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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5053659 | Centrifugal force magnetic field variator A magnetic actuator for controlling the electrical induction in a pickup coil to a predetermined speed of rotation of a workpiece actuated shaft consisting of a series of magnets in a fixed circular relationship to a rotating shaft and a complimentary ser... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5036180 | Electrical indoor broiler An electric grill-simulated charcoal broiler for use indoors with smoke, grease/fire abatement. The iron grid is somewhat rectangular shaped with horizontal elongated grooves positioned therein for searing the meat and elongated slots to receive and direc... | 07/30/1991 |
| 4971235 | Curtain threader for a curtain rod having open rough ends A threader for curtain rod of the telescoping type having open ends of rough cut metal, to easily thread the curtain rod through the hem of the curtain. The structure has an insertible end of the spring resilient material to be inserted in the rod opening... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4821540 | Lock mechanism operable from one side of a structure by a physical identifiable combination mechanism A lock system having a single direction closure comprising a permutation lock having a simplified mechanical arrangement for setting the combination for opening the closure. Upon actuation of the permutation lock, a protrusion therefrom releases a lever h... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4795180 | Tool caddy A tool caddy for use with a conventional workman's creeper by a workman in upright inaccessable places. The construction of the tool caddy comprises a rectangular box-like housing or top and bottom complimentary halves; each half has an elongated side wal... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4662189 | Supporting structure for air conditioner apparatus having an indoor and an outdoor unit A movable apparatus for an air conditioner having an indoor unit and an outdoor unit. The movable unit comprises a rigid platform having movable means. Said indoor unit and said outdoor unit positioned fore and aft on said platform. An intermediate area o... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4586635 | Conical dome collapsible tube dispenser for dispensing liquids A collapsible tube container with a conical dome opening supported vertically relative to a wall surface in a support housing having a front and rear section of which is extended from a wall surface by elevation of the flat face on the backside. Having th... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4465455 | Start-up/shut-down for a hydrogen gas burner System for flame start-up/shut-down for a hydrogen gas mixture burner. An electrical probe igniter positioned adjacent the gas port outlet. On demand the igniter is actuated to heat and electrically heat a thermal switch. Responsive electronic controls ac... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4421474 | Hydrogen gas burner A hydrogen gas burner for the mixture of hydrogen gas with ambient air and non-combustible gasses. The mixture of gasses when ignited provides a flame of extremely high, but controlled intensity and temperature. The structure comprises a housing and a hyd... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4389981 | Hydrogen gas injector system for internal combustion engine System and apparatus for the controlled intermixing of a volatile hydrogen gas with oxygen and other non-combustible gasses in a combustion system. In a preferred arrangement the source of volatile gas is a hydrogen source, and the non-combustible gasses ... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4362329 | Mobile service vehicle A mobile vehicle service station including an enclosed service vehicle to provide an indoor-like working area similar to a bay for servicing other vehicles. The extendable bay comprises the rear doors opening into two side walls and top member outwardly e... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4325128 | Circuit for measuring the horsepower per cylinder for an engine A measuring and processing electronic circuit for measuring and visually displaying digitally the horsepower per cylinder selected for a reciprocating engine. Proximity sensors relate the rotation of cylinder by way of the fly-wheel and the crank shaft, t... | 04/13/1982 |
| 4310873 | Key hole light illuminator A structure for mounting adjacent a key hole, having means therein for illuminating said key hole. The outside cover provides a large area contact surface for activating the light. The circuitry is updated electronic components to provide a touch contact ... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4285143 | Solar grain drying/storage building An enclosure for drying and storing grain or crops utilizing solar energy wherein an entire structural side (wall or roof) is of transparent material. An inner wall is positioned adjacent the transparent wall and an absorbent material is positioned interm... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4276481 | Fluid velocity actuated structure for a wind mill/water wheel A fluid velocity actuated structure for a wind mill/water wheel, comprising an elongated cylinder with blades/fins hingedly supported thereon. When exposed to the driving force the one blade/fin will respond by assuming a position of least resistance ther... | 06/30/1981 |
| 4218255 | Porous ceramic carriers for controlled release of proteins, polypeptide hormones, and other substances within human and/or other mamillian species and method The product and process of making an in-vivo body implant pharmaceutical carrier of a resorbable ceramic crystalline structure of interconnecting pores capable of the critical controlled time release of pharmaceutical preparations such as proteins, polype... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4211980 | Method of creating an electric field for shark repellent Method for repelling sharks and the like by creating an electric field containing a zone about an anode and/or cathode electrodes submersed in salt water. A voltage gradient of sufficient magnitude to overstimulate the nervous system of a shark has been f... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4208912 | Gas sampler/collector for a mixture of gasses A gas sampler for sampling a mixture of gasses such as air having toxic gasses or other contaminants, utilizing a vessel with liquid therein as the scrubbing media. The closed vessel comprises intake and exhaust openings for the passage of the sampled gas... | 06/24/1980 |
