Did You Know...
...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7366058 | Gear for watch movement Gear for day of the month display mechanism in a watch movement, including: a driving organ (1), a driven organ (50), characterized in that said driving organ (1) is provided w... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7251449 | Rotating member One embodiment of a mechanism may include a member having a first axis and a surface non-concentric with said first axis, a first gear rotatably mounted on said member at a second axis different from said first axis, and a device coupled to either of said member or ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7113450 | Wearable electronic device with multiple display functionality A wearable electronic device for conveying information in an analog manner at least in part by the use of at least one display hand positioned on the dial side of a dial, wherein the wearable electronic device uses the display hand(s) to convey information that is s... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7097350 | Detent escapement for timepiece The invention concerns a detent escapement for a timepiece including an escape wheel fitted with teeth, a balance onto whose staff there is secured at least one roller 4 including an impulse pallet-stone and in the circular periphery of which a notch is made,... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7069804 | Gear linkage device with real time check A gear linkage device with real time check. The gear linkage device with real time check includes a first gear link and a second gear link. The first gear link includes a flange provided with a notch and a plurality of first toothed portions on the lateral surface t... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6948686 | Constant rate deployment device A spring-based deployment system deploys a mass at a limited velocity. Using techniques common to the art of timepieces, the motion of a gear, like the rotation of a clock's second hand, is controlled to occur at a substantially constant rate. In a preferred embodim... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6942378 | Detent escapement for timepiece The detent escapement includes a wheel 2 fitted with teeth 3, a roller 4 fitted with an impulse pallet stone 5, a blocking member in the form of a lever 6 hinged on a pin 8. The first and second arms 9 and 10 o... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6802394 | Lubricating device A self-contained automatic lubricator for automatically dispensing fluent lubricant over a period of time is provided. The lubricator comprises a cylinder having a front wall with a discharge outlet, a rear wall and cylindrical side walls. A piston is movable within... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6802645 | Escapement for timekeeper The escapement (1) arranged between a motor gear train and a roller (2) to which is attached a sprung balance of a timekeeper, the balance being able to describe an arc of free oscillation and to receive oscillation maintaining impulses, this escapemen... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6708576 | Escapement for a timekeeper The escapement includes first (3) and second (4) escapement wheels meshing with each other, one of these wheels being driven by the gear train. It further includes a lever (5) capable of receiving the impulses generated alternately by the first ... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6360848 | Safety system for a vertical reciprocating conveyor A vertical reciprocating conveyor having a safety mechanism for automatically locking the carriage of the conveyor at an elevated level upon uncontrolled vertical movement of the carriage. The conveyor includes a safety mechanism having a locking device m... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6301981 | Escapement for a timekeeper The escapement (10) includes first (6) and second (7) wheels meshing with each other. One (6) of these wheels is driven by the gear train. First (9) and second (11) rollers secured to a common arbor (1) support a sprung balance. The wheels (6, 7) and the ... | 10/16/2001 |
| 5931045 | Mechanical motor and speed regulator with disconnectable escapement wheel Speed regulator mechanism and mechanical motor for applications in thermal vacuum on satellites. It comprises an escapement wheel (1) and a detent (5), the escapement wheel (1) being actuated by a spring, if the mechanism acts as a motor, or by the same d... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5165295 | End stop for stepper for step-type transformer A stepper drive for a step-type transformer has an upper geneva wheel rotatable about a wheel axis, a lower geneva wheel spaced below the upper wheel and also rotatable about the axis, and a driver rotatable about a driver axis adjacent the wheels and hav... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5163535 | Timing mechanism In a governor of the type which is used for regulating the angular velocity of a toothed gear wheel which is biased to rotate, the improvement which comprises an inertial mass affixed to one end of a spring, the other end of the spring being affixed to a ... | 11/17/1992 |
