Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7320463 | Device for feeding a processing section A device for feeding a processing section with printed products includes a magazine and a feeding mechanism that includes a gripping mechanism and a conveying mechanism for removing the printed products from the magazine and feeding them to the processing section. T... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7320262 | Tensioner A tensioner comprising a base having a toothed portion, a pivot arm pivotally engaged with the base, a pulley journalled to the pivot arm, a spring disposed between the base and the pivot arm for biasing the pivot arm in a first direction, a mechanism disposed on th... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7250057 | Tissue puncture closure device with automatic torque sensing tamping system Methods and apparatus for sealing a puncture or incision formed percutaneously in tissue separating two internal portions of the body of a living being with an anchor, a sealing plug and a filament connecting the anchor and sealing plug are disclosed. The methods an... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7100466 | Angular velocity profile generator An angular velocity profile generator [22,24] comprising an input shaft [46], an output shaft [56], a universal joint coupling the shafts by pivot pins [70,75] situated on two pivot axes which are normal to one another, means [49] ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6955747 | Cam driven paddle assembly for a plating cell The present invention overcomes the drawbacks and limitations described above by providing a paddle assembly having a paddle that moves in a bidirectional fashion for agitating solution in a container of a plating cell. A follower is coupled to the paddle. The follo... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6748817 | Transmission with minimal orbiter A transmission has only a single, minimal orbiter in which an input gear and an output gear, each being connected to separate input and output shafts, are interconnected through an orbiting cluster gear that meshes with only the input and output gears. The cluster g... | 06/15/2004 |
| 5653142 | Intermittently rotary gearing To provide an intermittently rotary gearing that converts rotary motion of a motor to intermittent rotary motion by utilizing a mechanical structure, an input shaft interlocking with a drive shaft of the motor is provided, a first gear and a second gear b... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5546822 | Variable speed torque multiplying transmission An automatic transmission incorporating a means for varying the ratio of input rotational velocity to output rotational velocity. A cylinder cam is mounted on a cam driver having a helical gear tooth thereon engaging corresponding helical internal gear te... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5284064 | Quiet, single-cycle mechanism A low-noise, paper pick or other single cycle mechanism is obtained by employing a rotary solenoid (15) which has a force to a detent position which may be overcome by force from a drive roller (1). In the detent position the drive roller faces a blank se... | 02/08/1994 |
| 4854183 | Cyclic electromechanical program control for controlling elements, such as for example openable roofs of vehicles The cyclic electromechanical program control comprises an electric motor (6), a gear train (7) driven by the motor and having an impulse gear (26) and an output gear (5) which is engaged with at least one driving rack (3, 4) for an element (1) having a pr... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4765195 | Stepless transmission mechanism A stepless transmission of the non-friction type is provided using intermeshing non-circular gears. The transmission is made up of a number of angular velocity modulators each having first, second, and third shafts. Each shaft carries a non-circular gear ... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4717139 | Sheet feeding apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus for sequentially feeding sheet material from a sheet supporting member which supports a stack of sheet material. The feeding apparatus employs a mechanism to cause a feeding roller to engage or disengage the stack. A driving sour... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4631972 | Programmer control device The present invention relates to a programmer control device comprising a rotary cam block capable of being driven in rotation step by step by an advancing cam actuating an oscillating pawl carrier. The control device possesses means of blocking and releasing ... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4606235 | Geneva drive A mechanism for prepositioning the input shaft of a bidirectional Geneva drive to effect incremental rotation of the output shaft of the Geneva drive, upon rotation of the input shaft, at a predictable time. The Geneva drive has an input shaft rotatable i... | 08/19/1986 |
| 4584890 | Device for rotating, at will and step by step, a shaft driven from a driving shaft A device for rotating at will, step by step, a shaft (2) driven from a drive shaft to which is imparted a continuous uninterrupted rotational movement in an invariable direction, comprising means for transforming the continuous rotational movement of the ... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4579013 | Device for driving a conveyor according a pattern of unequal separate steps A device for activating the one or the other of two movement transfer devices, both driving the same output shaft, at least one of said movement transfer devices having a cam disc to create a desired velocity characteristic, control means controlled by sa... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4536167 | Rocking mechanism A rocking mechanism for providing an interesting, apparently random motion for a toy or game using an electric motor with very low battery drain, wherein an unbalancing weight is mounted on a driven wheel driven by a small PM motor, the wheel carrying a c... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4487085 | Infinitely variable gear ratio transmission An infinitely variable gear ratio transmission includes plural cam followers driven to oscillate by a rotating cam. The oscillatory motion of the cam followers is combined through plural clutches to provide an output drive. The cam includes at least one s... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4347919 | One revolution clutch assembly using gears A one revolution clutch assembly is provided which transmits the rotation of a normally rotating drive shaft to a driven rotating body through gears and which interrupts the rotation of the driven body when it has rotated through one revolution. The one r... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4327597 | Torque converter Multiple slotted drive disks are secured in parallel relationship to a drive shaft. The slots are radially arranged and the slots of each disk are aligned. Movable rods are received in the slots. A slotted driven disk is secured to a driven shaft, which d... | 05/04/1982 |
| 4215588 | Control device for an intermittently movable driver member A control device for driver member comprises an intermittently movable driver member, a follower member adapted to follow the driver member for displacement, retention and return displacement, a control member for controlling the starting and stoppage of ... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4148381 | Coded actuator An electromechanical coded actuator, upon receipt of the proper combination f electrical pulses, will unlock and cause angular displacement of an output shaft. The device comprises a rotatable notched flange integral with the output shaft, the former being... | 04/10/1979 |
