In the 1950s, the FMAP DM ( F�brica Militar de Armas Portables Domingo Matheu ), belonging to the Direcci�n General de Fabricaciones Militares, acquired the production rights of a copy of the U . S . M3 A1 submachine gun, more commonly known as the " Grease Gun ".
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"Water projects are the grease gun that lubricates the nation's legislative machinery, " the late Marc Reisner wrote in his 1986 history of the damming of the West, ` Cadillac Desert .'" Congress without water projects would be like an engine without oil; it would simply seize up ."
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We do the best we can, and we learn from our mistakes . " Kerrick noted that the team would be taking extra precautions to avoid any further problems with the grease guns, by attaching them to the outside of the bags instead of inside to prevent the plungers from being inadvertently activated.
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This way of claiming an invention was termed overclaiming, because it inflated the royalty base for licensing and potentially effectuated a tie-in by means of which the patentee required users, for example, to purchase not only the couplings but the whole grease gun as well in order to use the invention.
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The convex shape of the fitting allows the concave tip of the grease gun to seal against the fitting easily from many angles, yet with a sufficiently tight seal to force the pressured grease to move the ball and enter the fitting, rather than simply oozing past this temporary annular ( ring-shaped ) seal.
