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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8165591 | Process to allocate channels in a sectorized cellular network The invention disclosed is a process to allocate channels in a sectorized cellular network. A system of allocating cellular frequencies (channels) to the sectors among the cells within a tile is disclosed which maximizes channel set usage within the tile while avoid... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8146858 | No-back device having malfunction detection The invention relates to a no-back device for a mobile element actuating device including a screw shaft having first and second braking means each comprising a ratchet wheel. These ratchet wheels are mounted opposite one another so that the first braking means are a... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8093038 | Apparatus and method for encapsulating pancreatic cells An apparatus and method for coating micron-sized or sub-micron-sized particles such as living cells. The coating apparatus includes an encapsulation chamber enclosing a two-layer water-oil system for coating each islet cell with an aqueous polymeric coat. Islets tog... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8015821 | Apparatus and method for a gas turbine entrainment system This invention relates to an apparatus for an entrainment system of a vortex burning combustion chamber or a vortex burning inter-turbine burner in a gas turbine. The entrainment system rapidly and thoroughly mixes hot combustion gases with non-combustion gases to r... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7963758 | External plate locks for mold plates A locking device for a mold including more than one movable plate. A spring-biased wedge block includes a first side wall and an opposing second side wall that is beveled with respect to the first side wall. A latch bar includes an inclined latch end for engaging wi... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7963391 | Flexible carrier A flexible carrier for carrying a plurality of containers includes a flexible sheet and a plurality of container receiving apertures formed in the flexible sheet. An array of the container receiving apertures extend longitudinally across the flexible sheet wherein e... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7861798 | Needle gun A hammer device in the form of a needle gun. The gun includes a cylinder housing containing a cylinder, in which a flying piston is displaced and an anvil, against which the piston strikes. A needle carrier is located on the anvil, and the needles of the gun are hel... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7712421 | Pallet A pallet for receiving and transporting loads, having an upper platform for receiving the loads, and a substructure, which supports the upper platform and is constructed of an upper part and a lower part and several support members inserted between them. A good shoc... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7706143 | Mounting plate for electronic components A mounting plate for electronic components, including cooling conduits that are integrated into a plate body and that are traversed by a coolant, a fixing device for mounting electronic components that are to be cooled being located on the plate body. The mounting p... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7695275 | Air:fluid distribution system and method A valve assembly including a block forming a bore. An air inlet opening is in communication with the bore, and provides a volume of air into the bore. The bore provides communication between the air inlet opening and at least one air outlet passage. A fuel inlet ope... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7621109 | Carrier loading cartoner A system and method of loading a product into a carton includes loading the product into a carrier and then extending the carrier into the carton. The product is then restrained within the carton as the carrier is removed from the carton. The carrier may include a s... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7615985 | Probe for measuring characteristics of an excitation current of a plasma, and associated plasma reactor A probe for measuring electrical characteristics of an excitation current of a plasma is provided. The probe is mounted on a conductive line that includes an inner conductor and an outer conductor. The probe includes a current sensor and a voltage sensor. The curren... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7613624 | Computerized management system and method for maintenance performance evaluation and improvement A system and method for maintenance management in which data relating to maintenance usage and maintenance-related policies and practices is collected in an automated data processing device. The data is analyzed to arrive at a diagnosis of maintenance management eff... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7543844 | Flexible housing for an airbag module A housing for an airbag module that contains an inflatable airbag cushion in a compacted configuration before being inflated by inflation gas supplied by an inflator device. The housing includes a collar formed of a rigid material for attaching the housing to a vehi... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7510075 | Container carrier A flexible carrier for carrying a plurality of containers includes a flexible sheet having a row of container receiving apertures formed therein. The flexible carrier further includes a handle integrated with respect to the flexible sheet and may further include a p... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7490912 | Round shaft chisel A round shaft chisel with a clamping sleeve, wherein the round shaft chisel has a chisel head and a chisel shaft rotatably maintained in the clamping sleeve. A pivot bearing is between an inner contour of the clamping sleeve and a shaft contour of the chisel shaft s... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7445443 | Turning bar draw-off device for a tubular film extrusion installation A turning bar draw-off device for a tubular film extrusion installation, with a plurality of turning bars which can be rotatingly driven around a common axis of rotation or in reverse by rotary drive mechanisms. For the rotating or reversing guidance of the turning ... | 11/04/2008 |
| D577920 | Chair | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428151 | Cooling arrangement A cooling arrangement with a housing for receiving electronic printed circuit boards or plug-in modules, and with an air-conditioning device which is connected via a coolant-conducting feed line and a return-flow line with at least one electronic component, to be co... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7422391 | Road milling machine with optimized operation A road milling machine having a milling roller with a plurality of chisels. A signal receiving unit is assigned to a machine component which is directly or indirectly involved in the milling process or to another machine component. The signal receiving unit detects ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7416376 | Partially coated fastener assembly and method for coating A fastener assembly includes a row of fasteners having a head, a tip, and a portion of a shank coated with a polymer composition. The polymer composition includes a polymer material such as polyurethane and metal particles. The polymer composition is used to provide... | 08/26/2008 |
