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 |
| 8128288 | Adaptable gift bag The Adaptable Gift Bag is a bag made of relatively opaque, stretchy material, not paper or netting, so that it can fit over various sizes and shapes of gift items and present a smooth, attractive appearance. The Adaptable Gift Bag is typically made of a single sheet... | 03/06/2012 |
| 7422369 | Storage bag with fluid separator The storage bag includes an interior volume for containing food items and a one-way valve element through which air from the interior volume can be evacuated. To prevent fluids and juices from the stored food items from contaminating the valve element, a separator d... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7300395 | Method for manufacturing a bag A retaining element for use with elastic sheet material is disclosed. In one form, the sheet material can be provided as a bag (100) having first and second side walls (102, 104). The retaining element can be in the form of an elastic strip attached to... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7275639 | Ammunition clip protector An ammunition clip protector for protecting a gun from being scratched by an ammunition clip includes a first panel and a second panel. Each of the first and second panels is flexible and each has a bottom edge, a top edge, a first side edge and a second side edge. ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7249887 | Reclosable system for flexible packages having interlocking fasteners A reclosable flexible package includes a reclosure having flanges joined at their upper ends to interlockable fastener tracks. The lower ends of the reclosure flanges are joined together with one of the reclosure flanges being joined to a side panel of the flexible ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7185607 | Firearm enclosure A firearm enclosure for enclosing a firearm, such as a black powder pistol or rifle, and includes and elongated sleeve portion having an opening at one end into which the firearm is inserted. This opening forms a watertight seal and enclosure, preferably with a rese... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7165467 | Disposable sterilizable liner for a level, pressure or temperature measurement instrument In order to provide means for allowing a time and cost effective use of measurement instruments (1, 21, 22, 41, 55) in industrial applications where high standard of hygiene need to be fulfilled, a disposable sterilizable liner (15, 27, 28, 51, 67) for... | 01/23/2007 |
| 6695476 | Bag with extensible handles A bag made of flexible sheet material having an opening defined by a periphery. Juxtaposed with the periphery is a closure zone. The closure zone has induced extensibility in a direction perpendicular to the opening of the bag so that handle ties may be c... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6513975 | Bag with extensible handles A bag made of flexible sheet material having an opening defined by a periphery. Juxtaposed with the periphery is a closure zone. The closure zone has induced extensibility in a direction perpendicular to the opening of the bag so that handle ties may be c... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6394652 | Flexible bags having stretch-to-fit conformity to closely accommodate contents in use The present invention provides a flexible bag comprising at least one sheet of flexible sheet material assembled to form a semi-enclosed container having an opening defined by a periphery. The opening defines an opening plane, and bag is expandable in res... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6394651 | Flexible bags having enhanced capacity and enhanced stability in use The present invention provides a flexible bag comprising at least one sheet of flexible sheet material assembled to form a semi-enclosed container having an opening defined by a periphery. The opening defines an opening plane, and the bag has an upper reg... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6196543 | Board game kit A board game bag is made of non-transparent flexible material and includes a main body and a mouth. An elastic member is disposed within the mouth, allowing the mouth to open when the elastic member is stretched and causing the mouth to partially close wh... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6113269 | Automatic ventilating system for plastic bags Ventilation slits are placed in a plastic bag wall for opening in response to tension passing through the bag wall as the bag is carried. A conventional bag has a front bag wall, with the front bag wall having a top, a bottom, and two parallel side edges.... | 09/05/2000 |
| 5743458 | Stretchable gift wrap Various embodiments of stretchable gift wrap provide for the wrapping of a portion of a regularly or irregularly shaped article to provide an attractive and closely fitting wrap therefor. The wrap is preferably formed of a finely woven, generally opaque e... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5650214 | Web materials exhibiting elastic-like behavior and soft, cloth-like texture A soft web material which exhibits an elastic-like behavior along at least one axis when subjected to an applied and subsequently released elongation. The web material includes a strainable network having a plurality of first regions and a plurality of se... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5529395 | Stretchable gift wrapping with self forming bow A reusable gift wrapping having an adjustable main body that conforms to the size of a gift item to be covered. This main body is fabricated from a stretchable and flexible material (e.g. spandex), and it includes an interior surface and a decorative exte... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5456062 | Decorative package wrap A decorative gift wrap for wrapping a package comprising an elongated enclosure formed of a length of stretchable hosiery netting with a closure on each end of the netting enclosure so that the netting enclosure can be stretched to allow a package to be i... | 10/10/1995 |
