...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 |
| 7363735 | Calender A calendar comprising two sheets with one laid flat against the other and the sheets being moveable one over the other. One sheet bears the numbers “1” to “31” marked on it and the other sheet bears markings such that the numbers can be brought into registra... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7325510 | Securable medication reminder device A medication dosage reminder device (1300) operating on the exterior of a medication container (C6) includes a selector member (1304) retentively engaged with an attached cooperating support member (1306). The selector is engageably movab... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7140132 | Perpetual calendar wheel chart A perpetual calendar wheel chart for determining the calendar for a particular year past, present, or future is comprised of two wheel members adapted to rotate about a common center. The first wheel member has in its center indicia representing the tens and ones di... | 11/28/2006 |
| 6899332 | Game piece and method of playing a game and supplying the game piece A method and an apparatus by which rules and record keeping in games employing miniature figures as game pieces are incorporated onto the base of the miniature figures themselves. Counters or wheels keep track of a character's characteristics and how they change as ... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6637137 | Gestation calendar A gestation calendar for use by an expectant mother. A first disk has first indicia corresponding to days of a calendar year. A second disk is pivoted concentrically to the first disk and has second indicia defining successive weeks of a gestation term an... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6550165 | Perpetual calendar wall display device having rotatable calendar days A perpetual calendar display device for displaying the calendar date. The perpetual calendar display device includes a calendar housing having a front wall, a rear wall, a top wall, a bottom wall and side walls for forming a first interior compartment. Th... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6098325 | Display having selectable simulated illuminating means In a preferred embodiment, a display device, including: a front panel and/or a rear panel having defined therethrough at least two apertures; and an index panel(s) disposed behind the front panel and/or the rear panel and moveable between at least first a... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5943298 | Multi-dimensional calendar A multi-dimensional calendar (10) for indicating the day, date and month. The multi-dimensional calendar (10) includes three disks (28), (30) and (32). The first disk (28) has a circumference and includes indicia indicative of the date printed about a per... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5881482 | Display having selectable simulated illuminating means A display device, including: a front panel having defined therethrough at least two apertures; and an index panel disposed behind the front panel and moveable between at least first and second positions to vary what can be viewed through the at least two ... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5732490 | Perpetual calendar A perpetual calendar has a top sheet member having several viewing apertures formed therein. The top sheet displays on a top surface thereof in seven vertical columns the dates of the month from one to twenty-eight. One of the apertures is positioned to d... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5313723 | Perpetual calendar A calendar including a first disk and a second disk. The second disk is connected to and rotatable concentrically relative to the first disk. The first disk includes a window and indicia adjacent to the window representing the various days of the week. Th... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5289649 | Perpetual calendar A perpetual calendar is disclosed which contains base and top members and a rotating disk member in between. The top member has two arcuate window openings, through one of which is seen the days of the month, and through the other of which is seen numeric... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5003713 | Multi-annual calendar Apparatus for selectably displaying one of a plurality of predetermined combinations of first and second sets of symbols taken from respective first and second groups comprising first selectable display apparatus on which there is provided the first group... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4322904 | Indicia display device An indicia display device including an outer casing having at least one opening or window. A non-planar guideway is provided within the casing and a sheet of flexible material is mounted for rotation within the guideway and conforms to the non-planar conf... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4308678 | Two-date reminder The present invention provides a visible reminder of two dates which the user selects by rotatably adjusting at least one pair of concentric discs carrying inner and outer circular date scales which cooperate with corresponding reference marks to designat... | 01/05/1982 |
| 4263731 | Desk set A desk set of all plastic material with a base having front and rear surfaces and spaced apart openings therein with an instrument holder near one end of the base. The instrument holder has three hoops, one extending forwardly of the base and the other ex... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4171610 | Calendar watch movement Driving mechanism for a calendar watch mechanism including indicia of day and date, a display window and means to advance said day and date indicia to said window, characterized by a calendar wheel which makes one revolution each 24 hours, a drive element... | 10/23/1979 |
| 4081950 | Calendar mechanism for timepiece A calendar mechanism for a timepiece having indicators for the day of the month and for the day of the week, in which the indicators are held in each position by a locking lever pivotally mounted for movement between operative and inoperative position wit... | 04/04/1978 |
| 4026100 | Timepiece with calendar mechanism A timepiece with a calendar mechanism for automatically correcting the date-indication at each end of the months with thirty days or less, which comprises first driving means for feeding a date dial, second driving means for selectively driving the date d... | 05/31/1977 |
| 4026052 | Multi-disk rotatable year calendar A calendar comprising a date disk and a week disk which are rotatably coupled with each other. The date disk has date figures and the week disk has week indicating letters. The calendar has further month indicating letters and formations for bringing unne... | 05/31/1977 |
| 4026051 | Data-indicating device A data-indicating device having a multitude of data-carrying discs arranged in a casing wherein at least one of the discs has a transparent inner portion and an outer peripheral portion and the discs are arranged such that the data carried by the other di... | 05/31/1977 |