Did You Know...
...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7281843 | Vertical agricultural mixer A vertical agricultural mixer employs a pair of vertical mixing augers in combination with a pair of asymmetrical, half pyramid-shaped transfer protrusions adjacently disposed along each opposed sidewall between the augers in a mixing tub. The transfer protrusions a... | 10/16/2007 |
| 6729753 | Mixing device for reconstituting dehydrated food particles The present invention relates to a mixing device particularly adapted for mixing and delivering a mixture of food product containing large particulates from dehydrated material and a diluent. This device includes a mixing chamber including a propeller, at least one ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 5356565 | In-line foam generator for hydrocarbon recovery applications and its use A foam generator is provided for in-line installation within a surface tubing network. The generator has a foaming chamber with a plurality of permeable screens positioned in series along a continuous flowpath through the foaming chamber. The screens are ... | 10/18/1994 |
| 4405491 | Apparatus for forming foam An apparatus for forming foam including a rotatable screw shaft having concave grooves or convex stripes extending spirally along its outer circumference and located in a cylinder closely spaced from one another for passing a treating solution containing ... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4225531 | Fluidization promoters The invention is directed to improving the quality of fluidization of fluidized solids and comprises the addition of fluidization promoters in particle form that have a smaller density and particle size than the neat solids. In a preferred embodiment of t... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4199268 | Food processor The invention relates to an improved, novel method and time saving food processor and process, easily assembled and cleaned, and safely operably for whipping egg whites, or cream, and making butter, in seconds, in which two elements define two flat surfac... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4185927 | Mixer for reconstituting dehydrated mashed potatoes In a mixing machine having a cylindrical mixing chamber in which a centrifuging agitator coaxially rotates on a horizontal axis, an inlet duct for dry mix material and liquid curves downwardly and towards one end wall of the chamber and an outlet duct for... | 01/29/1980 |
| 4162128 | Foam products Apparatus for manufacturing low density, cured urea/formaldehyde resin foams includes a centrifugal mixing head comprising a casing and an impeller rotatably mounted therein, the casing having an inlet directed generally axially with respect to the axis o... | 07/24/1979 |
| 4134687 | Control of plastic injection Apparatus for injecting thermoplastic material including means to form a tubular stream of plastic with a central stream containing a foaming agent.... | 01/16/1979 |
| 4042217 | Lather generator A lather generator operable to receive liquid soap and a suitable gas under pressure from separate sources into a mixing chamber in such a manner as to produce a thorough intermixture thereof, and then to pass the mixture through a series of successively ... | 08/16/1977 |
| 3960506 | Apparatus for producing homogeneous materials or foam from at least two inter-reacting components Apparatus for the production of homogeneous material or foam from a plurality of components. A three-way valve is communicated with supply tanks for the components by pipes having pumps interposed therein. The valve cock has a mixing chamber therein and a... | 06/01/1976 |
| 3941529 | Apparatus for forming thermoplastic articles Apparatus is disclosed for molding foamed thermoplastic articles characterized by a cellular core and a substantially non-cellular integral peripheral shell comprising: A. extruder means adapted to flux a thermoplastic material; B. Disperser means connected to... | 03/02/1976 |
