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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7246938 | Apparatus and method for measuring the heating value of gases A heating value meter for gases has an outer cylindrical mantle with an outer thermostatic heating apparatus and at least one inlet for introduction of air and at least one inlet for introduction of test or calibration gas. The outer mantle has an outer heating mant... | 07/24/2007 |
| 5755456 | Spring support for vehicle swing half-axles A spring support for a motor vehicle has a center tube frame with a backbone tube supported through a pair of spaced apart transverse beams, and a pair of final drive casings spaced apart and mounted to the center tube frame on the backbone tube. Pairs of... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5701922 | Water-based flushing for paints and other coatings An apparatus, method and purge concentrate are capable of purging water-based and non-water-based paints and other coatings from automated and manual equipment using non-VOC containing aqueous purge solutions. Purge solutions of the invention contain wate... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5700117 | Machine tool for machining panels and plates A machine tool for machining panels, plates and discs, is fitted with a number of workpiece clamping devices (10) that move along a work bench (20) of the machine tool. The machine tool has sensors (8) designed to detect the position of the clamping devic... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5653352 | Air compression-type cap designed to preserve the taste of bottled drinks A resealable cap for a drink bottle having a pump for pressurizing a liquid in the bottle and a tight sealing connection with a threaded bottle neck. The pump is a tube having a soft resinous stepped base within a cylinder which extends downward through t... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5626758 | Coiled membrane filtration system A method and apparatus for achieving reverse osmosis, microfiltration, nanofiltration and ultrafiltration, produces Dean vortices against a membrane surface which is advantageously in a form of a wound helical membrane tube.... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5599020 | Fortune telling game using cards A deck of fortune telling cards and method of playing a fortune telling game includes multiple people cards which depict people of different genders and age ranges. A person whose fortune is to be told is identified with one of the cards by writing the pe... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5571906 | Process for obtaining octahydro trisodium salt of fructose 1,6-diphosphate (FdPNa3H*8H2O) in crystalline form A process is described for preparing octahydro trisodium salt of fructose 1,6-diphosphate starting from an aqueous solution at an acid pH of D-fructose 1,6-diphosphate, to which a suitable amount of acetone is added. The reactive mixture is crystallized a... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5571331 | Vacuum treatment apparatus Vacuum treatment apparatus including at least two chambers that are linked by a transit opening. A valve body pivotally linked within the opening pivots around a pivot axis that is disposed transversely in the opening. A drive for pivoting the valve body ... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5565273 | Transparent heat protection element The heat protection element comprises carrier elements, for example in the form of glass plates. In an interspace between, in each instance, two glass plates a protection layer comprising a cured polysilicate which is formed of alkali silicate and at leas... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5557467 | Combination rearview mirror A rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle comprising a first planar reflective surface, a second longitudinally convex reflective surface providing a wider field of rearward vision relative to the first reflective surface, the convex surface additionally c... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5553362 | Wrapping device for shaping fabrics to 3-D contours An apparatus and method for fitting an unstructured fabric furniture cover to a piece of furniture includes an elongated triangular wrapping member. Excess fabric at the corner areas of the piece of furniture is wrapped around the triangular member and fi... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5544662 | High-speed electric tomography An apparatus for electrical impedance imaging of a body includes an array of multiple electrodes. Each is connected to an adjustable amplitude precision current source of fixed frequency and an oversampling type digital voltmeter. The current amplitudes a... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5545122 | Inflatable speculum A speculum comprises a pair of elongated blades having elongated hollow bills therein. Each bill is at least partly covered by a flexible expandable bladder. One or more ports communicate between the interior of each bill and the interior of the bladder. ... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5543410 | Pharmacological use of phthaloylhydrazide derivatives; combination and application thereof The invention pertains to use of phthaloylhydrazide derivatives and salts thereof as anti-inflammatory and antitoxic agents in human and veterinary medicine, and it pertains in particular to use of 5-aminophthaloylhydrazide and of the sodium salt thereof.... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5542204 | Fly-fishing line holding device A device for at least partly immobilizing fly line includes a mat that forms a substrate and a plurality of curved nylon prongs extending upwardly from the substrate. The prongs are spaced from each other over an area of the substrate. Fly line can be pul... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5537257 | Optical structural element, method for the production of a layer , layer or layer system and its use An optical structural element has a substrate and includes at least one wear protection system built up of one or several layers on the substrate. The layers are of at least one of the materials ZrO2, AlN,(Al,Cr)2 O3, BN a... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5533963 | Dressing holder A dressing holder for a patient with an abdominal dressing, has a back panel made of at least partly elastic material such as LYCRA material. The panel extends around the back and along the flanks of the patients, leaving an exposed abdominal area. The ar... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5532422 | Rotation-driven structure for music box A rotation-driven structure for a music box is disclosed. The structure generally includes a music generator, a driving disc, a transmission cap, a housing, a cover, and a plurality of planetary discs. The music generator produces music and employs the dr... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5526953 | Portable box for containing V8 video tapes A portable box for containing V8 video tapes, comprising a substantially rectangular box body, a cover body corresponding to the box body and integrally connected therewith, a hanging hook disposed on a front face of the box body and a fastening hook disp... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5525420 | Method for increasing the service life of tools and a wear protection-coated tool A method of increasing the service life of a tool and a tool coated according to the method comprises a wear resist of MeX, where Me is a metal including at least 50% group IVb metal, and X is either carbon, oxygen, nitrogen or boron with at least 50% oxy... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5515909 | Flow switching apparatus, regenerative alternate combustion burner system using the apparatus, and regenerative heat exchanger system using the apparatus A flow switching apparatus has a simple structure and enables a rapid flow switching operation between two systems of flow, e.g., flows in which two kinds of fluid each having a temperature different from each other flows without causing any gas leakage. ... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5516571 | Honeycomb-like regenerative bed element A honeycomb-like regenerative bed element having an infinite number of cells, characterized in that the following formula is given: f=(1-ଲ)댣 wherein ଲ is an opening ratio of the regenerative bed element, ଲ=(P-T)2 /P | 05/14/1996 |
| 5513642 | Reflectance sensor system A method for determining the content of chemical constituents in a biological tissue medium includes providing a probe comprising a light source and a plurality of photodetector strips circumferentially arranged around the light source. A wavelength for t... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5513911 | Vehicle mixer In a mixing drum (16) of a vehicle mixer is supported a coaxial pipe (24) which together with a closure element (36) and a feeding hopper (42) forms a constructional unit. The pipe (24) is supported by two bearings of the mixing drum (16) so as to be rela... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5512573 | Use of phthaloylhydrazide derivatives as anti-hypoxic and defensive agents The invention concerns the use of phthaloylhydrazide derivatives and their salts as anti-hypoxic and defensive agents, with special focus on the use of 5-aminophthaloylhydrazide and its salts, when administered in high doses.... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5499862 | Turntable A top plate (12) with a padded cushion (18) is pivotably mounted on a bottom plate (16) . The padded cushion (18) is fixed in position on the top plate (12) by an integral rigid retaining ring ( 20) , with inner beading (34) of the retaining ring (20) ext... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5493804 | Advertising board structure An advertising board structure which is formed from a character indicating neon tube and polyurethane material. The neon tube for displaying is partially exposed beyond the surface of the molded displaying board structure. The polyurethane material is use... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5493442 | Method for realizing a filter edge, optical thin-film and optical device with such a film In order to reduce the number of thin-films necessary to construe an interference band-pass filter for exclusive transmission of light in the UVA range the filter edge towards smaller wavelengths in the spectral characteristic is realized by the absorptio... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5490915 | Target for cathode sputtering apparatus A sputtering target, magnetron sputtering source using the sputtering target, and vacuum coating apparatus using the magnetron source, wherein the performance of the target is improved by providing a concave ring shaped sputtering surface on the target wh... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5490375 | Method of respinning using ancillary yarn The invention relates to a method of respinning-in in open-end spinning machines after a bobbin removal from the swinging arms (51, 52) of the bobbin holder (5) or at the beginning of spinning at an empty spinning station, and to a device for carrying out... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5490913 | Magnetic field enhanced sputtering arrangement with vacuum treatment apparatus A magnetic field enhanced sputtering arrangement and vacuum treatment apparatus includes an arrangement housing, on whose front face is mountable a target arrangement. A magnet carrier arrangement is rotatably supported about an axis in the arrangement ho... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5483148 | Single-phase active power filter for multiple nonlinear loads and method therefor An active filter and method for stabilizing a single-phase ac line to which multiple nonlinear loads are connected, comprises two pairs of switches connected in two switching loops across a capacitor. One loop is connected to one leg of the line through a... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5482367 | Whisking device with rod and plural torroidal coils A device for manually whisking liquids or semi-liquids consists of a rod, to the end of which are individually attached torroidal coils of stainless steel fixed to the rod by wire loops twisted to tightness. Annular grooves are formed in the rod to provid... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5473468 | Coated transparent substrate A coated wear resistant and transparent glass substrate has a multi-layer system with at least one layer of an oxynitride of one of hafnium, zirconium, tantalum and titanium, and with no metal layer. The substrate with multi-layer system has a reduced sun... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5471686 | Lifting hose with ends sealed by a clamping strip Each end of a lifting hose (10) is sealed pressure-tight by means of two clamping strips (12, 14) , one strip (12) having a row of projecting pegs (20) , and the other strip (14) having holes (30) in a corresponding arrangement. The pegs (20) have thicken... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5469908 | Cap for investment molds for precision casting A cap for an investment vessel for receiving investment material comprises a platform having a contoured edge and an underside. A wedge is located on the underside of the platform and is frictionally engageable with at least a portion of an inner edge of ... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5468390 | Low fouling ultrafiltration and microfiltration aryl polysulfone A photochemical grafting process permits the attachment of free radically polymerizable monomers to the surface of aryl polysulfone membranes. The process, which does not use sensitizers, results in membrane compositions which can be used for ultrafiltrat... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5465935 | Holding means for implement shafts Between a fixed resting jaw (14) and a upwardly angled clamping jaw (22) of a holding means (10), a tube (20) is firmly clamped in a vertical position. Wrapped around the movable clamping jaw (22) is a rubber belt ring (38) with which the former rests aga... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5463847 | Robotic egg carton pickup head The invention is an egg carton pickup head utilized in a robotic system for packing egg cartons into tight fitting containers. The automated pickup head includes a pair of wings which move linearly, toward or away from each other, three guide wheels affix... | 11/07/1995 |
