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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5855041 | Sliding panel anti-friction runner This heavy-duty, sliding panel door guard/bumper includes a rigid base plate which is suitable for mounting upon a doorjamb or a sliding panel in a distortion-free connection, by means of plural fastening anchors. The panel serves as a mount for opposed t... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5632514 | Juvenile safety gate latch for swing gate The invention encompasses a juvenile safety gate latch and housing which is handily mobile, its function being to render the existing gate secured, for intermittent passage of an adult through a gateway. It is especially useful for swinging such a gate fr... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5543040 | Apparatus for purification of water-based fluids in closed-loop flow systems The present industrial purification system consists of an electronic power supply and control unit, an ionization delivery unit, having at least one unique Copper/Silver electrode rods. It's objective as applied to water-based fluids in a closed-loop flow... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5529321 | Tarp harness draft and equalizer assembly A portable ground engaging, draft and equalizer assembly and kit for loading and subsequent hauling of discrete items of large bulk such as mulch, leaves, and grass cuttings. The kit is characterized by a singletree draft bar to which a hauling harness is... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5487367 | Motorcycle circuit breaker ignition advance An automatic advance unit as applied to the circuit breaker ignition of motorcycles. In the circuit breaker advance unit herein, flyweight roll pins are not set in the flyweights, per se, but they are mounted in the advance unit backing plate, ensuring th... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5218176 | Custom featherlight musical speaker enclosures Lightweight speaker cabinets manufactured from acoustical composite panels having unique acoustical and structural properties, include an acoustical composite laminate consisting of a porous inner core of closed cell rigid urethane foam which is bonded to... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5213553 | Devices used to improve speech, swallowing and mastication A complemental series of handheld, tactile devices in kit form to assist in behavioral modification training techniques as well as utilizing the techiques of "resisted movement" and "successive approximation". Each positioner device is handheld, with one ... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5199442 | Apparatus for reduction of spasticity in male and female patients having spinal cord injury as well as obtaining semen from males by stimulation of ejaculatory nerves Apparatus for treatment of spasticity by electrical stimulation in male and female patients having spinal cord injury. The apparatus is likewise adapted to stimulate ejaculatory nerves in the male through ejaculation and is characterized by an electronic ... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5199415 | Adjustable fireplace hearth shield assembly An adjustable fireplace hearth shield characterized by a frame which by extension and/or retraction is compressed upon the hearth outline, above the surface of the floor. Major and minor tightening adjustments may be effected while the frame is closely ap... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5183055 | Device for obtaining testicular or penile size and volume measurements A device which is useful in urological and andrological measurements of anatomical organs and for calculation of related volumetric capacity thereof which includes a graduated rule, bearing at one end thereof a fixed jaw, the rule defining an elongated ca... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5158283 | Portable croquet practice wicket assembly Portable association croquet wicket practice assembly of three-point playing surface contact, defining a simulated target wicket wherein upright legs are fixedly spaced apart in regulation measure by a topmost transverse crown, the free ends of the legs b... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5046321 | Method and apparatus for gas conditioning by low-temperature vaporization and compression of refrigerants, specifically as applied to air A thermodynamic constant volume vapor compression heat pump system including method and apparatus wherein a closed fluid loop having first, intermediate and second treatment stations, is employed. A liquid refrigerant fluid under low pumping pressure is i... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5034581 | Pneumatic-electric switch apparatus with lock-out feature An apparatus comprising a plurality of electric switches, pneumatic actuators for the switches, assemblies for preventing inadvertent actuation of one or more switches and supports for the elements of the assemblies in coactive relation to each other, in ... | 07/23/1991 |
| 5029407 | Bipod for attachment to a Thompson/Center Contender pistol and the like A collapsible bipod for sidearms weapons characterized by extensible and retractable legs, contained in the forearm of the weapon.... | 07/09/1991 |
| 5027811 | Tracheostomy chamber having adapter for suction capability A device which adapts to the neck of a patient who has undergone a tracheostomy. It is useful in supplying humidification and oxygenation upon inhalation and to exhaust the outgoing exhalation gases and secretions upon exhalation. It is characterized as a... | 07/02/1991 |
| 4926513 | Apparatus for changing disposable bedding on a mattress In storage and utilization of disposable bedding materials as for example for institutional usage, non-woven bedding materials dispensably secured to a portable bed, and including tensioning therefor, whereby the two or more bedding materials such as shee... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4913451 | Vehicular towing hitch A vehiclular towing hitch is described wherein its coupling to the frame or bumper of a towing vehicle may be easily connected and/or disconnected, simply by towing hitch extension and traverse. The towing hitch is characterized principally by an extendib... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4866947 | Method and apparatus for gas conditioning by low-temperature vaporization and compression of refrigerants, specifically as applied to air A thermodynamic constant volume vapor compression heat pump system including method and apparatus wherein a closed fluid loop having first, intermediate and second treatment stations, is employed. A liquid refrigerant fluid under low pumping pressure is i... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4850309 | Boiler hydraulic column choke and reamer with burner control protection against a low water condition An improved hydraulic column choke valve and reamer, adapted to hot water heating boilers and the like, permitting maintenance on low water fuel cut-off controls and similar columns without draining the boiler, characterized by a universal valve body and ... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4841602 | Device for cutting up meat and/or bones of a slaughter animal Device for cutting up meat and/or bones of a slaughter animal, with a cutting element (120) provided with a cutting edge and a counter support (124) which is situated opposite the cutting edge of said cutting element (120) and comprises an oblong, central... