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 |
| 4492096 | Hollow reinforcements of revolution made by three-dimensional weaving method and machine for fabricating such reinforcements The invention concerns the production of deformable hollow reinforcements of revolution by a three-dimensional weaving. In a network of rods 18 held and rotated about a vertical axis 11 by rotary perforated plates 52, 53, 54, there are inserted in oblique... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4183232 | Method and machine for three-dimensional weaving for obtaining woven hollow reinforcements of revolution The invention relates to woven hollow structures. Its object is to provide a method and a machine making it possible to obtain hollow reinforcements of revolution by three-dimensional weaving using rods 11, circumferential yarns 12 and radial yarns 13. In the ... | 01/15/1980 |
| 4111006 | Apparatus for producing patterned deep pile circular knitted fabrics A pile fabric knitting apparatus has controllable means, several representative embodiments of which are disclosed, separate from fiber supply means and responsive to dynamic control means, i.e., transducer, control tape, etc., functioning during operatio... | 09/05/1978 |