| D566660 | Operating housing for a control panel | 04/15/2008 |
| 7344019 | Boron coated stainless steel wire belt assembly A conveyor belt for use in the food processing industry includes a stainless steel substrate and nickel-boron coating material. The nickel-boron coating is applied on at least a portion of the stainless steel substrate to increase wear resistance. ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7338625 | Methods of restoring elasticity after stiffening treatments Methods for restoring elasticity to a stiffened elastic material include prestretching, compressing and/or notching the stiffened elastic material. These methods can be used alone, or in combination for a compounding effect. ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7335273 | Method of making strand-reinforced elastomeric composites A method of making mutually-reinforced elastic strand/film composites and laminates in which film breakage, strand breakage, and strand alignment problems are minimized or avoided. The method includes casting an elastomeric adhesive film onto a chill roll, extruding... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7331538 | Safety grater A safety grater having a parallelepipedal base body, an attachment that slides back and forth along guide rails by slide bars and that has a cylinder, into which items to be grated and sliced and a plunger are introduced and having at least one grating insert that c... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324320 | Device and a method for magnetizing a magnet system A device for magnetizing a magnet system preferably having several pulse-generator circuits which are mutually arranged so that their magnetic fields superimpose in a cumulative manner. Each pulse-generator circuit includes a capacitor element, a magnetization coil ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320699 | Ligature device for body parts A ligature device for body parts, with a closure housing, having a base wall, two lateral walls, a cover wall on the upper side thereof and a ligature strap, which may be coupled or is detachably coupled at one end of the closure housing, by a clipping buckle which ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7299496 | Detection of misuse of authorized access in an information retrieval system The present invention relates to a system for detecting misuse of authorized access to a digital data gathering system by a user. User behavior is monitored as to the search queries, the search results, or both. When a valid record of normal user behavior is obtaine... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7275947 | Frame comprising an electrifying device A frame support for a rack or a switchgear cabinet, having an electrification arrangement combined with at least one frame leg or profiled mounting element for supplying and/or removing electrical current to or from devices which can be connected with the frame supp... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7257531 | Speech to text system using controlled vocabulary indices A synthesis of automated speech recognition (voice to text) technology and a knowledge-based analysis of the concepts and contexts of the free text therefrom enable a directed-vocabulary look up index to be used in conjunction with the speech recognition technology ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7247215 | Method of making absorbent articles having shaped absorbent cores on a substrate A method of making stretchable absorbent articles includes the steps of providing a continuous substrate layer, providing one or more streams of adhesive fibers and superabsorbent particles, shaping the one or more streams of adhesive fibers and superabsorbent parti... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7243317 | Parameter checking method for on-chip ESD protection circuit physical design layout verification A checking mechanism for complete full-chip ESD protection circuit design and layout verification at layout level identifies all of both intentional and parasitic ESD devices contained in the design layout file and compiles a netlist. The checking mechanism then det... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7229515 | Process for making a garment with refastenable sides A method of producing refastenable side seams in an absorbent garment results in an absorbent garment that is adapted to easy application and removal. The refastenable side seams can be produced in either a cross direction, wherein the width of the product is the ma... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7204967 | Waste water process with scrubber An apparatus and method for treating waste products produced by chemical processing plants. Steam stripping waste sour water results in a vapor including ammonia and hydrogen sulfide. A scrubber unit including a quenching column produces a concentrated ammonium sulf... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7198621 | Attachment assembly for absorbent article A disposable diaper having an attachment assembly including a subassembly bonded or attached to an exterior surface of a front waist region of the diaper and extending laterally from opposing side edges of the front waist region to form laterally opposing front ears... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7195220 | Support arm for stored devices A support arm for stored devices, which is pivotably seated in a holder fastened to a fastening surface and can be horizontally adjusted into a pivoted-in position and a pivoted-out position. In the pivoted-in position the support arm extends approximately parallel ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7185588 | Inflator devices having a moisture barrier member An inflator device including a housing defining a storage chamber and a supply of gas generant material disposed within the storage chamber. The inflator device includes an initiator assembly having an initiator in actuating communication with the supply of gas gene... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7123867 | Electrophotographic printing device An electrophotographic printing device with a developer unit and a photoconductor. The photoconductor is either directly connected to a substrate to be printed in the region of a transfer zone, or is connected by an intermediate circuit of one or several transfer me... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7118639 | Structured material having apertures and method of producing the same A method for producing an apertured structured material for accommodating passage of fluids, particularly high viscosity fluids, through the apertured structured material. In one embodiment, the apertured structured material is a composite material formed by differe... | 10/10/2006 |
