Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7063748 | Methods for coating particles and particles produced thereby Methods of coating core materials by providing target materials and core materials; ablating the target materials to form ablated particulate target materials; and coating the core materials with said ablated particulate target materials; wherein the method is perfo... | 06/20/2006 |
| 6857773 | Compressed gas operated orbital rolling member vibrator having low noise properties A compressed air or gas operated vibrator that has a cylindrical housing with a raceway located and formed therein. The raceway is sized and shaped for guiding a rolling member along an orbital path. The vibrator also includes at least one removable end cap for clos... | 02/22/2005 |
| 5846077 | Dental scaler and vibratory transducer therefor An air-driven dental scaler has a scaling tool vibrated at a high frequency and low amplitude by a vibratory transducer having a ball within a chamber, a race in the chamber, and air inlets and air outlets arranged for admitting air under pressure into th... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5779473 | Dental scaler and vibratory transducer therefor An air-driven dental scaler has a scaling tool vibrated at a high frequency and low amplitude by a vibratory transducer having a ball within a chamber, and air inlets and air outlets arranged for admitting air under pressure into the chamber and directing... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5636791 | Backpack sprayer The present invention is for a backpack sprayer which has a reservoir tank fixedly attached to a support frame, the tank having a fill opening located at the top end and a pressure vessel located therein. The pressure vessel has a pump housing located the... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5035510 | Light weight, high efficiency vibrator apparatus for facilitating bulk material handling and transport The housing of a rotary ball type industrial vibrator is injection molded from a reinforced plastic material, and an annular metal raceway structure is molded integrally with the housing and forms a contact surface for a metal ball disposed within the int... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5000577 | Light weight, high efficiency vibrator apparatus for facilitating bulk material handling and transport The housing of a rotary ball type industrial vibrator is injection molded from a reinforced plastic material, and an annular metal raceway structure is molded integrally with the housing and forms a contact surface for a metal ball disposed within the int... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4472980 | Motor actuated rotary vibrator with resilient shock mount to provide linear movement This invention pertains to unidirectional vibration apparatus using resilient shock absorber mounting means to change multidirectional vibration into unidirectional vibration forces. Two embodiments are directed to a motor means, usually electric, which d... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4435083 | Self-clamping rotary vibrator and mount therefor A rotary vibrator having a cylindrical shape and an outer cam strip running the length thereof is mounted in a housing which has a matching inner cam strip and is affixed to a structure to be vibrated. Vibrator migratory movement during operation causes t... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4424718 | Air actuated rotary vibrator with resilient shock mount to provide linear movement This invention pertains to unidirectional vibration apparatus using resilient shock absorber mounting means to change multidirectional vibration into unidirectional vibration forces. Three embodiments pertain to the use of pressurized air for driving an e... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4389120 | Rotary vibrator with resilient shock mount to provide linear movement This invention pertains to unidirectional vibration apparatus using resilient shock absorber mounting means to change multidirectional vibration into unidirectional vibration forces. Three embodiments pertain to the use of pressurized air for driving an e... | 06/21/1983 |
