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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7334374 | Stucco sheathing fastener A fastener including a body having a predetermined axial length, wherein the body includes a screw head at one axial end of the body, a threaded portion at an opposite axial end of the body and an unthreaded shank portion extending between the screw head and the thr... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7207761 | Pin fastener for achieving metal-to-metal connections A new and improved fastener for fastening together thin gauge sheet metal components comprises a forwardly extending pointed tip portion having a tangent ogive configuration so as to facilitate the fast and accurate penetration of the fastener into and through the t... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7040066 | Structure formed of foaming cement and lightweight steel and a structural system and method of forming the structural system A foaming cement (1), cooperates with the steel member (5), forms the fender structure (111), which could solely resist the load in horizontal or vertical direction, or cooperate with the columniation (222). The whole lightweight steel ( | 05/09/2006 |
| 6935079 | Metal stud guard A rigid guard for a metal wall stud comprising a flat outer wall with apertures for accommodating fasteners to affix it to the outer side of a wall stud, a first pair of flanges extending perpendicularly from one edge of the outer wall at upper and lower ends of the... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6928778 | Stucco anchorage nail A fastener including a body having a predetermined axial length, wherein the body includes a nail head at one axial end of the body, a textured portion at an opposite axial end of the body, a shank portion extending between the nail head and the textured portion, an... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6925766 | Multilayer slip resistant sheet material There is provided a sheet material having a walking surface with high slip resistance. The sheet material has a flexible structural layer laminated to a mesh layer which has interconnected reinforced strands and protruding nodes to impart a high coefficient of frict... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6907699 | Gypsum wallboard fastener A fastener for securing a 0.625 inch (⅝ inch) thick gypsum wallboard panel to a wooden building frame. The fastener includes a body having a predetermined axial length. The body includes a cupped head at one axial end of the body, having a diameter that is at leas... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6820387 | Self-stiffened welded wire lath assembly A self-furring wire lath has stiffening trusses. In a preferred embodiment the lath comprises a grid of intersecting transverse and longitudinal wires welded at their intersections. Stiffening trusses are formed at bent sections in the transverse wires by first long... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6708459 | Sheet metal stud and composite construction panel and method A composite construction panel having a thin panel of concrete material and a reinforcing grid of sheet metal studs with embedment portions which are actually embedded into the concrete panel, each of the studs having a web, main web openings through the web, a righ... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6668501 | Stucco fastening system A shear wall system comprises stucco fasteners consisting of an elongated first portion that is driven into a wood frame wall, and an elongated second portion that is completely embedded in a stucco wall panel. In one embodiment, the fasteners consist of ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6546680 | Level transition device for portable buildings The present invention comprises various combinations of 2"×4", 2"×6", 2"×8", 2"×10" and 2"×12" members stacked on top of one another with one longitudinal edge of each member co-aligned. In this configuration, the non-aligned longitudinal edges form ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6367216 | Fastener clip for security wall system A fastener clip for use in constructing a security wall system, and a security wall system so constructed are disclosed. The fastener clip has an elongate smooth surfaced planar body, a counter-sunk fastener recess formed s centrally within the body, a fa... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6178711 | Compactly-shipped site-assembled concrete forms for producing variable-width insulated-sidewall fastener-receiving building walls Generally large, typically eight feet by two inches by ten or sixteen or twenty-four inches, sidewalls for modular concrete forms are easily, efficiently and economically produced by cutting and by routing sheet-type polymeric material, preferably polyure... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6112490 | Spray insulation shield apparatus and application method An insulation confining shield and application method, the shield mountable between elongated structural framing members in an unfinished wall or ceiling for insulation dispensed as curable liquid having a blowing agent or an insulation material with a cu... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6035595 | Self-sealing fastener A self-sealing furring nail has a nail and a furring wad assembly. The furring wad assembly includes a plunger friction fit on the nail and a housing friction fit on a shaft of the plunger at one end of the housing, and at the other end of the housing the... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5765331 | Light weight wall structure for use in buildings with a protection plate An improved light weight wall structure for buildings is disclosed. It contains: (a) a skeletal frame having a plurality of posts for quick assembly; (b) a plurality of gusset sub-panels and base board sub-panels disposed in overlapping and alternate rela... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5647180 | Fire resistant building panel A fire resistant wall or other building structure makes use of specially constructed panels secured to a metal stud framework. Each panel has a core constructed of gypsum, cement, perlite aggregate and powder, and a polyvinyl acetate catalyst. Glass fiber... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5615424 | Earthquake-proof bed An earthquake-proof bed having a superior endurance property is constructed of approximately box-shaped metallic panels and contains necessities in the event of an earthquake, such as tools for escaping and food in tool boxes installed under the bed. This... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5611183 | Wall form structure and methods for their manufacture A wall form structure comprises modular components, wherein individual components are fitted together to construct residential or commercial wall structures. The wall form structure has prefabricated inner and outer walls, a connecting member which is pos... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5595035 | Light weight wall structure for use in buildings A built-up post for use in a building is disclosed. It includes: (a) an upper post resembling a long column, the upper post having a first end to be fixedly connected to a steel girder or a ceiling of a building, and a second end having a longitudinal hol... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5493837 | Composite building structure and method for constructing same A laminated construction board comprising a kraft board support backing adhesively bonded to a foam insulating panel is disclosed. Also shown is an improved method for attaching laminated construction boards with fasteners. The fasteners are driven throug... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5249405 | Drywall support A drywall support device for the temporary support of drywall, such as for ceiling installation, during installation. This device is a small and compact device having a piercing end, a supporting tongue, and a striking end. The piercing end and the striki... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5027572 | Moisture and vapor barrier in exterior insulation finish systems A new concept wall system is provided, wherein a moisture and vapor barrier is positioned in an enterior insulation finish system to provide thermal stability regardless of climatic variations. Specifically, a two part membrane of multiple cross-laminated... | 07/02/1991 |
| 4996812 | Method of membrane application in roof construction A composite roof structure, and a corresponding method of fabricating the structure, are disclosed which includes use of a layer of adhesive material (preferably a foamed, cellular adhesive such as polyurethane) along with a flexible membrane including a ... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4897978 | Panel edge alignment clip A hollow wall having a V-shaped rigid wire clip with two almost parallel legs engaged in holes in a metal element on a wallboard back face, with the clip head extending across the wallboard edge joint, to hold abutting wallboard edges coplanar, in which a... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4866897 | Reinforced sheathing material for wall construction A reinforced composite sheathing paper for use in wall construction between interior framing and exterior materials such as stucco in which a backing sheet of asphalt saturated kraft paper is provided on the interior surface with a plurality of reinforcin... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4841705 | Reinforced cementitious panel A building wall covering system for application to a wall support comprises a layer of insulative material and an overlying layer of matting which is attached to the wall support structure. The matting is particularly adapted to provide structural strengt... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4831808 | Self-adjusting wallboard clips Disclosed is a wallboard panel construction including first and second abutting wallboard panels secured to generic framing members by a series of distortable clip pairs, each of the clips having substantially flat, coplanar plate and tongue portions, ext... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4679367 | Interconnecting of wooden members A rigid wooden composite assembly such as a beam, post or the like, includes a plurality of elongated wooden boards of varying lengths disposed in face-to-face relationship and forming a plurality of layers. At least one of the layers includes a plurality... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4596094 | Panel fastener for a movable wall assembly A panel fastener for attaching a wall panel to a flange of a vertical stud in a movable wall system. The panel fastener is fabricated from sheet metal and includes a flat body portion, pointed teeth for driving into an edge of the wall panel and a portion... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4584808 | Concealable double acting fastener for wallboard A first wallboard and a second wallboard in edge-to-edge abutment are secured to an underlying stud by a double acting fastener which bends around the stud from a flange to the web where a screw passing through a bight in the fastener holds it in place. O... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4566241 | Progressive demountable partition A progressive demountable partition in which gypsum wallboard is affixed against I-shaped vertical studs by a plurality of small sheet metal clips having short tangs projecting into the wallboard back face and having a flange-engaging forwardly extending ... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4498272 | Panel fastener An improved panel or wallboard fastener for securing a panel to a framing member. The wallboard fastener comprises a substantially planar base having a single impaling flange secured to it at a midpoint. The impaling flange includes a first leg which exte... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4349996 | Integrated roof system An integrated roof system for buildings of the type wherein the roof structure is supported on spaced apart rafters, the system comprising a series of V-trusses extending between the rafters at spaced apart intervals, the V-trusses comprising independent ... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4289554 | Method for making a mobile home ceiling construction A method for making a unitized, ready-to-install, mobile home ceiling structure is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of arranging a plurality of rectangular panels on a tunnel jig. A roof frame structure is then positioned and fastened on the back... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4241553 | Mobile home ceiling construction and method for making A mobile home ceiling unit and a method for manufacturing said unit are disclosed. The mobile home ceiling unit comprises an arranged plurality of panels fastened to a roof frame. The roof frame has an outer truss member at opposite ends and a multiplicit... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4117644 | Wallboard fastener Mechanically fastened appended tabs invisibly secure common edge-abutting wallboard panels to common wood or metal framing members. The fastener appendants are spaced apart tabs extending from the back of and exposed beyond the vertical edges of the wallb... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4059939 | Prefabricated building unit A prefabricated building unit has a framed inner stud wall to which is joined an intermediate wall of insulation board and an exterior wall of concrete, the concrete being poured on the intermediate wall and over angled, protruding nails that fasten the i... | 11/29/1977 |
| 4052831 | Panel building construction and method, and clip Composite panels, each having a rigid board facing, made from gypsum, concrete, wood, or fibrous material, backed by a layer of foamed plastic insulating material whose reverse face is protected by a highly reflective, flame-retardant, moisture-vapor-proo... | 10/11/1977 |
| 3998018 | Wall panel mounting system A system for forming a building partition wherein wall panels are secured to opposite sides of vertically extending studs. A metal base member capable of rapid attachment to the edge of a wall panel which base member defines a clip supporting slot. A clip... | 12/21/1976 |
