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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5536097 | Assembly system for the construction of modular furniture A modular system uses a plurality of metal pipes each having an orthogonal array of coplanar openings at one end and a threaded bore at the other end. An insert is inserted in a first pipe bore at one end next to the openings, the insert having a set of l... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5534597 | Water insoluble cross-linked acid compositions There is provided water insoluble cross-linked polyhydroxy polycarboxylic acid having at least two strands each having a strand skeleton of the formula: ##STR1## wherein one carbonyl group of at least one maleoyl moiety thereof in each strand is... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5524834 | Arrangement for the control of thread tension in a thread spool creel The arrangement controls thread tension in a spool creel with a brake rotor (brake drum 4) for each spool holder (1). A braking element (brake band 5) operates therewith and is biasable by a tensioning lever (8) which takes an angular setting dependent up... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5523414 | Method for production of maleinamic acid, esters thereof, and maleinimide In the production of an N-unsubstituted maleinimide by the ring-closing alcohol-removing treatment of an N-unsubstituted maleinamic ester for conversion into an imide, an acid catalyst or a mono(cyclo)alkyl sulfuric ester is used for the reaction. In this... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5520023 | Warp knitting machine with gearing mechanism A warp knitting machine has a machine base (10), a main shaft (12) and knitting tool bars (13 to 17). Placed on the machine base is at least one gear box (18), having at least one side wall (24, 41), which is pierced by a bearing (25). A gear mechanism (2... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5505605 | Middle sole sloping machine with length/height adjustable rolls A middle sole sloping machine includes a base plate, upper and lower rolls each including first and second roll sections, a fixed mount plate and a movable mount plate extending upward from the base plate, the movable mount plate being movable relative to... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5504218 | Method for production pyromellitic anhydride A method for producing efficiently on a commercial scale pyromellitic anhydride having high purity and suffering only sparing coloration in a high yield from a raw material of high concentration is provided. By the use of a multilayer catalyst formed by p... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5500526 | Monitoring device for monitoring the passage of objects through passage A supermarket trolley monitoring system is provided for detecting shopping items on a lower shelf of the trolley as the trolley moves through a check-out station. Three transmitter/receivers are provided. The first and third at level A respond to light re... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5491996 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing a stabilizer bar A stabilizer bar or a similar metallic tube product for vehicles, has a central portion and at least two bent portions forming legs. The bar includes a thick-walled metallic tube having in the central portion a wall thickness and outside diameter in a rat... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5491988 | Warp-knitting machine with at least one guide bar In a warp-knitting machine with jacquard control, guide needles (1) are fastened to a guide bar (6) by means of carrier strips (3) which are bendable by at least one piezoelectric bending transducer. Each carrier strip (3) consists of electrically insulat... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5484078 | Clothes hamper with rotatable partitions and insert therefore A clothes hamper includes rotatable partition walls which divide the hamper into subcompartments of differing capacities according to the amount of clothing in that subcompartment. A conventional hamper may be divided with a free standing insert placed in... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5482924 | Proteinaceous compositions having an activity on erythropoiesis The invention relates to proteinaceous compositions capable of modulating the development of erythroid progenitors such as obtainable from a biological material selected from bone marrow culture supernatants, or kidney cell lysates by contacting said biol... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5478314 | Non-reusable syringe A syringe tubular body forms a fluid receiving chamber having a restricted opening at one end for receiving a hollow needle and a wider opening at the other end for receiving a tubular plunger. The plunger has resilient fingers at its distal end which is ... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5476715 | Particulate adsorbent for the removal of biomacromolecules such as LDL and endotoxins from whole blood in extracorporeal circuits A material for the elimination of biomacromolecules, in particular LDL and endotoxins from a whole blood circuit, comprising an adsorbent, comprising a porous carrier material of a homo-, co-, or terpolymer of acrylic acid and/or methacrylic acid with a p... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5473913 | Warp knitting machine having electrically activated drive arrangement A warp knitting machine having a main shaft has at least one bar mounted to reciprocate in accordance with a predetermined schedule. The machine also has an electrically activated drive arrangement with a body made of a material that can alter at least on... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5470129 | Adjustable vehicle seat An adjustable vehicle seat wherein the frame supporting the seat portion is defined by two sides, each presenting a bottom portion sliding along a respective horizontal longitudinal guide, and a top portion integral with the seat portion and connected to ... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5469342 | Light-strip apparatus A light-strip apparatus including a flexible lower strip, a transparent flexible upper strip detachably engaged to the lower strip thus together forming a sheath, an elongated flexible light-emitting device being received in the sheath for emitting light,... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5461881 | Arrangement for driving a warp beam An arrangement for driving a warp beam employs a stepless adjustable drive (7) whose coupling element (8) is displaced by a setting member (11). The setting member (11) is controlled-by a computer (10) which provides an input arrangement (17) for the take... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5455269 | Synergistic compositions of amiodarone and beta blockers There are disclosed pharmaceutical preparations and methods for the use thereof which have a cardioprotective action useful in coronary insufficiency, in the prevention of the constitution of an infarction or of sudden death. It consists in the utilizatio... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5454151 | Arrangement for setting the tension of a thread Arrangement (15) for adjusting the tension of a thread which is pulled from a spool by means of a thread take-off arrangement, has a thread measuring device (23). This thread measuring device, positioned sequentially in the direction of thread travel, can... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5453493 | Method of precipitating proteins from aqueous media with a polyhydroxy polycarboxylic acid There is provided water insoluble cross-linked polyhydroxy polycarboxylic acid having at least two strands each having a strand skeleton of the formula: ##STR1## wherein one carbonyl group of at least one maleoyl moiety thereof in each strand is... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5453146 | Process for the production of a needle bar A needle bar is made from a support member and a carrier. The needle bar can be made with a plurality of needle grooves. The bar is made by adhering the support member to the carrier. Then the support member is divided into a plurality of individual segme... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5449022 | Hose arrangement for a sealess centrifuge having hoses comprised of layers of different hardness Hose arrangement for a seal-less centrifuge having a soft inner layer and a hard outer layer and is formed by means of coextrusion.... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5443981 | Acremonium typhinum ATCC 74228 which exhibits endoproteolytic activity A crude membrane fraction of leaf sheath tissue of a grass endophytically infected by A. typhinum is produced. The extract exhibits endoproteolytic activity in the presence of detergent or after methanol precipitation. This activity is optimal at 35°-40Â... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5440902 | Warp knitted fabric and a machine and process for forming same A warp knitted fabric is formed with pile. The ground fabric is formed by a first ground lap with threads (11) forming stitches (18) with a separation of n wales (19), and a second ground lap with threads laid-in and running in the same direction. The pil... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5437639 | Needle protective sheath device An inner cylindrical member has a pair of opposing axially extending tapered slots extending toward an end distal the other proximal end to which a needle is secured for blood collecting. A pair of tabs protrude from the distal end to permit the member si... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5435032 | Toothbrush A toothbrush head consists of a hollow body (16) closed at one side by a flexible membrane (13) formed with cavities (17) to hold bases of tufts of bristles. The cavities form protrusions extending up inside the body (16) which are pushed against by a rec... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5431024 | Process for applying engravings on the surface of an ice body, in particular a transparent ice body, and engraved ice body A pair of ice bodies each have a planar surface which are warmed to melt the surface. Then at least one of the surfaces is provided with a cavity engendered by the application of a dimension controlled heat source, suitably by engraving with a heated reli... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5429973 | Trench buried-bit line mask ROM process A method for fabricating a trench buried-bit line mask ROM includes the steps: firstly, longitudinally coating a plurality of spaced photo-resist strips on a silicon well surface thus dividing the silicon well surface into a plurality longitudinally space... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5429319 | Compensating thread brake A compensating thread brake useful, in particular, with warping creels. The thread brake has a rotatable roller whose circumference is at least partially surrounded by and drivable by thread. The roller is connected to the rotor of a turbine. A mechanical... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5429161 | Apparatus for optimum positioning of cants for resawing The disclosure herein describes an apparatus for the measuring and positioning of cants and their subsequent feeding to a sawing station. A feed table is used for conveying the cants towards the station and includes a lateral guide against which each cant... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5425721 | Needle protective device A thermoplastic housing formed of two mirror image halves snap fitted together has first and second resiliently cantilevered channeled ramps each having mating halves on opposite sides of a housing chamber. The ramps are on first and second angularly spac... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5420218 | Resinous particles, method for production thereof, and uses therefor A polymeric monomer (A) having as a main component thereof a (meth)acryl type monomer which is subjected to aqueous suspension polymerization in the presence of a compound (B) which is substantially insoluble in water and sparingly soluble in the polymeri... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419162 | High speed electromagnet selection device for selecting the needles in a knitting machine The device comprises, for each selector element, a high-speed electromagnet having a fixed core with a single coil, and an armature consisting of a lightweight blade. When the coil is energized, the blade is moved into one position, and is restored to ano... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5414014 | Methods for efficacious removal of attached, sucking antropods from human dermis The present invention provides methods of using compositions containing local anesthetic compounds for facilitating the removal of sucking arthropods from the skin of a mammal; for reducing inflammation associated with a bite of a sucking arthropod; for l... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5413890 | Toner and method for production thereof This invention discloses a toner characterized by the toner particles thereof severally possessing a sea-island-lake structure wherein a crystalline (meth)acrylic ester type polymer is present in the form of a plurality of domains in a matrix of a binder ... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5411869 | Immunological analogs for captan There is provided a standard for use in testing for captan in immunoassays. This standard has the structure THPD--(CH2)x --(R3)y --R1 wherein THPD is cis-1,2,3,6-tetrahydrophthalimido, x is an integer... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5410786 | Process and arrangement for the warping of threads onto a drum having a conical surface Threads are warped with an axially moveable slide onto a drum having a cone, into a plurality of successive warp bands. The threads are warped for a first band based on a predetermined advancement schedule for the slide. The warping of the first band, aft... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5407662 | Aqueous monophasic compositions containing aromatic lipophiles A monophasic colorless transparent liquid aqueous composition comprising 0.05 to 2% by weight of one or more aromatic lipophiles; 0.05 to 2% by weight of the components of a salt of a divalent cation, M(B)x, where M is a divalent cation selecte... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5407407 | Easily folded and assembled stepping exerciser A foldable and assembly tool free stepping exerciser includes a base having a first securing member and a restraining element, a telescopic post being releasably secured to the base by the first securing member and the restraining element to hold the tele... | 04/18/1995 |
