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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4599699 | Cigarette manufacturing machines A method is provided for monitoring cigarette manufacturing machinery in order to provide the machine minder with automatically displayed messages relating to process fault or deterioration conditions before these have led to out-of-specification product ... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4561103 | Print inspecting method and apparatus This invention relates to a technique for inspecting picture patterns on prints which are being run in a rotary press or the like, and more particularly to a method in which reference data read out of a reference print is written in a memory, and inspecti... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4550376 | Inspection system for mechanical structures Remotely controllable and manipulable unmanned apparatus for safely inspecting, testing, viewing and for non-invasive examination and evaluation of the general condition, the state of repair, and of the quality of fabrication of mechanical structures such... | 10/29/1985 |
| 4376387 | Dynamic shock absorber evaluator A shock absorber testing device wherein the vehicle body is raised relative to the vehicle wheels, and is then released. The vehicle wheels are not raised. Upon releasing of the raised spring-suspended body of the vehicle, the resulting oscillations of th... | 03/15/1983 |
| 4360887 | Skin categorizing apparatus Skin categorizing apparatus comprises a conveyor on which skins are categorized by automatic area scanning and thickness measuring means generating data for transmission to a remote location for control and data processing equipment. Displays at the conve... | 11/23/1982 |
| 4349112 | Pellet inspection apparatus Apparatus for inspecting nuclear fuel pellets in a sealed container for diameter, flaws, length and weight. The apparatus includes, in an array, a pellet pick-up station, four pellet inspection stations and a pellet sorting station. The pellets are delive... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4287769 | Apparatus and method whereby wave energy is correlated with geometry of a manufactured part or the like or to positional relationships in a system A way of automatically inspecting a machined part, for example, to a tolerance of 0.001 inches. A minicomputer monitors a change in phase of acoustic wave energy impinging upon a sample part and compares it with a change in phase of such energy for a stan... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4051722 | Method and apparatus for measuring irregularities in the cross-section of yarns, roving, bands and the like A method of, and apparatus for, measuring irregularities in the cross-section of yarns, rovings, bands and the like, by means of a preferably portable measuring apparatus or device providing a direct read-out or display and containing a measuring element,... | 10/04/1977 |
| 3982440 | Method of determining molded part profile A method is provided for determining the profile of a molded part as a means of checking the quality of a given molded part and/or as a basis for effecting adjustments in the molding machine controls. In accord with the subject method a plurality of press... | 09/28/1976 |
