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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5551278 | Vapor collector/desorber with non-conductive tube bundle A highly selective, sensitive, fast detection system and method are disclosed for detecting vapors of specific compounds in air. Vapors emanating from compounds such as explosives, or stripped from surfaces using heat and suction from a hand-held sample g... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5348765 | Method of forming composite articles from CVD gas streams and solid particles or fibers A method for forming composite articles, particularly ceramic articles, from particles or fibers mixed in a thermally activated reactant gas stream. The particles or fibers are codeposited with material produced by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) onto a h... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5310681 | Selective detection with high speed gas chromatography A highly selective, sensitive, fast detection system and method are disclosed for detecting vapors of specific compounds in air. Vapors emanating from compounds such as explosives, or stripped from surfaces using heat and suction from a hand-held sample g... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5154862 | Method of forming composite articles from CVD gas streams and solid particles of fibers Disclosed is a method for forming composite articles, particularly ceramic articles, from particles or fibers mixed in a thermally activated reactant gas stream. The particles or fibers are codeposited with material produced by chemical vapor deposition (... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5123274 | Hand-held sample gun for vapor collection A highly selective, sensitive, fast detection system and method are disclosed for detecting vapors of specific compounds in air. Vapors emanating from compounds such as explosives, or stripped from surfaces using heat and suction from a hand-held sample g... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5108705 | Vapor detection with high speed gas chromatography Disclosed are a method and apparatus for high speed, selective detection of vapors of specific compounds, particularly nitrogen-containing compounds, utilizing, a bypass branch and high speed gas chromatography for improved selectively and sensitivity of ... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5099743 | Selective detection with high speed gas chromatography A highly selective, sensitive, fast detection system and method are disclosed for detecting vapors of specific compounds in air. Vapors emanating from compounds such as explosives, or stripped from surfaces using heat and suction from a hand-held sample g... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5098451 | Vapor concentrator A highly selective, sensitive, fast detection system and method are disclosed for detecting vapors of specific compounds in air. Vapors emanating from compounds such as explosives, or stripped from surfaces using heat and suction from a hand-held sample g... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5092220 | Nitric oxide detection with hydrogen and ozone A highly selective, sensitive, fast detection system and method are disclosed for detecting vapors of specific compounds in air. Vapors emanating from compounds such as explosives, or stripped from surfaces using heat and suction from a hand-held sample g... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5092157 | Vapor collector/desorber with metallic ribbon A highly selective, sensitive, fast detection system and method are disclosed for detecting vapors of specific compounds in air. Vapors emanating from compounds such as explosives, or stripped from surfaces using heat and suction from a hand-held sample g... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5092217 | Method of calibrating a vapor detector A highly selective, sensitive, fast detection system and method are disclosed for detecting vapors of specific compounds in air. Vapors emanating from compounds such as explosives, or stripped from surfaces using heat and suction from a hand-held sample g... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5092218 | Selective detection of explosives vapors A highly selective, sensitive, fast detection system and method are disclosed for detecting vapors of specific compounds in air. Vapors emanating from compounds such as explosives, or stripped from surfaces using heat and suction from a hand-held sample g... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5092155 | High speed detection of vapors of specific compounds A highly selective, sensitive, fast detection system and method are disclosed for detecting vapors of specific compounds in air. Vapors emanating from compounds such as explosives, or stripped from surfaces using heat and suction from a hand-held sample g... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5092219 | Selective decomposition of nitrite esters and nitramines A highly selective, sensitive, fast detection system and method are disclosed for detecting vapors of specific compounds in air. Vapors emanating from compounds such as explosives, or stripped from surfaces using heat and suction from a hand-held sample g... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5092156 | Vapor collector/desorber with tube bundle and metal foil (C) A highly selective, sensitive, fast detection system and method are disclosed for detecting vapors of specific compounds in air. Vapors emanating from compounds such as explosives, or stripped from surfaces using heat and suction from a hand-held samp... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5016860 | "No-nick" part-handling apparatus and method Disclosed is a part-handling apparatus for a heat-treating furnace system and its use in transferring parts such as bearing races into, through, and out of a quench tank while avoiding any part-to-part contact and thus preventing nicking of parts. The app... | 05/21/1991 |
| 4909090 | Vapor sampling probe Disclosed is a portable, hand-held vapor sampling probe for collecting vapors of compounds such as cocaine, heroin, and explosives prior to their desorption and analysis in a vapor detector. Rechargable batteries power a lamp in the front face of the prob... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4909089 | Walk-in inspection apparatus for producing air samples Disclosed is a walk-in inspection apparatus for active production of air samples containing vapors of explosives, drugs, or other substances carried by a person. The apparatus includes a U-shaped booth with an open end through which a person walks past wa... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4896547 | Air-sampling apparatus with easy walk-in access Disclosed is a walk-in inspection apparatus for active production of air samples containing vapors of explosives, drugs, or other substances carried by a person. The apparatus includes a U-shaped booth with an open end through which a person walks past wa... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4897081 | Percutaneous access device Disclosed is a percutaneous access device (PAD) for long-term skin penetration and use as an access port in the body of a patient. The buttonlike device includes a flat skirt for subdermal anchoring of the PAD and a neck through which a tube may extend fo... