Bizarre Patents
Hands free towel carrying system
A hands free towel carrying system for coupling a towel to a user to prevent loss, theft or contamination.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7211766 | Power cable for air cooled welding torches A power cable for use with welding apparatus for conveying power and cooling fluid from a welding machine to a welding torch. The cable includes an outer flexible conduit disposed about a flexible electrical conductor, a pair of end fittings operatively connected to... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7205503 | Remotely controlled welding machine The present invention is directed to a remotely controlled welding machine. A remote control uses the welding circuit to transfer information to a welding power source. The information to be communicated to the power source includes welding power source output comma... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7196271 | Twisted pair cable with cable separator Generally, aspects of embodiments of the invention include cable separator spline which comprises a plurality of longitudinally extending walls joined along a central axis of the spline, and a plurality of longitudinally extending channels. Each longitudinally exten... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7185850 | Cut to fit powered seat track cover A seat track cover for transferring at least one of electrical power and data between two seats. The cover has a housing and a cable. The housing is sized to extend between a first seat leg assembly of a first seat and a second seat leg assembly of a second seat. Th... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7135655 | Arc welding cable An arc welding cable that is resistant to bending and twisting and can give a long life is provided. For this purpose, an arc welding cable (65) for supplying a welding current, a welding wire and a sealed gas from a wire feeding device (61) to a weldi... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7122770 | Apparatus for delivery of induction heating to a workpiece A method and apparatus for inducing heat within a workpiece. A flexible fluid-cooled induction heating cable is used to produce a magnetic field to induce electric current in a workpiece. The induction heating cable has separate fluid and electrical connectors to se... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7081586 | Power cable assembly for water and air-cooled welding torches A power cable assembly for use in a water and air-cooled welding assemblies for carrying power from a welding machine to a welding torch and either cooling water from the torch to a circulator reservoir or, in the case of air-cooled torches, shielding gas to the tor... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7019270 | System for reducing noise from a thermocouple in an induction heating system A method and apparatus for reducing electrical noise in an electrical signal from a temperature feedback device to an induction heating system. The induction heating system has an electrical connector that is adapted to electrically couple a temperature feedback dev... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7015439 | Method and system for control of on-site induction heating A workpiece heating system having an induction heating power source and a controller. The controller is operable to control the operation of the power source according to programming instructions received from a user. The controller enables a user to establish a seq... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6956189 | Alarm and indication system for an on-site induction heating system An induction heating system having a fluid cooling unit, a power source, an induction heating device, a controller, and an alarm system to place the system in a safe condition when an improper operating condition is detected. The induction heating system may have a ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6911089 | System and method for coating a work piece A method and apparatus for coating a work piece. The system comprising an applicator adapted to travel over a portion of the work piece. The system being operable to heat the work piece and/or apply a coating onto the work piece as the applicator travels over the wo... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6207902 | Electrical wiring cable with color contrast abrasion wear indicator An improvement to conventional electrical wiring that provides a visible indication of wear abrasion before an electrical hazard is created in high wear, high abrasion cable applications is disclosed. The improvement to conventional wiring cable construct... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6063998 | Cable head of a high-current multiple cable for direct-current applications A cable head, in which ends of cable cores, made of a plurality of individual stranded conductors, are inserted into the bore holes of a cable lug. The cable cores are fixed in position in the bore holes by radial pressing and deformation of the bore hole... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5994682 | Induction heating device with a quick disconnect terminal and method of use An induction heating device having a pair of inductors in a sub-assembly connected by fluid conduits to a cooling apparatus and by electrical conductors to an inverter and impedance adjusting circuit has a quick disconnect terminal assembly arranged close... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5612508 | Flexible jumper and method of making A flexible jumper is made by arranging a series of stranded conductors around a hollow core, placing a sleeve over the ends of the arranged conductors and then crimping the sleeve and conductors to provide a more dense conductor annulus between the sleeve... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5581878 | Method of making water cooled kickless cable An alternate polarity water cooled kickless cable utilizes semi-circular half terminal end members which have diameters abutting an insulator separator. The inner end of each terminal is provided with blind slots offset from each other along the abutting ... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5486652 | Flexible jumper and method of making A flexible laminated jumper is formed from a stack of half hard tempered copper sheets. Contact plates are clamped to opposite sides of one end of the stack, such plates being provided with short stress relief sections away from the end of the stack. The ... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5484960 | Water cooled kickless cable and method An alternate polarity water cooled kickless cable utilizes semi-circular half terminal end members which have diameters abutting an insulator separator. The inner end of each terminal is provided with blind slots offset from each other along the abutting ... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5442131 | High energy coaxial cable cooling apparatus A system is provided for cooling a flexible high energy coaxial cable wherein cooling fluid is circulated along the cable and through a heat exchanger to dissipate the cable heat generated by the high energy transferred by the cable. The cable has inner a... