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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5404885 | Filter unit for end-tidal carbon monoxide monitor A noninvasive device and methods for measuring the end-tidal carbon monoxide concentration in a patient's breath, particularly newborn and premature infants. The patient's breath is monitored. An average carbon monoxide concentration is determined based o... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5395516 | Filtration system A filtration system for filtering dope of a solvent-spun fiber manufacturing plant in which dope to be spun flows from a source of supply (10) through a series of filter assemblies (15) (21) (23) to jets (22(b)) of each spinning heads (22). The filtration... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5301844 | Dry solids materials feeder with vibrating mechanism and a method of vibrating various component parts of the feeder A volumetric dry solids materials feeder comprises a supply hopper, a feed trough disposed below the hopper, and an auger disposed in the feed trough to feed out the material. The trough is anchored to a vibration base, on which is mounted a vibratory mec... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5222636 | Apparatus for spraying a liquid from a container A pump sprayer for pharmaceutical or cosmetic products provides for consistent spray regardless of the orientation of the container. A gravity-actuated valve element coacts with a valve seat to close a secondary passage to the pump when the container is i... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5219630 | Fire resistant safety glass A fire-resistant safety glazing product comprises at least two sheets of glazing material, e.g. glass, bonded together with an interlayer of adhesive binder material and metallic wire mesh of the type used in "wired glass" embedded in the interlayer. Meth... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5209335 | Security arrangement for use with a lockable, removable cassette A method and apparatus to prevent fraud in a bill acceptor system utilizing a lockable, removable cassette is disclosed. A security arrangement including a security sensor and a microprocessor monitors the attachment of the cassette for proper installatio... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5205647 | Fluid mixing apparatus and method of mixing A mixing apparatus for mixing two or more fluids into a homogeneous mixture. A rotor is mounted on a drive shaft coaxially within a cylindrical casing. Bores run the length of the rotor. Mixing conduits lead from the bores to outside the rotor. A cylindri... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5201333 | Folding walker A folding walker with side frames rotationally mounted on both ends of a front frame such that the side frames can rotate independently from a closed position where they are parallel to the front frame to an open position where the side frames are perpend... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5174370 | Plate evaporator The present invention relates to a plate heat exchanger for the evaporation of a fluid which is comprised of a plurality of heat transfer plate pairs. Each plate of the pair has a ridged and grooved corrugation pattern. Between adjacent plates are flow sp... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5171788 | Internal-finishing skin material A material for the preparation of an internal-finishing skin of a composite type composed of a polyvinyl chloride and a polyurethane derived from reaction of a polyester polyol with an aliphatic or alicyclic diisocyanate, in which said polyesterpolyol com... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5164042 | Method and plant for producing high-yield pulp from pulp chip material containing lignocellulose In a method of producing high-yield pulp from pulp chip material containing lignocellulose the material is treated with steam in a steam treating station (1) for driving air out of the material and heating the latter. Heat treated material is mixed in a m... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5142576 | System for securely providing restricted video information A system for securely providing restricted information having an encoder for transmitting selected update data with respective keys and a plurality of uniquely identified decoders for receiving said update data. When saidd decoder matches the key sent wit... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5128379 | Process for rapid cooling of polyurethane foam An improved process for rapidly cooling hot freshly polymerized foam is provided by passage of a fluid coolant stream having a water vapor content which initially is in the range from slightly below to above the dew point. In preferred embodiments the coo... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5116336 | Osteosynthetic anchor bolt An osteosynthetic anchor bolt has a shaft which has at its front end an external thread having a major diameter greater than the diameter of the shaft and at the rear an internally threaded socket to accept a compression screw. The profile of the external... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5102656 | Antiperspirant creams The invention is directed to a creamy, heterogeneous anhydrous antiperspirant product and to a method for making it. The product of the invention comprises essentially a volatile silicone product as a carrier, a gelling agent and a physiologically accepta... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5098759 | Sheets or pages with separable self-adhesive labels Sheets or continuous paper web containing integral but separable self-adhesive labels each comprising an integral label in the sheet or web surrounded by perforations, or attenuating lines, an adhesive layer on the sheet or web substantially covering the ... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5059778 | Portable data scanner apparatus The present invention provides an integrated self-contained portable data scanner apparatus which is suitable for long periods of uninterrupted handheld use for purpose such as the bar code scanning of inventory. The apparatus includes a number of modules... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5041115 | Medullary nail for the tibia A hollow one-piece intramedullary nail for the tibia has a proximal end segment, a bent intermediate segment and a distal end segment. The central axis of the proximal end segment diverges from the central axis of the distal end segment at an angle of abo... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5038585 | Knitting method for forming integrally formed joins for three dimension fabric Knitted joins are made in double jersey knitted articles using a method which minimizes the effect of hole formation at the join. Single jersey edges are knitted along the edges to be jointed, being knitted on from one to six needles in each of the course... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5035697 | Orthopedic medullary nail A tibia medullary pin for the treatment of lower-leg fractures of all kinds has an anterior half (1), a posterior half (2), a proximal end segment (3), and a distal end segment (4), with the longitudinal axes (5;6) of the two end segments (3;4) forming in... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5027618 | Knitted fabric A weft knitted double jersey fabric is knitted with a textured continuous filament synthetic yarn on a knitting machine having a gauge of 10 to 14 to give, in the relaxed state of the fabric, from 4 to 6 wales per cm and from 10.5 to 22 courses per cm. Th... | 07/02/1991 |
