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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7493963 | Adjustable horse-boot buckle A horse boot buckle includes a plate with cable eyelets and six cable guides that provide multiple tension adjustments. In addition, the buckle lever includes three alternative grooves for engaging the tensioning cable, thereby providing additional tensioning adjust... | 02/24/2009 |
| 5941189 | Watercraft A watercraft has an abovewater passenger and/or cargo section as well as an underwater propulsion section. The two sections are connected by telescoping struts.... | 08/24/1999 |
| 4805685 | Mold for the continuous casting of beam blanks A mold for the continuous casting of beam blanks has a central casting passage bounded by a pair of parallel walls. On either side of the central casting passage is an expanding casting passage which widens in a direction away from the central casting pas... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4774995 | Continuous casting mold A mold for the continuous casting of metal to a sheet-like strand is provided with a casting passage having a slot-shaped outlet end. The inlet end of the casting passage is considerably wider, and has a much larger area, then the outlet end. This facilit... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4765390 | Method of and arrangement for cooling a continuously cast strand A continuous casting apparatus has a secondary cooling zone for spray cooling a travelling, continuously cast strand. Groups of spray nozzles are spaced longitudinally of the path of the strand on either side of such path. Each of the spray nozzles produc... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4751959 | Method of and apparatus for continuously casting metals Molten metal is continuously teemed from a ladle into a tundish. The latter feeds a continuous stream of the molten metal to a cooled mold having opposite open ends connected by a casting passage. The molten metal enters the mold at one end and partially ... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4735253 | Method of and apparatus for conveying a continuously cast strand A continuous casting apparatus includes a continuous casting mold, a guide downstream of the mold for guiding a continuously cast strand issuing from the mold, and a drive unit for drawing the strand out of the mold and through the guide. The drive unit i... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4729015 | Method and apparatus for making positive copies from diapositives Diapositives are copied on negative photosensitive paper in an apparatus wherein the positive is electronically scanned, line-by-line, and the thus obtained density signals are electronically inverted prior to influencing the beam of a CRT or laser which ... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4719966 | Method of and arrangement for adjusting a continuous casting mold A continuous casting mold has four walls each having a cooled surface and an end face. The walls are arranged so that the end face of each wall abuts the cooled surface of another wall. The cooled surfaces cooperate to define a casting passage of square o... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4716955 | Continuous casting method A mold for the continuous casting of metal to a sheet-like strand is provided with a casting passage having a slot-shaped outlet end. The inlet end of the casting passage is considerably wider, and has a much larger area, than the outlet end. This facilit... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4712447 | Oscillator for a continuous casting mold An oscillator for a continuous casting mold includes a rotatable drive shaft having first and second portions which are eccentric with respect to one another. A sleeve for inducing oscillatory motion of the mold rotatably surrounds the second shaft portio... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4705094 | Distancing means for dummy bars in continuous casting apparatus A continuous casting apparatus has a casting platform which supports a mold defining two casting passages. A laterally undivided roller guide is disposed below the mold. The apparatus further includes a pair of dummy bars, and a carriage on the casting pl... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4669526 | Remotely adjustable continuous casting mold A vertical slab mold has a pair of spaced wide walls, and a pair of spaced narrow walls which are located between the wide walls. The narrow walls are movable towards and away from one another for the purpose of performing width changes during casting. Dr... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4658999 | Ski carrier A carrier for suspending a pair of skis from a shoulder has an elongated, flexible carrying strap which is designed to be attached to the skis forward and rearward of the ski bindings. One end of the strap is connected with a sheath for receiving the trai... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4654512 | Machine readable information carrier An information carrying card has an EPROM device. Individual steps of a manufacturing or inventory scheme are operated using the card. Information can be added to or deleted from the card by a central processing unit or a local read/write device. The info... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4648273 | Force responsive device A device is provided for detecting the influence of a gravitational forceon a body due to changes in a freefall state. The device includes a spherical housing, and a flow medium is contained in, and is adapted to travel about and undergo flow in the housi... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4584736 | Surface cleaning apparatus An apparatus for cleaning surfaces has a cleaning head which is designed to bear against a surface being cleaned. The cleaning head includes a discharge nozzle which is connected with a source of flowable cleaning material and is arranged to discharge suc... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4518074 | Arrangement and a method for transferring products in metal processing installations Hot, elongated metallic products are delivered to a horizontal roller table and then transferred to one side of the latter transverse to the longitudinal dimensions of the products. The transfer arrangement for the products includes several pairs of I-bea... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4291748 | Dummy bar for a continuous casting machine A continuous casting machine for billets and blooms has a curved mold which is followed by a curved cooling zone and a straightener. A dummy bar for the casting machine has a length at least equal to the distance between the mold and the straightener. The... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4257472 | Continuous casting of hollow shapes An apparatus for the continuous casting of hollow metal shapes includes a cooled, open-ended mold having a cooled mandrel positioned centrally of the mold cavity. The inner surface of the mold and outer surface of the mandrel together define a casting spa... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4237960 | Method and apparatus for regulating the bath level in a continuous casting mold A detector for monitoring the bath level in an oscillatory continuous casting mold oscillates with the latter. The detector generates signals indicative of the bath level and a control unit interprets the signals and initiates adjustment of the bath level... | 12/09/1980 |
| 4235280 | Spray nozzle for cooling a continuously cast strand A continuous casting installation has a curved secondary cooling zone in which a partially solidified, continuously cast strand originally having a generally vertical orientation is turned towards the horizontal while being cooled. Spray nozzles are provi... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4224977 | Mold assembly and method for continuous casting A mold assembly for continuous casting has a plurality of open-ended molds. The mold assembly further has a cooling member which is common to all of the molds and cooperates with each mold to define one or more cooling passages therewith. The cooling memb... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4150710 | Dummy bar handling apparatus and method A continuous casting installation has a generally vertical open-ended mold supported on a casting platform, a flexible dummy bar for sealing the lower end of the mold prior to the start of a cast, a curved guide below the casting platform for the strand f... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4149582 | Dummy bar head for continuous casting and method of starting a continuously cast strand A dummy or starter bar for starting a strand in a continuous casting installation having an open-ended mold is provided with a head which is receivable in the mold. The dummy bar head has a peripheral surface which faces the inner surface of the mold. The... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4146078 | Method of and apparatus for continuous horizontal casting An apparatus for continuous horizontal casting has a vessel for holding the molten metal to be cast. The vessel has an opening in its side which is arranged so that a stream of molten metal issuing therefrom enters a horizontal path. The stream is maintai... | 03/27/1979 |
