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"To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth--all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances."
Lee deForest, American radio pioneer ; 1957
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7318770 | Grinding wheel with sand paper items The present invention concerns a grinding wheel (1) including a circular wheel that rotates about a central axis and with a surface (2) to which edge parts of a number of sand paper items (3) are fastened, and that the surface (2) has inc... | 01/15/2008 |
| 6918825 | Poultry de-feathering apparatus and method Apparatus for de-feathering (i.e. picking or plucking) poultry. More particularly, picking apparatus employing a plurality of elongated picking elements which are resistant to cracking and/or micro-poring, and which are preferably flexible and/or bendable and which ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 5119601 | Apparatus for abrading a surface An apparatus for abrading a curved surface includes a rotary wheel provided with a plurality of pins and a corresponding number of flexible members, wherein an endless sandpaper band is slidably wound about each pair of corresponding pins and flexible mem... | 06/09/1992 |
| 4612738 | Rotary flail cutting and finishing tool head A rotary cutting and finishing head of the flail type can use common commercially available sandpaper or emery cloth or other sheet material. A hub of the type rotatable by drill press or hand drill, mounts, in plane, uniform length and width strips or ri... | 09/23/1986 |
| 4484932 | Sanding wheel A motor-driven wheel for sanding irregular surfaces including a plurality of flexible support members projecting generally radially outwardly from a hub assembly and a plurality of separate nonconnected lengths of flexible abrasive-coated material project... | 11/27/1984 |
| 4369606 | Abrasive head An abrasive head including a plurality of radially extending brushes interspaced with abrasive strips. The brushes are secured by brush holders between a pair of parallel plates with the holders having overlapping mounting flanges secured together to one ... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4277917 | Sanding, buffing and/or polishing wheel A sanding, polishing and buffing wheel comprises a housing having a plurality of longitudinally extending, circumferentially spaced, slots. Each slot is differentially spaced with respect to the adjacent leading and trailing slots, having regard for the d... | 07/14/1981 |
| 4251958 | Surface finishing device An improved flap sanding, surface finishing device is described having a manually operable member positioned outside a housing of the device for unwinding an abrasive strip stored in the housing in order to replenish worn strip segments. The device includ... | 02/24/1981 |
| 4229912 | Take-apart convertible rotary tool A pair of spaced coaxial body disks of substantial diameter are spaced apart by at least the length of an axial hub fixedly mounted on one of the disks and projecting toward the other disk, the hub having a threaded bore opening through its end adjacent t... | 10/28/1980 |
