Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7293361 | Hand tool for chopping ice An ice chopper having a blade for initially engaging ice with a small force followed by an impact of a larger force to break up the ice. The ice chopper has a tube for a handle having a second tube inside with a compression spring. The second tube has a blade attach... | 11/13/2007 |
| 4862591 | Ice spud An ice spud is provided with a blade having cutting means which comprises a pair of spikes and a cutting edge defining a notch in an end of the blade, the cutting edge intersecting lateral edges of the blade to define the spikes therewith, whereby the spi... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4435871 | Cleaner for a tubular wick A cleaner for a tubular wick is shown according to the teachings of the present invention including an upper and lower circular plate. The lower plate includes a multiplicity of spaced holes formed through the plate adjacent the periphery thereof. A pin h... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4346628 | Method for making a head of piolet A method is provided which produces a head of piolet, all in one piece, by punching out a metallic blank (i.e. a long cross-shaped blank whose outline is symmetrical with regard to its longitudinal axis and comprises four parts: a peen part, a pike part, ... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4242780 | Hammer with chipping blade A chipping hammer for cleaning welds or deburring the oxidized metal about the cut from a cutting torch which comprises a handle and a head of unique configuration secured to an end of the handle. The head is secured at right angles to the axis of the han... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4020551 | Ice-prod Ice-prod with tips furnished with handles and a flexible device of a given length, which couples two ice-prods together, the tips of the prods being at an angle of about 45° to the longitudinal axis of the handles.... | 05/03/1977 |
