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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8006780 | Method of attachment of a towing anchor to an iceberg A drilling bit for penetrating an iceberg a predetermined distance to establish an anchor point for towing the iceberg to a predetermined location. The drilling bit has three sections for achieving its goal. It has a cutting head, a torque transmission body and a dr... | 08/30/2011 |
| D564762 | Hair brush | 03/25/2008 |
| 7257976 | Spiral cooling of steel workpiece in a rolling process A hollow cooling box for a steel mill to be used to cool a hot steel work piece as it passes through the cooling box; the box having an interior plenum formed by the members forming the cooling box. The plenum is supplied with coolant under pressure, and the coolant... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7221442 | Method and apparatus for aligning equipment in a steel mill An alignment device for aligning guiding apparatus with the main axis of a rolling mill comprising a camera and a video display communicating with the camera. The camera is mounted in the steel mill at the position of the guiding apparatus and the camera is moved un... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7152360 | Fish hook setting device A fish hook setting device is described in which a hook setting device is attached to a fishing line in such a manner that it may be actuated by a fish attempting to remove bait from the hook on a fishing line. The device allows the fishing line to slacken a little ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 6957715 | Garden speaker A sound producing rock having a matching body and a cap such that the cap is supported above the body in a spaced relationship to give the illusion that the cap and body are a monolithic structure. The cap and body are produced by sawing the cap from the body. A cav... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6666804 | Two stage clamping pinion A pinion for mounting rolls thereupon for reducing rod or wire in a rolling mill wherein said pinion has a pair of hydraulic pressure chambers formed therein which cause a threaded plug in a cavity in said pinion to undergo lateral movement to expand the ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6526795 | Expanding spline drive for high torque An expanding hub assembly for a capstan drive for a steel mill comprising a modified spline having a large cylindrical surface area for mating with an installed mill roll. The cylindrical surface is interspersed with a series of evenly spaced shallow axia... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6468000 | Method and apparatus for feeding a tunnel roof support system from the roof shield of a TBM A primary support for a tunnel roof comprising elongated lagging members which are "extruded" from tubes forming a shield for a tunnel boring machine. The lagging is inserted into the tubes at different times so as to avoid having the ends of adjacent lag... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6461254 | Golf ball and tee setting device A golfing aid for golfers who are unable to stoop which allows a golfer to insert a golf ball and tee into the aid in a contacting relationship so that the tee protrudes from the base of the aid a preset distance. The aid has an elongated handle to allow ... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6309139 | Manhole with extension wings A manhole for a storm sewage system comprising a structure having at least two outwardly extending substantially vertical flat panels projecting outwardly from the exterior surface a predetermined distance on opposite sides of the base portion of the manh... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6293019 | Ratchet cable cutter A cable cutting device having one handle of the cutter placed parallel and closely adjacent to the cable which is to undergo cutting. When a cable is about to be cut, the cable and the handle of the cutter are placed in a side by side relationship and bot... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6224997 | Downhole battery case Described herein is a flexible battery pack for powering downhole electronic equipment. The pack includes a plurality of electrochemical cells connected and tied together in a stacked working relationship by a pair of semi cylindraceous encapsulating shel... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6168290 | Garden lamp An outdoor lighting device composed of suitable natural rock wherein the rock itself provides a suitable housing for a light source, and the rock is also used to function as a reflector-diffuser to provide a "soft" light for illuminating outdoor gardens, ... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6151946 | Roller entry guide for rod mills A roller for a steel mill entry guide in which pockets are formed in at least one of the flat annular surfaces on the side of the roller. The pockets are used to intersect a stream of moving fluid projected at the surface of the roller containing the pock... | 11/28/2000 |
| 5989702 | Sandwich insulation for increased corona resistance A sandwich type insulation for electrical machinery comprising a laminate of a polymeric material such as polyimide which contains particles of an inorganic corona resistant material, said polymeric material being bonded to mica paper consisting of mica, ... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5974924 | Cutting appliance for large cylindraceous objects An internally expanding cutting device is used for severing large cylindraceous objects in two. The device comprises a spider mechanism in which a series of radially extending arms are attached to a central hub. The spider is arranged to be mounted on a b... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5911226 | Temperature indicating hair brush A hairbrush, the surface of which changes colour with temperature, is used to improve the set of human hair during a grooming process. The bristles of the brush may be of a colour temperature dependent nature as well as the surface on which the bristles a... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5878884 | Magazine track slider package This invention relates to a package which functions to receive and secure other packages. The package is analogous to a magazine which may be loaded and contain several identical cartridges in a serial fashion. Because the cartridge packages have unified ... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5860555 | Storage and shipping container A container which is useful in storing articles which are to be recycled until the filled container is returned to the original manufacturer or recycling depot. The container has a port through which cartridges may be conveniently inserted to be stored. T... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5822845 | Method of retaining a winding element in a stator slot Stator bars and stator coils (winding elements) for a large dynamoelectric machine which are to be permanently placed in the slots of the magnetic core of the machine are wrapped so as to be surrounded on three sides with an elongated sheet of an elastome... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5789840 | Endhead joint for stator bars A dynamoelectric machine stator winding element which has a foreshortened end protruding from the stator of the machine when compared to prior art winding elements. The protruding end of the winding element has only a single bend in its protruding length,... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5757094 | Ventilation system for an AC machine having overhanging salient poles with juxtaposed shrouds A method of improving the airflow through a low to medium speed salient pole dynamoelectric machine DEM is disclosed. The rotor rim on which the salient poles are mounted is shortened in comparison to prior art structures so that the ends of the salient p... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5752406 | Flexible coining die A flexible coining die for producing elongated bearing pads of a predetermined radius for use in nuclear reactors. The die is provided with a longitudinal groove having predetermined shape extending across the die. The die is supported by a block which wi... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5729939 | Steel anchor bracket for surface mount on a concrete wall A metal anchor bracket which is embedded into the surface of a semi-solid concrete wall before the concrete has set. The bracket has a reference surface which when flush with the surface of the concrete wall produces a vertical surface which is perpendicu... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5708315 | Stretchable coil wrapper for a dynamoelectric machine Stator bars and stator coils (winding elements) for a large dynamoelectric machine which are to be permanently placed in the slots of the magnetic core of the machine are wrapped so as to be surrounded on three sides with an elongated sheet of an elastome... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5700233 | Sleeveless cantilever drive for high torque applications Apparatus for mounting a mill roll on a mill drive shaft in which mounting concentricity is produced by the internal expansion of the drive shaft to engage the bore of the mill roll. A secondary clamping device provides additional lateral binding force on... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5690214 | Toothbrush storage device A device that stores and sanitizes toothbrushes in individual storage pockets in a vessel containing a sanitizing solution. Each storage pocket is formed in the top surface of the vessel in such a manner that the storage pocket is partially filled with sa... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5678620 | Anti pickpocket pouch A pouch useful for storage of valuables usually carried by a traveller. The pouch is designed for insertion into a suitable pocket of the traveller and an extending flap of said pouch overlaps the folded pouch and folds down over the exterior surface of t... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5639019 | Folding paperboard tray This invention relates to the improvement in an erectable tray which is formed from a single blank of material. Co-operating flaps and tabs at the corners of the erected sidewalls provide positive latching to complete the assembly of the tray. The blank m... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5556114 | Hydraulic expanding and contracting mandrel This invention relates to a workshop mandrel which is suitable for mounting work pieces on its cylindraceous outer surface. A cavity beneath the surface is filled with hydraulic fluid which causes the outer surface to expand when the fluid is pressurized ... | 09/17/1996 |
| 4958380 | Fault current limiter for DC motor drive system There is disclosed a direct current motor drive system comprising a direct current motor operable in a forward motoring mode receiving current from a power source and in a reverse inversion mode providing inversion current to the power source. The drive s... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4888478 | Line tracer improved corner circuit with speed varying sampling In an optical pattern tracer which uses sample and hold circuits for signal processing filtering of the signal to reduce undershoot can be attained by manipulation of the sample and hold processing circuits. The present application varies the holding capa... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4853527 | Controlled acceleration deceleration circuit for optical tracers In an optical line tracer sudden changes of velocity can cause instability and vibration. Means are provided to limit acceleration or deceleration to a specific rate of change. Speed change signals are processed through a ramp circuit which converts the s... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4822951 | Busbar arrangement for a switchgear assembly In a busbar arrangement for a switchgear assembly where the load buses pass through apertures in riser supply buses the load buses are supported by the supply buses by insulating grommet blocks occupying the space between the load buses and the inner edge... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4794982 | Heat transfer enclosure A cast iron or steel heat transfer member is used in network protectors to provide optimum cooling while avoiding prior corrosion problems.... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4659918 | Pattern tracer with dual scan slowdown circuit In a circular scanning pattern tracing system, a dual scanning pattern is provided to detect pattern changes in advance of the system steering axis. Pattern detection pulses from both the scanning patterns are adjustable in length and the overlap of the p... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4641021 | Variable bandwidth low-pass filter for line tracer accuracy control In a circular scanning pattern tracing system having a sample and hold circuit, the width of the sample pulse is made adjustable. This variable width is equivalent to a variable low pass filter in the system. The effective cut off frequency of the filter ... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4625104 | Dual scan optical pattern tracer The present invention applies to a circular scanning optical pattern tracer of the non-steering type. The scanner includes the normal circular scanning mirror and sensor and in addition a further circular scanning mirror and sensor to produce a scan of gr... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4613749 | Pattern tracer using matrix sensor An optical pattern follower uses a photo matrix to scan a pattern. The scan pattern is determined by generating a series of point addresses storing such addresses and interrogating the matrix only when the point address in the matrix being scanned corresp... | 09/23/1986 |
