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Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher
A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5369684 | Apparatus and method for directing calls to mobile station subscribers The present invention provides a mobile communications system in which the home exchange of a mobile subscriber maintains information indicative of where the mobile subscriber might be found, Upon receipt of a call, the home exchange requests the exchange... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5347924 | Device for printing endorsements on documents Device for printing endorsements on documents passing through a document processing apparatus. The device comprises a rotatable outer housing having a cylindrically shaped exterior surface and a ring gear having a toothed first part and a toothless second... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5347086 | Coaxial die and substrate bumps A coaxial bump for connecting a die to a substrate includes a center post and a ground ring surrounding and shielding the center post. The center post may be a center conductor line, and the ground ring may be generally torus-shaped, nearly closed or comp... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5343624 | Measurement tool A measurement tool adapted for measuring surfaces of a known desired curvature and specifically grooves, holes, chips, gouges, chafing and/or out of round areas therein. The measurement device is constructed with an attachment member having a curvature ma... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5342204 | Low voltage busbar lighting apparatus A low voltage busbar lighting apparatus which can be easily and cheaply mounted on a building structure and which is suitable for a wide variety of interior lighting applications. The lighting apparatus includes a busbar, a lamp stand or base which is mou... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5339857 | Media assisted valves A media assisted flow control valve having a main body provided with an inlet, and outlet, a chamber defining a flow passage connecting the inlet and the outlet, and a main valve seat around the flow passage, a main valve mounted in the chamber and having... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5335621 | Flag support system A flag support system comprising a staff, a base for mounting the staff to a vertical surface and a drop weight for maintaining tension upon the bottom end of the flag in its angulated position. A finial is disposed at the top end of the staff, which fini... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5333864 | Table soccer playing figure An improved, integrally molded table soccer playing figure has an elongated body with head and foot portions disposed at its opposite ends. A cylindrical passage axially extends laterally through an upper portion of the body and is adapted to coaxially re... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5333189 | Communications protocol for switching systems In a switching network including a central system and at least one end point device connected to the central system, a protocol for communicating between the central and the at least one end point device includes a plurality of signals that may be transmi... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5328302 | Air feed peck drill A pneumatic air feed peck drill adapted to drill in repetitive cycles including a rapid advance phase, a slower drilling phase, and a rapid retract phase. The rapid advance phase ends and the drilling phase begins at a set back position, an adjustable dis... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5327571 | Processor having decoder for decoding unmodified instruction set for addressing register to read or write in parallel or serially shift in from left or right A processor for collecting boolean conditions of multiple operations includes a condition collection register which may be written and read in parallel or written serially and into which a single bit is shifted from either the left or the right, and a pro... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5319882 | Entrance system An angulated door assembly affording reduced entry and exit time and motion therethrough. Each door is angulated relative to the adjacent walls and/or the conventional path of ingress/egress therethrough. Such an assembly configuration affords increased s... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5316153 | Display case apparatus A display case for displaying jewelry items or the like has a rectangular base unit with a base wall peripherally bordered by an upstanding frame section. A rear end wall of the frame structure is removable to permit insertion through the resulting frame ... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5317006 | Cylindrical magnetron sputtering system An improved cathode for a sputtering system includes a metal cylinder and strips of material bonded to the inside of the metal cylinder and/or material sprayed onto the inside of the metal cylinder. The strips may have various specified compositions and/o... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5315883 | Load measuring device The load measuring device according to the invention comprises at least three identical force meters that together support the frame (2) and, for example, are supported on the chassis (1) of a truck. The individual force meter comprises a flexural spring ... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5314003 | Three-dimensional metal fabrication using a laser Three-dimensional metal parts are fabricated by irradiating a thin layer of a mixture of metal powder and temperature equalization and unification vehicle to melt the metal powder and form a solid metal film. The vehicle also protects the molten metal fro... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5311828 | Incinerator An incinerator includes a furnace body which confines a combustion chamber for receiving refuse therein and which has a bottom wall formed with a central opening, an ash release gate mounted pivotally to the bottom wall at the central opening, a stack whi... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5307400 | Call routing in mobile telephone systems A continuous and accurate location system for a mobile telephone subscriber which utilizes a temporary location indication as well as a registration location. If a visiting mobile subscriber sends a registration access, the visited system acknowledges the... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5307352 | Switch matrix multiplexers The present invention teaches an improved multiplexer system wherein more than one wide bus line may be connected to a single bus line, but wherein only one such wide bus line will be so connected. This system includes structure for imposing ordered consi... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5303495 | Personal weapon system A personal weapon system comprises a microprocessor-controlled and electronically fired "blow-forward" handgun with a firing parameter memory device, digital security lock and safety device, directional compass, electronic rounds counter, integral keyboar... