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 |
| 7553064 | Agitating and conveying machine for shaking a container The agitation machine is installed either independently or in a conveyor line to shake, vibrate, oscillate, and/or agitate a container or containers in order to compact and settle the contents thereof. The machine includes at least one (and preferably two) elongate ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7311435 | Shaking incubator The invention relates to a shaking incubator with at least one specimen storage device comprising several superposed specimen storage spaces. A shaking unit comprising a specimen storage position, a shaking platform and a base unit is arranged in at least one specim... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7300195 | Vibratory apparatus for settling the contents of a container A vibratory apparatus and method for settling the contents of a container. The vibratory apparatus includes a base and a load table located above the base. A plurality of resiliently flexible vertical support members attach the load table to the base. A pneumatic li... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7175334 | Vessel agitator assembly A test vessel agitator assembly that agitates test vessels and the contents therein within an immunoassay automated analyzer system. The test vessels are transported along an element that is comprised of ridges and troughs such that the test vessel is moved in a dir... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7083692 | Method and device for vulcanizing shaped bodies from rubber mixtures Methods and devices for vulcanizing or cross-linking under pressure and increased temperature shaped bodies that consist especially of rubber mixtures. The shaped body is first dipped into a bed of fine-grained pourable or free-flowing bulk material with the section... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7008796 | Assay sonication apparatus and methodology An assay apparatus includes a cell with a working electrode and a sonicating device structurally coupled to the cell for sonication the contents of the cell. ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6911153 | Method and apparatus for treating fluid mixtures with ultrasonic energy A method and apparatus for treating mixtures with ultrasonic energy. In one embodiment, the mixture can include a selected constituent and the method can include directing a continuous flow of the mixture into a treatment apparatus and altering a phase and/or a chem... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6413783 | Assay sonication apparatus and methodology An assay apparatus includes a cell with a working electrode and a sonicating device structurally coupled to the cell for sonication the contents of the cell.... | 07/02/2002 |
| 5853783 | Method and device for relaxing a sheet of dough Method and device for relaxing a sheet of dough, comprising a first conveyor belt, a second conveyor belt, a supporting device disposed between the first and second conveyor belts and a vibration generator interacting with the supporting device, in which ... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5249859 | Vibratory blender/conveyor A device for blending and conveying materials which comprises an elongated trough having an inlet end, a discharge end, and two spaced apart side walls; an apparatus for vibrating the trough; a first blending apparatus connected to the trough between the ... | 10/05/1993 |
| 4930898 | Process and apparatus for direct ultrasonic mixing prior to analysis The instant invention is drawn to an apparatus and process for, direct ultrasonic mixing of a sample by use of an ultrasonic probe, in combination with sample conveying and/or sample analysis, thereby providing: convenient automated flexible sample prepar... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4748816 | Method for thermally treating filled cans A method is described for cooling or heating hot filled containers, such as metallic cans. The apparatus employs countercurrent flow between the containers and a water trough and uses axial shaking and the physics of the containers to promote cooling or h... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4545946 | Method and equipment for the compacting of concrete Method and equipment for compacting of concrete mix when concrete products are being cast by means of a continuous method. The concrete mix is carried from the feeder device (4) forwards by means of an endless transfer unit. The compression required for t... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4194922 | Method and apparatus for ultrasonic cleaning of component parts A vibratory cleaning apparatus applies ultrasonic energy to component parts or workpieces directly resting on a vibrator surface. The surface forms part of a conveying arrangement that moves the parts as they are cleaned. Conveyance of the parts during th... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4163643 | Automation of discrete analysis systems The invention concerns the use, in discrete sample analysis apparatus, of vibratory conveyor to convey samples, and there is provided an automated discrete analysis system in which the means for conveying samples through the system comprises vibratory con... | 08/07/1979 |
| 4116203 | Method and apparatus for blending tobacco Shredded tobacco is blended with expanded tobacco on the foraminous bottom wall of an elongated vibratory conveyor which receives overlapping streams of shredded and expanded tobacco at one end of the bottom wall in such quantities that the ratio of shred... | 09/26/1978 |
