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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6397663 | Sealing device for the end portions of rod-shaped smokers' products having non-circular cross-sectional outlines A conveyor for testing successive plain or filter cigarettes or other rod-shaped smokers' products having non-circular (such as oval) cross-sectional outlines employs a rotary drum-shaped conveyor for sidewise transport of smokers' products toward, throug... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6396017 | Method of and apparatus for monitoring the outlines of finished containers Successive packets of cigarettes or the like are monitored to ascertain the integrity or absence of integrity of their outer envelopes by conveying them across at least one curtain of radiation so that a packet having an improperly glued flap or tuck or l... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6391132 | Method and device for labeling flat items of post A device and method for labeling flat mail items applies labels to the items by compressed air. The thickness and length of each items is determined in the time for initiating blowing of a respective label is determined as a function of the lengthened thi... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6386859 | Injection molding machine with an extractor A mold-clamping unit accommodates an injection mold. The mold clamping unit includes a mold clamping chamber and a clamping mechanism. A crank element with a crank guide defines a guide path curved away from the clamping axis and has a longitudinal extens... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6371125 | Apparatus for transferring filter rods containing pulverulent, granular and analogous ingredients Apparatus for transporting rod-shaped tobacco smoke filters which contain and/or carry particles of charcoal and/or other solid particulate tobacco smoke filtering and/or flavoring material. A sender directs a series of successive filters lengthwise into ... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6364312 | Method and arrangement for removing air inclusions when forming stacks from sheets A method and arrangement are provided for removing air inclusions between sheets in a stack when forming the stack from sheets fed successively by a sheet feeder to the stack to be formed and deposited thereon in a sheet feeding region. Air out is suction... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6357738 | Feeder for a collator A feeder has a mechanism for individually and cyclically depositing sheets from a stack on a conveying device. A gear mechanism has a powered wheel and a power take-off wheel, and connected with the depositing mechanism. For adjusting the deposit cycle, t... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6357505 | Apparatus for transferring flexible strip-shaped objects from the underside of a magazine to a conveyor Apparatus for delivering successive lowermost strip- or sheet-shaped commodities, such as labels, from a stack of commodities to a conveyor employs a rotary and reciprocable transfer member which pneumatically removes successive lowermost commodities from... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6354300 | Pusher/cutter drum arrangement for positioning and cutting rod-shaped objects A pusher/cutter drum arrangement for use in the tobacco-processing industry for longitudinal-axial positioning and cutting of rod-shaped objects includes a rotating trough drum containing receiving troughs for receiving, respectively, the rod-shaped objec... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6354659 | Vehicle seat A vehicle seat comprises an inner framework, the inner framework defining a first portion (11, 12, 13, 14) to be received within the squab of the seat and the second portion (15, 16, 17) to be received within the back of the seat. The second portion (15, ... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6354272 | High pressure pumping device A high pressure pumping device having a body provided with a cylindrical seat and a piston mounted in an axially sliding manner in the seat in order to form a variable volume pumping chamber; the chamber being in communication with an intake duct, via whi... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6340206 | Vehicle seat A vehicle seat, the seat comprises a squab and a back. The back is mounted for pivotal movement, relative to the squab, about a predetermined pivotal axis (19). The back is provided with a frame (42) supporting a head-rest, the said frame is movable betwe... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6338233 | Packing machine assembly with integrated switch cabinet units A packing machine is assembled with one or more control cabinets into a compact aggregate wherein a wall of each control cabinet constitutes at least a portion of the rear wall of the frame of the packing machine. Each control cabinet is movable (such as ... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6337451 | Planning procedure for clearing mail sorting machine outputs concurrently with a mail sorting process A method for clearing outputs of a mail sorting machine concurrently with a current sorting cycle of a mail sorting process is disclosed. At each sorting cycle, each output of the sorting machine is assigned a number of respective delivery locations of th... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6332750 | Method and apparatus for depalletizing commodities Successive palletized stacks of blanks in a layer of such stacks on a penetrable support of cardboard or the like are lifted off the support by a substantially horizontal plate- or blade-like implement which is caused to penetrate between the upper side o... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6332530 | Apparatus for manipulating block-shaped commodities An apparatus for transporting successive at least partially wrapped blocks of cigarettes or the like, e.g., in a packing machine, employs a mobile block supplying member which advances successive blocks of a series of blocks on top of an opening in a bott... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6331772 | Sensor component A sensor component is provided that includes a coded magnetic transmitter, an associated sensor device, and a shell. The transmitter and the sensor device are movably positioned relative to one another, and the magnetic transmitter is arranged inside the ... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6321913 | Sorting facility for flat mail items A conveyor belt (1) leading to a sorting device (2) comprises two superimposed functional sections (3, 12), which are connected to each other via deflected intermediate sections. As a result, the structural length of the conveyor belt (1) is reduced.... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6322486 | Method of and apparatus for folding flaps on blanks of packets for rod-shaped smokers' products The cardboard blanks for conversion into hinged-lid packets for arrays of cigarettes are dimensioned and configurated in such a way that an elongated reinforcing strip at the inner side of the front panel of the lid is longer than the front panel. Those t... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6318203 | Drive for rotating object such as a roller, shaft, plate or the like A drive for rotating an article such as a roller shaft or plate has a gear which is connected to the rotating article in a rotationally fixed manner. The gear has a number of teeth. A means for driving the gear has a movably mounted lever with a tip that ... