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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4945454 | Reflector for dimmed or dimmable motor vehicle headlights A reflector for a dimmed or dimmable motor vehicle headlight is divided into an asymmetrical wedge-shaped sector, an upper sector, and a lower sector which are stepped axially from on another. The reflection surface is thereby formed such that a desirable... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4670760 | Antenna apparatus and method for curtailing sky waves A radiating antenna system (30) comprises a plurality of vertically erect secondary antennae (34) disposed in a pattern about a vertically erect primary antenna (32). An electrically conductive screen (36) which surrounds the pattern of secondary antennae... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4655495 | Litter gun A litter gun (10) includes a handle (12) with an elongated spear (14), surrounded by a longitudinally movable tubularly-shaped barrel (16), fixedly attached thereto. A biasing spring (18) mounted between the handle and the barrel biases the barrel outward... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4408901 | Miniature pushbutton The invention concerns a miniature pushbutton for a timepiece and includes head portion (1) associated with a socket (2) force fitted into a caseband (15). Considered in isolation it constitutes a dormant corrector since it lacks a return spring thus perm... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4216402 | Sealed piezoelectric resonator with integral mounting frame A piezoelectric resonator assembly comprises a single integral plate which is cut to form a peripheral region for supporting a resonator, a central resonating region for resonating in the longitudinal mode, surface-shear mode, or bending mode, and at leas... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4213461 | Miniature balloon catheter A miniaturized balloon catheter assembly includes a cannula and an inflatable tubular balloon constructed of a silastic tubing detachably mounted on the cannula for performing a surgical procedure in a human vessel in response to pressure therein. In one ... | 07/22/1980 |
| 4213743 | Pump assembly driven by endless conveyor A pump assembly to be used for mining, and the like, is supported on rope-like members (32, 110, 112, 140, 181,190) of an endless conveyer. In one type of embodiments a channel-shaped mounting member (20, 72, 138, 164, 192) of the pump assembly straddles ... | 07/22/1980 |
| 4207777 | One way gear train A gear train comprising a drive gear, a driven gear and an idler arranged a common plane so that both drive gear teeth and idler teeth mesh with the driven gear teeth. The teeth are asymmetric and the idler and drive gears are reflections of one another ... | 06/17/1980 |
| 4199056 | Roller conveyor assembly A roller conveyor assembly is adapted to prevent backed up pressure on a conveyor line when a load container is compelled to stop. The roller conveyor assembly comprises a plurality of conveyor rollers (2) mounted in a frame (1) so as to form a travelling... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4194412 | Handwheel disengage mechanism A mechanism is described for selectively engaging a handwheel with a shaft to manually rotate the shaft with the handwheel. The mechanism automatically disengages the handwheel from the shaft when the shaft is rotated by a power source above a predetermin... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4182114 | Time-piece with electric motor driven display and planetary motion work An electrically energized timepiece movement is provided with motion work the form of a planetary train entirely supported on the frame of a driving motor. Coaxial planet pinions are excentrically located on a minute wheel, one planet pinion engaging a f... | 01/08/1980 |
| 4170870 | Control unit for electronic time-piece display An electronic time display is provided with two manual switches and a cour for making time corrections. One switch advances the counter to select either the seconds, minutes, hours, or calendar (day) display for correction. The second switch is then used... | 10/16/1979 |
| 4166563 | Transfer machine for sealing electronic or like components under vacuum An apparatus is provided comprising three elongated vacuum chambers arran in line one after another whereby a component carrying means may be transferred successively from one chamber to another. Of these three chambers the first and third comprise air l... | 09/04/1979 |
| 4164844 | Timepiece display indicator The invention concerns a solid state timepiece which provides chronograph nctions and in which a single display unit is adapted to display either an elapsed time or the time of day. To distinguish when the chronograph function is being carried out within ... | 08/21/1979 |
| 4162851 | Simultaneous photometering method and assembly for multi-dimensional measurements concerning biologically related materials A method and apparatus for producing multi-dimensional measurements of biologically related materials involves radiating samples of the materials with left and right alternating circular polarizations of selected wavelengths. Both light transmissions thro... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4159022 | Catheter delivery system and method A catheter delivery system for delivering an elongated cannula-type catheter, normally including a cannula with an attachment on the tip thereof, to a body of a mammal and for controlling the movement of the cannula in the mammal's body includes both a ca... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4158585 | Washbasin liner method and article A method of renovating washbasins, such as bathtubs, and the article of a renovated washbasin according to this invention involves a thermoformed sheet of acrylic plastic folded to have a shape substantially identical to that of the exterior surface of a ... | 06/19/1979 |
| 4156870 | Sports timing system The invention concerns sports timing systems and in particular connections etween a central processor which determines the performances of the competitors and the peripheral devices which provide such processor with the necessary information such as starti... | 05/29/1979 |
| 4154794 | Gas detector A hand held gas detector comprises a flexible, transparent, resilient container provided with inlet and outlet valves at opposing ends for controlling flow through inlet and outlet ports, the valves being controlled by the pressure within the container re... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4146076 | Tire-slip preventing device A tire-slip preventing device or "chain" for a vehicle tire comprise a ladder-like arrangement of cross belts attached to two parallel cords. The belts and cords are made from an easily deformable material so that the device may be wrapped around a tire. ... | 03/27/1979 |
