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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4516098 | Overcurrent protection switch An overcurrent protection switch having one or more thermal and/or magnetic trips (14,21) and a mechanical switch latch which essentially consists of an actuating element and a latching lever (6) which acts in conjunction with the former and which with it... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4420785 | Overvoltage protection circuit for line amplifiers In an overvoltage protection circuit for an amplifier inserted in series between lengths of a signal transmission line, the line including a ground path and the amplifier being supplied with operating power via the transmission line and including power su... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4419332 | Epitaxial reactor An epitaxial reactor comprises an enclosed evacuable container, a heating tube in the container in the wall of which there is a heat source and a temperature control system which is sealed at one end, a feed line for reaction gas, which line passes along ... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4413568 | Method of automatically operating a semi-continuous passenger transport system using passive vehicles, and means for implementing same A method and apparatus for automatically operating a semi-continuous passenger transport system using non-motorized vehicles. Fault conditions corresponding to passengers or articles carried by passengers projecting beyond a surface limiting access to the... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4412823 | Oral cavity cleaner An oral cavity cleaner including a pump unit for supplying a pulsating stream of high-pressure fluid, and a toothbrush unit connected thereto via a flexible conduit. The toothbrush unit includes an actuating member responsive to the pressure of the pulsat... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4412541 | Cardiac pacemaker A cardiac pacemaker constructed for terminating tachyarrhythmias and including: an atrial electrode implantable in a patient's heart for supplying atrial stimulation pulses thereto and at which a pulse appears in response to each atrial contraction; a ven... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4410878 | Digital signal transmission In a method and apparatus for transmitting digital signals by means of signal generators by initially converting a double current pulse train, under control of bit clock pulses and before transmission, into a first unipolar pulse train composed of pulses ... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4410998 | Current supply device for electrically heating a molten medium A system for generating in-phase alternating current components which are fed into a medium held in a melting trough and flow in the medium between electrodes and counterelectrodes immersed in the medium to effect resistance heating. One embodiment of the... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4409046 | Method of and an apparatus for producing disposable syringes and the disposable syringe produced A metallic syringe tube is fused to a plastic fitting into which the tube is inserted so that the inner end of the tube contacts the fitting, by clamping the tube between a counterelectrode which acts as an abutment for the inner end of the tube and a cla... | 10/11/1983 |
| 4408327 | Method and circuit for synchronization A method for synchronizing switching mechanisms or program sequences to an external frame clock pulse, wherein after a given period of time the switching mechanism or program is enabled to be reset and that after this enabling the resetting takes place wi... | 10/04/1983 |
| 4406293 | Rod-breaking device The rod-breaking device comprises a deflecting guide movable alternately across the normal straight path of a cigarette rod issuing from a rod-forming mechanism and entering the inlet of a rod-processing unit. The movement of the deflecting guide into act... | 09/27/1983 |
| 4406251 | Device for feeding sheets to packaging machines A device for feeding sheets of wrapping material from a roll formed of wrapping material web to a packaging machine which discontinuously operates at consecutive cycles. The device includes a transversal cutter provided with cutter blades for cutting sing... | 09/27/1983 |
| 4406975 | Lamps A lamp consists of a high voltage power supply 5 mounted on an evacuated envelope 1. The lamp glows when electrons from a cathode 2 strike a phospher coating 4 on the inside surface of the envelope. The lamp is mounted so that it can be separated from the... | 09/27/1983 |
| 4405200 | Releasable coupling for connecting at least two light waveguides In a coupler for detachably placing the ends of at least two light waveguides in energy transmitting communication, which coupler is composed of two coupling halves each including a core member provided with at least one precisely positioned bore holding ... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4405402 | Piezoelectric/pyroelectric elements Piezoelectric and pyroelectric elements made from polarized plastics substances such as polyvinylidene fluoride are of considerable interest in a number of fields. Unfortunately, they also suffer from a number of not insignificant drawbacks. Specifically,... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4405248 | Advancing device in electrically driven typewriters and similar machines In an advancing device for the motorized vertical displacement of a record carrier in an electrically driven office machine, which device includes an operating element mounted for movement in either one of two directions from a zero position, and members ... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4403512 | Servo-type capsule-equipped instrument A servo instrument, particularly a servo altimeter, with a minimum of display error. The instrument comprises a capsule assembly, a sector adapted for rotation corresponding to the displacement of the capsule assembly, a photosensor for producing an outpu... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4403501 | Method and device for the electropneumatic testing of cigarette filters A method and device for the electropneumatic testing of the air permeability of filter plugs for filter cigarettes. At one end of the filter plug there is applied a pneumatic pressure, the other end of the filter cigarette being connected, through a bore ... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4403975 | Cone-pulley belt-type transmission In an infinitely variable cone pulley transmission having a driving shaft connected to a source of driving power, a driven shaft, a pair of conical discs nonrotatably mounted on each shaft with at least one disc of each pair being axially displaceable on ... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4404495 | High frequency resonator In a high frequency resonator for accelerating a beam of heavy ions in an accelerator, which resonator includes a cylindrical resonator housing having a beam inlet end via which the beam enters the housing, a beam outlet end via which the beam leaves the ... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4404622 | Stabilized power supply A stabilized power supply which is particularly suitable for use at very high voltages derives its energy from a resonant inverter feeding a transformer and rectifier. The power supply is intended to be operated in a pulsed mode with the generation of eac... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4403908 | Method for the emptying of cigarette trays into magazines The feed hopper of a cigarette packing machine is provided with an inlet mouth comprising a fixed rectangular tubular member over which there is mounted telescopically slidable in the vertical direction a telescoping rectangular tubular member. The tray f... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4403694 | Guide strip for conveying fittings into a studding machine A guide strip for holding a succession of fittings which are to be hammered into box-shaped containers in a studding machine and for conveying such fittings into the machine, the strip being constituted by a tape-like foil presenting a succession of nests... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4402392 | Portable belt conveyor, particularly a plate belt conveyor for crushing plants A portable belt conveyor, particularly a plate belt conveyor for rock crushing systems, including a bridge which is provided with a feed chute and which is supported on an undercarriage via a horizontal shaft and adjustable in its angle by means of at lea... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4402647 | Viscosity impeller An improved vaneless fluid impeller of the friction type including a plurality of co-rotating axisymmetrical aligned spaced annular disks mounted for rotation about a common axis. Depending on whether a low kinematic viscosity or a high kinematic viscosit... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4402724 | Method and apparatus for discharging glass from a melting furnace A method and apparatus for periodically discharging batches of a glass melt from a ceramic glass melting furnace in which localized heating energy limitable in time is supplied to the glass melt by means of electrodes in the furnace, the furnace being pro... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4402759 | Process for inhibiting the corrosion of a metal installation in contact with an acid bath The invention relates to a process for inhibiting the corrosion of an installation, made of a material chosen from amongst the metals which are less noble than hydrogen, and their alloys, in contact with an acid bath containing an alkylpyridinium chloride... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4403301 | Word processor adapted for filling in blanks on preprinted forms A microprogrammed word processor, e.g., a typewriter or accounting machine or billing machine, has both normal and special modes of operation. During the normal mode, as alphanumerics and control characters (e.g., space, tab, line feed) are keyed in, the ... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4403167 | Segmented discharge tube devices A segmented discharge tube device is provided, particularly for the discharge tube of a laser, in which a number of electrically isolated aluminium segments presenting a passage through which plasma may pass are located within an aluminium tube with heat ... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4402768 | Method for producing superconductive wires of multifilaments which are encased in copper or a copper alloy and contain niobium and aluminum A method for producing a superconductive wire of multifilaments having components comprising niobium and aluminum encased in copper or a copper alloy, wherein the multifilament configuration and the formation of a superconductive Al5 phase are positively ... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4400940 | Resonant type apparatus for absorbing wave energy arranged at wave-breaking facilities A resonant type apparatus for absorbing wave energy arranged at wave-breaking facilities, which comprises, a caisson having a bottom plate, side plates, a backside plate and a top plate at least a part of which is omitted. A water chamber in the caisson h... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4402009 | Method and apparatus for enhancing an incomplete, limited bandwidth picture generated by an image sensor Apparatus for enhancing incomplete, limited bandwidth, sequential signals generated by an image sensor. Each of the incomplete signals comprises a plurality of alternate lines containing information, the lines interposed therebetween being blanked. A pict... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4401884 | Method of controlling heating in food heating apparatus including infrared detecting system A method of controlling the application of heat in a food heating apparatus comprising a first heating-control mode such that the heat is applied to an object to be heated until an infrared detecting device detects that a surface temperature of the object... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4401620 | Method and circuit arrangement for determining the individual coolant flow rate of the fuel elements of a nuclear reactor A method for determining the transit time and flowrate of coolant traversing a cooling channel of a nuclear reactor fuel element from the effective center of the fuel element to a point where the cooland exits therefrom.... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400630 | Frequency multipliers A frequency multiplier uses a pair of Schottky diodes to rectify an applied signal, with the rectified waveforms provided by both diodes being combined to produce an output signal having a predominant frequency of twice the applied frequency. In order to ... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4400398 | Method for obtaining aromatics and dyestuffs from bell peppers Method for obtaining aromatics and/or dyestuffs from bell peppers wherein red pepper is extracted with a solvent which is in a supercritical state and is gaseous under normal conditions. The extraction takes place at a pressure of >Pk to 350 ba... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4400183 | Processes for separating the noble fission gases xenon and krypton from waste gases from nuclear plants Process for separating the noble fission gases xenon and krypton from a prepurified waste gas from a nuclear plant. The prepurified waste gas is brought into contact with liquid Cl2 CF2 as an absorption agent in a first column at an ... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4400116 | Cutting tool with adjustable chip breaker A cutting tool which includes a mounting shaft and a chip breaker positioned on the mounting shaft. A cutting plate is supported between the mounting shaft and the chip breaker, with a clamping jaw being positioned on the chip breaker. A clamping screw is... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4400045 | Built-in kitchen unit A built-in kitchen system including a baking and roasting oven and a surface cooking unit, which system includes a plurality of cabinet modules disposed adjacent one another and provided with countertops defining a horizontal work surface, a wall cabinet ... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4400621 | Detector device A device for simultaneously detecting alpha and beta particles which comprises a detector element, amplification means coupled to the output of the detector element and measuring means coupled to the output of the amplification means. The alpha and beta p... | 08/23/1983 |
