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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4854423 | Hydraulic disc brake drum-in-hat parking brake assembly A generally hat-shaped disc for a disc brake system is provided with an inner cylindrical surface serving as the drum of a drum in hat parking brake. A unitary backing plate supports the parking brake assembly and provides integral mounting parts for the ... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4832414 | Filament wound wheel and a method for manufacturing the same A filament wound wheel is shown having a high percentage of continuous fiber oriented in the optimum load bearing direction for maximum strength. Also shown is a manufacturing method for the wheel including the steps of polar winding a continuous filament... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4819493 | Automobile electric door lock actuator An electric door lock actuator includes an outer casing which houses a reversible electric motor. The motor is coupled to a inertial clutch assembly and a gear train to reciprocally move a rack which extends outwardly from the casing between an advanced a... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4777763 | Plant growing medium A plant growing medium has a fabricated fibrous product having a density below 4.5 pcf, and preferably below 3.0 pcf, as a root supporting structure. The product comprises a pack of fibers, the fibers having a three-dimensional orientation and at least so... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4684304 | Composite stud The composite stud is mainly a corrosion-resistant alloy, but is provided with a steel tip for flawless welding to a steel plate for use in a marine environment. The steel tip is friction-welded to the corrosion-resistant alloy before machining of the stu... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4682523 | Methods of making glass wool blowing insulation The method comprises cutting a glass wool blanket with a circular cutting grid having elastomeric plugs in the grid spaces. The cut columns and the plugs are both compressed. The cut columns are ejected by expansion of the plugs.... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4681722 | Method of making a lineal structural member Core material of shaped glass fiber board is impregnated with resin in outer surface portions, the resin is cured, an additional resin casing is formed therearound, and the additional resin is cured. Glass strands may be included with the resin impregnati... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4676093 | Double-wall underground tank A double-wall tank having inner and outer walls bonded to connecting hollow annular ribs. A passageway through the ribs enable leak-detecting liquid to fill the spaces between ribs, within ribs, and between end caps.... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4646540 | Cooling section for continuous web material impregnated with hot liquid The chill rolls of the cooling section are hollow, open-ended rolls. Spray nozzles in each roll spray water on the instantaneously upper half of the interior periphery and a fan blows air through the roll to effect evaporative cooling. Three different arr... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4640082 | Apparatus for packaging loose fibrous material The apparatus of each embodiment includes a suction housing having a perforated duct therein. Fibrous material supplied to the inlet of the duct is compacted by air being evacuated through the perforated sidewall of the duct. The continuous compacting of ... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4640065 | Structural member Core material of shaped glass fiber board is impregnated with resin in outer surface portions, the resin is cured, an additional resin casing is formed therearound, and the additional resin is cured. Glass strands may be included with the resin impregnati... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4639164 | Underground tank sump and piping system Sumps are mounted on manway fittings of underground tanks, and all piping runs are routed through a sump. Underground portions of pipes between a sump and a point above ground are provided with a double wall. Filling spills and leakage from pipes into the... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4637188 | Splicing means for faced insulation batts The splicing means includes a push-on sheet metal splicing member for mounting on an upper flange portion of an I-beam and presenting a vertically oriented backing portion for a pair of clamping strips securable respectively to opposite sides of the backi... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4627133 | Pultruded underground tank hold-down strap assembly The assembly includes a pultruded glass fiber reinforced resin strap each end of which is secured between a pair of plates. At each end the plates and the strap are apertured to receive a retaining rod.... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4615162 | Insulated wall construction A wall construction comprising a plurality of horizontally spaced vertically extending studs, an insulation board mounted on an outer side of the studs, a scrim adhered to an outer side of the board, fastening means mechanically securing the board and scr... | 10/07/1986 |
| 4602461 | Insulated trussed roof construction The construction includes batts of fibrous insulation between trusses as well as insulation in a vertical thermal path through the trusses.... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4595443 | Pollution-reducing method of incorporating dust suppressant in fibrous insulation material In making entangled fibrous products by depositing fibers from streams of hot gas in which they are entrained, dust suppressant incorporated in the product by introducing at least a portion of it into the cooler region surrounding and separating the fiber... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4578908 | Fabric roof structure The fabric roof structure comprises a pair of vertically spaced upper and lower peripheral compression rings, a central tension ring, a plurality of tensioned upper and lower cables extending radially of the rings, being connected adjacent inner ends to t... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4572435 | Foamable liquid distributing means A foamable liquid distributing apparatus comprising a composite block formed of two parts removably secured together and having an inlet passageway and a plurality of spaced outlet passageways. A plurality of connecting passageways respectively connect th... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4565562 | Two-stage heating media feeder for a glass batch preheating drum The heating media feeder includes a hollow conical frustum facing an inlet in the drum end plate, an aperture in the periphery of the conical frustum, a baffle outside the conical frustum aligned with a leading edge of the aperture therein, a circular pla... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4562935 | Inside protector for bottom wall portion of underground tank beneath fill tube A cage-like protector lowerable down a fill tube of an underground tank to protect the bottom wall thereof from damage by a dropped dipstick.... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4562934 | Glass fiber reinforced resin tank with particular joint structure A corrosion-resistant gasket or at least a portion thereof on the inner side of the joint between two tank halves having corrosion-resistant liners protects the non-corrosion-resistant structural walls at the inner ends of the tank halves and also the non... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4561292 | Double-wall underground container for storing liquids and leak detecting means therefor An aboveground reservoir is connected to the space between inner and outer tanks of an underground double-wall storage container for liquids. Leak detecting liquid fills the space between the tanks and extends to a surface level in the reservoir. Sensing ... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4559746 | Air-supported fabric roof structure The air-supported fabric roof structure includes a compression ring, three sets of generally equally spaced parallel cables arranged to define a grid of generally equilateral triangles with each cable having a pair of opposite end portions pivotally conne... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4553364 | Window sash and frame molded of fibrous material Window frames and sashes are molded of fabricated fibrous wool impregnated with a binder and coated with a resin which soaks into the surface to form a strong protective skin.... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4552281 | Glass fiber reinforced resin tank with particular joint structure Two halves of a tank are secured together by an external lay-up comprising corrosion-resistant resin. Each tank half includes an outer structural wall and an inner liner, the structural wall comprising corrodible resin, the liner comprising corrosion-resi... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4538390 | Insulation and partition means for existing building H-splines and electrical raceways useful in an insulation system for the inner side of an exterior wall are substantially identical to those in a partition wall constructed to extend from said exterior wall. Insulation panels in the insulation system and ... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4528790 | Roof insulation system Insulation supporting tubes are suspended from auxiliary support beams extending transversely of and supported by more widely spaced main support beams. The insulation supporting tubes extend all the way across a bay between adjacent main support beams an... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4525960 | Basement wall insulating and waterproofing system and method Vertical stripes of asphalt are applied to the exterior of the basement wall, and glass fiber insulating boards with an asphalt coating on one side are applied to the exterior of the basement wall with the asphalt coating facing the wall and joints betwee... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4525970 | Insulated wall construction Each square fibrous insulation board has a scrim adhered to an outer side thereof and extending beyond two opposite edges thereof to provide a pair of opposite scrim flaps. The boards are oriented alternately at ninety degrees to each other on a wall to b... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4522004 | Insulated wall construction An exterior insulation system for walls including a fibrous insulation board having a scrim adhered thereto on an outer side and having shiplap-type vertical edges, and cementitious material applied over the scrim.... | 06/11/1985 |
| 4512530 | Apparatus for handling split-batt rolls The apparatus includes a plurality of small rollers disposed in an arcuate, upwardly concave arrangement for rotatably supporting a composite two-batt roll, a large rotating roller for winding up one of the batts while the other is pulled intermittently f... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4508770 | Road repair material of knitted unidirectional glass roving mat coated with elastomeric modified asphalt A knitted unidirectional mat of glass rovings, factory coated with elastomeric modified asphalt, is used to reinforce a crack in an old road before applying a new layer of asphalt-based pavement.... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4508673 | Molding of glass wool with wrinkle-free surface The process includes a first molding step with an upper surface of the glass wool pelt having been sprayed with water and with a lower surface of the glass wool pelt insulated from the lower mold portion by a previously molded glass wool insulating sheet,... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4503655 | Insulation system for inner side of exterior wall The inner side of an exterior wall of an existing building is insulated by installing floor-to-ceiling panels along the wall, the panels having glass windows where the wall has windows.... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4504175 | Hollow rod and method of making and using A hollow reinforcing rod insertable into a bored hole is a mine roof and assembled just before insertion therein from a plurality of coiled reinforcing elements of pultruded glass filament reinforced thermoset resin, the rod being cut from the coils after... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4500583 | Honeycomb structure The honeycomb structure is formed by adhering corrugated sheet units of molded glass wool together.... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4499702 | Five-tab strip shingles A set of five-tab strip shingles with rectangular tabs of various widths, any shingle of the set being selectable for production and installable in a plurality on a roof with regular offsets between shingles of different courses without occurrence of obje... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4490955 | Residential wall construction The wall construction includes elongated molded fibrous channels secured together in side-by-side relationship and pairs of structural fastening strips secured to the channels, each joint between two adjacent channels having a pair of the structural faste... | 01/01/1985 |
| 4491498 | Method of and apparatus for applying a laminated pressure-sensitive adhesive strip construction to a flexible sheet Air nozzle assemblies are provided for stripping the release strips from a laminated pressure-sensitive adhesive strip construction applied to a jacket for pipe insulation.... | 01/01/1985 |
