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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8135682 | Process for administrating over changes to server-administrated client records in a stateless protocol A system for administrating over changes to a record shared by a plurality of users authorized to do so is provided with a resource to officiate over an official version of the record and to communicate with the plurality of users over a medium for non-persistent co... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8096259 | Gutters and plows for coating-material recirculation in food-coating apparatus Apparatus for coating food products with breading material has an excess breading-material circulation/re-circulation system, which itself has a main, central product-intake conveyor scraping across an up-sloping bottom panel flanked by left and right elevators that... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8087337 | Recoil compensation and climb arrester A recoil compensator and climb arrester has an axially-elongated hollow sidewall having an inner surface. Three apertured baffles with central apertures are fixed inside the sidewall spaced apart from one another to define three longitudinally-distributed gas-expans... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8052386 | Mixed flow roof exhaust fan A mixed flow fan wheel has a convex hub, an axially-spaced away concave annular shroud, and a plurality of angularly distributed blades extending between and interconnecting the hub and shroud, all which cooperatively define a plurality of inter-blade flow channels.... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7975425 | Nuisance carp control measures Measures for controlling nuisance-carp populations include a harvest apparatus for harvesting not sub-surface fish but fish that leap out of the water proximate the harvest apparatus. Detectors detect when subsurface fish are within proximity of the effective range ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7972719 | Battery assembly having slim battery tray A battery assembly (10) has a series of rectangular cells (20) and a square-U shaped tray (14) to support the cells (20) in series, with bottoms (24) coplanar and adjacent sides parallel. The tray (14) has spaced arms (43... | 07/05/2011 |
| D636908 | Set of large artificial pillar candles with live flame for wedding and events | 04/26/2011 |
| 7886657 | Integrated compact food process line and process A cellularly-integrated food process line (30) is a combination of several diverse cells (32, 24, 36, 38), which are diverse because each performs non-identical operations. Such cells (32, 24, 36, 38) are configured to perform at least one sub-p... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7878339 | Merchandise display hook for fishing rods A merchandise display hook for fishing rods has an elongated shaft originating in a hanger fixture for hanging or arranging on a vertical support surface and extends from there to a terminal end formed or affixed with hook formation for carrying a fore section of ro... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7775952 | Balance training apparatus, and over and under combination A balance trainer has a board with a notional nose and tail, a rolling fulcrum for the board to perch on, and at least one hold-down link extending between one end anchored to ground and another end secured to the notional tail of the board. The board as perched on ... | 08/17/2010 |
| D616159 | Baseball helmet dog house | 05/18/2010 |
| 7708072 | Accessories and method for hollow stem auger retraction Withdrawing a hollow stem auger string from a well includes a retractor having C-shaped inter-coil insertions and a hoist having tong-arms, one which terminates in an inwardly disposed pin. The retractor connects to a drilling rig's hydraulic cylinder vertical drive... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7708041 | Component mill for wooden construction components A component mill for producing wooden construction components has a pair of input rollers spaced from a pair of output rollers, wherein each comprises a pair of vertically-stacked pinch rollers. The mill has an overhead X- and Y-axis track system for scrolling a hig... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7707973 | Handheld examination holder for avian hatchlings, and gender examination process A handheld, hatchling holder not only simplifies manual examinations but also better protects the hatchling's welfare. The welfare concerns include not only bruising but also yolk-sac rupture. The handheld, hatchling holder has a cupped seat portion for cupping the ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7699207 | Welding backup systems for heat-sink or purge purposes An internal ring assembly for welding backup against internal hoops of pipes or tanks has a chain assembly of diverse cells. A majority of the cells include a tile of conductive metal for abutting inside walls across a seam of two sections of pipe or tank to be weld... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7690549 | Purge line for welding backup A purge arrangement for welding backup of a seam between two surfaces selected for welding together along respective runs which define the seam includes a ventilated tubeform and an adhesive tape attached for forming a seal across the back of the seam and sealing in... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7690430 | Well casing extraction accessories and method A tool for extracting well pipe casings resembles an enlarged pipe-thread tap. The tool is designed to be suspended under and driven by the traveling rotary table and hydraulic vertical drive system of a conventional drilling rig. By this means, well pipe casings ar... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7685970 | Aerial capture-and-carry of cattle by land vehicle, and apparatus An aerial pen raised and lowered by a driven land vehicle has sidewalls defining an open bottom, a retractable platform for a targeted animal to stand on, a livestock head gate, and a retractable crowding gate cooperatively arranged with the deployed platform and he... | 03/30/2010 |
