Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4476906 | Yielding pressure bar for wood planing machines A wood planar having a cutterhead with a top pressure bar in spaced horizontal relation to the cutterhead. A chipbreaker may be mounted in advance and adjacent to the cutterhead in spaced relation above a bed plate mounted for supporting a board to be pla... | 10/16/1984 |
| 4245576 | Pleating machine A pleating machine for automatically forming pleated drapes from blank drapery panels. The pleating machine is comprised of six stations which cooperate automatically under the control of a controller. The pleating machine is comprised of a loading statio... | 01/20/1981 |
| 4175436 | Wet/dry bulb hygrometer with automatic wick feed A wet/dry bulb hygrometer of the psychrometer type is used for monitoring and/or controlling humidity of a gaseous fluid having contaminants therein. The wet bulb sensor of the hygrometer is provided with a wick which is movable over the wet bulb sensor s... | 11/27/1979 |
| 4073246 | Pleating machine A pleating machine for automatically forming pleated drapes from blank drapery panels. The pleating machine is comprised of six stations which cooperate automatically under the control of a controller. The pleating machine is comprised of a loading statio... | 02/14/1978 |
| 4067277 | Automatic buckram attachment machine for draperies and process The present invention relates to a novel, compact device for attaching correctly sized strips of buckram material along the top edge of an unstretched drapery panel and overcomes prior art alignment difficulties associated between the drapery panel and st... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4040367 | Bobbin low detector A device for use with a sewing machine using bobbins to determine either when a predetermined amount of bobbin thread remains on the bobbin or, alternatively, when the bobbin is completely empty. The device employs a probe which is inserted into the bobbi... | 08/09/1977 |
