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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 |
| 7318334 | Powered pipe flaring tool The powered pipe cutter and the pipe flaring tool both have a piston slidably mounted in a cylinder. The cylinder has a top end closed by a top end plug. A crimped cartridge bore in the top end plug communicates with a gas expansion chamber. A bolt and firing pin as... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7150086 | Tool that connects pieces through a process of riveting A tool, for making clinching connections, which has a multi-part matrix with matrix sheathing pieces that move to the outside and with counteracting springs. These springs are one-piece connected with each other through a connecting section. There are at least three... | 12/19/2006 |
| 6672127 | Metal sheet bending device with rotation inhibiting function A metal sheet bending apparatus includes first and second lower bar molds each having a section of a semicircular shape. The first and second lower bar molds are rotatably provided in first and second concave portions of a support, respectively. First and... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6266858 | Apparatus for manufacturing a header pipe The end faces of the edge portions of a flat plate, which have been respectively cut into a given shape according to a trimming operation, are then respectively face-struck into a linear shape. Also, in the trimming operation, each of the edge portions of... | 07/31/2001 |
| 5365766 | Die assembly having means for automatically controlling in the angular orientation of the lower die plate members A die assembly for use with a tool for bending flat metal stock, and including a pair of elongated plate members in the lower die member each having a surface to support a piece of flat metal stock, the plate members being pivotably connected and maintain... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5060501 | Flat metal stock bending die A die for use with a punch for bending flat metal stock and including a body defining a support surface adapted to support a piece of flat metal stock, a cavity disposed in a path of movement of the punch and intersecting and projecting below the support ... | 10/29/1991 |
| 4930331 | Apparatus and method for fabricating elliptical tubing An apparatus (10) and method for fabricating metal tubing of generally elliptical shape by cold pressing round tubing stock into the desired shape. The apparatus (10) includes a first pair of opposing dies (16 and 18) secured to the platens (12and 14) of ... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4660403 | Die assembly An improved die assembly for use with a punch is employed to produce stitch connections between sheets of rigid, deformable material. The die assembly includes an anvil body having a central anvil portion and a pair of arcuate depressions respectively on ... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4603572 | Device and method for bending corrugated plates A method and an apparatus for bending a corrugated plate about an axis extending transversally to the valleys and crests respectively, by applying said plate between two press beams the opposite faces of which are provided with mutually corresponding and ... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4370881 | Die set having resilient workpiece retention means A die set for deforming a ferrule or similar article comprises a first die member and a cooperable second die member movable relative to the first die member along a central axis. The first die member includes first and second die elements that are dispos... | 02/01/1983 |
| 3990291 | Bending machine for bending sheet and strip A bending apparatus for bending individual sheet and strip blanks and having a bending punch curved to a radius less than the desired bending radius. Tip-supports are arranged at either side of the punch and are pivotable in the bending plane. Each suppor... | 11/09/1976 |
| 3978706 | Precision bending work method for metallic materials When bend working a metallic material using a suitable counterpressure against the material concurrently with the application of the bending force, and using a pair of dies having the distance therebetween controlled to be 3.5 to 6 times the thickness of ... | 09/07/1976 |
