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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 |
| 8028593 | Click apparatus At both of the upper and lower faces of flange section (24A) of rotation body (24) rotatably retained between lower case (21) and upper case (23) opposed to each other via inner case (22), inner concavo-convex section (25) a... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7987738 | Rotary selector A rotary selector forms a control element for inputting a setting value to an electronic control system, in particular for a control device of an electronic domestic appliance, such as a washing machine, a dishwasher, or the like. The rotary selector has a rotatably... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7971498 | Control device A control device is provided for a technical system (17), e.g. for a shift-by-wire vehicle transmission. The control device includes a control (actuating) element, e.g. a rotary knob (1), with at least two shifting positions. The control element (1 | 07/05/2011 |
| 6380733 | Latched switching device So that a device for producing selector positions is easy to operate, the stop positions of which can be taken in securely and largely free of mechanical wear, and so that it is easily adaptable, in particular to the respective operating conditions, a pos... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6374696 | Detent assembly A detent assembly (30) includes a rotatable index member (34) having a series (44) of minor index positions (46) disposed in a circular array and a series (52) of major index positions (54) disposed in a circular array which is axially offset from the cir... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6336605 | Self positioning adjustable brake for baitcast reel A braking apparatus for a fishing reel comprising: a side cover; a brake dial rotatably positioned in the side cover such that the brake dial is externally accessible and operable from outside of the side cover, the brake dial having a plurality of predet... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6223610 | Dial operating device When a leaf spring 22 is rotated integrally with the rotation of a knob dial 18, the leaf spring 22 is pushed and deflected by three corners of a cylindrical section 17a. After that, when three corners of the cylindrical section 17a get over the leaf spri... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6161444 | Precision linear adjustment mechanism A compact adjustment mechanism that provides precision linear travel. The drive mechanism has a knob with a paddle at an inner end that is used to transfer torque. A drive screw has a plurality of grooves disposed around an outer diameter, a plurality of ... | 12/19/2000 |
| 4633206 | Expanded dial arrangement for 56 channel UHF tuner The channel selector shaft of a 70 channel mechanically detented UHF tuner is provided with mechanical stops which prevent the shaft from moving above UHF channel No. 69 so that the upper twenty-four UHF channels are unused. Also, a dial driving arrangeme... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4597106 | AFT defeat arrangement A pair of stator contacts, which are positioned inside the tuner housing and are internally connected to the AFT circuit within the tuner housing, are positioned so that unused tuning coils carried by the station selector shaft of the tuner are momentaril... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4579018 | Band selector switch A band selector switch comprises a rotor having click teeth on its outer circumferential surface, a sleeve rotatably fitted in the rotor and composed of a plurality of axial resilient pieces separated by axial slits defined in the sleeve, the resilient pi... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4569244 | Control lever with automatic return to original position A device which, when manually operated, will automatically return to an original position wherein a manually-operated control lever rotates at least one shaft having an arm mounted on the end of the shaft, and with a roll at the other end of the arm which... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4455886 | Adjustable thermostat An adjustable thermostat is disclosed which has an operating temperature range and in which detent means is provided to establish a plurality of detent positions of a rotatably adjustable shaft for selected operating temperatures of the thermostat. The de... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4442724 | Rotary dial unit A dial which includes a knob mounted on a rotary shaft and a dial surrounding the rotary shaft against which the knob may be positioned and including a base which rotatably supports the rotary shaft upon which the knob is mounted and clamp means between t... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4347628 | Rotary tuning mechanism A rotary tuning mechanism comprises an integral dielectric structure including a gear wheel with a first set of teeth extending from a first face surface and a second set of teeth extending radially from a circumferential surface, a shaft attached to the ... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4331039 | Gear changer A fine/coarse data selector apparatus for aircraft flight control systems and instruments is manually adjustable in either an incremental fine mode or an uninterrupted slew mode by means of a high resolution gear change clutch means which eliminates any g... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4227056 | Key lock rotary selector switch A key lock rotary selector switch characterized by a switch structure and a rotatable operating unit; the switch structure having a reciprocable contact operating member for effecting opening and closing of a circuit through the switch; the operating unit... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4200850 | Combination VHF and UHF tuner arrangement A combination VHF and UHF tuner is provided in which a common station selector shaft may be rotated a number of revolutions to cover the seventy stations in the UHF band. The common selector shaft is provided with twenty-four detent positions per revoluti... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4172390 | Lever for memory fine tuning arrangements for turret type television tuner In a pivotally mounted member of the memory fine tuning arrangement for a turret type television tuner, a pivotally moved lever plate provided integrally with a pivotal shaft having head portion, neck portion and body portion, is pivotally mounted on a fr... | 10/30/1979 |
