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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4121491 | Solenoid mounting plate for musical keyboard There is disclosed an improved mounting plate or rack for mounting a large number of solenoids in a keyboard-actuated musical instrument. The mounting rack is an extruded plate having locking slots formed in the surface thereof and a pair of cooperating a... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4120305 | System for administering an electric shock There is disclosed a self-protective system for administering an electrical shock to a would-be assailant by first establishing a low resistance path to the nervous system of the assailant and then coupling thereto an interference signal voltage having a ... | 10/17/1978 |
| 4117975 | Mail preparation, sorting apparatus and method There is disclosed apparatus for marking and then sorting of articles by code or address marks which bear the identifying marks in a grid or code area locateable by one or more guide elements which may be separate and distinct from the marked code. More p... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4105889 | Laser method of introducing mercury to gas discharge display panels There is disclosed an improved gaseous discharge display panel device and process of manufacturing same. A large number of cathode substrate electrode and mask structures are printed and fired on a single glass sheet, the electrodes being printed first an... | 08/08/1978 |
| 4104950 | Demultiplex and storage system for time division multiplexed frames of musical data There is disclosed a system for demultiplexing and storing time division multiplexed frames of musical data encoded ina bi-phase mark/space code. Data in sequential groups of data bit cells is stored in a shift register while a counter counts the data bit... | 08/08/1978 |
| 4100705 | Precast building structure There is disclosed a novel precast building structure system for a polygonal building, preferably a twelve-sided building structure. In particular, the precast structures are constituted by four basic units namely, a system of central core elements, a flo... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4085688 | Treatment of effluent Contaminated aqueous alkali wash liquor from the treatment of gases containing hydrogen sulphide and/or hydrogen cyanide is reconstituted by treatment at an elevated temperature in a reducing atmosphere followed by quenching to form reconstituted wash liq... | 04/25/1978 |
| 4075852 | Steel reinforced underground wall There is disclosed an improved method of constructing an underground reinforced concrete wall utilizing the slurry trench excavation method. According to the invention, at least a pair of spaced elongated primary excavations each adapted to receive a pair... | 02/28/1978 |
| 4071691 | Human-machine interface apparatus A human-machine interface apparatus includes a first, or phase, surface with associated circuitry so devised that an alternating electrical field is created above the surface with its phase, relative to a fixed point on the surface, changing continuously ... | 01/31/1978 |
| 4056154 | Squaring off and reaming tool for deep elongated trench excavations There is disclosed a tool for squaring off and reaming the walls of an elongated trench excavation which has been previously formed utilizing the slurry trench excavation method. The tool is constituted by a pair of spaced parallel steel beams which are c... | 11/01/1977 |
| 4055927 | Concrete walls and reinforcement cage therefor There is disclosed an improved method of constructing an underground reinforced concrete wall utilizing the slurry trench excavation method. According to the invention, at least a pair of spaced elongated primary excavations each adapted to receive a pair... | 11/01/1977 |
| 4051404 | Gas discharge display panel with fused sealing plug There is disclosed an improved gaseous discharge display panel device and process of manufacturing same. A large number of cathode substrate electrode and mask structures are printed and fired on a single glass sheet, the electrodes being printed first an... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4042196 | Method and apparatus for triggering a substantial change in earth characteristics and measuring earth changes There is disclosed method and apparatus for triggering a substantial change in ionospheric characteristics of the earth and measuring certain selected characteristics of the earth. Substantial energetic particle precipitation is triggered through injectio... | 08/16/1977 |
| 4039882 | Edge terminations for gas discharge display panel There is disclosed an improved gas discharge display panel device and process of manufacturing same of the type wherein non-conductive thin glass support substrates for anode and cathode electrodes are joined together by a sealant in a spaced-apart assemb... | 08/02/1977 |
