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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7378798 | Electric lamp An electric lamp has a lamp vessel accommodating an electric element. The element is connected to current conductors including molybdenum portions which have a coating of material chosen from the group of chromium-manganese, chromium-cobalt, chromium-iron and chromi... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7176452 | Microfabricated beam modulation device A beam modulation device gate is constructed from a silicon material, such as a silicon layer on an silicon on insulator wafer. The device further comprises a set of electrical contacts on the layer. The layer defines a set of electrically conducting silicon materia... | 02/13/2007 |
| 6985042 | Magnetron The object to the present invention is to provide a magnetron which can reduce spurious oscillation such as the π−1 mode which presents a problem particularly in magnetrons and can reduce spurious radiations without placing filters. The magnetron of the present i... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6966811 | Method of fabricating an incandescent halogen lamp having flattened filament support leads An incandescent halogen lamp used in connection with a vehicle headlamp system in which stray light attributable to reflection off of internal lamp components is reduced while the structural integrity of the lamp is maintained. The halogen lamp includes two filament... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6713957 | Super-high pressure discharge lamp of the short arc type A super-high pressure discharge lamp of the short arc type which has an arc tube portion in which there is a pair of opposed electrodes and which is filled with at least 0.15 mg/mm3 mercury, and side tube portions which extend from opposite sides of the a... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6191526 | Electric lamp having a current lead-in wire with a flattened U-shaped end segment The invention relates to the fastening of incandescent coil filaments to current lead-in wires in electric lamps. One end (41) of the current lead-in wires is flattened and U-shaped. The U-shaped segment (41) of the current lead-in wire forms a gap-like s... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6181056 | Cold cathode carbon film A carbon film having an area of insulating material surrounded by an area of conducting material, and an area of material between the area of insulating material and the area of conducting material having a graded dielectric constant which varies from hig... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6075313 | Incandescent lamp having filament with polygonal turns The electric incandescent lamp has a tubular quartz glass lamp vessel (1) in which a filament (10) having adjoining turns is axially disposed. The filament (10) is kept centered in the lamp vessel (1) by supports (15) which are connected to the filament (... | 06/13/2000 |
| 5764204 | Two-gate flat display screen A flat display screen includes a cathode arranged in columns for electronically bombarding an anode including phosphor elements, a first gate arranged in rows to be individually addressed, and a second gate formed by at least two combs of alternate paths ... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5600200 | Wire-mesh cathode A field emission cathode for use in flat panel displays comprises a layer of conductive material and a layer of amorphic diamond film, functioning as a low effective work-function material, deposited over the conductive material to form emission sites. Th... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5517077 | Ion implantation having increased source lifetime Ion implantation equipment is modified so as to provide filament reflectors to a filament inside of an arc chamber, and to remove the electrical insulators for the filament outside of the arc chamber and providing a means of shielding, thereby reducing th... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5374872 | Means for supporting and sealing the lead structure of a lamp and method for making such lamp This lamp comprises (1) an envelope of vitreous light-transmitting material enclosing an internal space where light is generated and (ii) conductive lead structure projecting into said internal space. Surrounding and sealed to said lead structure is a bod... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5049782 | Magnetron with harmonic suppression means In an interaction space (4) defined between a cathode (3) and forward end portions of vanes (2), a permanent magnet (12) applies a uniform direct-current magnetic field along an axial direction of the cathode (3). Direct-current or low-frequency high volt... | 09/17/1991 |
| 4700107 | High-pressure discharge lamp having a tungsten sheet electrode An electrode head for a high-pressure discharge lamp consists of tungsten sheet material formed as a flat or curved plate having an elongated end face having a transverse dimension at least three or five times the plate thickness. As a result the discharg... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4663558 | Incandescent lamp bulb assembly An incandescent lamp bulb assembly having three or four lead wires led out of the bottom of a pinched sealing neck of an envelope or bulb containing two filaments (double filament structure), said lead wires are disposed in line longitudinally of the pinc... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4661739 | Welded tungsten filament to lead joint In a brazed joint between a coiled tungsten filament and a molybdenum lead, the lead continues integrally into a braze section which extends longitudinally within the coiled filament. The braze section may be formed by suddenly melting the portion of the ... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4605877 | Mounting structure for multi-filaments of an incandescent lamp An improved structure for mounting minor and major filaments of a three-way incandescent lamp is disclosed. The improved mounting structure orients the major filament in either an axial or transverse manner and the minor filament in a transverse manner. T... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4584502 | Electric incandescent lamp An electric incandescent lamp having a bead mount and a filament which extends transversely to the lamp axis. Current supply wires in the pinch seal lie in a plane which encloses an angle of at least 45° with the axis of the filament.... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4556822 | Mounting structure and related method both for a multi-filament incandescent lamp An improved mounting structure for a three-way incandescent lamp is disclosed. The improved mounting structure has a three-pillar stem in which the conductive leads rigidly dispose a minor and major filament within the three-way incandescent lamp. The imp... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4531074 | Electrical current inlet particularly for discharge tubes of high pressure discharge light sources Electrical current supply terminal, especially for discharge tubes of light sources having a high pressure gas discharge. The invention is concerned with an electrical feed through, especially for discharge tubes of light sources having high pressure gas disch... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4453106 | Compression base lamp A lamp comprising a tubular quartz envelope having a mounting base compression fitted to one end thereof.... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4426598 | Incandescent lamp leads of dispersion strengthened copper wires Substantially completely deoxidized dispersion strengthened copper leads in incandescent electric lamps.... | 01/17/1984 |
| 4400646 | Shaped inlead wires in electric lamps Electric lamp inlead wires are provided with bends to shape them into desired configurations for holding a filament or arc tube. The bends are shaped to provide a small reverse bend section. This prevents an inherent springback tendency at the bends, and ... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4396856 | High-pressure sodium lamp Each of the electrodes at the ends of an arc tube filled with a buffer gas, metal and sodium comprises an electrode core, an electrode coil wound around the core, an electron-emitting means disposed in the annular space between the electrode core and elec... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4381472 | Electronic tubes In an electronic tube, a metal cylindrical member having, at the end, a cylindrical joint portion is bonded by brazing to the end of ceramic cylindrical member to form a hermetic seal structure. The metal cylindrical member is made of iron and dimensions ... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4315188 | Wire electrode assemblage having arc suppression means and extended fatigue life One end of an electrode wire is doubled back at least once forming a teardrop shaped loop around a connector with the terminal end of the wire placed adjacent the wire inwardly of the connector. A rounded conductive mass encapsules said terminal end and t... | 02/09/1982 |
| 4208603 | Electric lamp having improved inlead construction An electric lamp construction is described having a pair of conductive inlead wires of dispersion-strengthened copper alloy to serve as the sole means of physical support for a resistive incandescent filament electrically connected thereto, wherein said i... | 06/17/1980 |
| 4180757 | Incandescent lamp with vibration-protected filament mount An incandescent lamp has a coiled filament with an improved life when it is mounted substantially in the same direction in which a mechanical shock occurs. In a particular embodiment of a miniature lamp known as a switchboard lamp, the filament is mounted... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4159438 | Electric halogen incandescent lamp Lamps having a gas filling containing bromine and hydrogen can be given a very long life without the addition of iodine to the gas filling by constructing and proportioning the internal tungsten current supply conductors according to the invention. The in... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4134040 | Adapter for wire electrode assembly of an electrostatic precipitator An adapter for wire electrode assemblies of electrostatic precipitators so that wire electrodes of the type comprising an elongated electrode wire having its opposite ends terminating axially within two identical shrouds, each of the shrouds shaped as an ... | 01/09/1979 |
| 4039885 | Electric incandescent lamp A low voltage incandescent lamp constructed from a reflector and a cover glass both consisting of pressed glass and which is referred to as a sealed beam type. Through the rear wall extend two conductors between which a filament is stretched. The filament... | 08/02/1977 |
| 4038579 | Solder joint connection between lead-in conductor and electrode A soldered joint between articles of at least one of the high melting point metals, high melting point carbides and high melting point metal oxides, which joint contains zirconium in which at least the external surface layer of the soldered joint consists... | 07/26/1977 |
| 3988630 | Lead wire forming apparatus for incandescent filaments An improved lead wire forming apparatus is described comprising wire flattening apparatus, a three jaw hook former, and clamping dies for fastening the lead wire about a filament. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to the manufacture of incande... | 10/26/1976 |
| 3979628 | Method of manufacturing an electrode provided with connection A method of manufacturing an electrode provided with a connection conductor for a gas and/or vapor discharge lamp. A quantity of electrically conducting auxiliary material, having a melting point less than the turns, is introduced between several turns of... | 09/07/1976 |
| 3965383 | Multi-wire oxygen electrode and method of manufacturing the same A multi-wire oxygen electrode and method of manufacturing the same, said electrode having a reactive electrode surface formed by a glass electrode tip having an end surface and a number of electrode wires are distributed in the end surface of the electrod... | 06/22/1976 |
| 3962596 | Filament shields A filament shield comprising a body with a recess therein. The recess has a base, which may be planar and from which the filament to be shielded is spaced, and is bounded on two opposed edges by a pair of surfaces. Each of these surfaces has a linear inne... | 06/08/1976 |