| 4158826 | Operator controllable detent mechanism for television tuners An operator-controllable detent mechanism is provided for a combination VHF-UHF television tuner. Separate torsionally-loaded detent springs are provided for two detent wheels which are mounted on the common station selector shaft of the tuner. A manually... | 06/19/1979 |
| 4155060 | Rotary preset tuner A rotary preset tuner comprising a plurality of adjustable memory slugs, a single tuning member capable of being rotated in any direction, a sliding member connected to variable condenser elements and arranged so as to enable reciprocating movement thereo... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4128821 | Turret type television tuner The present turret type television tuner comprises a U-shaped chassis having first and second end walls joined by a side wall. A main channel selecting shaft is supported in said end walls. A toothed index wheel is mounted on the selector shaft adjacent t... | 12/05/1978 |
| 4126051 | Channel selector This invention relates to a channel selector suitable for use in a television receiver set. The channel selector comprises a channel selecting shaft which is linked to a variable capacitor shaft through an Oldham coupler. A fine tuning shaft also is linke... | 11/21/1978 |
| 4114459 | Detent UHF tuner with memory type independent fine tuning A detent type tuning mechanism for a UHF tuner having a continuously variable tuning shaft includes a detented selector shaft, and a fine tuning mechanism including a rotatable turret having mounted thereon a plurality of cams, each adjustable by a fine t... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4056796 | Detented UHF television tuner with independent inductive fine tuning A UHF television tuner utilizes a mechanical fine tuning mechanism that alters the operation frequency of the oscillator of the tuner independently of the position of the main tuning shaft. The mechanical fine tuning mechanism utilizes a tuning slug dispo... | 11/01/1977 |
| 4052675 | UHF tuner arrangement A continuously variable UHF tuner arrangement is provided wherein a single channel selector shaft is provided with a detent position for each of the 70 UHF television stations and a highly accurate detent mechanism is employed to return the channel select... | 10/04/1977 |
| 4048949 | Planetary turret indicator A turret indicator for a television receiver includes a stationary gear attached to a mounting base with a shaft passing through it. A rotatable carrier turret is mounted on the shaft and it carries five rotatable planetary indicator turrets which are pro... | 09/20/1977 |
| 4043206 | Channel selecting shaft mounting arrangement for UHF tuners In arrangement of a channel selecting device used for a UHF tuner of the continuously variable type, a taper clutch is employed for transmitting the rotation of the detented selector shaft to the output drive gear which is secured to the fine tuning shaft... | 08/23/1977 |
| 4037482 | Accurate UHF television tuning system and method of fabricating same A highly accurate UHF television tuner utilizes an improved housing and an improved mounting system for securing the tuning rotor and stator within the housing. The housing is fabricated from sheet metal that is welded at the corners to provide mechanical... | 07/26/1977 |
| 3990315 | Detent UHF tuner with preset memory A detent type tuning mechanism for a UHF tuner having a continuously variable tuning shaft includes a detented selector shaft, a gear train interconnecting the tuner shaft and the selector shaft, and a memory type fine tuning mechanism including a rotatab... | 11/09/1976 |
| 3987680 | UHF tuner device A UHF Tuner device having a first rotating member rotating unitarily with a coarse tuning rotating shaft and adapted to be indexed and held in a position to which it has been thus rotated; a second rotating member rotated unitarily with a fine tuning rota... | 10/26/1976 |
| 3986410 | Indexing mechanism An indexing mechanism comprises a detent spring secured to a shaft and biased into engagement with a long wearing hill and valley insert secured to a housing. A variety of inserts can be secured to a standard housing providing a variety of switching posit... | 10/19/1976 |
| 3973229 | Combined 82-position UHF and VHF television tuner with memory fine tuning A combination UHF and VHF television tuner having a single detented selector shaft for individually selecting each one of the 82 UHF and VHF television channels and a single fine tuning shaft for providing memory fine tuning of channels in both the UHF an... | 08/03/1976 |
| 3972241 | UHF tuner arrangement A continuously variable UHF tuner arrangement is provided wherein a single channel selector shaft is provided with a detent position for each of the seventy UHF television stations and a highly accurate detent mechanism is employed to return the channel s... | 08/03/1976 |
| 3972240 | Detent UHF tuner with preset memory A detent type tuning mechanism for a UHF tuner having a continuously variable tuning shaft includes a detented selector shaft, a gear train interconnecting the tuning shaft and the selector shaft, and a memory type fine tuning mechanism including a rotata... | 08/03/1976 |
| 3933121 | TV channel number indicator A TV channel number indicator used for a TV tuner has first and second indicators with a rotation step-down gear mechanism interposed therebetween, first and second intermittent locking cams rotating with said indicators and forming parts of said gear mec... | 01/20/1976 |
