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...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 |
| 7340383 | Control device, method and computer program product for browsing data A conversion processing method, device and computer program product. The device includes a memory for storing drafting data, a selector for choosing the drafting data stored in the memory, a converter for converting the drafting data chosen by the selector into shap... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7111372 | Computer-controlled milling machine for producing lenses for clip-on accessory A milling machine for shaping blanks to create filter lenses for a clip-on accessory whose pair of filter lenses register with a pair of optical lenses in prescription eyeglasses when the accessory is hitched onto the frame of the eyeglasses. The frame of the eyegla... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7024273 | Probe driving mechanism for displacement measuring apparatuses A probe driving mechanism for displacement measuring apparatuses, capable of carrying out a stable, constant speed probe feeding operation without additionally providing a motor rotation detecting rotary encoder and a tachometer generator. When an output from a scal... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6968247 | Method and apparatus for producing a dental product A stock removal workshop for the production of a dental restoration product includes a stock removal machine operable to remove stock material from a blank such that there remains a dental product having the desired geometry requisitioned by a dental practice or a d... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6832877 | Dental measuring and machining system A dental measuring and machining system includes a measuring and machining unit for preparing measurement data by measuring a prosthesis model based on a predetermined algorithm and for producing a prosthesis by machining a prosthesis block based on the above measur... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6668210 | Vending machine for engraved medals and a method of automatically engraving medals The present invention is to provide a vending machine for engraved medals and a method of automatically engraving medals wherein an engraver is contained in the vending machine, and if a coin or a note is inserted into the vending machine and a starting b... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6449381 | Key imaging system and method A key imaging system and method for identifying and matching a key blank with an original key when duplicating an original key by placing the key on a supporting flat surface and forming images of the grooves and indentations on the shank of the original ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6406227 | Key measurement apparatus and method In a method and apparatus for measuring an original key, a line of the light is focused onto the key surface in a direction perpendicular to the key surface. A camera, or other type of detector is disposed to receive light deflected by the key at an obliq... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6185311 | Key imaging system A key imaging system for identifying and matching a key blank with an original key when duplicating an original key by placing the key on a supporting flat surface and forming images of the grooves and indentations on the shank of the original key by illu... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6065911 | Method and apparatus for automatically making keys The invention relates to an improved key making machine that automatically extracts characteristics of an object key without human intervention. The position and alignment of the object key is automatically determined, key characteristics extracted and co... | 05/23/2000 |
| 5807042 | Method and apparatus for automatically making keys The invention relates to a key making machine that automatically extracts characteristics of an object key without human intervention. An object key is automatically aligned, key characteristics extracted and compared with known key manufacturers' informa... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5163005 | Method of cloning printed wiring boards A method of cloning printed wiring boards by milling one side of the board to a minimum thickness, then X-raying the board to produce a film negative. This negative is photographed to provide a reversed negative which is converted to a diazo photograph.... | 11/10/1992 |
| 4624609 | Apparatus for milling sign cutouts and letters from templates A router is coupled to a pair of pivotally connected arms for free swinging movement about a horizontal plane in a space between a template and a workpiece. The router has an upwardly extending guide pin that is engageable with the template and a downward... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4333635 | Follow-up control means in swinging-arm flame-cutting machines The present invention relates to follow-up control means in swinging-arm flame-cutting machines comprising a scanning element which is arranged at outer component arm of the swinging arm carrying the cutting torch, and in coaxial relation to the latter an... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4314781 | Copying machine with an optic reading device Copying machine with optical reading device comprising three optical reading heads the respective luminous beams of which follow three curves moving in synchronism and which control the displacements in directions which are different from each other of a ... | 02/09/1982 |
| 4149195 | Method and apparatus for producing rastered printed forms A method and apparatus for producing rastered printing forms, in which an image pattern is opto-electronically scanned to obtain an image signal, and the printing form production is effected by means of an energy beam recording device controlled by the im... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4138924 | Method for the production of conductor plates A method for making electrical circuits on a non-conductive plate is disclosed. The invention provides for duplication of a circuit pattern on an insulating plate having a continuous deposit of electrically conductive material thereon by a mechanical link... | 02/13/1979 |