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4809390 | Pop-open disposable debris collector A collapsed, pop-open and disposable debris collector formed of a semi-rigid blank the composition of which has a folded elastic memory, the collector forming interconnected rear abutment, side walls and a bottom, the side walls lapping the rear abutment ... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4801006 | Prepacked and disposable animal litter receptacles and containment therefor A prepacked disposable animal litter and waste container in which one or more membranous bags are filled with an absorbent litter, each bag being contained within a substantially rigid fiberboard carton container, wherein said bags may be each successivel... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4783001 | Universal non-spreading railroad track haulage tie assembly A universal non-spreading railroad track haulage tie and support therefor characterized by opposed rail supporting channels, coaxially aligned with the rails of a railroad, the channels being secured together and against the rails respectively by a tie ga... | 11/08/1988 |
| 4749209 | Collapsible fishing gear and load bearing carriage Collapsible fishing gear and load bearing carriage having a reinforced cycle frame upon which are mounted an articulated handle and seat joined together, also having a carton and the like storage area as well as implement securing elements. The carriage i... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4584932 | Apparatus for heat-treating a liquid product Apparatus for heat-treating a liquid product comprising series-connected multi-tube heat-exchangers such as heating-up heat-exchangers (6, 12), a high temperature heat-exchanger (14) and cooling-down heat-exchangers (17, 18, 19), the heating-up heat-excha... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4584934 | Apparatus for producing a homogenous flexible layer of material from blocks of highly consistent material, such as butter or margarine An apparatus for producing a homogeneous flexible layer of material such as butter or margarine, comprising an input portion for guiding blocks of said material into a central portion, in which two rotors 11, 12 are arranged in a horizontal plane, a centr... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4580910 | Engine exhaust gas test harness In the maintenance of turbine propeller aircraft and related engines, test method and apparatus to measure engine exhaust temperature and exhaust pressure, without pulling the engine. Test harness associated with instrumental Jet Calibrator is interposed ... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4495940 | Massager This massager utilizes percussion waves produced by a powerful hand-held or stationary drive, such as an electric hammer, magnetic hammer or pneumatic hammer, for massaging human bodies. The massager includes an intermediate idler connected to an oscillat... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4488515 | Hydraulic column choke and reamer An hydraulic column choke valve and reamer adapted to hot water heating boilers and the like, permitting maintenance on low water fuel cut-off controls and similar columns without draining, characterized by a universal valve body which interchangeably mou... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4429749 | Farrier's equine hoof-sizer A farrier's equine hoof-sizer characterized by its adaptation to an equine's individual hooves for purposes of sizing in shoeing. The sizer is extensible to a straight line for portability. It is lightweight, durable and of such construction that in the s... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4402509 | Dice throwing craps game computer A calculator to aid in determining cyclic trends of probability inherent in craps playing functions and thereby increase the potential of winning and decrease the threat of losing is disclosed. A first circular relatively stationary frame disc is attached... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4379055 | Apparatus for the drip dry conveyance of oil-fried dough products Method and apparatus for draining and expunging excess oil from delicate pizza crusts which have been fried in oil, adapted for association with discharge mechanism of a crust fryer, functioning in cooperation therewith to receive, drain, and manipulative... | 04/05/1983 |
| 4356665 | Self-watering planter A container for living plants, characterized by nesting pots, the upper pot of which defines a reservoir and the second of which rests within the first to contain a nutrient soil, the second, defining with the first, a water input and the second also havi... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4312318 | Combustion engine fuel economizer A fuel economizing and pollution reducing device for interposition between the conventional carburetor and intake manifold of an internal combustion engine. An exhaust gas heated exchange tube extends through the interior of the device, providing a constr... | 01/26/1982 |
| 4290563 | Method and apparatus for dispensing coiled materials Method and apparatus for dispensing flexible materials from multiple coils which are stacked in coaxial alignment upon a rotatable turntable so that the open inner eye of each coil is vertically oriented. For dispensing, the top most coil is clamped betwe... | 09/22/1981 |
| 4258391 | Sound intercarrier detector In television reception, the sound intercarrier signal is detected by mixing the composite sound intermediate frequency signal, which is taken from an output of the video IF amplifier, with a clean, unmodulated signal, which is extracted from the oscillat... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4249705 | Method and apparatus for dispensing flexible coiled materials from pallets Method and apparatus for dispensing unconfined flat coiled strips, mults of which have been stacked in coaxial alignment. The mults form an enlarged cluster coil and in some cases the mults are severably attached to one another. Strip dispensing is effect... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4217462 | Rotary furnace for the fusion of mineral bearing substances, apparatus and method Furnace apparatus and method, for the continuous electric heating or fusion of particulate mineral-bearing substances, wherein a cylindrical furnace housing is adapted to trunnion bearing, the housing having at least one detachable and elongated conical e... | 08/12/1980 |
| 4211280 | Downhole surge tools, method and apparatus Downhole method and apparatus for efficient well completions wherein natural earth energy is utilized by the exploitation of a maximum pressure differential into a given well bore. The method and tools of the apparatus function to back surge the well, enh... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4205454 | Combined distance and gradient gauging apparatus A combined distance and gradient gauging device is disclosed, including a base member, and at least one arm member slideably connected with said base member for parallel longitudinal displacement between collapsed and fully extended positions relative the... | 06/03/1980 |
