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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4515145 | Gas-fired condensing mode furnace A gas-fired, condensing mode, hot air furnace has an exhaust passage for carrying the products of combustion from a gas burner to an exhaust flue. A heat exchanger is provided in the exhaust passage for extracting heat from the products of combustion. An ... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4485699 | Rotatable hand tool with directional drive control The hand tool includes a drive shaft formed with axially spaced cylindrical portions has a work engaging member thereon. A bearing assembly comprised of two oppositely acting clutch units slideable within a tubular handle to engage one or the other of the... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4484558 | Variable fuel delivery system for internal combustion engines A pivotal air door or velocity blade provides a carburetor and injection action which transitionally changes back and forth in accordance with the door's angular position. The angular position of the air door or velocity blade is controlled by the movemen... | 11/27/1984 |
| 4484546 | Variable valve operating mechanism for internal combustion engines The variable valve operating mechanism comprises lower and upper rocker arms. The lower rocker arm is mounted for pivotal movement about a fixed axis and the upper rocker arm is mounted for pivotal movement about a shiftable axis. The free end of the lowe... | 11/27/1984 |
| 4481561 | Gun bore sighting flashlight activated upon breech closure A flashlight for bore sighting a long barreled shotgun or rifle including a cartridge case with an ejector rim and a primer opening in the base, and a sidewall defining an open front end; a battery and a light bulb within the case; a switch pin slidable i... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4480155 | Diaphragm type magnetic transducer A diaphragm type magnetic speaker with conductor runs on the diaphragm, the conductor runs having a multiplicity of conductors arranged in a band in each run which confronts portions of two magnetized strips with front faces of opposite polarity and the s... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4479456 | Animal actuated feed and water dispensing apparatus An animal feeding apparatus includes a bunk, or trough for receiving solid feed and water and animal actuated hopper means disposed over the trough. The water dispensing function is provided by a plurality of valves having operators to be actuated, prefer... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4471716 | Wafer carrier A PFA Teflon carrier for silicon wafers being processed in hot baths in the production of integrated circuit chips with sidewalls having wafer spacing webs and grooves receiving the wafers in confronting and spaced relation. The sidewalls having outboard ... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4471173 | Piston-diaphragm speaker A planar diaphragm type magnetic transducer with an acoustically transparent magnetic backing, and a diaphragm overlying and spaced from the magnetic backing, the magnetic backing having magnetized strips lying parallel to each other and adjacent magnetiz... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4471172 | Planar diaphragm transducer with improved magnetic circuit A planar diaphragm type magnetic transducer with magnetic circuit wherein the magnet strips on the soft iron plate and confronting the diaphragm are arranged in a sequence south, north, north, south, south, north, north, south, et seq. The magnet strips a... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4465016 | Metering device for liquid treatments A liquid chemical treatment measuring device as for metering treated chemicals for agricultural seeds. A housing containing a disc-like rotor sandwiched between stationary discs or headers, there being flat faces between the rotary disc and the stationary... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4464995 | Method and apparatus for removing railway ties A method and apparatus for removing defective railroad ties from the right-of-way in one piece and without disturbing the elevation, cross-level and line, of a track system. The method is carried out by first removing the tie plates from an individual tie... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4459946 | Valve actuating apparatus utilizing a multi-profiled cam unit for controlling internal combustion engines In a specific embodiment a cam unit comprised of three differently profiled cams acts on follower portions or working surfaces on a shiftable first rocker arm to cause a second rocker arm to open and close a valve associated with the combustion chamber or... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4458434 | Container for pictures having similar formats Container for pictures, especially for photopositives, which is constructed to be at the same time a stand-up or hanging frame or a component of an archive. The container has centering elements by means of which the uppermost picture of a stored pile is c... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4455061 | Multi-faceted holographic optical element and methods of making and using same A holographic optical element is formed by subdividing the surface of a relatively thick dichromated gelatin film into numerous small areas so as to provide a corresponding number of volume facets therebeneath. Each facet is individually exposed with cohe... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4453836 | Sealed hard-rock drill bit A sealed, internally lubricated rotary roller drill bit for drilling hard earth formations in which internally disposed axially, thrust and ball anti-friction bearings are used in combination and in which a first seal means is provided for preventing the ... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4453284 | Car washing machine A car washer for a stationary car, including a pair of tracks on the floor, between which the car remains, an upright arch frame to pass over the car and having wheels on the track; a plurality of scrubber curtains of cloth, felt-like material cut into st... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4447836 | Recording apparatus for cassette copying A type cassette copier on which; pairs of aligned "floating" head and pinch roller arms are pivotally mounted within a housing adjacent pairs of aligned cassette receiving recesses and are simultaneously pivotable by a resilient connection to control leve... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4445791 | Rotary drill bit ball plug A removable ball loading hole plug for a rotary cutter rock drilling bit having an offset head portion to position the inner race end axially and rotationally. A locking groove on the outer surface of the offset head portion coacts with an adjacent end of... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4444145 | Steering apparatus for boats with multiple rudders Steering apparatus for a boat includes a pair of laterally spaced rudders, each having a forwardly directed control arm. In each of three embodiments a tiller arm is employed. In one embodiment a pinion gear is journaled for rotation on the tiller arm, be... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4439680 | Color-coded mapping system and method for identifying elements in a specimen A particle beam, such as that generated by a scanning electron microscope, impinges upon the specimen to be analyzed. The beam produces X-rays, the energy of which enables the various elements contained in the specimen to be identified. The detected X-ray... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4438873 | Ground driven top dresser utilizing special clutch mechanism An octogonally configured cam has four flats located radially outward a greater distance than the four intervening flats. The various flats are successively engageable with a pivotal arm to engage and disengage a clutch mechanism and thus start and stop a... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4438737 | Apparatus and method for controlling the valve operation of an internal combustion engine A rotatable cam and pivotally mounted rocker arm are employed for each valve of an internal combustion engine. The rocker arm has a working or cam follower surface thereon which includes a straight section and a curved section. By relatively moving the ca... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4438735 | Apparatus and timing mechanism for controlling the valve operation of an internal combustion engine The valve operating apparatus includes an upper and lower rocker arm for each valve to be controlled, each having a straight section and a curved section. The lower rocker arm is mounted at one end for pivotal movement about a fixed axis, its other end ac... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4433671 | Portable cooking implement A lightweight, foldable, portable cooking implement having adjustable cooking and fire box work frames. A vertical frame is provided with a lower ground engaging end and a plurality of vertically spaced apart, forwardly opening, receptacles for removably ... | 02/28/1984 |
| 4432662 | Composite sucker rod and method of manufacturing same A sucker rod is composed of three initially separate parts comprising a relatively long body member and duplicate relatively short pin members. Upsetting steps are performed on the relatively long body member, whereas only machining steps are employed in ... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4418762 | Balanced implement transport vehicle A balanced implement transport includes a rotatable drawbar having a first plurality of spaced apart implement hitch frames, for connection to individual implements to be drawn over the surface of the ground disposed for rotation with the drawbar between ... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4418757 | Storage rack structural sprinkler system An improved sprinkled warehouse stacker rack in which the sprinkler system is an integrated portion of a rack structure. A plurality of load bearing side frame members of any given heighth are operably interconnected to provide a stable structure having a... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4415244 | Automatic focusing system An automatic focusing system for a slide projector which utilizes a pair of photocells is provided with a non-linear response characteristic to introduce a change in the sensor balance point when a glass covered film slide is projected as opposed to when ... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4414931 | Variable valve operating mechanism for internal combustion engines The variable valve operating mechanism comprises lower and upper rocker arms, each having a straight section and a curved cam section. The lower rocker arm is mounted for pivotal movement about a fixed axis and the upper rocker arm is mounted for pivotal ... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4413945 | Grapple rake for backhoe This invention relates to an attachment for the dipper stick of a backhoe and more particularly relates to a grapple rake for mounting on the end of the dipper stick.... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4413435 | Picture viewer A picture displaying frame having a front viewing window, a rear wall behind the displayed picture, a slot along the bottom edge, a swing out prop in the rear wall for standing the frame in upright position, a picture transporting slider in the prop with ... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4400966 | Tool for forming a lateral opening in a tube A tool for forming a lateral opening in a tube comprises an assembly which can be inserted longitudinally into a tube until it lies opposite to an opening (12) through which an operating member (44) can be passed for operative engagement with the assembly... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4389906 | Automatic crosscut sampler A sealed housing having entrance and exit ports at its upper and lower surfaces for connection into a vertically extending gravity spout, with a collecting head mounted within the housing for swinging movement across the central flow passage extending fro... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4387616 | Sheet metal shear A cutter for ribbed sheet metal building panels wherein anvil blocks are mounted on the base table adjacent the shear edge of the base table which normally cooperates with the cutting edge of the swinging shear blade. The anvil blocks define sharp cornere... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4386414 | Data processing system utilizing a holographic optical element The data processing system makes use of a holographic optical element comprised of a number of facets, each facet containing a grating pattern for diffractively redistributing input light so that output light from a facet or a combination of facets repres... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4382743 | Loading apparatus with a tiltable and extendable fork carriage mounted thereon The apparatus includes a mobile chassis having a turntable on which is supported a boom assembly. At the free end of the boom assembly is tiltably mounted a forklift carriage which can be extended and retracted relative to the boom assembly.... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4382625 | Grapple shear A grapple shear having a lower jaw with three widely spaced forwardly projecting tines, the outer tines having upper ends mounting the upper jaw with a pair of tines to swing into interleaving relation with the tines of the lower jaw, the outer tines of t... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4381732 | Poultry nest A poultry nest and egg collecting apparatus of improved reliability with respect to maintaining the sterility of the shells of eggs which includes a nesting chamber having an open front and a lower nesting surface that is provided with a rearwardly facing... | 05/03/1983 |
| 4378689 | Core for a pipe that is to be bent The pipe-bending core consists of elements which are coupled to one another in articulated manner and threaded like a string of pearls on a wire cable, and which are expanded on being pushed against one another, but nevertheless remain articulated. The pr... | 04/05/1983 |
