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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4826220 | Means for connecting successive sections of tubular elements Pairs of flanges for connecting identical tubular sections in series. The flanges are complementary in form, one being welded to the end of the preceding section, the other welded to the adjacent end of the following section. The flanges include interenga... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4695055 | Illuminated translucent golf ball A dimpled golf ball for use after dark. The ball is made of translucent plastic and contains in a diametrical hole therein a chemiluminescent light stick which when activated renders the ball when used in the dark plainly visible in the air and on the gro... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4583629 | Air operated press guard A safety device for use with machines in which the operator must use his hand or hands to position a work piece in the vicinity of a subsequently descending potentially dangerous element. The mechanism includes a downwardly movable probe which if intercep... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4563726 | Illuminated chemiluminescent drinking mug A one piece illuminated drinking mug made of light permeable plastic, the mug wall being generally tubular with a flat bottom and having an axially disposed light permeable tube attached integrally to the bottom, the tube being longer than one half the ve... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4519534 | Pin inserting machine A machine for driving a pin into a hole in a work piece. The pins are fed by gravity in a continuous succession from a pin supply to a passage extending through a pin receiving rotor. With a pin in the rotor, the rotor is turned through a selected angle t... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4515198 | Means for detachably connecting a chain link to a skidder ring Simplified means for connecting skidder rings to the tag chains that hold the skidder rings in spaced positions around a tractor wheel. Each skidder ring has four hooks spaced approximately 90° apart, two at each side, of novel construction. Each hook is... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4479649 | Illuminated playball A playball made of translucent plastic and illuminated for play in the dark by an insertable and removable chemi-luminescent device known as a light stick. The weight of the light stick is less than 1% of the weight of the ball. The ball includes a self-c... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4431340 | Fish elevator and method of elevating fish A means and method for transporting fish from a lower body of water to a higher body of water. The means comprises a tubular lock with a gated entrance below the level of the lower body of water through which fish may enter the lock and a discharge passag... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4399657 | Steam generation system Steam generation means in a closed system having a pressured steam boiler positioned within a closed heated feed water chamber. The steam generated in the boiler is used to drive a turbine and an associated electrical generator whose output augments the o... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4390218 | Coaxial transmission line connector The construction of an expansion joint for use in the inner power conductor of a coaxial transmission line whereby the heat generated in the line may flow through the joints from the hotter areas to the cooler areas and conventional heat sinks with such e... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4385719 | Machine for inserting spring pins A machine for driving a spring pin or other similar cylindrical object into a hole in a work piece. One pin at a time is automatically fed into a shuttle. The shuttle is moved laterally to bring the pin into alignment with a pin inserting punch. Upon subs... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4377737 | Electrically heated steam boiler for generating superheated steam A steam boiler for producing superheated steam directly in the boiler from saturated steam being generated therein includes a plurality of vertical sealed high pressure boiler water heating tubes, each provided with an electrical heating element and conta... | 03/22/1983 |
| 4351467 | Pin chuck press A pin chuck press having means for adjusting the rest position of the pin inserting means up or down with respect to a work piece supporting base so that the inserting means will be able to place pins in the cooperating holes in work pieces of different v... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4343467 | Short hitting baseball bat An apparatus for playing a game of baseball with a regulation ball on a field having a size smaller than the conventional baseball or softball field. The apparatus for playing the game is a bat of conventional size but is made of flexible material which w... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4319470 | Lever type door handle A lever type door handle assembly adapted to be mounted on a conventional lock spindle which may or may not include a lock tumbler cylinder. The assembly comprises a handle and three inexpensively made parts which may be assembled on a lock spindle to for... | 03/16/1982 |
| 4301690 | Gear shifting means A gear shifting mechanism comprising a drive shaft with a plurality of freely rotatable gears mounted thereon and means for making driving connection between the drive shaft and any one of the gears. Then through the operation of means actuated by limited... | 11/24/1981 |
| 4301979 | Winch In a winch or capstan, means for holding the free end of a rope in readily releasable condition but with sufficient force to insure that the turns of rope on the winch drum will not slip as the rope under tension is being wound thereon.... | 11/24/1981 |
| 4297563 | Electric steam generating unit A electric steam generating unit includes a housing having an upper end having a steam outlet and a lower end having a water inlet. An elongated tubular electric immersion heating element is vertically disposed in the housing in such a manner that an insu... | 10/27/1981 |
