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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4867665 | Plastic material molding apparatus A plastic material molding apparatus, wherein when the pressure at a material inlet of a cylinder of a material holding mechanism increases as a piston in the cylinder compresses a resilient member provided in the material holding mechanism, the speed of ... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4860832 | Receptacle for extinguishing a burning liquid fuel by isolation A receptacle comprises a plurality of juxtaposed tanks interconnected adjacent upper portions thereof in liquid communication with each other by eyelets defining liquid transmitting passages. Each of the tanks has an open top closed by a funnel shaped cov... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4860914 | Collapsible swimming pool A collapsible swimming pool is provided which comprises a plurality of nestable sections. Each section has a bottom wall with an inner portion and a side wall which is connected with the bottom wall to extend in a generally vertical direction when the poo... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4856679 | Dispenser for pasty products The invention relates to a piston dispenser for pasty products which has a single dispensing passage for simultaneously dispensing two products such as a stripe on toothpaste. The dispenser has a pump chamber (5) of a delivery mechanism and a stripe chamb... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4850427 | Device for controlling overheating and scaling in an apparatus for heating a fluid and apparatus equipped with such a device An overheating and scaling control device for a fluid heating apparatus, such as a domestic water heater, removes the hot fluid in the heater when demand ceases. A piston (46) mobile within a case (28) separates the latter into two compartments (32, 36) r... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4843499 | Tape winding direction switch device of cassette tape recorder A tape winding direction switch device of a cassette tape recorder wherein a switching operation member which is operated in accordance with a fast forward lever and a fast rewinding lever is provided so as to operate a gear engagement clutch plate which ... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4836294 | Machine for digging a putting cup hole A putting cup hole digging machine is disclosed which comprises a main frame which has a fore and aft extent; a first mounting means for securing the main frame on a vehicle to permit the main frame to be vertically raised and lowered relative to the vehi... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4836819 | Skateboarding toy A skateboarding toy, wherein a mechanism frame adapted to support a toy body horizontally and rotatably is erected on a skateboard having a drive wheel and front steering wheels, and a steering rod for operating the front wheels is provided. When the driv... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4836609 | Vehicle seat A seat assembly for use on a vehicle which comprises a seat pan having seat and backrest portions and a contoured edge. An inner support ring is provided that has a periphery to match the contoured edge, and an interior surface and an outer surface. Seat ... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4831693 | Clamp for sheet material articles The clamp comprises an inverted U-shaped base having spaced apart legs defining an entrance with a clamping element mounted on one leg of the base for displacement towards and away from a clamping surface on the other leg of the base for clamping a sheet ... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4832979 | Process for preparing laser knife A process for preparing a laser knife wherein on the surface of a probe portion of a laser knife are coated with a carbon coating of 1 μm to 50 μm in thickness and a protective coating of 1 μm to 50 μm in thickness in that order by either a sputtering... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4830435 | Seating unit having a seat subassembly secured thereon A seating unit comprising a main support having a pair of spaced apart side supports connected by transverse cross beams and a seat subassembly, including an internal frame with back cushion and seat cushion support portions secured on the main support by... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4829916 | Transplanting machine A transplanting machine wherein a potted seedling to be transplanted is separated from a seedling pot arrangement having transverse rows staggered by a seedling separator, while holding by a seedling regulator from the front at least the potted seedling w... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4829890 | Counterflow washer and cooler apparatus A counterflow washer and cooler for processing cottage cheese curd and whey material comprising a horizontal housing, and a material and fluid blender rotatable mounted in the housing. The blender includes a rotatable shaft having at least one material li... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4828881 | Process for producing self-adhesive sheet materials A sheet substrate is coated on one side with a pressure sensitive adhesive and to the other side is applied a curable material, usually a foamable material. The coated substrate is heated to a temperature of at least 140° C. to solidify the curable mater... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4813770 | Cell with a double liquid crystal layer using the electrically controlled birefringence effect and process for producing a uniaxial medium with negative optical anisotropy usable in said cell Cell with a double liquid crystal layer using the electrically controlled birefringence effect and process for producing a negative optical anisotropy uniaxial material usable in said cell. The cell can comprise two crossed rectilinear polarizers, three glass ... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4811145 | Head device of tape player A head device of a tape player equipped with an autoreverse mechanism in which a head is shifted in the widthwise direction of a magnetic tape at the time of reverse mode so as to be shifted from the forward track to the reverse track. A head driving body... