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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4739863 | Vat wheel lock A locking assembly for vat wheels mounted in a track includes an air cylinder actuator having a reciprocating piston rod which drives a pivotable rocker assembly. The rocker assembly includes a pair of wheel braces which, in a locking position, cross the ... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4642932 | Underwater ice walker A moveable underwater icewalker is disclosed. The icewalker comprises, a flotation base, a moveable rod connected to the underside of the base, a flotation arm attached to the rod and culminating in spikes at one end, a plurality of skates and a line atta... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4524704 | Accessory-holding jig providing multiple sewing positions A jig for holding an accessory to be stitched to fabric relative to the needle of a sewing machine comprises a first captive sliding bar and an accessory holder attached to the sliding bar. There are at least two stop positions located, as by detents, on ... | 06/25/1985 |
| 4504861 | Portable TV transmitter A portable TV transmitter is provided on a harness. The transmitter may be carried by a person on the back thus leaving the hands free for operating a TV camera coupled with the transmitter. The transmitter is equipped with a multi-directional antenna, a ... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4459978 | Medical retractor device An expandable fingers medical device which improves surgical speed and precision and enhances patient care and recovery by minimizing anesthesia time, trauma, infection and iatrogenic complications and increases viability of anastomosis. The medical devic... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4447227 | Multi-purpose medical devices Multi-purpose pneumatic and hydraulic devices suitable for diagnostic and surgical use facilitate surgical procedures as well as enhance patient care and recovery by minimizing trauma, infection and iatrogenic complications. The multi-purpose devices each... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4445100 | Coupling block assembly with band-reject filter A band-reject filter comprises a resonator with an adjustable resonator rod which is mounted in proximity to a co-axial assembly. The coupling rod passes thru the inner conductor of the co-axial assembly and extends into the resonator. At the end of the r... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4078647 | Apparatus for transporting cigarettes or the like Blocks or streams consisting of one or more layers of cigarettes can be transported by one or more endless conveyors wherein an endless band-like or rim-like carrier is surrounded by a pile of elastically deformable bristles which engage and entrain the a... | 03/14/1978 |
| 4069830 | Apparatus for conditioning tobacco A stream of moist tobacco is fed into one end of a rotating drum which is heated by steam circulating coils and wherein a current of heated air flows counter to the direction of tobacco travel. A portion of moisture-laden air issuing at the one end of the... | 01/24/1978 |
| 4061234 | Apparatus for assembling multi-layer groups of cigarettes or the like Apparatus for assembling blocks of parallel cigarettes in formations ready for packing has a magazine for a supply of parallel cigarettes and three groups of downwardly extending ducts whose upper ends communicate with the magazine to admit parallel cigar... | 12/06/1977 |
| 4055192 | Recovery of reusable tobacco particles in machines for the production of plain and filter tipped smokers products Tobacco particles which escape from plain cigarettes and/or filter cigarettes in machines for the making of plain and filter cigarettes are partially separated from streams of suction air before such streams reach the main separator. This relieves the mai... | 10/25/1977 |
| 4054145 | Method and apparatus for conditioning tobacco Particles of a continuous tobacco stream are intimately contacted with and thus conditioned by finely distributed solid or fluid additives in a rotary drum into which the additives are supplied by one or more spray nozzles. Tobacco particles are propelled... | 10/18/1977 |
| 4044659 | Apparatus for making composite filter plugs Apparatus for producing composite filter plugs for cigarettes or other smokers' products has two sets of conveyors which feed filter rod sections of different types to the flutes of a rotary assembly conveyor. The latter assembles the sections into groups... | 08/30/1977 |
| 4043454 | Method and apparatus for producing and controlling the production of composite filter plugs The operation of apparatus for the production of composite filter plugs is controlled by a circuit which employs one or more capacitive detectors mounted adjacent to the path of filter rod sections and transmitting signals which are indicative of the pass... | 08/23/1977 |
| 4041958 | Apparatus for producing a continuous tobacco stream Apparatus for producing a narrow tobacco stream ready for trimming or immediate wrapping into a web of cigarette paper has a distributor from which a wide first belt or a plate transports a thin carpet of tobacco particles to a first transfer station wher... | 08/16/1977 |
| 4040218 | Vessel with an upright shell A vessel, particularly a silo, has an upright shell of circular outline wherein a median part supports an upper part and rests on a lower part. Each of the upper and median parts consists of four arcuate sections which are secured to each other by strips ... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4039258 | Method and apparatus for making reproductions of photograhic copy negatives or the like Prints of film frames forming part of relatively short film strips are made by attaching to each film strip a tab, inserting the strip and the tab into an envelope which bears information denoting the order number, the number of prints to be made, the typ... | 08/02/1977 |
| 4037768 | Apparatus for braking webs of photographic material or the like Apparatus for transporting a perforated web of photographic material in stepwise fashion has a variable-speed motor which drives the web, a bundle of light conductors which receive light seriatim when a perforation of the web passes between their ends and... | 07/26/1977 |
| 4037608 | Method and apparatus for producing cigarettes with dense ends Cigarettes with dense ends are produced by converting a continuous tobacco stream into a rod-like filler wherein spaced-apart portions contain more tobacco than the parts therebetween. The conversion involves removal of surplus tobacco from the stream in ... | 07/26/1977 |
| 4038673 | View finder for photographic apparatus utilizing objectives having different focal lengths A view finder for use in photographic apparatus which embody or are connectable with two objectives having different focal lengths has a field lens, an eye lens behind the field lens, and two intermediate lenses each of which is pivotable in the housing a... | 07/26/1977 |
