Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6623270 | Abdominal exercise device with lumbar support An abdominal exercise device has an elongated body with a first seating end having a tailbone pad mounted thereon, adjacent a raised second lumbar support end. The lumbar support end has a multi-curved upper surface, including a concave portion between ra... | 09/23/2003 |
| 4589845 | Apparatus for the preparation of a foamed article of a polyolefin resin A sheet of a cross-linkable and foamable polyolefin resin is thermally treated on an endless conveyor belt formed of a plain weave wire net. A plurality of parallel, spaced apart rolls are disposed in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which th... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4514167 | Oven heating system A conveyor is driven in a helical endless fashion within a horizontally annular baking chamber while carrying products to be baked. The air within the chamber is heated by means of burners disposed beneath the conveyor and in non-parallel relationship the... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4486172 | Oven and method for heating thermoplastic articles The present invention is an oven and method of operation for heating thermoplastic articles. Articles are fed into the oven on a conveyor belt. There is a heating plate directly beneath the article bearing surface of the conveyor belt which heats the supp... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4310304 | Installation for assembling electronic components An endless belt (1) transports supports (6) on which electronic components have been placed. The supports have a layer of solder which is to be melted to make electrical contact with the components assembled thereon. A hot plate (8) is arranged at the dow... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4306857 | Conveyor with heating means An apparatus is provided for heating a continuing series of articles, such as canned or bottled potable goods, to substantially room temperature in order to prevent condensation from forming on the containers. The apparatus comprises an elongated housing ... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4192516 | Seals for ovens In ovens which are divided by baffles to form zones, and through which conveyor belts pass, seals are positioned to prevent the flow of gases between zones. The seals are positioned between the baffle and the belt, and comprise a plurality of brushes exte... | 03/11/1980 |
| 3940240 | Baking method and kiln for tile A baking method and a kiln to bake many tiles rapidly and continuously which comprises providing endless chains, set fire-proof L-shaped supporting parts that tiles are inserted into, which are provided with an inserting apparatus that puts tiles to be ba... | 02/24/1976 |
