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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4466652 | Carrier apparatus A carrier apparatus comprises a first larger rigid loop, a second or smaller rigid ring and a straight rigid bar. The rigid loop extends along a first plane and has a maximum diameter of about 3 inches and a minimum diameter of about 2 inches. The smaller... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4448238 | Heat exchange system and process for heating and cooling using geothermal energy In a system and process for heating and cooling a house, circulated and/or intake air is passed through a system which utilizes low intensity and readily available geothermal heat capacity to heat or cool such air. The ducts of the system have an internal... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4447418 | Animal medicine Manufacture and use of a therapeutic composition which provides for healing of open wounds on animals such as horses while avoiding the development of proud flesh and while acting as a fly repellent and avoiding and curing bacterial infection.... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4440229 | Oil well servicing processes In the systems and processes pump and rods are lifted in combination with other paraffin deposit removing tools in such a manner to enable the pump to remain substantially in the exact center of the tubing all the way to and from the surface and remove ac... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4433462 | Apparatus for manipulating snap rings These tools efficiently and rapidly remove a snap ring and clips by initially applying a torque thereto along the length of the flat portion of the clip or along the annular length of the ring. When such rings and clips are thus stressed to a limited degr... | 02/28/1984 |
| 4428842 | Well reserve pit liquor treatment process A system and process for treating oil well discharge pit liquors mixes successive portions of the watery layer of such liquors with surface active agents and sprays the resultant mixture in the air so that a large portion thereof is rapidly evaporated and... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4419042 | Cotton module transport processes A tiltable bed is provided with a set of toothed chains and a control system therefor so that the chains are moved along the length of the bed at a linear speed which corresponds to the linear speed of movement of the bed relative to the ground and indepe... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4417497 | Stringed musical instrument teaching device and process A teaching device for stringed musical instruments used by a player thereof to identify, practice and make changes between notes of scales of different keys. It is constructed of a simulated fingerboard comprising a rigid support surface (56) with magneti... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4388484 | Oil field mats Oil-resistant resilient mats to protect oil field workers from dangerous, high voltage electrical discharge comprise a first oil-resistant flexible resilient elastomer of extremely high dielectric strength which is usable by itself as a mat and also in co... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4372002 | Cotton treating process To impregnate loose cotton staple and like fibers with chemicals, a mass of such fibers is fed into and through a series of compartments in a baffled housing assembly and is there acted upon by a series of cooperating rotating paddle assemblies while in c... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4372475 | Electronic assembly process and apparatus A system of composition, apparatuses and process provides for a rapid and reliable development and location of a web fabric structure to position and hold each member of a closely spaced assembly of positioned but not electrically connected units comprisi... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4350210 | Diker, apparatus, system and process of operation An array of several like dimensionally stable readily manufactured diking apparatuses each of which operates in a furrow automatically produces a series of dams of uniform size at regular intervals of travel by repeatedly alternating positions one of a pa... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4349315 | Adjustable vane windmills A system of rotatably and pivotally mounted radially extended bent supports for radially extending windmill rotor vanes in combination with axially movable radially extended control struts connected to the vanes with semi-automatic and automatic torque an... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348848 | Segregated slab structural products The invention herein is drawn to a plurality of structural products comprising segregated slabs, a process of making such structural products, and apparatus for performing such process of making such products and structures incorporating such products. Th... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4349002 | Internal combustion engine fuel treatment apparatuses and process In a vehicle comprising a liquid-cooled gasoline fueled internal combustion engine a supplemental adapter apparatus comprising tanks, valves and conduits is incorporated into the cooling system and fuel system of that internal combustion engine with some ... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348154 | Adjustable vane windmills A system of rotatably and pivotally mounted radially extended bent supports for radially extending windmill rotor vanes in combination with axially movable radially extended control struts connected to the vanes with semi-automatic and automatic torque an... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4319523 | Apparatus for printing leather products Apparatus supports each of several dies for concurrent application of equal displacement of all such dies relative to the to-be-embossed leather strip surface. The apparatus applies sufficient force to all of several dies, each of which provide different ... | 03/16/1982 |
| 4310190 | Ski and ski pole carrying apparatus In the expanded ski and pole carrying operative array of the member parts of the ski and pole carrier, the position of skis and poles held by the carrier are positively managed by the operator because the skis and poles are firmly and positively positione... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4306810 | Apparatuses and method for paleocurrent direction determination using reflected light A reflected light method of paleocurrent determination uses laser light source for investigation of paleocurrent direction for oriented sandstone samples from surface and from drill cores. The technique determines the average optic axis orientation by the... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4257217 | Apparatus and process for field harvesting of peppers A traveling field harvester for pepper plants comprises a pair of generally mirror image tapered helical rod assemblies located on each side of a longitudinally extending slot in which plants to be treated by the harvester are located. The rods are rotate... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4256414 | Asphaltic concrete recycling apparatuses, process and system Weathered asphaltic concrete road surface material is mined at each of a series of road locations and heated at or near the site of mining and future laydown to form particulate agglomerates of aggregate and asphalt in a form receptive to asphalt rejuvena... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4253228 | Apparatus and system for forming wound filters Wound filters of readily varied length are formed by applying yarn to a core on a winding machine utilizing a linkage system that changes the traverse length of the winding apparatus and concurrently changes the rate of change of direction in a ratio diff... | 03/03/1981 |
