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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 |
| 5917317 | Retarding magnet assembly for electricity meter A retarding magnet assembly includes magnets configured to apply a constant drag on the rotating disk of an electromechanical electricity meter. The assembly includes upper and lower keepers secured to opposing extensions of the meter frame. A spacer is s... | 06/29/1999 |
| 4988944 | Cross coil type instrument A cross coil type instrument includes a plurality of coils cross-arranged around a movable permanent magnet, a needle fastened to the movable permanent magnet through a shaft projecting from the movable permanent magnet and penetrating the coils, a reset-... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4933632 | Apparatus for ferromagnetic measurements of electrical quantities An apparatus for ferromagnetic measurements of electric quantities comprises a coil having a hollow barrel on which a winding of a conductive wire is formed. A unit which is integral with a needle is positioned in the barrel. The needle is displaced in fr... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4449094 | Temperature compensated magnetic damping assembly for induction meters A temperature compensated magnetic damping assembly for providing a braking torque on an electroconductive disk of an induction device includes a pair of permanent magnets each having an easy axis of magnetization. Each permanent magnet provides two easy ... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4386316 | Brake magnet for watt-hour meters A brake magnet for watt-hour meters using permanent magnet material of low permeability of nearly one and high coercive strength in which exact temperature compensation for a required temperature range can be achieved and which is easily manufactured. The... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4238730 | Magnetic brake-damper of electric measuring instrument A magnetic brake-damper of an electric measuring instrument comprises two similarly magnetized permanent magnets with opposite poles, arranged one above the other and forming a gap accommodating part of the moving element of the instrument. Both permanent... | 12/09/1980 |
| 4238729 | Magnetic damping system having low induction magnet A magnetic damping system for induction devices having electroconductive disk armatures includes a low induction, high coercive force magnet that is vertically elongated and has a horizontal direction of magnetization parallel to the disk. Flux concentrat... | 12/09/1980 |
| 4182984 | Magnetic damping assembly with temperature compensator for watthour meters A watthour meter damping assembly includes a U-shaped magnetic yoke and a pair of highly coercive and anisotropic permanent magnets projecting in facing relationship from the ends of the yoke. Opposing pole faces of the magnets form an air gap receiving a... | 01/08/1980 |
| 4092184 | Method of preparing and installing cobalt-rare earth permanent magnets A method for the manufacture of cobalt-rare earth permanent magnets formed of consolidated particles thereof, for installation within electromagnetic devices such as induction watthour meters, and the product thereof. The method includes the magnetization... | 05/30/1978 |
| 4030031 | Magnetic damping system for induction watthour meters A new and improved magnetic damping system for induction watthour meters including electromagnetically driven disk armatures. The magnetic damping system comprises cobalt-rare earth permanent magnets of relatively small mass deployed in a counterposed pai... | 06/14/1977 |