| 4199259 | Detector pulse enhancement circuit An optical gauging device wherein a laser beam is deflected to produce a bidirectional scan; a measuring portion of the split beam scans an object being inspected while the other portion scans a calibration reticle having alternating opaque and transparen... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4196553 | End joining piece adaptable to either hollow or insulated backing siding An inside and outside corner for construction material used as siding, roofing, paneling and the like. The corner in its natural position has a diameter (depth) sufficient to accommodate siding material with an insulating backing. The corner piece has a s... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4165545 | Commode condensation/overflow catch basin A moisture catch basin for a toilet (combination tank and bowl) comprising a sheet of moisture-impervious material of an overall size and configuration greater than that of the outside dimensions of said tank and bowl. The front portion of the catch basin... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4156517 | Beam form Block-forming means or shuttering apparatus for precast units of especially long dimension along one axis, a horizontal basic frame and two block-forming or shuttering walls of which are means for at least one is guided slidably being selectively adjustab... | 05/29/1979 |
| 4155787 | Method for the application of cellular glass blocks to spherical vessels This invention relates to a method for applying preformed cellular glass insulation blocks to the exterior surface of a spherical metallic storage vessel by the steps of: (a) cleaning the exterior surface of the vessel; (b) maintaining the vessel at a temperat... | 05/22/1979 |
| 4152819 | Machine for disassembling wood pallets A machine for disassembling damaged pallets of the wood type. The pallet is machine disassembled in a manner wherein the undamaged deckboards or stringers may again be used in a reassembled pallet. The machine includes a hydraulically driven platform havi... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4152963 | Hand slicer for prepared meats A hand slicer for prepared meat such as roasts, hams, and other boneless meats. The meat is positioned in a rack that has a configuration closely approximating that of the prepared meat to prevent back and forth movement as well as eliminating the use of ... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4148304 | Device for measuring ovulation A system for determining the time of ovulation in females including a probe which measures the body temperature and a probe which measures body potential of a female subject, an electronic amplification circuit and an indicating device which is capable of... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4146327 | Optical triangulation gauging system An optical triangulation gauging system utilizing the position of a scanned laser beam to determine the position of an unknown surface or material thickness by optical triangulation. The scanned laser beam is split into two components by a beam splitter, ... | 03/27/1979 |
| 4141000 | Interactive displays comprising a plurality of individual display elements An interactive display having an array of independently labelled display elements such as LEDs. The output of a recirculating shift register is supplied as long or short pulses which are scanned across the array. Each element in response emits either long... | 02/20/1979 |
| 4136979 | Paper guidance systems Apparatus for reducing the possibility of wrinkling arising during the feed of multi-layer strip material along a feed path including a change of direction, the apparatus including a rotatable paddle-like paper guide having blades which successively engag... | 01/30/1979 |
| 4133692 | Process for manufacturing imitation stone used for decoration A new, improved, and inexpensive method and mixture of cements for the manufacture of imitation stone used for the purpose of decorating the object or surface upon which it is applied for giving it the appearance of being made of real stone.... | 01/09/1979 |
| 4126941 | Outlet box locator A template for positioning electrical outlet and switch boxes for attachment to a stud in a new construction. An elongated flat plate has a series of vertical notches formed therein on either side, one of each representing the standard height for a wall o... | 11/28/1978 |
| 4069412 | Area navigation system There is disclosed an area navigation system including signal averaging and lag compensation circuits to overcome VOR signal propagation instabilities and a meter sensitivity control circuit which decreases the sensitivity of a track angle deviation left-... | 01/17/1978 |
| 4035777 | Data processing system including parallel bus transfer control port A multiprocessor data processing system comprises a plurality of processing modules interconnected by a mains data highway. Each module contains an internal highway connected to main highway by means of a port unit, which monitors activity on the internal... | 07/12/1977 |
| 4024877 | Vegetable peas and separating the hulls therefrom and the like Method and apparatus for shelling vegetable peas and separating the hulls from the pea, in which the method and apparatus includes a tumbler and agitator for displacing the pea from the hull, agitator which shells the peas, and a separator of novel design... | 05/24/1977 |
| 3988719 | Microprogrammed data processing systems A data processing system is described in which a plurality of microprogram address registers are provided, some of the registers being associated with operations involving a processor and others of the registers being associated with peripheral devices. E... | 10/26/1976 |
| 3983037 | Apparatus for transfer, storage, and distribution of liquid This invention is an apparatus for the separation of liquid such as serum or plasma from centrifugated solid particles such as red cells, and for the separation of the liquid into containers for use in an auto-analyzer, and/or storage as well as preservat... | 09/28/1976 |
| 3949379 | Pipeline data processing apparatus with high speed slave store A stage of a pipeline data processor has a store associated with it, and when that stage requires to write data into a specified address within that store, but the data to be written is not yet available, an indication of the address is stored in a specia... | 04/06/1976 |
| 3949376 | Data processing apparatus having high speed slave store and multi-word instruction buffer Instructions are written in multi-word blocks into an instruction buffer from a slave store, and then scanned sequentially. The instruction buffer is unequally divided, a first part of a block being written into the smaller portion of the buffer during sc... | 04/06/1976 |
| 3948579 | Tackle box with improved tray structures A tackle box with improved tray structures and forming a plurality of self-contained compartments each immediately accessible apart from each other, as to type or the like, by selectively opening one section at a time. In this manner only one unit is open... | 04/06/1976 |
| 3947957 | Mounting integrated circuit elements A multi layer printed circuit interconnection system together with pillars for mounting integrated circuit components is progressively formed layer by layer by successive sequences for each layer, involving using a photo resist to produce a pattern of ape... | 04/06/1976 |
