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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7937904 | Corner joint for pultruded window frame A corner joint between two frame lineals of a pultruded window frame is defined by inserting a leg of a corner member into a hollow interior of each lineal and attaching the legs to the lineals by adhesive. Each leg has a plurality of surfaces thereof each having a ... | 05/10/2011 |
| D636635 | Shade for a beverage container | 04/26/2011 |
| 7927198 | Harvester corn cobs separating A cart is towed behind a combine harvester for collecting corn cobs and includes a conveyer belt feeding into a system for separating cobs from residue to be discharged and a tank for receiving and transporting the cobs. An unload auger is provided from the tank to ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7915561 | Apparatus for coating a pipe surface A wear resistant coating is applied on an elbow or S-bend by weld beads applied along a pipe. A rectangular support rod is attached inside the pipe by connectors so that wheels of the carriage are guided on the corners to maintain a fixed orientation relative to the... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7914661 | Cathodic protection Cathodic protection of a structure including a steel member at least partly buried in a covering layer, such as steel rebar in a concrete structure, is provided by embedding sacrificial anodes into the concrete layer at spaced positions over the layer and connecting... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7914638 | Wrapping an object with a film using a tape for cutting the film A vehicle is wrapped by a printed adhesive film where the film is also applied over doors and other areas intended not to be covered. The film is cut at the door edge and over the area by adhesively attaching a tape having a release coating on the front surface and ... | 03/29/2011 |
| D634859 | Paving stone | 03/22/2011 |
| 7906695 | Biomass conversion by combustion Break down of waste materials such as animal parts is carried out by pyrolysis, gasification and combustion using a reactor vessel with a conical lower portion located within an exterior vessel. Feed material is deposited in continuous mode through an air lock at th... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7882850 | Door for fabric enclosure In a fabric enclosure such as a tent wall there is provided an opening in the fabric panel with a fabric closure panel for closing the opening having a hinge line along one side connecting the closure panel to the wall panel. The opening and the closure panel each d... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7847560 | Method to detect and locate a breach in vertical or horizontal intersections in a membrane of a roof A defect in a horizontal or vertical seam at the edge of a roof membrane is detected by applying a DC voltage between the roof deck a probe in the form of a flexible wetted sponge and wiping the sponge probe over the seams. The current to the probe is detected and i... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7846331 | Material separation system for vacuum truck A vacuum truck has a cylindrical tank which can be pivoted to discharge through a rear door is arranged for transporting collected solids while liquid is extracted and returned. Two tank extraction outlets in the top wall at the front and rear are connected to the v... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7845668 | Dual trailer with lifting wheels for transport when empty A dual trailer has a first trailer with a king pin for a tractor and a rear fifth wheel for the king pin of a second trailer. The rear end of the first trailer and the front end of the second trailer is lifted into an empty transport position so that the first and s... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7866674 | Electrically heated ice skates An ice skate assembly for attachment to a boot has a skate blade and a blade heating arrangement mounted within a blade support. The blade is heated by resistive heating wire attached along a groove on each side of the blade. The blade is mounted in the support by a... | 01/11/2011 |
| D630550 | Sled | 01/11/2011 |
| 7862101 | Composite body for a vehicle A vehicle primarily a mass transit vehicle is formed primarily of composite materials which define a roof section and a floor section of two fiber reinforced sheets connected by an integral core and two rigid side wall sections each formed from welded steel or optio... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7861675 | Containment apparatus for containing gestating sows Gestating sows are housed in a series of gestation stalls arranged in a row and backing onto an open alley along a rear of the row of stalls into which the sow can enter by backing out of the stall. A common trough extends along the front of the stalls and is fasten... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7856801 | Extruded bat for the reel of a crop harvesting header A removable bat attachment to be applied when required over the tine tubes and fingers of reel of a harvesting machine is formed by an elongate flexible plastic extruded member having a first wall lying against the leading face of the plurality of fingers, a second ... | 12/28/2010 |
| D629247 | Shade for a beverage container | 12/21/2010 |
| 7849952 | Tractor with two engine settings A tractor has hydraulically driven wheels at a cab end and castor wheels at an engine end. It can be driven cab forward in a working mode with a header on the forward end. It is rotated to engine forward in the transport position for more stable higher speed travel.... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7834270 | Floating segmented shield cable assembly Signals in an RF field, such as that of an MRI system, are communicated through an inner conductor having an outer shield with a dielectric material therebetween and an outer cable jacket. Current in the shield caused by the RF field from the transmit body coil is r... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7832356 | Feeder for animals A feeder for feeding animals at the weanling stage has a trough with two opposed outwardly inclined front walls over which the animals can reach for taking feed from the trough and a feed hopper for discharging feed downwardly onto a shelf above the trough. Water is... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7828046 | Hybrid wicking materials for use in high performance heat pipes Hybrid wicking materials are used in high performance heat pipes where a bi-modal distribution of pore sizes offers advantages over a homogeneous monolithic porous structure. This wick is comprised of sintered metal powder formed on a foam, felt, screen or mesh meta... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7804295 | Apparatus and method for detection of defects using flux leakage techniques An apparatus for the detection of defects utilizing non-destructive flux leakage techniques in ferrous materials includes rare earth magnets which are supported at an angle in the order of 45 degrees with the surface of the test specimen to induce a magnetic field w... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7796243 | Detection and monitoring of changes in mineralized tissues or calcified deposits by optical coherence tomography and Raman spectroscopy Early dental caries detection is carried out by a method that combines optical coherence tomography (OCT) and Raman spectroscopy to provide morphological information and biochemical specificity for detecting and characterizing incipient carious lesions found in extr... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7768412 | Moisture monitoring system for buildings A method of monitoring moisture in a building is carried out using moisture detectors, which provide an output resistance value ranging from a dry value in the absence of moisture and different wet values in the presence of moisture depending on the quantity of mois... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7766094 | Hitch attachment for mounting of an accessory of an ATV An ATV hitch attachment includes a first mounting point defined by a hitch coupling and two further mounting points defined by two brace arms inclined upwardly and outwardly to a respective connection location on the rear rack. A rigid connecting member has a pair o... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7760031 | Method for reducing inter modulation distortion products of a combined carrier wave using phase alignment of the carrier components A method is provided for reducing inter modulation distortion products using multi-carrier phase alignment of the type where a combined carrier signal is generated from the combined output carried waves of a plurality of numerically controlled oscillators in which t... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7744513 | Leg lift device and associated method A leg lift device is provided for attachment to a shoe. The leg lift device includes a sole, an optional lift insert and a shoe receiver attached to the sole. The shoe receiver includes a first section to engage a toe of a shoe and a second section to engage a heel ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7736218 | Straw chopper and spreader for a combine harvester with improved fin design A straw chopper is mounted at the rear hood of a combine harvester and includes a housing with a feed opening and a discharge opening and a rotor mounted in the housing comprising a hub with a plurality of blades mounted on the hub for chopping the fed materials and... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7731468 | Bookbinding coil end cutting and crimping machine A machine for cutting and crimping the ends of a helical coil inserted into holes at an edge of a book to hold the coil in place is adjustable to accommodate different diameters of coil. A guide member for centering the axis of the coil in a centering direction is a... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7730631 | Device for checking accuracy of a right angle A tape measure has a first scale on one edge of the blade and a second scale on the other edge blade where the second scale is marked in units of length which are equal to the units of the first scale multiplied by the square root of 2. A method to check a right ang... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7727587 | Method of manufacturing honeycomb and foam composite material A composite product is formed from a honeycomb panel having an array of hexagonal tubular cells which clamped between two press plates where a layer of a foaming agent is applied to only the bottom press plate such that the foaming agent expands into the cells. An a... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7726299 | Fireplace with front face attachment A front face attachment for a fireplace allows a single fireplace construction to be converted from a first arrangement having front facing top outlet and bottom inlet with covering louver panels for air flow around the combustion chamber to a second arrangement in ... | 06/01/2010 |
| D616733 | Rail hanger for attachment to a shelf bracket | 06/01/2010 |
| 7721830 | Tractor with automatic steering arrangement A tractor has hydraulically driven wheels at a cab end and castor wheels at an engine end. It can be driven cab forward in a working mode with a header on the forward end. It is rotated to engine forward in the transport position for more stable higher speed travel.... | 05/25/2010 |
| D616319 | Attachment for a tape measure | 05/25/2010 |
| 7717778 | Separating cobs from grain in a corn harvester A combine harvester for corn is adjusted so that the threshing system maintains the grain and cobs together and there is provided a first sieve to separate the grain and cobs from residue material which is discharged from a rear of the first sieve and a second sieve... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7708131 | Swing auger hopper drive A remote control drive kit for attachment to the hopper of a swing auger for driving movement of the hopper relative to the main auger includes a first drive assembly mounted on the base wall of the hopper adjacent a front edge and a second drive assembly mounted on... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7707967 | Adjustable water supply for animals An adjustable water supply pipe has a pair of bite nozzles at a bottom end and a wall bracket holding the pipe vertical but allowing the height of the pipe to be adjusted. The bracket has a wall plate with top and bottom plates bent outwardly to define two aligned o... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7706641 | Monitoring individual fibers of an optical cable for intrusion Some or all of the optical fibers of a single-mode or multi-mode cable are monitored for intrusion by transmitting through the fibers a signal which can be analyzed for changes in its characteristics which are indicative of movement as a prelude to an intrusion even... | 04/27/2010 |
