Did You Know...
...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7461802 | Apparatus and method for supporting a removable anvil A grinding machine having a mounting arrangement and an anvil. The grinding machine generally including a feed table and a grinding drum positioned within a mill box. The mounting arrangement being configured to support an end of the feed table and the anvil. The an... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7458403 | Tool stand with support frame A folding stand (1) for a cross-cut saw or the like, has an elongate carrying body (4) for a cross-cut saw, at the ends of which two legs (3) are hinged. The legs pivot from a storage position, in which they are placed parallel to the carrying b... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7455252 | Powder particle disintegrating and sizing apparatus It is an object of the present invention to provide a particle crushing and sizing apparatus having a sufficiently wide particle crushing and sizing range, capable of being scaled down in size, and having high processing throughput. To achieve the object, a particle... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7451946 | Refining element Refining elements for use in a refining apparatus for refining lignocellulosic fibrous material between a pair of refining members are disclosed. The refining element is adapted to be mounted on the inwardly facing conical surface of an outer stationary refining mem... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7448568 | Shredder with rotatable sidewall A shredder for shredding a by-product, such as sprue, runner and the like generated when molding a thermoplastic synthetic resin product, into recyclable shredded pieces, is structured such that front and rear oscillating side walls are openable, right and left stat... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7448419 | Setup jig for a router bit A setup jig for a router bit for setting the desired depth of the router bit includes a profile member having a plurality of outwardly extending projections wherein each projection is shaped with a profile that corresponds to a different router bit shape. The second... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7448564 | Portable apparatus for crushing rock and other hard material and related method The invention includes a rock crushing machine and method, the machine having a base and a jaw assembly secured to the base. The jaw assembly is adapted to receive rock as input material to be at least partially crushed. The jaw assembly is provided with an arcuate ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7445173 | Device for reducing vibrations and noises of a paper shredder A device for reducing vibrations and noises of a paper shredder uses a buffer device comprised of a rubber cylinder and a spring between core fixing frames and the housing base of the paper shredder. The buffer device is fixed by using screw and washer, enhancing th... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7445172 | Hand-operable pill crushing apparatus A pill-crushing apparatus includes first and second arms having axially offset proximal and distal ends. The proximal end of the first arm is provided with a handle and a pair of apertures. The proximal end of the second arm has a handle and an opening. The arms are... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7445171 | Motorized kitchen appliance A motorized kitchen appliance provides a resilient fixation of a drive unit, surrounded by an outer wall, within a housing of the kitchen appliance. The drive unit is resiliently mounted in the housing through the use of projections and is fixed therein in the manne... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7441717 | Micromedia milling process A process for forming a dispersion of milled solid particles of a compound comprising forming a milling mixture of a liquid medium, milling media having an average particle size of less than or equal to about 300 microns, and a solid compound in a mixing vessel, and... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7438245 | Milling and classifying apparatus, collision mill, air classifier, toner, and method for producing toner Disclosed is a milling and classifying apparatus, adapted to produce toner fine particles, comprising a collision mill, and an air classifier, wherein the collision mill comprises a jet nozzle room, a path, a collision plate, and a collision member mounted to a supp... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7434604 | Jig apparatus A jig apparatus for aiding in the formation of a variety of mechanically interconnecting structures or joints in workpieces. The jig apparatus may include a base and a template mounting system for adjustably positioning a template with respect to the base. A securin... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434756 | Rotor and counter knife for a rotary grinder The present invention relates to a single shaft rotary grinder with an improved cutter and combination “comb” rotor and counter knife configuration for reducing film, fibrous material and other material which has a tendency to wrap around the rotor, rubber, soli... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434755 | Meat shredder apparatus Apparatus for shredding or pulling pieces of meat, which includes a feed hopper carried on a body, a removable shredder roller assembly in the body for shredding the meat, which includes a shredder roller, and a backer plate, which can be adjusted to vary the textur... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7431228 | Method for isolating aleurone particles The invention relates to a method and device for separating a mixture, made of particles of a first particle type and a second particle type, especially aleurone particles and shell particles made of comminuted bran, said particles being scarcely distinguishable in ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7429009 | Process for production of water-absorbing material An object of the present invention is to make it possible, in order to form the fine powder of the water-absorbent resin into a water-absorbing material having particle diameters favorable for practical use, that a water-absorbing material which has high agglomerati... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7426948 | Milled submicron organic biocides with narrow particle size distribution, and uses thereof A method of milling substantially insoluble solid organic biocides to form a micron or sub-micron product having a narrow particle size distribution is presented. The milling involves wet milling of the organic biocide with high density milling media having a diamet... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424982 | Device for tuning and translating a pasty or granular material The invention concerns a device comprising a rotary shaft (2) supported above a layer (C) of material, transversely to the translation direction (A) of the material, and means for turning (3) the material extending at least partly radially relative to ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424900 | Finger cutter Cutting portion regions of replaceable blades that extrude outward in a radial direction at a plurality of portions in a peripheral direction of an outer periphery of a body of a finger joint cutter are arranged in that, as for a cutting portion material that compri... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7422167 | Fluid-energy mill A fluid-energy mill for size reduction of a material includes a manifold defining a grinding chamber having a first radius extending from a center of the grinding chamber, a gas inlet, a feed inlet, and an outlet. The feed inlet is positioned such that the material ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7422169 | Manually drivable apparatus for comminuting foods A cover (1) has a base (2) to which a vessel (5) can be nonrotatably attached and a cap (3) which is rotatable relative to the base (2) and has, via a gear (4) arranged in the cover (1) and having a transmission ratio... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7422170 | Leaves and seeds hand grinder A grinder includes a grinder housing having a grinder actuator, a first grinding plate, a second grinding plate and a detachable coupling arrangement. The first grinding plate is detachably coupling with the grinder actuator, wherein the first grinding plate has a p... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7419111 | Multi-blade food processing apparatus A multi-blade food processing apparatus having two independent blade assemblies, each of which blade assemblies having two opposed horizontal cutting blades, wherein the upper of two independent blade assemblies is selectively removable from the apparatus, the cutti... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7416000 | Apparatus for straight-lining construction material An apparatus for straight-lining construction material comprises an extension coupled to a rip fence and a carrier assembly coupled to the top of the extension, in which the carrier assembly travels along the extension to deliver the material to a saw blade. The car... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7416141 | Method for producing diamond particles using grinding media Grinding media, including shaped media such as spheres or rods ranging in size from about 0.5 micron to 100 mm in diameter, are formed from a multi-carbide material consisting essentially of two or more carbide-forming elements and carbon, with or without carbide-fo... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7416143 | Tablet crusher The invention is a tablet crusher including a linkage that is operable to bring to bear a force on a platen so as to urge it against an anvil, wherein platen and anvil are shaped so as to bring about a crushing force upon a tablet disposed therebetween. The device c... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7413135 | High pressure homogenizing apparatus and method thereof The present invention relates to a high pressure homogenizing apparatus and a method thereof for finely dividing a fine solid material or fibrous cellulose of chemical, medical, and resin products in a suspension as a dispersion or emulsification, or finely dividing... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7407123 | Refiner plates with logarithmic spiral bars A special shape of bars on refining discs or plate segments (54) of a rotating disc refiner (10) is disclosed including a plurality of bars (76) generally extending outwards toward the outer end of the disk across its surface, arranged in a sing... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7404527 | Safety shield for an ice shaving machine A safety shield (10) is adapted to be used in a machine having a blade assembly such as an ice shaving and dispensing machine (11). The machine (11) has an ice bin (13) carried by a pedestal (12). An ice shelf (31) has an op... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7398938 | Conical refiner plates with logarithmic spiral type bars A special shape of bars on refining cones or plate segments of a rotating conical refiner is disclosed including a plurality of bars generally extending outwards towards the outer end of the cone across its working surface, arranged in a single, two or more radial z... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398934 | Deep-chamber, stepped, fluid-energy mill The embodiments of the present invention relate to improvements in the fluid-energy mills. Particularly, the fluid-energy mill of the present invention includes a deeper chamber for grinding of particulate material, wherein the discontinuities defining the stepped c... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7395981 | Plunger can assembly A plunger can for a roller assembly within a pulverizing mill has a body which contains a compression spring. A stub shaft transfers the force generated by the compression spring to the roller assembly. A bushing in cooperation with a locking guide in the fore end o... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7392831 | Component part for musical instrument, such as side board for piano body, and method for manufacturing the same One or more plywood base plate members and at least one decorative plate are stuck together on top of each other, to thereby make a decorative plywood board of a given size. A joined decorative plywood board unit of a desired size is made of a plurality of the decor... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7387268 | Document destroyer with individual sheet feeding for stacked sheet material A method for destroying stacked sheets according to which the sheets are mechanically individualized, grasped and cut. To this end, the down-most individual sheet in the stack is grasped in its center section from below, is folded and removed from the stack as a par... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7380736 | In-line shredder apparatus and method for shredding materials A shredder apparatus has a moveable, shaftless ring component and a secondary comb member component. The ring component and the secondary component cooperate to shred material. The shredder mechanism may be positioned so as to be substantially in-line with the mater... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7377458 | Grinder A grinder includes a body, an upper sleeve-shaped member pivoting on the body and dividing an inside of the body into inner and outer rooms, a cover pivoting on the sleeve-shaped member, a connecting rod joined to a middle of the cover and extending through the inne... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7377457 | Agricultural bale cutter An agricultural bale cutter has a scoop shaped lower jaw frame supporting a first set of teeth at a lower end and is pivotally mounted to an upper jaw frame. A second set of teeth mounted on the upper jaw frame may therefore be moved between distal and proximal posi... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7377297 | Tree delimber A tree delimber including a base frame rotatably supporting a yoke and cutting head assembly. The yoke is journalled for rotation in a ring bearing on the base frame adjacent its rear end and supported by a pair of roller units adjacent its front end. Each roller un... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7373960 | Brush cutter The invention provides a brush cutter and chipper that attaches to the end of an articulating arm or boom on equipment. The cutter may utilize existing hydraulic power and controls. The cutter includes a housing with external feed assembly that feeds material throug... | 05/20/2008 |