| 4979208 | Method and apparatus for electronic payphone open switch interval management Control apparatus for a line operated telephone is described. This control circuitry is designed to be primarily telephone line powered and to not employ a large capacitor for storing power to sustain the circuitry during open switch intervals in which th... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4971720 | Method for suppressing process dust emissions Foam is formed from a solution of demineralized make-down water and foaming agent, and the foam contacted with solid materials to suppress process dust emissions. The foaming agent may be a low salt tolerant surfactant which loses its surface active prope... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4967429 | Slot fin pillow A slot fin pillow that may be adjustably and securely positioned on a supporting surface comprising a pillow and a self-supporting fin extending from a portion of the pillow for insertion into a slot in a supporting surface.... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4952118 | System and apparatus for storage of wheeled trailer frames in horizontal stacks A storage system for wheeled trailer frames includes a staircase-like support rack. Frames are stacked horizontally with their front ends supported by the rack and with their rear wheels nested. Trailer frames are lifted and stacked by means of a travelin... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4945047 | Microbiological process for the preparation of a protein by culturing a mutant bacterial strain The invention relates to a microbiological process for the preparation of a protein by culturing a mutant bacterial strain. This process consists in using a bacterial strain carrying a mutation which limits, or even suppresses, the expression of the operons wh... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4943630 | Method for carrying out the organic synthesis of oligosaccharides containing galactosamine-uronic acid patterns, new oligosaccharides obtained and biological applications thereof Novel processes for synthesizing acid mucopolysaccharide fragments having from 2-12 saccharides and substantially pure products of a single structure produced thereby. Condensation are disclosed between a first protected saccharide and a second protected ... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4939446 | Voltage transmission link for testing EMI susceptibility of a device or circuits The performance of a device under test is observed with and without the presence of controlled EMI fields. Voltage signals from the device under test are transmitted to an oscilloscope by overdamped conductors, a hybrid electrical/optical transmitter, a f... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4926996 | Two way communication token interrogation apparatus A token handling device transmits, using an electromagnetic carrier, data, clock pulses and power to a token. The token transmits data by varying the degree of absorption of the carrier in synchronism with the clock pulses. These data transmissions are de... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4867343 | Wild-flow loss-in-weight weighing system The present invention relates to a continuous weighing system and more specifically to a combination of a "wild-flow" flow of material and a loss-in-weight monitoring system. An uncontrolled flow of material from a wild-flow stream is accurately weighed a... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4818816 | Process for the organic synthesis of oligosaccharides and derivatives thereof The invention relates to a process for the organic synthesis of oligosaccharides constituting or comprising fragments of acid mucopolysaccharides comprising the reaction of two compounds constituted or terminated by units of glucosamine structure and of u... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4800367 | Method of sensing and indicating errors in a dosing circuit The present invention concerns a method of sensing and indicating errors in a dosing circuit, in which a pumping device (1) pumps a fluid via a conduit system out to at least one dosing device (3) located nearby a dosing place. The dosing device (3) measu... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4782220 | Method and apparatus for bar code data autodiscrimination An improved method and apparatus for the autodiscrimination of barcodes is described. First, an interrupt driven technique for timing the duration of space and bar barcode data is described which allows a microprocessor to decode a first quantum of barcod... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4753126 | Range of motion limiting device A range of motion limiting device for limiting the range of motion of a rotating input assembly on a trunk extension/flexion test, rehabilitation and exercise machine. The device has a cam lock and a cam lock housing, each of which is one integral piece. ... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4744203 | Machine for vacuum-sealing a package A machine for vacuum-sealing a block of cheese in a tube of heat-sealable plastics material forming the lining of a cheese box mounted on a wheeled dolly, the tubular lining having an open end which projects out of the cheese box. The machine comprises a ... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4736156 | Apparatus for on-line determination of dielectric constant An improved apparatus for the "on-line" measurement of the dielectric constant or percent moisture of a material such as tobacco moving within the walls of a pipe or chute is disclosed. A differential capacitive technique is used for the measurement. The ... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4729759 | Centrifugal separator arranged for discharge of a separated product with a predetermined concentration The invention resides in the provision of a sludge recirculation controlled in this manner within the centrifuge rotor itself. For this reason there has been arranged centrally in the rotor, apart from a previously known reception chamber (10) for separat... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4682538 | Processing of curd Apparatus for adding salt to a continuous stream of hot glutinous curd in the manufacture of Pasta Filata cheese, comprises an open-ended trough for passage therethrough of the stream of curd, a measuring roller rotatably mounted on a swing frame pivotall... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4643582 | Wetting chamber The present invention provides a new wetting chamber for a metering and wetting system typically for polyelectrolyte polymer. Atmospheric air is used to disperse the polymer fed into the chamber by a suitable feeder and to generate air/water turbulence in... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4628920 | Intramedullary nail A intramedullary nail of the type adapted to receive a conical drive connection is provided with a slot which extends from the tip to the head for improved elasticity. A locking section is provided at the head to avoid the nail spreading apart when a coni... | 12/16/1986 |