| D608057 | Football helmet dog house | 01/12/2010 |
| 7614463 | Flute-wiping auger cleaner A flute-wiping auger cleaner has a laterally-shearing shackle, an axial track spaced parallel to the auger; and a traveling carriage on the track for supporting the shackle. The shackle includes a series of angularly-staged wiper blades to project into the flute of ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7604827 | Coiled dough package A dough package has a sheet of dough and another sheet of a non-adhesive separator media cooperatively wound in a spiral assembly which is snugly fit inside a rigid container to protect the soft spiral assembly during the time that the package is an article of comme... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7601456 | Valve regulated lead acid battery A valve-regulated lead acid (VRLA) battery cell (2,40) has positive and negative plates (10,11,41,42) separated by separator media (12,43) and held together under pressure. The separator is adapted to support therein an electrolyte. Each plate h... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7555994 | Pontoon boat cover system without ridge or guy poles A pontoon boat's cover system has includes a rib-cage structure to support a fabric cover formed by hollow poles flexed into low arches and anchored into opposite brackets on the left and right top (hand or side) rails of the pontoon boat. Each bracket has a zig-zag... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7543591 | Pre-charged folded compacts for coloring hair A folding case is provided for transferring hair-coloring chemicals to a selected bundle of hair. The folding case has a pair of opposing shallow compartments that are adapted for containing a pre-charge of color-base hair-coloring chemicals in one compartment and a... | 06/09/2009 |
| 6858822 | Surface analysis preceding electrofusion of thermoplastics A method and apparatus achieves making a surface-analysis determination precedent to allowing an electrofusion welding operation on pipe stock which is prescribed to be scraped, skinned or cleaned of surface contaminants prior to being graded ‘passable’ for such... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6840195 | Avian medicament or pest control product and method An avian medicament or pest control product is a combination of a medicament or pest control release agent, as well as at least two impregnable devices that have been specially impregnated the medicament or pest control release agent, and then also at least one fast... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6837178 | Bird feeder mobile A bird feeder apparatus comprising a structure having a substantially vertical axis of rotation about which the structure is mounted for free rotation in a horizontal plane. The bird feeder tray is carried by the structure to pivot relative thereto at several locati... | 01/04/2005 |
| 7484929 | Exhaust fan systems Exhaust apparatus for exhausting “dirty” exhaust gases accept a core flow of such exhaust gases and combine that with an annularly-surrounding “rooftop” flow of ambient air for diluting the exhaust gases as well as expelling the diluted flow in a forcibly ex... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7478607 | Three-dimensional camouflage fabric and method for making same A camouflage material comprises a plurality of parallel strips of camouflage fabric attached side by side laterally across a substrate and extending longitudinally along the substrate. The strips have a plurality of longitudinally spaced edge strips extending latera... | 01/20/2009 |
| D584314 | Cover for the back of a personal computer tower | 01/06/2009 |
| D583937 | Infant-patient bracelet fob for I.V. administration sets | 12/30/2008 |
| 7455196 | Support apparatus for a manual grease gun A support for manual grease guns has a base and lever-restoring mechanism. Grease guns conventionally have a pumping head with a barrel and lever joined thereto for cycling through pumping and restoring strokes between restored and depressed extremes. The restored e... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7425946 | Remote camouflage keypad for alarm control panel A glass keypad for an automatic premise-monitoring alarm system of remote sensors linked to a control panel has a screen defined by a peripheral edge spacing inboard and outboard faces and allowing a flush or closely gapped mounting to a wall. There is also operativ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7412937 | Three dimensional camouflage fabric and method of making same A three-dimensional camouflage fabric is produced in a multi-head quilting machine by sewing a multiplicity of transversely spaced, elongated strips of relatively narrow fabric on a relatively wide web of a substrate fabric along laterally spaced lines of attachment... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7410087 | Welding backup systems for heat-sink or purge purposes A welding apparatus is disclosed for use during welding of a tubular metal nozzle to a tank's metal domed cap. The nozzle extends longitudinally between a base end for mating to the tank's cap at an aperture therein and a spaced-away terminal free end. Typically, th... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7391939 | Optical apparatus A laterally- and longitudinally-elongated sheetform of optical material has a core and spaced broad surfaces provided with superficial light-confining measures flanking the core. At least one broad surface has an array of converging lenses, each adapted for collecti... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7354401 | Ultrasound sex determination for sorting of avian hatchlings A method for making a sex determination in avian hatchlings involves the following activities. A process line is equipped to process an endless plurality of hatchlings. The process line has an ultrasound inspection station for the hatchlings. The ultrasound inspecti... | 04/08/2008 |
| D565640 | Aquiline compact-visor/frame for eyewear | 04/01/2008 |
| D565637 | Streamlined compact-visor/frame for eyewear | 04/01/2008 |
| D565639 | Apertured compact-visor/frame for eyewear | 04/01/2008 |