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4797174 | Process and apparatus for the continuous checking of the supermelting of the solidification front of a monocrystal during formation and application to the checking of the growth of a crystal The present invention relates to a process and an apparatus for checking the supercooling of a monocrystal during its formation. There is a continuous measurement of the potential difference between one point of the forming crystal and one point of a solid par... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4795157 | Golf club putter A golf club putter with an aid for putting on an inclined green includes a head presenting a longitudinally extending top surface visible to the golfer when in use with the surface having ball position striking markers spaced apart longitudinally from eac... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4795395 | Animal motion toy having an automatic action switching drive mechanism An animal motion toy wherein a toy body modeled in the form of an animal has movable arm frames on both sides, movable leg frames on both sides, an openable mouth portion, and a built-in sounding member. The arm frames are rotated by a first crankshaft in... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4792512 | Method of developing electrostatic images using two component developer and AC charging A charging method of an electrostatic image developer which makes it possible to electrically charge an insulating one-component developer or a two-component developer consisting of a toner and a carrier to a desired charged state and which comprises intr... | 12/20/1988 |
| 4768517 | Method and apparatus for securing hair to skin sections by laser application The invention relates to a method and apparatus for securing hairs to skin sections, particularly for improving or reconsituting a hair garnishing of the scalp, wherein at least an attachment end of donor's hair is contacted with said skin section or the ... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4753418 | Non-rise faucet assembly having stem locator cap to insure proper sealing A non-rise faucet assembly including a body 12 having a bore 14 therethrough. The bore includes a fluid inlet end 16, a valve stem chamber 17, a valve seat 19 and a fluid outlet 22. A valve stem 29 is rotatably mounted in the bore with a valve means 33 in... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4747293 | Bending apparatus A bending apparatus wherein a blank is passed through a guide hole of a blank guide, the tip of the blank is passed through a blank insertion portion of a bending operation member and is fed in a predetermined length, the bending direction of the bending ... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4746951 | Color image forming apparatus having an improved arrangement for mounting developing devices thereon A color image forming apparatus having a photosensitive drum and a plurality of developing devices. The developing devices are accommodated removably in an integral casing. The integral casing can be held in a fixed position with respect to the photosensi... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4728216 | Apparatus having controlled friction connection between two parts Each of two parts has a friction surface engaged under a force against a friction surface on the other to inhibit relative motion between the parts in one direction. One of the parts has at its friction surface strip-like hard zones which extend transvers... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4680039 | Self-contained dust collector with quick release adapter duct A self-contained dust collector which includes a quick release adaptor duct mounted between a filter unit and a storage receptacle for conveying dust to the receptacle with the quick release adaptor duct comprising a planar member having a central opening... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4595402 | Suspension system for mounting filter bags in a baghouse A suspension system for mounting filter bags in a baghouse is disclosed featuring a pretensioned spring having an amount of pretension which will prevent spring displacement when subjected to a first loading force which is the combined weight of the filte... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4576618 | Self-cleaning collecting device A self-cleaning collecting device for cleaning a dirty gas stream including a flow-through housing having a dirty gas inlet at the base of the housing and a clean gas outlet at the top of the housing interconnected by a gas treating passage adapted to dir... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4560396 | Down flow filter panel dust collector A dust collector forming vertically oriented filtering panels with downward flow of dirty gases and a quiet zone below the panels for trapping particulates of dust that have been separated from the gases and passed into the quiet zone.... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4557740 | Weather louver A weather louver for separating particles from a gaseous medium and primarily to separate mist and droplets of moisture from an air stream. This device includes parallel passages with moisture traps and collectors having drainage troughs to separate the m... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4555255 | Corner connector clip in an air filter grid An invertible corner connecting clip is disclosed having an out-corner unit and an in-corner unit connected together in spaced parallel right angle relation to define pockets for receiving side walls of main and cross support members of a ceiling latticew... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4552058 | Air flow control system having minimum variation in volume An air volume control ventilation system which minimizes variation in air volume flowing through the system has a fan for drawing air through fixed-resistance filter means including a roll filter, an electrostatic filter, and a high efficiency filter; a v... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4545793 | Air filter system with supporting and sealing grid A filter supporting and sealing arrangement including a filter support grid having support beams with each beam defining parallel channels carrying a fluid sealant. The grid defines filter openings receiving filters with peripheral flanges on each filter ... | 10/08/1985 |