| 4253851 | Gas purification treatment apparatuses, systems and process Natural gas mixture containing suspended tarry particles and water as contaminants are purified by systems providing upward passage of such contaminated gas mixtures through interparticulate spaces in a vertically extending stable filter bed composed of h... | 03/03/1981 |
| 4249577 | Process and apparatus for sealing gas lines A safe, easy and fast procedure and apparatus for sealing by welded steel plugs branch lines connected to conduits through which gas is flowing, uses a low-carbon steel plug which does not develop cracks on cooling from welding temperature; such plug is a... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4249613 | Cultivating apparatuses and process The apparatuses comprise a horizontally extending rigid frame and a plurality of reel and shaft assemblies, those reel and shaft assemblies each comprising a pair of parallel axle shafts and a set of reels rotatably supported on each of said shafts; the p... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4239458 | Oil well unloading apparatus and process An internal bypass free piston provides for continuous flow of gas during upward and downward travel of the piston; the piston is structured to rotate during downward travel to equalize wear and the frictional force between wall and piston is utilized to ... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4229860 | Cattle skinning process and apparatus therefor A separately controlled vertically moveable frame support for a skinning drum and operator platform supports a separately controlled rotatable horizontal drum; the drum is provided with laterally spaced chains connectable to a centrally located pivotally ... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4229004 | Floor type pool game apparatus In a floor type billiard game, a playing surface strong enough to support the weight of adult players thereon while still dimensionally stable for accurate play thereon provides an overall apparatus light enough to be movable for varied location after ins... | 10/21/1980 |
| 4208856 | Field to cotton gin handling and storage systems An overall system of transporting and handling seed cotton comprising apparatus for and process steps of (a) compressing seed cotton after gathering thereof, (b) storage, (c) transport and (d) decompression and dispersion prior to ginning, is designed aro... | 06/24/1980 |
| 4193569 | Process and apparatuses for landing aircraft on water covered landing surfaces Process of landing an airplane on a solid landing surface covered with a layer of water comprising the steps of forming and maintaining a curtain of gas from a point forward and outboard of each of the landing wheels of an airplane on each side of the fus... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4183715 | Adjustable vane windmills A system of rotatably and pivotally mounted radially extended bent supports for radially extending windmill rotor vanes in combination with axially movable radially extended control struts connected to the vanes with semi-automatic and automatic torque an... | 01/15/1980 |
| 4140583 | Processing of lignite for petrochemicals Process and apparatus for producing ethylene from lignite and subbituminous coal by chemical condition and temperature control using cellulosic material within the treated mass or added thereto whereby ethylene gas is evolved from such carbonacous feed an... | 02/20/1979 |
| 4127061 | Field to cotton gin handling and storage systems An overall system of transporting and handling seed cotton comprising apparatus for and process steps of (a) compressing seed cotton after gathering thereof, (b) storage, (c) transport and (c) decompression and dispersion prior to ginning, is designed aro... | 11/28/1978 |
| 4114917 | Tank trailer In a tank trailer having a longitudinally extending frame member, a rear wheel assembly extending transverse to the longitudinal member and a front wheel assembly, rotatable and sealed connections and structures are provided between the longitudinal membe... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4101897 | C.B. radio antenna unit system and process A dimensionally stable antenna unit is maintained in a stable vertical position during mobile operation of the radio of which the antenna unit is a part and accordingly improves the transmitting as well as receiving characteristics of the overall radio sy... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4098438 | Gasoline spill prevention system and apparatuses In a system comprising a pump, a source of gasoline, a hose, and a cutoff valve and nozzle with the hose attached at a distant end to the nozzle and the central end to the pump, the improvement which comprises providing at the distant end of the hose, a r... | 07/04/1978 |
| 4098916 | Process of dispensing, measuring, coating and cutting sheet material Rolls of vinyl wall paper and the like are concurrently automatically dispensed and accurately metered and coated preparatory to being accurately cut to length while providing for rapid and uniform metering of such material without wrinkling thereof. The ... | 07/04/1978 |
| 4097925 | Process and apparatus for mixing and transporting cement By a combination of a slump indicator calibrated for each of the several particular trucks in a system of concrete mixer transport trucks and a particularly readily locatable dynamically balanced emergency power unit, the contents of the drum or mixer of ... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4083657 | Flood guard warning system, apparatus and process A plurality of horizontally and vertically spaced apart remote liquid level sensor assemblies free of upwardly directed surfaces operatively connect only under emergency conditions to the sump tank of a sewerage system through vertical housings connected ... | 04/11/1978 |
| 4083327 | Animal grooming apparatus and process A non-uniformly weighted flexible toothed belt is driven to traverse and produce both a forceful combing action on an animal hide in its traversing motion parallel to pulley-to-pulley movement and a varied yieldable pressure against the hide transverse to... | 04/11/1978 |
