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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 |
| 5806414 | Apparatus for removing rind from spheroidal fruits and vegetables A processing apparatus and method for removing rind from a spheroidal food article, such as a melon is provided. The apparatus includes infeed and outfeed componentry for conveying melons to be processed into and out of the apparatus, providing an apparat... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806415 | Method for quick-opening a set of rolls in a calender, in particular in a supercalender, and a hydraulic system for a set of rolls in a calender, in particular a supercalender A method for quick-opening a set of rolls in a calender, in particular a supercalender, in which a paper or board web to be calendered is passed through calendering nips formed by a variable-crown top roll, a variable-crown bottom roll and by two or more ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806416 | Yard and trash compactor A device designed to compress yard debris such as leaves, bush trimmings, and grass clippings inside a plastic trash bag without damaging the structural integrity of the plastic bag during the loading or filling process and during the compression cycle. T... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806417 | Shelf-mounting assembly A shelf mounting assembly comprises front and rear opposed uprights and an adapter member on which a shelf is mounted. Each upright has engaging slots vertically disposed at spacings. The adapter member extends between the uprights and connected to the sa... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806418 | Cutting station for a printing press A cutting station (10) that permits rapid change-over and adjustment of its cutting and anvil rollers (62,60) between printing runs is disclosed. The cutting station (10) includes a frame (14) having a longitudinal axis (19) defining a web travel path; an... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806419 | Pad printing system and process of printing A pad printing apparatus is provided with a sealed ink cup for the printing of long images having a length greater than the diameter of the ink cup. The ink cup is caused to move lengthwise of the image and the movement of the image transfer pad is in a d... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806420 | Printer for printing compact discs (CD) A printing device for the printing of individual, flat print substrates, such as compact discs, in a multi-color print, uses a plurality of print units. These print units are arranged in a common frame and each has a print position. The distance between p... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806421 | Method and apparatus for securely printing a machine detectable postal indicia image A method for printing a postal indicia on a mailpiece includes moving a printing mechanism and the mailpiece relative to each other during a plurality of passes; and printing with the printing mechanism at least a corresponding portion of the postal indic... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806422 | Method and apparatus for registering a screen frame to a work support The several screen frames of a multistation screen printing machine, such as a carousel screen printer, having multiple work supports movable to the printer stations in succession to effect successive printing of screen images on work pieces fixed to the ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806423 | Printing squeegee apparatus A roller squeegee apparatus for screen printing includes a resilient receptacle receiving a supply of printing material at one open side thereof. The resilient receptacle is connected at another open side thereof to a printing squeegee. One or more driven... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806424 | Apparatus and method for registering silk screens Printing screens are registered using a photosensitive position locating sensor which is affixed to a pallet and aligned with the image of a register mark on the first of a series of printing screens. The location of the image is stored and signalled in a... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806425 | Retractable attachment for a screen printing machine A retractable registration apparatus is mounted on a screen printing type press for aligning a printing frame with an image platform, such as a vacuum table. The apparatus has a pair of registration pins for coupling with the printing frame and a registra... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806426 | Printing method, a machine for implementing the method, and medium thus printed A method of printing a color image on a medium, the method comprising the following steps: separating the image to be reproduced into a composition of colored unit areas, said unit areas being disposed in a predetermined distribution, the color of each un... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806427 | Printing press having carriage mounted interchangeable plate cylinders A rotary offset printing press having a pair of carriage mounted interchangeable plate cylinders is disclosed. The carriage is slidably mounted to the press and reciprocates along a generally linear path. The pair of plate cylinders are rotatably mounted ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806428 | Inking unit An inking unit for a rotary printing machine, a frame and a plurality of rollers. The plurality of rollers includes two inking rollers fixedly mounted to the frame so as to be spaced from one another, and a transfer roller mounted between the two inking r... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806429 | Process for supplying a printing machine with ink In printing machines, especially offset printing machines, an ink profile is produced in the inking unit by means of adjustable dosing devices associated with respective ink zones. A proper production-run state is quickly realized by first implementing a ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806430 | Digital printing press with register adjustment and method for correcting register errors therein A printing press includes a plurality of individual digital imaging units. A raster image processor receives image data in a machine-independent data format, generates machine-specific image data from the machine-independent image data and delivers the ma... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806431 | Method and apparatus for axially positioning a printing plate A method and an apparatus for axially positioning a flexible plate on a surface of a cylinder, that is divided into several axially spaced segments, utilizes a plate transport arrangement to transfer plates from a plate preparation device to the plate cyl... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806432 | Process for converting and printing on webs, and a printing machine for carrying out this process A process of converting and printing on paper webs includes converting the running web by coating and/or calendering the web. Printing of the web occurs directly after the converting step. Thus, the converted web is not wound into a roll between the conve... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806434 | Installation for the sorting of individually conveyed objects A suspension conveyor and sorting installation for the sequential sorting of individually conveyed objects. The installation includes two parallel conveyor paths arranged side by side and driven in opposite directions. Independent roller devices carry obj... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806435 | Side bearings for truck bolsters A constant contact spring bearing for use with a railway car truck bolster is provided. Greater design flexibility and installation tolerances are available because a longer travel spring, with potentially lower spring load rate and stress rate, may be us... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806436 | Shipping pallet made of plastic On a shipping pallet made of plastic, with two parallel surfaces forming its upper side and its underside respectively, whereby each surface is the outside of the base of two basic components permanently connected to one another, the bases of which are lo... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806437 | Table with multiple folding segments A table has first and second extendable bar structures positioned parallel to each other. A first table end segment is secured to the first outer ends of the extendable bar structures, and a second table end segment is secured to the second outer ends of ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806438 | Adjustable shelf system An adjustable shelf system is disclosed having vertical left and right end panels, one or more center panels, top and bottom panels for holding the end panels and center panels in spaced relation and a back panel. A plurality of shelves may be adjustably ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806439 | Transport system for automatic teller machines The present invention is a transport system for an automatic teller machine (ATM). The transport system comprises a motor-driven mechanism and a pair of bearing assemblies. The ATM is positioned within a housing and moves between a retracted position and ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806440 | Method for controlling an induced draft fan for use with gas furnaces A gas fired furnace system (10) has a controller (14) controlling the supply of gas through a gas valve (12) and air for combustion by means of an induced air draft fan (28), ignition of the gas by means of ignitor (22), the delivery of heated air from a ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806441 | Automatic carbon black discharging device in waste tire decomposing apparatus An automatic carbon black discharging device for a waste tire decomposing apparatus including a collecting hopper connected to a carbon black discharging portion of the waste tire decomposing apparatus. The automatic carbon black discharging device also i... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806442 | Apparatus for feeding solid wastes into a rotary kiln A feeding apparatus for feeding whole tires into a cement kiln comprising a feed opening in the shell of the kiln, a passageway including a sleeve extending within and outside the kiln, an arcuate sector valve device for closing the passageway and timed t... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806443 | Pulverized coal burner and method of using same To provide a pulverized coal burner capable of reducing the NOx concentration at the time of a low load, a pulverized coal burner includes a secondary air nozzle and a tertiary air nozzle concentrically positioned about the outer periphery of a fuel nozzl... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806444 | Method and an installation for treating waste by drying, sublimination, oxidation, and combustion Waste treatment. The installation for implementing the method comprises: a furnace (1) defining a confinement enclosure (2) for a fluidized bed (3) of particulate matter; means for recirculating the particles of the bed; means (28) for mixing, coating, an... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806445 | Liquid mulch apparatus for manufacturing sods An innovative liquid mulch apparatus for the production of thin, lightweight and fastly growing sod over an impervious surface such as plastic sheeting are provided. The apparatus of the invention includes, among other components, a transportable agitatin... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806446 | Individual yarn feeding apparatus An individual yarn feeding apparatus (10) for compensating for variations in the feed rate of individual yarn threads due to the lateral shifting of needle bars in various selected pile heights between tufts. The individual yarn feeding apparatus (10) is ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806447 | Portable sewing machine for use in a motor vehicle A portable sewing machine for use in a motor vehicle including a sewing machine that has an electrical coupler for engaging a cigarette lighter of a vehicle. A table is provided and has a top side, a bottom side and a peripheral edge. The bottom side has ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806448 | Overlock sewing machine An overlock sewing machine which can readily form a rolled seam with no requirement for a complicated tension adjusting operation is disclosed. In this overlock sewing machine, an auxiliary thread tensioner (15) is provided independently of a main thread ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806449 | Method and apparatus for attaching sleeves to shirt bodies A highly efficient, simplified method and apparatus for joining knitted shirt sleeves to shoulder openings of knitted shirt bodies. A knitted sleeve section, oriented outside-out, is engaged by a limited shoulder edge margin only by guide rollers, which c... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806450 | Method and apparatus for sewing fabric pieces to fastener stringers A method and apparatus of sewing a pair of opposed fabric pieces to a pair of continuous fastener stringers of a slide fastener; the fastener stingers having a pair of coupling elements mounted one on an opposed longitudinal edge thereof. The sewing of op... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806451 | Rigging, particulary for bicycles Rigging for a land or water vehicle comprises a symmetrical sail and a support therefore which is fitted with a tension member, the frame supporting the sail comprises two vertical uprights assembled together by hinged transverse bars, the rigging becomin... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806452 | Boat saver A boat's cleat having opened cord receiving ends with a rail post attachment. Slanted surface grooves within the cleat's opening permit a cord to be squeezed and held therein when subjected to a downward force, like the weight of an attached fender, while... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806453 | Land anchor device The disclosure relates to an improved manual stake-driving land anchoring device characterized by a slidable cylinder disposed within very close tolerances around an impact head on a stake, and oppositely disposed, angularly adjustable and removable handl... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5806454 | Discharge hose adapter for boat holding tank A discharge hose adapter adapts a standard marine thru hull fitting to a standard sanitation hose enabling discharge of a boat holding tank into a dump station. The adapter preferably includes a first component and a second component. The first end of the... | 09/15/1998 |
