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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4377380 | Dual plunger dental amalgam dispenser A dental amalgam dispensing instrument has an amalgam dispensing head having a dispensing passage slidably receives a rectangular section dispensing passage with an amalgam feed passage intersecting the dispensing passage. A straight rectangular section f... | 03/22/1983 |
| 4376739 | Heated air bleed idle needle An adjustable idle needle valve assembly for an internal combustion engine carburetor includes an air bleed threaded needle valve mounted on a plug for a tubular metal housing, an insulating fiberglass sleeve in the housing and an electric needle valve he... | 03/15/1983 |
| 4340367 | Loader and dispenser for dental amalgam A dental amalgam dispenser unit having a detachable discharge head, the dispenser having a plunger with a front amalgam-advancing tip and rearwardly disposed ratchet teeth and a pawl comprising a slidably mounted sleeve and a cantilever spring projecting ... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4314406 | Combination transfer depth gauge A combination transfer depth gauge capable of measuring the depth of small diameter blind holes in close proximity to the shoulder of a workpiece is made up of a bar stock body having opposed flat end faces and a longitudinal throughbore. One end portion ... | 02/09/1982 |
| 4280130 | Forming droplets for ink jet printing Ink droplets for ink-jet printing are formed in a conductive, ink by flowing ink having a ion magnetic susceptibility between the poles of a pulsed electro-magnet thereby periodically inducing eddy currents in bodies of the ink which oppose ink flow and s... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4229932 | Harvesters A pea harvester incorporates a threshing device and a system, known per se, which maintains the device in a fixed orientation in space irrespective of the ground contours. To feed the threshing device a series of conveyors is pivoted so that these can con... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4199888 | Combined sinker and fishing lure A combined sinker and fishing lure comprises an elongate molded lead body that is substantially half round in cross section along substantially its entire length, has semi-spherical ends, is about 51/2" to 61/2" long and about 3/4" to 1" wide, and weighs ... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4196225 | Continuous pressure cooker and cooler with controlled liquid flow Method for continuously processing filled containers with liquid heat treatment mediums maintained under superatmospheric pressure by an overriding air pressure. A minimum of liquid is used during processing with the liquid level being maintained above th... | 04/01/1980 |
| 4194941 | Labelling machine A mechanism for automatically labelling articles, such as fruit, has a chute for guiding fruit into contact with an upstanding label, the engagement of the fruit with the label being effective to transfer the label to the fruit and to cause the movement o... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4185713 | Hydrostatic drive system A hydrostatic drive system for a four wheel drive vehicle such as a field harvesting machine which must accurately track the planting rows, includes an engine, a pump and individual hydraulic wheel motors connected to the pump and coupled to the wheels th... | 01/29/1980 |
| 4179986 | Low liquid volume retort system A low liquid volume retort system is provided with a tunnel disposed within and spaced from the side walls and cover of a retort. A plurality of spaced containers are loaded in the tunnel, and a liquid maintained at a temperature different from that of th... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4177420 | Major and minor short leakage detector A short circuit detector for battery powered vehicle circuits has a current lead for connection to the positive battery terminal from which the battery cable has been disconnected, a sensor lead for connection to the disconnected cable, a silicon controll... | 12/04/1979 |
| 4139220 | Swivel joint sealing system A fluid conducting swivel joint is disclosed which has a sealing system effective against the leakage of fluids of extreme temperature. The joint consists of two housings mounted for relative rotation about an axis, the housings having a fluid passage the... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4114928 | High force connecting mechanism An inner conduit is received in an outer conduit in overlapping relationship. A locking member is received in the outer conduit for lateral shifting into locking engagement with the inner conduit. There are two spaced apart abutment surfaces on the outer ... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4111465 | Torsionally controlled swivel joint A torsionally controlled swivel joint having at least one axis of rotation is provided with a torque element, either in the form of a helical torsion spring or one or more torsion bars, completely enclosed within the flow passage of the joint to counterac... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4110864 | Sweeper hood with transverse air duct and broom compartments A street sweeper hood has a transverse main compartment with an intermediate transverse partition that stops short of the swept surface and divides the main compartment into a front transverse air duct compartment and a rear broom compartment. Air and deb... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4109341 | Unidirectional flow pickup hood for street sweepers The hood for an air recirculation type of street sweeper forms a single, unidirectional air flow duct from the air inlet line to the air return. The top wall of the hood is formed to provide an air stream deflector that slants downwardly in the direction ... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4109688 | Attitude maintaining mechanism for a marine loading arm A loading arm having an inner conduit section, an outer conduit section, and a manually operable arm extension, is disclosed. The entire arm assembly is rotatable about a vertical axis, and a motor is provided to raise and lower the inner conduit section ... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4106575 | Tool string and means for supporting and rotating the same Method and apparatus for subterranean slurry drilling and mining of granular ore, such as phosphates, with a combined drilling and mining apparatus. The apparatus includes a tool string having a drilling head and mining head that are selectively interchan... | 08/15/1978 |
