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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4067384 | Heat exchanger core assembly for engine cooling system A heat exchanger core assembly suitable for use in a motor vehicle and the like cooling system. The assembly has a multiplicity of parallel heat transfer fins pierced by a large number of liquid-filled tubes to be cooled. The leading edges of the fins are... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067385 | Apparatus and method for connecting a tubing string to downhole well equipment Apparatus is disclosed for tieing at least one tubing string suspended in a well pipe from a subsea non-rotatable christmas tree located on the sea floor to a downhole hanger affixed to the well pipe. The tubing string has a tie-back tool arranged on its ... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067386 | Casing collar indicator A tubing string device for giving an indication of the location of casing collars in a cased wellbore utilizes a tubular body having a resilient sleeve mounted thereon, and axial spring means abutting the resilient sleeve.... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067387 | Subsurface well apparatus having flexing means and method of using same A surface-controlled subsurface safety valve apparatus and method of utilizing the safety valve to through-the-flowline serviced wells. Both the valve frame and valve operator are provided with ball and socket universal joints to enable passage of the saf... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067388 | Hydraulic operated casing hanger running tool A well tool for running and landing underwater casing hangers. The tool includes a resilient split ring with external threads that engage complementary internal threads on the hanger, and an hydraulic system that is actuated through a control line at the ... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067389 | Hydraulic fracturing technique This specification discloses a technique of hydraulically fracturing a subterranean formation wherein there is used a fracturing fluid comprised of an aqueous solution of an interaction product of a polysaccharide and a galactomannan.... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067390 | Apparatus and method for the recovery of fuel products from subterranean deposits of carbonaceous matter using a plasma arc An apparatus and method utilizes a plasma arc torch as a heat source for recovering useful fuel products from in situ deposits of coal, tar sands, oil shale, and the like. When applied to a coal deposit, the plasma torch is lowered in a shaft into the dep... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067391 | In-situ extraction of asphaltic sands by counter-current hydrocarbon vapors A method of extracting highly viscous nonfracturable oil from earthen deposits is presented by the instant invention. A plurality of radially extending horizontal conduits direct heated hydrocarbon vapors into the formation. The vapors are selected to hav... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067392 | Toxic gas control for RF absorber fires A method of controlling toxic outgassing of carbon impregnated polyurethane nd other radio-frequency-absorbing materials when burning or smouldering. Ammonia gas and water or steam are sprayed onto smouldering material to combine with hydrogen cyanide (HCN... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067393 | Method and apparatus for handling and laying strips of sod A sod handling machine similar to fork lift truck which permits the handling of pallets of sod without loss of sod from the pallet, and further includes flotation tires arranged to permit the machine to be used for packing the sod after it has been laid. ... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067394 | Implement with automatic sequencing valve and system An implement such as a tractor-propelled, multi-row planter having row markers hingedly mounted on opposite sides is provided with an automatically operating hydraulic sequencing valve for alternately actuating the markers. The sequencing valve is adapted... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067395 | Land leveler with relative height control A tractor drawn implement having a blade engageable with the ground and adjustable as to its depth of engagement whereby depth is increased over high spots and depth is decreased over low spots to transfer soil from high spots to low spots as the implemen... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067396 | Roll-over mechanism for two-way plow Mechanism operating through a mechanical advantage for rolling over a two-way gang plow comprises a pair of hydraulic cylinders acting through respective short links connected pivotally at one of their ends to their associated cylinders and at their oppos... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067397 | Hand-operated device for drilling blast-holes The perforator body is provided with a built-in pulling winch whose drum is wound with a wire rope. The winch axle mounts a worm wheel meshing with the perforator box whose external surface is made in the form of a worm. The wire rope is secured to the ro... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067398 | Ring drilling rig A ring drilling rig for rock drilling has a feed beam for a rock drill. The feed beam is mounted in a holder on the distal end of an arm that is mounted on a support. The support is tiltable about a transverse horizontal axis. The arm is swingable 360° a... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067399 | Cylinder piece for a pile driving ram A cylinder piece for use as the cylinder in a pile driving ram is provided with inlet and outlet ports and at least two guide girdles for supporting guide members adapted to cooperate with at least one guide stay of the guide frame. The core of the cylind... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067400 | Pneumatic hammer A pneumatic hammer is an impact tool to be used in the construction industry and in mechanical engineering for chipping metal, scaling welds and chipping castings. The pneumatic hammer comprises a housing accommodating a barrel axially movable relative th... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067401 | Pile-driving hammer A pile-driving hammer comprises a hammer cylinder, a piston accomodated in said hammer cylinder in sealing relationship with a sliding face of the hammer cylinder and means for supplying lubricant to said sliding face which consists of a lining of wear-re... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067402 | Rammer In a rammer a piston housed in a combustion cylinder strikes with its impact surface the adapted impact surface of a striker. When the impact surfaces are spherical or flattened the piston may strike against the cylinder wall, as a result of which the cyl... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067403 | Wire driver handpiece Chuck for a gear reduction surgical rotary driver. There is provided for a controlled speed surgical driver an automatically releasable chuck for grasping tools of a very small diameter such as the wire used in bone pinning. In a driver having a conventio... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067404 | Angle adjustment sub An angle adjustment sub which permits the rotational adjustment of adjacent portions of a running string to bring the axis of adjacent portions of a running string, which are deviated at different vertical angles, into a common planar axis.... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067405 | Hydraulic shock absorber An hydraulic shock absorber for protecting the drill bit and drill pipe in rotary earth drilling consists of a casing with an upper sub mounted in its one end for connection to a string of drill pipe. An anvil is slidably mounted on the other end. A plura... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067406 | Soft formation drill bit A rock bit with rotary cone cutter means having hardened insert teeth utilizing fewer than the normal number of teeth or of cutters used for a given gage hole wherein the cone cutter body is of greater diameter and for approximately the same axial length,... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067407 | Annular seal An annular seal of resilient material is disclosed and having an axially directed groove containing a spring between two interconnected body portions. At least one of said body portions has a sealing lip projecting in a radial direction generally opposite... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067408 | Balance mechanism A balance mechanism for automatically lifting known weights in a single-arm balance comprised of two plates, a first plate supporting the known weights and a pan for an unknown mass to be weighed and a second counterbalancing plate coupled to the first th... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067409 | Wheel chair arrangement A wheel chair with a retractable back rest, and a seat which may be uncovered to expose an opening that enables a patient in the wheel chair to use a toilet while remaining seated in the wheel chair. By actuating a switching arrangement, the patient may r... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067410 | Load transporting vehicles An off-the-road earth-moving truck having a rearwardly dumping body, has equal weight distribution between a steerable drive axle and a drive axle both when fully loaded and when empty.... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067411 | Vehicle emergency alarm and stop system A vehicle emergency control system which remotely signals the unauthorized operation of a suitably-equipped vehicle, and which conditions the vehicle by remote control to be involuntarily retarded or stopped by an action of the unauthorized operator. Vehi... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067412 | Floating ladder A rigid guide assembly having two inwardly disposed facing channel members secured to the stringer of a stationary platform and one end of a support member attached at each outward side of the top portion of the channel member. The other end of each suppo... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067413 | Collapsible ladders A collapsible ladder for use as an emergency escapeway is described which has two side members between which rungs extend. The side members are each composed of a plurality of sections, which are pivoted to each other at overlapping ends. In one embodimen... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067414 | Lubricant fitting An integrally molded plastic lubricant fitting which has the check valve at the outlet of the fitting instead of at the inlet, and where hydrostatic pressure from the lubricant within the body of the fitting maintains the fitting in an operative position.... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067415 | Locking arrangement for counterweight An improved mounting and locking arrangement useful in a vehicle having load-lifting means at a first portion thereof, and a removable counterweight at a second portion thereof, on an opposite side of the center of gravity of the vehicle from the load-lif... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067416 | Elevator system An elevator system including terminal slowdown control which includes a source which provides a beam of electromagnetic radiation, a receiver of such radiation, and spaced markers disposed in a terminal zone which interrupts the beam of electromagnetic ra... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067417 | Self-energizing applied wedge actuator A self-energizing disc brake is operated by an actuator which moves spreading pressure plates angularly in opposite directions to apply rotatable friction discs to radial surfaces in a stationary housing, and the actuator comprises a wedge for separating ... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067418 | Noise reducing assemblies for disc brakes for vehicles In a disc brake of the sliding yoke reaction type the noise due to "squeal" or "twitter" is substantially eliminated by resiliently biassing the yoke in grooves in a stationary member so that it engages an upper face of a groove on one side of the brake a... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067419 | Brake A self-adjusting brake having a brake drum, primary and secondary brake shoes, a brake cylinder and a stationary brake shoe support for floatingly mounting the brake shoes. The latter are arranged interiorly of the brake drum and coact with it, the ends o... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067420 | Disc brake A disk brake, preferably for use in connection with industrial machinery, has a pair of braking levers which carry at one end brake shoes located on opposite sides of the disk. The braking levers are operatively interconnected at the end opposite the brak... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067421 | Braking balance for vehicle moving on conveyor This invention relates to a transportation system comprising vehicles moved on a conveyor, guided and partly supported by wheels rolling on a guiding rail, and provided with at least one braked wheel coming into contact with braking ramps transferring the... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067422 | Attache case with auxiliary access opening An attache case having a slot through one of its walls closed by a spring-loaded internal shutter. Articles may thereby be placed into the attache case without opening the main lid.... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4067423 | Control system for rotary drill A mobile rig for drilling blast holes comprises a rotatable drill holder mounted on an upright mast. A torque converter and transmission are connected between a prime mover (I.C. engine or electric motor) on the rig and the drill holder. The torque conver... | 01/10/1978 |
