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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6928838 | Apparatus and method for forming silica glass elements The forming apparatus has top and bottom die assemblies which form a heated silica glass material by press forming. These top and bottom die assemblies include, respectively, mold dies, which are made of isotropic carbon, and core molds, which are made of vitrified ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6823695 | Press-forming system for glass An object of the present invention is to enable to use a common transfer machine for transferring performs to and for transferring products from a press-forming system for glass having a plurality of press units. The press-forming system for glass has a plurality of... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6385997 | Method for forming a tool for molding microlens arrays A method for fabricating a mold tool for molding optical elements is taught which comprises heating a mold tool blank made from a vitreous material to a temperature above the glass transition temperature of the vitreous material; generating an axial visco... | 05/14/2002 |
| 5938810 | Apparatus for tempering and bending glass A method of and apparatus for bending and tempering a sheet of glass heated to a formable state provides an improved rigid mold and pressing member for pressing the heated sheet against the rigid mold which cools and bends the sheet. The pressing member i... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5820650 | Optical processing apparatus and optical processing method A glass substrate is positioned between a chamber with a reduced pressure and a chamber filled with a heated helium, and the glass substrate is forcibly bent by the pressure difference and the heated helium gas into a uniform shape. The irradiation of las... | 10/13/1998 |
| 4906269 | Method of and apparatus for manufacturing a glass object A glass object having protrusions and/or recesses, for example a glass lid (1) with a handle (2), is produced in an IS machine by pressing molten glass from above in a mould with the cover of the mould, in a mould defined by said cover, by a shaping mould... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4840656 | Methods and apparatus for forming glass articles A system for forming hollow pressed glass articles utilizes a flow of cryogen that is mixed with air to provide a cooling gas that enables newly pressed articles to be removed from their molds after a thin skin of solidified glass has been formed on inter... | 06/20/1989 |
| 4566895 | Molds used for blowing glass articles In order to form a steam cushion between a glass and a metal mold during operation blowing the glass in the mold, the mold is provided with a large number of small holes mechanically-formed in and distributed over the inner surface of the mold for retaini... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4139358 | Method of forming a vessel with pouring lip Glass or glass-ceramic vessels are formed with a pouring lip wherein wall portions of the vessel below the lip are of a thinner construction than the remaining wall portions so as to impede glass flow to the lip area and facilitate uniform glass flow to u... | 02/13/1979 |
| 3964856 | Vacuum moulding techniques Apparatus and method for thermoforming two or more plastics sheets simultaneously, to form in one operation a double-walled cup, or a composite walled cup, or a plurality of single-walled cups. The sheets are moved and heated simultaneously, the portion n... | 06/22/1976 |
| 3957478 | Cooling pressed glass articles An improved glass pressing machine which captures exhausting cooling gas to reduce noise in the vicinity of the machine. A glass press for making television face plates includes a cooling station where large quantities of a gas, such as air, are blown on ... | 05/18/1976 |
