Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7303060 | Material conveying system without dust rising A material conveying system without dust rising, having a plurality of trays; a transmission mechanism, for carrying the trays and transmitting the trays in motion; and a controller, for controlling the transmission mechanism, is characterized in that the material c... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7284945 | Transporting apparatus The invention discloses a transporting apparatus provided with a air-supplying-type support device for supplying purified air toward a lower surface of a transported object to contactlessly support the transported object in a horizontal orientation or a substantiall... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7140827 | Transporting apparatus It is an object of the invention to provide an apparatus for transporting a transported object in a transporting direction as the transported object is supported by air, the apparatus having a plurality of transporting units. A specific transporting unit of the plur... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7104734 | One-way pneumatic delivery system A one-way pneumatic delivery system includes a plurality of sending units in fluid communication with a receiving unit via a duct system. Each of the sending units and the receiving unit include a door that selectively prevents fluid communication into the duct syst... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7004711 | Transporting apparatus The invention discloses a transporting apparatus having a transport member provided with a air-supplying-type support portion for supplying purified air toward a lower surface of a transported object to contactlessly support the transported object, and a drive force... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6814533 | Loop conveyor with air cushion transfer A conveyor system comprises a transfer assembly bridging a pair of side-by-side belt conveyors adapted to move articles in opposite directions. The transfer assembly comprises an air table including an air plate adapted to be mounted between the side-by-side belt co... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6779650 | Apparatus for levitating objects and apparatus for transporting objects An apparatus for levitating objects has an elongated diaphragm and a transducer. The diaphragm has a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion is fixed to a horn and the second end portion is fixed to a supporting member. The transducer is co... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6655878 | Device and method for singulating from a holder with liquid and/or individualizing of fruits The present invention provides a device and method for singulating from a holder with liquid and/or individualizing of products, such as fruits, wherein the device comprises: a discharge conveyor extending above the liquid level in the holder for discharg... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6116820 | Mechanism for and method of feeding resin components An apparatus for processing and packaging a photographic film has a film supply unit for unreeling and cutting off a film roll of an elongate photographic film, and supplying a sized film, a film winding unit for winding the sized film around a spool ther... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6074135 | Coating or ablation applicator with debris recovery attachment An environmentally compliant triboelectric applicator and process for coating or ablating a substrate and for retrieving excess or ejected material from the substrate. The applicator comprises an inner supersonic nozzle for accelerating triboelectrically ... | 06/13/2000 |
| 4704851 | Agricultural transport system A power-driven structure comprises a long grider (I) supported at its both ends by self-propelled carriages (II) which raise and lower the girder, the implement being designed for travel across planted fields or orchards without compacting the soil. Vario... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4666726 | Dough moulding and apparatus for dough moulding with air cushion chute The invention relates to the moulding of dough pieces, for instance in the production of bread. In a dough moulding machine, there are pairs of sheeting rollers, which roll out the piece of dough into a sheet. In the method of the present invention the do... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4578001 | Air conveying hopper An improved mechanism is disclosed for receiving a supply of randomly oriented articles and for continuously feeding the articles into a single file line in a feed chute. The mechanism includes a rotating disc within a hopper with a series of air vents po... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4551040 | Apparatus for transporting rod-shaped articles between the discharge ends of pneumatic conveyor pipes and a processing machine The outlets of pneumatic pipes in a transporting unit which delivers filter rod sections from a filter rod making machine and wherein the sections move axially admit successive sections into a separating unit wherein the speed of sections is uniformized a... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4548529 | Process for transporting particulate material from a low pressure zone to a gas-containing elevated pressure zone Coal powder is transported from a low pressure zone to an elevated pressure zone by passing the powder from the low pressure zone to the top of the first one of a number of vertical vessels; passing the powder in each vessel by gravity as a moving bed from the... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4409918 | Ice-breaking and conveying system A shipborne system for clearing a channel through ice comprises in combination with a prow-mounted icebreaker shape, a giant siphon including an intake leading to an upward passage which inclines to the rear so that ice blocks taken into it at the bow flo... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4372710 | Apparatus for manipulating filter rod sections or the like between producing and processing machines A receiving station at the outlets of several pneumatic conveyor pipes which discharge discrete files of axially moving filter plugs accommodates a separating unit immediately downstream of the outlets and an orientation changing unit immediately downstre... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4185941 | Method and apparatus for assembling rod-like articles In the assembly of groups of component filter portions for forming into composite filter rods, predetermined leading components moving on a conveyor are retarded for a predetermined period while following components are consecutively conveyed into abutmen... | 01/29/1980 |
| 4116491 | Tubular pneumatic conveyor pipeline A pneumatic tubular conveyor pipeline is provided for conveying solid products for example in granular or chunk form. The conveyor pipeline comprises an outer impervious pipe and an inner porous pipe arranged so as to form an annulus therebetween. The ann... | 09/26/1978 |
| 4098568 | Rotary conveying apparatus A rotary conveying apparatus comprising a plurality of rails for supporting and conveying cup-shaped cylindrical articles on a cushion of fluid during their translatory movement from the inlet ends to the outlet ends of the rails. The apparatus incorporat... | 07/04/1978 |
| 4098541 | Apparatus for evacuating manure An apparatus for evacuating manure. The manure is collected in a container in the barn, and then transferred therefrom via a conduit at the bottom of the container by introducing air under pressure into into the top of the container. The conduit leads up ... | 07/04/1978 |
| 3981541 | Shallow underground coal slurry concentration sump In order to concentrate coal slurry from a plurality of mine faces being pumped through a plurality of individual pipes, a shallow sump is formed by digging a trench along a mine tunnel and the individual pipes empty into the sump. The product, such as co... | 09/21/1976 |
