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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4626081 | Binocular alignment A binocular viewing device including means for resiliently mounting a prism seat to the binocular body within an enclosed chamber consisting of at least three elongated fasteners spaced about the periphery of the prism seat, with means associated with eac... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4596500 | Drilling method and relevant drilling machine for stacked boards, particularly for printed circuits To reduce dead times and waste of dummy boards necessary for preparing individual packages of stacked boards to be drilled, the latter are loaded on the table in a single stack and are drilled from the top in groups formed of a predetermined limited numbe... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4596067 | Drilling machine for boards, particularly of printed circuits The drilling machine comprises a pair of cross slides formed of two parallelepiped blocks of granite connected as a T above a horizontally stationary board carrying table. The transverse block carries two operating heads and, by means of pneumostatic bear... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4587289 | Adhesive thermoplastic compositions The invention relates to new adhesive thermoplastic compositions. The adhesive thermoplastic compositions according to the invention comprise at least one rubbery constituent and at least one resinous constituent and, if appropriate, other constituents, such a... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4571876 | Ice fishing device Rig for ice fishing comprising a tripod-mounted ring supporting a windlass having a shaft which spans a diameter of the ring and which carires a reel for rotation therewith. The legs can be folded against the bottom of the ring for storage and transportat... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4566216 | Ice fishing rig Ice fishing rig comprising an elongated, hollow, waterproof tube which carries a reel at one end, a resilient bar pivoted thereto and movable between a folded position parallel to the tube and an unfolded position transverse thereto. The bar when unfolded... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4553635 | Portable tree stand A portable tree stand for use by hunters, nature observers and the like has a seat of weight-supporting mesh extending between a pair of rigid structural elements at the sides, and ropes at the corners for suspending the seat from branches of a tree exten... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4531997 | Forming bead seal in biaxially oriented polymer film by heat bonding Apparatus and method for heat sealing a selected segment of a web of at least two layers of biaxially oriented plastic film. The web layers are pressed together and a selected segment of the pressed web is heated above the bonding temperature of the plast... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4510701 | Athletic shoe and counter A laced athletic shoe includes an external, cup-form counter having eyelets defined in its forwardly extending surfaces adapted to receive the ends of shoelaces extending from the laced portion of the shoe. The cup-form counter extends about the heel port... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4510491 | Display device for photocopiers A display device 10 consisting of five cells of seven segments each, is used in a photocopying machine in order to indicate normal operation and certain abnormal situations. The latter are indicated by means of messages in plain language, represented by c... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4506622 | Hawser line flotation A float element for hawser lines, such as used on a single point mooring. The element has a fixed, finite length and is adapted for attachment to the hawser line in a manner to permit elongation of the line under load with the float element in place. The ... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4503738 | Can flange trimming Mechanism for locating preformed, open-mouthed cans for the trimming of their flanges, featuring spring-hinged grooved, flange-holding jaws releasably locating cans for the advancing punch and serving to strip the trim from the punch on its return stroke.... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4502397 | Pre-drying fuel in steam generator with integral down-draft dryer Method of improving the operation and efficiency of a steam generating furnace fired with high moisture content fuel, comprises providing a drying shaft parallel and offset from the combustion chamber of the furnace; wet fuel is introduced into the upper ... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4498457 | Control for solar system A modular space-heating solar system has integral air-handling controls which automatically select a heating mode, a venting mode, or a variable combination of the two, according to room temperature. This eliminates the potential capability of the solar s... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4494866 | Apparatus for scanning an original for copiers having a variable reducing/enlargement ratio A first carriage carries a lamp for illuminating the original and a first mirror. A second carriage carries two mirrors and moves at half the speed of the carriage so that a constant optical path length is maintained from the original, via the three mirro... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4486091 | Electrophotographic copier The photocopier uses a development process employing a magnetic brush formed on a rotating sleeve (102) of non-magnetic material in which a system of permanent magnets (108) rotates. The outer surface of the sleeve is subjected to a sandblasting process a... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4480557 | Steam generator with integral down-draft dryer A steam generating furnace which burns high moisture content fuel has a panel of heat absorbing tubes dividing it into two vertical interconnecting passageways: (a) a combustion chamber for burning the predried fuel and (b) a drying shaft for extracting m... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4465059 | Hot water heating system A solar hot water heating system has a primary tank heated by solar energy utilizing a heat transfer medium circulated between a solar collector and a heat exchanger located in the primary tank. Usually a back-up tank is provided to supplement the solar s... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4456243 | Original feeder for copying machines An original document feeder for copying machines, for automatically positioning originals of any substance on the exposure surface, so avoiding opening and closing the original pressing cover at each change of original, and with a considerable reduction i... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4445329 | Full torque transmission control There is disclosed a throttle control means connected to the throttle which in response to operator input puts the throttle in one of two positions, the first fully open and the second an idle position, a transmission control system including desired spee... