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...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 |
| 7944779 | Multifunction time display device A multifunction time display device includes a main body, a first element, a second element, and an indication element. The main body includes a casing, and the casing possesses a transparent portion. The first element moves inside the casing as time goes by. The se... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7231856 | Apparatus and method for detecting dangerous conditions in power equipment A machine such as a saw, jointer, planer, etc. is disclosed. The machine has cutting tool, a direct drive mechanism configured to move the cutting tool, a detection system adapted to detect the occurrence of an unsafe condition between a person and the cutting tool,... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7023762 | Date display assembly for an analog timepiece A date display assembly for a timepiece, wherein the timepiece comprises a casing, an hour wheel that is rotationally engaged with a meshing wheel, and a display window for displaying a date, the date display assembly comprising an outer date ring having a plurality... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6060980 | Appointment timer A thin appointment timer that can be easily incorporated with the user's organizer ensemble. It includes a housing, a keypad assembly, an indicator assembly, an electronic assembly, and an alarm system. The housing supports the keypad assembly. The keypad... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5798986 | Alarm mechanism system An alarm mechanism system, comprising: an hour wheel, completing one turn every 12 hours; a ring gear, concentrically surrounding the hour wheel; a planet gear device, engaging with the hour wheel and the ring gear and, driven by the hour wheel, completin... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5400301 | Wrist watch alarm A wrist watch alarm comprising a hollow housing having a time set mark thereon; a power source disposed within the housing; timer circuitry disposed within the housing and coupled to the power source for maintaining a current time, the timer circuitry ada... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5305291 | Alarm setting and actuating mechanism for analog timepiece An alarm setting mechanism for an analog timepiece of the type having a minute hand, an hour hand and an alarm device responsive to switch actuations. A minute setting ring and a coaxial hour setting ring are both rotatably mounted in the timepiece and in... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5105397 | Child clock apparatus An apparatus including a clock housing formed of a conventional clockwork to drive an hour and minute hand in a typical fashion relative to the clock face. A series of digits are defined about the clock face for indication of time. An indicator arm mounti... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5003519 | Alarm arrangement for a timepiece The alarm arrangement is among those in which an alarm is released by the coincidence of a first contact point coupled to the going train of the timepiece with a second contact point coupled to an index the position of which may be regulated by a manual c... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4922475 | Alarm clock having means for bridging two circular conducting paths via an adjustable contact means thereby causing generation of an acoustic alarm system Through an opening (2) in a dial (1), the hub (3) of a follower disc (4) extends. Placed on the end of the hub (3) is an alarm-setting hand (6) for reading the alarm time. The hub (3) is traversed by an hour-wheel pipe (7) which has two flattened side sur... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4712926 | Electronic timepiece An electronic timepiece which produces a time tone based on a time code signal from a time code disk, comprising a control circuit for generating read-in signals in response to a start signal produced on the hour, memory circuit means for storing a time c... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4629332 | Timepiece with a quartz watch movement and an electrically controlled sound generator The operation at the desired time of the sound generator associated with the timepiece having a quartz watch movement is initiated by the closure of a switch. One contact pole of that switch is formed at the end of a helicoidal spring arm made integral wi... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4488820 | Time signalling device for a timepiece which produces musical sounds A device for generating musical time signalling signals for a timepiece in which combination of the data in ROM installed in the time signalling sound selecting circuit and the controlling action of the time signalling control circuit can simplify the cir... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4427301 | Timepiece with an activating mechanism The alarm wheel (5) is mounted with axial clearance between an insulating plate (6) and a wheel (8). This wheel (5) is in mesh with the hour cannon wheel (3). It has an embossment (5a) which, once during each turn, passes in front of a magnet (9) carried ... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4422777 | Time correcting device for time signalling timepiece A time correcting device for a time signalling timepiece including a time striking construction having an hour wheel pipe onto which an hour hand is attachingly pushed and a rotation detector linked to the rotation of the hour wheel pipe to control signal... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4396297 | Device for stopping the striking of a clock at night A device for stopping the striking of a time-striking clock at night which includes a striking stop contact driven by a clock gear train through the agency of an associated intermittent gear train. The intermittent movement of the striking stop contact is... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4351043 | Time detecting switch for an alarm clock An alarm clock comprises at least one rotationally driven rotatable time wheel, at least one rotatable detecting wheel rotatable relative to the time wheel to phases corresponding to alarm signaling times by an alarm signaling time setting wheel, and a ti... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4338681 | Electric timing clock An electric, particularly battery-operated timing clock which includes electric time setting components for an electrical switching device arranged about a clock dial. A signal emitter is adapted to be actuated by the switching device. In order to actuate... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4283782 | Alarm timepiece An alarm timepiece is disclosed having hand display means in which a plurality of alarm times may be set and the set times are displayed. A plurality of alarm time indexes are circumferentially arranged and rotatably provided for indicating the setting of... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4270200 | Timed chime system A timed chime system wherein the minute timer of a clock mechanism generates a start chime signal every half hour. The start chime signal is applied to turn on a power switch to apply power to the elements of the chime system and to set system components ... | 05/26/1981 |
| 4241441 | Electronic timepiece An electronic timepiece having time indicating hands and an alarm time indicating hand which can be set to an alarm time within a range of twelve hours. Alarm time setting can be performed such that an alarm warning is produced the first time that alarm t... | 12/23/1980 |
| 4232511 | Time detecting device for a clock A stationary detecting means corresponding to a second time wheel rotating at a higher speed than the hour wheel generates signals at successive intervals of a fixed number of minutes to actuate a time signaling device. A first detecting means is also pro... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4214134 | Time detecting switch for alarm clock A time detecting switch for an alarm clock comprises phase detecting type slide switches between rotatable coaxially mounted pairs of time wheels and detecting wheels which are rotated to the phases corresponding to an alarm signalling time according to a... | 07/22/1980 |
| 4209675 | Variable duration electric clock timer unit A variable duration clock timer unit which may be adjustably set to energize an electrical circuit for a selected duration for each period of clock operation includes a momentary contact, normally open, switch frictionally mounted at a selected location i... | 06/24/1980 |
| 4199930 | Alarm switch for an alarm circuit in a horological device A horological device is provided with an alarm switch in the form of an alarm wheel having a conductive path extending from a topside of the wheel to a bottom side of the wheel. The alarm wheel is adapted to operate in an alarm circuit arranged to generat... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4157646 | Alarm switch and alarm set device An electric alarm timepiece includes an alarm switch and alarm time set device wherein the alarm ringing circuit is closed when the hour hand contacts an alarm set indicator/switch contact extending above the tip of the hour hand. The outer portion or tip... | 06/12/1979 |
| 4070822 | Timer mechanism for use in a clock The timer mechanism for use in a clock has a rotatable minute setting drum and a rotatable hour setting drum coaxial therewith each manually settable to a selected position to set a set time in terms of minute and hour, respectively. A first, a second and... | 01/31/1978 |
| 4040248 | Alarm electric watch An electric alarm watch with an electro-optical display and an alarm mechanism which is released by a time-selecting device including a manually displaceable time-selector mounted for movement to different positions corresponding to the time of day for se... | 08/09/1977 |
