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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7479247 | Method and apparatus for creating sacrificial patterns and cast parts A process for casting three-dimensional parts and sacrificial models from casting compounds forced by pressurized inert gas into transparent molds that are supported by transparent mold frames. The casting compound incorporates radiation activated photo initiators w... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7434396 | Economy of motion machine The invention is a method and apparatus for extracting power from a buoyant source within a contained column of liquid. It is comprised of an endless chain of movable buoyant objects, a means to convert the movement of the chain into useful work and a tank filled wi... | 10/14/2008 |
| 6927684 | Subnet addressable radio activated switch A remotely activated control device responsive to a specific transmitter operating in a frequency band assigned to radio telephone equipment, such as cellular telephone networks, cordless telephones, etc. The control device includes a radio receiver which provides a... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6598612 | Method and apparatus for imparting a mansard shape to an awning An easily deployed ridge pole is used, in combination with standard awning deployment hardware, to change the shape of the canopy fabric of an extended retractable awning. The ridge pole engages the underside of the awning fabric to impart a Mansard shape... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6538434 | Magnetically responsive device for measuring the thickness of magnetic films A device for measuring the thickness of films or coatings on bases wherein the film thickness is determined from the magnetic adhesive force of a permanent magnet on the surface of the film to be measured. The device includes a permanent magnet attached t... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6484828 | Mobile agricultural machine A mobile cultural machine including right and left traction members, a transmission, and a main speed change device operable to transmit, at any speed ratio, a driving force from an engine through the transmission to the traction members so that they are ... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6408960 | Mobile agricultural machine A mobile cultural machine including right and left traction members, a transmission, and a main speed change device operable to transmit, at any speed ratio, a driving force from an engine through the transmission to the traction members so that they are ... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6375887 | Method and apparatus for creating cast parts and investment models A process and apparatus for casting three-dimensional parts and investment models from a class of fluid casting compounds, which are solidified by a reaction triggered by actinic radiation. The casting compound hardens in a chain reaction induced by the r... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6196469 | Energy recycling air handling system An air handling system including at least one terminal unit for maintaining a serviced volume at a predetermined temperature with constant or variable volume control wherein a thermal energy wheel provides heat transfer between the outgoing and inflowing ... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6152248 | Mobile agricultural machine A mobile agricultural machine has a pair of right and left traction members (2), a transmission (23,24), a main speed change device (68) operable to transmit at any speed ratio a driving force from an engine (21) through the transmission to the traction m... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6079951 | Bird bath fountain An animal watering system, such as a bird bath, incorporating a water reservoir, a means to automatically maintain the level of water in the reservoir by admitting fresh water thereto, an animal access basin positioned above the water reservoir whereby wa... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6065317 | Apparatus and procedure for manufacturing metallic hollow bodies with structural bulges As procedure for joining two concentrically engaging hollow bodies such as metallic tubes by electromagnetically deforming overlapping surfaces of the hollow bodies to create mutual structural bulges over their common scope in a circumferential and axial ... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6065226 | Coffee roaster filter, chaff collector and smoke reducer An exhaust particle and particulate containment system for a coffee roaster comprises a filter chamber for exhaust coffee roasting by-products including chaff and smoke particulates and oils is comprised of a screen for separating chaff from the exhaust c... | 05/23/2000 |
| 5964127 | Process and apparatus for manufacturing metallic hollow bodies with structural bulges For the most distinctive technical application purposes and particularly for forming tubular hollow bodies which require a structural bulge, for instance for employment in heat exchangers where a stronger turbulence of the heat exchanger mediums and with ... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5880682 | Traffic control system and method of operation A vehicle detector comprising a flux gate magnetometer with vertical and horizontal sensing coils is positioned within a roadway. The ambient levels of the earth's magnetic field as sensed by the magnetometer are used to establish reference levels and dev... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5864274 | Magneto-mechanical power system A magneto-mechanical power system including a cylindrical soft-iron vessel with permanent magnets arranged to form a shunt-magnetic gap with the inside wall the soft-iron vessel. The neck of the flux conducting disk is surrounded by a current winding. A m... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5813264 | Method for forming a workpiece by a magnetic field generated by a current impulse A method for forming and joining workpieces by a magnetic field produced by a current impulse applied through a high current loop, whereby the magnetic field exerts a force from outside on an electrically conducting workpiece or on electrically conducting... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5779843 | Method of fusion welding resin articles difficult to melt In a method of fusion welding resin articles difficult to melt due to a fusion retarder present in the articles in the form of a fusion retarding element or structure, the articles having surface portions in contact with each other so as to be bonded one ... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5699656 | Agricultural combine A tracked agricultural combine vehicle for harvesting, hulling and sorting grain includes a grain working section driven via a tension roller clutch controlled power transmission belt and further including integrated control means for left and right side ... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5689929 | Earthquake and weather resistant, fail-safe construction block An earthquake and severe weather resistant, fail-safe building block and construction method for fabricating the blocks and structures therefrom. The blocks are hollow and include at least two subassemblies joined by interconnecting webs with provisions f... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5684341 | Electromagnetic generator for fast current and magnetic field pulses, for example, for use in magnetic metal working An electromagnetic generator for working electrically conducting objects with current and magnetic field pulses having a high rate of rise as expressed by dI/dt and dB/dt includes primary windings of a pulse transformer that are arranged in pairs so that ... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5655467 | Transplanter A seedling planter mounted on a trailer is provided with means to sense the side walls of ridges of earth and a means to position the planter over ridges of earth in response to the ridge side wall sensing means by transporting the planter sideways from t... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5630407 | Connecting piece for the stabiliser system on a bow A T-shaped connecting piece is provided to enable a front stabiliser and two counter-stabilisers to be fastened on the central bow part of a sports bow. The connecting piece may be screwed in the threaded hole provided in the central bow part for this pur... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5598727 | Locks for bicycles and the like A lock for a bicycle or the like comprises a first fixed casing member which is adapted to be secured to the frame member of a bicycle or the like and a second casing member which is movable relative to the first casing member. The first casing member is ... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5598233 | Soft contact lens with contamination indicator A soft contact lens contamination warning means, comprising openings through the lens material which are dimensioned to be invisible to the wearer but allow wastes to flow from the posterior to the exterior surface of the lens without critically distortin... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5586460 | Device with peak current loop and process for the magnetic shaping of metal parts A high-current loop connected to a pulse transformer is made as a magnetic field shaper with an opening to receive a metal part which is to be shaped. The high-current loop has a slit extending radially with respect to this opening in the direction toward... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5584167 | Working vehicle A tracked agricultural combine vehicle for harvesting, hulling and sorting grain includes integrated control means for left and right side propulsion track assemblies wherein individual track steering commands in the form of differential track speed contr... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5573802 | Coffee roaster oven chamber A coffee roaster oven chamber wherein coffee beans are heated and intermixed in a fluidized bed is fabricated as a unitary structure from a transparent material that allows incandescent coils to radiantly heat coffee beans while they are concurrently heat... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5534067 | Spraying system for spraying printed circuit boards A spraying system comprises a conveyor for conveying a series of boards through a spraying station, spray nozzles at the spraying station and a mechanism for controlling spraying from the nozzles onto the board located at the spraying station. The control... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5500510 | Method of automatically controlling the fusion process between thermoplastic articles A method of automatically controlling the fusion process of thermoplastic resin articles is done in a stepwise fashion. In response to a start signal, a current is applied to an electrical resistance heating element for fusing together facing resin surfac... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5500237 | Removable coffee roaster oven chamber A coffee roaster which roasts coffee beans in a removable oven chamber employing both radiant and convection heating techniques while the beans are continually intermixed in a fluidized bed rotating in the horizontal plane. Roaster control means are provi... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5494581 | Treatment of water, sewage and like waste liquids A process for the treatment of water or other liquid has a plurality of stationary surfaces on which microorganisms or like biologically active materials are fixed or grown which are contacted alternately with air and the liquid undergoing treatment by ra... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5493347 | Television and video tape recorder compound set A combined television-video tape recorder in which the VTR is immovably fixed to the bottom of a cabinet by the coupling of its projections and a pair of rails and the VTR's printed circuit board, on which many micro-switches are arranged, is stably fixed... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5454960 | Oil change and recycling system An oil recycling system and method which uses the same container to supply new oil and recycle old oil is accomplished through the use of a transfer tube designed for draining oil from the container into an engine and mutually exclusively oil from the eng... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5452506 | Process for removing container seals This is a description of a process and equipment for the removal of seals (closures or caps) for containers, that works with an electromagnetic pulse. The pulse is generated in a current pulse coil, that grasps around the seal, by the discharge current of... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5444963 | Process and equipment for shaping container seals A process and equipment for shaping seals for containers with an electromagnetic pulse. The pulse is generated by a current pulse coil positioned around the seal and energized by the discharge current of a condenser. The process and the equipment are part... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5429054 | Tracer cartridges A tracer wad for a cartridge comprises a shot holder consisting of four quadrants defining between them a tubular member, a tracer element holder and a conical recess leading to a bore for directing ignited propellant onto a tracer element held in the hol... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5384593 | Method and apparatus for reflex blink reaction conditioning A method and apparatus for conditioning a blink reaction of a person using a computer terminal display. Blinking is selectively triggered by a macro shift in the dominant object viewed by the person or a macro tactile event simultaneously with a shift in ... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5374915 | Magnetizing device for permanent magnet rings that are bipolar on the end faces or multipolar on the lateral faces Described are magnetizing devices for permanent magnet rings that are bipolar on the end faces or multipolar on the lateral faces and have concentric North/South areas either on one of the two end faces or on their lateral faces. Magnetizing is performed ... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5314653 | Uniformly expandable mold and method A uniformly expandable mold is formed with a continuous surface defining a three-dimensional pattern for replicating an article. The relative pressure between the inside of the mold and the outside controls the area of the surface to change the size of th... | 05/24/1994 |
