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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4688247 | Pay TV scrambling by audio encryption A subscription television distribution system provides a plurality of sources of television program channels, each of which include a video signal and an encrypted audio signal with the encrypted audio signal including encrypted control and subscriber add... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4685573 | Sample display stand A rug display stand has a track structure for sliding panels of such construction that heavy rugs may be suspended without distorting the tracks, avoiding the need to anchor tracks in the ceiling; hence, the stand is portable.... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4685402 | Fire resistive cabinet for storing easily damageable electronic data storage materials A fire resistive cabinet for storing easily damageable electronic data storage materials such as floppy discs to protect them against the deleterious effects of high temperature and high humidity. The cabinet includes an outer housing of fire resistive co... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4684020 | Conductive container Conductive container for electronic devices, constructed of paperboard having a conductive coating or layer or impregnant extending from the inside to the outside of the container, with a sandwiched thin metal foil in effective contact with the conductive... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4683450 | Line with distributed low-pass filter section wherein spurious signals are attenuated For suppression of high-frequency spurious signals (noise) present on an electrical transmission line, the line incorporates at least one section comprising a distributed low-pass filter. This section is constructed so that its wave impedance (Z1 | 07/28/1987 |
| 4680001 | Passive mold cooling and heating system A mold for molding articles of plastic or other like materials, having a plurality of vertically extending internal passages, is connected by inlet and return conduits into a closed loop that includes a heat exchanger partially filled with a liquid supply... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4679271 | Automatic tool force compensator for a surface maintenance machine There is disclosed an improvement in a surface maintenance machine whereby means are provided for automatically maintaining a desired normal force by a maintenance tool against a surface being maintained, although there may be undulations in the surface, ... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4679017 | Emergency manual actuation mechanism for a solenoid An emergency manual actuation mechanism for a conventional solenoid having a plunger with one end connected to an external apparatus, such as a diesel engine fuel pump, in which energization of the solenoid coil retracts the plunger axially; the mechanism... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4676172 | Frameless radial truck A frameless self-steering radial wheeled support vehicle for a railroad car body includes: (a) a pair of wheelsets, (b) a support at opposite ends of each wheelset for independently mounting a railroad car body on each end of the wheelset, (c) resilient shear ... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4676622 | Holding device for film and video cameras Holding device for film and video cameras, consisting of two similar exchangeable swivel heads, one of which has a housing part 4, a rotating part 5 and a damping element. A frame part 7 or a camera mount 8 is used to connect the two swivel heads and moun... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4675935 | Control and monitor for a floor maintenance device A floor scrubber has rotating brushes for scrubbing a floor, drive motors for the brushes, and a brush height control circuit for raising and lowering the brushes in accordance with a desired brush pattern. The scrubber includes a solution tank, a recover... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4674529 | Check valve This invention is concerned with a check valve made up of two housings or castings, each of which has a corrosion resistant liner which provides improved support and operation of the ball or check member and increased resistance to liner collapse when ope... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4674681 | Irrigation system and apparatus This is concerned with an irrigation system or mechanism which is constructed and arranged and intended to water non-circular fields which may be considered polygonal sided intersecting at the corners. The system and method includes the use or combination... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4674585 | Articulated unit vehicle An elongated vehicle adapted to be propelled along an engaging surface and capable of climbing over obstacles on the engaging surface. The vehicle has a plurality of wheeled units including front and rear units with each unit having two axles and wheels m... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4667696 | Flow valve An adjustable nonreturn ball valve for connection in a pipeline includes an elongate unobstructed main housing arranged to be connected at each end to flow pipes. There is an auxiliary housing located intermediate the ends of the main housing which has a ... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4662389 | Adjustable stem assembly A water valve adjustable stem assembly includes a valve housing with an inlet and outlet therein and a valve positioned within the housing. The valve has an inlet and outlet communicating with the housing inlet and outlet and there is a movable valve memb... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4658694 | Percussion noisemaker A percussion noisemaker capable of two distinctive noise effects comprises a pair of thin, flat, elongated wooden clapper arms having handle ends mounted together so that the two arms form a narrow V with flat surfaces of the arms facing each other; a ful... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4652924 | RF volume control circuit A TV remote volume control includes an RF input for receiving the video modulated RF carrier and the audio modulated RF carrier, both with common mode spurious deviation. The audio modulated RF carrier is demodulated to provide a baseband audio signal wit... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4649672 | Installation for cleaning building (a) An installation for cleaning buildings by the blasting of solid particles; (b) characterized in that it comprises a cabin (1) having: an open front surface (2), an intermediate wall (4) having fans (5); a floor (3); a lateral surface (7) at the rear f... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4648661 | Empty and load valve for a railroad car brake system An empty and load valve for a railroad car brake system is mounted on the bolster of a truck and has a sensing arm engageable with a side frame of the truck. An empty and load device is mounted on each intermediate truck of an articulated car. The device ... