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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5480286 | Exhaust apparatus and vacuum pumping unit including the exhaust apparatus An exhaust apparatus and a high vacuum pumping unit including such high vacuum device and an auxiliary vacuum pump are disclosed, wherein a high vacuum is achieved in a vacuum vessel such that the gas molecules within the vacuum vessel are ionized and acc... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5326227 | Exhaust apparatus with vacuum pump An exhaust apparatus and a high vacuum pumping unit including a high vacuum device and an auxiliary vacuum pump are disclosed, wherein a high vacuum is achieved in a vacuum vessel such that the gas molecules within the vacuum vessel are ionized and accele... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5240381 | Exhaust apparatus and vacuum pumping unit including the exhaust apparatus An exhaust apparatus and a high vacuum pumping unit including such high vacuum device and an auxiliary vacuum pump are disclosed, wherein a high vacuum is achieved in a vacuum vessel such that the gas molecules within the vacuum vessel are ionized and acc... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5118988 | High yield wide channel annular ring shaped getter device An evaporable getter device, for mounting in an electron tube, comprises a holder whose bottom wall is provided with means for preventing detachment of getter metal vapor releasing material which has been pressed into the holder and which has a multiplici... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5017836 | Electronic feeder for an ion pump An improved electronic device allows for the feeding of an ion pump with a plurality of voltages that are changed as a function of the current drawn by the pump and therefore of the pressure value within the pump.... | 05/21/1991 |
| 4820226 | Getter pump for hydrogen and hydrocarbon gases A gettering device for hydrogen isotopes and gaseous hydrocarbons based on the interaction of a plasma and graphite used as cathodic material. The plasma is maintained at a current density within the range of about 1 to about 1000 mA/cm2. The g... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4713619 | Electronic device for feeding ion pump An electronic device for feeding an ion pump with two different tensions and for improved measuring of the pressure in the pump, the two different tensions being a normal operating tension and a lower tension at which a correct measurement of the pressure... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4687417 | High voltage feedthrough for ion pump Ion pump (10) has feedthrough (33) for electrical connection to anode post (32) within the pumping chamber. Opening (36) in the pumping chamber wall receives a portion of insulator (42). The insulator (42) has a flange (48) which is of larger diameter tha... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4631002 | Ion pump A sputter ion pump with a cathode having blades arranged radially adjacent the cylindrical hollow cells of the anode. This arrangement increases the probability of grazing collisions useful for the formation of fast inert gas molecules, particularly argon. Thi... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4594054 | Ion pump An ion pump comprises a pump casing inserted in a magnetic field, with an anode supported by insulators in the pump casing. Both the pump casing and anode are made of alminum-based metals, and the pump casing serves also as a cathode, thereby the ion pump... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4492110 | Ultra sensitive noble gas leak detector A noble gas leak detector is provided using a non-evaporable getter pump to remove active gases but not noble gases during leak detection. The vacuum system is constructed of all-metal valves, metal connection devices and metal passageways to reduce out g... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4460317 | Ion pump An ion pump is described which includes a vacuum housing, a unique, readily removable and replaceable magnet system which makes it possible to measure leakage current alone and a unique, readily removable and replaceable reactive metal cathode for reactin... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4406671 | Assembly and method for electrically degassing particulate material Gas-contaminated particulate material is passed through a vacuum chamber wherein it is subjected to an electric field to charge the gaseous contaminants to cause the gaseous contaminants to separate from the particulate material and enter a gas flow path ... | 09/27/1983 |
| 4397611 | Particle beam instrumentation ion pump In particle beam optical instrumentation, an array of conventional sputter ion pump cells distributed in a ring shaped array about the circumference of the volume (optical column) to be pumped. An axially symmetrical, hollow, toroid magnetic circuit, form... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4391614 | Method and apparatus for preventing lubricant flow from a vacuum source to a vacuum chamber A method of trapping lubricant in a vacuum system and an assembly for performing same wherein a vacuum chamber has an outlet duct to a vacuum source to establish a gas flow path from the vacuum chamber to the vacuum source. Lubricant vapors from the vacuu... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4389165 | Ion pump for producing an ultrahigh degree of vacuum An ion pump for producing an ultrahigh degree of vacuum comprising a space formed between a first perforated flat plate-shaped electrode and a second flat plate-shaped electrode and having a high frequency electric source connected between the first and s... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4334829 | Sputter-ion pump for use with electron tubes having thoriated tungsten cathodes A sputter-ion pump for use in combination with an electron tube having at least one thoriated tungsten cathode comprises a vacuum envelope and a getter-cathode within the envelope. The getter cathode comprises a first cathode member consisting of at least... | 06/15/1982 |
| 4274022 | Evacuating device for generating an insulating vacuum around the superconducting winding of a rotor An evacuating device for generating an insulating vaccum around the superconducting winding of the rotor of an electric machine with an inner space which is surrounded by the winding and is permeated by the magnetic field of the winding in which a co-rota... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4220195 | Ion drag pumped heat pipe Conventional heat pipe performance can be improved by reducing the dependency upon the capillary pumping limitation. Electrodes mounted either in the working fluid vapor or its condensate produce an ion flow directed axially and in the same flow direction... | 09/02/1980 |
| 4097195 | High vacuum pump The pressure range, pumping speed and through-put of a high-vacuum pump can be significantly improved, particularly with respect to the pumping of hydrogen, by making pump components that are exposed to the vacuum from an alloy that is metallurgically sta... | 06/27/1978 |
| 3996488 | Getter device with deflector A getter device of the annular-ring type having a deflector. The deflector has a conical segment and both axial and radial locating elements. The radial locating element is U-shaped in cross section.... | 12/07/1976 |
| 3994625 | Sputter-ion pump having improved cooling and improved magnetic circuitry In a magnetically confined sputter-ion vacuum pump a multi-apertured anode electrode is interposed between a pair of reactive cathode electrode plates. An evacuable envelope encloses the anode and cathode electrodes and a magnetic circuit surrounds the va... | 11/30/1976 |
| 3977813 | Novel getter and process Process for activating a getter composed of a porous barium pellet comprising maintaining a barium pellet in an inert atmosphere, placing the pellet in an enclosed chamber, evacuating the chamber and heating the evacuated chamber containing the pellet to ... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3961897 | Getter pump A getter pump comprising two getter elements wherein the first getter element comprises a metallic substrate having a nonevaporable getter metal embedded therein. The second getter element employs a getter metal having a lower hydrogen equilibrium vapor p... | 06/08/1976 |
| 3942546 | Corrosion monitoring and composition-analytical apparatus A simple apparatus and process for monitoring a selected component of a fluid system are provided wherein the apparatus comprises a simple diffusion probe, an electronic pumping means and a reading means whereby the diffusion and pumping rate are read dir... | 03/09/1976 |
