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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4766945 | Process and apparatus for casting rounds, slabs, and the like A process and apparatus for casting semi-finished metal products in which a molten-metal-proof plunger is disposed at the top of a cavity in a permanent mold. A thin band of metal is attached to the plunger and extends above its top. Inside the metal band... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4669968 | Method and apparatus for brick setting A brick setting machine is disclosed which is operable to face set, stack without inverting or flat set. The machine is also operable to laterally space each brick from the next adjacent brick so that the faces and edges of the brick can be separately tex... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4647418 | Process for the manufacture of products from reinforced polyester A process for the manufacture of glass fiber-reinforced polyester products is disclosed. A ready-to-mold resin and reinforcement composite is prepared using an initiator which has been microencapsulated in order to prevent initiator-induced cross-linking ... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4640064 | Suspension ceiling system combining snap-up pans and lay-in panels A suspension ceiling system is disclosed which combines snap-up pans and lay-in panels. Such system includes runners formed with channels at the lower edges thereof formed by opposed lateral flanges, depending side walls, and inturned lips. The inturned l... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4637435 | Antiseal arrangement for hydropneumatic pressure tanks An accumulator tank for pressurizing and supplying liquid to a system comprises a pressure vessel having a wall defining a closed pressure chamber. The pressure vessel is provided with an internal flexible air cell which divides the pressure chamber into ... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4635444 | Ice maker A low cost automatic ice cube maker of simplified construction for use in the freezer compartment of a domestic refrigerator. The ice maker includes a onepiece, molded plastic bail or sensing arm for monitoring the level of ice cubes in an underlying stor... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4635241 | Ultrasonic device The device comprises at least two ultrasonic transducers emitting focused radiation and a circuit making it possible to measure the difference between the sampled signals supplied by these two transducers. This difference is cancelled out when the probe f... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4634063 | Stator winding apparatus A coil winding apparatus is disclosed which is capable of readily adjusting the traversing of an oscillating arm and wire delivery means to carry out the coil winding with good precision. The coil winding apparatus includes a traverse mechanism for traver... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4635042 | Vacuum leak detector A method and apparatus for detecting leaks within a vacuum system by narrow band detecting and amplifying a particular ultrasonic frequency peculiar to such leaks is disclosed. The device is formed as a hand held probe having a transducer and amplifier bo... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4632644 | Refrigeration compressor A small, single cylinder, hermetic refrigeration compressor of the fractional horsepower type has a cylinder block with a piston and cylinder at the lower end. Above the cylinder block is mounted the motor stator. A bearing hub is centrally mounted on the... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4631950 | Progressive former with removable tooling A progressive forging machine is disclosed in which a tool pack is removably mounted on the machine to facilitate tool changeovers and the like. The tool pack includes tool carriers guided in bearings on the tool pack for reciprocating movement by a bolst... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4632280 | Ice dispensing mechanism An ice cube storage bin located beneath an automatic ice maker of a domestic refrigerator contains a pair of elongated ice dispensing rams that reciprocate along parallel lines, one of the rams moving toward the front of the bin, as the other moves toward... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4631539 | Digital pointer position detector A mechanical dial indicating gauge or meter that, without mechanical loading, optoelectronically detects and encodes the pointer position as a digital signal by use of a technique of distributed point position latching. Counter means drives a circuit whic... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4630350 | Method for making a flexible corrugated rubber tubing with internal reinforcement A method for making flexible, corrugated rubber tubing with internal reinforcement. An extruded sleeve of uncured rubber is slid axially onto an elongated internal forming member, after which an external forming means is placed around the assembled sleeve... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4631384 | Bitumen combustion process Process for the combustion of bitumen, wherein the bitumen is softened by preheating and is then introduced into a combustion chamber, traversed by oxygen in excess subject to ionization by an intense ultra-high frequency field, so as to raise the surface... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4629415 | Flame insert A flame insert for reducing the NOx emissions of a range top burner is disclosed. The flame insert comprises a rigid framework provided by disjuncted support members connected to a pair of ring members. The support members engage the burner hea... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4628699 | Ice maker A low cost automatic ice cube maker of simplified construction for use in the freezer compartment of a domestic refrigerator. The ice maker includes a one-piece, molded plastic bail or sensing arm for monitoring the level of ice cubes in an underlying sto... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4628656 | Demountable wall panel A demountable wall system is disclosed in which panels are removably connected to H-shaped metal studs. The principal structure of the panel is provided by a wallboard having a width less than the modular spacing between studs. Sheet metal mounting strips... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4628903 | Pulse combustion deep fat fryer A deep fat fryer includes an open-top vessel having at least one trough-shaped container adapted to hold a quantity of cooking oil. A pulse combustion burner is provided for heating the oil and includes a combustion chamber adapted to be immersed in the o... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4628306 | Remote control system for automated equipment A remote control system operates automated equipment, such as a robotic device. The remote control system operates using an RF link and has both a "hard stop" control and a "soft stop" or "cycle hold" control. The system permits the technician or operator... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4627026 | Digital real-time signal processor A digital real-time signal processor is designed to be coupled to a computer. This processor includes a circuit of inputs/outputs, an input/output control circuit, a computer-coupling circuit, a buffer memory, digital signal-processing elements and a cont... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4626821 | Sealed thermostat for use in defrost control systems A sealed bimetal snap disc thermostat is disclosed which is suitable for use in environmental locations in which severe thermocycling occurs. The thermostat provides a disc cup having an imperforate end wall which is the only portion of the thermostat per... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4626186 | Apparatus for forming drum handling rings A method and apparatus for forming a drum handling ring having an inverted frustoconical geometry to facilitate engagement of a conventional parrot beak gripper with the ring. The end of an advancing, straight strip of heated thermoplastic material, conti... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4625605 | Automatic knife alignment for shear A device is provided to automatically adjust the horizontal space between movable and fixed knives of a metal cutting shear. Bellcranks are mounted on opposite sides of the shear frame with first arms in contact with the outboard vertical sides of the mov... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4625560 | Capacitive digital integrated circuit pressure transducer A highly accurate and miniaturized pressure transducer is disclosed which includes first and second capacitors as a part of the integrated circuit, which also includes an Eccles-Jordan astable multivibrator. The miniaturization of both the capacitors and ... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4625410 | Computer-aided drawing or engraving device The invention concerns a drawing or engraving device which has a first trlling carriage system with a first and second guide rail each supporting a moving travelling carriage. The second guide rail is attached to the travelling carriage on the first guid... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4625405 | Cast cutter A cast cutter having a pair of juxtaposed, sawedged blades which oscillate relative to each other on a common pivot point to provide a scissorslike cutting action resulting in a relatively wide kerf in the cast being out. A patient protective blade guard,... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4624814 | Process for the manufacture of products from reinforced polyester resins A process for the manufacture of glass fiber-reinforced polyester products is disclosed. A ready-to-mold resin and reinforcement composite is prepared using an initiator which has been microencapsulated in order to prevent initiator-induced cross-linking ... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4623742 | Oxazaphosphorin-4-thio-alkanesulphonic acids, and neutral salts thereof This invention relates to new oxazaphosphorin-4-thio-alkanesulphonic acids and to the neutral salts thereof corresponding to the general formula I ##STR1## and to methods to use such compounds to control cancer diseases and to produce immunosuppressi... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4623372 | Crystallization process An improved crystallization process is disclosed for separating a crystallizable material and an excluded material which is at least partially excluded from the solid phase of the crystallizable material obtained upon freezing a liquid phase of the materi... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4623506 | Process for forming plastic pipe couplings A method is presented for forming couplings from blanks made from lengths of extruded plastic pipe, to join pipe together. The blank is cut from the length of extruded pipe and heated to the thermoplastic point. The heated blank is mounted between two man... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4621745 | Mechanized carton picker A vertically accumulating storage and dispensing apparatus for containers and the like wherein the containers are loaded at the top of a tower and selectively dispensed from the bottom. The tower has a frame that defines first and second tower sections, e... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4621468 | Concrete metal-backed access floor panel A composite access floor panel is disclosed which provides a sheet metal pan filled with a lightweight concrete material. The bottom wall of the pan is contoured so that the thickness of the concrete varies from one location to another. The illustrated pa... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4621474 | Grid connectors for suspension ceiling A suspension ceiling grid system is disclosed which provides intersections including through-runners and oppositely extending runner ends. The through-runner is provided with a connector opening and the runner ends are provided with identical end connecto... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4619479 | Lift truck cab A fully enclosed protective cab for an industrial lift truck affording a high degree of visibility and including a rear face with a retractable panel section adapted to permit engine cover movement for access to the truck engine. The retractable rear pane... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4618692 | 4-carbamoyloxy-oxazaphosphorins The present invention relates to new 4-carbamoyloxy-oxazaphosphorins of the general Formula I ##STR1## as well as to a method for the treatment of malign tumor diseases in humans using such compounds as active agent.... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4618791 | Rotor assembly with die cast shaft extension coupling A rotor assembly for an alternating current motor has a stator to cooperate with the rotor assembly. The rotor assembly includes a magnetically permeable rotor mass of a stack of rotor laminations which are mounted on a hub, and the hub is secured to a sh... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4617680 | Dead time compensation circuit for radiation detector A Geiger-Mueller tube-based radiation measurement device includes circuitry for the correction of the dead time losses associated with the Geiger-Mueller tube. As the event count rate rises, the transfer function (e.g., the closed loop voltage gain) of an... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4617084 | Process for the production of metallic or semimetallic shaped elements Process for the preparation of metallic or semimetallic shaped elements, particularly of silicon, in a molten coating bath. Into a confinement crucible is placed the molten basic semimetallic metallic material and a molten coating bath which is inert with resp... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4617113 | Flotation separating system Improvements in flotation separating systems of the type employing small rising air bubbles to induce ascension of certain types of particles in a flotation compartment while other particle types descend toward the bottom of the compartment include a bubb... | 10/14/1986 |
