Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7402006 | Manufacturing method of gear device This method includes: a supporting process of supporting a worm wheel in a first supporting section of a supporting body; an engaging process of engaging a jig gear which corresponds to a worm with the worm wheel; a measuring process of measuring a distance between ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7226255 | Five-simultaneously-working-axis computerized numerical controlled tooth cutting machine tool for plane enveloping toroidal worms The present invention provides a five-simultaneously-working axis computerized numerical controlling system tooth cutting machine tool for toroidal worms, comprising two parts a body of the machine tool and a controlling cabinet. The body comprises a bed, a spindle ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 6394716 | Process and machine for fine machining of tooth flanks of geared workpieces A process and a machine for fine machining of the tooth flanks of geared workpieces with a driven tool in the form of a gear wheel or worm gear which is in meshing contact with a workpiece, the axes of tool and workpiece intersecting. During machining of ... | 05/28/2002 |
| 4664569 | Gear cutting method and machine for cutting spiral bevel gears and contrate gear face clutches In order to increase the working range of existing designs of gear cutting machines upon which gear teeth based upon an extended epicycloid are cut according to the continuous gear-cutting process, the workpiece and cutter spindles of a gear cutting machi... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4633619 | Apparatus for the manufacture or machining of gears by rolling on a tool having abrasive working surfaces Apparatus for the manufacture or machining of gears with a toothed tool having abrasive working surfaces, in which workpiece and tool, during rotation, are supported by the tooth system of a guide-gear pair. The apparatus works with a single-flank contact... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4203258 | Gear finishing machine In a gear finishing or other machine having a base, a table support mounting a reciprocal table having a head stock and a tail stock for supporting a workpiece gear or spline to be finished, a pedestal on the base mounting a motor-operated transmission an... | 05/20/1980 |
| 4198184 | Endless chain apparatus for forming spur and helical gears A gear cutting machine is provided with an endless chain for carrying a plurality of tools into contact with one or more workpieces to thereby form gear tooth configurations on the workpieces. The endless chain is provided with tightening means for stiffe... | 04/15/1980 |
| 3971293 | Anti-backlash mechanism for generating train of gear cutting machine The invention overcomes undesirable backlash effects in gear generators which cut gears by climb milling (i.e., with cutter blades rotating in the same direction as the work), these undesirable backlash effects being initiated by the intermittent cutting ... | 07/27/1976 |
