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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5025957 | Liquid dispenser nozzle assembly A liquid dispensing nozzle assembly is provided for mounting on a liquid container and dispenser having a flexible wall and liquid storage cavity for manually squeezed dispensing of a liquid from the cavity through the nozzle assembly. The nozzle assembly... | 06/25/1991 |
| 5025688 | Expandable drive tool tip for screw retention A fastener drive tool for applying a rotational torque to a threaded fastener for driving the fastener into or out of a workpiece. The drive tool has an elongated shaft portion with a free end which is selectively controllably engageable with a recess for... | 06/25/1991 |
| 5019080 | Drive system for prosthetic fasteners A fastener and fastener driver system for prosthetic devices and other more common type usages. The fastener is threaded with a driver engaging socket formed in the fastener head. The driver imparts rotational torque to the fastener and includes a drive b... | 05/28/1991 |
| 5018913 | Device for controlling the tool position depending on the stroke position In order to obtain a desired course of a machining line differing from a straight line or a corresponding flank line of a workpiece profile, it is necessary to control the working point of the tool 2 so that on the rectilinear stroke movement of the tool ... | 05/28/1991 |
| 5007684 | Water spray unit for mining A water spray unit is provided, to be located in a receiving bore provided in a pick box. The unit comprises an elongate nozzle portion and a fastener for the nozzle portion. The nozzle portion has an internal water receiving chamber and a water inlet ori... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4999873 | Hinge brake A hinge brake apparatus is provided for controlling the rate of either opening or closing of a door or the like. The hinge brake includes a cylinder member having a tubular-open-ended configuration and a piston member which axially slidably interfits in t... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4998334 | Blade extractor A blade extractor (1) for a replaceable blade instrument or tool (3), which comprises upper and lower tabs (12, 13) of length slightly exceeding that of a blade (2) to be extracted, and of width slightly exceeding that of a blade (2) to be extracted with ... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4996027 | Contact lens case having pressure venting gasket An appliance for containing and venting fluid, typically for disinfecting contact lenses, includes a container body which has an access opening and a removable closure for the opening. A gasket is seated to form a normally liquid-tight seal between the co... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4993779 | Element to form a rack for a mining machine haulage system An element, adapted to be inter-engaged with a plurality of similar elements to form a rack for a mining machine haulage system, has each element comprising at one end, a looped end portion including inner and outer arcuate bearing surfaces, the inner bea... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4985978 | Method for assembling a self-clinching fastening structure An improved method and joint structure are provided for assembling a self-clinching fastener to sheet material, particularly thin sheet metal, in which an aperture and a peripheral flange are formed in the sheet metal; thereafter the shank portion of the ... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4981657 | Contact lens case with raised, protective ribs A lens support structure for holding a pair of contact lenses in a lens storage container includes a support frame having an integral stem portion and surface support means for the respective lenses. The support structure also includes a pair of lens hold... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4967664 | Method and apparatus for automatically cleaning liquid supply rollers of offset press Method and apparatus capable of automatically cleaning a dampening water supply passage to a plate cylinder in an offset press, as well as an ink supply passage to the late cylinder. The apparatus comprises an operation instruction means producing operati... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4957570 | Butt-welding of pipes The invention relates to the butt-welding of pipes of plastics materials. Equipment is alreaady known where pipe ends are first urged against a trimmer plate, and then urged against a heater plate to create beads of a required size at the ends of the pipe... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4953303 | Tree felling spotter Disclosed is a specialized sextant of the clinometer type capable of providing the translation of the height of a tree (or any finite line) to a distance along the ground, (or any other orientation sharing a common end point with the first line) on any se... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4951796 | Radially adjustable clutch release bearing assembly A self-aligning clutch release bearing and carrier sleeve assembly includes a carrier sleeve which defines a first axis and a bearing adapted to be brought into engagement with rotating clutch fingers or the like of a clutch mechanism, which clutch finger... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4943704 | Humidifier apparatus A humidifier apparatus for admixture of heated water vapor into a gaseous stream include heating means for generating heated vapor from the water and a housing with a transfer chamber formed therein secured to the heating means which is exposed within the... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4941807 | Hydraulic power generating pack An hydraulic power generating pack 1 comprises a primary pump 23 of the multi-cylinder, reciprocating ram type with a reciprocable piston 27 located in each cylinder 28 and displaceable by a crank shaft 20 rotatable by a prime mover 2 to provide a primary... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4939965 | Cutting and the like tools The invention relates to cutting and the like tools and is particularly concerned with the cutting of an internal weld bead from within plastics pipes. It is well-known to remove an external weld bead from the junction between two plastics pipes, not only... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4940375 | Clinch type fastener structure and tooling An improved joint structure and tooling apparatus are provided for assembling a self-clinching fastener to sheet material, particularly sheet metal. The fastener includes head and shank portions with an intermediate locking groove formed in the shank. The... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4934859 | Locking nut with multiple thread forming leads An improved fastening nut is disclosed which is secured to an unthreaded stud which is inserted through a central bore in the nut. The bore includes a guide and retaining splines which provides alignment guidance during sliding insertion of the stud into ... