It essentially takes the heated extrusion head off a 3D printer and incorporates it into a standalone device.

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About a year later IBM began developing a small 3-D printer with an extrusion mechanism eerily similar to Crump's patented design but with a different feeding system.

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In 1999, he was suspended by the NFL for one year after being found guilty of failing to report a felony arising from a gambling fraud and extrusion case.

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Also on view are four of his recent "Extrusion" benches, made without nuts and bolts by squeezing red-hot aluminum out of a machine as one might pinch toothpaste out of a plastic tube.

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Certainly, the Replicator marks a big step over its predecessor, the Thing-O-Matic, introducing dual-extrusion for two-colored printing and a much larger printing area, letting users create standalone objects roughly the size of a loaf of bread.

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