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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 |
| 7370562 | Method for controlling slitter-scorer apparatus A method for controlling a slitter-scorer apparatus in which a feed line for a paperboard sheet does not need to be stopped when order specification of cutting or scoring for the paperboard sheet has been changed, thereby reducing a setup time, is proposed. The meth... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7134372 | CNC slitter machine A machine for slitting a metal sheet has a number of knife holder assemblies each containing a rotary knife. The knife holder assemblies are mounted for movement along upper and lower rotating shafts which rotate the knives during a slitting operation. The position ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7134256 | Packaging system The present invention provides a packaging system that includes a beak-shaped hopper, a pair of opening and closing bars, and a sensor for sensing a limitless opening and closing movement of the opening and closing bars. The beak-shaped hopper and the pair of openin... | 11/14/2006 |
| 5402619 | Tin-tie bending machine A tin-tie bending device for bending the ends of a tin-tie about the edges of a bag wherein the tin-tie is secured to across the width of the bag and the ends of the tin-tie extend beyond the edges of the bag prior to bending. The device includes means fo... | 04/04/1995 |
| 4627214 | Slitting-scoring machine A machine frame mounts a pair of upper and lower girder-like box beams (10,11) of heavy construction. A plurality of upstream upper scoring assemblies (28) and a plurality of downstream upper slitting assemblies (30) are mounted on the upper box beam. The... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4586412 | Rotary tin-tie cutting mechanism for a packaging machine In a packaging machine of the type in which a "tin-tie" strip is affixed to a bag to allow repeated reclosures of the bag, a machine for cutting a continuous strip of tin-tie material into predetermined lengths and feeding the cut lengths into a bonding s... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4494355 | Case feeding apparatus for drop packer A case feeding apparatus moves open cases onto a lift table where each case is moved upwardly onto the funnel portion of a shifting grid structure so that a slug of articles can be deposited therein. Line pressure advances the cases toward a retractable s... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4263766 | Transfer applying machine An improved machine for automatically applying transfers such as tax stamps to multiple packages contained in a carton is disclosed. The machine comprises a conveyor for advancing a carton through an opening station, where it is opened to expose the packa... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4217744 | Packaging machine A packaging machine in which a belt-shaped packaging sheet fed continuously is cut to a predetermined length while being guided and conveyed in a direction intersecting the conveyance direction of articles to be packaged. Position detectors detect the arr... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4184305 | Machine for applying transfers A machine for automatically applying transfers such as tax stamps to multiple packages contained in a carton is disclosed. The transfer applying machine comprises a conveyor for intermittently and sequentially advancing cartons through an opening station,... | 01/22/1980 |
| 4020615 | Envelope inserter and feeder system An apparatus and method is disclosed for inserting sheet material into a quantity of envelopes. The envelopes are conveyed in seriatim along a conveyor to an indexing drum. The envelopes are shingled and respectively overlap each other as they approach th... | 05/03/1977 |