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4930416 | Apparatus for quickly discharging ink from ink supply device In an ink supply device having an ink reserve vessel being composed of a bottom member and surrounding side wall members, means for shifting one member of the bottom and surrounding side wall members between a closed position contacting the one member wit... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4925464 | Fluid flow switching valve assembly and system A valve assembly and overall system provides selective fluid flow switching and communication between a plurality of flow conduits. The valve assembly includes two valve members which have respectively engaged surfaces which are relatively rotatable to pr... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4922387 | Horizontal zero adjustment for automotive headlamp A headlamp aiming apparatus is provided for attachment to an automotive headlamp assembly which includes a frame member rigidly mountable to an automotive vehicle and a headlamp mounted to the frame member for pivotal motion about a horizontal and/or vert... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4917554 | Screw unit to join semi-rigid mats together A screw unit with a shaft (1) and an enlargement at one end, to join together semi-rigid mats, consisting for example of mineral fibers or foam material, has the shaft (1) consisting of a wire helix (W) wound in corkscrew fashion and continuing at the one... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4917271 | Liquid dispensing nozzle assembly with filter A nozzle assembly is provided for a container and dispenser which maintains a supply of liquid, such as saline solution for contact lenses, in sterile condition during storage and has a flexible wall for manually squeezed displacement of the dispensed liq... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4905724 | Metering valve for heparin or the like A material regulating valve which controls the flow of an additive material into a primary material as a function of the volume, flow rate, and viscosity of the primary material. The device is comprised of a two sectioned body with a primary flow path and... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4905557 | Non-circular slug splitter punch The punch comprises peripheral cutting edges and lateral cutting edges. The peripheral edges cut a slug in the desired shape, for examples, rectangular, square, oval, trapezoidal, D and double D-shaped, etc. while the lateral edges cut transversely from o... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4904261 | Spinal implants A spinal implant, e.g., to replace an excised disc, comprises a rigid generally horseshoe shape of biocompatible material, such as carbon-fibre reinforced plastics, having upper and lower planar faces (10, 11) converging towards the ends (12) of the horse... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4903640 | Panel adapted for coolant through flow, and an article incorporating such panels A panel 1, 1A, adapted for the flow of coolant, therethrough, comprising coolant flow tubing having a coolant inlet aperture 11C at an inlet end of the coolant flow tubing and a coolant outlet aperture 12A at an outlet end of the coolant flow tubing, char... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4899447 | Panel punch The panel punch includes a main punch configured to punch a trapezoidal opening in an electrical panel to receive an electrical chassis connector and a secondary punch integral with the main punch and extending from opposite ends thereof configured to pun... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4893976 | Clinch type fastening structure An improved method and joint structure are provided for assembling a self-clinching fastener to sheet material, particularly thin sheet metal, in which an aperture and a peripheral flange are formed in the sheet metal; thereafter the shank portion of the ... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893219 | Headlamp adjusting mechanism An adjusting mechanism for a headlamp or the like is provided with a molded gear housing having a gear-journaling bore and an apertured cap portion closing the outer end of the bore. A drive gear is rotatably journaled in the bore and is coupled to a driv... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4892097 | Retractable finger lancet A two-piece, single-use, disposable lancet assembly includes a housing containing a lancet formed from a spring wire integrally formed with a sharpened, skin-piercing probe end section. The spring lancet is mounted within the housing and is secured in a r... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4890729 | Lens retaining apparatus A contact lens cleaning appliance which permits convenient removal of contact lenses disposed within the appliance by mounting the lens supporting surfaces on a hingedly attached lens retaining cover mounted to the appliance base. Mounting the lens suppor... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4883972 | Monitoring equipment for detection of emission The invention relates to monitoring equipment for smoke and/or fine particle emissions from fossil fuel systems, of the type where a beam of visible light is passed across a flue from a light source to a detector, a difference in the light intensity recei... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4873424 | Wall plug lens disinfector An appliance for electrically heated disinfection of contact lenses or similar ojects is provided with a molded plastic housing having a recessed cavity for insertion of a conventional side-by-side horizontal lens storage case containing the lenses immers... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4871200 | Fixture for tying fishing knots A fixture for facilitating the tying of a given knot in a fishing line comprises a platform member providing a flat surface for mounting a plurality of assemblies. These assemblies include a spool assembly having a spool for respectively taking up or lett... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4869016 | Marine biofouling reduction A method is disclosed to provide a substantial reduction of marine corrosion in sea water by micro and macro biofouling. An alternating current is generated of a strength and frequency sufficient to shock marine biofouling organisms and sufficient to upse... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4867282 | Vehicle anti-roll back device The invention relates to an anti-roll back device of particular applicability to motor vehicles but which can be applied to any rotating member where in ordinary useage the rotatable member is required to be rotated in one direction and prevented from rot... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4863698 | Disinfector for glass vials A multiple station disinfector apparatus simultaneously heats a plurality of devices such as contact lenses. Each of these devices is disposed in a quantity of liquid within a closed container. The apparatus comprises a housing having a base portion and a... | 09/05/1989 |