| 4038671 | Photographic apparatus with two picture taking lenses A photographic apparatus, particularly a still camera, wherein two lenses having different focal lengths are pivotable about the axes of two shafts which are located diametrically opposite each other with respect to the axis of a third shaft which support... | 07/26/1977 |
| 4037712 | Method and apparatus for supplying tobacco to tobacco cutting machines The moving parts of a tobacco cutting machine and the conveyor or conveyors which transfer tobacco to the cutting machine are driven by a variable speed motor whose speed is regulated in dependency on the volume of tobacco in a duct from which the conveyo... | 07/26/1977 |
| 4036119 | Method and machine for the production of composite filter mouthpieces Filter mouthpieces with one or more thin filter disks consisting of a first filter material and one or more filter plugs consisting of a second filter material are produced by inserting filter disks between spaced-apart filter plugs which form a single fi... | 07/19/1977 |
| 4032935 | Exposure control for photographic apparatus An exposure control for still cameras wherein a first portion of a diaphragm shutter is movable from cocked position to one of several second positions for effecting admission of scene light to an unexposed film frame, and a second portion of the shutter ... | 06/28/1977 |
| 4025770 | Apparatus for monitoring rod-shaped commodities in cigarette making machines or the like A cigarette making machine wherein discrete cigarettes travelling from the cutoff to a transfer conveyor slide along the upper side of a light transmitting guide. A photoelectric detector is mounted below and is shielded by the guide from tobacco dust whi... | 05/24/1977 |
| 4025061 | Apparatus for heat treatment of discrete metallic commodities Apparatus for heating coil springs or other metallic commodities has a furnace defining a chamber for one or more upright cylindrical supports which form part of a conveyor system for moving an endless chain or band lengthwise so that successive holders o... | 05/24/1977 |
| 4024394 | Method and apparatus for measuring and regulating the density of rod-like fillers consisting of tobacco or the like The density of a rod-like tobacco filler in a cigarette making machine is measured and regulated by placing a source of beta radiation adjacent to one side of the moving filler and a transducer at the other side of the filler opposite the source whereby t... | 05/17/1977 |
| 4023362 | Controllable-filling hydrodynamic fluid coupling A scoop-trimmed fluid coupling wherein the transmitted torque decreases continuously with increasing ratio of runner speed to impeller speed at each degree of filling of the working circuit with liquid. During acceleration of the runner, the scoop tube is... | 05/17/1977 |
| 4020851 | Apparatus for monitoring the operation of cigarette making machines or the like The absence of continuity of a single file of rod-shaped articles which are formed by the cutoff of a cigarette or filter rod making machine is monitored by an apparatus having two spaced-apart air discharging nozzles one of which is located upstream and ... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4020973 | Apparatus for removing rod-shaped articles from a magazine Apparatus for removing filter rod sections from a magazine in a filter cigarette making machine. The magazine has an outlet which receives a portion of a fluted drum so that, when the drum rotates, its flutes remove filter rod sections from the magazine. ... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4021668 | Ionography imaging chamber An ionography imaging chamber for use in the cassette of an X-ray apparatus has a flat prismatic pressure vessel defining an interelectrode gap for compressed high Z gas and a dielectric charge-receiving sheet which is to be exposed to a pattern of X-rays... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4020751 | Apparatus for making composite filter plugs Apparatus for making composite filter plugs for cigarettes or the like has a garniture which transports a web of cigarette paper or the like past a transfer conveyor which deposits on the web groups of aligned filter rod sections of two or more different ... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4017033 | Apparatus and method for reclaiming waste papers Disclosure is made of improved apparatus for continuously processing waste papers, contaminated with inks, adhesives, resins, groundwood, foreign objects, paper fasteners and the like, into usable grades of cellulosic fiber pulps. The disclosure is also o... | 04/12/1977 |
| 4016971 | Conveyor for use in tobacco shredding apparatus A link chain which transports and compacts tobacco leaves in a tobacco shredding apparatus has a succession of neighboring metallic links each of which has a trailing end provided with a cylindrical male coupling portion extending into and turnable in a c... | 04/12/1977 |
| 4016033 | Distribution means for aqueous slurry in papermaking machines Stock distribution means for delivering an aqueous slurry in a papermaking machine has a tapering passage which delivers stock to a nozzle by way of several rows of channels whose inlets are in communication with the passage. The passage, the entire chann... | 04/05/1977 |
| 4011966 | Distributor for cigarette rod making machines or the like The distributor of a cigarette rod making machine has an upright duct the upper end of which receives particles of tobacco from a magazine and the lower end of which has an outlet of variable cross-sectional area. The outlet is adjacent to the carding of ... | 03/15/1977 |
| 4011876 | Device for withdrawing tobacco from the magazine of a tobacco distributor A tobacco distributor wherein a toothed drum withdraws a continuous layer of tobacco shreds from a magazine. The teeth impart to the periphery of the drum a saw-tooth profile and their trailing flanks have outwardly and forwardly extending pins. The pins ... | 03/15/1977 |
| 4010911 | Splicing apparatus for webs of metallic foil or the like Apparatus for splicing a running web to the leader of a fresh web by means of a uniting band both sides of which are coated with adhesive has a holding device which is placed between the running web and the leader of the fresh web while such leader adhere... | 03/08/1977 |
| 4010678 | Method and apparatus for making composite filter plugs Composite filter plugs or mouthpieces for use in filter cigarette making machines are manufactured by moving rod-like filter components or elements of two or more types sideways or partly sideways and shuffling the filter elements to form a series of grou... | 03/08/1977 |
| 4009722 | Method and machine for making cigarettes with composite fillers Cigarettes with composite fillers wherein the mouthpiece consists of first tobacco shreds having a low nicotine content and the major portion of the filler consists of second shreds having a higher nicotine content are manufactured by showering second shr... | 03/01/1977 |
