...that the Slinky toy was the result of a failed attempt by engineer Richard James to produce an antivibration device for ship instruments? His goal was to develop a spring that would instantaneously counterbalance the wave motion that rocks a ship at sea. Instead, he developed the Slinky.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7090315 | Electrical cabinet and a frame therefor An electrical cabinet and a frame therefor, wherein the frame comprises side members connected together by transverse members. Each transverse member is made from bars or tubes in a skeletal form with at least one recess in the side of the transverse member. The ske... | 08/15/2006 |
| 6945616 | Modular enclosure system for electronic equipment A modular enclosure system for electronic equipment is disclosed as is a process for assembling such a system. The basic element of the system is a frame unit which forms a chamber of the electronic equipment. Each frame unit has front, rear and side openings. Aroun... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6511140 | Pull-out device for a tall cupboard drawer A pull-out device for a tall cupboard drawer including a stationary carcass rail fixedly securable to a carcass of the tall cupboard and provided with support rollers arranged in a region of the front end surface of the carcass rail, rotatably supported o... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6039423 | Pull-out device for a tall cupboard A pull-out device for a tall cupboard including a U-shaped carcass rail having opposite cheeks provided at their upper edges with inwardly bent flanges which serve as running tracks an intermediate rail received in the carcass rail and having a plurality ... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5944400 | Telescopic slide assembly for a pullout tall cupboard A telescopic slide assembly for a pullout tall cupboard and including U-shaped stationary and displaceable rails attachable, respectively, to an element of the cupboard unit and a bottom side of the pullout cupboard, with the displaceable rail arranged te... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5902029 | Pullout assembly for a tall cupboard A pullout assembly for a tall cupboard including U-shaped stationary, intermediate, and pullout rails, with the stationary and pullout rails being respectively attachable to a tall cupboard and a pullout section of the tall cupboard and with the three rai... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5388903 | Multifaceted modular enclosure frame with integral sub-panel guide system A multifaceted modular enclosure frame which is constructed of a latticework of identical cross-sectionally configured frame sections that include an inherent integrally formed guide system for proper installation and positioning of sub-panel mounting boa... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5292189 | Sub-panel guide system for electrical enclosure A system for installing and properly positioning a sub-panel mounting board within a freestanding electrical enclosure, wherein the base sections of the enclosure frame form a continuous rectangular guide channel around the inner periphery of the enclosur... | 03/08/1994 |