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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6340329 | Room grating An air grating where the air flow is controlled by a grid movable between OPEN and CLOSED positions. Control means acts when the movable grid arrives at either a warm or a cool limiting position. The arrival at a limiting position prepares said moving mea... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6328888 | Skimmer A skimmer for operating in a water environment provides a conveyor with transverse apertures and a sloping upwardly travelling lower flight in a trough shaped guide, for a lower extent and, over an upper extent beyond said guide and designed to move mater... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6286975 | Acceleration responsive illuminated footwear switch with random output Illuminated shoes are provided with a switch having a fixed end for connection to one side of a battery and a movable end for contacting one of a plurality of selectable conducting members each connected to a separate terminal of a sub-circuit. Each sub-c... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6267485 | Illuminated bag A bag which may be carried by hand or over the shoulder has a light controlled by a timing circuit so that the light is only turned on for a set period by an OFF to ON transition of a motion responsive switch occurring outside the set period. A manually o... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6164794 | Illuminated footwear with acceleration responsive random output selection Shoes have a switch having a fixed end for connection to one side of a battery and a movable end for contacting one of a plurality of selectable conducting members each connected to a separate terminal of a sub-circuit. Each sub-circuit contains a source ... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6158872 | Carrying bag A bag which may be carried by hand or over the shoulder has a light controlled by a timing circuit so that the light is only turned on for a set period by an OFF to ON transition of a motion responsive switch occurring outside the set period. A manually o... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6025799 | Short range position locating system for transponder In order to locate a transponder in a roadway there are first and second antenna arrays at spaced locations. Each array is associated with a switching control which causes the array beam to step through a series of beams. The signal developed in each beam... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6009648 | Display device and array A changeable display element is edgewise mounted on an insulating board and carries to rotate through about 180° to show one color face or the other to a viewer. The board provides a similarly colored face for each face to form a pixel. The element carri... | 01/04/2000 |
| 6000812 | Writable disk sign An array of disks faces a viewing direction is composed of disk's rotatable about an axis approximately perpendicular to the viewing direction between alternating orientations where bright and dark sides are respectively displayed in the viewing direction... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5989091 | Bathtub toy A bathtub toy has a battery, timing circuit and an audible or visible output. A motion responsive switch closes to connect the battery to the output and start the timing circuit. The timing circuit shuts off the output after an interval until the switch a... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5966796 | Method of attaching mattress cover handle A handle for a mattress border is anchored with spaced grommets in the border against which anchors on the handle ends may bear. The anchors are designed to allow a leading end of the handle to be drawn through a grommet opening. A back strap between the ... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5933329 | Board for mounting display element A board usually resembling a PCB or a PWB mounts a display element, whose appearance in a viewing direction is controlled by the sense of magnetization of a core which extends through a bore in the board. A conducting coil formed on the surface of said bo... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5903212 | "Ice cube" novelty Floating Novelty for Drinks is motion operated to flash visual indication or aural indication.... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5900678 | Gear shift knob Novel gear shift knob flashes randomly utilizing a battery, motion responsive switch, a timing and illumination circuit.... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5884352 | Mattress cover handle A handle for a mattress border is anchored with spaced grommets in the border against which anchors on the handle ends may bear. The anchors are designed to allow a leading end of the handle to be drawn through a grommet opening. A back strap between the ... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5858158 | Electromagnetic disk and method of making A magnetic disk to selectively display opposite colored sides is constructed by providing upper, lower and middle tape layers. The middle layer is punched to provide a series of magnet receptacles when the upper and lower layers are added. The lower layer... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5828272 | Transmission line for distribution network housing A conducting housing for use in a coaxial cable distribution system is of larger length than width and defines an RF signal path therein. A part of the RF signal path is the inner conductor of inner and outer approximately co-extensive conductors. The inn... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5809675 | Board for mounting display element A board usually resembling a PCB or a PWB mounts a display element, whose appearance in a viewing direction is controlled by the sense of magnetization of a core which extends through a bore in the board. A conducting coil formed on the surface of said bo... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5750929 | Terminal assembly for a CATV A terminal assembly for a CATV RF circuit is located on a circuit board with a slot open towards a port through which projects a coaxial cable pin. The board is located below the pin and the slot allows travel of the board vertically therepast. A conducti... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5692452 | Dial A plate forming the lid of a housing for use in coaxial cable distribution systems has a first distribution port on one side and a second distribution port. A dial is mounted on the exterior of the plate which will indicate RF current flow and tap values.... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5666134 | Electromagnetic shutter A shutter is designed for use with an optic fibre which is designed to emit rays in a cone in a selected viewing direction. A mount carries the optic fibre to emit such cone. Associated with the mount is structure for rotatably mounting the shutter, or ro... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5652984 | Mattress handle A handle for a mattress border is anchored with spaced grommets in the border against which anchors on the handle ends may bear. The anchors are designed to allow the handle to be drawn through the grommet openings when the latter are aligned. A back stra... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5545847 | Amplifier housing A housing for a CATV circuit board has exterior cable pores and stations for connection to a circuit board. Flexible coaxial leads allow any port to be connected to selected one of a number of stations. The stations may be composed of a horizontal flexibl... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5463920 | Notch cutter and method A fabric notch cutter includes a pair of inwardly facing shear edges which converge to a first apex and a pair of outwardly facing shear edges which converge to a second apex at a slightly lesser angle than the convergence angle of the inwardly facing she... | 11/07/1995 |
| 4733401 | Block coding into 24 coordinates and detection of transmitted signals In data transmission data is block encoded into 24 signal values determined by pattern vectors of a Leech matrix, detected and decoded. The decoder and, optionally, the decoder is (are) designed to operate with pattern vector from a Leech matrix which has... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4731799 | Means and method for block encoding detection and decoding Numeric signals appearing on a communication channel are converted in blocks of b signals to a number N. The number N is converted to coordinates in K dimensional space where 40ࣙK | 03/15/1988 |
| 4566210 | Display device A display device has lever mounted display members with their members on one end movable from exposed to eclipsed position to provide a variable display and permanent magnets on the other end to provide for control of the lever by magnetizable cores locat... | 01/28/1986 |
