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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4188644 | Apparatus for controlling video tape presentation A control system for video tape equipment operable to present video tape audio and visual testimony. The control system has a court monitor and a jury monitor connected to a video tape recorder. A control unit interposed in the cables between the video ta... | 02/12/1980 |
| 4183604 | Apparatus for mounting and removing electrical adapter from a socket An adapter for a conventional threaded electric light socket or the like having an external right hand threaded base for threading into a conventional socket. A locking tab on the base permits the adapter to be threaded into the socket and jams the thread... | 01/15/1980 |
| 4182396 | Pattern plate and pattern match plate assembly A pattern plate adapted to support a pattern having a plate body with gage blocks to insure uniform body thickness and a plurality of lug and recess sets for forming a series of pockets and bosses in the cope and drag sections of a sand mold. The lug and ... | 01/08/1980 |
| 4182273 | Feeding apparatus An apparatus for supplying feed material to animals and poultry. The apparatus has a trough located below a hopper used to store dry feed material. A plurality of legs support the hopper on the trough. A tubular member for carrying liquid, as water, exten... | 01/08/1980 |
| 4182097 | Machine and method for stacking hay A hay stacking machine having a platform for supporting a stack of hay. A radial trough extends from the center to the outer peripheral edge of the platform for accommodating hay being transported to it from a rake pickup. The trough includes a longitudin... | 01/08/1980 |
| 4181295 | Box setting tool A box setting tool includes a flat, relatively thin box holding blade adapted to be positioned against a flat edge wall of an electrical junction box or switch box. Two box holding fingers are integral with the box holding blade and extend generally paral... | 01/01/1980 |
| 4180413 | Ice hockey stick An ice hockey stick having an elongated handle attached to a blade. The handle has a solid lightweight and flexible wood body reinforced with plastic sheet members provided with longitudinally oriented glass fibers. The blade has a rocker shaped bottom wi... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4178770 | Cold air flow control apparatus An apparatus to circulate and regulate the flow of cold air from the exterior of a building having a cold room to the cold room to supplement the refrigeration of the cold room provided by the usual refrigeration equipment. Duct work is provided to carry ... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4177697 | Apparatus for sharpening a chain saw A portable apparatus useable with a rod file to sharpen the teeth of a chain saw. The apparatus has a base that clamps onto the blade of the saw. A chain holding finger mounted on a support carried by the base fixes the position of the tooth to be sharpen... | 12/11/1979 |
| 4178058 | Test probe for telephone wire connector All of the pairs of insulated telephone lines in a long line cable are spliced at the same intervals and the splices are situated in junction boxes where linemen can have access to both junctions of each pair. Each line splice consists of a metallic splic... | 12/11/1979 |
| 4175892 | Particle monitor A particle monitoring device located in a line carrying a moving fluid, as air, containing particles. The device has a particle sensing member providing audio signals that are in proportion to the amount of particles moving with the fluid. The sensing mem... | 11/27/1979 |
| 4174815 | Apparatus for winding armatures A machine and method for winding coils of wire on a slotted core of an armature core assembly. The machine has a holder for releasably supporting the armature core assembly in an upright position. Rotatable annular members located adjacent opposite sides ... | 11/20/1979 |
| 4174816 | Sterile surgical cord and tube retractor A sterile surgical cord and tube retractor for use by surgeons while operating to maintain accessories, such as suction tubes and cauterizing forceps, within easy reach of the surgeon without obstructing the surgical field with tubing and cord when not in... | 11/20/1979 |
| 4174132 | Multiple position hook assembly A hook assembly usable with conventional load lifting equipment has a frame and a generally arcuate hook member pivotally assembled to the frame. The hook member is rotatable relative to the frame between an open position for engagement of a load loop, su... | 11/13/1979 |
| 4173234 | Transfer valve A valve casing is provided with a part-spherical interior sealing surface and with three valve ports each open from the outside of the casing and through the part-spherical sealing surface thereof. A part-spherical valve body or ball is mounted in concent... | 11/06/1979 |
| 4173428 | Printer's paper pile inverter A printer's paper pile inverter includes two parallel, spaced apart, C-frames held in spaced relationship to each other by a base frame including a plurality of C-frame connecting straps integral with, and extending between the base legs of each of the C-... | 11/06/1979 |
| 4172594 | Ice hockey stick blade structure An ice hockey stick having an elongated handle attached to a blade. The handle has a solid lightweight and flexible wood body reinforced with plastic sheet members provided with longitudinally oriented glass fibers. The blade has a rocker shaped bottom wi... | 10/30/1979 |
| 4170385 | Silo unloader with leveling and drive structure A top unloading silo unloader pendantly supported in a tower silo. The unloader has a material collector moved around the silo with an automatic leveling and drive structure. An impeller receives material from the collector and throws the material into an... | 10/09/1979 |
| 4167977 | Toggle link trip mechanism An earthworking unit having a toggle trip mechanism for holding an earthworking tool in an earthworking position and allowing the tool to move upwardly to a release position. The toggle trip mechanism has a pair of links pivotally connected with an eccent... | 09/18/1979 |
| 4168050 | Tiltable swivel seat A seat supported on a fixed pedestal with a mount assembly operable to permit rotational movement of the seat about an upright axis, longitudinal fore and aft movement and transverse tilt movement of the seat. The mount assembly has a base member pivotall... | 09/18/1979 |
