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 |
| 7377043 | Shearing apparatus A shearing apparatus includes a pair of scissors including a first blade, a second blade, a first slide on the first blade and a second slide on the second blade. A first handle defines a groove for receiving the first slide, a first portion through which the pair o... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7260894 | Scissor apparatus and method of using thereof A scissor apparatus including a first section and a second section pivotably connected to each other. Both the first section and the second section have a blade end and a handle end. The scissors also include a stop member attached to the handle end of the first sec... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7210230 | Cuticle cutter A cuticle cutter of the like is described which is of the scissors type. Instruments of this type, especially in beauty salons, require constant cleaning, sharpening and sterilisation. The cutter of the invention facilitates such procedures by permitting the handles... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7051627 | Folding multipurpose tool including blade lock release mechanism A folding multipurpose tool incorporating a latch release mechanism including a lever, a cam, and a rocker-shaped grip body to easily effect release of a catch for holding knife or screwdriver blades extended. spring and cams are arranged to hold a pair of handles e... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7028591 | Multi-function tool with spring biased implement A multi-function tool includes a pair of handles and an implement slidably coupled to the handles. The implement is configured to slide in a linear fashion between a stowed position and a deployed position. A bias mechanism is coupled to the implement such that the ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6915578 | Reversible scissors A reversible scissors comprising a pair of pivotally connected two edge cutting blade members, operating handles and ring members. Ring members are connected pivotally with and movable along the operating handles. ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6711820 | Transformable pocket knife The cutting tool, or folding scissors, has first and second knife blades and first and second handles, each of the first and second knife blades and first and second handles being positionable relative to one another. The knife blades and handles effect at least a s... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6195898 | Magnetically latching butterfly knife A magnetically latching butterfly knife 10 having a magnetic latch 20 coupled thereto. The magnetic latch 20 is coupled to the magnetically latching butterfly knife 10. The magnetic latch 20 is coupled to at least one of the handle components 14 and/or 15... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6070504 | Compound pliers tool with linked handles Cooperating jaws are pivoted together such that working end portions of the jaw members are movable toward and away from each other. The jaws have butt portions extending opposite the jaw pivot from the working end portions. Such butt portions are, in tur... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6065213 | Folding scissors A folding scissors of a type suitable for inclusion in a compact multipurpose tool, in which an operating lever securely engages one of the scissors blades to move it with respect to the other, and in which a spacer takes up excess clearance to keep the o... | 05/23/2000 |
| 5978993 | Folding multi-purpose tool with comfortable handles A multipurpose folding tool including a pair of pivoted scissors blades or pliers jaws, each having a handle in the form of a channel, attached through a pivot joint permitting the handles to fold around the scissors blades or pliers jaws. Each handle inc... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5957013 | Hand tool with retractable jaw assembly Opposing jaw members of a hand tool are interconnected by a first pivot and have working end portions swingable toward and away from each other. The assembly of interconnected jaws is itself pivotally mounted on one or more handles that define a housing f... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5829329 | Hand tool with retractable jaws Opposing jaw members of a hand tool are interconnected by a first pivot and have working end portions swingable toward and away from each other. The assembly of interconnected jaws is itself pivotally mounted on one or more handles that define a housing f... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5809599 | Compound pliers tool with linked handles Cooperating jaws are pivoted together such that working end portions of the jaw members are movable toward and away from each other. The jaws have butt portions extending opposite the jaw pivot from the working end portions. Such butt portions are, in tur... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5722171 | Scissors, particulary hairdresser's scissors In scissors, particularly hairdresser's scissors, with two scissor blades (1, 2), connected to each other in articulated fashion by means of a single pivot (3), and two scissor handles (4, 5), each of which displays two handle sections (28, 29) and (30, 3... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5526571 | Pivoted tool with foldable handles A pivoted tool with foldable handles, such as a pair of scissors, includes a pair of opposed elongated members, each member comprising a jaw at a front end portion thereof, a handle at a rear end portion thereof, and a midportion where the members cross o... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5357678 | Scissor with retractable cutting blades A scissor includes a pair of handles and a pair of cutting blades. Each of the handles is formed with a recess that extends longitudinally at the inner portion from the front end of the handle to a point adjacent the rear end of the same. The handles are ... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5062173 | Multifunction tool A multifunction or combination tool having a screw driver, a wrench, a saw blade, a serrated blade, a metal file, and a knife blade divided into two groups, color-coded, and rotatably mounted in recesses in a two part handle, and a pair of pliers also rot... | 11/05/1991 |
| 4794692 | Extendable and retractable multipurpose miniature hand tool for use in measurement, snipping, and cutting A multipurpose miniature hand tool includes two casings defining an outer housing. A roll of measuring tape, two scissor blades, and an elongated snap-off blade are extendably and retractably mounted within the outer housing. Each of the scissor blades ar... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4791725 | Sheathed scissors A pair of scissors having a pair of blades which are slidingly fitted between a pair of handles which are pivotally supported one on the other. The blades are drawn out when the scissors are used, and they are accommodated between the handles when the sci... | 12/20/1988 |
| 4744272 | Foldable tool A foldable gripping tool has compound folding handle assemblies including channel shaped handles and handle extensions which may be folded into nested relationship with each other, and folded over the gripping jaws of the tool to enclose the jaws into a c... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4648145 | Folding pocket tool and knife A folding pocket tool and knife provides paired handles pivoted to swing around and be held together by a block in either the blade exposed or the folded position, doubly protrusive pivot pins at the handle free ends provide a choice of adjustable spanner... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4330937 | Fish filletting knife A fish filletting knife consisting of a blade having a pair of extension members each pivoted at one end to the base of the blade, the extension members being movable between one position in which they form a carrying case enclosing the blade in order tha... | 05/25/1982 |
