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Floyd Greg Paxton (March 17, 1918 – December 10, 1975 [1]) was a manufacturer of ballbearings during World War II, [2] and later inventor of the bread clip, a notched plastic tag used for sealing bags of bread worldwide.
A clip sealing a bag of buns displaying a best before date. Biodegradable bread clip in Quebec, Canada. The bread clip was invented by Floyd G. Paxton and manufactured by the Kwik Lok Corporation, based in Yakima, Washington [5] with manufacturing plants in Yakima and New Haven, Indiana. Kwik Lok Corporation's clips are called "Kwik Lok closures".
The Barnacle is a bright yellow, 20-pound (9.1 kg) piece of plastic that adheres to a windshield with 750 pounds-force (3,300 N) of force. It is equipped with an alarm that sounds if the vehicle is moved, and it has a keypad to input an unlock code so that the owner, after settling their parking violation, can release the device and drive away.
The main components of a parking pawl mechanism are the parking gear, parking pawl, actuator rod, cam collar, cam plate, pivot pin, and parking pawl return spring. The mechanism assembly is designed so that the parking pawl tooth collides and overrides the parking gear teeth (ratchets) until a safe engagement speed for the vehicle is reached.
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Paxton's own story about how he carved the prototype bread clip from "an expired credit card" is problematical for this reason: In 1952, when he said he did it, credit cards were made of metal (and called "Charge-a plate"). Plastic credit cards didn't arrive on the scene until the late 1950s. You can look this up on Wikipedia.
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