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4438722 | Development unit for electrophotocopiers A magnetic brush (10) comprises a sleeve (16) of nonmagnetic material which rotates about magnets (14) fixed on a shaft (12) which rotates in the opposite direction to the sleeve. A toner container (20) adjacent to the sleeve feeds the toner (T) on to the... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4438057 | Air filters Air filter elements employing a block of deep pleated paper and methods of their construction. A preferred filter element comprises top and bottom end members both adapted for through passage of air and a first pair of side walls, a block of deep-pleated ... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4428651 | Click-stop focusing of binoculars In binoculars including focusing means comprising an adjustable, rotatable focusing knob operatively associated with focus adjustment means, whereby rotation of the knob adjusts the focus adjustment means in a manner related to the distance between a view... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4418869 | Hose mounted fluid mixing sprayer A hose mounted fluid mixing dispenser has a fluid containing bladder inside a bottle. A bottle cap fitting the bottle has a water hose connection, a water passage having a rectilinear portion and a nozzle with an adjustable metering device for introducing... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4405459 | Oily water separator An oily water separator which has a plurality of parallel corrugated plates between which the oil/water mixture is constrained to flow, adjacent plates being separated by spacing forms smoothly shaped to provide substantially laminar flow therepast in a d... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4394145 | Air cleaners An air cleaner comprising a housing, a plurality of tubular dust separator elements arranged in the housing for generally straight-through flow from one end of the housing to the other, the housing defining around the separator elements a dust collecting ... | 07/19/1983 |
| 4385306 | Dot writing head for high definition printers, and a method of manufacturing the same The head is composed of a series of electrically conductive elements in one or more rows, which elements are selectively subjected to a high potential relative to the coacting electrode. The elements have a thickness of less than to 50μ and a pitch less than ... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4377188 | Flexible corrugated tube The flexible corrugated tube is made of spirally coiled thin metal strip with corrugations extending parallel to the longitudinal direction thereof, in which tube at least one corrugation of the one side edge of the one convolution (2) lies respectively i... | 03/22/1983 |
| 4367688 | Sailboat rig Sailboat having twin booms, doubled sail and rotatable mast permits conventional sailing with both booms and sail sections on same tack or with booms spread, wing and wing, to run before the wind or on a reach. Sail may be reefed or furled by rotating the... | 01/11/1983 |
| 4364206 | Prefabricated building units for constructing building, and buildings whose fabric comprises assembled units of this kind The invention provides prefabricated building units for constructing buildings. Each unit consists of a structure having the shape of a right prism comprising a lower frame, an upper frame and uprights having a V-shaped section. In general a building unit... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4358960 | Differential fiber optic proximity sensor Proximity sensor for determining the distance between a reflective surface and the sensor utilizes two output light guides positioned with the receiving end of one guide closer to the reflective surface than that of the other. When the surface is close to... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4359748 | Device and method of non impact printing A device for non impact printing of alpha-numeric characters on a sheet of normal paper, wherein an electrically conducting carrier is covered with an inking substance which is transferred to the paper by means of electrical pulses. The inked carrier is m... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4359047 | Gelatinous articles and compositions A gelatinous adhesive composition and a tacky article of manufacture are produced by heating at least one polyhydric alcohol and at least one material selected from the group consisting of naturally occurring high molecular weight polysaccharide gums, oth... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4356819 | Article of manufacture having adhesive properties An article of manufacture with adhesive properties comprising a gelatinous adhesive composition dispersed in a plastics matrix. The gelatinous adhesive composition is the resulting product of heating together in the absence of solvent at least one polyhyd... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4349829 | Non-impact printing method A non-impact printing method with selective emission of solid ink particles is disclosed. A rod of solid ink is spring-pressed in an insulating housing against an end wall with a nozzle therein. A pulsed high voltage applied between the ink rod and a coun... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348205 | Measuring beta-hydroxybutyrate concentration in urine A method of measuring the beta-hydroxybutyrate concentration of a urine sample including, in one step, the oxidation of beta-hydroxybutyrate to acetone and acetoacetate and the removal of pre-existing acetone/acetoacetate.... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4343337 | Fuel dispensing nozzle A fuel dispensing nozzle having an aspirator valve which closes an aspirator line when there is a high negative or positive pressure in the fuel tank being filled, the closing of the aspirator line decreasing pressure in a chamber so that a shaft is relea... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4342474 | Waveguide hanger A suspension system for vertically mounting RF transmission line on a tower has stabilizing guides at spaced intervals to prevent lateral movement of the line while permitting vertical movement to accommodate differential thermal expansion and contraction... | 08/03/1982 |
| 4341637 | Removing and collecting oil Apparatus is described for the removal and recovery of pollutant oil and the like floating on the surface of a body of water, comprising: means capable of the physical withdrawal of pollutant oil and the like with or without additional water from the wate... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4336830 | Vapor recovery jet pump A liquid jet gas pump providing suction to recover vapor through a line connected to dispensing nozzle, the pump having chambers for collecting liquid carried by returning vapor and a float therein so that the float, when the amount of liquid collected in... | 06/29/1982 |
