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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 |
| 7641542 | Net rucking apparatus and method An apparatus and a method for rucking netting onto a tube are described. The apparatus, in a first embodiment, comprises a frame having an axis, a passage along the axis, means for reciprocating movement along the axis, a netting tube releasably attachable to the me... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7254929 | Process and machine for packing pasty, liquid or semiliquid products Process and machine for packing pasty, liquid or semiliquid products comprising: nonstop feeding two sheets (1, 2) sandwiching ducts (3) ending in nozzles (4) feeding pasty, liquid or semiliquid products to be packed (M); nonstop longitudinally ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7051415 | Net rucking apparatus and method An apparatus and method for shirring netting onto a netting tube. A second tube is placed over and coaxially to the netting tube and netting is stretched over the second tube. The two tubes are caused to move in a reciprocating manner through a plurality of spring-l... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6964605 | Production method of natural intestine sausage and device therefor A method and an apparatus (1) for manufacturing natural intestine sausages includes a stuffing tube (4), an intestine pushing member (6), an intestine-pushing-member driving device (7), an intestine receiving member (9), a braking ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 5273481 | Net rucker Apparatus and method for shirring food stuffing netting onto a net tube utilizing a net rucker head having a plurality of flexible paddles. A net rucker guides the food stuffing netting onto the net tube and reciprocates the net tube up and down through a... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5056293 | Apparatus for producing layered tubes or rings An annular container mounted at the base of a passage between a layering tube and a central mandrel is charged with a layered tube of flexible tubing delivered over a floating mandrel when coaxially in contact with mandrel by driving rollers coacting with... | 10/15/1991 |
| 4924552 | Net rucker Apparatus for shirring food stuffing netting onto a temporary carrier sleeve. An empty sleeve is placed on a platform and an end of the tubular netting is slid over the sleeve. The platform is raised between a pair of rucking wheels which are rotated to p... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4773127 | Method and apparatus for shirring food casings A shirring method and apparatus for shirring food casing in which the casing is shirred directly onto a sleeve which moves longitudinally through the shirring mechanism from a first position to a second position until a desired length of shirred casing is... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4683615 | Shirring device An improved shirring device for sausage casing includes a station having opposed shirring wheels for shirring casing onto a mandrel. Opposed jaws positioned for movement transverse to the mandrel operate to engage shirred casing. Both the wheels and jaws ... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4624029 | Shirring device An improved shirring device for sausage casing includes a fixed station having opposed shirring wheels for shirring casing onto a mandrel. Opposed jaws positioned transverse to the mandrel operate to engage shirred casing and transport it axially along th... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4619018 | Apparatus for applying a length of flexible tubing to the filling pipe of a multiple-spout head To apply a length of flexible tubing to the filling pipe 5 of a multiple-spout head 6 for making a casing section 4, which is closed at one end and is to be processed further on a combined filling and closing machine, a carrying element 2 having a tubular... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4590749 | Apparatus for and method of shirring a tubular casing Apparatus for shirring a tubular casing includes a pair of shirring wheels with helical teeth. The wheels 21,22 (FIG. 9) are moulded from flexible rubber or polyurethane. The leading edge 43 of a tooth of one wheel 22 is aligned (shown by a nominal straig... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4550472 | Apparatus for and method of shirring a tubular casing An apparatus for shirring a tubular casing in which the compression of the shirred stick is produced by employing a tapered mandrel positioned between shirring wheels. The taper is carefully chosen to produce uniform shirring and compression. In the drawi... | 11/05/1985 |
