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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5849864 | Sulfonic acid blocked metal catalysts for amine trigger urethane reactions The present invention is addressed a formulation curable in the presence of an amine and containing one or more of a polyol or polymercapto resin, a polyisocyanate cross-linking agent, optionally a organic vehicle, and a tin catalyst complex. The present ... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5830185 | Position-independent fluid trap A position-independent fluid trap for separating at least a portion of a first fluid of a first density entrained within a flow stream of a second fluid of a second density flowing through a fluid circuit. The trap is connectable within the fluid circuit ... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5682888 | Apparatus and system for detecting and locating photon emissions with remote switch control A probe instrument which is formed having a unitary housing with indented switch actuating surfaces intended for surgical procedures employs internally disposed piezoelectric switching components within an elongate internally disposed switch receiving cha... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5533467 | Bird feeding station A bird feeding station is described which is formed principally from commercially available PVC plumbing fittings and pipe. Because of the overall light weight of the station, it may be supported from a patio block or the like. The system is modular, bein... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5520363 | Ophthalmic examination chair positioning system A positioning system for moving an ophthalmic examination chair used in conjunction with an associated instrument stand between a forward position spaced a predetermined distance from an eye examination target and a rearward position providing access to t... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5513868 | All terrain vehicle trailer A trailer attachable to an all terrain vehicle (ATV) and being particularly suited for use in off-road environments. The trailer has a main frame assembly and two wheels each supported from an independent axle support assembly having a substantially open ... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5511409 | Measurement of emission levels in a gas stream System and method for monitoring the level of a VOC or other vapor contaminant emitted in a gas stream or the like being vented at a specified pressure from an emission source. A medium of a bed of solid particles is provided within a vessel having an inl... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5496310 | Endoscopic cholangiogram guide instrument and method of use A guide instrument for cannulating a biliary duct with a flexible catheter, and a method of using the same as part of a laparoscopic cholangiographic surgical procedure. The guide instrument is provided as having a grasping forceps component formed of an ... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5495111 | Crystal array based localizer for tissue sampling Intended for use in a pathology laboratory, the apparatus includes a multi-segment crystal array over which is positioned a platform supported receiving region with a pattern carrying indicia emulating and in registry with the pattern of the crystal array... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5490740 | Ground stabilized transportable drop hammer A transportable drop hammer for impacting a ground surface adapted to be removably coupled to a driven host transport apparatus having lifting arms. An upstanding frame is couplable to the host transport apparatus and is provided as having a stabilizing f... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5491472 | RF switching with remote controllers dedicated to other devices Apparatus and method for switching between two input sources to a television receiver and/or video recording device. Switching may be carried out with a conventional remote control otherwise dedicated to the video recorder or television receiver by holdin... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5487946 | Thermally-protective intumescent coating An intumescent coating system and method therefor is disclosed for thermally protecting a substrate having a surface exposed to a flame environment. The coating system of the present invention is provided as having a having a first component which forms a... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5485754 | Apparatus and method for measuring the air flow component and water vapor component of air/water vapor streams flowing under vacuum The inventive method for measuring the mass of the gas component and the mass of the water vapor component of a gas/water vapor source stream flowing in a conduit under reduced pressure comprises storing a correlation of relative saturation of water in sa... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5485981 | Motor mount assembly for float tube A motor mount assembly is provided for supporting an outboard motor upon a float tube of the type having a backrest pocket, and generally consists of a thrust transfer member, first and second suspension members, and a motor mounting block. The thrust tra... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5485913 | Product accessible display container A packaging container is disclosed which is adapted for accessibly displaying an article packaged therewithin. The container is provided as having a floating deck portion with an opening therethrough for receiving the base of an annular article, and a ret... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5484099 | High temperature-resistant, thermally-printable label for attachment to hot metal stock and method thereof The present invention broadly is addressed to the marking, labeling, or tagging of hot metal or hot coils at elevated temperature with human readable and/or machine readable (e.g., bar code) characters. To this end, the present invention broadly is direct... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5484825 | Dispersible articles The present invention is directed to a water-resistant, aqueous base-dispersible article which comprises a pulp-filled binder, one of which is an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylated (e.g. acrylic) polymer soluble in base, the other of which is water-re... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5482040 | Biostaging of adenocarcinomas utilizing radiolabeled tumor-associated glycoprotein antibodies Broadly, the present invention is directed to a method for reliably staging adenocarcinomas typified by colorectal cancer in patients who are undergoing surgery therefor. The method includes the administration of a radiolabeled tumor-associated glycoprote... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5482562 | Method and an apparatus for the removal of fibrous material from a rotating shaft Apparatus and method for removing fibrous material wound around a generally cylindrical shaft rotated about a central longitudinal axis thereof. A cutter blade is provided to have a forward edge portion extending along the central longitudinal axis of the... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5478790 | Blocked tin catalyst system for use with mercapto resin/acrylic resin blends In its broadest aspects, the present invention is directed to a tin or bismuth catalyst/mercapto complex as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,788,083 which catalyst complex exhibits substantially the same stability and activity after extended periods of storag... