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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4372142 | Sheet bending brake A sheet bending brake comprising a frame having a fixed jaw and a movable jaw and an anvil member adjustable secured to the movable jaw. The fixed jaw has a clamping surface movable between workpiece clamping and non-clamping positions relative to the cla... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4366624 | Arrangement for benches for measuring and straightening vehicles Apparatus for measuring and checking vehicle bodies comprises a bench with a co-acting measuring bridge. In a known way, a vehicle body can be clamped over the bench and selected points on the body can be located from underneath by means of slides with po... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4365647 | Power transmission A multifunction hydraulic flow metering valve and a circuit therefore comprising a main valve, a bleed flow orifice, and a servo valve acting with the main valve provides for proportional speed control for lowering loads and as an anti-cavitation check va... | 12/28/1982 |
| 4365920 | Loader-unloader system for workpieces A loader-unloader system for loading and unloading workpieces into a machine tool wherein each workpiece is held in position about an axis during which various machine operations may be performed. The tool comprising a loading chute or conveyor adapted to... | 12/28/1982 |
| 4364254 | Combined sheet bending brake, table and coil support A combined sheet bending brake, table and coil support. The sheet bending brake includes a base, a first bending member having a clamping surface mounted on the base and a second bending member having a bending surface hinged to the first member, an anvil... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4362233 | Pallet registry mechanism A multiple station transfer machine using work-carrying pallets which move along transfer rails from station to station and are located, i.e., brought into registry, at each station and clamped in place for a work operation including a mechanism for opera... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4362617 | Liquid filtering apparatus Apparatus for extracting used portions of filter media sheets from between vertically stacked and separated plates of a liquid filtering apparatus and for simultaneously advancing fresh portions of the filter media sheets from supply rolls into the space ... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4362084 | Hydraulic actuator controls The flow of fluid to a hydraulic load (18) is controlled by controlling a bleed-off path (31, 32) by means of a main valve (20) responsively to the difference between a first input force produced by a force motor (52) and a second (hydraulic feedback) for... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4361025 | Wire bending machine A machine for bending wire into a ring having a plurality of circumferentially spaced and radially outwardly projecting loops. A loop is formed by the cooperation of a pair of first mandrels longitudinally spaced apart on one side of a wire segment and a ... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4361420 | Gas flame torch system with flash arresters For use in a welding system which uses combustible gases and the like, a flash arrester comprising a main body having an opening therethrough and including a frusto-conical seat, and a ball cage body positioned in the main body and having an axial opening... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360889 | Rotary position indicating circuit A circuit for indicating angular position of a rotary member comprising a resolver including an amplitude stabilized sine-cosine generator coupled to quadrature windings of the resolver for providing a d.c. signal which varies as a linear function of the ... | 11/23/1982 |
| 4360097 | Precision registry with lift and carry transfer system In automation equipment, a system which utilizes work carrying pallets which provides for the locating and accurate locking of said pallets at a work station together with a lift and carry transfer means for the pallets which is operated in conjunction wi... | 11/23/1982 |
| 4359945 | Gravity trolley conveyor with speed control A gravity conveyor has a work supporting trolley provided with multiple wheels of different diameters fixed to a shaft that operates a retarder for applying a retarding torque to the wheels proportional to their angular velocity. The conveyor track consis... | 11/23/1982 |
| 4359283 | Juice container and stirrer A juice container and stirrer comprising a container having a bottom wall, side wall and open upper end and a removable cover for the open end. A shaft is rotatably supported on the cover such that one portion of the shaft extends exteriorly of the contai... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4357959 | Back flow valve A back flow valve comprising a housing having an inlet and an outlet and a tube mounted in the housing and having an open end communicating with the inlet in said housing. The tube has the other end thereof closed and has a plurality of circumferentially ... | 11/09/1982 |
| 4357382 | Coated cemented carbide bodies A process for increasing the resistance to wear of the surface of hard metal parts subject to wear, such as a cutting blade of metal cutting tools, and the product which results from the process, which includes coating the surface of the hard metal, for e... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4356036 | Anti-corrosion coating for metals An anti-corrosion coating for metals comprising a mixture of aluminum paste or zinc paste, microcrystalline wax, aromatic hydrocarbon resin, chlorinated rubber, neutral barium sulfonate, chlorinated solvent, aromatic hydrocarbon solvent, and mineral spiri... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4354906 | Combined radiolytic and thermochemical process for generation of hydrogen A combined radiolytic and thermochemical closed cycle process for production of hydrogen from water wherein H2 S is dissociated at high temperature and pressure by radiation, such energy being sufficient to provide dissociation and additionally... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354407 | Method of wheel manufacture for correcting rotational non-uniformity of a pneumatic tire and wheel assembly and apparatus for performing such method A method of punching a wheel for a pneumatic tire and wheel assembly manufactured with mounting holes offset from the geometric center to locate the low point of the first harmonic of radial runout adjacent a given angular location, such as the valve hole... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4355348 | Audio signal responsive optical display Apparatus for providing an optical display as a function of frequency and amplitude of an audio music signal comprising a plurality of frequency selection circuits and a corresponding plurality of linear optical displays for providing a composite bar disp... