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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4473740 | Dual temperature responsive control for air outlet of electric heater with heat storage capacity A storage heater of the kind which is heated from a source of electricity made available only over an off-peak (low tariff) period, and of the kind which does not require a supply of power during operation outside the off-peak period. The heater comprises... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4461399 | Liquid storage tank conduit connection A liquid storage tank for storing a liquid at a temperature substantially above or below atmospheric temperature comprising a primary liquid containment vessel capable of storing liquid; an outer vessel spaced outwardly from and surrounding a substantial ... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4459579 | Process and device for detecting the under-inflation of a tire of the landing gear of an aircraft Process for detecting the under-inflation of a tire of the landing gear of an aircraft in the course of taxiing, said landing gear being formed by at least one bogie comprising a beam provided with a pair of twin wheels at each of its ends provision is ma... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4459170 | Method and apparatus for applying decals to articles This disclosure relates to a method and machine for applying a decal to a generally cylindrical article, particularly an article having a handle on one side thereof. A series of decals are attached to an elongated web and are spaced a generally constant d... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4457544 | Connector for flexible electrical conduit A connector for a liquid tight, flexible electrical conduit formed of a plurality of interlocking, thin, arcuate metal ring sections having an interior wall of alternating ridges and grooves. The connector includes a ferrule end insertable into the condui... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4451822 | Device for automatically checking a plurality of electric indicator lights The invention relates to a device for checking a plurality of indicator lights, wherein the intensity passing through each indicator light is sequentially measured and the measurements are compared with nominal intensities. The invention is more particula... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4451256 | Catheter set In order to keep the opening for inserting a catheter into a blood vessel as small as possible, a catheter insertion tube is used which coaxially surrounds the puncturing canula and consists, at least in a circumferential area and/or at least along a port... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4451206 | Blade end for rotary wing of an aircraft and rotary wing provided with such blade ends The invention relates to a blade end for rotary wing of an aircraft, whose span is between 5 and 15% of the span of said blade. According to the invention, this blade end is charaterized in that, between points A and B', there is a stagger which, measured... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4451082 | Seat for a baby's push chair A seat for a baby's push chair, which can be removed from a wheeled support structure of the push chair and used separately if desired. The seat comprises a support surface with two upstanding side panels, an adjustable rake backrest and an adjustable foo... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4449368 | Apparatus and methods of cooling and condensing exhaust steam from a power plant Apparatus and methods of cooling and condensing exhaust steam from a power plant which rejects heat to air and uses a peak shaving water based cooling system to supplement a primary cooling system. During regeneration of the cooling water, which is heated... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4447535 | Process for the recovery of a concentrated stillage A concentrated stillage with a high solids content may be recovered in such a manner that starch or starch-containing raw materials in a suitably crushed form are coaxially introduced into the center of a homogenizer together with enzymes, which are suita... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4445308 | Reinforcement supports A support for maintaining concrete reinforcement at a pre-determined level during the pouring of concrete there around comprises an assembly of at least a pair of adjacent inverted `U` shaped metal yokes 10. Each yoke comprises a pair of spaced substantia... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4444209 | Web guide device A web guide device particularly adapted to be mounted on a cigarette-making machine, in which at least one web is automatically advanced along a substantially U-shaped path. The path includes first and second end parts joined by an intermediate curved sec... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4443569 | Process for the production of thermosetting aqueous electrocoating compositions susceptible of being cathodically deposited and the use thereof The invention relates to thermosetting, cathodically depositable, aqueous electrocoating compositions which are produced by reacting a nitrogen base-containing binder, which contains tertiary amino groups and primary and/or secondary OH groups, with metal... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4442848 | Cigarette-making machine A cigarette-making machine in which tobacco, in part from a carding unit and in part from a plurality of channel elements, is supplied to the upper end of a shaft. The channel elements, to which recycled tobacco can be supplied, are located alongside one ... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4442679 | Vertical shell and tube heat exchanger with sleeves around upper part of tubes A falling film freeze exchanger having a shell connected to vertically spaced apart horizontally arranged circular upper and lower tube sheets; a plurality of vertically positioned parallel tubes, with each tube extending through and connected to a hole i... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4442240 | Dental filling materials An inorganic filler component for use in resin-based direct dental filling materials comprises fumed or submicron silica which has been silane treated and coated with a thin coating of an active polymerizable monomer of the type used as the binder in maki... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4441975 | Electrotreating apparatus with electrode roll An apparatus for electrotreating a metal strip and employing an electrode roll having a metallic outer surface covered by a porous mesh layer composed of electrically non-conductive material and fixedly secured to the outer surface of the electrode roll.... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4441662 | Reels supplying device A device for automatically supplying reels to a utilizer machine, in which a support element for a reel is movable between the output of a reel magazine and an unwinding spindle disposed on the utilizer machine and is provided with actuator means which is... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4440256 | Bearing and universal joint assembly An assembly of a bearing unit with inner and outer members and rolling elements between them and a universal joint member, with a retaining element which has been deformed to hold the members together and removal of which to permit dismantling of the asse... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4439893 | Spring cam for shrimp clamp There is disclosed a shrimp processing machine which includes a new and improved cam arrangement for splitting the shrimp shells open to thereby expose the sand vein of the shrimp to facilitate the deveining of the shrimp and ultimate separation of the sh... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4439471 | Tennis ball with fabric covering A tennis ball conforming to the 1968 regulation of the International Federation of Lawn Tennis comprises a hollow elastic core and an improved cover bonded to the core by an adhesive mixture. The cover has a specific weight less than 0.22 g/cm3... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4439186 | Dilation device A dilation device for dilating or blocking vessels and other body cavities with a catheter having an expandable element. The expandable element is a balloon-type dilation element having a pressure volume relationship which is non-linear. A pressure source... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4438913 | Pistol maintenance device A handgun holding device having a baseplate and a pair of angle brackets rigidly mounted on the baseplate to rigidly engage opposite sides of the handgun's handgrip to maintain the handgun in position during cleaning or repair while allowing ready access ... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4438728 | Multi-stage hot water heating apparatus A multi-stage hot water heating apparatus provided with a burner utilizing combustible fuel. The apparatus has two or more tanks juxtaposed to each other and having a containment shell. One or more of said tanks having a hollow annular construction provid... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4436923 | Trifluoromethyl-substituted chromogenic crown ethers and methods of using same Two novel trifluoromethyl-substituted chromogenic crown ethers are disclosed, 4'-(2",6"-dinitro-4" trifluoromethylphenyl) aminobenzo-15-crown-5 and 4'-(2",4"-dinitro-6"-trifluoromethylphenyl) aminobenzo-15-crown-5. These compounds are useful as reagents f... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4434735 | Motion conversion mechanism for effecting sewing machine feed dog control A sewing machine is described comprising a mechanism arranged to convert movement signals generated by a decoder unit into movements of a feed dog for the fabric with the main characteristic of the machine being that said mechanism comprises a plurality o... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434249 | Method of preparing acrylic ion-transfer membranes Ion exchange resins can be prepared by co-polymerizing a major amount (>88 mol %) of non-ionic acrylic monomer, such as methyl methacrylate, with a minor amount (3 to 12 mol %) of an ionogenous monomer such as methacrylamidopropyltrimethylammonium chlorid... | 02/28/1984 |
| 4432990 | 5-Aminoimidazoles as immunoregulants There are described compounds of formula I ##STR1## in which X is --CN, --CONH2, --CSNH2, ##STR2## or --CO2 R3, R is H or alkyl C 1 to 8, R1 and R3, which may be the same or different,... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4432683 | Toggle bolt assembly A toggle bolt assembly has a solid toggle head which is threadedly mounted on a cylindrical helical coil spring coaxially attached to the end of a threaded bolt, the coils of the spring having an outer diameter and a pitch which correspond substantially t... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4431211 | Luggage carrier A portable and collapsible carrier for transporting items of luggage, and the like, including an elongated base member having wheels at the outer ends thereof for supporting the carrier for movement over a support surface. A plurality of laterally spaced ... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4431104 | Indexing conveyor system An indexing conveyor system wherein a feed conveyor section receives items, which are rapidly dispensed from a source thereof, and transports the items, one behind the other, on a plurality of endless belts to a pivotal conveyor section. A counter counts ... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4430715 | System for braking an aircraft taxiing on the ground The present invention relates to a system for braking an aircraft taxiing on the ground. According to the invention, if an abnormality such as hydroplaning or bursting of a non-braked wheel is detected, the speed most representative of the real speed of t... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4430326 | Method of diminishing glucose levels resulting from endogenous glucagon Effects of endogenous glucagon in mammals are diminished by administration of compositions including certain semi-synthetic analogs of glucagon. Preferred analogs include [N -TNB, HArg12 ]glucagon and [dHis1 ][N | 02/07/1984 |
| 4430166 | Method and apparatus for electro-treating a metal strip An apparatus and method for electro-treating one surface of a metal strip alone or both surfaces sequentially. Another embodiment electro-treats both surfaces simultaneously. All embodiments employ a roll having an electrically conducting outer surface ar... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4428985 | Method for inside coating double curved shell A method of applying a coating to the inside surface of a double-curved shell circular in horizontal section. Apparatus having a work platform for coating equipment is positioned in the shell. The work platform is displaceable on extendable and retractabl... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428526 | Reply card arrangement with confidentiality flap A reply card arrangement comprises a reply card detachable from a plurality of folded pages. The reply card is composed of two sheet portions in superimposed relation and adhesively secured together along a side of each. A first sheet portion of the two p... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4427710 | Method of manufacturing an instant bean curd or tofu, and the toju made by such method Beans are soaked and ground to form a mush (go), and the mush is heated and powderized. A thickening agent having a gelatinizing property is mixed with the powder. The tofu is prepared by mixing the powder with water and an additional amount of gelatinizi... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426304 | Compositions for souring and softening laundered textile materials, and stock solutions prepared therefrom Liquid and solid compositions are provided for souring and imparting softness to freshly laundered textile materials. When in the form of a stable homogeneous liquid, the composition may contain (a) a quaternized fatty amide, an aqueous emulsion of partia... | 01/17/1984 |
| 4426114 | Unitary supporting and seat frame for rigid seat A longitudinal seat assembly for three or more occupants and comprising a plurality of seats mounted on a unitary supporting and seat frame. The unitary frame has horizontally and vertically disposed portions, and the vertically disposed portion terminate... | 01/17/1984 |
