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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5317493 | Apparatus for installing lighting fixture assemblies from inclined planar surfaces An assembly is disclosed for mounting on an inclined planar surface, a light fixture suspended by at least one fixture suspension cable and provided with at least one power cord. In general, the mounting assembly comprises a mounting base, and first and s... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5305012 | Intelligent electro-optical system and method for automatic glare reduction An electro-optical system and method are disclosed for modulating the intensity of light rays propagating towards an optical element, such as an eye, a lens or aperture stop in a camera station, a camera station in a machine vision system, or other image ... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5297032 | Securities trading workstation A work station for use by a trader of securities on an established market. The work station is integrated into a network of competing market makers for a plurality of securities for trading. A centralized database provides a feed of data on current market... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5151243 | Metallurgical vessel There is disclosed a metallurgical vessel, such as a steelworks converter, having a refractory brick lining and a probe opening passing a wall of the vessel for introducing a measuring and/or sampling probe. In order that the probe opening will get obstru... | 09/29/1992 |
| 4966349 | Supporting arrangement for casting ladles provided in a continuous casting plant A supporting arrangement for casting ladles includes a stationarily mounted permanent base and a rotary base rotatably mounted relative to the permanent base. To each rotary base, a supporting bracket system is hinged via a linkage parallelogram system in... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4412886 | Method for the preparation of a ferroelectric substrate plate The invention provides a method for surface-finishing of a single crystal wafer of a ferroelectric material into a substrate plate suitable for use, for example, as a SAW filter element which is mirror-polished only on one of the surfaces, the other surfa... | 11/01/1983 |
