Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7506445 | Foil cutting device Foil cutting device for cutting a sealing foil of a bottle. This foil cutting device is of the type which is positioned from above on the bottle. To that end a cutting device is provided with a stop determining the distance between the free extremity of the bottle a... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7127820 | Flexible flush cut saw The invention described herein relates to a flush cut saw that is capable of safely making a flush cut. The saw has a handle with a thin, flexible blade extending therefrom. The blade has two elongated extensions running away from the handle. The extensions can each... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7007391 | Dual containment tubing cutter The present invention is a C-shaped plastic tubing cutter having a C-shaped grasping portion and a fixed cutting blade. The grasping portion has an opening for receiving the tubing whereby the width of the opening is measurably smaller than the diameter of the tubin... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6952876 | Plant clipper with chemical dispenser A clipper and herbicide or other chemical dispenser comprises a pair of pivotal handle members that are squeezed together to operate a shear mechanism and a chemical dispenser that dispenses chemical directly on the end of the cut stem after the stem has been cut. P... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6886253 | Foil cutter A foil cutter including first and second foil cutting means, said first and second cutting means being relatively movable towards each other for foil cutting engagement with the neck of a bottle, wherein, at least one of said cutting means including a pair of pivota... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6557258 | Dual blade cutter A cutter, for cutting various surfaces having various curvatures, having a blade assembly and a housing. The blade assembly includes a first blade and a second blade, each having an inner edge and an outer edge, and a guide mounted between the first blade... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6477775 | Device and methods for opening closed containers A device for opening a sealed container, the device comprising, a first arm having a proximal and distal end, a second arm having a proximal and distal end, a cutting device, and at least one guiding device, wherein the guiding device is disposed on one o... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6196086 | Foil cutter for a corkscrew The invention relates to a foil cutter (12) and such a cutter in combination with a corkscrew (2) and/or a crown cap opener (35). The foil cutter (12) comprises an annular casing (16, 17) having a passage (14) extending axially therethrough and adapted to... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6151779 | Coin roll opener A coin holder opener having a housing with a central axis and a set of rollers rotatably mounted at an acute angle with respect to the housing and in a spaced relationship from each other and a central axis so that when a roll of wrapped coins are inserte... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6070328 | Scissors Scissors has a first scissor member and a second scissor member which are pivotally coupled to each other. The scissors comprises a blade formed with and extetending along at least one of the scissor members and a fastening memeber is provided with at lea... | 06/06/2000 |
| 5887305 | Portable corkscrew with accessory to shear the caps on the neck of bottles Portable corkscrew with accessory to shear the caps on the neck of bottles, the corkscrew comprising a grip (11), on substantially one end of which are pivoted a drawing screw (12) and a supporting lever (13), the shearing accessory (14) being located sub... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5878497 | Bottle foil cutter A new bottle foil cutter for shearing foil or other material wraps on the necks of bottles. The inventive device includes a housing with an inner surface defining a bore through the housing, and a cutting member disposed within the bore. The inventive dev... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5740612 | Plastic bottle cutting implement A plastic bottle cutting implement for reducing a plastic bottle such as a PET bottle to an easily compactible form for disposal comprises a cylindrical or part-cylindrical covering member and a blade disposed projecting from the inside surface of this co... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5659963 | Coin and token roll opener The Coin and Token Roll Opener facilitates the opening of machine packaged paper rolls of coins and tokens. The Coin and Token Roll Opener consists of top and bottom wings, joined by an eyelet, upon which are mounted rotating, circular cutters. The wings ... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5653023 | Cutting device for removing the upper part of plastic or metal alloy capsules covering the cork in bottles of wine and the like A cutting device for removing the upper part of capsules covering the cork in bottles of wine and the like, including a body made of rigid plastics that is substantially shaped externally like a parallelepiped and substantially has the profile of a styliz... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5372054 | Automatic cork extractor An apparatus for opening a wine bottle includes a cork seal remover assembly, comprising a housing having a cavity therein, the cavity including opposed side walls that taper downwardly to a bottom opening and converge rearwardly toward a rear wall. A bla... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5367923 | Corkscrew that extracts simultaneously with the cork a preventively cut portion of the capsule on the neck of the bottle A corkscrew for simultaneously cutting a capsule on a neck of the bottle and removing a cork from the bottle including a screw handle having a screw at one end for engaging the cork, a pair of force lever arms for the extraction of the cork after the scre... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5363725 | Corkscrew with fitting to shear the tinfoil, plastic or other caps on the neck of bottles Corkscrew (10) with a fitting (16) to shear tinfoil, plastic or other caps (17) on the upper part of the neck (18) of bottles (14) possibly including a collar, the corkscrew (10) comprising an at least partly flat grip (11) having a possible zone to conta... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5351579 | Rechargeable electric corkscrew A rechargeable electric corkscrew for removing a cork from a bottle comprises a reversible drive having a switch for switching the drive between rotation in a first sense and an opposite sense. A body houses the drive and a rechargeable power source and h... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5313859 | Remover for child resistant closure A device for removing a child resistant closure from a container, including a tab to receive the protrusion of a closure of the line-up-the-arrows type, a recess to receive the closure adjacent the tab, an inclined side of the recess to bear against the c... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5235748 | Seal cutter A seal cutter for cutting seal material formed on a bottle neck, such as a wine bottle, includes a handle, a stationary jaw member and a movable jaw member. The movable jaw member is formed with a base portion slidably mounted to a track formed on the han... | 08/17/1993 |
| 5079838 | Bottle opener A bottle opener for cutting open thermoplastic bottle caps is disclosed. The bottle opener includes a first arm having a proximal end and a distal end, the first arm including at least one transverse aperture. A second arm includes a proximal end and a di... | 01/14/1992 |
| 4972587 | Device for portioning sausagelike food products A device for the portioning of sausagelike food products, characterized by a substantially axially symmetric caplike body made of a material having flexural elasticity, and comprising a section which is formed by an approximately L-shaped slot extending f... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4845844 | Foil cutter A cutting device for cutting material covering wine bottle necks comprising cutters defining at least three cutting surfaces and a frame carrying the cutters. The frame has an axis and positions the cutters such that the cutting surfaces are radially spac... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4637139 | Ampoule cutter An ampoule cutter has a pair of shells into which the tip of an ampoule may be inserted. When inserted, the neck of the ampoule is received within the V-notch of a blade carried within the cutter. The ampoule may be rotated to score the neck of the ampoul... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4567655 | Tool for opening smokeless tobacco containers A lightweight, hand-held portable tool for opening a smokeless tobacco container uses a rotatable cutting wheel to slit an adhesive coated paper wrapper extending around the rim of the lid and cylindrical body of the container. The tool has a top member w... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4561567 | Toner loading apparatus A xerographic copying machine is adapted to receive toner supplied from an inverted toner supply bottle having a frangible seal member covering its outlet. The toner bottle is inserted by an operator through an access receptacle within the copier which no... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4437359 | Wine waiter's corkscrews A corkscrew is combined with a flat elongated handle. Two extraction levers are pivoted to one end of the handle. Each lever has a notch for resting on the bottle neck to help extract corks.... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4151643 | Tool to alter safety closure to non-safety status A tool for cutting away the outer cap of a safety closure so that a remaining inner cap of the closure can be retained for screwing on and off a bottle, in order that it may be used by a knowledgable adult; the tool comprising a pliers-like implement, in ... | 05/01/1979 |
| 4074426 | Threaded blade holder A threaded blade holder for cutting an opening in a flexible externally threaded closure element on a pail or container. The holder comprises a hollow internally threaded tubular body. A retaining member, comprising a pointed spike, is slideably disposed ... | 02/21/1978 |