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5475219 | Validation of photon emission based signals using an energy window network in conjunction with a fundamental mode discriminator circuit A system for detecting photon emissions wherein a detector serves to derive electrical parameter signals having amplitudes corresponding with the detected energy of the photon emissions and other signal generating events. Two comparator networks are emplo... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5471894 | Shifting method and controller for controlling a shifter assembly in a drag racing vehicle In the present invention a solenoid is used on a ratchet shifter and is controlled through a relay by an electronic controller. This controller can be an analog, digital, or microprocessor driven device. The power supplied to the solenoid most convenientl... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5469371 | Surfaced detection system for airports A surface detection system for airport facilities is described wherein a plurality of infrared (IR) scanners as well as presence/absence detectors are located with respect to taxiways and runways of an airport complex. These devices are arranged to perfor... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5467609 | Modular floor sub-structure for the operational support of computer systems A modular floor sub-structure is provided wherein discrete floor modules having bottom surfaces and sides extending upwardly to support paired floor tile are interconnected to sit upon a floor surface and, in turn, support rack-mounted computer components... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5462696 | Electrically-conductive and ionically-conductive polymeric networks and their preparation The present invention relates to polymeric networks that can be made electrically conductive in bulk or which have a surface which is electrically conductive, and which networks exhibit resistivities in the ohm to kilo-ohm range. One aspect of the present... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5461407 | Marking method and apparatus using gas entrained abrasive particles Marking apparatus is provided for carrying out the marking of programmed character strings upon brittle surfaces such as glass. The lines forming the characters are generated by a gas entrained stream of abrasive particles which are expressed from the ope... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5459739 | Merging three optical character recognition outputs for improved precision using a minimum edit distance function Three OCR systems are employed for text conversion and the results generated from each of the three are merged using a edit distance algorithm to estimate a correct common text ancestor. To make the process computationally feasible for large strings such ... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5454046 | Universal symbolic handwriting recognition system A universal symbolic handwriting recognition system for converting user entered time ordered stroke sequences into computer readable text is described. The system operates on two levels: (1) a word-level recognizer, which recognizes the entire group of st... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5448925 | Shifting apparatus for controlling a transmission in a vehicle An improved shifter assembly useful in a multi-geared vehicle equipped with an in-line shifter having a front, a rear, an upstanding shift handle, and a cover which is attached to the vehicle by a housing attachment and which shifts the vehicle forward ge... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5445018 | System and method for measuring the rate of fuel comsumption of an internal combustion engine A system and method is described for measuring fuel consumption by combustion engines operated in a manner wherein one component of fuel is used for the process of combustion itself and another complementary component of that same fuel is employed within ... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5441743 | Marine compositions bearing preferentially concentrated domains of non-tin, organo anti-fouling agents The present invention is addressed to a curable, marine anti-fouling composition of a thermoplastic or thermosetting binder, solvent, non-tin, organo antifouling agent, and optionally conventional additives, e.g. leaching agents, opacifying pigments, etc.... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5441050 | Radiation responsive surgical instrument A crystal containing detector particularly suited for use in immunoguided surgery capable of detecting gamma emissions present at tumor sites. The instrument utilizes a cadmium-zinc-telluride detector crystal which may be retained within a finger mount po... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5441154 | Integrated paperboard container and pallet system An integrated paperboard container and pallet system. A wall portion is provided as having upstanding walls which are spaced-apart to form a generally polygonal-shaped interior cavity. At least one of the walls is formed as having at least one side tab ex... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5435193 | System and method for measuring the grip performance of a vehicle A system and a method are disclosed for measuring the grip performance of a vehicle through relation to a lumped-sum parameter derived from force and displacement measurements taken from selected elements forming the suspension of the vehicle. For at leas... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5434213 | Pressure sensitive adhesive with enhanced adhesion to low surface energy substrates Broadly, the present invention is directed to a pressure sensitive adhesive that possesses enhanced adhesion to low surface energy substrates. The inventive PSA comprises the free-radical polymerization reaction product prepared in the presence of a free-... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5432568 | Eyewear having translucent superior and inferior fields of view Eyewear for use by a person exposed to an environment of glare-inducing illumination. The eyewear has a frontal portion for confronting the eyes, which frontal portion extends between an upper and lower periphery. A transparent optical region is provided ... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5429133 | Radiation responsive laparoscopic instrument A laparoscopic instrument is provided having a hand-grippable base to which an elongate accessing tube is connected which extends to a tip. Extending inwardly from the tip is a detection support region within which is formed a radiation transmissive windo... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5422167 | High temperature-resistant, thermally-printable label for attachment to hot metal stock and method thereof The present invention broadly is addressed to the marking, labeling, or tagging of hot metal or hot coils at elevated temperature with human readable and/or machine readable (e.g., bar code) characters. To this end, the present invention broadly is direct... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5420166 | Glycolysis of cured unsaturated polyesters for producing a recycle reactant The present invention is directed to a method for treating cross-linked (cured) filled or untilled unsaturated polyester for deriving an alcohol recycle reactant useful in the synthesis of alcohol-formed derivative products. The first step of the method i... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419434 | Packaged stipple brush with defined pattern and angled bristles and method of constructing The invention relates to a packaged stipple brush and its method of construction. The stipple brush is constructed of brush receptacles retaining brush elements for transferring a generally radial pattern to topping compound applied to a surface. The brus... | 05/30/1995 |
