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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5540892 | Urinalysis collection and testing kit and method The invention is directed to a method for removing an aliquot of a liquid sample from an analytical bag containing the liquid sample in which the analytical bag is placed on a base having an aperture; an aliquot of sample is isolated from the balance of l... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5500975 | Toothbrush A toothbrush having two types of bristle end forms. Filaments, each having a tapered end and a ball-like end, are bundled, and folded in to a U-shape bend in a manner that the tapered end is projected from the ball end. The tapered end is inserted into a ... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5499922 | Backing chorus reproducing device in a karaoke device A backing chorus reproducing device is disclosed wherein human backing chorus is PCM coded and then combined with MIDI Standard based instrumental sound to produce karaoke music. In reproduction, the instrumental sound and the chorus sound are played back... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5488285 | Gas-controlled battery charging device for a driverless transport vehicle An automatic battery charging apparatus for driverless transport vehicle is presented so as to enable disconnecting the charging source from the batteries when a certain pressure is reached in the interior of at least one battery. A pressure sensor provid... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5482464 | Dental resin sheet Disclosed here is a dental resin sheet that is attached onto the surface of a tooth or the veneering crown to form the surface of the tooth or the crown. The dental resin sheet is constructed of a plurality of resin layers laminated into a uniform thickne... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5478982 | Apparatus for fusing terminal or commutator wire connections on an armature or stator An apparatus and method for fusing terminal or commutator wire connections on an armature or stator, including an electrode, a pneumatic locking cylinder for driving the electrode into contact with the workpiece and applying a force to the workpiece, a lo... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5470221 | Compact core and ejector assembly A compact core and ejector assembly includes an elongate core terminating in a male mold component and including a cylindrical shoulder which supports the top plate of an associated core support frame. The shoulder includes opposing, longitudinally-extend... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5443655 | Method for adjusting the rinse cycle of a warewasher A method for rinsing ware in a warewashing machine comprising the steps of: adding fresh rinse water to a wash chamber of the warewashing machine to rinse said ware in a rinse cycle; detecting the water level in the wash chamber; upon detecting a level be... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5421821 | Verres needle system and method A verres needle system and method having a tube with an open distal end shaped for insertion through tissue into a body cavity, and a obturator slidably disposed within the tube and being resiliently biased to protrude from the distal end of the tube, and... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5418223 | Method for lyophilization of cyclophosphamide and product A process for preparing a pharmaceutical preparation consisting essentially of a lyophilized cake of cyclophosphamide monohydrate and a bulking agent which comprises freezing cyclophosphamide, a bulking agent, and water, lyophilizing part of the water, ob... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5401379 | Chrome plating process This is to a process for chromium plating metal articles spray rinsing the metal article after it has been cleaned, acid treated, nickel plated, and chromium plated over rinse tanks which are empty except for the rinse collected therein. The rinse water i... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5394659 | Openable and closeable roof construction The present invention relates to an openable roof having two pairs of half dome openable roofs provided on a ring shaped set roof having a flat upper surface. In the center of the set roof, an aperture is provided; this aperture being opened or closed by ... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5387317 | Oxygen/ozone/peracetic aicd delignification and bleaching of cellulosic pulps A method for delignification and bleaching of cellulosic pulp which comprises reacting a cellulosic pulp with peracetic acid, ozone and oxygen under conditions of acidic pH. The ozone substantially completely reacts with the pulp and, thereafter, the oxyg... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5383486 | Method of operating a warewasher drain valve The invention relates to a method for operating a warewasher drain valve having a valve cover and a drain. The method comprises the step of rapidly reciprocating the valve cover from a first position closing the drain to a second position in which the dra... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5379594 | Lift truck with noise attenuated hydraulic circuit A lift truck having a hydraulic circuit with a muffler for reducing noise created by the hydraulic pump and motor assembly. The muffler includes a cylindrical body and first and second end caps which define an expansion volume which reduces the magnitude ... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5380614 | Positive chargeable color toner The present invention provides a positive chargeable color toner wherein to the surfaces of coloring particles comprising binding resin, coloring agent and charge control agent as the main ingredients, is fixed a positive chargeable compound in the amount... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5374555 | Protease catalyzed treatments of lignocellulose materials A method for the delignification of wood pulps by use of protease enzymes. Useful proteases include bromelain, pepsin and papain. The proteases are used to delignify the wood by degrading the wood protein, extensin.... