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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6000605 | Guard device for a postage meter A guard device for a postage meter, in particular protects an operator upon reaching into a mail feed mechanism for feeding letters that are inclined slightly to the rear and stand on one edge in a guide gap. The mail feed mechanism includes a revolving c... | 12/14/1999 |
| 4822766 | Catalyst carrier foil and method of manufacturing the same A metallic carrier foil to be coated with ceramic catalytic material and a method for producing the foil, include an electroformed metal foil having a plurality of microscopic holes formed therein.... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4709297 | Guiding device for semiconductor components with DIL casings A guiding device for semiconductor components with DIL casings having edges and surfaces adjoining the edges includes a housing, means disposed in the housing for protecting the semiconductor components against electrostatic charging and discharging, the ... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4651655 | Method for dissolving salt encrustations in a heat exchanger Dissolving salt encrustations which are deposited by exceeding the saturation limit from a gas saturated with water vapor on the heat exchanging surfaces of a heat exchanger, by passing the gas through a heat exchanger subdivided into several sections. Th... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4615265 | Transfer drum for conveying sheets Transfer cylinder for conveying a sheet from one printing unit to another, comprising a cylindrical drum, a row of rubber suction pads for temporarily holding the sheet, the row of suction pads being disposed at an end of a sheet format length on the cyli... | 10/07/1986 |
| 4567406 | High-gain Klystron-tetrode The disclosure related to an improved Klystron-tetrode which has some of the characteristics of a klystron and a tetrode having a hollow beam and tuned cavity resonators for optimizing the phase relation between resonator gaps.... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4527069 | Device for controlling the lateral position of a web in a web printing machine Device for controlling with adjusting members and a measuring device the lateral position of a web in a web printing machine, the controlling device, for effecting centralized control, having respective optical scanning systems for detecting edges of the ... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4518352 | Industrial oven with air recirculation for heat treating processes Industrial oven providing air recirculation for heat treatment processes having temperature uniformity within a charge to be treated, including oven walls, spacers disposed between the oven walls for supporting the charge at a distance from the oven walls... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4448533 | Apparatus for ensuring the quality of printed products Monitoring device for densitometrically evaluating printed sheets with a printed print-monitoring strip includes holding means, a plurality of first densitometers for exclusively measuring full-tone density carried by the holding means at a selective spac... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4436578 | Method of setting a stable melting zone in a semiconductor crystalline rod during crucible-free zone melting thereof Method of setting a stable melting zone in a semiconductor crystalline rod during crucible-free zone melting thereof, by means of a single-winding induction heating coil having an inner diameter smaller than the diameter of a portion of the rod being fed ... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4428904 | Blow-off device for limiting excess pressure in nuclear power plants, especially of the boiling water reactor-type In a blow-off device for limiting excess pressure in nuclear power plants, at least one condensation tube disposed so that a lower outlet end thereof is immersed in a volume of cooling water in a condensation chamber having a gas cushion located in a spac... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4426931 | Device for keeping the lower covering layer of a two-layer covering on a printing-press cylinder Device for keeping a lower covering layer of a two-layer covering on the cylindrical surface of a printing-press cylinder, the two-layer covering also including an upper covering layer covering the keeping device for the lower covering layer, the keeping ... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4416846 | Nuclear power plant with cooling circuit A nuclear power plant with a metallic, circulatory cooling loop formed with welding seams and including, as components thereof, a reactor pressure vessel, a heat consumer and a pump, as well as a coolant line connecting the components to one another, and ... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4410487 | Core baffle or enclosure and method of fabricating the same Method of producing a core baffle with a plurality of horizontally disposed, parallel profile-rib rings for enclosing the fuel assemblies of a pressurized-water reactor, the profile-rib rings being formed with respective cutouts having a polygonal contour... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4403575 | Device for preventing flashing to steam in an economizer of a flow through steam generator Device for preventing flashing to steam in an economizer of a flow-through steam generator wherein the economizer has heating surfaces disposed downstream of an evaporator and superheater surfaces in direction of a flue-gas path, including at least one pa... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4400854 | Method and device for depositing sliver in a rotating can Method for depositing sliver formed of textile fibers in cycloidal loops in a rotating can, which includes feeding the sliver through a rotating funnel wheel having a guide canal formed therein with an opening extending toward the can, and rotating the fu... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4399082 | Blowdown device for steam power plants Blowdown device for steam power plants includes a tube extending into a volume of water, the tube being formed with a multiplicity of holes having a substantially uniform diameter for introducing, into the water, steam that is flowing in the tube, the hol... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4381467 | Multiplanar conductor bar for electric machines, especially for turbo-generators A multiplanar conductor bar for electric machines comprising subconductors superimposed radially in a number n of circumferentially mutually adjacent planes, n being a whole, even number between six and ten, inclusive, and transposed by at least 360°. A ... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4378913 | Device for securing against axial displacement Device for securing an element projecting through an opening against axial displacement of the element including an end of the element projecting through the opening being formed with a noncircular cross-section and with a peripheral slot, and a perforate... | 04/05/1983 |
