Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7077738 | Apparatus for and method of processing meat An apparatus for and method of cleaning cutting residue from one or both sides of cut meat. Meat, after being cut, for example with a band saw or the like, is passed through a curtain of fluid to impinge fluid on to at least one side of the meat for removing a subst... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7037185 | Fish scaling system A housing has an interior with first and second ends and top and bottom faces. The housing has an air flow aperture in the top face. The housing has a debris aperture in the bottom face. The bottom face rests upon adjustable legs. Blades with cutting edges are provi... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6699116 | Automated poultry thigh skinning and deboning apparatus An automated skinning and deboning apparatus for processing poultry thigh portions to remove the skin and bone from the meat portion in a single pass includes a support frame and housing having a feed inlet and a product discharge outlet. The feed inlet i... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6015372 | Abdominal exercise machine and methods A method and apparatus for exercising the abdominal muscles where the exerciser is seated and the legs are spread apart and held in that position during the exercise which is accomplished by bending the upper torso forwardly and rearwardly through exertio... | 01/18/2000 |
| 5183434 | Method and apparatus for removing the skin from poultry carcasses The machine employs a plurality of individual, pointed mandrels that are attached to a closed loop conveyor having an upper processing run and a lower return run. As the mandrels move along the upper run, they are periodically reoriented into a number of ... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5041055 | Apparatus and method for removing soft tissue from bones An apparatus is provided for removing meat and other soft tissue from bones by pumping a separating material over the surfaces of the bones under a desired separating pressure. The pressure exerted on the surfaces of the bones by the separating material c... | 08/20/1991 |
| 4970757 | Automated excision of undesirable material and production of starting material for restructured meat The present invention is drawn to various aspects of automated excision of undesirable material (and optionally excision of bone) from meat, and automated production of starting material for restructured meat, including: (a) an apparatus and method genera... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4793025 | Apparatus and methods for removal of tissue from bone An apparatus for processing either a fresh or frozen piece of meat, in particular for frenching a rack of lamb. A pair of chain conveyers each incorporating teeth are mounted in adjacent spaced apart relationship on a bench. A piece of meat is transported... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4639972 | Thigh deboner An apparatus for removing the meat from an elongated poultry bone, such as a thigh piece, includes an elongated frame and a housing which defines a feed end and a discharge end. An elongated conveyor is supported on the frame and extends from the feed end... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4402112 | Automatic poultry deboning apparatus A method and apparatus for separation of the meat from the bone portion of poultry leg and thigh portions using an array of high pressure fluid streams disposed along the path of travel of a conveying means. The fluid streams are disposed in a manner to i... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4286356 | Machine for removing meat from prepared crab bodies The disclosure is of a machine for removing the meat from the prepared body of a crab, lobster or other crustacean by means of a jet of compressed air.... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4219906 | Treatment of fish Method of and apparatus for recovering flesh from already filleted fish skeletons wherein before stripping the flesh from the bone by jets of water or air the flesh-bone bond is weakened by heat and preferably also by a mechanical treatment using e.g. pom... | 09/02/1980 |
| 4219907 | Treatment of fish Method of and apparatus for recovering flesh from already filleted fish skeletons wherein before stripping the flesh from the bone by jets of water or air the flesh-bone bond is weakened by heat and by a mechanical treatment using e.g. pommelling heads.... | 09/02/1980 |
| 4217679 | Meat deboning process A method is provided for separating meat adhered to bone from the underlying bone by supporting bone pieces with adhered meat on a surface having openings therethrough, directing high velocity streams of water droplets and air against the bone pieces to s... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4186216 | Method for deboning meat A method and apparatus for separating meat from bones particularly after most of the meat has been otherwise removed. Separation of meat from the bones occurs in a cyclical process wherein at least a portion of the separated meat is frozen and formed into... | 01/29/1980 |
