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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5138814 | Wall partition units The partition wall units include panels with mitered tubular frame strips, posts, raceways which also can be adapted for baseboards, and covering edge strips. Most of these units include a groove along an outer edge into which are removably mounted interl... | 08/18/1992 |
| 4832378 | Fluid duct coupling and snap clip therefor The disclosure concerns a hollow socket and hollow plug therefor and a specific snap clip for locking the plug in the socket by normally bridging radially aligned cooperating grooves in said plug and socket. The plug and socket may include cooperating sur... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4819377 | Flush window regulator The disclosure concerns a regulator for moving a window in a vehicle door ccessively substantially vertically and horizontally and vice versa. In other words, once the window is closed vertically the lower edge may be moved outwardly horizontally to becom... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4559138 | End connected filter cartridges The disclosure concerns a hollow cylindrical filter cartridge composed of an annular pleated filter medium surrounding a central perforated plastic tube, the ends of which cartridge and tube are embedded into plastic annular discs for closing the ends of ... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4455227 | Combination filter heat exchanger The disclosure concerns a swimming pool-type filter comprising: (a) a stainless steel vertical cylindrical vessel with a removable domed cover and a horizontal partition sealed between the periphery of the cover and the open vessel, from which partition s... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4439923 | Snip ride A pair of snips comprising handle levers pivoted at one end and elongated shaped centrally pivoted blade cross-pivoted levers pivoted at their ends opposite their blades to said handle levers adjacent their end pivot, which blade levers have integrally fo... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4392771 | Lift safety switch system An electrically controlled hydraulic lift, such as wheelchair lifts for vehicles, wherein the hydraulic reciprocating motor for operating the platform of the lift is mounted in a vertical slot so that any obstruction in the downward movement of the platfo... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4261108 | Method for determining caster camber and toe-in The method of this invention comprises setting the vertical members clamped to the stationary part of the hub of each steerable wheel in the same plane as the turning axis for that wheel when the weight is off that wheel, and then gauging the chamber and ... | 04/14/1981 |
| 4068309 | Method and device for detecting two different frequency amplitude and phase signals in a combined digital signal Method for detecting, in a combined digital signal, the presence of two signals differing in frequency, amplitude and phase and having frequencies occurring in a known series. Samples of the combined signal are multiplied by samples of only one derivative... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4056781 | Device for calling a ground station by an aircraft A ground station system for automatically monitoring a predetermined plurality of carrier frequencies for radio communication calls from aircraft which transmit and receive traffic over one of said carrier frequencies, wherein the aircraft transmits a cal... | 11/01/1977 |
| 4055497 | Hold-down mechanism for scraper conveyor and settling tank A settling tank having a flat bottom and an inclined side extending from an arcuate corner along one side of said bottom, a drag-out conveyor means along said bottom around said arcuate corner and up said inclined side, and a mechanism for permitting the ... | 10/25/1977 |
| 4042020 | Positive seal pitless well adapter This is an improvement in Wellstein's U.S. Patent No. 3,812,910 issued May 28, 1974 comprising generally: (1) a positive supporting hook for the drop pipe slide member which cooperates with the hanger member on the nipple that extends radially through an ... | 08/16/1977 |
| 4014027 | Omnidirectional antenna for around a mast Omnidirectional antenna provided with a rotation-symmetrical reflector and a concentric radiator, to be mounted around a mast, which radiator has an uninterrupted annular exit edge. All the diametrical cross sections of the radiator along the axis of the ... | 03/22/1977 |
| 4007422 | Method and apparatus for calling a ground station by an aircraft A system for generating a special calling signal to be transmitted from an aircraft to a ground station comprising two parts of repeated groups of 7-unit binary code signals, each of which parts or groups has a constant ratio of 1 and 0 value bits, but ha... | 02/08/1977 |
| 3999161 | Method and device for the recognition of characters, preferably of figures The invention relates to a method for the automatic recognition of characters, preferably of figures, which may be hand-written on an information carrier provided with an arrangement of demarcated rectangles- one for each character. These handwritten char... | 12/21/1976 |
| 3980014 | Briquetting machine A relatively thin briquetting chamber having a filter screen along at least one wall thereof, openable ends, a piston movable through said chamber from one end to the other to squeeze liquid from solid particles collected on the screen in said chamber and... | 09/14/1976 |
