Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6533533 | Article handling device and system A pick and place device includes a lift head and a build platform. Both the lift head and the build platform include flexible aprons. An item layer is constructed on the build platform and the lift head is moved into position over the build platform. By s... | 03/18/2003 |
| 5716190 | Transport process and apparatus for use in bookbinding Continuously accumulating printing works products are transported, over a comparatively long distance in a manner which consumes minimum manufacturing facility floor space, by being serially fed to clock-pulse controlled grippers of a continuously driven ... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5392700 | Apparatus for use in handling signatures A stacker assembly receives signatures. A jogger assembly engages signatures supported by the stacker assembly to align edge portions of the signatures. A turntable receives the signatures from the stacker assembly and rotates the signatures to offset rel... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5350272 | Automatic stick laying apparatus An automatic stick laying apparatus having retainer arm assemblies for retaining spacing sticks in position on stacked tiers of lumber. The automatic stick laying apparatus is designed to successively position the spacing sticks on stacks of lumber for sp... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5338149 | Signature stacker A signature stream is intercepted by a bucket unlatched from the intercept position. The buckets are moved by drive chains. A spring assembly maintains tension upon the drive chains and spring loads the bucket in the "home" position, providing a detent ac... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5246333 | Automatic stick laying apparatus An automatic stick laying apparatus which is designed to successively position spacing sticks on stacks of lumber for spacing the lumber. In a preferred embodiment the stick laying apparatus includes a fixed frame positioned over stacked tiers of lumber a... | 09/21/1993 |
| 4955782 | Device to palletize yarn packages A device to palletize yarn packages is a device which may be installed downstream from yarn package production machines such as winding machines, speed frames, finishing machines, open-end spinning machines, and two-for-one twisting frames. The yarn packa... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4806059 | Stacking device for uniform, especially platelike pieces A stacking device for uniform platelike pieces includes a conveying device and a container in which the pieces, which are advanced by the conveying device, are deposited with the front side of one piece against the back side of another. In order to protec... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4457656 | Stack assembling apparatus and technique Stack handling apparatus includes an input delivery section having two spaced apart conveyor segments operatively arranged to move equidistantly with respect to a centerline between the two conveyor segments. A stack formation section receives articles co... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4399905 | Apparatus for alternately forming and forwarding stacks of articles An improved apparatus for alternately forming a predetermined stack of articles such as disposable diapers in vertically spaced ways, and then forwarding the stack as a unit from between the ways to ancillary downstream apparatus: for instance, packaging ... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4325475 | Method and apparatus for stacking A method and apparatus for converting a stream of individual product such as diapers into predetermined count stacks and including a closed chain loop accumulator having differing speed input and output drives.... | 04/20/1982 |
| 4303365 | Continuous chain stacker/unstacker A stacker/unstacker for receptacles such as bread pans or baskets or the like includes a pair of laterally spaced-apart endless chains having receptacle carriers mounted therebetween for conveying receptacles between an infeed-outfeed conveyor and the top... | 12/01/1981 |
