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...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 |
| 6994629 | Attraction Attraction consisting of a number of gondolas arranged a fixed distance apart which move along a fixed endless track, such as a circle. By this means a difference in height of at least approximately 30 meters is travelled. The gondolas are linked to one another in s... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6367577 | Vehicle including a variable gear ratio steering device and an electric power steering apparatus A vehicle including a variable gear ratio steering device and an electric power steering apparatus is disclosed. The variable gear ratio steering device influences on a steering system of the vehicle and varies a ratio of a steering angle of steerable roa... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6349612 | Steering apparatus for four-wheeled vehicle A steering apparatus for a four-wheeled vehicle transmits a steering force through a steering shaft, a reduction gear, a steering lever and right and left tie rods to right and left knuckles. The reduction gear includes a pinion gear turned by the steerin... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6302658 | Swash plate-compressor A compressor, in particular for the air conditioning system of an automobile, with a housing (1) and a compressor unit (2) accommodated in the housing (1) for taking in and compressing a refrigerant, wherein the compressor unit (2) comprises pistons (7) r... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6013002 | Rotary power transmission apparatus A rotary power transmission apparatus for transmitting a rotary power from an input rotary member to an output rotary member eccentric from the input rotary member. The rotary power transmission apparatus comprises: a ring member arranged around the outer... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5896771 | Roll stand with a pair of roll support shafts with bearings at both ends of the shafts A pair of roll support shafts which are supported by bearings provided at both ends of the roll support shafts, wherein, between the bearings, toothed drums are mounted on the roll support shafts or the circumference of the roll support shafts is provided... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5816770 | Transfer robot A transfer robot has a base, first and second intermediate arms, and a distal arm. First and second pulleys are fixed to driving and driven shafts of the first intermediate arm, respectively, and a flat belt is looped around the first and second pulleys. ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5709642 | Cushioning conversion machine and method A cushioning conversion machine for converting sheet-like stock material into a cushioning product. The machine comprises a frame; a forming assembly which forms the sheet-like stock material into a three-dimensional strip of dunnage; a stock supply assem... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5660076 | Drive system of a rotating drum A drive system of a rotating drum (1), where the drum is supported with a flexible support system. The drive system consists of a gear rim (2) and a pinion gear (4) in contact with the gear rim. The driving pinion gear is supported on a moving platform (1... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5483851 | Gearbox Thermal expansion within a gearbox causes relative motion of all of the component parts therein. For gearboxes having components made of different materials, differential thermal expansion may alter the clearances between meshing gears and give rise to in... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5349880 | Transmission with variable mechanical prestress A transmission with variable mechanical prestress including a pinion driven by an electric motor, a driven gearwheel with its bearings in a housing, and an electromagnetic actuator for applying a prestress force which is controllable in dependence on an i... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5307703 | Head adjusting device A device is provided for adjusting the position of an element, arranged to be movable in a predetermined direction, comprising a driving member for generating driving force to be applied to the element, and a transferring member for transferring the drivi... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5159848 | Self-adjusting motor mount for drive motors of a pen plotter This invention is a self-adjusting motor mount for holding a driving gear mounted on the shaft of a motor in engagement with a driven gear carried by a back plate disposed in a vertical plane and is particularly useful in a pen plotter. There is a mountin... | 11/03/1992 |
| 4966026 | Edging roll for use in making sections having flanges This invention relates to an edging roll for rolling the flange edges (12a) of a rolling material (12), specifically to an edging roll which is adaptable commonly to rolled sections having different dimensions and is capable to roll the flange edges with ... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4858485 | Inscribed transmission device An inscribed transmission device includes a substantially crescent-shaped space between an internal gear and an external gear circumscribingly in mesh with each other. The device comprises a rolling space holder having two sets of two rollers whose center... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4088045 | Planetary work forming machine having improved starter timing control and starter drive selector A machine is disclosed which incorporates a timing control for modifying the timing of a starter for feeding work blanks to a forming station and which features a manual control for applying a supplementary rotary input into a spindle operated differentia... | 05/09/1978 |
| 3933056 | Slack adjusters An automatic slack adjuster is proposed which has an internally geared input member and an externally geared output member which is slightly eccentrically mounted within the input member and meshes with it and adjustment is achieved by moving the centre o... | 01/20/1976 |
