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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4483628 | Balanced chronograph digital time display A digital display arrangement is provided for balanced general timekeeping having centrally-positioned hour digits and two sets of smaller, equal-sized minute digits flanking the hour digits for trailing and leading readout, with hockey stick-shaped displ... | 11/20/1984 |
| 4464397 | Derivatives of lysine and aspartic acid The compounds of formula ##STR1## where R=H and n=1 or R=(C6 -C26)-acyl and n=2 are useful in the treatment of muscular fatigue and muscular contraction in men and animals and also in the stimulation of development in vegetation... | 08/07/1984 |
| 4460696 | Acid-soluble glass for making flexible optical fiber bundle An acid-soluble glass for use in making a flexible optical fiber bundle, which comprises the following composition: 20.0 mol % | 07/17/1984 |
| 4460111 | Apparatus for turning hose An apparatus for turning a circular knit hose inside out and sectioning same into unit hoses, includes an air suction pipe extending in the direction of feeding the knit hose, a pair of contact rollers carried on a carrier capable of reciprocally moving a... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4459154 | Alloy and process for producing and casting ductile and compacted graphite cast irons This invention relates to a new and unique alloy composition and to the method of treating molten cast iron with such alloy to produce ductile and compacted graphite cast irons. The alloy is a predominately iron alloy having the essential elements by weig... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4455712 | Means for splitting carcasses The present invention relates to apparatus for cutting carcasses, especially hogs. The apparatus comprises a knife to which is imparted an oscillating motion in the vertical direction. This is suitably accomplished by a ramming device arranged at one end ... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4454519 | Ink jet head with slit nozzles An ink jet nozzle head comprising a first nozzle head member having a surface on which hydrophilic sections of a predetermined width and hydrophobic sections of a predetermined width are formed alternately and in parallel with one another, and a second no... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4453962 | Method of manufacturing a flexible optical fiber bundle A number of three-layer optical fibers each having a core a cladding and an overcoating layer of acid-soluble glass material are bonded together by means of an adhesive which can be removed by applying heat. The bonded optical fibers are heated and stretc... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4452059 | Lock apparatus The present invention relates to a lock system comprising a lock of the type where the combination of the lock is given by a more or less platelike code member which may be removed and substituted and where the lock is operated by means of a more or less ... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4449427 | Machine for machining circular saw blades The invention relates to apparatus for machining circular saw blades and more particularly to the transport means for conveying workpieces to the machining stations of the apparatus. In accordance with the invention, the storage capability of the apparatu... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4448290 | Safety device for a cable wound drum The invention relates to an improved safety device for stopping cable payout in an overspeed condition, and particularly to a safety device for securing an object from falling because of failure of a hoisting device. According to the invention, an inertia... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4447366 | Derivatives of lysine and aspartic acid The compounds of formula ##STR1## where R=H and n=1 or R=(C6 -C26)-acyl and n=2 are useful in the treatment of muscular fatigue and muscular contraction in men and animals and also in the stimulation of development in vegetation... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4444510 | Stirrer, having substantially triangular, radial blades, rising toward the circumference Stirrer, comprising a spindle (1) provided with a drive, to which spindle a disc or plate (2) is affixed, cut into star-shape and extending perpendicular to the axis, to which, on one or both sides of said disc or plate a plurality of stirring blades (4) ... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4444033 | Cylinder assemblies for lock system and method of manufacture A cylinder lock assembly is provided with a cylindrical plug that may be interchanged and used in different exterior body members without changing the exterior body member of the assembly. This is of advantage to eliminate the need to stock a variety of e... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4443879 | Electrothermical furnace The present invention relates to a reduction furnace with a split furnace body, particularly suited for production of ferro alloys, pig iron or calcium carbide. Furnaces of such types are provided with a furnace pot equipped with an internal refractory li... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4443024 | Bicycle stand unit A bicycle stand unit comprises a pair of attachments made of a metal plate provided at the hub of the rear tire, a pair of legs mounted on the attachments, each of the legs being slidable up and down along the attachment, a pair of toggle joints each of w... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4439545 | Acrylic copolymers of N-acryloylpolymethyleneimines or N-acryloyldialkylamides, N,N'-acryloyldiaminoalcanes and N-acryloylaminoacids (or esters) their preparation and use as cation exchangers The invention relates to new reticulated statistic acrylic copolymers that may be used in a very wide range of solvents (water, methylene chloride, chloroform, methanol, ethanol, dimethylformamide, pyridine,) stable between pH 1 and pH 14, to preparation ... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4438526 | Automatic volume and frequency controlled sound masking system A sound masking system for generating background sound. The background sound is automatically adjusted to ambient noise levels by adjusting the amplitude of the frequency levels detected.... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4438516 | Means for an electrothermal smelting furnace An improved holder assembly for self-baking electrodes in an electrothermal smelting furnace comprises a plurality of contact clamps which are pressed towards the electrode by hydraulic presses between the clamps and a cylindrical body arranged externally... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4436919 | Borane complexes This invention relates to new chiral organoboranes of the general formula ##STR1## in which X represents a methylene group or a sulphur atom, n and p are 0 or 1, and to a preparation process of these compounds, consisting in reacting a bicyclic subst... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4436874 | Acrylic copolymers and their use in solid phase peptide synthesis The present invention relates to new amino-functionalized acrylic copolymers, their preparation and their use in peptide synthesis.... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4436491 | Method of supplying hydraulic operating fluid in diaphragm type In a diaphragm type pump, a minute amount of the operating fluid is supplied instantaneously from an oil reservoir to an operating chamber at the final stage of the suction stroke in a main cylinder, and an excessive amount of the operating fluid and/or b... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4435935 | Panel joining system A panel joining system of the kind that comprises two rigid and preferably metal plates between which a suitable insulating fill material is inserted, and where the panels are arranged in flush formation to one another, and each one possesses a grooved in... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4435817 | Contact assembly The disclosed invention is an apparatus for connecting two current conducting tubes, which also conduct fluids such as for example, a coolant. The connection apparatus conducts current from one tube to the other through a sleeve, the said tubes having a m... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4435815 | Method and apparatus for charging a furnace The invention relates to a method and apparatus for charging an electric smelting or reduction furnace. In accordance with the invention, a charge tube movable within the roof or smoke hood of the furnace and is normally held in a protected position there... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434199 | Method of manufacturing a thin net and product A method of manufacturing a thin net by a polycondensation reaction is disclosed. One of the reactants is deposited upon a template and subsequently the second reactant is also deposited on the template. An embossed structure is obtained which can then be... | 02/28/1984 |
| 4432109 | Plastic support platform for mattress structure A mattress comprising a plurality of spaced springs, a plastic support platform having a plurality of extruded unoriented plastic spaced longitudinal support members and a plurality of extruded unoriented plastic spaced longitudinal stabilizing members, a... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4427076 | Tubular spike carrying shaft A tubular shaft for rotary cultivators, to which shaft (2) there is attached to a series of tools (4), the tip of each tool comprising a working face (unreferenced) at an angle to the ground (9) where ࣙ15° and an approach face (7) at an ... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4424584 | Electrode holder assembly for self-baking electrodes The present invention relates to an electrode holder assembly for self-baking electrodes in an electrothermic smelting furnace. The electrode comprises an electrode casing having vertical fins projecting radially outwards from the casing. A plurality of c... | 01/03/1984 |
| 4424046 | Flexible coupling A flexible shaft-coupling of the type having one coupling part comprising a hub with arms extending radially therefrom and a second coupling part having radial projecting portions extending between the arms separated by elastic pieces therebetween. The se... | 01/03/1984 |
| 4422722 | Color separation optical system for color television camera A color separation optical system consisting of prism blocks is provided with a bias light source and a bias light guide-in device. The bias light guide-in device consists of a plane parallel plate located with an air gap in front of an entrance face of t... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4421616 | Method of producing zinc from chloride solutions which contain chiefly iron, copper and zinc Selective extraction of zinc from chloride solutions which contain iron, copper and zinc, where the zinc is extracted in organic phase by means of tri-n-butylphosphate in an organic solvent. The extraction is carried out on chloride solutions in which the... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420340 | Color retention pigment for paint compositions using latex vehicles Manganomanganic oxide or a material containing manganomanganic oxide as its principle ingredient is used as a colorant with good staining and retention properties in compositions of water emulsion based coatings.... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4417345 | Holder for an electrode A holder assembly (2) for an electrode (1) in an electrothermal smelting furnace is movable suspended from a suspension means and comprises a plurality of contact clamps (3) which are pressed towards the electrode (1) by means of pressure producing means ... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4417008 | Improved color pigment for solvent-base paint formulations Manganomanganic oxide fume or a material containing manganomanganic oxide fume as its principle ingredient is used as a color pigment in the formulation of solvent-base paints.... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4417007 | Zinc rich paint formulations employing manganomanganic oxide fume pigment Paint formulations employing zinc and manganomanganic oxide fume or a material containing predominantly manganomanganic oxide fume as a corrosion inhibitive system.... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416718 | Process for splitting sheet The invention relates to a process and apparatus for making a thermoplastic polymer sheet and particularly a thermoplastic polymer netting structure. It further relates to a process and apparatus for splitting a thermoplastic polymer sheet or net structur... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4414481 | Stator for rotating electric machine A rotating electric machine stator, the casing of which is formed by the assembly of two elements made from a plastics material of from another non magnetizable material; it comprises a holding part made integrally from a magnetizable material for forming... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4412229 | Line recording method In recording a line image on a heat mode recording medium, the intensity of the light spot is regulated in proportion to the square root of its velocity to obtain a line image of constant width.... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4410620 | Offset plates in steel, using surfaces containing chromium oxide The present invention relates to new offset plates wherein the surface of the steel-containing support is coated with a thin water-accepting layer of chromium and chromium oxide.... | 10/18/1983 |