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5373766 | Slitter knife holder A holder for a circular cutting knife for slitting sheet metal, comprising a precision ground mounting shaft for attaching the cutting knife, the mounting shaft rotatably retained within a housing by engaging sets of high precision ball bearings. The ball... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5371983 | Dome shaped roof structure A dome shaped roof structure suitable for a stadium for indoor athletic sports is disclosed. The dome shaped roof structure comprises a main frame for covering the inside of the stadium and a reinforcing frame. The reinforcing frame comprises: cables disp... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5370770 | Method for deinking printed waste paper using soybean peroxidase A method of deinking printed waste paper for recycle which comprises converting a printed waste paper to a fibrous pulp in an aqueous medium to form a fibrous pulp slurry; contacting the slurry with a soybean peroxidase and a peroxide to deink the pulp; s... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5368517 | Speaking toys A speaking unit for a toy squirrel formed with a flexible plastic body 10 consists of two halves 12 and 13 containing electrical components. The unit has a loudspeaker 26 adjacent one end where an annular groove 24 is provided which fits against sides of ... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5368606 | Endoscopic instrument system An endoscopic instrument system which includes a handle portion with a scissors grip, a shaft extending from the scissors grip and shaped to extend through a cannula, and a plurality of disposable end tools, each mountable on the end of the shaft and actu... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5368787 | White smoke generating apparatus A white smoke generating apparatus comprising a vessel, a discharge opening for discharging white smoke generated in said vessel to the exterior of said vessel, a cryogenic gas spray opening for spraying cryogenic gas, and a water spray opening for sprayi... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5367043 | Durable formaldehyde-free phenolic resins, and method of preparing such resins A curable formaldehyde-free phenolic resin having formula (I): ##STR1## wherein a and b each represent an integer equal to or greater than 1, a+b multiplied by n is an integer of about 3 to 100; ##STR2## m is 0 or 1; and R is hydrogen, halogen, ... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5306083 | Mixer guard mounting means A food mixer is provided with a bowl guard consisting of a fixed first semi-cylindrical splash guard portion and a removable semi-cylindrical second see-through portion pivotable about a cylindrical mixer transmission. The second portion is suspended from... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5283016 | Method for preparing photosensitive microcapsules The present invention is directed to an improved method for forming photosensitive microcapsules and increasing sensitivity by incorporating a thiol into the microcapsules through diffusion while maintaining an aqueous surrounding medium at a pH of 7.0 or... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5110740 | Pretreatment of phenolic resin suspension to remove residual phenol A method for treating a suspension of a phenolic resin containing residual phenols comprising the step of adding a peroxidase enzyme and a peroxide material or an oxidase enzyme and an oxygen material to said suspension to polymerize said residual phenoli... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5009758 | Closed noncontinuous electrodeposition painting system The present invention is a painting and filtration system wherein the system is capable of non-continuous operation, and wherein the system is capable of automatically removing impurities from the filtration system during operation. The system is particul... | 04/23/1991 |
| 4997732 | Battery in a vacuum sealed enveloping material and a process for making the same A battery assembly and method for making the same comprising: a laminar battery, said laminar battery including: an anode layer; an ionically conductive electrolyte layer; a cathode layer; said electrolyte layer being interposed between said anode layer and said ca... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4993649 | Dual auger shredder An energy efficient "large bore" dual auger shredder that is adaptable to waste of different characters and constituents and is capable of conveniently handling large scale bulk is described. Counter-rotating tapered auger screws are mounted on parallel a... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4990413 | Composite solid electrolytes and electrochemical devices employing the same A composite solid electrolyte comprising a mixture of a solid ionically conductive powder and an ionically conductive polymeric material wherein said polymeric material provides a network for containing said solid ionically conductive powder, and a method... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4915308 | Barrel injector screw An auger shredder and feeder system which includes a primary housing for receiving material to be ground and shredded, a primarily auger rotatably mounted within a grinding chamber formed in the housing, an extrusion tube for receiving material ground and... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4903991 | Document security system A system for verifying the authenticity of documents such as negotiable instruments wherein a field of photoactive microcapsules is provided in a localized area on the document. By image-wise exposing the document, a latent image of a verification meand s... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4895880 | Photocurable compositions containing photobleachable ionic dye complexes A process for coating a substrate with an essentially colorless radiation curable composition which comprises coating said substrate with a visible light sensitive composition comprising a free radical addition polymerizable or crosslinkable material and ... | 01/23/1990 |