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4855046 | Multi-canister, externally-connected ion removal system Disclosed is a simple, economical ion exchange system for cleaning water, particularly rinse water from plating operations. Two or more identical cannisters with clear plastic sidewalls are connected in series and each contains resin in a central zone for... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4787843 | Pressure balanced heat pipe Disclosed is a heat pipe particularly suited for isothermal transfer of heat in high temperature, high pressure operation such as the growing of semiconductor crystals. The heat pipe has a stem communicating with its lower end, a cooler surrounding a port... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4775633 | Detection of hydrazine compounds in gaseous samples by their conversion to nitric oxide-yielding derivatives Disclosed is a method and apparatus for detecting hydrazine, monomethylhydrazine (MMH), and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) in a gaseous sample. The hydrazine compound detector includes a sample converter wherein vapors of an aldehyde such as aceta... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4773847 | Thermoelectric field burner A liquid-fueled thermoelectric field burner operable in two modes, a start-up mode and a steady-state mode. A rechargeable battery backed up by a manually operated generator permits cold start-up of a preheat burner followed by operation of a main burner ... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4763880 | Rotary hearth multi-chamber, multi-purpose furnace system A continuous carburizing furnace system is disclosed having at least two series-connected rotary furnaces. The rotary carburizing furnace, a rotary equalizing furnace, and a rotary diffusion furnace which may be included between the carburizing and equali... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4671250 | Direct-firing gas convection oven An efficient, low cost, gas-fired convection oven is disclosed. The oven includes a burner, such as a ceramic induced draft/boosted burner with premixed pressurized air/fuel gas supply, which fires combustion products through an opening in a baffle direct... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4668390 | High efficiency deep fat fryer Disclosed is a high efficiency deep fat fryer from whose fry tank fat is continuously withdrawn for heating and filtration. A pump circulates part of this fat through a helical- or serpentine-shaped finned-tube heat exchanger positioned between a gas-fire... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4668222 | Percutaneous access device with removable tube Disclosed is a percutaneous access device (PAD) with a connector lock which facilitates replacement and removal of tubes transmitting materials to or from the body of a patient without the need for surgery and with minimal interference with an implanted P... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4664181 | Protection of heat pipes from freeze damage Disclosed is a heat pipe which is protected from damage due to freezing by the addition of small amount of a liquid such as an alcohol to its working fluid. Ethanol/water mixtures having ethanol concentrations from about 1 to 7.5 percent by volume are fou... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4639874 | System for monitoring and controlling position of hoists Disclosed is a system for monitoring and controlling movement of a hoist along a line of treatment tanks of an electroplating apparatus. Hoist-mounted optical sensing units of the system have pickups formed of opposed lines of infrared emitting diodes and... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4635942 | Ring-a-ding hook game Disclosed is a ring and hook game played by swinging a metal ring attached to a flexible line towards a pair of hooks projecting from a box mounted on a wall. When the ring successfully engages the hooks the ring closes an electrical circuit, activating a... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4569328 | Efficient, low emissions gas range cooktop Disclosed is a gas-fired cooktop for a range which provides high thermal efficiency and low emissions of air pollutants, particularly low levels of NOx. The cooktop includes a perforated tile burner which radiates infrared energy upward at a hi... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4552123 | Gas-fired steam cooker A compact steam cooking unit includes a compartment for holding fresh or frozen food to be cooked by steam and an associated gas-fired generator of steam which are combined in a fully self-contained appliance which requires only conventional utility conne... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4519876 | Electrolytic deposition of metals on laser-conditioned surfaces An improved laser-based method of depositing a metal on an electrically insulated metallic substrate is disclosed. Selected areas of the insulated plate such as an anodized aluminum plate are irradiated with laser energy to fracture the anodized layer and... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4510922 | Energy storage system having thermally stratified liquid A thermal energy storage system is disclosed for heating a liquid and establishing and maintaining thermal stratification of the liquid in a storage tank. The tank, which may store hot water for domestic use, contains a vertical header assembly which func... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4493308 | Radiant/conductive broiler A broiler for cooking food products has an upper heating unit located in a spaced relationship from the food and a lower heating unit in a close heat transfer relationship with the food. The upper unit is preferably a U-shaped radiant fire tube with a gas... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4487691 | Deep fat fryer with swivel filter element Disclosed is a deep fat fryer with a filtration system to continuously filter liquid cooking fat circulated by a pump. A fryer filter with a filter element of material such as carbon-impregnated cloth is located in the bottom of a fry tank and is rotatabl... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4467783 | Radiant/jet impingement gas-fired cooking kettle Disclosed is a vapor-jacketed cooking kettle having a compact, self-contained, gas-fired combustion system. The tiltable kettle includes a gas-fired cylindrical power burner which fires radially into a combustion chamber below a jet plate which in turn is... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4460831 | Laser stimulated high current density photoelectron generator and method of manufacture An electron beam generator particularly adapted for direct-write semiconductor lithography applications is disclosed which includes a photoemissive cathode, a modulable laser for illuminating the photoemissive cathode, and light optics to create an optica... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4445919 | In situ rapid wash apparatus and method Disclosed are a method and apparatus for delivering a solvent in the liquid state to a surface to be cleaned. The volume of the solvent and the time interval during which it is applied to the surface are selected so that the solvent reaches the surface in... | 05/01/1984 |