| 4161578 | Process for solid phase polymerization of polyester A process for the continuous production of high molecular weight polyethylene terephthalate wherein the granular polymer having an intrinsic viscosity of at least 0.4 is crystallized, dried and polymerized in the solid phase by polycondensation. Two metho... | 07/17/1979 |
| 4160283 | Magnetizing and demagnetizing tool A magnetizable iron core is surrounded by a magnetizing solenoid coil which can be energized by 60 hertz regular house power. An article of magnetizable material to be magnetized is placed adjacent the core and the solenoid coil is energized. A normally c... | 07/03/1979 |
| 4159766 | Cover for temperature sensing probe An elongated temperature sensing probe of an electronic thermometer having a movable collar and an elongated probe terminating with a probe tip including a heat sensing element. A disposable cover having an elastic cylindrical side wall mounted on a close... | 07/03/1979 |
| 4156449 | Shield apparatus A sneeze and cough shield apparatus having an elongated disposable plastic sheet material usable with a food serving table to separate the food area from the patron area over a central area. The shield apparatus has upright end supports mounted on the tab... | 05/29/1979 |
| 4155577 | Security device A security device used to check a door in a partially open position to prevent unauthorized entrance into a room having a doorway normally closed by the door. The security device has an anchor assembly, including a lag bolt secured to the door frame adjac... | 05/22/1979 |
| 4154392 | Door operated mailbox signal A rural mailbox has horizontally pivoted signal panels on the front door and on the rear end. These panels move from an "up" position to a "down" position upon the opening and closing of the door as the box is being serviced by a rural mail carrier. In th... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4152002 | Ski boot carrier A ski boot carrier which is also adapted to the carrying of skis. The carrier comprises a base runner adapted for gliding movement over ice or snow on the upper surface of which is mounted a boot bag or similar carrying case. A flexible strap or band is s... | 05/01/1979 |
| 4148531 | Self-aligning slide pads for telescopic boom A telescopic boom consists of a plurality of generally rectangular boom sections nested with each outwardly extending section inside of the next adjacent inward section. The boom is provided with self-aligning slide pad mounts at both the front and rear r... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4147263 | High lift loader with extended transfer A versatile mobile high lift loader characterized by an extendible telescopic boom carried by a longitudinally extendible transfer carriage. The transfer carriage travels on stepped fore and aft longitudinal transfer rails for greater operator visibility.... | 04/03/1979 |
| 4145857 | Base for mounting electrical equipment A sectionalized structure of preformed wall panels especially adapted for use as base for burial in the earth for mounting above-ground electrical equipment such as sectionalizing cabinets, transformers, electrical switch gear boxes, and similar equipment... | 03/27/1979 |
| 4145850 | Folding modular building structure A folding dome-like modular building structure composed of 48 flexibly interconnected equal right isosceles triangles. Each building structure is formed from a series of four flexibly connected modules of 12 triangles each. The modules are connected in al... | 03/27/1979 |
| 4141609 | System for effecting access into sealed enclosures An improved system for effecting working access into sealed enclosures, such as glove boxes. The sytem includes an elongated arm-length sleeve, one end of which is sealed in a port fitting in the wall of the chamber and the other end of which is fitted wi... | 02/27/1979 |
| 4141288 | Machine and method for stacking hay A hay stacking machine having a platform for supporting a stack of hay. The platform has a trough extended from its center to the outer peripheral edge for accommodating hay. A hay feeding mechanism having reciprocating teeth operates to move hay from the... | 02/27/1979 |
| 4140005 | Method and instrument for continuous monitoring of aerosols A method and instrument for continuous monitoring of an aerosol as the sulfur content of atmospheric aerosols. The instrument has an electrostatic precipitator that is turned off and on at a given frequency to modulate the particle concentration of aeroso... | 02/20/1979 |
| 4140443 | Manure handling system A handling system to move material and particularly manure from a collection area to a holding or storage station. The manure handling system includes a manure pump assembly having a hopper mounted over a pump housing which defines a triangularly shaped p... | 02/20/1979 |
| 4138562 | Adenosine deaminase resistant antiviral purine nucleosides and method of preparation The preparation of (&#b1;)-9-[-(2,3ଲ-dihydroxy-4-(hydroxymethyl) cyclopentyl)]-6-substituted purines: ##STR1## and (&#b1;)-3-[-(2, 3ଲ-dihydroxy-4-(hydroxymethyl)cyclopentyl)]-7-substituted-v-... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4137835 | Oscillatory food warming apparatus An oscillatory food warmer simultaneously warms and mixes food while it remains within a sealed can. The warmer includes a housing having an inner wall which defines a chamber for storing water. A heating element is mounted in the housing whereby the temp... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4136094 | Preparation of intravenous human and animal gamma globulins and isolation of albumin A method of isolating and purifying natural, unaltered, undenatured immune gamma globulin (IgG) for intravenous administration and albumin from animal blood plasma, especially human, and the resulting products. The method involves the initial stabilizatio... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4135299 | Ring cutting tool A tool for cutting a ring worn on the finger to effect removal of the ring from the finger. The tool includes a tool housing and a tool body movable with respect to the housing. The tool housing carries a first chisel type knife edge which is stationary d... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4134587 | Ice hockey stick An ice hockey stick having an elongated handle attached to a blade. The handle has a solid lightweight and flexible wood body reinforced with plastic sheet members provided with longitudinally oriented glass fibers. The blade has a rocker shaped bottom wi... | 01/16/1979 |
