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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6143410 | Folded fiber filled molding material Process and product for manufacturing continuous fiber reinforced sheets and shapes. A pressurized extrusion process consisting of a paired and edge enclosing doctor blades that remove feed material from a pair of pinch rolls and contain such in an optima... | 11/07/2000 |
| 5976210 | Method of manufacture for biological carrier with wicking action and controlled release plant food and microbe food source A granular fertilizer which provides plant assimilatable nutrients by both hydrolysis and bacterial activity, and which includes biological growth promoting nutrients. The fertilizer is made by blending and pelletizing an aggregate of conventional fertili... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5881517 | Rest room partition mounting brackets Rest room partition mounting brackets are formed from two of four possible extruded bracket halves which may be joined in pairs to form any of twelve different brackets for mounting rest room separating panels. The bracket halves are extrusions of general... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5840051 | Flexible back, neck and shoulder brace An orthopedic brace for spinal applications is formed from a plurality of relatively rigid hollowed-out parallelepiped portions adjacent pairs of which are joined along a relatively thin web of flexible material common to the two portions to provide pivot... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5826321 | Coil inserting tooling with quick release collet Improvements in coil placing tooling of the type employed to insert prewound coils in the slots of dynamoelectric machine stator cores which tooling has an annular collet for maintaining wedge guides axially and radially in position, and the wedge guides ... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5800765 | Double doctor blades A material transfer arrangement having a pair of generally cylindrical adjacent rolls which are counter-rotatable about their respective cylindrical axes and which define therebetween a nip between which material passes is disclosed. There is a correspond... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5769556 | Bicycle clamp A clamp for supporting a bicycle is formed of two like halves joined by a single central bolt. The clamp halves are urged apart by a single central spring surrounding the bolt. Each half of the clamp has a pair of concave cylindrical segments, one for rec... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5747548 | Compartmented thermoplastic pellets Apparatus and method for the production of hopper feedable thermoplastic pellets having zones or compartments which contain physically separated reactants which react only after being melt-mixed, as in a screw type extruder, reciproscrew injection machine... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5746533 | Lockable hinge mechanism A lockable hinge mechanism includes a hinge member and a pair of elongated tubular members with respective ends pivotably joined to the hinge member for movement of the tubular members between generally parallel and collinear relative positions. In one em... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5713077 | Pull down ski mask The disclosure relates to a coat with an integral hood wherein the front portion of the hood contains a rolled-up face mask integral with the hood. In a preferred form, the hood has an interior pocket which stores the face mask when not in use. The face m... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5701598 | Scanning receiver with direct digital frequency synthesis and digital signal processing A high speed scanning radio has conventional RF amplifier, a mixer, a frequency synthesizer for the generation of local oscillator signals, an IF amplifier, a demodulator, and an audio output stage. The receiver includes a memory for storing a plurality o... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5669873 | Flexible knee and leg brace An orthopedic brace is formed from at least two relatively rigid hollowed-out parallelepiped portions joined along a relatively thin web of flexible material common to the two portions to provide pivotal motion between the two portions. Relative pivotal m... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5651173 | Method for doubly upsetting tubing flanges A method of forming a collar backed doubly upset tubing end includes positioning the collar on the tube, gripping the tube in a die and finally positioning the collar coplanar with the die and with a preferred length of tube extending axially beyond the c... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5650999 | Voice over data communication system A system for full duplex real time two-way voice and data communication between a pair of computer terminal locations is disclosed. Analog voice signals are converted to digital form at one terminal location and those digital signals are interleaved with ... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5627218 | Compartmented thermoplastic pellets Apparatus and method for the production of hopper feedable thermoplastic pellets having zones or compartments which contain physically separated reactants which react only after being melt-mixed, as in a screw type extruder, reciproscrew injection machine... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5626106 | Migrating combustion chamber engine Design Improvements are disclosed which enhance the migrating combustion chamber engine's ability to achieve improved performance, obtain higher durability and cost less to manufacture. These include strip seals between the combustion chamber member and o... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5605413 | Highway barricade An elongated hollow rotationally molded high density polyethylene highway barrier has two elongated generally parallel sidewalls, two generally vertical end walls, and a plurality of longitudinal reinforcing members extending from one end wall to the othe... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5558584 | Pool cue with sight A pool cue with a sight or aiming aid integrally associated therewith in the form of a narrow straight line centered along the top of the cue to be aligned with the ball, pocket in the background, or similar target. The cue is formed as two separate piece... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5553063 | Voice over data communication system A system for full duplex real time two-way voice and data communication between a pair of computer terminal locations is disclosed. Analog voice signals are converted to digital form at one terminal location and those digital signals are interleaved with ... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5544459 | Duct chase frame for joists A duct chase frame is substituted for a portion of the length of a conventional wooden or metal floor joist to facilitate running hot or cold air ductwork, plumbing and even electrical wiring. The frame includes a pair of elongated metal channels of unifo... