Did You Know...
...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6334810 | Chemical mechanical polishing apparatus and method of using the same A chemical mechanical polishing apparatus includes a polishing pad, a wafer carrier, a first ring, a second ring, a pad conditioning unit and at least one cleaning solution supply pipe. The first ring surrounds the semiconductor wafer and the edge of the ... | 01/01/2002 |
| 5950410 | Hydraulically powered baler plunger drive mechanism The plunger of a baler for making parallelepiped bales is driven by an extensible and retractable hydraulic actuator that is connected for oscillating a link forming a crank coupled to the plunger by a connecting link. The dimensions and locations of the ... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5842335 | Bottom loading, in-line square baler with dual purpose stuffer A square baler has a generally horizontally disposed baling chamber, a reciprocating plunger within the chamber, and an underslung loading duct projecting downwardly and forwardly from the bottom of the chamber to a pickup apparatus. A stuffer is operable... | 12/01/1998 |
