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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4488180 | Video switching A video switching method for switching between two video signal sources for display on a monitor is employed by intensity modulating a video signal on a television raster lines and frames. Digital values representing pixel positions on the field when a sw... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4458112 | Floating subscriber loop interface circuit A telephone system is shown including subscriber loop interface circuits each for connecting a subscriber loop having a filter and a rectifier to a switching network of the system. The interface circuit includes a transformer having a primary winding, a s... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4446710 | Device for use in the manufacture of metal can tops with pull-up rings A metal can top rests on a tool seat for the purpose of riveting a pull-up ring to the metal can top. Riveting takes place with the aid of a dolly which moves back and forth relative to the tool seat. Transmitters are arranged in the tool seat to check th... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4445166 | High voltage converter A high voltage converter converts an incoming high frequency pulse voltage to a direct voltage at a level which can be varied by varying the pulse width. The converter contains a transformer (T) with its primary side (p) connected to a pulse source (U) an... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4439785 | Subscriber television system A video recorder has a first transducer which moves with respect to a moving tape to selectively record and play back video information; the tape has a control region which is accessed for recording or playback by a second transducer. Storing means extern... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4439162 | Training manikin for medical instruction An instructional training manikin comprising a body including a torso, legs, arms and a head. Interchangeable male and female breasts are detachably connectible to the body. Male and female genitalia are also respectively connected to the body whereby the... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4438765 | Motion sensitive firable device A motion sensitive firable device includes an opthomological laser for firing at an eye, switching means for activating the laser and motion detector means interconnecting the switching means and the laser for preventing the switching means from activting... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4438392 | Device for sampling and holding the carrier frequency of short duration pulses A device for measuring the frequency of a pulsed carrier signal in which the carrier frequency is situated within the frequency range and to give a continuous signal whose frequency is equal to the measured carrier frequency. A frequency discriminator (3)... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4438379 | Method of damping a stepping motor For a stepping motor having a rotatable stator magnetic field for driving the rotor, there is disclosed a method of damping the oscillations of the rotor which occurs when the rotatable stator magnetic field is stopped upon arriving at a desired rotationa... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4437766 | Mixer having two feed worms defining upper and lower mixing regions with an intermediate equilibrium zone A mixer comprising a conical mixing vat, tapering downward toward a material egress, and a motor-driven mixing worm which rotates on its axis and revolves within the mixing vat, the mixing worm having an upper region with a small screw pitch and, a lower ... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4434907 | Container having an originally sealed condition which can be opened and thereafter closed A container comprising a body (1) with a lid (2) initially sealingly engaged on the body. The lid is removable from the body to open the container and is replaceable to close the container. The body has a mouth with a strip (10) of annular extent secured ... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4433793 | Container having frangible opening means A container (4) has a closure (15) which consists of a flange (6) and a lid (1) which are joined together all the way round by a failure zone (2). When the container is originally sealed the closure is inserted into the opening and the flange is fixed to ... | 02/28/1984 |
| 4430643 | Binary-coded-decimal to binary converter A binary-coded-decimal to binary converter employs a selection network to which the binary coded decimal digits are applied, the digits being selected in pairs of increasing order of decimal denominational significance to be passed to the address lines of... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4429941 | Cable clamping arrangement for an electrical connector A cable clamping arrangement (2) for an electrical connector arranged to hold a cable or bundle of wires (7) firmly in place so as to provide strain relief to the wire terminations. In the described embodiment the cable (7) is clamped by being urged into ... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4429184 | Mitigation of faults in a telephone exchange Mitigation of faults in a telephone exchange, the faults being in the form of interruptions in calls in progress caused by brief voltage drops or failure of the AC voltage supply to the exchange. Failure of the AC supply, or a voltage drop in the stabiliz... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4427122 | Container for liquids, which are sensitive to light A container for liquids and other products comprising at least two layers of plastic material formed from a composite parison which, after heating is expanded by internal pressure into the shape of the finished container. The plastic material of the inner... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426416 | Article of plastic material having a neck portion including annular protuberances with monoaxially oriented material An article of thermoplastic material adapted for being molded into a container comprising a tubular neck portion including annular protuberances of hollow ring-shaped profile, and a tubular shoulder portion continuing from the neck portion. The material o... | 01/17/1984 |
| 4425948 | Wire wrapping tool Wire wrapping tool with a cylindrical wrapping bit which during its rotation carries a wire in a longitudinal groove so that the wire can be wound onto a tag located in the axial prolongation of a wrapping bit. The wrapping bit (6) is provided with a nozz... | 01/17/1984 |
