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...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7419348 | Incremental material urging system An incremental urging system comprising a container structure including floor, roof, and side wall structures, and closed at a rearward end. A loading aperture is provided in the roof of the container structure for the introduction of compactable material. An increm... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7178631 | Aerial ladder cradle assembly A cradle assembly for aerial ladders (or booms) includes an assembly for rotatably and pivotally supporting an aerial ladder or boom, a first pair of upwardly extending parallel support flanges and a second pair of upwardly extending parallel support flanges extendi... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7063495 | Spill shield for refuse collection vehicle A spill shield assembly for a refuse collection vehicle includes a slide panel assembly comprising a front slide panel and a rear slide panel. The assembly is applicable to vehicles having a refuse collection compartment, a refuse storage compartment and a packer ra... | 06/20/2006 |
| 6929719 | Leveller bar for coking ovens The invention relates to a levelling bar for coking ovens, for levelling the cones of discharged coal which form under the filling holes of the oven chamber during the filling process. The levelling bar consists of two cheeks, such as plates (1), which extend... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6705376 | Device for supplying electronic components to a pick-up position The invention relates to an apparatus for supplying electronic components to a pick-up position, for example for automatically picking up and mounting said components on a printed circuit board by means of a mounting device, at least two supply carriers (8... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6250873 | Refuse collection vehicle A vehicle for collecting refuse comprising a chassis, a body mounted with the chassis for receiving refuse through an opening thereof, a packer assembly for moving refuse into the body through the opening, a gate assembly mounted to serve as a closure for... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6146078 | Refuse body having single-stage packing and full ejection This invention relates generally to refuse collecting and disposal vehicles. In one aspect, it relates to a refuse body adapted to be mounted on a conventional refuse vehicle chassis for loading, compacting and ejecting refuse without tilting of the body.... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6092973 | Dial-in ejector speed control for articulated trucks and the like having ejector type dump mechanism A material eject system includes an ejector mounted to a bed of a vehicle which is movable between a rear end and a forward end of the bed for ejecting material from the bed. The ejector is powered by a cylinder having different fluid volumes depending on... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6012892 | Refuse collection vehicle A vehicle for collecting refuse comprising a chassis, a body mounted with the chassis for receiving refuse through an opening thereof, a packer assembly for moving refuse into the body through the opening and for additionally and alternately ejecting refu... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5816766 | Refuse vehicle dumping system A front loading refuse collection vehicle 10 is provided having a body 12 which includes a hopper 16, a storage container 17, and a tailgate 20. A pair of hydraulic cylinders 23 are mounted to the tailgate for pivotal movement thereof. A compaction blade ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5765985 | Refuse collection vehicle cylinder restraining apparatus A front loading refuse collection vehicle has a refuse receiving body within which a compaction panel is movable between a refuse receiving position and refuse compacting positions spaced from the receiving position. A pair of hydraulically actuated power... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5456521 | Unloading gate for a dump truck body An unloading gate for a dump truck body which is movably mounted on rails in the dump truck body so that it can be actuated to scrape and clean the body during unloading and which has a positive locking means for locking the unloading gate in a fixed posi... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5281074 | Truck body A truck bed having a longitudinally movable bulkhead for ejecting material carried therein. A cab cover plate is pivotally attached to a carriage coupled to the bulkhead. A mechanism for pivoting the cab cover plate to remove the material carried thereon ... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5009564 | Cargo carrying vehicle having a movable bulkhead located therein A cargo carrying vehicle including apparatus for unloading cargo from the vehicle by the general method of (1) shuttling a flat plate that covers a portion of the floor back and forth longitudinally and (2) preventing the cargo being unloaded from followi... | 04/23/1991 |
| 4950122 | Improvement in monococque containers A container of monococque construction having a peripheral wall comprised of concentric inner and outer walls, with the space between the walls being filled with a plastics material. At least one of the inner and outer walls is a spirally-wound tube havin... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4877366 | Refuse vehicle A refuse vehicle body of the type having a tailgate which may be raised to eject the contents, and a forward opening in the main body through which refuse may be dumped, and a ram moveable from the forward opening to the tailgate, and having a moveable br... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4640659 | Impeller and compaction refuse collection system Apparatus and method for collection, compaction, and ejection of refuse wherein refuse initially dumped into a forward hopper compartment is conducted through an opening in a compaction plate into a storage compartment. A shredding device such as an auger... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4627783 | Refuse disposal apparatus and vehicle A refuse compacting system having an elongated hopper of rectangular cross-section with an ejection opening at one end, a tailgate movable for opening and closing the ejection opening, a refuse entry opening in the top of the hopper, a compactor within th... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4576540 | Device for compacting contents of high capacity semitrailer body A compacting device located forwardly of a body, especially a close body of a high capacity semitrailer which received by gravity, through an opening formed in a forward upper part of the body, mainly household or industrial waste products as well as any ... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4544320 | Refuse container An improved refuse compactor comprising a compactor body, a pusher blade assembly longitudinally movable back and forth along approximately the whole length of the chamber, a carriage behind the pusher blade and also being guided for longitudinal back and... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4396342 | Swingably supported pusher actuator for refuse transporting vehicle An actuator is extensible in a first position within a truck receptacle to move a pusher to a primary rearward position in the receptacle; and the actuator is extensible in a second position in the receptacle to move the pusher to a secondary rearward pos... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4318659 | Manure spreader box A material handling implement includes side and wall panels composed of an impact resistant structure having low frictional resistance to the sliding movement of material therefrom. The panels are resistant to the organic acids and salts commonly found in... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4282969 | Material moving apparatus for a bale wagon A bale wagon for picking up bales of crop material from the field and forming them into a generally symmetrical pyramidal stack for deposit at a selected location is provided. The bale wagon includes a mobile frame pivotally supporting a stack forming loa... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4234130 | Hydraulic cylinder assembly for two-stage discharge on manure spreader A hydraulically operated conveying mechanism for a manure spreader composed of a fore-and-aft shiftable floor extension that is supported on a fixed floor of the spreader box and a transverse vertical push-off supported to shift fore-and-aft on the extens... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4220280 | Manure spreader A manure spreader having an upwardly opening box-like structure with a beater mechanism at its open rear end through which material may be reduced and thrown from that end. The conveying mechanism provided in the box-like structure for moving materials to... | 09/02/1980 |
| 4011957 | Folding ejector linkage for material handling machinery An ejector assembly for a material handling vehicle of a type having a bowl or container formed by a relatively fixed container portion and a movable container portion, the movable container element being retractable into a nested position within the fixe... | 03/15/1977 |
