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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 3974621 | Wedge-bolted joint A fastening device for the connection of two bodies having aligned openings therein utilizing two members having facing inclined surfaces and projections engaging the lip of an opening such that an impact force creates a wedging action resulting in firmly... | 08/17/1976 |
| 3973313 | Apparatus for assembling micro-filter units An apparatus and a method are provided for assembling micro-filter units having a barrel, a plug adapted to be inserted in the barrel, and a filter disc clamped between the barrel and the plug, which are characterized in that the filter disc is punched ou... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3967822 | Method of making a ball tee A ball tee made from a container originally utilized for containing a product with the container having a support and a ball tee operatively interconnected with the support so that when the container is suitably disposed on a support surface the ball tee ... | 07/06/1976 |
| 3962775 | Method of forming a joint using a guide fastener A fastener/guide assembly and method including a fastener having a head, a bearing section to be extended through aligned holes in work pieces, and an engagement section opposite the head; and a guide member having a pilot section sized to extend through ... | 06/15/1976 |
| 3960637 | Composite structural member A composite building component including a center web and opposed elongate flange elements united to opposed edge margins of the web. The edge margins of the web seat within web-receiving channels defined in the flange elements, and are compressed through... | 06/01/1976 |
| 3956815 | Explosively propelled equal mass tubular member swaging tool An improved tool is disclosed for joining the adjacent ends of pipes, conduits, and like tubular members through the use of explosively propelled swaging members. The tool includes a jacket assembly defining a closed chamber having a die at one end thereo... | 05/18/1976 |
| 3953906 | Fastener assembly The invention is concerned with fasteners which are used to secure a plurality of plates, or other structural members, together in an interference fit between the fastener and the plates to impart a residual hoop stress within the structural members and a... | 05/04/1976 |
| 3952399 | Uniting two elements There is shown an actuating device comprising a piston and cylinder unit having a piston with a metal forming configuration on the side thereof from which a piston rod projects and a recess is provided in the rod adjacent the configuration. The arrangemen... | 04/27/1976 |
| 3952904 | Container, particularly a beer barrel Container, particularly a beer barrel, with a first part, made of plastics in the form of a vessel, open at one end, the part merging in the vicinity of the open end via a shoulder into a cylindrical part with enlarged diameter, which receives with a clos... | 04/27/1976 |
| 3952395 | Method of closing the end of a drilled passage The invention is designed to produce a more economical means of closing drilled passage holes in hydraulic and/or pneumatic systems either during manufacture and/or repair. The process involves pressing a ball, or diametral portion thereof, with a diametr... | 04/27/1976 |
| 3951046 | Push rod and tappet assembly A push rod and tappet assembly for a cam actuated pump in which a tappet having a barbed shank is lightly press fitted, during assembly, part-way into the hollow end of the push rod so that during the initial operating cycle of the pump, as the cam on whi... | 04/20/1976 |
| 3947940 | Method for making cone spray nozzle A cone spray nozzle is provided in a tubular member for carrying a fluid to be sprayed. The tubular member has at least one opening with a plurality of grooves, preferably symmetrical, around the periphery thereof. In each opening is positioned a dispersi... | 04/06/1976 |
| 3945109 | Method and apparatus for driving interference-fit fasteners Method and apparatus for driving an interference-fit fastener by electromagnetically generating a stress wave, conditioning the stress wave, and passing the stress wave through the fastener, the stress wave is reflected from the remote free end of the fas... | 03/23/1976 |
| 3942234 | Seal and bearing installation tool A seal and bearing installation tool kit which is composed of a plurality of different tools for installing different sizes of seals and bearings. Each tool of this invention is composed of a tubular member which has a hollow chamber and open at both ends... | 03/09/1976 |
| 3942232 | Vent structure fabrication method A vent structure for reliable long term operation at high temperatures is fabricated by annealing a tubing of predetermined length and size, placing a predetermined number of strands of stabilized zirconium oxide yarn of predetermined diameter longitudina... | 03/09/1976 |
| 3938245 | Terminal applicator An applicator is provided for inserting a terminal in a hole in a circuit board comprising terminal insertion tooling, having an elongated insertion blade and a pair of preloaded spring fingers, and an anvil including a retractable locating and gauging pi... | 02/17/1976 |
| 3938237 | Method of securing tubular bellows to a cylinder A yieldably resilient, tubular bellows is fastened to a metal cylinder by first inserting an axial end portion of the bellows in a more rigid clamping ring whose internal cross section is greater than the cross section of the cylinder, but not substantial... | 02/17/1976 |
| 3936926 | Method of coupling compressor impellers and shafts The method involves forming an impeller with a slightly out-of-round hole in the center, and an impeller shaft with a complementary out-of-round peripheral surface, slidably engaging the impeller and shaft together, and then rotationally torquing either t... | 02/10/1976 |
| 3935631 | Method of seating a bearing This invention discloses a novel and improved method of seating a bearing, especially for use in chair controls for tiltable chairs. A multi-pointed star-shaped hole is cut in the support and a bearing, preferably made of nylon, which has a series of circ... | 02/03/1976 |
| 3932923 | Method of generating and constructing three-dimensional bodies An arrangement for generating and constructing three-dimensional surfaces in which the surface or body to be constructed is subdivided into planar elements. The contours or outlines of the planar elements correspond to respective cross-sections of the sur... | 01/20/1976 |