| 4417151 | Universal input-output device A universal input-output apparatus has: a controllable source of electrical energy including at least one drive source having an output terminal and a return terminal; an electrical energy measuring device including at least one energy sensor having an in... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416927 | Tubular article of polyethylene terephthalate having a wall of amorphous material with a peripheral groove therein of monoaxially oriented material A tubular article (19) having a peripheral groove (12) is formed by providing the groove in the wall of a tubular blank (10) made of thermoplastic material such as polyethylene terephthalate by applying simultaneously a pressure against the wall of the bl... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4416332 | Method for increasing the pressure in oil-bearing geological structures A method for increasing pressure in geological oil-bearing structures by gas production due to microbial activity comprising adding to a geological oil-bearing structure, a methane producing aneorobic micro-organism, a culture medium and formic acid. The ... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4415865 | Circuit arrangement for controlling the quiescent current in a class AB amplifier stage A circuit arrangement incorporated in a class AB amplifier for controlling the quiescent current through the transistors (T1, T2) incorporated therein so that the load current (IL) is zero when the input voltage (IIN) to the amplifie... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4413464 | Process of producing a package or wrapping for storing or shipping material A method of producing a package for storing and/or shipping material, and particularly pulverized material such as coffee, provides producing an inner container for placing therein the material by folding flexible sheet material so as to form a substantia... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4410357 | Method of purifying indium The invention relates to a method of purifying indium from silicon by baking an indium melt at a predetermined baking temperature in a crucible in a quartz container through which hydrogen gas having a predetermined water content, is flowed. According to ... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4409738 | Arrangement for adjustably mounting an optical direction indicator In an arrangement for adjustably mounting an optical direction indicator, such as a sighting telescope (1) with associated base (4) on a substructure (8), the base (4) is provided with three attachment points (5, 6, 7), which are adjustable to give the di... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4409651 | Method and apparatus for inserting instructions in a control sequence in a stored program controlled telecommunications system A sequence of control instructions and a number of insertion instructions are stored in memory element groups of a memory accessed by associated addresses in a stored program controlled telecommunications system. The sequence is read and decoded in respon... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4409176 | Method for moulding an article from plastic material An article (11) of thermoplastic material is moulded from a parison (10) in which certain parts (17,16) of the parison are re-formed while other parts (13,12,20) retain their shape. A difference in pressure is applied to the wall of the parison during the... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4405895 | Angle digitizing method An angle digitizer receives signal representing the sine and cosine of the angle to be digitized. The voltages are fed to orthogonal pairs of input terminals. Between each two input terminals is a set of equivalued resistors to form a resistor ring. At th... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4405599 | Toothpaste for natural teeth as well as composite filling material A toothpaste composition adapted for cleaning natural teeth as well as composite filling material consisting essentially of, in percent by weight: Dicalcium Phosphate: 1.0% to 50% Calcium Carbonate: 1.0% to 50% Magnesium Carbonate: 1.0% to 25% Sorbitol 70%: 1.... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4405546 | Method for producing a tubular object of polyethylene terephthalate or similar thermoplastic material from a tubular blank of amorphous material An object is produced from a tubular blank (10,15,17) of thermoplastic material of polyester or polyamide, preferably of polyethylene terephthalate by reducing the thickness of amorphous material in one or several areas of the blank by means of one or sev... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4403410 | Manufacture of printed circuit boards A process for the manufacture of a printed circuit board is disclosed in which, during the process, conductive tracks 6 are tested for defects 8 relating to their conductivity and any detected defect 8 is repaired by securing a conductive bridge-piece 9 a... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4402834 | Method for dewatering sludge-type material A process of dewatering sludge in which raw sludge and a flocculating agent are first mixed by suitable means, then fed into a rotary filter drum or similar device to effect thickening of the sludge and partial dewatering thereof. The now thickened sludge... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4402486 | Device for mounting of a shutter in a piping of a heating or air-conditioning installation of a motor vehicle A device for rotatably mounting a shutter in a piping of an air-conditioning installation of an automotive vehicle, wherein the wall of the piping comprises bearings cooperating with cylindrical end-pieces of the shutter and cylindrical projections surrou... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4400697 | Method of line buffer loading for a symbol generator In a symbol-display system which includes a keyboard for entering codes related to the symbols to be displayed and a memory for storing the codes associated with a line of symbols to be displayed, the symbols being from a font which includes at least one ... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4399123 | Fibrous tissue dressing or implant A fibrous tissue preparation suitable for homo or heterotransplantation is obtained by treating mammalian fibrous tissue with a proteolytic enzyme followed, if desired, by further treatment with a carbohydrate splitting enzyme.... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4396891 | Gain control circuit A gain control circuit includes at least a first (T1, T2) and a second (T3, T4) transistor differential amplifier the input circuits of which are connected in parallel to a signal voltage source. The gain control is performed by distributing a constant cu... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4395212 | Screen-change device for extruders A screening apparatus for molten plastic material flowing from an extruder comprising a housing mounted on the extruder and having a feed channel for flow of the plastic material therefrom and a slide member mounted for slidable movement in the housing wi... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4394076 | Indicia recording apparatus Apparatus for recording characters on a photographic record medium including spaced feed and takeup reels for carrying a roll of the medium. A support such as a cylinder is disposed between the reels supports the record medium. A carriage is controllably ... | 07/19/1983 |
| 4391861 | Preform of a thermoplastic A preform of thermoplastic material composed of a number of separate part-preforms fitted into one another in readiness for blow moulding to form a finished container. At least one of the part-preforms is stretched in the axial direction to provide crysta... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4391403 | Method of explosion-welding rolling billets intended for package rolling A method of manufacturing a compound plate by explosion-welding, the compound plate being intended for package-rolling. The plating material is smaller in area than the base material so that an edge is formed around the periphery of the base material, thi... | 07/05/1983 |
