Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6434869 | Decoration system The present invention is a decoration system. It can be used to decorate an outside of a building or inside of a building. It can be used for a temporary decoration or as a permanent display. Examples of uses are Happy Birthday displays, congratulations d... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434870 | Method of personalizing message tags for footwear A personalized message tag attached to the laces of a shoe bearing on the front visible surface the introductory portion of a desired phrase and having a non-visible rear surface that the wearer can inscribe a completing portion the desired phrase. The ta... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434871 | Shelf-mount sign system A mounting system for mounting a sign, such as a sheet or a panel to a generally horizontal shelf includes a display portion including an arm forming a portion of and defining a sign receiving region. The display portion includes a display hinge portion d... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434872 | Slide mount A film cut into a screen is correctly and easily fitted onto a slide mount. For this purpose, the slide mount is formed by joining a mount and a cover together, and windows are opened in the central portions of the mount and the cover, respectively. A fil... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434873 | Ornamental display for achievement awards An ornamental display for use most typically as an achievement award is disclosed. The ornamental display comprises a front panel having peripheral edges, a back panel having peripheral edges, an insert, a cavity, and a fastener. The insert has at least a... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434874 | Digit support A digit support for AR family receivers designed to reside in a gap left between a receiver's pistol grip and trigger guard. The support fills the gap and ideally separates a user's digit from the gap, thereby protecting the user's digit from injury due t... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434875 | Backstrap module configured to receive components and circuitry of a firearm capable of firing non-impact fired ammunition A backstrap module configured to receive components and circuitry of a firearm capable of generating a firing signal from a firing apparatus for firing a non-impact ammunition cartridge along a firing axis includes a housing having an exterior surface whi... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434876 | Method of applying a particle-embedded coating to a substrate A turbine blade is coated by first applying a particle-entrapped tip coating to the tip of the airfoil. An aluminum-containing coating is thereafter applied to the airfoil, including to the tip of the airfoil overlying the particle-entrapped tip coating. ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434877 | Collapsible hunter's blind A collapsible hunter's blind apparatus, for enclosing a hunter in a truncated triangularly-shaped enclosure, comprising: first and second vertically draping camouflage panels, a first horizontal telescopic frame member for horizontally supporting the firs... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434878 | Fish hook holder A fish hook holder comprises a cylindrical shape barrel having a plunger inserted therein which is resiliently biased by a spring also residing within the barrel. The holder has a catch positioned near the distal end which can be moved between a retracted... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434879 | Bi-directional, manufacturable, lift-generating mesh bar Mesh cells (30) for machine-made netting (51) use pairs of mesh bars (35) made from a continuous length of material and meet at a common coupler (34). Such mesh bars (35) have a lay with a common direction throughout the length of material. In a zig-zag p... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434880 | System for applying a chemical to vegetation The present invention provides a system for applying a chemical, such as an herbicide, to a surface. A chemical reservoir stores a quantity of the chemical for dispensation to the surface. A flow control unit in fluid communication with the chemical reser... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434881 | Device for enhancing photosynthesis A device for enhancing photosynthesis has a membrane which is formed so that the membrane covers plants or vegetables, the membrane having photo-transforming qualities which convert UV light for plants and vegetables into growth-enhancing light that promo... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434882 | Containerized, multi-season raised-bed garden kit A raised-bed garden kit having a frame, dual-function brackets, arched supports, and changeable covers. The dual-function brackets secure the cover to the frame and allow the cover to hinge at either side.... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434883 | Vine support with snap-in cross arm A vine support system for supporting vine crops includes a vertical post having one or more slotted apertures extending horizontally therethrough. A plurality of cross arms are provided, each cross arm fashioned and dimensioned to snap-engage in one of th... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434884 | Stable organic biostimulant useful in agricultural, horticulture and microbial processes and methods of producing same A biostimulating substance, useful in agriculture, horticulture and microbial processes, is composed of acetic acid and a fossil humic substance containing solid humins and humic acid. A method for improving the biostimulating properties and stability of ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434885 | Moveable window unit having a noise reduction system A movable window unit having a window glass which can be moved between a closed end position in a well of a door and an open end position by a motorized drive. The motorized drive comprises an electric motor which is controlled by a motor control. To redu... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434886 | Releasable vertical lift overhead door A releasable vertical lift overhead door for an opening of a structure includes a plurality of tracks with one of a pair of the tracks adapted to be disposed on a side of the opening of the structure and another of the pair of the tracks adapted to be dis... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434887 | Window stay and window construction equipped with window stay A window stay is provided for mounting a window in a window frame. The window stay comprises a bar member for connection to the window, a track member for connection to the window frame, a slide member slidably mounted on the track member, and a pair of a... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434888 | Door gap finger guard The present door gap finger guard is comprised of an elongated rigid fixed plate connected to an elongated rigid movable plate by a narrow springy strip. The fixed plate, springy strip, and movable plate are coplanar when relaxed. The fixed plate is adapt... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434889 | Antenna support structure with palm tree skirt An antenna support structure has the outward appearance of a palm tree. The antenna support structure has a vertical support pole with an upper portion, an intermediate portion and a lower portion. The lower portion is of a color and texture to resemble t... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434890 | Room enclosure comprised or prefabricated elements such as outer walls, partitions and intermediate floors or the like and a method for the assembly thereof A simple, economic and rapid method for the reliable and precise erection of sturdy room delimiting means in new and semi-finished building and, respectively, for incorporation in pre-existing room and the room delimiting means includes modular prefabrica... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434891 | Reinforced panel arch for soft-covered buildings and the like A reinforced arch made of arcuate panel sections is disclosed. The addition of stiffening elements such as bracing or a tensioning apparatus to the arch increases the strength and stability of the arch. By attaching a plurality of these arches together in... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434892 | Overfilled, precast skewed arch bridge An overfilled, pre-cast reinforced concrete arch bridge for supporting one pathway above a second pathway in which the projections of the pathways intersect at an oblique angle. The bridge includes a plurality of identically shaped arch elements that are ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434893 | Apparatus and method for placing elevated concrete slabs An automatic or active shoring apparatus and process for controlling the deflection of the beams and girders typically in an elevated structure prior to and while concrete is placed and screeded on the beams and girders comprises a beam adjusting device a... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434894 | Formwork for prefabricated concrete parts A formwork system is provided for prefabricated concrete parts, wherein a magnetic body can be set with its underside on a base plate and over which formwork parts can be fixed in their respective position. The formwork part has a lift-off stirrup engagin... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434895 | Foldable trailerable building A folded building, after having been trailered on its own wheel assemblies to a site, is unfolded at the site by first reorienting 90° the wheel assemblies attached to each of a pair of side walls and removing an attached trailer hitch. The side walls ar... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434896 | Double-walled underground tornado shelter with connection means on the flanges of upper and lower hemispherical halves An underground tornado shelter having a double-hull design is constructed through a rotational molding process from any one of a variety of materials, such as linear medium-density polyethylene. The tornado shelter has a dome-shaped upper half and a hemis... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434897 | Non-slip floor covering and process for producing it A non-slip floor covering which includes a plurality of depressions that are regularly or randomly distributed over a floor covering surface such that the depressions provide a suction effect.... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434898 | Flush glazed door The invention is directed to an insulated door and a method for manufacturing such have a glazing or window section installed therein. The frame of the window section is installed during manufacture and is flush with both faces of the door. The flush glaz... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434899 | Fire resistant door edge construction comprising a stile with groove, high density strip in the groove, an intumescent strip seal, covered by an edge lipping A fire resistant door edge construction composed of an incombustible door stile including an intumescent seal intimately fixed in a groove in the stile, over a rigid strip of high density material located in the base of the groove for anchoring hinge scre... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434900 | Prefabricated concrete wall system A prefabricated wall system for free-standing subdivision partitions, highway sound and visual barriers, privacy walls, or walls of a building having a plurality of prefabricated modular panels that are removably interconnected and installed. Each panel i... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434901 | Support plate made of a foil-like plastic material for a plate-lined floor structure or wall The invention relates to a support and/or drainage plate made of a foil-like plastic material, for use with a plate-lined floor structure or a wall so as to create a space between the ground and the surface lining to be applied onto the foil-like plate. T... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434902 | Poured concrete wall insulation A system is disclosed for securing insulation panels to the surface of a poured concrete wall by securing caps to the protruding ends of the ties extending through the wall.... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434903 | Section fixable to an anchoring base A section fixable in a mounted position to an anchoring base by means of fastening screws has at least one fastening segment extending in the mounted position substantially parallel to the anchoring base. The fastening segment is, for example, a fastening... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434904 | Sealing device The invention relates to a sealing device consisting of two contiguous building elements made of concrete, steel, reinforced concrete, cast iron or other materials, and a shaped sealing element made of an elastomer material which is inserted into a recess... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434905 | Door rail system A rail system for holding a panel, such as a plate glass pane, in a door and/or wall partition. The rail system includes a housing and a clamp member having a wedging geometry so that when the clamp member is actuated with respect to the housing in a firs... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434906 | Pole The invention relates to a post (1), which is especially a hollow, tube-like piece and which is particularly intended for use as posts for traffic lights, street lights, signposts or similar, and which is formed of two layers. The inner layer (3) is of fi... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434907 | Closed channel structural member having internal reinforcement for vehicle body and frame assembly A closed channel structural member, such as a side rail or a cross member, for use in a vehicle body and frame assembly, includes an internal reinforcing structure to increase the strength and rigidity thereof. Portions of the side rail are removed so as ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6434908 | Method of caps fabricating rigid section bars to be articulated manually The present invention relates to a method of fabricating rigid section bars able to be articulated manually, comprising a first phase wherein, on a band of suitable material, a succession of areas of weakening transverse with respect to the longitudinal a... | 08/20/2002 |
