...that the Slinky toy was the result of a failed attempt by engineer Richard James to produce an antivibration device for ship instruments? His goal was to develop a spring that would instantaneously counterbalance the wave motion that rocks a ship at sea. Instead, he developed the Slinky.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7134257 | Method and device for producing hard packs for cigarettes For producing hard packs, namely hinge-lid boxes or shell and slide packs in particular, inner and outer pack units are prepared separately in each case, namely a shell (20), on the one hand, and a blank for a hinge-lid box, on the other hand. The inner pack ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7117657 | Delivery point packager takeaway system and method An apparatus is provided for packaging and taking away packaged sequenced product such as mail pieces. The apparatus includes a packaging device having an output end, and adapted to package sequenced products. A clamping device is adjacent to the output end of the p... | 10/10/2006 |
| 6684611 | Plant for packaging and bagging rolls of paper Plant for packaging comprising, a packaging and bagging rolls of paper, includes a packaging machine (12) designed to produce packs of rolls with a pre-set sequence and a bagging machine (12) and to arrange them according to a plurality of layers, each of... | 02/03/2004 |
| 5452565 | Device for wrapping and welding under vacuum, used in the manufacture of a thermally insulated container Method and device for manufacturing a thermally insulated container (1) for storing and transporting material such as vaccine, biological material and the like requiring a substantial constant temperature during a substantial period of time, the container... | 09/26/1995 |
| 4551123 | Water-proof paper container and its manufacturing method A container comprises a paper base member covered all around by a heat-shrinkable plastic film. Air is removed from a space formed by the film in which the paper base member is disposed to bring the film against the base member, and at least a part of the... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4351106 | Battery cell assembly system and method A battery cell assembly system is characterized by an apparatus for automatically packaging battery plates in separator material, and for then positioning a plurality of the plates side by side in an open ended outer container of the cell to alternate neg... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4308708 | Apparatus for folding hinged lid boxes from cardboard blanks and filling them with tinfoil wrapped cigarette blocks An apparatus for making and filling a hinged box of a foldable material, more particularly cardboard, especially a hinged box for cigarettes, which box comprises a blank with front, rear and end walls, side walls formed from lateral flaps and a hinged lid... | 01/05/1982 |
| 4297826 | Apparatus for packaging tape cassettes The invention relates to an apparatus for packaging tape cassettes, one at a time, from a conveyor. The apparatus includes a loading device for moving the cassettes along a straight line path of travel from one end of said apparatus to the other end there... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4258528 | Method and apparatus for introducing groups of cigarettes into a packet and folding wrapper flaps Two laterally spaced groups of cigarettes 11, 12 partially encased in tinfoil wrappers 27 are discharged from a chain conveyor 26 onto a reciprocating platform 33 by entraining members 24, 25. The groups are then discharged by pushers 42 onto a folding p... | 03/31/1981 |