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5301006 | Emission microscope An emission microscope system includes in various embodiments a catadioptric optical microscope and/or a computer automated optical dispensing system and/or a cryogenically cooled back thinned CCD camera. The system also includes a computer controlled dat... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5299429 | Portable condensing fan A temporary air conditioning condensing fan is mounted in a rigid housing which may be easily and rapidly mounted at the air exhaust side of an air conditioning unit to provide a temporary flow of cooling air to the condenser, in the event the existing co... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5298966 | Measurement system A contact-free, optical measurement system for determining the precision with which an article rotates. A reflective surface is secured to a rotating surface and a light source, such as a laser, is disposed thereabove. A target is likewise secured in asso... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5297285 | System for dynamically linking modular portions of computer software A method for dynamically modifying addressing information within a modular software system controlling a telecommunications switching system. Conventional telecommunications exchanges divide each exchange into discrete function blocks with a limited numbe... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5295770 | Air feed peck drill with pneumatic safety system A pneumatic air feed peck drill adapted to drill in repetitive cycles including a rapid advance phase, a slower drilling phase, and a rapid retract phase. The rapid advance phase ends and the drilling phase begins at a set back position, an adjustable dis... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5291957 | Method and apparatus for jet cutting A high-speed fluid/mechanical Jet erosion system utilizing a high-velocity, spinning jet stream discharged contiguous the surface to be cut. The spinning jet stream is developed from a tangentially driven vortex flow system adapted to merge and enhance th... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5290199 | Apparatus for deveining shrimp An apparatus for cutting and deveining shrimp comprises a motor driving means inside a housing and a cutting mechanism outside the housing. A pair of rotating flexible disks grasp shrimp bodies and propel them past a cutting disk which slices the sand vei... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5285406 | High speed mixed radix adder A high speed adder suitable for incorporation into electronic digital processing circuits includes at least one first independent adder assuming a carry in of zero (0); at least one second independent adder assuming a carry in of one (1); carry prediction... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5280738 | Hammer with an angle-adjustable head A hammer includes a handle having a head pivotally connected to one end of the handle. A positioning device is provided to position the head at an angle with respect to the handle.... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5277848 | Method and apparatus for downcomer tray operation A downcomer tray assembly for vapor liquid contact towers. The region of the tray beneath an upper downcomer is constructed with a raised, perforated region for facilitating vapor passage therethrough and improving mass transfer efficiency. The downcomer ... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5277847 | Method and apparatus for catalyst-downcomer-tray operation Improved catalyst-downcomer-tray assemblies for vapor liquid contact towers. Downcomers are constructed for receipt of bundles of catalyst media used to promote chemical reactions therein. Raised, perforated regions of the underlying trays are then dispos... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5275038 | Downhole reeled tubing inspection system with fiberoptic cable A system for the inspection of a well borehole and the formation around the borehole. The system includes a pair of concentric reeled tubings for injecting a pair of fluids into a wellbore through a wellhead, one of said fluids being an optically transpar... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5269150 | Regulator for refrigerant reclaimers A regulator for controlling the flow of refrigerant in a refrigerant reclaiming system having a compressor and a condenser, the regulator comprising a condenser regulator section through which the flow of refrigerant passes after exiting the condenser. Th... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5267186 | Normalizing pipelined floating point processing unit A floating point processor for performing arithmetic operations on floating point numbers includes a first arithmetic operation unit configured to operate on normalized numbers and a second arithmetic operation unit which includes a denormalizer for denor... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5259253 | Dynamometer with parallel guide The parallel guide of an elastic force reducing dynamometer comprises a frame secured to a base plate, two essentially parallel plates, a load carrier, and four elastic tie joints. The load carrier supports a balance pan for receiving weights. A load-carr... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5254500 | Method for making an integrally molded semiconductor device heat sink A method of making a molded heat sink for plastic packages constructed for housing semi-conductor devices. Heat is removed from the semiconductor device by direct heat transfer from the device through upstanding members integrally molded in the top of the... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5253411 | Method of securing semi-conductor wafer using retention clip A clip for removably securing a semi-conductor wafer to the treatment surface of a semi-conductor wafer processing pedestal. The clip is constructed with a pair of spaced apart, forwardly extending tines adapted to engage outer edges of a semi-conductor w... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5246067 | Well leak catcher A leak catcher for use on a pumping well around a polished rod operating a downhole pump in the well including an annular drip bowl connected with a base securable to the upper end of a well casing around a polished rod, a drain line fitting opening into ... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5247621 | System and method for processor bus use A microprocessor includes an internal memory and various subcomponents that allow the microprocessor to operate out of its internal memory during periods of time in which it does not have use of an external bus via which it may operate out of an external ... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5247699 | Cellular frequency reuse cell plan A frequency reuse plan for a cellular radio communications system includes a plurality of antenna sites which implement twelve groups of frequencies among four antenna sites. The same frequencies are reused by other groups of four antenna sites. Each ante... | 09/21/1993 |
