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!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7770980 | Dump vehicle A dump vehicle comprising a chassis and a dump bed with a cylinder laterally constrained by a stabilizer. The cylinder is supported on a support structure and pivotably connected thereto and to the dump bed. The stabilizer includes a retainer extending at least part... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7309072 | Water caddy A water caddy for capturing, containing, transporting, and emptying a fluid includes an open top fluid container pivotally attached to a cabinet set on wheels. The fluid container is pivotable between a fill position in which the container receives fluid through the... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7094015 | Device for conveying empty rolls A device is used to convey empty rolls that have been removed by at least one roll changer of a web-fed rotary printing press. At least one empty roll receptacle can be displaced between the roll changer, where the empty rolls are held by the receptacle after they a... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7090305 | Vehicle dump body elevation device, kit, and method relating thereto The present invention is directed toward a vehicle dump body elevation device, kit and method related thereto. The elevation device and kit comprise at least one hinge assembly for attaching a dump body to a vehicle frame and at least one hoist having a lower end pi... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7017998 | Adaptable transport The present invention relates to a motorized transport for transportation and delivery of a load of material. A preferred embodiment of the present invention provides an adaptable transport comprised of a hopper having an upper support and a lower support. The suppo... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6820940 | Dump cart sustainer A dump cart sustainer with a wheeled platform is provided for receiving, holding, transporting, and dumping a large heavy drum holding building materials such as concrete. The sustainer is structured to allow easy release, disposal, and replacement of the drum by re... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6394555 | Four-wheeled utility vehicle A four-wheeled utility vehicle has a body frame; a driver's seat disposed on the body frame; a load-carrying platform having a front end portion and a rear end portion, the load-carrying platform disposed behind the driver's seat; a cabin frame having a r... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6290301 | Self-dumping cart An apparatus and method for an improved self-dumping cart. The dump cart has a box pivotally mounted on a frame and wheels. The cart box is normally locked to the frame in an upright position for loading and towing. Then to dump, the box is unlocked from ... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6193319 | Handle-propelled, load-carrying land vehicle A handle-propelled, load-carrying land vehicle comprises a frame having two parts, one having wheels and ground-engaging pedestals forward of the wheels, and the other being pivoted to the front of the first part and having a load-carrying receptacle moun... | 02/27/2001 |
| 5882085 | Auxiliary dump box accessory for a flatbed bale loader An auxiliary dump box accessory is provided for combining with a conventional flatbed bale (of hay) loader, for effectively converting the flatbed bale loader and the underlying conventional truck into a dump truck. Thus the dump box accessory gives the f... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5067774 | Cone shaped inflatable bag for lifting a load An inflatable bag (17) for use in exhaust powered tippers is constructed from blanks of flexible air tight material using a side wall template (10) and end wall templates (11, 12). The blanks are made so that the finished bag when fully inflated assumes a... | 11/26/1991 |
| 4989917 | Articulated hopper disposal system A method and apparatus for removing debris from a vehicular debris collection hopper and transferring it to a debris receptacle.... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4922696 | Grass collecting/utility cart for riding lawn mower An improved cart to be towed behind a riding lawn mower for collecting grass clippings, etc. therefrom and also which can be used for strict utility purposes. The cart has a tub-like open-top bed to which is secured a forward upward-extending wall having ... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4909694 | Round bale trailer A round bale trailer includes a trailer that travels in a hay field in the same direction that the field is normally worked to approach round hay bales in a direction perpendicular to the bales' axes. A U-shaped fork on the round bale trailer engages thre... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4802709 | Dumping utility trailer A dumpable utility trailer comprising a frame assembly, a container assembly rotatably connected to the frame assembly so as to permit rotation of the container from an upright position to an inverted position, and a latch assembly adapted to limit the ro... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4688819 | Hitch A tractor has a typical three-point hitch with lower lift arms and an upper stabilizing arm comprising, in part, of a transverse horizontal rod extending between the lift arms. A pair of connecting structures are mounted on the implement and spaced on the... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4623197 | Sloped floor dump trailer A sloped floor trailer which incorporates drain ports which are opened during trailer loading and which are sealed during trailer transportation, in order to retain the liquid. In addition to the foregoing features, I provide apparatus for heating the tra... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4619484 | Side unloading dump truck The improved assembly includes a truck having a generally horizontal trailer frame supported on rotatable wheels. The upper surface of the frame preferably includes a dished portion adapted to receive the assembly's open-topped, curved container bin, and ... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4616879 | Dump trailer with quiet cushions A dump trailer having a chassis with ground engaging wheels under one end, a heavy duty hoist on the other end and a dump body pivoted to the chassis at the wheel supported end and adapted to be elevated by the heavy duty hoist incorporates a floor struct... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4580843 | Bale rack A bale rack comprises an elongate horizontal frame mounted on wheels for movement along the ground, and a pair of bale supports extending along opposite sides of the frame. The bale supports are pivotable relative to the frame between a raised position, i... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4572579 | Dump apparatus A dump apparatus comprising a base frame removably mounted on a rear body of a truck etc., a loading box rotatably mounted on the base plate, an inflatable bag provided between the loading box and the base plate and a hose for feeding exhaust gas from an ... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4536033 | Trash storing apparatus Trash storing apparatus includes a support portion, a container portion and a container dumping portion. The support portion includes a substantially horizontal frame section with an undercarriage section including a plurality of wheels extending downward... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4494798 | Side-dumping, material-hauling conveyance A dual side-dumping truck and trailer combination utilizing a dolly-type trailer and a frameless material hauling bed. The bed is suspended on bunk assemblies mounted rotatably on bolsters on the truck frame and the trailer frame. Hinge mounting arrangeme... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4458588 | Dumping transport vehicle for harvested cotton having packer-divider A dumping transport vehicle for harvested cotton bolls has the capacity to receive in its basket body two dumps from a large self-propelled harvester. An internal power-operated pivoted packer-divider panel of the vehicle enables compacting of the first d... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4289353 | Combination belly dump/end dump vehicle A vehicle is shown having a hopper mounted thereon capable of dumping materials contained within the hopper over the end of the hopper or through the bottom of the hopper. Dumping over the end of the hopper is accomplished by lifting the front end of the ... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4273381 | Dump body for mounting on the frame of a vehicle A dump body for mounting on the frame of a vehicle is disclosed. The dump body comprises a floor, side walls and a front wall secured together to form an integral unit, a rear gate closing the back of the unit. The floor is composed of a central, elongate... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4270786 | Dumping wheelbarrow A dumping wheelbarrow capable of providing a forward tilt to the barrow while maintaining the legs of the wheelbarrow on the ground. The wheelbarrow has a frame which supports the barrow which frame has a wheel and a pair of legs together with a pair of e... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4148527 | Dumping transport vehicle particularly for cotton bolls A dumping transport vehicle is provided for transporting picked or stripped cotton from a harvester back to the module. A large capacity dump box or basket features strategically located wire mesh panels to allow air to escape when the cotton is delivered... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4129333 | Tip-up vehicles A tip-up trailer with a hydraulically operated tipping body having a device for preventing the tipping body sticking up in the raised position. This is done by providing a back pressure to bear on the piston of a hydraulically operated ram to assist in th... | 12/12/1978 |
| 3995894 | Lateral stabilizer for dump trucks In a dump truck having a dump bucket pivotally mounted along one of its upper side edges to a bed, and a power device for tilting said bucket to dump its contents, said bed being supported by two axles carrying ground-engaging wheels, being pivotally moun... | 12/07/1976 |
| 3958659 | Cab tilting mechanism for trucks According to the preferred embodiment of this invention, a cab of a tilt cab truck is mounted on a chassis frame by suspension springs. A hydraulic ram is arranged to move the cab from a riding position to a tilted position. The means connecting the ram t... | 05/25/1976 |
