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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4586865 | Rotatable discharge conveyor for a belly-dump trailer A rotatable conveyor apparatus for selectively discharging bulk material in any direction from the hopper of a belly-dump trailer is operatively supported in horizontal cantilever fashion by a rotatable material feed joint located beneath the hopper for r... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4586703 | Method and apparatus for high-speed mounting of documents on zig-zag carrier An apparatus for assembling carrier-mounted documents includes a glue station, a folding station and a document feeding station. Adhesive is selectively applied to an elongate sheet of carrier paper having a plurality of transverse perforations. The carri... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4585123 | Status-displaying device for video tape storage jackets A device for addition to or incorporation in the construction of a storage jacket for a video tape cassette, for providing an indication of the status of a video tape, by the position of a pivotably movable indicator member and the resulting display of on... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4584947 | Fuel gas-producing pyrolysis reactors Novel designs of two types of down draft pyrolysis reactors are disclosed. One is a solid fuel reactor including a novel arrangement of down draft air inlet entrances, air distribution means, a consumable/replenishable catalytic bed, a heat exchanger for ... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4582015 | Water ski rack A ski rack for supporting water skis in a position outboard one side of a water ski tow boat. A pair of support members are held in sockets which can be clamped to portions of the hull of the boat on the inboard side of the gunwale. Arms which are part of... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4580561 | Interstitial implant system An interstitial implant system for implanting surgical instruments in body tissue comprises a planning bridge and an implant needle applicator. The planning bridge includes a pair of parallel plates positioned one on each side of the body tissue having co... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580442 | Method for locating leaks in normally dry portions of fire sprinkler systems A method for locating points of leakage of air from a normally air-filled portion of the piping of a fire sprinkling system by filling the normally air-filled portion of the system with an aqueous solution of an efficient wetting agent, together with a wa... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4577991 | Deployable vehicular barricade A deployable vehicular barricade system includes a plurality of barricade units each having an elongate rigid post slidably received in a below-grade casing. Longitudinally spaced guide plates cooperating between the post and the casing guide the post bet... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4575652 | Permanent magnet motor having high starting torque and narrowly-defined detent zones A permanent magnet motor having a highly nonuniform reluctance gap between rotor and stator creating reluctance torque which aligns the rotor in narrowly-defined detent zones when the motor coils are de-energized. To overcome the high reluctance torque pr... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4571872 | Device for attaching a front sling-receiving loop to a weapon An assembly for fastening a sling to the front portion of a military rifle or other shoulder weapon in an orientation facilitating carrying such a weapon at the carrier's side in an upright orientation, with the longitudinal axis of the weapon generally h... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4569579 | Dual-positional camera mounting apparatus An apparatus for mounting a camera to a supporting structure, such as an automobile window, and permitting instantaneous reorientation of the camera's photographic frame between horizontal and vertical formats. A camera is attached to a mounting arm which... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4569465 | Stereo sport belt An exercise belt adapted to carry a stereo unit comfortably and stably on the wearer's body during vigorous exercise includes a pair of neoprene bands partially overlapped and joined together at the overlap so as to form a symmetrical belt having an elong... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4569301 | Utility container for catamaran sailboats An improved trampoline and a utility container for holding personal articles aboard a small catamaran sailboat, with separate internal compartments including an insulated icebox compartment. The container is shaped to fit in a location near the front of t... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4567821 | Apparatus for assembling wooden trusses and the like Apparatus for use in assembling wooden trusses and girders by holding wooden members in proper location and orientation while fastener plates are pressed into place. A frame supports an adjustable grid for supporting a clamp table at the location of each ... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4567703 | Hermetic window assembly with pressure-equalization system A manually-actuated pressure-equalization system for a double-glazed, hermetically-sealed window assembly comprising a spring-biased push-button valve installed in one of the glass panes. When actuated the valve provides an air passageway coupling the int... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4564204 | Spray-suppressant mud flap A spray-suppressing surface configuration for mud flaps and other surfaces near the wheels of motor vehicles. Tapered finger-like projections are oriented in parallel with one another, projecting outward from a base surface at an angle a few degrees below... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4563652 | Dual-stage filter with feedback A dual-stage band pass-band reject filter with feedback. Two state variable band pass filters with identical topology are cascaded as first and second stages. Each stage employs two inverting adders and two inverting integrators in a state variable topolo... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4562794 | Pest control in animals A device and method for the control of animal pests, especially ectoparasites on livestock and poultry, is disclosed. The device comprises (1) a tag element, and (2) a replaceable controlled-release dispenser element, the latter dispensing an active ingre... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4561467 | Triple gate valve assembly A valve assembly including three separate gate valves aligned serially with one another and a mechanical linkage for operating the three separate gates in coordination with one another to permit small pieces of lumpy or granular and particulate solid mate... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4560112 | Scrap shredding apparatus having cutter discs of different thickness Apparatus for comminuting scrap materials, particularly fiber-reinforced resilient materials such as scrap tires, includes a pair of generally cylindrical cutter rolls mounted for rotation with parallel cutter discs of each roll intermeshed closely betwee... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4559870 | System for the treatment of waste products An integrated system for the treatment of waste products such as domestic, industrial, or commercial trash comprises the placement of waste in barrel-shaped, self-supporting containers, compaction of the waste in the containers in an especially adapted wa... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4558315 | Input apparatus and method for controlling the scanning of a multi-cell display An apparatus and method are disclosed for adapting a multi-mode scanning technique employed to optically scan the display panel of a scanned display device to provide for the time required by the user to adjust to a change in scanning mode. Each scanning ... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557501 | Method and apparatus for improving directional stability of motor vehicles A method for improving the stability of steering of a motor vehicle equipped with radius members resiliently attached at one end thereof to the frame or body of a vehicle and at another end thereof to a vertically movable part of a suspension assembly of ... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557304 | Block stabilizer for veneer lathe Apparatus for stabilizing a rotating block of wood from which veneer is being peeled in a veneer lathe, and a method for its operation. A block stabilizer includes a massive stabilizer head having paired rollers which extend along a majority of the length... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557029 | Core capping apparatus A capping head for a core-capping apparatus adapted to fix conforming sleeves within tubular fiber cores is constructed from a one-piece cylindrical shell having a bore therethrough to accommodate axial sliding movement of a partially conical, power actua... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557013 | Vacuum coupled squeegee attachment A squeegee attachment for a wet/dry vacuum cleaner having an elongate cleaning head and a deformable blade inserted into the head such that the blade barely extends past a lower portion of the cleaning head which forms part of a suction part, the blade ef... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4556252 | Portable ski rest A portable ski rest is provided for use on a ski lift chair to support the skis of a skier seated thereon. The portable ski rest includes a ski support member upon which the skier's skis rest. The ski support member is suspended on an elongate flexible co... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555051 | Sling for shoulder weapon A sling assembly for carrying shoulder-fired weapons, particularly military rifles, in an upright horizontal ready position. A strap portion of the sling assembly extends rearwardly from a sling swivel on the bottom of the butt stock and then extends upwa... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4553246 | Construction method and apparatus for installing a hanger-supported heating element in an electrical resistance furnace An apparatus and method for insulating an electric furnace having resistive heating elements in which precast support rings comprising studs, a ring and a plurality of rods are welded to a furnace wall alternatively with placing batts of ceramic fiber ins... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4552989 | Miniature coaxial conductor pair and multi-conductor cable incorporating same A multi-conductor cable including a plurality of miniature coaxial conductor pairs, each including an inner conductor supported by a very thin tubular layer of solid, relatively stiff dielectic material, surrounded by a much thicker wrapping of dielectric... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4547221 | Abrasion-resistant refrigeration-hardenable ferrous alloy An abrasion-resistant high-chromium type of alloyed white iron, which can be hardened and toughened by refrigeration at sub-zero temperatures, containing as its essential alloying constituents about 2.6% to about 3.6% carbon, about 12% to about 22% chromi... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4546451 | Raster graphics display refresh memory architecture offering rapid access speed A raster graphic refresh memory architecture offering increased access speed. The memory takes advantage of the "page mode" of operation of dynamic random-access memory integrated circuit devices which require two separate device addresses for random acce... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4543458 | Switch and connector assembly including protective housings for jumper cable A connector assembly for effecting mechanical and electrical connection between a portion of a security alarm or similar circuit mounted on a swinging door or window and a portion of such a circuit located on fixed structure adjacent the door or window, i... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4542603 | Display sign including changeable numeral characters A sign for displaying prices and other information, in which at least one numeral character is changeable to display any numeral from zero through nine. A plurality of flap members are each pivotably attached to a flat foundation portion of the sign by re... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4542010 | Method and apparatus for producing oxygen and nitrogen and membrane therefor Process and apparatus for the separation and purification of oxygen and nitrogen as well as a novel membrane useful therein are disclosed. The process utilizes novel facilitated transport membranes to selectively transport oxygen from one gaseous stream t... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4540906 | Stator assembly for permanent magnet rotary device A stator assembly for a brushless DC permanent magnet motor or generator features an internal stator with electrical windings surrounded by a permanent magnet rotor. The stator assembly includes a collar member matingly interconnecting the stator core and... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4529021 | Block stabilizer for veneer lathe and method for operating same Apparatus for stabilizing a rotating block of wood from which veneer is being peeled in a veneer lathe, and a method for its operation. A block stabilizer includes a massive stabilizer head having paired rollers which extend along a majority of the length... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4528925 | Utility container for catamaran sailboats A utility container for holding personal articles aboard a small catamaran sailboat, with separate internal compartments including an icebox compartment containing an icebox liner. The container is shaped to fit in a location near the front of the passeng... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4528765 | Externally visible safety device for firearms A safety device for use with a repeating firearm having a magazine well for holding a box-like removable magazine, to prevent the firearm from being unintentionally fired and for providing an indication visible at some distance that the firearm is in such... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4526394 | Apparatus for converting a trailer having a cantilevered reach into a trailer having a reach extending between spaced-apart sets of wheels A wheeled dolly is provided having a fixed coupler which permits the dolly to rigidly connect to the end of the cantilevered reach of a wheeled trailer. The dolly and trailer can be connected together to form a trailer having a reach extending between spa... | 07/02/1985 |
