Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7275881 | Control of dual printing mechanisms A printing system comprising: a printing device having first and second similar printing mechanisms; first and second similar holding means for holding respective first and second rolls of label stock in a position to pass the first and second printing mechanisms re... | 10/02/2007 |
| 6447182 | Duplex check printer using a print mechanism pivoted between document paths A printer for printing on both sides of a document includes first printing document guides, through which a document is driven for printing on a first side of the document, second printing document guides, through which the document is driven for printing... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6296405 | Duplex check printer using a print mechanism pivoted between document paths A printer for printing on both sides of a document includes first printing document guides, through which a document is driven for printing on a first side of the document, second printing document guides, through which the document is driven for printing... | 10/02/2001 |
| 5911527 | Hybrid printer device equipped with a plurality of printing mechanisms and control method therefore A hybrid printer has mounted thereon a plurality of printing mechanisms and error processing appropriate to the respective printing mechanisms with differing functions and appropriate to the printing paper can be performed. Thermal printer state detector ... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5330274 | Printing device having at least two printing stations separated spatially from one another A printing head (106) as a first functional unit and at least one further functional unit (107) of the same kind or of a different kind are attached to a common carrier (105) and mounted by means of a carriage for displacement in each case in parallel in ... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5204692 | Thermal transfer recording apparatus with the ink sheet conveyed, before recording, in a different direction and by a fractional amount relative to that by which the recording medium is conveyed There is disclosed a thermal transfer recording apparatus for image recording by ink transfer from an ink sheet, in which the thermal head is energized in divided manner in plural blocks, and the recording sheet and the ink sheet are so transported as to ... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5201590 | Image recording apparatus Disclosed herein is an image recording apparatus which comprises first and second recording heads each used to record a visible image on a recording medium, and a drive mechanism capable of moving the first and second recording heads in the direction whic... | 04/13/1993 |
| 4281938 | Automatic print wheel element changing mechanism for a serial printer A type element interchange mechanism is incorporated into a high speed serial printer with rotary print wheel and linear carriage movement. A number of print wheels are selectively mountable onto a carriage, which carries a print wheel, print hammer, and ... | 08/04/1981 |
| 4095686 | Printer having swingable printing rings Printer having swingable printing rings which are selectively swung against a platen to print a line of selected characters on a paper by selecting a desired character from a plurality of characters provided on the periphery of each printing ring during t... | 06/20/1978 |
| 3977320 | Electrically controlled postage meter An electromechanical setting mechanism is disclosed, which uses a plurality of solenoid banks to set each print wheel of a postage printing drum. Each bank features two pairs of solenoids which are mounted upon a movable frame. One pair of the two pairs o... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3973488 | Printing unit particularly intended for price labelling machines A printing unit particularly intended for price labelling machines, comprising annular printing wheels supporting matrices at their outer periphery and equidistantly spaced notches at their inner periphery into which notches engages a rod to advance the w... | 08/10/1976 |
