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Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher
A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6843004 | Heavy equipment safety device A backhoe (100) has a hydraulic cylinder (316, 317) with a piston (318, 319) that rotates a rotatable boom (108). A lockable slider block (322) slides on the piston. Movement of the lockable slider block in one direction is caused ... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6742314 | Working poles and method of repair A hollow working pole such as a luminaire pole is repaired by cutting the pole above ground level and inserting a sleeve. The sleeve is maintained in position while grout is poured to fill the space between the sleeve and the inner surfaces of the pole base. The top... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6741150 | Wine glass charm A wine glass charm includes a magnetic coupling, the components of which are disposed at the respective ends of an encircling member to detachably attach the wine glass charm to the stem or handle of a drinking vessel. The encircling member may include identifying i... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6726230 | Automotive side bar A side bar incorporates brackets for attachment to a vehicle; the bar is divided into sections to permit the side bar to be economically packaged for shipment. The side bar sections are secured to each other through the use of a support rail mounted internally of th... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6696900 | Method for demodulating PSK modulated signals The present invention is a method for demodulating a PSK modulated signal wherein the PSK system incorporates a transmitter generating a PSK modulated signal and wherein the transmitter is crystal based. A crystal based receiver receives the PSK modulated... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6607583 | Method and apparatus for controlled heating of adsorbent materials A method and apparatus for controlling the heating of adsorbent materials in a vessel including the utilization of electrodes in direct contact with the adsorbent material to induce a current in the material. The electrical contacts are spaced apart and r... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6601244 | Apparatus for cleaning swimming pools A removable retainer for holding a nozzle stem in a body has opposed indentations for receiving the tines of a forded tool. The periphery of the retainer and the inner edge of the body are relieved to receive and guide the tool tines to the indentations.... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6575260 | Motorcycle having jack shaft to accommodate wide rear tire A motorcycle accommodates an enlarged rear tire by interposing an intermediate shaft between the transmission output gear and the rear wheel drive gear. The intermediate shaft includes a power input gear disposed in the same vertical plane as the transmis... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6546704 | Dog boot A dog boot comprising a planar flexible sheet of material, having a high friction surface on one side thereof, is formed having a leg engaging section and a foot engaging section, each of which is intended to be wrapped around the leg and foot respectivel... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6529049 | Pre-charged sample and hold A buffered sample-and-hold circuit includes two sampling capacitors for each analog voltage to be sampled. The two sampling capacitors are initially charged simultaneously to the analog voltage to be sampled. One of such sampling capacitors is thereafter ... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6528008 | Process for producing membrane for capacitive vacuum measuring cell A ceramic membrane for a capacitive vacuum measuring cell includes a thin ceramic membrane with a thickness of | 03/04/2003 |
| 6493951 | Adjustable sight for archery bow Apparatus for adjusting the vertical placement of a bow sight on an archery bow is provided with a belt extending over a drive pulley and an idler pulley. A sight mount is secured to the belt for movement therewith between the pulleys and a sight is attac... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6461520 | User-activated ultra-violet water treatment unit A time delay in de-energizing the electronic ballast and its associated UV lamp subsequent to cessation of water discharge from a user-activated water treatment unit ensures irradiation of the water prior to a subsequent user-activated water discharge and... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6460355 | Environmental test chamber fast cool down and heat up system An environmental test chamber provides a fast cool down to a temperature of about -125° F. and a fast heat up of an element under test.... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6445069 | Electroless Ni/Pd/Au metallization structure for copper interconnect substrate and method therefor A nickel/palladium/gold metallization stack is formed upon connection pads of integrated circuits at the wafer level through an electroless plating method. The metallization stack can be formed over copper or aluminum interconnect pads; the lower nickel l... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6439924 | Solder-on connector for coaxial cable A solder-on connector for a coaxial cable includes a body having a bore for receiving the outer conductor of the cable, a center pin for connection with the center conductor of the cable, an insulator disposed within the bore of the body for supporting th... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6434895 | Foldable trailerable building A folded building, after having been trailered on its own wheel assemblies to a site, is unfolded at the site by first reorienting 90° the wheel assemblies attached to each of a pair of side walls and removing an attached trailer hitch. The side walls ar... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6431797 | Masonry retainer wall system and method A masonry retaining wall is constructed using a footer placed at or beneath a lower grade level with vertically extending post-tensioning rods extending therefrom. The post-tensioning rods are provided with upset ends and flange members close to a right a... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6427373 | Gun barrel rifling The rifling in a barrel of a firearm is modified in proximity to the muzzle to reduce the radial difference between the land diameter and the groove diameter to urge a bullet to expand fully into the grooves and ensure rotation of the bullet about its lon... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6426637 | Alignment guide and signal transmission apparatus and method for spring contact probe needles Probe testing of an integrated circuit so as to achieve low probe needle contact resistance without probe needles "scrubbing" against bonding pads is achieved at high test signal frequencies by a probe needle assembly (14) including a plurality of probe n... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6427022 | Image comparator system and method for detecting changes in skin lesions New or growing skin lesions are identified by providing digital baseline image data of an area of a subject's skin, and storing the baseline image data. An imaging system is operated to produce up-to-date digital image data of the skin area directly from ... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6425310 | Muzzle brake An assemblage of members held in a sleeve form a series of plenums which each have a reaction wall surface against which propulsion gasses generate anti recoil forces. Vents from the plenums direct propulsion gasses upwardly and outwardly to further count... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6413265 | Scalpel A scalpel particularly useful in dental restoration has a flattened handle of ovoidal shape having a cusp blade mounted at one end thereof. The blade is preferably positioned on the handle so that it extends away from the handle at acute angles to an imag... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6408203 | Apparatus and method for contemporaneous treatment and fluoroscopic mapping of body tissue An apparatus for contemporaneously treating a sequence of treatment sites in an internal organ and creating a viewable map of the treated sites includes a first catheter having a proximal end and a distal end for insertion through a body passage to tissue... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6393629 | Apparatus for cleaning swimming pools Lower region of a cylindrical nozzle stem is longitudinally slotted to provide flexible tines and the tines have outwardly projecting lands at their distal ends. The flexibility of the tines permits the nozzle stem to be force filled into and through a ri... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6372018 | VOC removal or destruction system A VOC removal or destruction system incorporates a regenerator/reactivator having a cylindrical ceramic tube for receiving contaminated adsorbent activated carbon. Electrodes are provided in the ceramic tube in contact with the activated carbon and a prog... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370407 | System for improving the sensitivity and stability of optical polarimetric measurements A polarimeter adapted for measurement of the concentration of glucose in a sample includes a laser beam passing through a first polarizer and an optical modulator and split into a measurement beam passing through a FIRST ANALYZER to a first detector coupl... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6367098 | Apparatus for cleaning swimming pools The upper nozzle portion of a pop-up nozzle stem has a removable cap thereon. Caps having different size openings therein can be substituted to alter the performance characteristics of the water delivery system.... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6363648 | Laser aiming light for firearms A laser aiming light for firearms includes interchangeable switches for selectively limiting the laser output to an eye safe level for training purposes and for providing full power for operational use in a combat zone. A capability for using a remote swi... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6360767 | Fluid distribution valve The base of a fluid distribution valve is configured to allow a cluster of outlet pipe sockets to extend beyond the outer diameter of the base of the valve to accommodate larger diameter pipes.... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6352399 | Twin tower wafer boat loading system and method An apparatus for automatically and simultaneously loading a single long wafer boat or a plurality of wafer boats onto a cantilever paddle includes a stationary first track aligned with a first opening of a diffusion furnace and a first carriage moveable o... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6325087 | Distribution valve and method A distribution valve includes a fluid inlet port and a plurality of fluid outlet ports, wherein the distribution valve includes a housing including a fluid inlet (3). The housing includes an upper section (15B) and a lower section (15B). A gear reduction ... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6322081 | Circumferential seal with ceramic rotor A circumferential seal for sealing between a rotating shaft and a stationary housing circumscribing the shaft. The seal comprises a stator mounted to said housing and having a radially inward facing carbon portion and a rotor with a ceramic sealing member... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6318691 | Hair dryer holder engaging cabinet drawer A hair dryer holder for supporting a hair dryer from a bathroom vanity drawer includes a generally planar horizontal support member having an aperture formed in a first end thereof for releasably receiving the nozzle of the hair dryer. Forwardmost and rea... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6311728 | Fluid distribution valve A multiple outlet valve includes a valve actuating mechanism driven by a turbine. Fluid entering the valve passes through a flow control member which determines the velocity of the fluid entering the turbine and thereby controls the frequency with which t... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6312740 | Method and apparatus for electrostatically applying an edible coating to a food product item A method and apparatus, for applying electrostatically charged particles of an edible coating material to a surface of a food product to be coated, incorporates a fluidizing hopper for containing the material. The hopper includes an agitating system inclu... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6301723 | Apparatus for cleaning swimming pools A removable retainer has a plurality of lugs projecting outwardly from its surface for cooperating with a like number of lugs projecting inwardly from the inner surface of a body. The lower surface of the retainer lugs and the tipper surface of the body l... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6296358 | Ocular fundus auto imager An ocular fundus imager automatically aligns fundus illuminating rays to enter the pupil and to prevent corneal reflections from obscuring the fundus image produced. Focusing the produced fundus image is automatically performed and is based upon the fundu... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6290424 | Segmented ring mounting for a fluid-operated percussion drill tool A segmented ring mounting (5) for retaining cylindrical components (2, 3) one within the other in a fluid-operated percussion drill tool, such as a downhole rock drill. The ring mounting also has application to other interengaging cylindrical components w... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6287551 | Method for treating herpes virus A solution or gel composition containing activated chlorine dioxide and phosphates, such as disodium hydrogen phosphate, sodium dihydrogen phosphate, trisodium phosphate, and sodium monofluorophosphate, is disclosed for treating herpes virus. The preferre... | 09/11/2001 |
