Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7048431 | Plastic processing machine for producing fiber-containing thermoplastics A plastics processing machine for producing fiber-containing thermoplastics includes an extruder, and a scale assembly having a weighing plate for determining an amount of fiber to be supplied to the extruder. A fiber feeding device supplies fibers from a take-off u... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6997694 | Extruder An extruder drive has a housing, at least two extrusion worms each having a drive shaft extending into the housing, and at least one drive motor including at least one cylindrical stator fixed in the housing and a cylindrical rotor cooperating with the stator so as ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6382826 | Compact extruder with multiple parallel screws having a variable pitch arrangement A compact extruder with multiple parallel screws having a variable pitch arrangement, includes an outer casing which has at least two chambers that contain at least two screws which allow material to flow from one chamber to the other chamber through a pa... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6364518 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing a plastic material particularly provided with additives The manufacture of a plastic material, particularly provided with fibers, is frequently carried out in an extruder (10). Various problems have arisen in this connection. For example, problems arise in working long or endless reinforcement fibers, for exam... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6068466 | Twin type continuous kneading extruder A twin shaft continuous kneading extruder has a twin kneading feeder portion provided with two passages juxtaposed to each other within a casing. The passages are cocoon-shape in cross-section and hold two kneading shafts rotatably disposed in the respect... | 05/30/2000 |
| 5429489 | Volumetric blending, mixing and extruding of polymer like materials Side by side extruders provide an extrusion apparatus which has an imposed order of longitudinal displacement of the process material in relation to itself so that cross-shearing is directed to newly aligned material in a manner which achieves volumetric ... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5409366 | Apparatus for processing extrudable materials An apparatus is disclosed for processing extrudable materials in such a way as to apply a controlled and predetermined degree of shear force to the materials. Typically, an extruder apparatus includes a housing having first and second screws mounted there... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5332314 | Extrusion apparatus with a backfeed extruder for mixing and extruding of thermo-plastic and thermo-setting materials An extrusion apparatus having a rotor member rotatable within a barrel member longitudinal and cross-sectionally mixes and extrudes thermo-plastic and thermo-setting materials. The apparatus is articulated into sections including a barrel entrance and for... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5135760 | Reducing sugar lumps by dual gum base injection in a corotating twin screw extruder A method for the continuous preparation of a chewing gum mass is disclosed which includes reducing the agglomerations of the solid ingredients contained in the gum mass in minimum time. The method includes introducing powdered chewing gum ingredients and ... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5045325 | Continuous production of chewing gum using corotating twin screw extruder A method for continuous production of a chewing gum slab in the absence of separate cooling is disclosed. The method includes introducing chewing gum ingredients and gum base into an extruder and extrusion mixing the ingredients with the gum base over a d... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4959186 | Extrusion process and single-, dual- or multiple-screw extruder In the case of the extruder, the thread of the screw, or that of the screws, is partly left-handed and partly right-handed, so that one part of the material to be processed is conveyed in direction A, while the other part is conveyed in the opposite direc... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4906102 | Apparatus for mixing thermoplastified synthetic resins An extruder feeds a thermoplastified flow of synthetic resin to at least one mixing unit which is driven independently of the extruder and has a rotor and stator with mutually facing pockets and defining a gap between them traversed by the thermoplastifie... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4834913 | Apparatus and method for forming finely divided dry materials from wet materials having a tendency to form lumps A series of preferably superimposed low inclination troughs containing serial inclined blade rotating mixers and transporters is provided to react dry materials and liquids, and in particular borax with water and acid, in a manner which avoids the formati... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4765745 | Apparatus for dosing and mixing solids and liquids to form a low viscosity suspension An apparatus and a method for dosing and mixing solids and liquids to form a low viscosity suspension comprises at least one continuously operating mixing device and a supply device for supplying the components to the mixing device, in order to obtain a d... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4490046 | Multi-stage automatic dough-producing system An automatic dough-producing system including a controllable mixing stage into which are fed flour and a dough-forming solution to produce a paste which is then supplied to a development stage yielding dough. In the development stage, the incoming paste i... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4473299 | Gluten producing system A system for producing gluten continuously at a rapid rate, the system including a vertical tube having an inlet at its upper end to receive a flour paste, the lower end of the tube being perforated to define a separation zone surrounded by a water jacket... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4449908 | Dough pump Dough is dispensed from the bottom of a dough hopper with a screw conveyor that slices into the dough mass and moves the dough horizontally out of a lower opening in the hopper and through a discharge conduit and discharge nozzle. The screw conveyor divid... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4212543 | Twin-screw, two-stage and multi-stage extruder having a double feed In plastics material extruding installation, a number of layout arrangements of conventional twin-screw extruders with double-feed twin-screw extruders are provided in various combinations in order to solve the problems of a thorough degassing of the plas... | 07/15/1980 |
| 3997406 | Evaporating apparatus A method of and apparatus for receiving low-volume liquid sludge concentrations, exposing the liquid-sludge slurry to a heating surface thereby evaporating a portion of the liquid from the slurry, and advancing the contaminant bearing liquid for further e... | 12/14/1976 |
| 3977658 | Apparatus for working plastic materials Apparatus for the working of plastic materials, including three separate portions consisting of two screw pumps between which lies a conical kneading rotor having radical fingers and rotating in a cylindrical housing.... | 08/31/1976 |