| 4145009 | Impact type crusher An impact crusher includes a shell housing, a main drive shaft, a first member mounted on the shaft, and a second member carried on and rotatable with respect to the first member. Impact members act against the inner lining of the housing to crush the mat... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4132402 | Sheet feed monitor apparatus A mistake detector for an In-Line Inserter includes complementary metallic detecting rolls positioned slightly downstream of ejection rolls of a pull-foot sheet feeding system. One of the detecting rolls is moveable and is attached to a detection feeler w... | 01/02/1979 |
| 4132449 | Method and apparatus for mounting bristles on brush backs A method and an apparatus for joining plastic brush bristles with plastic brush backs provides for heating the tips of brush bristle strands until they are soft and heating zones of the plastic brush backs to which the bristles will be mounted until they ... | 01/02/1979 |
| 4130955 | Pressing or smoothing iron comprising a safety turn-off means located in a heating current circuit A pressing iron contains a safety turn-off switch to prevent scorching if the iron is held stationary for too long. An acceleration sensor produces a signal in response to a predetermined acceleration of the iron and an actuating circuit turns off the iron if ... | 12/26/1978 |
| 4131878 | Detector for a pneumatic tire An information detector for detecting a parameter of a vehicle comprises a pair of coils mounted on a tire and a pair of coils mounted on an automobile frame. An oscillator mounted on the frame supplies a continuous oscillating signal to one of the frame-... | 12/26/1978 |
| 4127161 | Energy storage unit and system A heat storage unit in the form of a cylinder is provided with a removable end closure, and contains a plurality of closed tubes holding a heat storage substance, the tubes being supported at either end thereof by screens. A transfer fluid flows from one ... | 11/28/1978 |
| 4125082 | Collapsible anchor responsive to the rate of release of anchor line tension An anchor with collapsible flukes is provided with a spring tensioned latching mechanism which normally prevents the flukes from moving from a latched position to a collapsed position. The latching mechanism is unlatched and the flukes collapsed by a rele... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4125254 | Automated radial roll folder A folding machine of the type comprising at least two fixed rolls or rollers and one adjustable roller which is movable substantially circumferentially about the two fixed rollers to automatically adjust the "spacings" between the adjustable roller and th... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124809 | Quartz crystal resonator A piezo electric resonator member is cut from a quartz crystal in a rotated -orientation and arranged for vibration in a thickness shear mode, the member being in the form of a bar elongated along either the X-axis or the Z'-axis having rectangular cross s... | 11/07/1978 |
| 4123884 | Modular construction for prefabricated house A prefabricated house is provided with ceiling panels that are the same size, have a longitudinal dimension equal to or greater than MP/m-D/m and a lateral dimension equal to or greater than NP/n-D/n where MP and NP are the longitudinal and lateral inside... | 11/07/1978 |
| 4122615 | Smoothing iron sole A smoothing iron sole includes a sole body comprised at least partly of a glass material. A heating conductor is mounted on a glass-material surface of the sole body facing a sole surface and the sole further includes a thin fabric layer of heat-resistant... | 10/31/1978 |
| 4118943 | Refrigeration system with magnetic linkage A vuilleumier-cycle refrigeration system of the type including first and second communicating, sealed, cylindrical, vessels having first and second displacers respectively mounted therein in sliding, sealing contact with the inner walls thereof, includes ... | 10/10/1978 |
| 4117612 | Smoothing or pressing iron A pressing iron comprises basically a sole-body, housing halves, a clamping device and a circuit support plate. Inclined surfaces on the sole-body and the housing halves cooperate to hold all of the members together when the housing halves are clamped tog... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117283 | Swimming pool touch pad construction A touch pad as used in swimming pools for timing competitions has instead an integrally formed striker plate or one comprising independently mounted panels, a plurality of hollow extruded plastic panels each with a hook portion on one edge and a hook rec... | 09/26/1978 |
| 4114483 | Portable boring tool for ball valves A portable boring tool for refinishing the seal ring seats on ball valves is provided with a base plate which is mounted on top of the valve. A housing is supported by the base plate in a manner that permits linear movement of the housing. The housing con... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4113418 | Rotary burner control An improved embodiment of the rotary fuel-steam burner system described in copending application Ser. No. 664,214 filed Mar. 5, 1976, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,035,133. A fuel flow set point signal is delivered to a diaphragm motor valve to set a desired fuel f... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4107807 | Portable tack cleaning machine A portable, tack cleaning machine having a housing which supports a horizontally-mounted rotary, cylindrical feeder-brush at least partially immersed in a cleaning fluid tank located in the bottom of the housing, and a rotary, scrubbing brush vertically m... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4104553 | Fastening and suspension element for a piezoelectric resonator A suspension element for fastening a piezoelectric resonator to a support olates mechanical vibrations tending to be transmitted between the support and the resonator. The element has a thin active area with thicker ends for coupling and damping.... | 08/01/1978 |
| 4099710 | Radial roll folder A folding machine includes movable or adjustable rollers, or rolls, each of which forms nips with two fixed rollers. The movable rollers have freedom of movement substantially circumferentially about the two fixed rollers substantially on projected radii ... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4098388 | Printing wire for use in a matrix printer and method for making same A method is disclosed for providing tungsten carbide wires as used in matrix printers with a supporting surface at one end thereof thereby to facilitate the moulding thereon of a plastic cap and to improve retention of the cap. The supporting surface is p... | 07/04/1978 |
