Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6169557 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus for performing a recording operation on recording paper includes a recording head for performing the recording operation on the recording paper, a carriage which carries the recording head, and is movable along a convey path of the r... | 01/02/2001 |
| 5742316 | Actuation mechanism and printer using same An actuation mechanism for a lever including a spring member supported by the lever and frame of the printer and an actuation portion for rotating the lever by pressing and displacing an intermediate portion of the spring member. The printer may include a... | 04/21/1998 |
| 4462709 | Type carrier return and platen line space device for typewriters A carriage return device in a typewriter including: an interposer operable through operation of a key lever for the carriage return; a cycle bail driven by the interposer; a driving source adapted to rotate a main shaft by a predetermined number of rotati... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4388007 | Line feed carrier return mechanism for movable printing point typewriter In a movable printing point typewriter wherein line feed mechanism on a stationary platen is driven by type element carrier drive mechanism, provision is made to detect the distance of the carrier from an established left margin and, if it is too short, t... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4383777 | Torque-limiting carriage return knock-off mechanism A carriage return device utilizing a spring clutch and shock unloader spring is disclosed in conjunction with a cord tension sensing mechanism for detecting the cord tension increases when the paper carriage of a typewriter ceases to move and the carriage... | 05/17/1983 |