| 4286783 | Practice baseball A practice baseball constructed to curve to a controllable degree when thrown in the manner that a conventional baseball is thrown as a straight ball. The practice baseball is in major part spherical, the balance of the surface being a flat area resulting... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4286638 | Apparatus for measuring, cutting and splitting logs A machine for cutting a log into a succession of pieces of predetermined length at a cutting station, moving the cut piece to a first splitting station, splitting said first cut piece at said first splitting station while the next piece is being cut at th... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4279389 | Thread keeper A thread keeper to prevent undesired unwinding of thread from a spool. The unit comprises a channel shaped element with the mid portion paralleling the axis of the spool and the two arms straddling the ends of the spool. The arms have short projections th... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4252500 | Turbine with rotors geared together A steam turbine comprising a housing in which there are at least two rotors turning on a common axis in the same direction but at different speeds. The rotors are connected by gearing preferably located externally of the housing. In the preferred form, th... | 02/24/1981 |
| 4249858 | Turbine with freely rotatable rotor A steam turbine having side by side rotors within the turbine housing, one rotor fixed to the turbine shaft and the other rotor free to rotate on the turbine shaft. The fixed rotor has a single set of vanes, the freely rotatable rotor has two sets of vane... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4249857 | Steam turbine governor A governor for a steam operated engine by which the steam valve opening for any selected engine speed can be varied to accommodate different steam pressures, or conversely with a constant steam pressure, the steam valve opening may be varied to produce an... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4243088 | Skidder ring and chain connecting means Means for improving the traction of wheeled equipment used in the logging industry comprising an improved skidder ring with clevises to which the connecting tag chains are fastened by a pin preferably secured in place by a spot of welding material. When a... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4233481 | Mechanical transfer switch A mechanical transfer switch for use primarily in making rapid change of circuits in high energy coaxial transmission lines of the type employed in transmitting energy to a radio or television antenna. The switch is preferably manually actuated and includ... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4207915 | Back flow preventer A back flow preventer for preventing contamination of a water supply. The preventer includes check valves which are enclosed in a casing comprised of a body and a single removable cover. The check valves are vertically disposed and spaced laterally from e... | 06/17/1980 |
| 4201520 | Steam turbine governor A governor for a steam operated engine by which the steam valve opening for any selected engine speed can be varied to accommodate different steam pressures, or conversely with a constant steam pressure, the steam value opening may be varied to produce an... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4128238 | Practice baseball A baseball made to meet playing rule requirements as to size and weight but having a small segment removed therefrom so that the ball when thrown by a pitcher without any twist being imparted to the ball will curve in the same manner and degree as a conve... | 12/05/1978 |
| 4109444 | Horizontal cartoning machine A machine for erecting a tubular carton from flat folded form to rectangular form open at both ends, partially closing one end of the carton while it is being manually or mechanically loaded at the other end, and advancing the box to a sealing machine whi... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4048770 | Building structure A plurality of identical panels shaped as equilateral triangles with peripheral framing whereby the panels are adapted to be bolted together to form a space enclosing structure whose outer surface will be 15/20th of an icosahedron. The five roof panels ha... | 09/20/1977 |
| 4028999 | Carton forming machine A machine for forming a precut paperboard blank into carton form with the lid extending vertically from its related back wall in unfolded condition. The forming means includes spring pressed rollers acting in cooperation with a mandrel to fold the carton ... | 06/14/1977 |
| 4027995 | Steam track turbine The turbine rotor has about its periphery a steam track in the form of a groove. The groove is closed at its leading end by a small face and has walls which diverge in a helical pattern. The bottom and walls of the groove terminate in an outwardly sloping... | 06/07/1977 |
| 4015648 | Sawmill A sawmill for cutting finished boards from logs in a single operation. The log is mounted on a reciprocating carriage which is also laterally adjustable to control the thickness of each board. Two vertically adjustable circular chippers are mounted on a v... | 04/05/1977 |
| 4008034 | Brick making machine having stripping means In an automatic water struck brick molding machine including a mold for molding wet clay into bricks, releasing the suction between the wet clay in the mold and the overlying slide board by pushing the slide board across the mold for a limited distance an... | 02/15/1977 |
| 4006575 | Carton sealing machine A machine for sealing the lid to the body of a paperboard carton. The lid has two end flaps and one front flap. A carton is fed into the sealer back side first. Glue is applied to the oppositely disposed end flaps. The carton is raised by an elevator to t... | 02/08/1977 |
| 4005625 | Tree slasher A tree slasher in which the entire trunk of a tree may be simultaneously cut into a plurality of selected lengths to meet subsequent processing requirements. The slasher, while large, is mobile and may, if desired, be taken to the vicinity of the tree-cut... | 02/01/1977 |
| 4002893 | Illuminated playball The invention comprises a hollow self-supporting ball, in the form of a football, basketball, volleyball, etc. made of translucent plastic material and having an internal source of illumination of such intensity that the ball may be used in the dark. A ba... | 01/11/1977 |
| 3985143 | Self extinguishing cigarette Means for automatically extinguishing a cigarette when it has burned to a pre-determined position along its length. The means comprises a small sack of liquid, ordinarily water, positioned at the required location within the tobacco and the paper tube. Th... | 10/12/1976 |
| 3982679 | Machine for driving spring pins A machine for driving a spring pin into a work piece. The pins are automatically fed from a supply to the pin driving means. Pins of varying lengths and diameters can be accommodated by changing a few parts. The work piece to receive the pin is placed at ... | 09/28/1976 |
