Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7454939 | Instrument for bending spinal rods used in a spinal fixation system An instrument and method for bending a surgical implant, such as a spinal rod, includes a lever pivotally connected to a handle through a movable linkage system. The movable linkage system includes one or more bearing surfaces for applying a force to a first portion... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7065856 | Machine tool method A machine tool apparatus is provided employing a plurality of tool heads which may be sequentially or simultaneously automatically controlled to perform preprogrammed operations on either the same or different workpieces. In one form, a plurality of tool heads are s... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6997030 | Rebar bending tool A bending tool is disclosed for bending rebar, rod, pipe, tubing and/or any other suitable material, comprising: at least one base, and; at least one lever-handle further comprising a user-end and a pivot-end and; a pivotal means for connecting the base and the pivo... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6418773 | Rebar bender/cutter A rebar bender/cutter is disclosed for shaping and cutting rebar. The device includes a horizontal base having a connecting flange and supporting flange extending vertically therefrom. An arm receiving cam is rotatably engageable to the connecting flange ... | 07/16/2002 |
| 5950486 | Extreme close end bending die A bending die or shoe having a semi-circular tube-receiving bending channel on its forward end, the bending channel merging into a straight lateral channel, where the die is improved by providing a fitting recess or notch on the side opposing the lateral ... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5537852 | Bending assembly of a bending machine Bending assembly of a bending machine (13), which can be employed to make upstream or downstream, clockwise or anticlockwise, bends of up to 180° and more, on a bundle of bars (14) stacked on each other and lying on a plane substantially perpendicular to... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5390522 | Tandem roller pipe bender A pipe bender 100 comprises a base 111, a former 132 on the base and having a former surface extending angularly at a fixed radius about a bending axis 114. The former surface is provided to engage a length of pipe 134 to be bent to conform to at least a ... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5203195 | Bending machine for bending bar-shaped material Disclosed is a machine for bending rod-shaped material in two directions, comprising a rotable plate (5), fitted with a centrally positioned mandrel (12) and an eccentrically positioned bending tool (13), and a fixed, adjustable holder (15; 17). The plate... | 04/20/1993 |
| 4996866 | Orientable bending assembly An orientable bending assembly of a type capable of being temporarily retracted below the upper edge of a work platform (15) of a bending-shaping machine for sections is disclosed. The bending assembly is provided with clockwise and anticlockwise rotation... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4977771 | Device for bending thin metallic pipe The present invention provides a device for bending thin metallic pipes suitably used as a fuel supply pipe, brake pipe and the like of an automobile, which are bent at a plurality of portions thereof not in the same direction but in three-dimensional dir... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4890469 | Bending machine for bending bars, channels, sections and the like A bending machine comprises a support to which first and second spaced cooperating bending devices are displaceably mounted. Each of the bending devices have first and second spaced cooperating bending components and the components of the first and second... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4798073 | Bending machine for bending bars, channels, sections and the like A bending machine comprises a support to which first and second spaced cooperating bending devices are displaceably mounted. Each of the bending devices comprises first and second spaced cooperating bending components and the components of the first and s... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4718265 | Bending apparatus for rod- or ribbon-shaped material The invention relates to a bending apparatus for bending a rod-shaped or ribbon-shaped material, comprising a bending station disposed in a work plane and including at least one bending core or pair of bending cores mounted for displacement perpendicular ... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4682488 | Apparatus for forming slit fin coils A slit fin heat exchanger is formed by wrapping slit fin tubing into a flat coil having two spaced rows of tubing. The flat coil is located on mandrels which are rotatable about spaced parallel axes with the mandrels and axes initially being in the same p... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4561279 | Rod bending and cutting apparatus Apparatus for effectively and efficiently cutting and bending rods, used for instance in lintels, footers, and slabs, comprising a portable workbench having suitably secured on the table thereof bending and cutting assemblies, hydraulic power cylinders fo... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4425781 | Method for manufacturing hose clamps A method and apparatus for manufacturing, handling and installing hose clamps pursuant to which the clamp structures are stamped out as flat blanks, are shipped as flat blanks to the user where they are preformed into an ideal shape for assembly about the... | 01/17/1984 |
| 4155239 | Tube bending apparatus An apparatus for bending tubes into three-dimensional helices or coils comprises means for intermittent clamping of the tube, a first substantially stationary shaping member having a groove, which extends in an arc of at least approximately 180° and defi... | 05/22/1979 |
| 3958440 | Universal tube bending machine A universal tube bending machine includes a frame mounting an upper die clamp with a downturned channel. A support arm is pivoted to the frame and mounts a corresponding lower die clamp with an upturned tube receiving channel to grip the tube to be bent. ... | 05/25/1976 |
