"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7127863 | Column/beam interconnect nut-and-bolt socket configuration Column/I-beam interconnect structure including an attaching plate joined to an I-beam end. This plate possesses, along its lateral margins, angularly oriented upper and lower through-passages, each characterized with a reception axis, and designed to receive, along ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 4940373 | Nut and bolt locking emchanism A system of locking a pinch bolt assembly through a yoke arm of a vehicle steering assembly. The yoke arm of a steering assembly has an outward end, a forward face and a rearward face. A bolt receiving aperture through the yoke arm connects the forward fa... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4647883 | Tuning screw having a resilient plastics bush which supports the tuning plunger within a metal bush A microwave tuning device including a cylindrical metal bush having an internal screw thread. A metal rod-like plunger is axially displaceable within the plastics bush. A plastics bush is fitted over one end of the plunger and fixed thereto by means of sp... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4607422 | Method for locking a bonnet to a valve body A bonnet is locked to the body of a valve into which the bonnet screws by a sheet metal bonnet lock which includes a portion that will mate with facets on the bonnet or with the sides of the valve body. Another portion of the bonnet lock is then deformed ... | 08/26/1986 |