| 4106262 | Wrapping machine and method with four side rotary tucker A wrapping machine and method is provided which forms a tube of wrapping material around spaced articles to be packaged. A four side rotary tucker cooperates with a crimping, sealing and cut-off mechanism to produce uniformly tucked, crimped end style pac... | 08/15/1978 |
| 4106265 | Wrapping machine and method with four side rotary tucker A wrapping machine and method is provided which forms a tube of wrapping material around spaced articles to be packaged. A four side rotary tucker cooperates with a crimping, sealing and cut-off mechanism to produce uniformly tucked, crimped end style pac... | 08/15/1978 |
| 4105489 | Apparatus for making bottom seal thermoplastic bags According to the present disclosure, tubular thermoplastic material is intermittently fed between opposed transversely extending seal bars operating in timed relation with the intermittent feeding of the web to sequentially perform cutting and sealing of ... | 08/08/1978 |
| 4104760 | Rotary brush roll construction A rotary brush includes a generally cylindrical, sheet metal core having fittings arranged to be inserted into both ends thereof for the reception of conventional brush drive means, e.g., a rotating drive shaft adapted to extend through the core or stub s... | 08/08/1978 |
| 4105123 | Fruit sorting circuitry A circuit for detecting the color of fruit on a plurality of conveyor paths by measuring the light reflected from the surface of the fruit at a viewing station at each path. The circuitry operates to develop a pair of signals at each of the conveyor paths... | 08/08/1978 |
| 4102111 | Wrapping machine A wrapping machine of the horizontal form, fill and seal type, in which a continuously moving web strip is formed into a tube of thermoplastic material, has introduced therein a file of longitudinally spaced articles. A transverse sealing and cutting mech... | 07/25/1978 |
| 4102356 | Dry-break coupler A dry-break coupler, of the type used on a gasoline tank truck loading arm, is connectable with a standard A.P.I. adapter, that is located near the bottom of a truck tank, for loading fluid into the tank. The coupler and the adapter can be connected toget... | 07/25/1978 |
| 4101363 | Method of making bottom seal thermoplastic bags According to the present disclosure a method is provided wherein tubular thermoplastic material is intermittently fed between opposed transversely extending seal bars operating in timed relation with the intermittent feeding of the web to sequentially per... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4099542 | Marine loading arm jumper assembly A marine loading arm jumper assembly especially suitable for use on a buoy or other offshore fluid transferring facility where tanker movements are large and space is limited. The assembly comprises a pair of articulated loading arms extending from a coax... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4098221 | Drum rotation indicator A drum rotation indicator enables a crane operator to sense rotation of a drum, and thereby determine linear movement of a cable, that has one end wound about the drum. This indicator has a cam, that rotates with the drum, and a cam follower, that transla... | 07/04/1978 |
| 4097157 | Vehicle wheel aligner for measuring front wheel toe with respect to the rear wheel axis of rotation A light projector mounted on a front wheel of a vehicle provides a pair of light beams. The first light beam is projected to a roof mirror mounted on an adjacent rear wheel and is reflected to a first target mounted with the projector on the front wheel o... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4097156 | Real-time system for automatically measuring the performance of weapons A xenon flash lamp mounted on a target flashes at a rate which is determined by the frequency of an oscillator also mounted on the target. A detector assembly which is mounted on a gun receives flashes of light from the lamp only when the gun is aligned w... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4081362 | Apparatus for mechanically sorting fruit A paddle mounted on a fruit sorter at the end of a fruit conveyor is connected to the plunger of a solenoid which normally is actuated to bias the paddle into the path of fruit being discharged from the conveyor toward a good-fruit discharge conveyor. A c... | 03/28/1978 |
| 4081049 | Steerable front wheel drive unit A final gear-reduction unit is mounted at each wheel of a motor vehicle and is pivotally connected to one end of a lower control arm so that the unit may be turned to steer the vehicle. The other end of the lower control arm is pivotally connected to the ... | 03/28/1978 |
| 4077481 | Subterranean mining apparatus Apparatus for subterranean slurry drilling and mining of granular ore, such as phosphates, with a combined drilling and mining apparatus. The apparatus includes a tool string having a drilling head and mining head that are selectively interchangeable on i... | 03/07/1978 |
| 4077306 | Bag machine cycle interrupt This application discloses an apparatus for preventing heat damage to thermoplastic web material being converted to produce bags. After a selected number of bags have been made, the web feeding rolls are automatically stopped for a short period, which may... | 03/07/1978 |
| 4076166 | Roof for railway car and method of making same A unitary, prefabricated railway car roof and its method of manufacture. Two elongated flat webs of galvanized sheet metal disposed in edge to edge abutting relation, and having a combined width slightly greater than the width of the finished roof, are pr... | 02/28/1978 |
| 4075891 | Self-leveling static wheel balancer A static vehicle wheel balancer has a base which is supported on the floor and which mounts a vertical post. A wheel balance head is provided for receiving and centering a tire and wheel assembly to be balanced and has a level for indicating unbalance. A ... | 02/28/1978 |
| 4075862 | Method and apparatus for installing underwater flowlines A method and apparatus for installing a length of underwater pipe, such as a petroleum flowline bundle, between two subsea stations, for example a subsea oil or gas wellhead and a subsea manifold to establish a fluid conduit between these stations. The fl... | 02/28/1978 |
| 4073223 | Bag slow down This application discloses an improved device for reducing the velocity at which thermoplastic bags, as they are produced by a bag machine, are directed to a table, or other suitable support, for accumulation in even-edged stacks.... | 02/14/1978 |
| 4067617 | Subterranean drilling and slurry mining Subterranean slurry mining with one or more mining nozzles which, during mining, directs a high pressure jet of liquid into a granular ore matrix to reduce the ore to a slurry which is thereafter pumped to the surface by an eductor pump including a high p... | 01/10/1978 |