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4353289 | Power transmission A hydraulic control system comprising a hydraulic actuator having opposed openings adapted to alternately function as inlets and outlets for moving the element of the actuator in opposite directions, a pump for supplying fluid to said actuator, pilot oper... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4352641 | Self-contained rotary fuel pump An electric fuel pump which is self-contained in a unitary housing with a fuel inlet at one end leading to a rotary eccentric pump, the pumped fuel passing out an outlet at the other end of the housing. A relief valve in the form of a shaped plate at the ... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4352525 | Wheel cover with torque resistor A vehicle wheel cover releasably retained on a wheel by an annular resilient wire ring supported on the rear face of the cover. The ring has a plurality of radial outward projections thereon for releasably engaging the wheel rim. At at least one point aro... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4352767 | Elimination of paint flash on foam molded articles during their molding The cavity surface of a foam mold is sprayed with a paint which becomes integrally bonded to the outer surface of the foam molded part. The sprayed paint unavoidably overlaps the parting faces of the mold around the outer edges of the mold cavity. In orde... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4351284 | Internal combustion engine with water heated intake manifold A liquid cooled internal combustion engine including a water heated plenum associated with the intake manifold and a temperature controlled plenum valve in the water line extending to or from the plenum and operable to control the flow of water. The tempe... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4351241 | Workpiece storage system For use in a work processing line for workpieces, a workpiece storage system including a topologically closed loop track means having downwardly sloping surfaces coupled with elevators and lowerators in the loop, and work holding, gravity-operated pallets... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4351550 | Metal-to-plastic pipe joint In an oil pump inlet screen assembly adapted to be immersed in an oil pump and comprising a filter screen including a housing and a lift pipe adapted to be inserted at one end into an oil pump opening, the improvement wherein the housing and lift pipe are... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4350365 | Ski braking device The snow ski braking device comprises a bracket adapted to be mounted on the top face of the ski and having a pair of pivoted brake members straddling each side of the ski and biased to pivot downwardly to penetrate into the skiing surface when forward mo... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4349297 | Boat dock The boat dock consists of a series of laterally spaced, tubular stanchions of adjustable height having tee fittings at their upper ends threaded into the ends of adjacent tubular stringers. Plastic resin planks are slideably engaged over the tubular strin... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4349067 | Machine and method for continuously casting battery grids A machine for casting battery grids has a rotary drum, the pattern of the battery grid cavity being recessed into the outer periphery thereof. An arcuate shoe is fixedly positioned against the rotating drum in sliding contact with the outer peripheral sur... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4347956 | Hearing aid sheath and body harness A holder and harness for an auditory trainer for children with impairment of hearing which includes a leather or plastic compartment case fashioned from a blank of sheet material with double panel bottom and back wall and flaps extending from the top and ... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347923 | Gravity chuting conveyor A gravity chuting system having track sections in the form of thin, upright, spring tempered steel rails on which a plurality of rollers are mounted to provide a supporting and conveying surface for workpieces. Similar spring tempered retaining rails on t... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4345866 | Loader-unloader system for work pieces A loader-unloader system for loading and unloading workpieces, into a machine tool wherein each workpiece is held in position for rotation about a longitudinal axis during which various machine operations may be performed. The tool comprising a loading ch... | 08/24/1982 |
| 4345435 | Power transmission A hydraulic system comprising a pair of actuators operable to move a single load, each of which has a fluid inlet, a variable displacement pump including means responsive to a pressure for varying the displacement of the pump, a pilot operated meter-in va... | 08/24/1982 |
| 4344672 | Truck mirror with overlying bottom end cover A truck mirror comprising a unitary housing having a back wall, side walls and top and bottom walls defining a generally rectangular opening. The side walls have inwardly extending spaced flanges. The bottom wall terminates short of the side walls so that... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4344163 | Record cueing apparatus for turntable tone arm For use with a phonograph turntable unit having a tone arm and means for lifting the tone arm to a cueing position spaced above the plane of the turntable, a cueing apparatus for laterally positioning the tone arm with respect to the turntable comprising ... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4343228 | Hydraulic cylinder arrangement A hydraulic cylinder arrangement of the type wherein the opposite ends of a cylinder are connected selectively to either a pump or sump by a control valve. Each end of the cylinder is provided with a pair of oppositely acting, uni-directional check valves... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4343073 | Base support for transfer machines A structure for the rigidification of multiple station machine tools to increase accuracy of machining operations on workpieces moved intermittently on pallets to registry stations where machine tools move toward and away from the work. The machine tools ... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4343052 | Toilet support A toilet support for use with a toilet bowl, comprising a pair of first arm portions, mounted on the toilet bowl for pivotal movement. A pair of second arm portions are mounted on said first arm portions and moveable generally axially of the first arm por... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4342625 | Modular automatic water distiller Water distillation apparatus including separable evaporator storage reservoir and condensing modules coupled to each other in vertical succession. A fluid coil is suspended within the condensing module and is coupled to feed water from a source such as a ... | 08/03/1982 |
