"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?"
The Quarterly Review ; March edition, 1825
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7244900 | Control device for wall-mounted rocker switch A control device that can be mounted against the face plate of a rocker switch automatically operates the rocker switch in accordance with at least one predetermined program. The device also allows the predetermined program to be overridden to manipulate the switch ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239513 | Power control device The power control device has three units, each having two cooling fins set in opposed positions. Every cooling fin has an SCR mounted to adjust the voltage change. One of the two opposed cooling fins has a reed and a circuit board mounted thereon, and the power supp... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7021166 | Booster actuator A booster actuator 10 may be positioned between the solenoid 12 and a valve 14, and increases the energy output from the solenoid to activate the valve. The booster actuator 10 may include a force input member 28 and a force output... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6959822 | CD rack with CD holder having CD engaging projections A high capacity motorized rack holds a plurality of jewel case enclosed CDs in holders flexibly inter-connectable with each other to form a rotatable continuous loop. The loop is rotatably retained within a vertical rack housing and is driven by a motor, disposed wi... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6955267 | Storage and display rack for DVDs A high capacity motorized rack holds a plurality of DVD boxes or containers in holders flexibly inter-connectable with each other to form a rotatable continuous loop. The loop is rotatably retained within a vertical rack housing and is driven by a motor, disposed wi... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6915911 | CD rack with dual disc case holder A high capacity motorized rack holds a plurality of jewel case enclosed CDs in holders flexibly inter-connectable with each other to form a rotatable continuous loop. The loop is rotatably retained within a vertical rack housing and is driven by a motor, disposed wi... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6902070 | CD Rack with dual disc case holder A high capacity motorized rack holds a plurality of jewel case enclosed CDs in holders flexibly inter-connectable with each other to form a rotatable continuous loop. The loop is rotatably retained within a vertical rack housing and is driven by a motor, disposed wi... | 06/07/2005 |
| 5042311 | Secondary timer for program timer A secondary timer mechanism for controlling a secondary program function independently of a first program function. A main timer mechanism controls the first program function and is operatively driven by a motor. A second timer mechanism can be set indepe... | 08/27/1991 |
| 4588217 | Latch in particular for a vehicle door The latch is of the type comprising a case 1 for the latch mechanism 6 and a keeper 4 which is movable relative to this case. The latch mechanism 6 comprises a forked bolt 7 for hooking onto the keeper, a shifting lever 16 for, in a first position thereof... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4572011 | Mechanical thruster A mechanical thruster for positively separating two releasably joined components under a controlled time delay. The thruster is particularly useful for mechanically opening canisters containing survival kits as they are being dropped from an airplane to a... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4463617 | Milti-range cycle control timer unit A cycle control timer unit in which a rotatable annular program carrier is provided having two opposed sides, each formed with a different range program scale and having a different drive coupler means. The unit includes two different rotary drive transmi... | 08/07/1984 |
| 4454776 | Electric control device for actuating means The device controls an actuating device having a linear displacement and a sudden action, for example a device actuating a latch. The actuating device is disposed in a case provided with an aperture through which it is capable of emerging under the action... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4372917 | Contact lens sterilizing apparatus A timer controlled container inverting apparatus is constructed and arranged to commence timing out for container inversion only after setting of proper inversion time and reception of the container in the apparatus e.g. a vial containing a contact lens i... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4337676 | Manual operation device When with the manual operation device of this invention, a selected one of many push buttons provided for a cassette tape recorder is depressed, then an insertable actuating member lying below that depressed push button is brought down between a common tr... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4295380 | Gearing for a motor driven timing relay The gearing for motor driven timing relays comprises an appropriate number of gear pairs which are in continuous engagement with each other and are rotatably mounted on a turntable which is driven by a setting shaft.... | 10/20/1981 |
| 4279392 | Adjustable time-delayed apparatus for opening a parachute In a time-delayed device for opening a parachute, a spring-loaded cable is coupled to a cylindrical translational gear for conjoint movement. When the cable is released from a cocked position and spring-driven to a release position at which it opens the p... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4179676 | Time delay relay movement An improved movement for a time delay relay cooperates with an electromagnet and a timer to provide either "On Delay" or "Off Delay" operation of the relay contacts. The movement has an elongated operating plunger that is movable in forward and backward s... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4143116 | Contact lens sterilizing apparatus Contact lens sterilizer has a timer operating a catch for holding a capsule containing contact lenses in sterilizing solution in a sterilizing position. In this position, the capsule is inclined toward inversion. When the timer releases the catch after a ... | 03/06/1979 |
| 4122827 | Kinematic synchronous solar heliostat A kinematic solar heliostat for reflecting solar energy onto a fixed target which uses a single drive to position reflected solar energy onto such target during daytime hours at any latitude and having a capability of automatically returning eastwardly ea... | 10/31/1978 |
| 4013410 | Contact lens sterilization process and apparatus A chemical sterilization process for contact lenses, and apparatus for practicing said method, wherein the lens are subjected to the anti-microbial action of a sterilizing solution, with said solution being decomposed by a catalytic agent. The apparatus o... | 03/22/1977 |
| 3973443 | Timing relay having an electric motor device In a timing relay including an indexing gear wheel driven by a clutched gear wheel which is driven by an electric motor and in which an actuating element is controlled by means of a cam coupled to the indexing gear wheel with the actuating element being u... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3968698 | Automatic reset timer An automatic reset timer includes two separate switches having operators held in timed out position by individual latches. A clutch is released by one operator when the timer is timed out. A solenoid also controls the latches for the two switches and also... | 07/13/1976 |
| 3950624 | Automatic reset timer with latch controlled cam operator A multiple switch automatic reset timer in which the switches are located in the back of the timer and have operators angularly spaced about a main bearing axis. A clutch operator is also angularly spaced from the switch operators. A spring return timing ... | 04/13/1976 |
| 3941000 | Expanded scale timer and method of operating such An expanded scale timer has means adapted to be driven for indicating the operating time of the timer, and a pair of means are conjointly and relatively movable for respectively driving the indicating means at different predetermined speeds. Means is prov... | 03/02/1976 |