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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7237968 | Thermally transcribing printer and image forming apparatus In a thermally transcribing printer including a frame, a roller shaft, a roller shaft drive gear and a motor, the roller shaft includes one end installed on an inner side of the frame and folded to bend in an L-like shape and other end fitted to a drawout preventing... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7226090 | Rod and tubing joint of multiple orientations containing electrical wiring A rod and tubing connection for coupling two or more joints of tubing sections comprises a plug and a socket. The plug has a plurality of splines and the socket has a plurality of receptacles adapted to receive the plurality of splines. The plurality of splines comp... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7125209 | Quick-change mechanism for use with the stationary spindle of a Davenport® automatic screw machine The present invention provides an improvement (20) in a Davenport® automatic screw machine having a stationary spindle. The improvement broadly includes a quick-change mechanism (26) associated with the stationary spindle (22). The mechanism in... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7086937 | Wheel shaft supporting apparatus for grinding machine A pair of hydrostatic radial bearing devices 42, 43 is mounted on right and left side surface of a front portion of a wheel slide 34 in order to support rotatably wheel shafts 45, 52 respectively. A thrust bearing device 45 mounted in eit... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7004668 | Connector for flex shaft for string trimmer An improved connector for flex shafts for a string trimmer has an input area and a drive area, where the input area of the connector has a modified diamond shape with sloping sides. This diamond shape allows for easy and reliable connection of the driven working end... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6948397 | Replacement oil pump gear for motorcycle engine and method of replacing oil pump gear When a plastic oil pump gear in a motorcycle engine needs to be replaced, first, the gear is removed from its shaft. A keeper is inserted into the slots in the shaft that originally held the plastic gear. A steel gear is screwed onto the keeper so as to be mounted o... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6631592 | Fail-safe device The invention concerns fail-safe devices for use in reinforced concrete structures. The device (1) comprises a link (8) of high tensile strength material and first (2) and second (3) end regions. The end regions (2, 3) and the link (8) joining them are fo... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6517293 | Anchor grid connection element A connection for securing the longitudinal wires of a soil-reinforcing mat to a face element for an earthen formation is provided by converging the lead ends of the wires toward one another and securing a connecting rod between the ends. The rod is extend... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6494407 | Joint on a spacecraft A joint (4) on a spacecraft (1) for holding together a first craft part (2) and a second craft part, (3) detachable from the first craft part (2). The joint (4) comprises a first flange (5) fixed on the first craft part (2), and a second flange (6) fixed ... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6355901 | Welding electrode connecting adapter A connecting adapter configured to mate on opposite ends with a standard adapter shank and a standard welding electrode of the resistance type. The connecting adapter is a hollow body with male and female connecting portions. The male portion, integral wi... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6290182 | Joint for space vehicle A joint in a space vehicle to hold together a first part of the vehicle and a second part of the vehicle that can be separated from the first part, in which the joint includes a first flange member (1) attached to the first part of the vehicle and a secon... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6193436 | Locking system for supporting element A locking system for supporting legs removably mounted to a tray, table or other structure to be supported includes cooperating engagement elements for removably connecting a supporting element, such as a pole or leg, to a clamp. The connected pole and cl... | 02/27/2001 |
| 5827006 | Joint structure for structural members A joint structure has a male-side metal joint (3) fixed on a column (1) and a female-side metal joint (4) fixed on a beam (2). The two metal joint (3, 4) are common joints having the same shape, and have a first contacting surface (81), a second contactin... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5796036 | Reguided connector box A connector box includes a female box element into which can be fitted a male box element, as well as a retaining device cooperating with a stop acting in a given zone of the periphery of the box elements, in order to maintain the male box element fitted ... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5688069 | Joint structure of structural members A joint structure has a male-side metal joint (3) fixed on a column (1) and a female-side metal joint (4) fixed on a beam (2). The two metal joint (3, 4) are common joints having the same shape, and have a first contacting surface (81), a second contactin... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5649680 | Joint for dismountably attaching adapter to a launcher with satellite A joint dismountably attaches an adapter to a launcher with a satellite. The joint includes first and second flanges. At the first flange (1) is formed with at least one surface of revolution forming an angle with a contact plane between the flanges. The ... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5617602 | Motor-driven toothbrush It is an object of the present invention to make an engaging section between a holder section and a toothbrush section of a motor-driven toothbrush more simple, manufacture thereof easier and also minimize the production cost as well as to achieve minimiz... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5388359 | Display apparatus A display apparatus comprising a U-shaped member having a bore extending through a bight portion along an axis perpendicular thereto where the bore is characterized by having a polysided cross section adapted to coact with a polysided plug having preselec... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5380118 | Shaft coupling for bottom cylinders of drafting units on spinning machines In the case of a shaft coupling for bottom cylinders of drafting units on spinning machines, a shaft is provided on its end with an area of a reduced diameter which engages in a longitudinal bore at the end of the other shaft. In the area of the longitudi... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5244300 | Structural connector approximating a cone of elliptical cross-section A structural connector used to interconnect at least a first and a second member which includes a cone-shaped male part having an approximately elliptical cross-section attached to the first member and a female part forming a correspondingly elliptical co... | 09/14/1993 |
| 4711006 | Downhole sectional screw motor, mounting fixture thereof and method of oriented assembly of working members of the screw motor using the mounting fixture A downhole motor includes a bearing unit connected to a moving section incorporating successively arranged working members--a stator and a rotor interacting with each other along profile surfaces. The like pairs of the adjacent working members are rigidly... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4684285 | Releasable connector apparatus The invention provides a releasable connector comprising a male part presenting four mutually inclined faces forming a tetrahedral wedge, and a female part presenting three walls for mating with the faces of the male part when the male part is inserted th... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4633275 | Means for mounting a pen on a chart recorder A recording instrument pen and pen arm and the combination thereof, the mounting means comprising a rearwardly extending channel-defining member associated with said pen and including a slot having two widthwise segments at lengthwise positions thereof, t... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4585401 | Multistage helical down-hole machine with frictional coupling of working elements, and method therefor A helical down-hole machine comprises a plurality of sections, each such section having a helical rotor and a helical stator arranged with a preselected eccentricity to form cavities of variable volume for the passage of fluid therethrough and positioned ... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4156793 | Ground rod assembly An improvement for the assembly of ground rods, comprising a fitting having two threaded portions, the first as a guide portion being adapted to receive an unthreaded ground rod and a threaded gripping portion adapted to grip the end of a rod through defo... | 05/29/1979 |
| 4030850 | Interlocked joint A conjugate pair of self-aligning joints are formed in the peripheral edges f a relatively thick walled hemisphere which when brought together form a hermetically sealed ball shaped container. The interlocked joint utilizes oppositely disposed, grooved, de... | 06/21/1977 |
