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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7360511 | Opposed piston engine A two-cycle, opposed piston engine with side-mounted crankshafts and cylinders isolated from mechanical stresses of the engine includes tailored cooling of cylinders and symmetrical cooling of the interior surfaces of piston crowns. Each opposed piston includes a co... | 04/22/2008 |
| 5325557 | Portable, demountable bridge to ford rivers and the like A portable, demountable bridge to ford rivers and the like, includes a pair of footings for supporting the bridge buried at different heights in the soil on one side of the river. The footing closer to the river receives a load in a downward direction, an... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5261138 | Method for installing a bridge having a modular structure The bridge includes a plurality of foldable portions or modules (M) interconnectible releasably in sequence longitudinally. Each module (M) includes a central deck member (9) and two lateral deck members (10, 11) articulated to opposite sides of the centr... | 11/16/1993 |
| 4480348 | Tension-band bridge A tension-band bridge having one or more main openings (2) and possibly subsidiary openings (3), comprises a tension band (4) gripped between abutments (5) and possibly taken over supporting pillars (6). The traffic route over the bridge is disposed on a ... | 11/06/1984 |