| 4037514 | High torque fastener head There is disclosed a novel high torque fastener head for screwdriver type fasteners wherein the head has formed therein an arcuate slot transverse to and intersecting the longitudinal axis of the fastener. The shape of the slot is such as to avoid damage ... | 07/26/1977 |
| 4035998 | Tractor mounted tobacco combine for defoliation and subsequent transportation of tobacco leaves There is disclosed a tobacco harvesting implement comprising a frame assembly for mounting on a tractor, the frame assembly carrying a defoliation assembly constituted by contra-rotating pairs of rectangular flapper elements having plural slots along the ... | 07/19/1977 |
| 4035726 | Method of controlling and/or improving high-latitude and other communications or radio wave surveillance systems by partial control of radio wave et al. There is disclosed a method of controlling high-latitude communications by cold plasma injection in the distant magnetosphere, and to thereby control the ionospheric and or magnetospheric medium through which the waves are to be propagated. This applicati... | 07/12/1977 |
| 4033524 | Method and apparatus for controlling earth orbiting satellites and vehicles inter alia There is disclosed a method of controlling, inter alia, earth orbiting satellites and vehicles by cold plasma injection control in the magnetosphere and thereby influencing the space medium through which the satellite travels. The injection of cold plasma... | 07/05/1977 |
| 4031796 | Solenoid mounting assembly for musical keyboard This is disclosed a mounting assembly for mounting a large number of solenoids in a keyboard actuated musical instrument. An extruded mounting plate or rack has locking slots formed in a surface thereof and cooperating grooves formed in a protrusion or ri... | 06/28/1977 |
| 4029371 | Method of manufacturing gas discharge display panels There is disclosed an improved gaseous discharge display panel device and process of manufacturing same. A cathode electrode, and mask structures are printed and fired on a glass substrate, the electrodes being printed first. Upon completion of fabricatio... | 06/14/1977 |
| 4024429 | Operating voltage supply system for gas discharge display panel There is disclosed a voltage supply system for a gas discharge display panel where the operating signal voltages for such panels is derived from a low amplitude signal voltage source which source must be protected from high voltage transients. In accordan... | 05/17/1977 |
| 4024380 | Self service postal apparatus and method There is disclosed a self service postal apparatus and method printing postage useable for sorting packages and other postal articles. On entering or dialing the zip code of the addressee a display of the geographic location thereof assures the user that ... | 05/17/1977 |
| 4009407 | Segmented electrode type gas discharge display panel with mercury giver means There is disclosed an improved gaseous discharge display panel device and process of manufacturing same. A large number of cathode substrate electrode and mask structures are printed and fired on a single glass sheet, the electrodes being printed first an... | 02/22/1977 |
| 4005582 | Method of constructing underground concrete walls and reinforcement cage therefor There is disclosed an improved method of constructing an undergound reinforced concrete wall utilizing the slurry trench excavation method. According to the invention, at least a pair of spaced elongated primary excavations each adapted to receive a pair ... | 02/01/1977 |
| 4001629 | Segmented gas discharge display panel There is disclosed an improved gaseous discharge display panel device and process of manufacturing same. A cathode electrode, and mask structures are printed and fired on a glass substrate, the electrodes being printed first. Upon completion of fabricatio... | 01/04/1977 |
| 3983366 | Article sorting apparatus and method There is disclosed an article sorting apparatus and method wherein articles bearing a manually marked code in a grid or code area locatable by one or more guide elements which may be separate and distinct from the manually marked code. For postal articles... | 09/28/1976 |
| 3959683 | Gas discharge display panel device sputter resistant segmented electrodes There is disclosed an improved gaseous discharge display device having segmented electrodes, typically cathode electrodes, shaped in the form of segments of characters to be displayed, a viewing plate carrying an opposing electrode, typically an anode ele... | 05/25/1976 |
| 3944868 | Segmented gas discharge display panel device There is disclosed an improved gaseous discharge display panel device and process of manufacturing same. A large number of cathode substrate electrode and mask structures are printed and fired on a single glass sheet, the electrodes being printed first an... | 03/16/1976 |
