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Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher
A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7367358 | Medical fluid delivery system and method relating to the same A medical fluid delivery system for the use in the delivery of medical fluids. The medical fluid delivery system may include a pumping system, a disposable medical fluid line set and a valve operating system. The disposable tubing line set may include valves adapted... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366058 | Gear for watch movement Gear for day of the month display mechanism in a watch movement, including: a driving organ (1), a driven organ (50), characterized in that said driving organ (1) is provided w... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7352073 | Ocean wave energy converter having an improved generator and ballast control The ocean wave energy converter uniquely includes a generator with a rotating inner rotor surrounded by a counter-rotating outer rotor for generating electricity. A reciprocating drive rod drives the inner rotor on the downstroke of the drive rod and the outer rotor... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7296492 | Animated toy with geneva mechanism An animated children's toy including a gear system for providing intermittent and reciprocal motion. The gear system includes a drive gear and a driven gear. The gear system is adapted to have a non-rotating configuration and an engaged configuration. In the non-rot... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7240351 | Tray carrying-in starting mechanism for disk drive A tray carrying-in starting mechanism for a disk drive is simple and reduces a load at the start of carrying-in of the tray. The tray carrying-in action is started by pushing a tray that has been carried out to a disk exchange position. The starting mechanism compri... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7155992 | Driving force transmission mechanism and damper apparatus equipped with driving force transmission mechanism A driving force transmission mechanism having a following rotation preventing mechanism that prevents a follower wheel from rotating together with a driving wheel in a play section is provided. Also, a damper apparatus that can drive two open-close plates independen... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7096754 | Nested sector gears A sector gear is formed as one of a pair of mirror image gears (12, 14). Each of the sector gears has an arcuate portion (16) having a series of teeth (18) on an outer periphery thereof, and a V-shaped base portion (20) having a first leg... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7021415 | Electro-mechanical actuator for an electrically actuated parking brake An electrically actuated parking brake system and actuator therefor. The actuator includes a motor having a drive shaft, and a gear train coupled to the drive shaft, wherein the gear train provides at least one mechanical output from the actuator. The gear train may... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6722222 | Inclined rack and spiral radius pinion corkscrew machine Corkscrew machine including rotatable spiral radius pinion gear mechanically coupled to annular collar and engages inclined gear rack to translate driver up and down carrying freely rotating, helical corkscrew. Crank rotates spiral radius pinion gear to translate dr... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6626055 | Rack and pinion type swing actuator A rack and a pinion respectively have stoppers constituted by a flat surface in both sides of tooth portions thereof. The stopper of the pinion is brought into contact with the stopper of the rack at both oscillating stroke ends of the rack, whereby a bac... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6457452 | Mechanism for interconnecting first-and second-shafts of variable speed rotation to a third shaft A rotary piston engine (20) is shown that includes a housing (22) having a toroidal working chamber with inlet (56) and exhaust (54) ports. First and second piston assemblies (30 and 32), each of which includes at least one pair of diametrically opposed p... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457451 | Rotary piston engine A rotary piston engine (20) is shown that includes a housing (22) having a toroidal working chamber with inlet (56) and exhaust (54) ports. First and second piston assemblies (30 and 32), each of which includes at least one pair of diametrically opposed p... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6357312 | Gear wheel construction and gear system incorporating same A gear wheel construction for use in a constant mesh gear box, the gear wheel construction characterized by a single gear wheel (100) provided about a shaft (18) in a rotatable and engageable manner, the gear wheel (100) being divided longitudinally (axia... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6334725 | Drive transmitting apparatus and image forming apparatus In a drive transmitting apparatus for selectively transmitting a driving force from a drive source to a driving member through clutch means to achieve a positive switching operation, the clutch means includes an output gear having a non-entirely toothed p... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6301981 | Escapement for a timekeeper The escapement (10) includes first (6) and second (7) wheels meshing with each other. One (6) of these wheels is driven by the gear train. First (9) and second (11) rollers secured to a common arbor (1) support a sprung balance. The wheels (6, 7) and the ... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6295882 | Device for operating display members at signs In a device for operating display members (2) at signs for consecutive, repeated presentation of series of images, the members (2) are operated by a driving gear wheel (9) on a drive shaft (6) through a driven gear wheel (10) for each member (2). The driv... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6276160 | Ice maker with a motor having gears with means to intermittently rotate a gear thereof A motor having gears which transmit rotations of a rotor to an output shaft through a gear mechanism made of gear trains, comprises a gear mechanism provided with an intermittent rotation mechanism including a primary gear which rotates upon receiving rot... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6257086 | Toy gear box and a gear case therefor A toy gear box having a gear case in which a worm wheel and a gear wheel having axes of rotation transversely to each other are in operative engagement with each other with a specific gear ratio. The gear wheel is replaceable, and at least one second gear... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6244564 | Motor-type damper unit A motor-type damper unit includes a motor for driving in a single direction, an opened/closed member for reciprocating in an opening direction and a closing direction with a fulcrum shaft serving as a center by a drive force of said motor, an intermittent... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6209404 | Intermittent geneva actuated mechanism An apparatus (10) includes a manually rotatable input member (15), an input gear (20), an output gear (40), a drive link (60), a first planar link (80), and a second planar link (90). The input gear (20) is operatively connected to the input member (15) t... