Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7252491 | Food impressing roller device An impression device for food items, which is a rolling device designed to create images upon a variety of foods for decoration and/or marketing purposes. As the device is hand-rolled along the food, the decorative letters and images create a repeated pattern of imp... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7052450 | Silicone rolling pin A rolling pin including a core, a silicone-containing jacket over the core defining a rolling surface. The jacket may be of such length and so positioned on the core as to define end regions of the jacket extending beyond the ends of the core; the jacket end regions... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7033309 | Rolling pin with removable guide disks A clip, spacer and disk system, adapted for attachment to a cylindrical rolling pin, which has a central axle with a handle at each end, is disclosed. The guide disk members are provided in various diameters and can be exchanged on the rolling pin to provide differe... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6585629 | Rolling pin with counterweighted eccentric handles A rolling pin has a hollow cylindrical metal roller rotatable relative to an elongated shaft assembly extending axially through the roller, the shaft assembly having two rods respectively rotatably journaled in bushing portions of end caps on the roller, ... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6484341 | Dough roller A consolidated pastry forming apparatus is provided that incorporates a separatable roller tool and a finishing tool. The roller tool includes a handle, a first pair of fork arms at one handle end, and a second pair of fork arms at the other handle end. A... | 11/26/2002 |
| 5774918 | Modular rolling pin with dough storage means A modular rolling pin has a plurality of cylindrical linking modules and a plurality of cylindrical dough storage modules. The linking modules and the dough storage modules are releasably and interchangeably lockable to each other, and each of the dough s... | 07/07/1998 |
| 4984979 | Dough leveller/turntable device A dough working device includes a rectangular body with a recess in the top surface thereof for receiving dough to be rolled; a plurality of thin plates for insertion into the recess for changing the depth thereof and consequently the thickness of the dou... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4522580 | Dough roller and shaper device for pie crusts and the like A dough roller and shaper device for making pie crust, pizza crust, cookies and other food crusts. The device characterized by having a molded ring in a dough board for making quickly, with a standard rolling pin, crust uniform in size and thickness. The ... | 06/11/1985 |
| 4426200 | Rolling pin apparatus A rolling pin apparatus utilizes a pair of free wheeling right angle cylinders disposed in parallel relationship for application to a food work stuff. A chamber is secured to the structure supporting the journals carrying the two cylinders, which chamber ... | 01/17/1984 |
| 3994652 | Combined rolling pin and dough cutter This invention consists of a combined rolling pin and dough cutter. It is made up mainly of a central shaft provided with a handle at each end, and a series of abutting cylindrical rollers, all of the same diameter, rotate freely upon the central shaft to... | 11/30/1976 |