| 4374083 | Nuclear reactor having a liquid coolant Nuclear reactor with a liquid coolant loop having a volume control surge tank for the coolant disposed in the loop, and a high pressure pump disposed in the loop for feeding coolant taken from the loop back into the loop after purification. A line bypassi... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4373340 | Peak load device of a multistage turbine Peak load device of a multistage turbine, having a high pressure turbine section with an inlet pipe supplying working medium and an exhaust steam outlet, a subsequent turbine section having an inlet pipe connected to the exhaust steam outlet of the high p... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4373925 | Elastic coupling In an elastic coupling with two similar central gears assemblable on respective shaft ends and having rows of teeth, respectively, disposed adjacent one another, and a planet gear with a row of teeth having an angular pitch equal to that of the rows of te... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4369931 | Redirecting device for safety belts A redirecting device for a safety belt for use in motor vehicles, in which one end is rolled up on an automatic winder and the other end of the safety belt has a fitting for connecting the belt to a lock. The redirecting member is a hollow rotatable cylin... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369389 | Device for securing winding bars in slots of electric machines, especially turbo-generators Device for securing winding bars in slots of electric machines, including at least one winding bar having sides and being disposed in each slot, a slot-closing wedge disposed in vicinity of the opening of the slot, at least one wavy slot-closing spring ha... | 01/18/1983 |
| 4366934 | Roll-up device for safety belt Roll-up device for a safety belt with a provision to block the belt shaft in case of danger by locking pawl means with locking teeth and locking pawl, in which an automatically triggered release mechanism is triggered when the vehicle exceeds a permissibl... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4366191 | Method of increasing the strength of carbon and graphite members Increasing the strength and improving other properties of porous carbon or graphite bodies by immersing the porous body in a mixture containing 35-70% hardenable resin and 30 to 65% volatile solvent to impregnate pores. The impregnated porous body is heat... | 12/28/1982 |
| 4362766 | Method for preparing a protective amorphous silicon passivating film on a semiconductor device In the present invention a process is provided for depositing a protective passivating film of doped or undoped amorphous silicon on a body of semiconductor material. In the process a body of semiconductor material is disposed within a reaction vessel, a ... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4360496 | Cooling system for auxiliary systems of a nuclear installation Cooling system for auxiliary systems of a nuclear installation for heat removal from heat exchangers, the heat exchangers being connected on the primary side thereof to lines which may contain radioactive liquids or gases, being disposed in a secured area... | 11/23/1982 |
| 4354084 | Twin baking oven, particularly built-in baking oven In a double baking oven unit having two baking ovens disposed one above the other and enclosed in a common housing, one of the ovens being a microwave oven, and switching, control and operating devices for both of the ovens disposed in an upper space in t... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4352028 | Circuit arrangement for reducing the recovery time of a thyristor comprising R-C-D network between auxiliary and main emitters Circuit arrangement for reducing recovery time of a thyristor formed with a semiconductor body having at least one emitter zone contacted by an emitter electrode and having at least one auxiliary emitter zone and a base zone contacted by an auxiliary emit... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4351154 | Feed of the exhaust gases from an internal-combustion engine to the rotor of a centripetal turbine of an exhaust gas turbocharger Feed for exhaust gases from a multicylinder internal-combustion engine to a rotor of a centripetal turbine of an exhaust gas turbocharger, the turbine having a housing formed with three adjacent outlets radially leading to the rotor, including a line syst... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4350313 | Belt wind-up roller for vehicle-safety belts with blocking device Belt wind-up roller for vehicle safety belts having a wind-up roller in a housing in which the locking part at the belt wind-up roller and the counter-locking part at the housing are arranged in such manner that the blocking is effected at the belt withdr... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4336104 | Inspection and testing device Inspection and testing device for the bottoms of reactor pressure vessels, including an insulation layer and a shielding layer enclosing the pressure vessel, a track fitted to the bottom of the pressure vessel having a first part fixed to the bottom of th... | 06/22/1982 |
| 4336103 | Method of repairing partly burnt-off fuel elements in the fuel-element pit pressurized water reactors and device therefor A method of repairing partly burnt-off fuel elements in a fuel-element pit of a pressurized-water reactor which includes placing a fuel element previously detected as being defective into a holding cage in substantially upright position with the aid of re... | 06/22/1982 |
| 4333201 | Device for preventing the discharge of dust and fiber particles from the work zones of a textile machine Device for preventing the discharge of dust and fiber particles from textile machine work zones having running threads disposed therein, including an air screen system disposed between the work zones and the ambient air in the vicinity of the machine, the... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4331827 | Method of producing current lead-ins having coaxial construction Method of producing current lead-ins having a coaxial construction which includes applying to the outer surface of a first conductor tube of given outer diameter a layer of resilient vulcanized silicone rubber having an outwardly flaring conical sealing p... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4329407 | Electrochemical storage battery Electrochemical storage cell, particularly of the alkali metal and sulfur type having at least one storage cell with insulation around the cell to minimize heat loss, and an interspace between the cell and the insulation. A heat exchanger in the form of a... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4328437 | Superconductive exciter winding for a turbogenerator rotor In a turbogenerator rotor, a winding support cylinder coaxially mounted on the rotor and formed with axially extending slots distributed about the periphery thereof, the slots having a radial extending cross section, and a superconductive exciter winding ... | 05/04/1982 |
| 4327546 | Method and apparatus for joining a thread Method and apparatus for joining a thread returned by a traveling joining device from a take-up coil to a spinner rotor of an open-end rotor spinning machine station, including a thread joining device being disposed on the joining device and being shiftab... | 05/04/1982 |
| 4325472 | Flywheel connected to an internal-combustion engine The combination, including a flywheel couplable to and uncouplable from an internal-combustion engine, depending upon specific circumstances, and a clutch for coupling the flywheel to and for uncoupling the flywheel from the internal-combustion engine, th... | 04/20/1982 |
