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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7004886 | Air cushion for exercise An air cushion for exercise in accordance with the present invention has a bladder (10) and a ballast stay (15) accommodated inside the bladder (10). The bladder (10) has a flat bottom (11) and a bulge top (12). The ballast ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6659822 | Lake raft A light-weight, transportable raft to be utilized for recreational purposes. The raft is constructed of high-impact plastic material (polyethylene) and is sized to comfortably accommodate two people. Handles are conveniently located to make lifting and ca... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6206743 | Liferaft A reversible liferaft having two canopies (4a, 4b), one on each side, and an inflatable column (13), which supports the upper canopy (4a) when the liferaft is floating on water. The column (13) preferably has a narrow center (12) and wider extremities (3a... | 03/27/2001 |
| 5921830 | Aviation auto-inflatable life raft The present invention involves an inflatable life raft for use in an aircraft. The life raft comprises an air providing device, a floor, a buoyancy tube, and a canopy. The buoyancy tube is disposed about the floor. The canopy protects survivors located on... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5810695 | Water trampoline device A water trampoline device including a hollow inflatable frame member that has a textured covering with a plurality of bands interconnected. Included is a baffle chute that is water permeable and has a top edge, a bottom edge and four walls. The top edge i... | 09/22/1998 |
| 4890569 | Life raft A self-bailing stabilized life raft includes a bailing chamber located between a stabilization chamber and a flotation platform. Water received from a flexible floor of the flotation platform is exhausted from the bailing chamber in response to wave and/o... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4828520 | Modular liferaft A modular liferaft wherein the canopy, canopy support, floor pads if any, boarding ramp and at least one ballast are detachably attached to a liferaft hull and floor assembly. Modular construction facilitates maintenance and repair and may reduce the cost... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4364734 | Inflatable marine craft having improved towing characteristics One or more vanes of a rigid or flexible material are attached to the underside of a liferaft or other towable marine craft. The vane or vanes are suspended from the craft at an angle of 90° or less relative to the direction of towing.... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4187570 | Ship escape and survival system A personnel evacuation and survival device for individual crewmen aboard p having a quick don harness to which is attached a personnel lowering device and an automatically deployable encapsulating life raft. From an appropriate evacuation station aboard ... | 02/12/1980 |
| 4001905 | Improved stabilized survival raft A stabilized life raft utilizing a fluid filled depending buoy chamber for overall stabilization and including as improved features thereon a peripheral skirt chamber which fills with the raft supporting fluid upon deployment of the raft and serves as a t... | 01/11/1977 |
