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 |
| 7270494 | Easy assembly printer media transport arrangement A printer including: at least one elongate roller arranged, in use, to rotate so as to transport print media within the printer; a support frame for supporting the roller at the longitudinal first and second ends of the roller so as to allow the rotation of the roll... | 09/18/2007 |
| 6503010 | Paper pickup apparatus for a printer A paper pickup apparatus in a printer for pivotally moving by a motor includes a driving shaft rotated by the motor, a first pickup housing having at least one first transmission gear and first and second end portions, the first end portion mounted to the... | 01/07/2003 |
| 5738455 | Sheet feeding device A sheet feeding device for feeding sheets from a sheet input side to a sheet output side, the sheet feeding device comprising a rotatable sheet feed roller; a pressing roller disposed in confrontation with the sheet feed roller so that a sheet sandwiched ... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5738454 | Multiple-function printer with common output path mechanism with floating guide ribs to accommodate media and documents of different thickness A common printer platen for conveying printed media and documents to a printer exit includes an exit mechanism having a series of floating spaced guide ribs to accommodate printed media or documents of a first range of thickness and printed media or docum... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5441354 | Carriage support system for computer driven printer A carriage support system for a computer driven printer/plotter employs a slider rod and a slider bar mounted parallel to each other on a printer chassis wherein the bar supports the front side of a printer carriage and the rod supports the rear side of t... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5441353 | Borderless printer having a rotating drum with clamp assembly A borderless printer includes a clamp assembly having a clamp; at least one roller installed on the clamp and located on the circumferential surface of a drum and rotating while in contact with the drum; and a clutch placed between the clamp and drum, for... | 08/15/1995 |
| 4913575 | Printing machine A printer with a printing paper feeding apparatus is disclosed. The printer comprises a pressing device for pressing a printing sheet on the platen roller which is operable to an open position to allow the sheet to pass freely, a detection device for detecting... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4883375 | Printing device A guide shaft guides a print head, which moves along a print line of a platen to perform a printing operation. A rotating member and an eccentric cam member, having a toothed sector portion on its periphery, are mounted on the guide shaft. The guide shaft... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4855759 | Laser scanning with an elastic nip roller The present invention relates to a laser scanning apparatus, which includes a drivingly rotatable subscanning drum and at least one nipping roller rotatable by the drum in pressing contact therewith and having an outer peripheral surface provided by an el... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4657420 | Paper feed mechanism A paper feed mechanism comprises first and second rotating members rotated by a drive source, and pressing means swingable in a first direction to contact to and separate from the first rotating member and movable in a second direction crossing to the fir... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4567491 | Pinch roller assembly An easily adjustable and automatically aligning pinch roller assembly for use in a graphics plotter. A movable carriage hangs from a supplemental inverted T-shaped track below the main carriage track of the plotter. The pinch roller is pivotally attached ... | 01/28/1986 |
