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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 3955457 | Table mounting for power tool A table mounting for a power tool wherein a pair of opposed rods frictionally engage the top of the power tool base and the rods are held in place under stress by mountings connected to the underside of a table, so that the bottom of the base is held agai... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955458 | Cutting apparatus with sharpener and sharpening method A cutting apparatus for cutting pattern pieces from layups having a low stack height employs a cutting head having a small reciprocating blade suspended from a carriage which moves over the layup. The drive motors for reciprocating the blade and orienting... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955459 | Electronic musical instrument An automatic performance system in an electronic musical instrument comprises circuits for forming digital performance information signals by converting the displacement of movable members operated according to the contents of a performance into digital s... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955460 | Electronic musical instrument employing digital multiplexed signals An electronic musical instrument, such as an organ, includes a multiplexing system for simultaneously scanning key switches on all of the manual keyboards and pedalboards sequentially an octave at a time and further for simultaneously and sequentially sca... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955461 | Musical instrument stabilizer Apparatus for stabilizing a stringed musical instrument, while held by a musician, of the type having a body and fretted neck. The apparatus may comprise: a support member for resting against the trunk of the musician's body; a rod member attached at one ... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955462 | Fastener with deformable portion for guiding pins or the like This invention relates to a fastener combination comprising an anchoring element and a guide member for said anchoring element said guide member comprising a bottom plate and a superstructure that projects upwards from the bottom plate and bridges over it... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955463 | Screw mounting means A screw mounting clip member is adapted to be slidably fixedly engaged in a slotted aperture adjacent an unthreaded screw-receiving borehole. A spring detent member provided on the clip extends into the borehole when the clip is fixedly mounted in place. ... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955464 | Expansible anchor for securing an object to a support structure An expansion anchor sleeve has a leading end and a trailing end and can be inserted into an anchoring hole of a support structure. An expander member is located at the leading end and can be drawn into the same by a screw extending through the sleeve and ... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955465 | Drum construction A kettle-shaped drum has an annular recess adjacently below the top end of its hollow body. The flexible drum head includes a peripheral rib disposed in the recess and engaged at the top by a bracket. A plurality of recessed tensioning screws that extend ... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955466 | Performance learning system A performance learning system is described for a program such as a musical score, a play, or vocal performance. An ensemble rendition of a program is recorded on a first track of a magnetic tape with a particular performance, which normally is a part of t... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955467 | Uni-directional rope A rope is formed by using at least four warps running parallel to each other and positioned such that when viewed in cross section, their centers fall on the corners of a square. These parallel warps are held together by bobbin threads passing about diago... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955468 | Sighting and laying system for a missile launcher A sighting and laying system to properly aim the missile gyro axis to a petermined elevation and to orient this same axis in any desired horizontal direction. These functions are performed without any preleveling of the launcher elevating and slewing mec... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955469 | Feed transfer mechanism A belt-fed, gas-operated, air cooled automatic firearm having a novel mechanism for transferring link-connected ammunition rounds from a novel ammunition magazine to a feed position in an automatic firearm and having a novel sear mechanism including an an... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955470 | Bolt operating and locking mechanism for closed breech rocket gun A closed breech rocket gun has a tubular bolt with an outwardly extending lug thereon for locking the bolt in its forwardly projected position as the lug is shifted into engagement with an abutment wall on the receiver by means of a bolt operating plate g... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955471 | Machine tool spindle A machine tool includes a head which supports a vertically movable quill within which there is disposed a rotatable spindle to which various kinds of cutting tools may be attached. Within the quill there is provided a spring-biased annular piston for oper... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955472 | Machine tool structure for noise reduction Machine tool structure designed to reduce the noise incident to operation. The invention is illustrated and described as applied to a vertical broaching machine in which the frame structure is modified by supporting the operating components on a vertical ... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955473 | Power steering gear with proportional flow divider A flow divider for directing hydraulic fluid to separate hydraulic circuits, including a power steering gear which carries the divider, includes a pair of axially aligned valve spools disposed in a common bore of a valve housing. The valve spools and the ... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955474 | Fluid pressure system having pumps and valves A fluid pressure system having a plurality of pumps, valves, and fluid-pressure responsive units. These items are interconnected by fluid lines, and check valves are arranged to control the fluid in only certain directions in some portions of the lines. T... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955475 | Axial piston power transmission An axial piston power transmission of which a housing is provided with a protruded portion extending from the inner surface toward the outer periphery of a cylinder barrel and the maximum flow velocity of drain is generated between the protruded portion a... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955476 | Radial piston-type pump A radial piston-type pump is disclosed which includes a non-rotating control pin projecting into a cup-shaped housing. A pivoted cylinder block having radial holes is arranged on the pin. As the cylinder block rotates, the holes are alternately connected ... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955477 | Hydrostatic piston machine having a guide for laterally guiding a cylinder block pintle The pintle is mounted at one end in a lever which is pivotal about an axis parallel to the pintle axis and guide member axis. In addition, a guide means is provided to laterally guide the lever and pintle within the casing during pivoting of the lever. Th... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955478 | Hydraulically powered percussion drill The improved hydraulically actuated percussion drill described hereinafter is designed to reciprocate a striker piston contained therein regardless of whether or not the striker piston engages the drill steel whereby vibration can be imparted to the drill... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955479 | Fluid pressure operated actuator with safe disassembly means A fluid pressure operated actuator has a cylinder with a removable end cap and a piston rod extending axially through the end cap for transmitting piston movement to an external load and also has an internal compressed spring biasing the piston rod toward... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955480 | Spring-loaded brake cylinder for an air brake system of a railway vehicle A spring-loaded brake cylinder has a piston therein one side of which is loaded by a spring and the other side of which is subjected to compressed air introduced into the cylinder. The cylinder is provided with an auxiliary release device comprising a scr... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955481 | Apparatus for adhering traveling strip material to folded blank boxes An apparatus for adhering strips of predetermined length that previously have been severed from a running web of material to folded blank boxes which includes cutting the strips to length, advancing them by a conveyor seriatim past an adhesive activation ... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955482 | Tray forming and welding machine Preformed tray blanks, e.g., of an expanded foam thermoplastic material, are individually transported from a supply hopper into registration with a die cavity through which a mandrel forces the blank. In passing through the die, the blank is sequentially ... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955483 | Quick mounting means for grilles A quick mounting and dismounting grille for ventilator shaft openings or the like which includes a ventilator grille, a mounting means for mounting the ventilator grille in a ventilator shaft opening or the like, the mounting means utilizing inward or out... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955484 | Movable dust collecting duct A fixed duct is formed by vertically setting a partition plate virtually in the middle of a duct with a U-shaped cross section composed of two side plates and a bottom plate in such a manner that the lower end of said partition plate is spaced from said b... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955485 | Coffee making machine In a coffee making machine having a support structure and a pressure lever pivoted thereon, a device to obtain regular pressure on ground coffee, irrespective of its volume and to stabilise said pressure lever in "up" and "down" positions, comprising an e... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955486 | Food processing apparatus Apparatus for treating particulate heat and pressure reactive food material. The food material is fed into an elongated treating chamber which is under pressure. The chamber has an inlet at one end and an outlet at the other end. The food material is fed ... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955487 | Wiener charcoal broiler The present disclosure is directed to a wiener charcoal broiler employing a base block of a heat sink metal such as aluminum which cooperates with metal spaced wiener supports which receive their heat source from the heat sink base which protects the wien... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955488 | Food dehydrater A dehydrater for removing the majority of the liquid content of foods. The dehydrater utilizes an outer shell adapted to enclose the food being dehydrated and incorporates appropriate venting to permit the circulation of air within and through the unit. T... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955489 | Process for continuously producing a roasted cocoa mass and for manufacturing a chocolate mass A roasted cocoa mass or blend is produced in a continuous process by crushing raw cocoa beans after dehulling to form a more or less liquid mass which is moved as a thin layer over and in contact with a smooth roasting surface heated to between 110°C and... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955490 | Injection system for meat products An injection system for injecting a liquid material into a meat product comprises a double acting pneumatic drive cylinder, an injection cylinder the piston of which is connected to the piston of the drive cylinder and at least one injection needle connec... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955491 | Automotive tire stacking and strapping machine An automobile tire stacking and strapping machine embodying a stacking station where a predetermined number of tires are upstacked by successive application thereof to the bottom of a stack undergoing erection, and the completed stack is transferred bodil... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955492 | Baler A baler comprises a container with an upper open end, a lid hinged on a rear upper edge of the container and a platen mounted on the lid for compressing the material to be baled. The platen slides up and down through a hole in the lid, and hydraulic rams ... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955493 | Friction disc spindle press A friction disc spindle press which has a countershaft with two side discs rotatably but axially nondisplaceably connected to the end portions respectively of the countershaft which latter is axially displaceably mounted in the press frame. Each end of th... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955494 | Device for preventing an image of a printing master from being printed in an inclined position A device for duplicating apparatus adapted to prevent an image of a printing master from being printed in an inclined position on copies produced from the printing master mounted in the apparatus. The device comprises, in combination, a pair of delivery r... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955495 | Side wall printing apparatus for containers of non-circular cross-section A printing machine for applying printed matter to the outside of dished articles, particularly plastics containers for packaging food stuffs, of non-circular cross-section has a rotary printing drum associated with a revolving head, with supports for the ... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955496 | Linear can printer A linear conveyor has a plurality of mandrels on which cans are held for movement between a feed station and a discharge station. A plurality of printers are longitudinally spaced between the feed and discharge stations. Printing cylinders are rotated in ... | 05/11/1976 |
