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 |
| 6042368 | Appliance for burning a combustible gas, and method of burning such a gas An appliance for burning a combustible gas, for example a liquefied petroleum gas. The appliance includes a relatively massive metal body forming a heat sink, in which there is formed a passage for flow of the combustible gas from a feed inlet to a discha... | 03/28/2000 |
| 4925093 | Forced draft direct vent system for a water heater A forced draft direct vent system is provided for an indoor domestic type gas water heater having an atmospheric burner. The forced draft system permits adaptation of the water heater as a combined water heater and space heater in a compact continuous upr... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4799878 | Rich fume incinerator An incinerator for conserving volatile combustibles pulled from a layer of contaminated earth. The incinerator includes a burner and separate entry lines for the combustibles and the fuel with the combustible entry line terminating in the burner downstrea... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4509914 | Apparatus for the combustion of liquid fuels in the gaseous state A method for the combustion of liquid fuels in the gaseous state comprising the steps of evaporating fuel in a gasification chamber and burning the gasified fuel after it leaves the gasification chamber with a controlled amount of air. This is controlled ... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4397633 | Fuel oil heater Apparatus for heating the fuel oil exiting from an oil supply tank and in the supply pipe leading to an oil burner furnace. The return oil line, from the pressure relief valve in the oil burner unit, is led to a coil fitted about the furnace stack leading... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4249885 | Heavy fuel oil nozzle An atomizing nozzle particularly suited for your use in compact combustion chambers. Successful combustion of liquid fuels having generally high viscosity and widely varying properties such as distillation temperatures, distillation rates and impurities, ... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4231731 | Multifuel self-regulating burner An automatic self-regulating burner system. A serpentine pipe structure connected to a source of fuel has a preheating portion, an orifice pipe portion and a backpressure pipe portion. The orifice pipe portion has an orifice therethrough which exhausts va... | 11/04/1980 |
| 4201522 | Boost-retarding device for electromagnetic plunger pump and the like A pump has a boost-retarding device which comprises a cylinder communicating between the suction side and the discharge side of the pump. A plunger slidably and reciprocatingly fits into the cylinder and a lead passage communicates between the suction sid... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4102630 | Burner control system A burner control system includes a pump for supplying pressurized fuel through a fuel line and a signal-responsive flow valve to a burner nozzle. Also in the system is an ignition control circuit which includes an igniter operable in response to a first s... | 07/25/1978 |