| 4832156 | Spring motor A braking device is provided to reduce the speed at which a shiftable spring motor runs down. The braking device includes a pallet which is mounted so that it can oscillate, the pallet having a pair or arms which cooperate with the teeth of an escape whee... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4637152 | Rotary drive mechanism for energizing toys, kinetic sculptures, or the like A rotary drive mechanism for toys, kinetic sculptures, and the like, employs a pawl and ratchet mechanism to transmit driving torque between a driving wheel and a driven inertia wheel. The driving wheel may itself be driven by means of a drive string that... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4446750 | Escapement device An escapement device has a latch plate interposed between an input and output shaft. The latch plate is pivotably connected to the input and output shafts. The latch plate has a shoulder which abuts a coaxially mounted gear ring. The output shaft is sprin... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4431093 | Motion snubber Relative axial motion of a pair of strut members is converted into rotation of an escapement mechanism, which in turn oscillates a balance wheel. If the rotational velocity exceeds a predetermined minimum, the balance wheel inertia initiates a momentary m... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4291628 | Safety mechanism for fuses A safety mechanism for the trajectory for a projectile fuse. The mechanism uses a symmetrical escapement of the cylindrical dead-beat type which does not comprise an inlet lip. The balance comprises two cheeks located one on each side of the escapement wheel, ... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4286693 | Mechanical snubber A mechanical, seismic-shock-absorbing snubber adapted to accept extremely high impact loads that may be imposed upon it by reason of its interposition between heavy, relatively moveable structures. While permitting essentially unrestricted, slow, relative... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4239009 | Portable turntable for microwave oven A turntable is provided for a microwave oven for rotating foodstuffs placed thereon and effecting uniform heating of the foodstuffs. The turntable includes a base, a rotatable table for receiving foodstuffs, and drive means mounted on the base for rotatab... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4203281 | Assembly comprising a timepiece pallet anchor and its frame An assembly comprising an escapement timepiece pallet anchor and its frame is disclosed, wherein the pallet anchor is in the form of one piece of plastics material having three arms and is rotatably mounted on the frame. The assembly comprises means for l... | 05/20/1980 |
| 4193365 | Toggle controlled servo system Digital control signals can be accepted and translated directly into low inertia, high torque intermittent rotary motion by this fast time response apparatus which comprises a low mass, rotatably mounted driving member, a source of driving torque such as ... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4139981 | Escapement mechanism for pendulum clocks A pendulum clock mechanism may have an escapement coupled to a conventional pendulum bob by means of an anchor arbor which is frictionally or slip coupled to an anchor having at least a pair of pallet pins symmetrically disposed thereon for engagement to ... | 02/20/1979 |
| 4106282 | Escapement mechanism for watch A mechanical spring-powered hand-held digital stopwatch having a gear-operated decade counter display assembly, a spring-powered windup mechanism adapted to reset the counter during winding and a cam adjustable timing escapement mechanism, the escapement ... | 08/15/1978 |
| 4092857 | Tensiometer A damping mechanism for a rotating-head tensiometer, of the kind with a handle and a measuring head rotatably attached thereto, having an escapement pivoted about its own center of mass, and engaged with a toothed surface, such that, as the measuring head... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4041693 | Escapement for a timepiece This invention refers to a high efficiency escapement wherein the pallets embrace more than one fifth of the teeth of the pallets wheel, and wherein the entry-pallet embraces relative to the line joining the center of the escape wheel to the pallet staff ... | 08/16/1977 |
| 4008565 | Timepiece having an oscillating regulating member A timepiece has a counting mechanism for counting the oscillations of the oscillating regulating member. The counting mechanism includes a plastic block with a retaining pawl and a driving pawl embedded within it. The block has a notch whose two walls ser... | 02/22/1977 |
| 4004411 | Counting mechanism for timepiece A counting mechanism for timepiece having a bidirectional step by step motor, in which the rotor of the said motor cooperates directly with a counting wheel in such a way as to drive it only in one direction, this counting wheel being submitted to the act... | 01/25/1977 |
| 3992954 | Motion translating mechanism for indexing and escapement drives A mechanism with two moving parts to act as a 120° indexing or escapement drive using a rotating member and a pivoting arm which are shaped to act together with a closely defined geometric relationship. As an escapement, a wheel, provided with three acti... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3975962 | Click work for a watch movement In an electric timepiece an electric motor continuously rotates a disk carrying an eccentric pin that is engageable inside a heart-shaped opening formed in an actuating member carrying a pair of pallet pins engageable with and between the teeth on opposit... | 08/24/1976 |
| 3956941 | Escapement-type drive mechanism for watches and the like An escapement-type drive mechanism for watches and the like comprises an escapement wheel formed with a circumferential array of teeth spaced apart by respective radial slots and having displacement faces inclined to respective radii. An angularly oscilla... | 05/18/1976 |
| 3949547 | Escapement or counting mechanism for a timepiece having a balance-wheel A timepiece mechanism including an escapement or counting wheel. A balance wheel with two abutting members cooperates with the teeth of the escapement or counting wheel. The action of one abutting member causes the escapement or counting wheel to leave a ... | 04/13/1976 |
| 3931705 | Counter feed mechanism as used in digital clock The present invention relates to a counter feed mechanism as used in digital clock comprising a cam member adapted for advanced rotation and another cam member adapted for delayed rotation both arranged on a common axis so that the advanced rotation of th... | 01/13/1976 |