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6082206 | Motor having gears with means to intermittently rotate a gear thereof A motor having gears which transmit rotations of a rotor to an output shaft through a gear mechanism made of gear trains, comprises a gear mechanism provided with an intermittent rotation mechanism including a primary gear which rotates upon receiving rot... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6038799 | Indexing system for changeable signs An indexing system for signs consisting of a plurality of indicia bearing vane faces wherein the vane faces are sequentially exposed to view in the manner of a "wave", such sequential revealing of the sign vane faces generating interest in the sign's mess... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6007117 | Motor vehicle door lock or the like with trip-free mechanism A motor vehicle door lock or the like for a door or hatch of a motor vehicle which can be closed from the outside, preferably via a closing cylinder, with a lock mechanism which, among other elements, has an actuating lever (1), a force application elemen... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5983751 | Single gear train bicycle drive mechanism Apparatus to drive a bicycle wherein two pedals move in a non-fixed, non-180 degree relationship to each other. As the pedal that is being powered by the user moves through an arc less than 180 degrees, the unpowered pedal moves through more than 180 degr... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5979256 | Gear drive window wiper and multi-function electric motor A multi-functional apparatus that employs a gear drive window wiper and multi-function electric motor is described. The apparatus uses a gear system powered by a reversible electric motor that allows one intermittent motion mechanism to be actuated, while... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5944305 | Drive transmitting device, sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus A drive transmitting device having a partly untoothed gear partly having an untoothed portion, and a driven gear capable of meshing which the partly untoothed gear, and transmitting rotation from the partly untoothed gear to the driven gear is characteriz... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5893670 | Gear with teeth of decreasing height for a printer A gear drive system for a printer designed to print upon a continuous roll of paper and having a blade used to cut off printed portions of paper from the paper roll is implemented. The gear drive system has a drive gear which slips against a toothless por... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5860325 | Wave motion sign transmission A transmission system for louver type signs wherein the signs consist of a plurality of multiple faced louvers having indicia defined thereon and the side-by-side relationship of the louvers permits pre-selected faces to define a completed image. The adja... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5855141 | Scrolling device A scrolling device includes a first disk, a second disk and a middle disk wherein a shaft extends through the disks and two setting devices are respectively disposed between the middle disk and the respective one of the first and the second disk. A casing... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5605072 | Load-isolated, single-cycle mechanism A driven gear (3a), a gear (11a) to a rotary solenoid (15a) and an output drive gear (19a) are mounted to rotate together, preferably as one part turning on a stationary shaft (7a). The driven gear and the output drive gear have disengagement sectors (5a ... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5531132 | Cam apparatus using an electromagnet and gears for decelerating a motor A cam apparatus including a cam gear having a toothless area and teeth at a circumferential surface thereof and also having a first projection and a second projection on a surface thereof; a driving gear for engaging the teeth of the cam gear to rotate th... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5520065 | Incremental speed reduction unit An incremental speed reduction unit mounted between a fluid meter and a totalizer for reducing the speed at which the totalizer operates comprises a drive gear rotatably supported on a shaft and drivingly rotated by the fluid meter. A ring shaped gear int... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5444927 | Motorized mechanism for adjusting snow blowing discharge chute An electrically powered snow blower discharge chute adjustment mechanism generally comprised of a meshingly engaging gearing arrangement wherein one of the gears is operably connected to a conventional electric motor (the drive gear), and the other gear i... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5353659 | Mechanism for converting oscillatory rotation of input shaft to unidirectional rotation of output shaft A mechanism is disclosed for converting oscillatory rotation of an input shaft to unidirectional rotation of an output shaft. An input shaft journalled to a frame is rotatable about an input axis, over a range of rotational positions, between a forward li... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5284064 | Quiet, single-cycle mechanism A low-noise, paper pick or other single cycle mechanism is obtained by employing a rotary solenoid (15) which has a force to a detent position which may be overcome by force from a drive roller (1). In the detent position the drive roller faces a blank se... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5276466 | Recording apparatus Disclosed is a recording apparatus for recording information signals on a recording sheet. The apparatus includes a conveyance mechanism for conveying the sheet, a recording head reciprocating along the sheet for performing recording thereon, a driving po... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5273480 | Control vehicle toy drive train for pivoting turns A drive unit of a vehicle toy realizes a high-speed performance and a large-torque performance, is excellent in operability and provides improved battery life. In the drive unit, there is provided a motor gear driven by a radio-controlled motor, first and... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5255465 | Multiple display sign assembly A multi-display sign assembly, which is particularly lightweight, may be hung in a variety of locations which could not normally support such a sign structure, and functions in smooth, quiet, and relatively low vibration movements, the sign assembly inclu... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5217152 | Gear mechanism and record medium feeding apparatus employing the same A gear mechanism provides for intermittent drive operation with precision stop location of angular position of one (driven) gear driven by another (drive) gear which is accomplished by increasing the precision of the distance maintained between the rotati... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5211066 | Cam gear controlling mechanism A cam gear controlling mechanism is simple in structure, small in overall size and high in reliability of operation. The controlling mechanism comprises a cam gear having toothed and non-toothed portions and a cam groove, a trigger lever having a projecti... | 05/18/1993 |
