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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7334241 | Disk drive unit having a loading mechanism A disk drive unit having a disk loading mechanism, for use in a mobile device. The loading mechanism is arranged for receiving a disk (A) through an opening in a housing of the device and bringing it into engagement with the disk drive, and vice versa. It comprises ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7257826 | Disk changer A disk changer for CD and DVD disks including a rotatable platter with several slots each adapted for receiving a disk generally needs two optical sensors. The first sensor is adapted for detecting the number of a related slot of the platter and for providing a stop... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7042815 | Apparatus and method for reducing program selection time in multi-changer of optical disk An apparatus and a method of reducing a program selection time in an optical disc multi-changer by determining whether a disc is mounted on a disc mounting unit before it is determined whether the disc is chucked and a type of the disc is discriminated. The method o... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7028321 | Media cartridge having a small-sized storage medium attachment unit A disk drive system having a disk-shaped disk storage medium and a disk drive for accessing the disk storage medium including a media cartridge of the same shape as that of the disk storage medium to which not less than one small-sized storage medium is attachable, ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6957440 | Methods for translating and reading optical disks The present disclosure provides apparatus and methods for reading optical disks. Some implementations are particularly well suited for automatically playing both sides of a dual-sided optical disk. By coordinated delivery of disks between a disk reader, a disk trans... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6628577 | Disc player A motor is provided on a slide base of a disc player. A flexible cable for supplying an electric power and control signals to the motor and a player and the like is connected to the motor at one end thereof, and to a player disposed in a chassis at the ot... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6590842 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus for disklike recording medium A recording and/or playback apparatus of a dislike recording medium, such as optical disk, is equipped with a receiving portion, a recording and/or playback portion, an ejecting operation mechanism, a loading mechanism, and a positioning mechanism. In the... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6549491 | Disc player A linear rack gear is formed on the underside of a slide base, and a planetary gear provided in a chassis, which rotates in engagement with this linear rack gear, causes the slide base to move back and forth. When the slide base is located in its disc sto... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6421305 | Personal music device with a graphical display for contextual information An audio system for playing recordings of audio programming includes a relatively large display device on which contextual information about the audio programming may be displayed. The contextual information is recorded on the same recording medium as the... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6285633 | Multiple disc changing apparatus A multiple compact disc player, particularly although not necessarily solely, directed towards an audio compact disc player. The turntable for supporting two or more compact discs is provided with connected or associated releasable clamps to engage the co... | 09/04/2001 |
| 5903527 | Method of determining a loading status of a disk on a round roulette A method for determining a loading status of a disk on a round roulette utilizes a pulse signal to control the position of the round roulette. In the method, the pulse signal includes start/end codes, a first and a second identification pulse(ID-1, ID-2) ... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5892737 | Disk roulette control method and apparatus for use in an optical disk changer A disk roulette controller effectively controls the rotation of a tray roulette employing an electrode contact technique for use in a disk changer. When a user's instruction to search a target dish is received, a drive signal is supplied to a motor, there... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5353179 | Auto-loading of tape cartridges Auto-loader apparatus for tape cartridges comprises a cartridge deck having an exposed or exposable supply hub; a device that moves a cartridge along a first, preferably linear, path from an initial position in a cartridge rack and moves the cartridge alo... | 10/04/1994 |
| 4823332 | Simplified sound reproducing device capable of reproducing a plurality of record discs A plurality of record discs are carried on a single rotatable indexing table detachably mounted on the casing of the device, any one of which record discs can be brought into engagement with a turn table carrying a pickup. On the casing, there are provide... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4344162 | Automatic record changing apparatus The automatic record changing apparatus comprises a rotating magazine (3) turning on a tube (2) which is inclined at about 45° in relation to the horizontal. The tube (2) carries a case (4) containing a control mechanism for extracting a record (5) from ... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4108365 | Coin-operated recording machine Recording apparatus for "dubbing" (recording from one to the other) onto a customer's magnetic tape cartridge, selected audio and/or video recordings stored in the apparatus. The apparatus includes means for activating the apparatus, means for selecting t... | 08/22/1978 |