| 4908247 | Article including segment which is elastically shirrable after manufacture An article including at least one segment which is capable of being elastically shirred along at least a portion of its length subsequent to manufacture of the article, preferably by mechanical manipulation of a predetermined portion of the elastically sh... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4886196 | Body worn golf accessory device The present invention entails a device adapted to be worn about the body of a golfer for carrying golf tees, golf balls, green tools, ball markers, etc. In particular, the golf accessory device of the present invention entails a backing that includes a pa... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4817788 | Laminated laundry product A through the wash, compact, laminated laundry product (1) comprising powdered laundry actives laminated between two plies, at least one ply of which is a strong wet strength, high stretch tissue (5) having a multiplicity of deeply embossed (stretched) no... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4715979 | Granular detergent compositions having improved solubility Spray dried detergent granules containing high levels of certain surfactants are compacted under certain conditions and admixed with other ingredients to form dense, rapidly dissolving detergent compositions.... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4709400 | Produce bag with tie tails Produce bags (11) formed of plastic, the panels or sides (15, 16) of the bag being slitted to enable produce contained in the bag to be ventilated; the bags further including tails (25, 26) for enabling convenient secure closure of the bag.... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4657021 | Touch enhancing pad An apparatus enhances the sense of touch when placed between the fingertips of the user and the object being touched. The apparatus comprises a liquid lubricant inside a sealed enclosure. The enclosure is formed of a pliable, elastic material having a wal... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4638907 | Laminated laundry product A through the wash, compact, laminated laundry product (1) comprising powdered laundry actives laminated between two plies, at least one ply of which is a strong wet strength, high stretch paper tissue (5) having a multiplicity of deeply embossed (stretch... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4503561 | Bag for packaged produce A bag made of thin pliable plastic film, including panels having slits formed therein, the slits of the bag being formed to extend in a first direction, and the slits on a relatively facing panel having slits formed to extend in a direction transverse to ... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4451175 | Method for improving soft ground by sand drain method and cylindrical bag for use in same Soft ground is improved by a sand drain method wherein a casing pipe is inserted in the soft ground followed by insertion of a cylindrical bag composed of a water-permeable material into the casing pipe; sand is filled in the cylindrical bag and then only... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4265956 | Synthetic net material A net formed from partially crystalline synthetic material is made by first forming a plurality of parallel rows of overlapping slits in a solid, biaxially oriented shrinkable sheet of plastic film, such as polypropylene. The sheet is heated to produce a ... | 05/05/1981 |
| 4091925 | Snag resistant vented flower sleeve A preferably plastic film flower sleeve has side edge heat sealed front and back panels tapering inwardly in downward extension providing upper and lower open ends. Each panel has a centralized nonperforated area which increases progressively in transvers... | 05/30/1978 |
| 4055201 | Expansible fabric for fluid dispensing application A fabric in a tubular shape is provided suitable for slipping over an expansible member which can be filled with fluid to thereby expand the expansible member and the tubular shape of the fabric, the fabric being expansible by at least 200% and having a u... | 10/25/1977 |
| 4047550 | Packaging wrapper A packaging wrapper having a stretchable net-like wrapper member conforming to a hollow, substantially sheath-like configuration having an article receiving opening bounded by an edge of the member to which is secured an elastic cord for yieldably contrac... | 09/13/1977 |
| 4017020 | Nozzle outlet in the stretchable flexible wall for a container A nozzle outlet in the stretchable, flexible wall for a container is provided by inner and outer sleeves mated together in wedging-locking relationship with a stretched portion of the wall material sandwiched between them. The inner sleeve has an outlet p... | 04/12/1977 |
| 3958751 | Slitted packaging apparatus A wrapper of plastic material for wrapping produce such as lettuce having a central expandable slit pattern with uniformly spaced rows of uniformly shaped and spaced slits of step shape comprising first and second elongated slit portions extending paralle... | 05/25/1976 |
| 3931948 | Suspension holders for containers and other articles and blanks for forming the same A holder for supporting or carrying an article, obtained from a die cut blank of flexible sheet material such as thermoplastic sheet, may be used to prepackage containers of the throw away type in vertical stacked relationship. The holder may also serve a... | 01/13/1976 |
