 | Cam bolt assembly A cam bolt assembly for use in a vehicle's suspension system. The cam bolt assembly is used to adjust the vehicle's wheel alignment. The assembly has a threaded fastener defining a pair of longitudinal channels, a first cam plate is coupled to the threaded bolt, a s... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7331589 | Dual axis bushing assembly and method for camber and caster adjustment A dual axis bushing assembly for engagement between an axle arm and an upper ball joint of a vehicle. The dual axis bushing assembly includes an inner skewed bushing engaged in and rotatable in an outer skewed bushing. The dual axis bushing assembly includes a zero ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7083176 | Wheel alignment arrangements for vehicles Control arms used to support a swivel member retaining a wheel of a vehicle are attached to the body or frame rail of the vehicle by U-shaped attachment brackets having walls with lateral slots therein, each of which receives a mounting bolt therethrough. The mounti... | 08/01/2006 |
| 6942540 | Drive shaft assembly for toy vehicles A toy vehicle including: a housing defining an interior section of the vehicle; a motor mounted in the housing; a drive shaft operatively connected to the motor and extending through an opening in the housing; and a propeller or wheel mounted on an end portion of th... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6904641 | Adjustable eccentric axle caster assembly for pallet truck An adjustable eccentric axle caster assembly for a pallet truck is provided. The adjustable caster assembly includes an eccentric axle, a caster wheel mounted on the eccentric axle, and a fastener for securing the eccentric axle to provide a desired caster wheel pos... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6367826 | Camber/caster adjuster An alignment adjuster for wheel alignment of a motor vehicle is provided. The alignment adjuster includes a shaft that is moveable within an elongated slot. The adjustable member in the preferred embodiment is a lower control arm and is attached via bushi... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6302416 | Camber adjustment arrangement A screw bolt has shank portions of different thicknesses which are arranged along two mutually displaced axes and cooperate with securing walls of a spring strut and with a steering knuckle respectively in the manner of cams or eccentrics in order to adju... | 10/16/2001 |
| 4970801 | Tool for adjusting camber and caster A tool for adjusting the alignment in a wheeled vehicle steering structure using a bushing includes a plate having indicia disposed around an aperture that runs through the plate wherein the indicia indicate an angular position for rotatably adjusting the... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4953894 | Adjustable fastening of a ball joint to a track rod for steering rods of motor vehicles An adjustable fastening of a ball joint to a track rod (1) for steering rods of motor vehicles, in which the ball joint has a ball stud (12) supported movable in all directions around a central axis (17) in a joint housing (16), and the central axis (17) ... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4858889 | Camber adjusting tool for front-wheel drive vehicles A hand tool adjusts the camber of a wheel assembly on a front-end drive vehicle including a vertically disposed spring-loaded strut portion located between a partition or fender apron and a front-wheel. The tool includes an elongated handle section, a ful... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4831744 | Bushing indexing tool and method for caster and camber adjustment The present invention includes a bushing indexing tool having an aperture in its upper surface which may be reproducibly located around a rotatable caster and camber adjustment offset bushing. A scale disposed around the aperture indicates the angular pos... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4753454 | Device for vehicle wheel camber adjustment A device is disclosed for the adjusting of wheels of a motor vehicle, particularly for the adjusting of a wheel camber. The wheels, via control arms and spring struts, are heald at the vehicle body, the wheel carrier, on the one side being flexibly connec... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4577534 | Front suspension alignment tool A camber adjusting tool in a strut type vehicle suspension system. The tool is in the form of a socket wrench having an eccentric cam portion defining a cylindrical cam surface having its radius of curvature offset from the principal axis of the socket. T... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4420170 | Camber adjustment tool and method for strut type vehicle suspension Alignment of wheel camber in a strut type vehicle suspension is accomplished by a U-shaped tool which is hooked over the ends of one of the bolt fasteners between the strut and the wheel support member and which seats on the strut during graduated movemen... | 12/13/1983 |
