Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D517638 | Handle part for a handgun | 03/21/2006 |
| 6205696 | Gun with detachable barrel mounting A rifle has a barrel which is mounted detachably in the housing in that pairs of clamping rings (11, 12) are provided between the rear part of the barrel (5) and the inner cylindrical surface (3) of the housing (1), which clamping rings (11, 12) have mutu... | 03/27/2001 |
| 5881486 | Hand-held firearm with a light casing A hand-held firearm, comprising a casing which accommodates breech parts, a stock which is attached to the casing, and a barrel which is detachably connected to the casing, and having a mounting for a telescopic sight. In order to avoid the disadvantages ... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5852892 | Rifle with bipod A rifle has a fore-end to which a bipod is fitted which comprises a support part and retractable legs, the support part and the legs being connected by means of pins, which are thickened at their outer end and have a cut-off sector, and depressions with a... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5493974 | Saboted projectile with sub-caliber core projectile and discarding cage In the sub-caliber projectile proposed, the discarding cap (10) is made up of segments (11) whose bases (14) are secured between a pressure plate (15) and a pressure piece (18). In order to ensure that all the sabot segments (11) fall away reliably and pr... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5392714 | Sub-calibre projectile with sabot Described is a sub-calibre projectile of the sabot (pusher-plate) type with discarding cap segments (11). The projectile has a pressure plate (15) with a rearwards-projecting alignment spike (16) which is inserted into a pressure piece (18). Held between ... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5090327 | Cartridge with flash tube A cartridge comprises a cartridge case having a bottom, a top, and a hollow interior, the top being open and receiving a projectile, and the hollow interior containing a propellant charge. A metal ignition tube extends from a primer cap on the bottom of t... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5063853 | Cartridge case A cartridge case comprises a metal base piece, a plastic sleeve casing, and a plastic tubular section made as a separate part extending along the inside surface of the sleeve casing. The tubular section includes a flange which extends along and is in inti... | 11/12/1991 |