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5539957 | Collapsible goal having an articulated frame A mesh net supporting framework for a hockey goal which is readily collapsed for transportation or storage has elongated tubular members hinged together at their respective ends and locking mechanisms at those hinges for securing the tubular members in mu... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5537730 | Coil inserting tooling blades Improvements in coil placing tooling of the type employed to insert prewound coils in the slots of dynamoelectric machine stator cores. Certain ones of the blades comprise an elongated blade of generally uniform cross-sectional configuration which include... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5535918 | Sparging adapter A liquid dispensing vessel having an air space above the liquid near the top of the vessel has a fluid pump with a suction inlet and a pressure outlet. The pump is operable in a first mode to pump liquid and in a second mode to pump air. There is a first ... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5514920 | Fuel dispenser leak detector A leak detector and circuit interrupter for detecting the presence of a liquid in the base of a dispenser containment box and interrupting the supply of electrical power when such liquid is detected is disclosed. There is a user enableable circuit for sel... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5500175 | Process of producing heat-softenable, hopper-feedable plastic pellets containing folded reinforcing fibers Process and product for manufacturing continuous fiber reinforced sheets and shapes. A pressurized extrusion process consisting of a paired and edge enclosing doctor blades that remove feed material from a pair of pinch rolls and contain such in an optima... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5471661 | Ultra high speed scan system A high speed scanning radio has conventional RF amplifier, a mixer, a frequency synthesizer for the generation of local oscillator signals, an IF amplifier, a demodulator, and an audio output stage. The receiver includes a memory for storing a plurality o... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5447376 | Package bearing system A self contained, "package", bearing system, has relatively rotating and sliding, precisely formed, truncated spherical, journal and bearing surfaces with a high hardness and with a low surface roughness, that operate on a thin hydrodynamic film of pressu... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5435576 | Spring gasket A gas pressure differential sealing ring for forming a seal between a pair of annular surfaces which are rotatable with respect to one another about a common axis to be used, for example, in the compressor portion of a turbojet engine, is disclosed. The s... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5383442 | Pump action marking pellet gun A compressed powered gun has a receiver with a compressed gas source fastened to one end thereof and an elongated barrel through which projectiles may be sequentially discharged fastened to the other end thereof, A clamp is formed as an integral portion o... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5341774 | Self supercharged two stroked cycle and engine having migrating combustion chambers Non-symmetrical port timing techniques in combination with the 90 degree phase difference between the pumping and combustion chamber of the two stroke migrating combustion chamber engine variant are disclosed as a special cycle of operation which allows a... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5335508 | Refrigeration system A refrigeration system is disclosed having first stage and second stage compressors, first stage and second stage evaporator coils, and first stage and second stage condenser coils, each connected together to form first stage and second stage closed loop ... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5330723 | In-line compressed air carbon monoxide filter An in-line air purifier (110) for removing contaminants from a compressed air line includes an enclosure (112) having a carrying handle (124), a side wall (116) hinged (118) to a base (114), clasps (120, 122) for releasably closing the side wall (116) ont... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5299744 | Granulating, separating and classifying rubber tire materials A rubber tire component reclamation technique which provides tire rubber fragments classified according to size. Preferred apparatus for rubber tire component reclamation includes a feed hopper for receiving pieces of discarded tires, a granulating chambe... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5287625 | Sandpaper cutting guide An improved sandpaper cutting guide is disclosed having a series of recesses to receive different sized pieces of sandpaper. The longer side of a standard sized sheet of sandpaper is placed in one of the slots for cutting the sheet in half or the end of t... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5235903 | Subatmospheric pressure cook-and-hold steaming oven A cooking and holding food preparation unit is disclosed having one or more food receiving compartments each including a door and a gasket for hermetically sealing the compartment when the door is closed. An open-topped tray for holding water is located n... | 08/17/1993 |
| 5219274 | Pump with internal pressure relief A fluid pump having a rotary power source, a rotary to reciprocating motion converter in the form of a cam and cam follower, a rotary speed reducing gear train coupling the rotary power source to the rotary to reciprocating motion converter, and no pressu... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5212817 | Ultra high speed scan system A high speed scanning radio has conventional RF amplifier, a mixer, a frequency synthesizer for the generation of local oscillator signals, an IF amplifier, a demodulator, and an audio output stage. The receiver includes a memory for storing a plurality o... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5210531 | Monitoring and control system with binary addressing A network of addressable modules is disclosed with each module being addressable by a particular multi-digit binary code and each having first and second normally high address input lines which go low only when all the address code digital positions corre... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5174647 | Modular lighting system A modular electrical wiring systems with pluggable lighting is disclosed including thin variable length, lighted wands, extension cables, accessory options, switching options, and a source of supply cable. Preferred power is economical multi-wire branch c... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5143381 | Pipe joint seal An improved sliding pipe joint seal for use in sealing an annular space created between a sealing surface of a spigot at an end of a length of pipe and a sealing surface of a bell shaped end of another length of pipe when the two pipes are connected end-t... | 09/01/1992 |