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5229543 | Fluid cooled power conductor and method of making the same A fluid cooled conductor including a wire rope or braid having ferrules forged on both ends thereof, said ferrules having a channel formed in the periphery thereof to provide a channel for fluid passage between the wire rope or braid and a terminal crimpe... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5191710 | Method of forming an electrode unit A forming electrode unit for forming the conductors of the electric wire into the terminal includes a female pressing electrode having an electric wire housing groove, and a male pressing electrode having an electric wire pressing portion which is fitted ... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5113049 | Flexible induction heating coil A flexible induction heating coil comprising an elongated flexible core having proximal and distal ends. The core includes a plurality of core segments flexibly interconnected to make the core more flexible than the individual core segments. An elongated ... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5051539 | Swivel joint for cover of fluid-cooled welding cable A welding cable has connectors at each end, and a plurality of electrical conductors extending through the cable from one connector to the other. An insulating element includes a tubular outer wall, and a plurality of wall portions extending radially in r... | 09/24/1991 |
| 5004865 | Splicing device for fluid-cooled electric cables A device for splicing together two lengths of fluid-cooled, electric cable of the type comprising an electrical conductor surrounding by a flexible conduit through which a cooling fluid, e.g., water, can flow for the purpose of conducting thermal energy a... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4963694 | Connector assembly for internally-cooled Litz-wire cable A connector assembly for transferring high-frequency current into or from a Litz-wire electrical cable having multiple conductor strands includes a transition connector component, a terminal connector component, and a coupling collar. The transition compo... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4868348 | Welding cable A welding cable having an elongate insulating separator formed by six walls which project radially outwardly in circumferentially spaced relation to define six spaces which extend around the separator and open radially outwardly. A plurality of positive a... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4855532 | Welding cable A welding cable comprises an insulating separator, and twisted positive and negative conductors alternately arranged between radial dividing walls defined by the insulating separator. Either the twisted positive or negative conductors are covered by insul... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4853516 | Electric cable primarily for welding equipment and welding device including the same An electrical cable includes an elongated conduit with a plurality of electrical conductors therein. Each of the conductors is provided with a perforated polyurethane sheath thus providing electrical insulation among the electrical conductors. The conduit... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4731134 | Methods of manufacturing electric cable for transporting very high current at low voltage An electric cable (1) for transporting very high current at low voltage, in particular a welding cable for use in robot welders, comprises at least one multi-strand conductor (2) and an outer sheath (4), cooling water circulates inside the cable, and the ... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4647712 | Electric cable for transportation very high current at low voltage, and methods of manufacturing such a cable An electric cable (1) for transporting very high current at low voltage, in particular a welding cable for use in robot welders, comprises at least one multi-strand conductor (2) and an outer sheath (4), cooling water circulates inside the cable, and the ... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4640982 | Cable termination and method A DC kickless water cooled cable used in welding is disclosed in which the cable strand ends are crimped into the cable terminations with the aid of a D-clip, and then the D-clip, crimped cable end, and termination are press resistance welded together to ... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4624410 | Lead cable and spray head for arc metal spray apparatus An apparatus and method for spraying molten metal that is light weight, requires low maintenance and is quick and simple to operate. A feed system is provided that uses an electric motor and control system to push the electrodes to the head and to prevent... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4616894 | Electrical connector for hot melt hose unit and gun An electrical connector for connecting a hot melt applicator to a source of electrical power in a system where molten adhesive is delivered to the applicator through a hose from a remote source of adhesive and where the hose carries wires connected to a r... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4532396 | Flexible induction brazing wand for hollow tubes The brazing wand comprises a hollow helically wound electrically conductive tubular member for conducting an electrical current and for conducting a coolant therethrough. The electrical current is used to heat a member to be brazed while the coolant is us... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4499926 | Cable jacket To provide a jacket for electrical welding cables with good torsional and bending flexibility as well as form strength at high internal pressures, a surrounding reinforcement layer of conventional warp-knit type is vulcanized into the rubber jacket. In th... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4487990 | Simplified water-cooled welding cable terminal A dual polarity terminal for a water-cooled, kickless welding cable having a plurality of electrical conductors, each half terminal having one half of the electrical conductors fixedly crimped thereto in a single manufacturing step. A series of overlappin... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4479029 | Bipolar flexible water-cooled cable A bipolar flexible water-cooled cable includes a positive conductor and one or more return conductors. The positive conductor extends along the longitudinal axis of the cable and is placed in an insulating sheath so that a gap is provided between the posi... | 10/23/1984 |
| 4442312 | End piece of bipolar water-cooled cable An end piece of a bipolar water-cooled cable comprises two parts rigidly secured together via a sealing insulation gasket. The first part features sockets for connection of current-carrying conductors of one polarity, an opening for connection to a coolin... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4423306 | Welding cable and equipment Welding cable and equipment wherein welding cable is color-coded and comprises respective composite cables that individually have as components a power cable and, attached thereto, a control cable. Color coding may be provided by paint, dye or other means... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4394533 | Air-cooled cables with terminals and method of producing same One end portion of a cable comprising a multiplicity of core wires is inserted into a cylindrically shaped electrically conductive member one end of which is flared. A band made of synthetic resin or synthetic rubber or the like is provided on the end por... | 07/19/1983 |
