Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7341421 | Workpiece turning apparatus This application relates to a self-contained apparatus for mechanically turning individual workpieces travelling on a conveyor, such as lengths of lumber travelling into or exiting from a sawmill. The invention reduces the need for lumber graders to turn lumber manu... | 03/11/2008 |
| 6793454 | Device for turning piles of sheet-like material An apparatus for conveying blanks or sheets that are arranged in piles includes a frame that has an input and an output and a pre-section that aligns the piles of blanks along a longitudinal conveying path. The pile of blanks is conveyed to a turn-over grip that swi... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6511280 | Adaptive Reed-Solomon decoder and methods thereof An adaptive Reed-Solomon(RS) decoder (207) and analogous methods arranged and constructed to decode a RS(n,k) encoded symbol stream, including; a code register (211), coupled to the symbol stream, for storing a received code word including code symbols, a... | 01/28/2003 |
| 5888045 | Scroll strip stack transfer device An apparatus for collecting strips of metal into stacks and transfering the stacks to a hopper of a press includes a stack accumulating and blocking pocket at an output of a cut-off shear, a stack lift, rotate and turn-over mechanism to reorient the stack... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5425614 | Bottle lifting and inverting apparatus A water bottle installation apparatus with a vertical frame and support base designed to lift, transport and invert large water bottles. The apparatus includes a cranking device, and two pulleys arranged so that a line attached to the cranking means runs ... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5393181 | Cassette feed system and method A feed unit having a storage station in which a plurality of trays each carrying a plurality of cassette rows disposed consecutively in side-by-side relation is manually stacked. A first pusher mechanism moves the lowermost tray in the stack along a slide... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5046912 | Car dumper Apparatus for receiving and dumping a top-unloading car. Cradle track extends from a car receiving position to a car dumping position, and is inclined downwardly from the car-receiving position. A car-receiving cradle assembly movably mounted on the cradl... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5020789 | Drive up teller machine A teller machine for drive up applications is disclosed. The machine has a safe with an access slot. The machine also has a user panel which has an opening that lies transverse to the slot. A document carrier is described which rotates documents around tw... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4829749 | Tire handling system A tire handling system capable of automatically performing a series of tire handling operations including sorting of the tires from a production/inspection line according to types and sizes, stacking the sorted tires, and shelving the stacks of tires in f... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4798278 | Conveyor for turning packages upside down A conveyor for turning packages upside down in a very gentle manner in a device which is interposed in line with the feed conveyor and discharge conveyor and conveys the package to the discharge conveyor after the package has been turned over. The conveyo... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4452561 | Railway wheel lifter and inverter A railway wheel lifter and inverter is provided. A railway wheel enters a receiver device from a wheel conveyor. The receiver device is rotated about a shaft such that the wheel is lifted to a second conveyor and is inverted in the process. A second recei... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4057018 | Transfer system for long vehicles such as wagons In order to transfer long vehicles upon a ground surface and more particularly railway carriages or wagons, use is made of platforms which glide over the ground by means of fluid cushions and which carry track sections for receiving vehicle wheels. Two or... | 11/08/1977 |
| 4013177 | Coil inverter An apparatus is disclosed for use in a rolling mill to invert upstanding cylindrical product coils in order to facilitate trimming and inspection of both ends of the coils. The apparatus includes a cradle into which a coil is laterally received. The coil ... | 03/22/1977 |
| 4005896 | Method and apparatus for handling large, fragile objects Apparatus for handling a large object, i.e., for example, an annular core on which a tire carcass is to be formed, includes an annular wall positionable about the annular core, and a diaphragm associated with the inner surface of the wall and defining wit... | 02/01/1977 |
