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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6662492 | Garden memorial arch A garden memorial arch floral material holder is installed in a cemetary with two ground penetrating stake assemblies and a flora holding assembly. The flora holding assembly comprises a plurality of rods connected in tandem and the rods have sufficient f... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6293388 | Trolley retention abutment for overhead conveying system Overhead conveying system trolleys supported by canted driven rollers engage on and form spiral loci of engagement with a rotated drive shaft in a powered section, and each has a top wheel used to lift the driven rollers off of the drive shaft as the trol... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6267060 | Overhead conveyor with powered drive module A factory preassembled drive module is assembled between opposed spaced apart ends of load beams and opposed rotatable shafts supported by the load beams are assembled drivingly to a rotatable drive shaft coupling of the drive unit or module in a job site... | 07/31/2001 |
| 4524723 | Removable poultry nest bottoms of variable widths A unitary synthetic resin nest bottom is molded in one piece with living hinges between side portions and a bottom portion, so that the side portions may be hinged upwardly to accommodate one nest bottom that was molded in one mold to various width nests.... | 06/25/1985 |
| 4476066 | Joint assembly for casing cells A joint assembly for a casing cell or the like, which may form the housing of an air-conditioning appliance serves to attach a plurality of wall members to respective adjacent wall members by means of joining elements of the tongue and groove type for ena... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4472104 | Operation control method for multistage regulated hydraulic machine An operation control method for a multistage regulated hydraulic machine wherein channels of the stages from the lower pressure side to the higher pressure side are successively communicated with each other through return guides and at least two said stag... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4465196 | Bicycle rack A bicycle rack for three-point support of a bicycle wheel. A base, mounted on a rigid support, carries two spaced apart pairs of outwardly diverging, inwardly converging tire wedging members. Between them is a gripping assembly that engages and holds in p... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4457704 | Method for the operation of a gas burner exposed to an air current as well as burners to implement the method The method and apparatus sucks the entire combustion air volume in laterally with respect to the direction of flow of the air current with the help of the impulse of a fuel gas jet out of the air current into a mixing pipe and the formation of a different... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4454908 | Continuous casting method A continuous casting method in which molten metal is continuously poured into a moving mould cavity formed between a rotary casting wheel having a peripheral casting groove and a moving belt partially covering the peripheral casting groove. The cast bille... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4440151 | Solar heat collector A solar heat collector comprises an evacuated transparent pipe; a solar heat collection plate disposed in the transparent pipe; a heat pipe, disposed in the transparent pipe so as to contact with the solar heat collection plate, and containing an evaporab... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4440339 | Method of repairing housing of control rod driving system A method of repairing the housing of a control rod driving system of a nuclear reactor, the housing being inserted through the wall of a pressure vessel of the reactor into a cylindrical sleeve secured to the inner surface of the vessel, which housing is ... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4435970 | Roll changing device for rolling mill A roll changing device for rolling mills, in which the roll are changed through roll exchange between the work roll changing rails and intermediate roll changing rails which are mounted in a housing, and delivery rails placed in front of the rolling mill.... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4434836 | Continuous casting apparatus Semiannular mold space is defined by a pair of rotary wheels and an endless belt trained around circumferential surfaces of the wheels. Molten metal is injected into the mold space upwardly so that the molten metal is statically poured into the mold. The ... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4433432 | X-Ray tube apparatus A rotary anode X-ray tube accommodated in a housing together with oil has a journal box fixed and inwardly extending inside the tube, an anode target fixed to a rotor supported by the journal box and a cathode member opposing the anode target and fixed at... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4432043 | Combined fluorescent lamp and spotlight A combined fluorescent lamp and spotlight which is simple to manufacture and assemble has a trough-shaped body member of generally rectangular section with tubular cylindrical projections at its ends and a chassis member received on the trough-shaped body... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4430574 | Method for switching operation of water wheel or pump water wheel A method for switching the mode of operation of a water wheel or a pump water wheel is disclosed. Water in a runner chamber of the water wheel or the pump water wheel is pushed down below a runner by supplying compressed air to cause a runner to race. Whe... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4428559 | Direct drive type servo valve A direct drive type servo motor in which a spool is driven directly by a force motor, the force of the force motor being balanced by the reactional force generated by a resilient member to stabilize the position of the spool to control the flow of working... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428235 | Non-destructive inspection by frequency spectrum resolution A method of inspecting non-destructively a specimen for examining the presence or absence of a defect in the specimen, in which an ultrasonic wave is emitted from a probe and a reflected wave from the specimen is received by the probe whose output signal ... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4424016 | Granulating apparatus A granulating apparatus comprising a device which adds a binder of an epoxy resin or the like into a powder to-be-treated, a screw feeder which conveys the powder to-be-treated containing the binder, and rolls which compression-molds it. By rotating the s... | 01/03/1984 |
