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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5000330 | Railway vehicle rotary drawbar arrangement A railway vehicle drawbar slackless rotary dump arrangement having one end fixed against rotation to one railway vehicle and the other end connected to be rotatable in a second adjoining railway vehicle. Slack elimination is provided by a wedge at each co... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4982473 | Wire rope cleaning apparatus Wire rope is cleaned or otherwise treated during operation in a system or machine by surrounding the wire rope with a plurality of tools at a location fixed along the wire rope path, and causing the tools to spin around the wire rope by positioning follow... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4976362 | Pulling lug for railway vehicle coupler A railway coupler is provided having a coupler head comprising pulling lugs, behind which compound fillets of variable increasing radii have been inserted. The compound fillets reduce the stress concentration behind the lugs by distributing load over a gr... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4966007 | Absorption refrigeration method and apparatus An absorption refrigeration method and apparatus having concentrator and evaporator phases operated at substantially equal pressure and wherein the concentrator phase utilizes a mechanically driven heat pump to concentrate absorbent solution and to conden... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4957276 | Trapezoidal fill sheet for low silhouette cooling tower The vertical height requirement of a cooling tower is reduced by utilizing trapezoidal shaped fill sheets which are suspended generally in line with the entering air stream so as to form a wedge shaped plenum space beneath the lower sloped edges of the fi... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4951739 | Thermal storage with tubular containers of storage mediums Tubular containers, preferably corrugated, containing plural thermal storage medium compositions having different fusion temperatures are arrayed in zones or layers within a vessel through which liquid is circulated to exchange heat with the containers.... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4946052 | Gravity wedge for slackless railcar connections A slackless railcar connector system includes a gravity wedge shim that has a tail piece extending from the narrow edge of the sim through an aligning groove in a sill pocket casting, or the like. A biasing member may also be located adjacent the aligning... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4930620 | Article carrying member for conveyor chain A conveyor chain and an article carrying member extending from a chain link pin wherein the carrying member comprises a rod aligned and abutted to a link pin and secured thereto by a fracturable split sleeve and a compression washer pressed on the outside... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4927002 | Conveyor chain having detachable member for carrying articles A chain link conveyor having carrying members which comprise a shaft with a socket that is press fitted to a conveyor link pin and a supplemental link plate that is press fitted to the shaft and an adjacent paired link pin which supplemental link plate is... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4913710 | Modular cooling tower A modular cooling tower assembly is provided that comprises at least one cooling tower module having extendible legs capable of supporting the assembly when fully extended. When more than one cooling tower module is used in the assembly, adjacent modules ... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4892324 | Fifth wheel mounting pad An improved fifth wheel structure for over the road tractors wherein a resilient elastomer pad placed between a fifth wheel pocket surface and a bearing surface includes non-extrudable end members to prevent extrusion of the pad from the pocket and wherei... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4887629 | Plug valve and method of assembly An eccentric plug valve and method for assembly wherein the valve utilizes a replaceable valve seat which is placed against a gasket held in a groove about a rim of a valve opening within the valve body and the valve seat is held in position by means to f... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4873028 | Low silhouette cooling tower with trapezoidal fill and method of air flow therethrough The vertical height requirement of a cooling tower is reduced by utilizing trapezoidal shaped fill sheets which are suspended generally in line with the entering air stream so as to form a wedge shaped plenum space beneath the lower sloped edges of the fi... | 10/10/1989 |
