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Dr. Alfred Velpeau, French surgeon ; 1839
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7891672 | Chuck having a rotatable securing mechanism A chuck for clamping an article has a receiving portion including a receiving bore having a longitudinal axis L, and a receiving bore inner surface. A clamping sleeve is accommodated in the receiving bore and is rotatable between a releasing position and a securing ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7859874 | Universal AC or DC aircraft device power supply having power factor correction An aircraft device power supply is capable of connecting to either an AC or a DC power bus provided on an aircraft. When connected to an aircraft's AC power bus, an AC power signal is EMI-filtered, stepped down in voltage to the same voltage as that of the DC power ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7631838 | Aircraft engine nacelle inlet having access opening for electrical ice protection system An aircraft engine nacelle inlet is provided with an inlet cowling. The inlet cowling includes an inner lip, an outer lip, and a leading edge portion connecting the inner and outer lips. Heating elements are provided proximate the leading edge, either on an inside s... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7604116 | Three piece basket carrier A glued three piece folding basket carrier which has two partitions for dividing the carrier into six cells with each partition being constructed of a different material than used to construct the outside basket carrier. Each partition is glued to a handle panel and... | 10/20/2009 |
| D591140 | Key for a drill cutting head | 04/28/2009 |
| 7393162 | Gun drill A gun-drill comprises a cutting-head detachably secured to a shank, having a common longitudinal axis and comprising mating peripheral surfaces. A shank coupling portion comprises a forwardly tapering shank fixation surface is formed at a front end of the shank, and... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7234900 | Milling cutting insert and milling cutter A shank of a milling cutter can be somewhat elastic. As a result, during plunging down into a workpiece the milling cutter will not plunge in a true axially downward direction and will form a slanted wall in the workpiece. A milling cutting insert is provided which ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7217070 | Deburring tool and cutting insert therefor A deburring tool having an indexable cutting insert having four cutting edges. The cutting insert has a main body portion and a protruding guide member. The cutting insert is slidably retained in an insert pocket with the main body portion of the insert located in a... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7199543 | Power drive unit with unit load device sensor A cargo power drive unit includes a motor and at least one driver roller element coupled to the motor. The power drive unit further includes a light transmitter for emitting light and a light receiver for measuring light. The power drive unit measures an amount of a... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7093522 | Torque indicating wrench A wrench comprises a casing and a rod. The rod has a driven portion, a driving tip, and a straight section which extends therebetween. The driven portion has a clamped section, a rotating section and a cantilever section connected therebetween, the clamped section b... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7050995 | System for managing orders and method of implementation The system of this invention manages customer orders using vendor supplied software systems interfaced on a real-time basis to touch the data in each system on a real-time basis. In effect, there is horizontal communication between the various components of the syst... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7008145 | Milling cutter and insert therefor A milling cutter having a cutter body with a plurality of cutting inserts secured thereto. Each cutting insert has a serrated peripheral surface comprising crests and troughs which are aligned with crests and troughs of serrations of an adjacent portion of the cutte... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7008147 | Cutting tool with edge-on mounted inserts A rectangular blade-type cutting tool having two edge-on cutting inserts mounted at one end of the blade in a staggered formation with their cutting edges partially overlapping. This type of cutting blade finds particular application in disc-type cutting tool assemb... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7003374 | Aircraft cargo loading logistics system using machine readable identifiers A cargo loading logistics system for verifying cargo loaded on an aircraft receives a desired restraint configuration from a database and determines an actual restraint configuration on the aircraft by receiving data from a plurality of machine readable identifiers ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6986626 | Cutting insert for grooving operations A grooving insert has a forward main cutting edge and two opposing side cutting edges extending rearwardly from the main cutting edge on opposing sides of a center line of the grooving insert. Each side cutting edge has a serrated form in a top view of the grooving ... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6942437 | Milling cutting tool having cutter body mated to an adapter A rotary milling cutter has a cutter body mountable on an adapter. A first side of the adapter is provided with circumferentially arranged drive pins centered about a centrally positioned, conically tapered male locating member. A first side of the cutter body is pr... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6929427 | Cutting insert and milling cutter A milling cutter has a cutter body having insert pockets, with cutting inserts seated in the insert pockets. Each insert pocket has adjacent side and rear walls generally transverse to a base, the side wall being provided with two spaced apart generally flat and non... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6860172 | Method for making a powdered metal compact A method for producing a powdered metal compact for a cutting head to be used in a metal cutting tool uses a punch and die assembly. The resulting cutting head has apertures communicating between a coolant channel and recesses. ... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6796750 | Cutting tool and cutting insert therefor A cutting tool has at least one insert receiving pocket with a cutting insert retained therein. The insert receiving pocket has a base wall and a side wall transversely directed to the base wall with a circular recess having a peripheral wall extending downwardly fr... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6695549 | Cutting tool assembly A cutting tool assembly having a cutting insert with a generally cylindrical portion and an axially extending radial projection. The cutting insert is located in an insert retaining portion with the axially extending radial projection protruding from an a... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6616792 | Surface covering having a precoated, E-beam cured wearlayer coated film and process of making the same A surface covering has a base to which is laminated a rigid vinyl film. The film is precoated with an electron beam cured wearlayer. The preferred wearlayer composition is a polymerizable organic urethane-polyester wearlayer coating. The coated printed fi... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6455554 | Oxopyridinyl pharmaceutical compositions and methods for use Pharmaceutical compositions incorporate aryl substituted olefinic amine compounds. Representative compounds are (2S)-(4E)-N-methyl-5-[3-(5-isopropoxy-1-oxopyridin)yl)]-4-penten-2-amine, (4E)-N-methyl-5-(3-(1-oxopyridin)yl)-4-penten-2-amine, (4E)-N-me... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6296175 | Tamper resistant container The present invention provides a solution with a releasable, childproof container that is particularly suited for ammunition and other hazardous items. The container has a cover and body. The container body includes, preferably in two opposing side walls,... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6178678 | Menu board graphics display A menu board offering quick and easy changes thereto by a user is disclosed. The menu board comprises plural channels defined by T-shaped flanges, and which are sized to slidably receive and retain a plurality of inserts in the channels thereof in an oper... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6053698 | High capacity slurry pump A centrifugal slurry pump including a specifically designed impeller having circumferentially spaced vanes mounted between a back disc-shaped shroud and a front open annular shroud. The vanes are thick in cross-section for wear-resistance and channels bet... | 04/25/2000 |