| 4422988 | Fluid film continuous processing method and apparatus An apparatus and a method is disclosed for continuously producing an indefinite length strip of material in a mold with monitoring of such operating characteristics as product temperature, product pressure, product quantity, film temperature, film pressur... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4421227 | Tilting shelf, vertical conveyor A tilting shelf type vertical conveyor wherein a plurality of shelves are pivotally mounted between two endless chains that are driven by pairs of upper and lower sprockets, is provided with a shelf control system having effectively a single track formed ... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420468 | Method of treating converted potassium sulfate for reducing a small amount of chlorine contained therein A small amount of chlorine contained in the converted potassium sulfate obtained by dry-mixing and heating potassium chloride with sulfuric acid or potassium hydrogensulfate can greatly be reduced by totally pulverizing the potassium sulfate to 60 mesh pa... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4405057 | Security box having sliding closure A security storage box for papers of a similar size, such as checks, is provided by a one piece molded container, one piece molded lid, and accessories such as a handle, key lock securing the lid to the container, adjustable interior partition wall to adj... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4405052 | Shelf support bracket A shelf support bracket including a flat rectangular plate having opposite end edges and opposite side edges. Tabs extend outwardly from the plate in one direction for mounting same to a vertical column. Flanges extend outwardly from the side edges of the... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4403941 | Combustion process for reducing nitrogen oxides A combustion process for reducing nitrogen oxides in combustors is proposed wherein combustion takes place successively forming an incomplete combustion zone, a reducing combustion zone, and a complete combustion zone, respectively corresponding to primar... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4404682 | Method for foreseeing residual life of structural member making use of X-ray Provided is a method for foreseeing the residual life of a structural member, making use of an X-ray, comprising: preparing a plurality of test pieces made of the same material and subjected to the same working and heat-treating conditions as the structur... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4402227 | Method of determining fatigue life of metals A method of determining fatigue life of metals that are subject to the cyclic load. A metal that exhibits a half-value width that varies depending upon the degree of deformation by fatigue is melt-adhered onto a recessed portion formed in a metal of which... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4398725 | Rotary shaft water seal device in hydraulic machine A rotary shaft seal device in a hydraulic machine. With the water seal segments in the conventional water seal device, a gap tends to be generated between the inner peripheral surface of the segment packing and the outer peripheral surface of a liner of t... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4396125 | Adjustable cantilever rack An adjustable cantilever rack containing means for accurately setting the elevational position of the outer end of the supporting arms. The cantilever rack includes a column of rectangular cross sectional shape, a base secured to the bottom of the column,... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4394910 | Shelf for order picking systems A shelf for an order picking system includes a rectangular frame having front and rear rails with upwardly facing bottom support surfaces and uniformly spaced notches along the length thereof above the support surfaces. Track members extending across the ... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4393957 | Method of eliminating truck hunting in railway trucks Truck hunting is eliminated in railway vehicles by applying a low coefficient of friction material to the vehicle wheels so that a lubricating film is provided between the vehicle wheels and the rail on which they ride which serves to increase the critica... | 07/19/1983 |
| 4389253 | Process for removing crud from ion exchange resin In discarding the used ion exchange resin by the demineralizer provided in the cooling system of an atomic reactor, the radioactivity-rich ion exchange resin and the radioactivity-rich crud can be treated separately by introducing 0.5% by weight of sodium... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4387586 | Method of widthwise rolling of rolled material and apparatus therefor A method and apparatus for rolling a rolled material widthwise thereof wherein the rolled material in the form of a flat metal which may be a slab of metal having a large width as contrasted with the thickness has its lengthwise end portion shaped by comp... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4386700 | Drain control for multiple stacked containers A plurality of identical open top containers may be vertically stacked or vertically adjacent containers may be rotated 180° relative to a vertical axis and nested, for the transport of items, such as fish, involving liquid that is desirably drained from... | 06/07/1983 |
| 4383614 | Clip for releasably locking rails to supports A track member having a bottom end portion resting on an upper surface of a support flange has a clip member slidably attached thereto for movement between a locking position and a releasing position for respectively preventing or permitting upward moveme... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4383888 | Process for concentrating radioactive combustible waste In the concentration of radioactive combustible waste comprising evaporating and drying a radioactive combustible waste slurry by a thin film drier, the radioactive combustible wastes and an incombustible material, such as sodium sulfate, etc. obtained fr... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4382745 | Method of controlling wicket gates of a pump-turbine A method of controlling wicket gates of a pump-turbine which prevents abnormal hydraulic pressure variation when load carried on the pump-turbine is removed during the turbine operation thereof. The wicket gates are controlled to open when it is detected ... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4381738 | Engine with additional shared flow control runner for two cylinders Adjacent expansible chambers of an engine are provided with an intake runner set employing at least three runner passages conducting the working fluid from a common plenum to the expansible chambers, with at least one of the runners only serving one of th... | 05/03/1983 |
| 4379508 | Nesting tray with stacking keyed interlock Each tray in a plurality of 90 degree nestable and stackable trays is formed with a specific key portion along the upper edge of the end walls and a corresponding specific groove and web structure along the lower edge of the end walls. A first group of tr... | 04/12/1983 |
| 4379503 | Gravity rollerway conveyor One or more of the rollers of a gravity rollerway conveyor has an annular outer tire forming the load support surface, which tire is assembled on the hub of the roller by first being turned inside out from its normal relaxed position and then being stretc... | 04/12/1983 |
