Did You Know...
...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6102680 | Suction valve with release timing chamber In addition to seating on its valve seat during the combined compression and discharge stroke, the suction valve seats on the structure associated with the valve seat which has at least one shallow recessed area. In seating on its valve seat, the suction ... | 08/15/2000 |
| 5358389 | Two-stage compression vacuum pump having valved piston and power limiting valve This invention relates to a vacuum pump. The pump includes a pump housing (10) having upper and lower cylindrical, partly liquid filled, compression chambers (11 and 12 respectively) which are separated from each other and in which an upper and a lower pa... | 10/25/1994 |
