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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4028879 | Switching arrangement for setting time-measuring apparatus A switching arrangement and method for setting or adjusting a time-measuring device comprising at least two counters connected one after the other and connected in certain cases with indicator devices, of which one counter changes the counter position the... | 06/14/1977 |
| 4025422 | Method and apparatus for inspecting food products A method and an apparatus for inspecting food products for defects, in particular pit fragments, is described having a source of radiation, belt means for transporting the food products through the radiation and means responsive to the intensity of the ra... | 05/24/1977 |
| 4023687 | Container handling structure A multilevel structure having elevators extending between levels and each including conveyor means for moving containers or the like on and off of the elevators. One or more annular storage platforms at each level are mounted for controlled rotation or an... | 05/17/1977 |
| 4020365 | Integrated field-effect transistor switch A monolithic switching circuit has a junction field-effect transistor controlled through a capacitive diode and a small field-effect transistor. The physical structure of the switch includes a junction field-effect transistor with a gate region connected ... | 04/26/1977 |
| 4015887 | Lamp circuit connector for trailers Connector device for connecting the lamp circuit of a trailer vehicle with the lamp circuit of a tractor vehicle comprising a circular base member having a hub, circular walls, and different diameter non-conducting plastic rings rotatably disposed one wit... | 04/05/1977 |
| 4015264 | Dual mode broadband antenna A cavity-backed spiral antenna has a plurality of resistively loaded monopole radiators disposed in the cavity in orthogonal relation to the spiral windings to maximize the frequency range of the antenna without increasing the physical size thereof.... | 03/29/1977 |
| 4015263 | Dual polarized blade antenna A very small vertically and horizontally polarized antenna having direction finding capabilities at low microwave frequencies employs filamentary vertically polarized antenna elements and resistively loaded slots for horizontally polarized radiation with ... | 03/29/1977 |
| 4008378 | Multi-radix digital communications system with time-frequency and phase-shift multiplexing A communication or data transmission system having one or more transmitters placing input signals in digital pulse form if they are not already in such form, storing and time stretching of such pulses, conversion of the pulses into time-frequency matrix a... | 02/15/1977 |
| 4007582 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing an electrodynamic clockwork drive A circuit for synchronizing an electrodynamic clockwork drive including two inductors and two permanent magnet assemblies which are moved relative to a clockwork drive by a mechanical oscillation system having the inherent frequency f and the first induct... | 02/15/1977 |
| 4003390 | Hair cutting guide for electric razor Apertured guide means for electric razors removably engage the head of a razor, and extend therefrom to maintain a predetermined distance between razor blades and surface over which the razor is moved for cutting hair at a predetermined length. The guide ... | 01/18/1977 |
| 3995359 | Quilting machine A machine for inserting quilting buttons of the type described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,701,174 includes a multiple displacement upper piston mechanism with movable upper button feed means and a dual displacement lower piston mechanism and a movable lower butto... | 12/07/1976 |
| 3986454 | Multi-purpose side frames for rotary printing press An improvement in printing presses wherein main press side frames are provided with circumferential slots about the axis of plate or printing cylinders for receiving sectional or reversible mounting blocks for carrying impression cylinders. The mounting b... | 10/19/1976 |
| 3984838 | Electrically small, double loop low backlobe antenna An electrically small, directive, low backlobe broadband antenna is described. The antenna comprises a pair of radiators. Each of the radiators comprises a pair of orthogonally oriented stripline sections carried on a thin substrate. In one embodiment the... | 10/05/1976 |
| 3980953 | Delta modulation system employing digital frame averaging A delta modulator produces a digital bit stream from an input analog waveform and applies same to bit-averaging circuitry dividing the bit stream into time-frame intervals and computing the average slope per frame. Each average time-frame slope value is t... | 09/14/1976 |
| 3974710 | Gear drive for rotary press and the like Gear drive, more particularly a gear drive for a rotary printing press, wherein there are gear couples each consisting of a male gear, and a female gear, the male gear having rollers instead of teeth, such rollers being seated in sockets, the female gear ... | 08/17/1976 |
| 3974598 | Backing disc with means to expel abraded particles A plastic disc of limited flexibility has radially offset vanes disposed about the upper surface thereof and extending part way thereacross for use as a backing disc for a rotary disc sander.... | 08/17/1976 |
| 3971058 | Dual emitter programmable memory element and matrix A plurality of dual emitter integrated circuit transistor elements in a single substrate having emitters interconnected to form a matrix is programmed by passing current between emitters of selected elements to short one base-emitter junction or to short ... | 07/20/1976 |
| 3954101 | Audiotactile communication system A combined stimulator and sensor unit for audiotactile communication may be employed in an array in simultaneous or alternate transmission modes in a system between life forms or receive input and output information.... | 05/04/1976 |
| 3954283 | Tandem tricycle A three-wheeled vehicle or tricycle having an elongated frame mounting an auxiliary tricycle seat behind an operator's seat with handle bars and pedals for the auxiliary seat which are not connected to tricycle wheels for providing an auxiliary simulated ... | 05/04/1976 |
| 3946185 | Spring wire contact assembly A subminiature switch structure particularly adapted for cooperation with integrated circuits as may, for example, be employed in an electronic watch including a restrained spring wire manually movable by resilient bending from normal spring loaded engage... | 03/23/1976 |
| 3934585 | Method and apparatus for application of eye drops Method and apparatus for applying therapeutic eye drops to the eye by metering a predetermined volume of fluid and rapidly applying a pressure to one end of the metered fluid for forcing the fluid from a nozzle of means defining a small passageway such as... | 01/27/1976 |
| 3931661 | Apparatus for cleaning and disinfecting insemination straws Apparatus for scrubbing, rinsing, drying and packaging very fine, hollow cylinders or straws employed in artificial poultry insemination, includes straw transport means moving straws in fixed orientation through successive cycles including interior washin... | 01/13/1976 |
