Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7261682 | Method for folding an occupant protection device Folding methods and patterns for folding an inflatable curtain airbag cushion for use in vehicles are provided. The folding patterns and methods of the invention assist in preventing failure of inflatable curtain airbag cushions by reducing the stress placed on spec... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7225802 | Handbill assembly launching system A moisture resistant handbill is rolled to form a coil that is retained within a collapsible cup as it is ejected from an elongated tube and delivered to its destination. The collapsible cup has a cylindrical wall and a bottom member at one end that does not contrib... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7223224 | Airbag folding method A part of a distal end portion of an airbag is tucked into an interior thereof. A plurality of overlapping longitudinal folds are formed in first and second halves of the airbag, and the folded distal and proximal portions of the airbag are each folded substantially... | 05/29/2007 |
| 6810643 | Method of roll packing compressible materials A method of roll packing a variety of compressible materials is provided which prevents the rotatable mandrel about which the materials are rolled from radially collapsing. The method further provides for easy removal of the roll packed material without tearing or t... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6490783 | Method of and apparatus for processing photographic photosensitive film When any of facilities of a film producing and packaging system suffers a failure, a film processing controller shuts off the film producing and packaging system. The operator repairs a failing facility and manually discharges a length of an elongate film... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6212855 | Drug bag strip winding and bundling machine A bundling device which can wind and bundle a web of drug bags in such a way that patients can take their drugs in the right order with high reliability. The bundling device includes a winder unit having a rotary table provided along a feed path of a web ... | 04/10/2001 |
| 5724787 | Apparatus for the production of packages The invention relates to an apparatus for producing packages containing sliced food products, in which the slices are rolled up into individual rolls by a rolling facility and deposited in a package.... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5694737 | Method and apparatus for packing an inflatable air bag in a housing of an air bag module assembly The present invention comprises a new and improved method and apparatus for packing an inflatable air bag cushion into a housing of an air bag module assembly of an occupant restraint system for a motor vehicle. After securing an inlet chute of the air ba... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5622027 | Coiling apparatus for flexible planar articles and method for the coiling up of flexible planar articles The coiling apparatus for flexible planar articles (44), in particular printed products such as newspapers, magazines and parts thereof comprises a winding core (16), which is rotatably journalled in a frame (12) and drivable by a drive shaft (28), and a ... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5493841 | Apparatus for producing portable, tube-like packs from printing products The printing product (16) is inserted from above into a compartment (52) and between two pairs of fingers (56), and is positioned such that it is arranged approximately symmetrically with respect to the axis of rotation (54') of the fingers (56). Upon rot... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5428941 | Apparatus for winding a printed product and a protective wrapping into a roll A belt conveyor arrangement (16) is disposed upstream of the winding mandrel (12) of the rolling-up apparatus (10) and determines the conveying path (18) for the printed products (20) which are to be rolled up. A delivery device (30) leads from below into... | 07/04/1995 |
| 4905453 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing nested polyethylene bags A method and apparatus for manufacturing nested polyethylene bags utilizes a web of polyethylene material having a tubular cross-sectional configuration which is fed through seaming means to form a seam transverse the web. Material transporting means tran... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4783948 | Method and apparatus for bundling and elongated article In a bundling method and apparatus, a relatively long article is wound on a take-up reel and is then released onto a tray in a bundling unit located immediately below the take-up reel. On the tray, the wound article is compressed into a folded and flat po... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4748793 | Newspaper wrapping machine An attachment for a newspaper rolling machine for applying a waterproof covering, preferably cling-type film, around the rolled newspaper. During the rolling of the newspaper (21), the web is fed into the nip of the partially rolled newspaper by the downw... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4601154 | Automatic packaging unit for bag making machine A method and apparatus are provided for packaging bags wherein the bags are permitted to accumulate from the outlet of a bag making machine onto a slotted plate. First and second sets of fingers grasp the bags that accumulate after a desired number of bag... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4599844 | Large baling press for agricultural products A baling press for agricultural products has a pressing chamber limited by a plurality of winding rollers, and a device for wrapping a finished bale with a wrapping material, which is provied for its threading into the pressing chamber with guiding elemen... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4406109 | Automatic cord hanking machine The hanking machine of this invention cooperates with a lead forming machine wherein each cord, gripped near opposite ends by intermittently moving cord grippers, arrives at a discharge station where the cord, extending along a horizontal line, is release... | 09/27/1983 |
| 4194340 | Apparatus for packaging shoelaces: especially of the round type Apparatus for packaging shoelaces in which flattened shoelace convolutions are moved away from a winding means for being received in an elongate lace confining channel of a first lace receiving unit which is then moved in a substantially vertical path int... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4079574 | Machine for rolling bags of plastics A machine for winding up rolls of piles of a sheet material or of bags made of plastics, comprising at least a plane on which piles of sheets are successively collected, at least a frame supporting a revolving body on which a pliers unit is mounted adapte... | 03/21/1978 |
