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...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 |
| 7168223 | Capsule-sealing machine for food or drink containers The present invention is a capsule-sealing machine that uses a heat-sealing process to apply sterile aluminum blank capsules on food or drink containers or cans, preferably cylindrical in shape but also square, rectangular or oval. The machine includes a conveyor be... | 01/30/2007 |
| 4792301 | Method and furnace apparatus for continuously heating steel blanks An intermittent flames, heated bed type furnace and a method for heating steel plate. The furnace and method for heating solve problems inherent in conventional furnaces, namely, consuming too much energy, having low efficiency, and providing a heat which... | 12/20/1988 |
| 4412813 | Rotary hearth furnace and method of loading and unloading the furnace The hearth of the furnace is indexed in such a manner that successive workpieces in a loading position are loaded in non-adjacent stations of the hearth during one revolution and are loaded in intervening stations during one or more subsequent revolutions... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4284404 | Continuous ring baking furnaces of the Hoffmann type An automatic control system for a continuous ring furnace, wherein the chambers and groups of chambers are operated successively in different phases of the baking cycle; the condition of certain chambers being monitored to obtain signals representing actu... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4229878 | Method of operating a reheating furnace in a hot rolling line and a reheating furnace employed therefor A heating method of operating a furnace in a hot rolling line and a heating furnace therefor in which the reheating furnace is positioned between a continuous casting apparatus and a rolling apparatus rolling workpieces at a higher speed than they are cas... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4225306 | Method of controlling a heating furnace for steel ingots A method of controlling a heating furnace for steel ingots, particularly a soaking pit for steel ingots, which is charged with a basic fuel quantity for heating the ingots to rolling temperature. The surface temperature of the ingots and thermal data of t... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4083677 | Method and apparatus for heating a furnace chamber The method for heating the furnace chamber produces high momentum levels during the heat treating cycle so as to obtain substantially uniform temperature throughout the charge. The method includes initially firing a plurality of high velocity burners at s... | 04/11/1978 |
