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 |
| 6668700 | Actuator assembly A trigger actuator having a substantially unitary structure with a measuring device mounted thereon to detect the application of force to the trigger. In response, the measuring device generates a trigger signal. A compensating system detects additional o... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668701 | Piston seal In an assembly, e.g. a fluid pump, comprising an elongate member (e.g. a displacement rod (16)) slidably disposed with respect to a sealing member (e.g. seal (18)) the elongate member comprises a resiliently deformable sleeve or coating (74) and the seali... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668702 | Method an apparatus for producing high pressure compressor cylinder liners A cylinder liner system comprising a cylinder liner having an elongated tube, an inside surface, an outside surface, and a notch on a top side; a block having a bore for concentrically accepting the cylinder liner and a locking pin that engages the cylind... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668703 | Piston with oil trap A piston for a combustion engine having an oil ring groove on the exterior of the piston which communicates via oil holes with an oil trap extending around the interior of the piston. The oil trap captures lubricant on the downward stroke and pumps lubric... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668704 | Brewing system with movable brew basket mounting apparatus and method A brewing system (30) with a brew basket support (358) with apparatus for mounting the brew basket (180) for movement between a first position (FIG. 10A) in which the brew basket (180) is aligned with the brewer (30) for receipt of water and a second posi... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668705 | Spice dispensing device A spice dispensing device for seasoning food and regulating the proper amounts of spices being used to season the food. The spice dispensing device includes a container including a pair of side members detachably attached to one another; and also includes... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668706 | Toaster A bread toaster comprising a housing and at least one slot opening for receiving an article to be toasted. The bread is progressively traversed by a linear heat source in a pair of passes. A first pass is at a rate which is sufficient to drive moisture fr... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668707 | Fuel-efficient steam cooking device The invention provides a novel cooking device that saves more than 70% fuel as compared to conventional cooking systems and comprises, (i) a basal receptacle, (ii) a series of cooking utensils, and (iii) inner cover and outer cover, both engaged firmly to... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668708 | Roaster with hanging and interlocking rack A rack of a cooking implement includes a surface for supporting food, opposed sides and opposed ends separated by the food supporting surface. The rack also includes opposing looped handles. A pan of a cooking implement has opposed end walls that are spac... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668709 | Citrus fruit squeezer with centrifugation of the squeezed product Appliance for squeezing citrus fruits with centrifugation of the product squeezed, composed of a milling cone (1) and a centrifuging bowl (2) provided with holes and/or slots (3) for filtering the juice or squeezed product which goes to a collecting conta... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668710 | Variable-trim food refiner The food refiner comprises a sieve, provided with an inlet for a produce to be processed and an outlet for a waste product, at a center of which a rotor extends from the inlet to the outlet and bears a plurality of spatulas which interact with an internal... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668711 | Elastic roller, method for producing same device for smoothing paper and method for smoothing paper The present invention concerns an elastic roller for smoothing a paper web, wherein the roller has a hard metal core, an elastic matrix coating material thereon and an outer layer of memory metal, and is comprised especially of metal is described. The pre... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668712 | Portable crusher A portable rock crusher (10)is adapted for attachment to a boom (16) of an earthmoving vehicle (14). The crusher has a hopper (32) with a material inlet (49) and a material outlet (44) spaced from the inlet. A pair of jaws (46,48) is located within the ho... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668713 | Platen press with peripheral seal A platen press, especially a multiplaten press has peripheral seals around the press platens to seal off the pressing gaps containing the wood material mats to be pressed on suction passages formed between the platens and communicating suction ducts at th... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668714 | Platen for multistage panel press A press has at least two rigid and generally planar platens normally brought together to hot-press a panel workpiece. Each platen is formed with a plurality of parallel longitudinally throughgoing bores having ends open at edges of the platen, an array of... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668715 | Method and apparatus for simultaneously embossing and printing an extruded plastic slat A decorative relief pattern is applied to one or both sides of thermoplastic slat material by rolling an embossing roller in contact with the side(s) to receive the pattern. The embossing roller has an inverse relief pattern which is an inverse of the rel... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668716 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus includes a card transport path composed of the first card transport path for forming an image to a card using a direct transfer method, and the second card transport path composed of a card transport path for transferring an image fro... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668717 | Web-fed rotary printing machine In order to provide a rotary printing machine for direct printing, in which the printing-assembly cylinders are arranged in a space-saving way, there is arranged in side walls at least one double printing assembly containing two form cylinders which are l... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668718 | Printing machine with exchangeable ink application means A printing machine for printing a substrate web, which printing machine comprises at least one printing module, such a printing module being provided with an impression roller and ink application means, the ink application means comprising a cylindrical e... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668719 | Method and devices for adjusting a roller in a printing machine An adjustable bearing arrangement is used for the remote controlled adjustment of an inking roller or a dampening roller with respect to a second, contacting roller. The journal of the roller to be adjusted is secured to an adjusting element. A pre-settab... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668720 | Apparatus for image formation on cylindrical surfaces in printing machines The invention relates to an apparatus for image formation on cylindrical surfaces of printing machines. The object of the invention is to provide a compact image formation unit with a broad application rage regarding its usage, the sequence in time and va... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668721 | Rotary printing press capable of nonstop printing during a change of printing plates A rotary offset printing press which has a series of printing units of identical make through which a web of paper is threaded. In each printing unit the blanket cylinder is made displaceable into and out of printing engagement with the plate cylinder and... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668722 | Sheet member holding apparatus A sheet member holding apparatus which holds a winding direction end portion of a sheet member that is wound around a rotary body. Centrifugal force generated by rotation of the rotary body is efficiently utilized to hold the end portion securely and prev... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668723 | Method for regulating the ink-to-wetting agent equilibrium in a rotary offset printing machine A method for regulating the ink-to-wetting agent equilibrium in a rotary offset printing machine, the wetting agent quantity being determined especially using the signals of a sensor which measures the light reflectance of an area on the printing form of ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668724 | Method for controlling a quantity of medium transferable between two rollers A method for controlling a quantity of medium transferable from a screen roller of a printing machine onto a roller that is in contact with the screen roller includes exerting an influence upon a difference in circumferential speed between the screen roll... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668725 | Methods, apparatus, and systems for accelerated bioremediation of explosives Technology for in situ remediation of undetonated explosive material. An explosive apparatus contains an explosive material in close proximity with a carrier containing microorganisms. An explosive mixture capable of self remediation includes an explosive... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668726 | Shaped charge liner and process Shaped charge liners, typically used in perforating guns, are formed from a zinc alloy of zinc and other metals such as aluminium and magnesium. The liners are formed into desired shapes, for example, by melting ingots and casting the alloy, or by machini... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668727 | Explosively driven impactor grenade An explosively driven impactor grenade includes a grenade body having a substantially spherical shape and a hollow central portion, the grenade body including a plurality of recesses formed on an external surface thereof with each recess including an open... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668728 | Machine for rehabilitating a track bed A track bed rehabilitating machine comprises a machine frame supported on a track by undercarriages for movement along the track in an operating direction. The machine frame comprises a first machine frame part, a second machine frame part and a third mac... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668729 | Transit system A transit system for individual vehicles includes a substantially enclosed guideway with a transit lane and a transition lane. Disposed along the guideway are selectively actuable portals, configured to allow substantially transverse ingress and egress of... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668730 | Indexer carriage chain tension and dog control system A reversing chain-operated, dual carriage train indexer is provided with a chain tension control that acts directly on the chain and a retraction-biased, two-position carriage connection cylinder in conjunction with a spring biased linkage system allows i... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668731 | Conveyor roller with chain attachment link A conveyor roller assembly typically for pushing a vehicle through a car wash having a chain drive and split track, includes a bar extending form its forward end beneath the track to its back end above it. The back end carries a pair of rollers that trave... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668732 | Column guided and supported self-propelled vehicle A column guided and supported self-propelled vehicle which is rigid in its pitch and roll axes but flexible in its yaw axis. The vehicle thus forms a beam between a series of columns which support and guide the vehicle. The vehicle is propelled by a flexi... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668733 | Floor for vehicles, in particular, rail vehicles for transporting passengers The invention aims to improve a floor for rail vehicles in such a way that an even, level, reference plane for constructing the floor is obtained by a simple tolerance compensation of the deviations in the longitudinal direction, transverse direction and ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668734 | Disposable/recyclable pallet and method A pallet for supporting a load of packages is disclosed. The pallet includes a support structure comprising flexible film wrapped around at least one of the layers of the load. The flexible film is wrapped around two axes which are generally perpendicular... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668735 | Pallet with a plastic platform The pallet comprises a platform formed by a hollow, unitary body having two opposed major walls on which there are corresponding inwardly-extending ribs which are welded together. Projecting portions of the platform are welded to corresponding base elemen... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668736 | Drop and slide escutcheon A drop and slide escutcheon system where the escutcheon has rims with locking members that fit into locking grooves formed in the funnels on the safe body. The escutcheon is offset by a slight amount, allowing the locking members to slide down into openin... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668737 | Transport system comprising a vehicle with good cornering performance which can be moved on rails The invention relates to a transport system comprising rails arranged next to each other and a vehicle which is characterized by good cornering performance, can be moved on said rails and has running gears which can be pivoted about vertical axes and are ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668738 | Bulk fill delivery venturi system A particulate distribution system for transporting seed or other particulate from a source into a plurality of metering bins, the system including a forced air source, a converter for splitting air form the source into separate flows in converter outlet l... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6668739 | Sewing machine A sewing machine includes a first and a second lower rotary shafts coaxially coupled with each other by a shaft and disposed in a lower housing of the sewing machine. A looper thread take-up cam includes a first and a second take-up cam plates slidably ke... | 12/30/2003 |
