Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7100346 | Machine for boxing wound coils of filamentary material A machine for winding and boxing wound coils of filamentary material having a payout hole extending from the outer to the inner coil winding wherein a turret mechanism mounting two oppositely disposed end forms and corresponding collapsible mandrels and operative be... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6766627 | Machine for boxing wound coils of filamentary material A machine for winding and boxing wound coils of filamentary material having a payout hole extending from the outer to the inner coil winding, a turret mechanism mounting two oppositely disposed end forms and corresponding collapsible mandrels and operative between f... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6052972 | Portable containment sleever apparatus A sleever apparatus includes an inner member with a central passage through which an item to be sleeved is passed. An outer member surrounds the inner member and defines a space between the members for holding a supply of containment material, which is pr... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5321931 | Method and apparatus for storing used tires A method and apparatus for storing a plurality of tires having a threaded portion, a rim portion and two sidewall portions, said method comprising the following steps; peripherally slicing each of said tires in two half tires along said threaded portion a... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5282345 | Apparatus for handling a sheet of separator material An apparatus is provided for disposing a sheet adjacent a flexible member. The apparatus comprises a mechanism for transporting the sheet to a loading position and a mechanism, located adjacent the loading position, for receiving and holding the sheet. Th... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5203142 | Method and apparatus for the mechanical packing of a tubular segment shirred onto a shirring tube A tubular shirred formation (34) is covered by a previously shirred tubular net (38), which is held ready on a supply drum (36), with one end (42) closed and, with axial insertion, the tubular shirred formation (34) is covered, and then the other end is c... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5163265 | Apparatus for wrapping a flexible member An apparatus is provided for wrapping a sheet about an external surface of a flexible member to package the flexible member. The apparatus comprises a mechanism for receiving and clamping a free end of the sheet and a first portion of the flexible member,... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5113637 | Nested plastic bags and method of manufacture An article of manufacture comprises a plurality of nested plastic bags for use in lining containers such as garbage cans or waste paper baskets. The assembly is manufactured by placing successive plastic bags over a jig. The upper edges of the plastic bag... | 05/19/1992 |
| 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 |
| 4993210 | Method for packing a tubular casing length gathered into a hollow cylindrical shirring into a tubular net for subsequent processing as sausage casing in an automatic sausage-making machine The packing of a tubular casing segment which has been shired together into a hollow cylindrical shirring formation occurs in a tubular net of such configuration that first, with the shirring accomplished with the aid of an abutment which is movable on th... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4922685 | Pantihose packaging and manufacture Pantihose garments are mounted on a card for purpose of display or sale, the card being inserted into one leg of the pantihose and parts of the pantihose unsupported by the card are folded and disposed to one side of the card-supported part of the leg. Ex... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4914784 | Shirred casing article loader/unloader Apparatus and method for loading a shirred casing article into a stuffing horn tilted upwardly at a load position with respect to horizontal. The article is moved along a horizontal rail supported above the stuffing horn. The article spills over an end of... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4873748 | Burnished end shirred casing stick, method and apparatus A shirred stick of cellulosic casing having an open end formed to a desired profile by burnishing. A portion of the surface of the stick bore adjacent the open end is part of the desired profile. The burnishing action forms the stick end to a surface of r... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4827693 | Hosiery manufacture and packaging A pair of hose are mounted on a card for purpose of display or sale the card being inserted into one hose and the other hose being placed inside the first hose, between the latter and one surface of the card. Machinery for so assembling the hose and card ... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4782645 | Packaging of information recording media Disclosed is a method for packaging a number of disc-like information recording media each having a hole at its center portion. The disc-like information recording media are collected with the holes thereof being aligned with each other to form a cylindri... | 11/08/1988 |
| 4642965 | Device for automatically attaching an arrow label The disclosure describes a method of automatically attaching an arrow label in the center hole of a ball, skein or package of yarn or thread wound onto a winding mandrel. The arrow label is coaxially aligned with the winding mandrel. During withdrawal of ... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4623010 | Tire bead protector device Bead protectors fittable to an opposed pair of tire bead portions are made of a thermoplastic resin. Each bead protector comprises a tubular portion fittable in the bead portion and a flange portion extending from the tubular portion via a curved portion ... | 11/18/1986 |
| 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 |
| 4578925 | Method of and apparatus for packaging a wall of a bore A method of and an apparatus for attaching a sheet of packaging material to a wall of a bore of a coil of metal wherein the sheet of packaging material is fed into and discharged from a mandrel case and automatically attached to the wall of the bore of th... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4571922 | Method and apparatus for the preparation of a sausage casing package A sausage casing package is formed utilizing a tool constituted by a rigid tube having a low-friction surface. The folded casing support is introduced into the tube and the casing sections as applied with the assembly of casing sections being drawn off th... | 02/25/1986 |
| 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 |
| 4495751 | Apparatus and method for packaging articles in a flexible wrapping material An apparatus and process for forming and dispensing individual wrappers of varying lengths from a supply roll of flat-folded tubular film is provided. The apparatus includes a rotatable turret which defines a plurality of appertures and has a plurality of... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4373318 | Stacking device for hollow rivets A stacking device for stacking headed tubular fasteners. The device comprises air blowing means which accelerates an end fastener in a guide relative to the remaining fasteners in the guide thereby ensuring that each fastener leaves the guide separately w... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4363819 | Sausage-casing loading method and casing/sleeve combination therefor A sausage-casing/sleeve combination has a flexible synthetic-resin sleeve having a laterally open aperture, a pair of longitudinal ends, and a tear line extending longitudinally from this aperture to one of the ends. A plurality of sausage-casing sections... | 12/14/1982 |
| 4320558 | Continuous shirring and spinning machine for casings This relates to a machine for shirring tubular films such as those used for sausage casings and the like. In accordance with this disclosure, the films are continuously fed onto a mandrel where they are opened from their flat state and then are fed at a s... | 03/23/1982 |
| 4295247 | Gripper-separator device for continuously shirred casings This relates to a gripper-separator unit for separating continuously shirred casing into individual strands. The gripper is provided with hold back blades which engage the shirred casing while the separator is provided with like blades which engage the sh... | 10/20/1981 |
| 4155212 | Meat wrapping device Mechanism for wrapping a resilient envelope, as a netting, around a quantity of meat, including a guide shell, a supply table or platform at one end of the shell and an envelope carrying cylinder comprising a cartridge arranged for placement in encircling... | 05/22/1979 |
| 4095392 | Device for stacking and retaining in a stack flat goods, particularly plastic bags There is described a device which comprises fixed means to feed forks one by one to the stacking location along a path at right angle to the transfer means movement direction between the parallel members and adjacent that edge provided with said perforati... | 06/20/1978 |