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6315504 | Twist Drill An improved twist drill is provided which reduces wear or chippings of the major cutting edges (3) and those of the leading edges (7) of land (9) and which has a long service life and stays sharp. A twist drill has a pair of chip discharge flutes (6), a p... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6313795 | Direction-finding method for determining the incident direction of a high-frequency electromagnetic signal A direction-finding method for determining an incident angle of a high-frequency electromagnetic signal in a system including at least two receiving antennas spaced apart by a known distance. the antenna output signals of the at least two receiving antenn... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6304781 | Electrostimulator Electrostimulator (2), comprising an interface for connecting a working electrode (2), as well as a pulse generator that is connected on the output side to the interface for transmitting electrical pulses to the working electrode (10), with a first measur... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6302113 | Apparatus for making filter cigarettes Groups of coaxial plain cigarettes and filter mouthpieces, particularly cigarettes and mouthpieces having elliptical cross-sectional outlines, carry adhesive-coated uniting bands at the time of entry into a channel between the peripheral rolling surface o... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6298976 | Device for assembling article groups from rod-shaped articles in the tobacco-processing industry A device is provided for assembling article groups from layers of rod-shaped articles used in the tobacco-processing industry. The rod-shaped articles are stacked one above the other and side-by-side in group forming bins that are intermittently movable i... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6272321 | Method for tuning an oscillating receiver circuit of a transponder built into a RFID system The invention relates to a method for calibrating an oscillating receiver circuit of a transponder in an RFID system to resonance to the frequency of an inquiry signal transmitted by a reader, the oscillating receiver circuit comprising at least one induc... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6268860 | Imaging method and apparatus for executing the method In an imaging method and apparatus for displaying computer-modeled objects present in the form of a grid model, in which the objects are defined by the coordinates of the node points of the grid model and the optical properties of the polygon surfaces bet... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6263775 | Rotary knife carrier for use in cross cutters One rotary knife carrier of a pair of carriers in a cross cutter for running webs of paper, cardboard or the like has longitudinally extending peripheral recesses for disposable elongated strip-shaped knives each of which has a first lateral surface abutt... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6262509 | Protective conductor connection on a laminated stator core of an electric motor A protective conductor connection for a laminated stator core of an electric motor in which a grounding tongue is stamped into one of two sheet-metal segments that form the fronts of the stator core. A protective conductor is fixedly connected with the gr... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6262891 | Component holder with circulating air cooling of electrical components A component carrier (2) with electric components (4) mounted thereon, having at least one channel (14) for cooling liquid, characterized in that the component carrier (2) has an air cooling body (6), and a fan (8) is associated with the component carrier ... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6256828 | Paint roller A paint roller consisting of a one-piece handle made of plastic provided with a handgrip and of a paint roll which can be mounted rotatably on the front end of the handle, in which the handle comprises over at least part of its length transversely running... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6248060 | Rigid endoscope with second illumination system laterally offset from first illumination system A rigid endoscope includes a jacket tube with an optical system and, parallel to the optical axis of the optical system, a first glass fiber bundle which emits a beam to illuminate an object to be examined. A second optical illumination system is directed... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6231735 | Oxygen linear sensor test arrangement The control arrangement comprises an oxygen linear test sensor located along the exhaust duct of an internal combustion engine, the sensor having a chamber able to receive part of the exhaust gas and two electrolytic cells of which one is electrically pil... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6231638 | Process for producing metal from metal ores The invention concerns a process for producing metal from metal ores, in particular crude or pig iron from iron ore, wherein the ore which contains metal oxides is brought into contact with a reducing gas which contains carbon and/or hydrogen from solid, ... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6230061 | Electrode arrangement An electrode arrangement for stimulating the heart by means of the following elements: an implantable cardiac pacemaker which generates electrical pulses; a first electrode (11) connected to a first output of the pacemaker and mounted on an electrode line... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6223735 | Control method for an oxygen linear sensor Control method for an oxygen linear sensor, in which the sensor is located along an exhaust duct of an internal combustion engine to receive into a separate chamber part of the exhaust gas and generate a first signal representative of the swing between th... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6224241 | Lighting device A lighting device has a light holder positionable on a mounting support, the light holder also having an outer light holder edge. The light holder includes a centrally located light holder top that projects from the mounting support for fastening a light ... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6220746 | Agitator apparatus For the purpose of a simple and yet functionally dependable design of the temperature detection, an agitator apparatus, in particular a cooking spoon, with a handle (1), a spoon element (2) and a shaft (3) connecting the handle (1) with the spoon element ... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6219581 | Pacing lead system A pacing electrode arrangement for stimulating the heart by means of an implantable pacemaker, comprising a first pacing electrode arranged in the vena cava superior and a second pacing electrode arranged in either the atrium, or a blood vessel near the h... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6208901 | Apparatus for determining the AV transmission time In an apparatus for determining the AV transmission time or AV delay in the heart, the apparatus having a signal-sensor arrangement that is disposed in the heart and detects a natural cardiac action, further having at least one signal output and a process... | 03/27/2001 |
