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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4831914 | Multiple tier ammunition magazine A detachable ammunition magazine for high rate-of-fire guns that stores and positively feeds triangularly shaped cartridges to the gun in serial order. The cartridges are stored in a series of concentric cylindrically shaped tiers or arrays, and are advan... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4748892 | Energy transfer multi-barrel gun A rapid rate of fire, multiple barrel gun employing triangularly shaped cartridges that are fed and ejected transversely to the barrels of the gun. Each barrel has its own separate feed and ejection system, that are driven in common in a synchronized but ... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4582147 | Directional drilling A system for directional drilling of boreholes into the earth under control of the driller at the surface, employing a rotating earth drill including a projectile firing mechanism, that is timed to nonsymmetrically fire projectiles into the earth at contr... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4574317 | Hand scannable portable copier and method A miniature hand scannable portable copier for use by students and others in copying documents or excerpts of documents, and comprised of a solid state optical sensor array and a thermal print head array supported within a pocket sized housing in substant... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4474250 | Measuring while drilling A method of measuring lithology, and other underground conditions, while drilling bores into the earth employing the repetitive firing of projectiles to fracture rock and penetrate the earth and detecting the high intensity acoustic signals being produced... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4281856 | Wet-dry cementable coupling for plastic pipe A cementable coupling for plastic pipe, that may be employed whether the parts are wet or dry, including cementable fitting and sleeve members that initially provide a dry seal near the end of the pipe, permitting initial drying of the pipe upstream of th... | 08/04/1981 |
| 4218828 | Device for measuring the tightening angle on a wrench An improved device for measuring the tightening angle on a wrench. The directionally fixed member is a liquid body which may include solid particles or a turbine wheel, the relative velocity of which is monitored to determine the relative motion of the li... | 08/26/1980 |
| 4204473 | Gas generating charge for open chamber gas powered tool An ignitable charge for producing pressurized gas to power industrial tools; that is made of plentiful, common materials at a very low cost, lower in cost than conventional charges by orders of magnitude. The charge is comprised of a hollow plastic jacket... | 05/27/1980 |
| 4197526 | Miniature pager receiver with digital display and memory A miniature receiver for a paging system having a digital display for displaying a received multi-digit number, and a memory for storing the received number to permit its retrieval and display at a later time. The received digital number may be automatica... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4119956 | Raster-scan display apparatus for computer-generated images A raster-scan display system for computer-generated images in which each raster line is quantized into a number (N) of sets of image elements each successive set being displaced in time, with respect to the line start, by 1/N of the duration of one elemen... | 10/10/1978 |
| 4103304 | Direction locating system An instantaneous, omnidirectional direction finding system for locating an incoming wave over a complete 360° arc in space employing a circular antenna array and a fixed phase shifting network for deriving from said array a differently time phase shifted... | 07/25/1978 |
| 4091730 | Gas generating charge for open chamber gas powered tool An ignitable charge for producing pressurized gas to power industrial tools, that is made of plentiful, common materials at a very low cost, lower in cost than conventional charges by orders of magnitude. The charge is comprised of a hollow plastic jacket... | 05/30/1978 |
| 4089498 | 12 Hour coaster A coaster for containers of hot or cold liquids that more effectively insulates the container from both the outer walls and base of the coaster, and that does so for longer periods of time of continuous use than known devices. Among other features, the co... | 05/16/1978 |
| 4068506 | Hidden lock A hidden or concealed lock for sliding windows, door panels and the like, employing a concealed hollow tubular locking sleeve that is positioned entirely inside of an aligned opening passing through the interior frame of one of said windows and into the f... | 01/17/1978 |
| 4005571 | Elapsed time reminder with conversion of calendar days into elapsed time An elapsed time display and reminder device that is manually adjustable by the user to select a time in the future that may be many days in advance of the present, and to provide a calibrated countdown display of the progressively diminishing time interva... | 02/01/1977 |
| 4004642 | Tround terra-drill processes and apparatus Processes and apparatus in the field of Terradynamics, e. g. projectile penetration into soils and rocks, employing "open chamber" firing systems using "Trounds" (triangular rounds of ammunition). Included are salvo firings of small calibre projectiles fo... | 01/25/1977 |
| 3999460 | Rocket launching mechanism A rocket launching mechanism for a shoulder held weapon which permits substantialy continuous loading and firing. A two trigger system is employed -- one for firing the rocket and a second for releasing a stop mechanism which permits a spring drive means ... | 12/28/1976 |
| 3980386 | Electrical connector with molded pin protector An electrical connector is shown having a pin protector molded into its connector housing. The protector has a plurality of elongated, stamped apertures along one edge formed with offset perimeters which extend into the molded housing for increasing the c... | 09/14/1976 |
| 3963302 | Electrical crimp removable socket contact An improved electrical crimp removable socket contact is shown, having a box-like section capable of mating with a square wrap post or round pin at one end and an open barrel section for crimping a wire and its insulation at the other end. The box-like se... | 06/15/1976 |
| 3960425 | Harness cable connector A harness cable connector is shown which receives a plurality of insulated wires by a press fit for retaining the wires in a spaced configuration during insertion and assembly of the wires in a printed circuit board. The cable connector is then rolled and... | 06/01/1976 |
| 3961212 | Integral servomechanism An integral servomechanism is shown that mounts a synchro receiver in the form of a control transformer, a torque motor, an isolation transformer and associated electronic circuitry integrally within a housing wherein the transformer permits the utilizati... | 06/01/1976 |
| 3957337 | Miniature electrical connector having contact centering means A miniature electrical connector is shown having an insulated housing with a bore passing therethrough including a large passageway and a reduced passageway joined by an inwardly tapering surface. A contact is received by the passageway having three unifo... | 05/18/1976 |
| 3952411 | Multi-wire wiper contact for potentiometers and other electromechanical devices and method for making same A multi-wire wiper contact is shown formed from a plurality of conductive and nonconductive wires wrapped about a mandrel to form a flat set of wires helically wrapped into a coil. The wire coil is then masked with a desired pattern and the unmasked wire ... | 04/27/1976 |
