Did You Know...
...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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 |
| 6267026 | Screwdriver for self-drilling screw A hand-held power screwdriver with a clamping device is disclosed. The screwdriver includes a body, a screwing arm, a clamping arm, and a clamping device. The body is similar to an ordinary hand drill. A torque shaft, a part of the screwing arm, is connec... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267027 | Analog position ratchet mechanism A wrench device has a bearing-type clutch for providing a unidirectional rotational force and an opposite unidirectional independent rotation. The wrench device includes a set of larger and smaller bearings disposed in an irregular space with larger and s... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267028 | Wrench with pinch-locking engaging surfaces An open end wrench head is described for use with a fastener having at least two substantially parallel outer engaging surfaces creating an across-width dimension. The open end wrench head has an orifice which includes four principle internal engaging sur... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267029 | Construction for an adjustable wrench An improved design for an adjustable wrench and a method for making the same are disclosed. One embodiment of the disclosed wrench includes a main body which includes a handle, upper jaw, and an attachment portion such as a groove. The lower jaw of the wr... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267030 | Tool coupler and extender mechanism A tool coupler and extender mechanism for affording greater leverage on a wrench. The tool coupler and extender mechanism includes a coupling member having a generally flat first side and a generally flat second side and having a definite thickness and fu... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267031 | Tool for engaging sockets A tool for engaging sockets includes a shank with a handle one end of the shank and a slot defined longitudinally in an outside of the other end of the shank. An engaging member is slidably received in the slot and a spring mounted to the shank urges a fi... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267032 | Twin-cam drive type adapter Twin-cam drive type adapter including: a main body the bottom end of which has a fitting section; a rotary bar the bar body of which is disposed with two cam sections, two releasing sections being formed between the two cam sections and interlaced with th... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267033 | Close tolerance food slicing apparatus, blade and method Apparatus device and method improved slicing of large food sticks, loaves and the like are provided. A slicing blade which may have a top flat surface or top flat land width along its cutting edge provides generally longitudinal forces on the food product... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267034 | Apparatus for cutting and stacking a multi-form web A high speed rotary cutter assembly for transversely cutting a moving web, comprising a cutting roll and an anvil roll rotating at web speed which are selectively movable toward and away from one another to set the rotary cutter assembly in operative and ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267035 | Fiber chopper apparatus and method A chopper for chopping fibers or fiber strands having a back up roll and a blade roll containing blades that work against a peripheral surface of the back up roll and a method of using is disclosed. The chopper has a number of improved features for reduci... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267036 | Fruit and vegetable decorative carving device A device, which can be incorporated into a kit, useful in carving decorative designs in the shell or skin of fruits or vegetables having a base plate, which is preferably flexible, containing a plurality of co-planar, upstanding, piercing elements, in a d... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267037 | Pipeline cutting apparatus An underwater apparatus for servicing subsea pipelines provides a telescoping frame which can be lowered to the vicinity of the pipeline. The frame has an open section so that it can straddle the pipeline and outer jacket and fixate itself releasably so t... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267038 | Variable cut scroll saw A scroll saw including an adjustable tensioning mechanism is disclosed. The saw includes a housing having an inner surface and a pivoting arm having a rearward end disposed within an opening in the housing. A first blade clamp is disposed at the forward e... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267039 | Aircraft missile-hit survivability using infrared lamp and sacrificial support structure An aircraft missile vulnerability reduction system based on missile hit acceptance whereby a targeted aircraft's most critical components are protected by a preprogrammed, missile-attracting infrared decoy strategically positioned on a sacrificial portion... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267040 | Power steering device In a power steering device, a pump supplies a pressure fluid. A power cylinder has left and right chambers and is driven in accordance with a pressure difference between a pressure fluid supplied to the left chamber and that to the right chamber. A flow c... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267041 | Fluid regeneration circuit for hydraulic cylinders A fluid regeneration circuit for a hydraulic system having at least one hydraulic actuating cylinder associated therewith, the present circuit including a control valve connected in fluid communication with the actuating cylinder for controlling the opera... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267042 | Position detector for fluid cylinder A position detector includes a fluid cylinder having a piston. An ultrasonic transceiver is provided at one end of the piston outside of the moving range of the piston. In response to electrical signals, the ultrasonic transceiver transmits ultrasonic wav... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267043 | Brake actuator assembly The brake actuator assembly of this invention significantly reduces accumulation of road debris, reduces the weight of the push rod and yoke assembly and friction between the mating parts. The brake actuator includes a housing defining a chamber having an... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267044 | Batch toaster A batch type toaster includes a cool remote waiting zone and an intrinsically controlled transport mechanism that retains the bread in said waiting zone while the toasting zone is heating to optimum toasting conditions and subsequently moves the bread int... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267045 | Cooking device with energy storage and extraction system The invention relates to a cooking device with a cooking chamber, a heating device, a circulating system, an energy storage and extraction system and a measuring and regulating system connected to the heating device, the circulating system and the energy ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267046 | Convection steamer There is provided an apparatus for steaming food contained within a perforated food basket. The apparatus includes a convector that urges steam upward and having an exit that permits steam to pass therethrough and out of the apparatus, a removable lid for... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267047 | Portable griddle stove with dual cooking surfaces A portable griddle stove has two non-stick cooking surfaces, either of which can withstand being on the underside of the cooking surface in use and the heat applied to the underside surface. A heat shield and heat diffuser control the temperature applied ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267048 | Block former A block former for the production of blocks of cheese, comprising an upright drainage column with a feed opening for curd particles at the upper end, a closed casing and a perforated inner tube. There is an annular space between the casing and the inner t... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267049 | Apparatus to produce ice-cream Apparatus to produce ice-cream or similar cold products, comprising a cooling container, a cooling device arranged around the cooling chamber and an ice-cream making receptacle, inside the receptacle there being included a rotating whisk associated with a... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267050 | Quick access/adjustment piston An hydraulic piston-cylinder assembly configured within a press machine enables adjustments to be made to the shutheight parameter through changes in the positioning of the bed in accordance with hydraulic pressure variations in the piston-cylinder assemb... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267051 | Method and system of implementing corrections in underwater images A method and system for printing a customer image order containing at least one image captured underwater. A digital record of a customer image order containing at least one image captured underwater is obtained. The image captured underwater is determine... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267052 | Printing with differential receptivity A method of imaging a substrate is disclosed, the method consisting of applying a first layer to the substrate to form a "print pattern" and a second step of presenting an "addressed design" to the substrate both within an outside the area of the print pa... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267053 | Perf/score shell for presses A shell featuring a main body formed of a hard and flexible sheet-like substance, such as stainless steel, is substituted for the rubber blanket of a blanket cylinder in a lithograph offset press. Perforating material that includes spaced teeth with flat ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267054 | Retaining apparatus and method for holding printing plates on a vacuum drum A retainer for holding a printing plate to the cylindrical surface of a vacuum drum has a curved surface which conforms to and seals against the cylindrical surface of the drum. The retainer is held in place by pressure differential. An edge portion of a ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267055 | Dual laser thermal imaging A positive-working lithographic printing plate which is imageable by dual infrared lasers has a substrate which absorbs modulated, imaging infrared laser radiation of one wavelength to heat the substrate and an adjacent coating. The substrate has a coatin... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267056 | Printing machine A printing machine with a cylinder sleeve (16), which can be rotationally driven and is supported at both ends with protruding axle journals (18) directly in the machine frame (10, 12), and with a shaft (22), which passes through the cylinder sleeve and c... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267057 | Method and apparatus for control command automation in a customizable printing press A method and apparatus for automating input of parameter changes on a printing press. At least one sequence of parameter change inputs is recorded and stored in a predetermined file. Later, the file may be called up and the recorded sequence of parameter ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267058 | Coupling mechanism for magnetically coupled transportation module A coupling mechanism includes an inner magnetic coupler disposed inside a thrust tube and an outer magnetic coupler disposed outside the thrust tube. The inner and outer magnetic couplers are spaced by a non-metallic portion of the thrust tube. The inner ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267059 | Low clearance train positioner A train positioning system for moving railroad cars by engaging bogey frames from one side includes a dog carriage guideway spaced from and parallel to a railroad track, a dog carriage mounted to operate along the guideway, a first dog pivotally attached ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267060 | Overhead conveyor with powered drive module A factory preassembled drive module is assembled between opposed spaced apart ends of load beams and opposed rotatable shafts supported by the load beams are assembled drivingly to a rotatable drive shaft coupling of the drive unit or module in a job site... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267061 | Model train control system A system which operates a digitally controlled model railroad transmitting a first command from a first client program to a resident external controlling interface through a first communications transport. A second command is transmitted from a second cli... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267062 | AC drive industrial switching locomotive The two axle locomotive of this invention includes a diesel engine directly coupled to a generator for generating power to a single electrical traction motor. Preferably, the drive motor is an AC traction motor which drives both axles of the locomotive us... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267063 | Defect hiding quick installation shelving system A shelving system adapted to be quickly installed in a closet or similar space with a relative minimum of labor and finishing. The system includes a shelf, side brackets which are anchored to the side walls of the closet space, end caps adapted to lock in... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267065 | Foldable paperboard table A foldable paperboard table includes two first paperboards each having two first slits on lower edge thereof and two second paperboards each having two second slits on a top edge thereof. The four paperboards are interconnected with each other by engaging... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267066 | Refractory tile system for boiler tube/heat exchanger A refractory tile system includes a barrier layer coating applied to the wall (membrane and waterwall or tube wall) of a boiler of an incinerator or heat exchanger. Refractory tiles are then fastened to the tube wall utilizing a floating attachment mechan... | 07/31/2001 |