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4645092 | Machine tools Small workpieces are loaded into a pair of detenting (spring-biased) jaws along a loading station center line by a reciprocal feed finger. The jaws are shifted to a work station center line, where tooling is applied, by advancing one jaw toward the other.... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4642856 | Clamp assembly for inflatable membrane concrete form An edge clamp assembly for an inflatable form membrane used in erection of a concrete shell comprises a steel channel having an internal width W mounted at the base of the shell with the longitudinal opening of the channel facing upwardly; a guide lip on ... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4643008 | Lock for fuel filler cap A lock for a fuel filler cap has a cylindrical body with an axial keyway formed therein. A tumbler body is rotatably disposed in the cylindrical body. The tumbler mounts a plurality of tumbler pins which are slidable into and out of the keyway. The tumble... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4643279 | Means for connecting a brake rod to the lever arm of an automatic slack adjuster A slack adjuster for vehicle brakes is adapted to be mounted between the vehicle brake chamber and the vehicle brake operating shaft and includes a body which positions a drive member movable relative thereto on the brake operating shaft. A lever arm is p... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4642545 | Static phase conversion circuits for three-phase motors A three-phase A.C. motor having three stator windings with stator winding power input terminals T1, T2 and T3, is energized from a single-phase A.C. line through a static phase conversion circuit that connects terminals T1 and T2 directly to the single ph... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4641312 | Method and device for producing individual short laser pulses A method of producing individual short laser pulses in which a stimulatable laser medium is excited by a pump pulse in order to produce a population inversion above a laser threshold value, the population inversion being kept below the threshold value aft... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4638640 | Ice thickness controller for an ice making machine An ice thickness controller is used to monitor the ice thickness in a refrigeration system. The system has a compressor connected to evaporator tubes which are submerged in a container of water. A DC motor has a shaft extending below the water line in the... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4637578 | Railroad frog having movable wing rails A railroad frog has either a cast or rail-built point, resting on a baseplate which is fastened to ties. A pair of heel rails are attached to the point, to the ties and to traffic rails. A pair of movable wing rails extend from the toe of the frog to a lo... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4637524 | Machine tools Coacting, self-centering jaw members in a machine tool which machines small, cylindrical lightweight workpieces; coaction and self-centering is achieved by an equalizer arm actuated by a slide; the slide also actuates one jaw member while the equalizer ap... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4636221 | Elbow lock mechanism The invention concerns an elbow lock mechanism for use in artificial arms, comprising a locking bolt which is mounted for axial movement on a carriage which is movable by electric drive means between two positions, there being a spring on the carriage whi... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4636083 | Arrangement in containers intended to hold pumpable substances and provided with a pump herefor The invention relates to an arrangement in containers (1) intended to hold materials of a pumpable consistency. The arrangement comprises a reversible motor (9) which is drivably connected to a rotatable agitator (12) located in the container (1). The arr... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4635862 | Rotary comminutor A rotary granulator having a rotor positioned coaxially within a cutting chamber defined by a multi-perforate cylindrical screen mounted on an end plate with a fixed bed knife projecting into the cutting chamber in position to cooperate with a rotor knife... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4634403 | Belt drive This is a belt drive arrangement in which two belts are used, the inside surface of one running in contact with the outside surface of the other for part of their lengths and both running within the width of one belt, with input and output shafts, and one... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4634347 | Arrangement in plant equipment for supplying a binding agent directly to a building element The invention relates to an arrangement in plant equipment for directly supplying to a building element a binder comprising, for example, mortar of pumpable consistency and containing water. The plant equipment includes a vessel for ready-mixed binder, a ... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4633857 | Massager A massager with a vertical guide column (1) which has a cylinder/piston unit (10) and toothed racks (4) mounted at the side on the guide column (1). These toothed racks (4) engage pinions (5) which hold the brushes (7) which are mounted in housing halves ... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4633309 | Cable television master/slave decoder control A method of controlling the operation of slave decoders in a cable television distribution system having a central control computer; in which each subscriber location having a slave decoder also has a master decoder; in which there is a control message co... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4632098 | Orthopedic brace for knee joints The orthopedic brace serves the purpose of splinting and balancing the lateral instability of knee joints and is characterised by a tie-plate intended to be applied to the side of the knee joint having the preponderant instability, which is acted upon by ... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4628603 | Hand implement for slicing foodstuffs A hand implement for slicing cheese, root vegetables and the like has a cutting blade (1) having an opening (4) for a cutting element (5). In order to prevent the cutting blade from sticking to the foodstuff and to prevent the sliced foodstuff (18) from s... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4630274 | Method and apparatus for generating short intensive pulses of electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range below about 100 nm In a method and an apparatus for generating a hot plasma which emits elecmagnetic radiation in the wavelength range below about 100 nm in a predetermined volume, in which a laser radiation pulse of short duration with sufficient energy and power density ... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4629592 | Method and apparatus utilizing inflatable membrane form for construction of concrete shell building A method and apparatus for anchoring an inflatable membrane form to the base wall of a building to be covered by a concrete shell incorporates a groove formation at the top inner face of the building base wall, the groove formation comprising a horizontal... | 12/16/1986 |
