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 |
| 7185636 | Fuel delivery pipe A fuel delivery pipe capable of reducing a pressure pulsation at the time of a fuel injection due to injection nozzles, preventing vibrations and noises at an underfloor pipe arrangement, and turning down a radiate sound from the fuel delivery pipe, wherein a flexib... | 03/06/2007 |
| 6972207 | Method of manufacturing annular oblique light illumination apparatus and flexible wiring substrate An annular oblique light illumination apparatus manufactured by using a flexible wiring substrate in which a plurality of arcuate zonal wiring patterns each in the form of a developed frustconical shape as a light emitting device arranging surface when cut along the... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6672742 | Candle shade A candle shade includes a sleeve adapted to receive a top end of a candle and a shade element coupled to the sleeve and surrounding the candle adjacent the top end. The sleeve has at least one spacing element on its interior surface to space the sleeve fr... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6595771 | Safety candleholder A safety candleholder comprises a seat, a center of the seat having a hollow groove base; an outer side of the groove base being installed with an inner ring and an outer ring; inner walls of the inner ring and the outer ring being installed with inner th... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6264345 | Drip preventing candle holder with decorative follower providing auxiliary illumination A one-piece, drip preventing follower of transparent glass has an annular shoulder sitting on an upper shoulder of the candle formed with a central, wick receiving opening with a lip from which extends an outwardly and upwardly flaring portion providing a... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6070989 | Structure for supporting a globe used for a portable gas lantern There is provided a globe supporting structure that supports a globe of a gas lantern which burns combustible gas discharged from a gas cartridge containing the combustible gas by means of a burner head located inside the globe, including a ventilator pos... | 06/06/2000 |
| 4375634 | Warning light A warning light which has a dome-shaped lens containing a xenon stroboscopic bulb and a halogen cycle bulb. The bulbs are energized, either separately or at the same time, to provide two types of warning lights, while means are provided for minimizing the... | 03/01/1983 |
