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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4159172 | Transfer sheet separator for use with electrophotographic copying machine A transfer sheet separator for use with electrophotographic copying machines in which either a toner image or an electrostatic latent image on a photoreceptor drum is transferred to a transfer sheet. A separation roller is arranged near to the drum surfac... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159173 | Device for controlling a reverse time of a manuscript carriage, etc. for electrographic apparatuses A device for controlling a reverse time of a manuscript carriage, etc. for electrographic apparatuses is disclosed. The device comprises means for disengaging a forward movement electromagnetic clutch from a manuscript carriage or optical system driving m... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159174 | Method and apparatus for adjusting the correction levels in a settable matrix printer In a settable matrix photographic color printer, Neutral, Green-chromaticity, and Illuminant-chromaticity correction levels and associated color rotations are adjusted by: transforming the printer correction matrix from a Red, Green, Blue coordinate syste... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159175 | Method for producing a printing plate A method of making a printing plate from a negative microphotographic film by means of enlarged photographic projection which comprises the steps of impressing a code for detecting the respective frames of the negative microphotographic film on the blank ... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159176 | Device for aligning a photomask on a printed circuit board There is described an exposure frame for aligning and holding photomasks in registration with a printed circuit board coated with a light sensitive material. The printed circuit board is held between an independently adjustable mounting strip and slides. ... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159177 | Color display tube, method of manufacturing such a display tube having a shadow mask, and reproduction mask for use in such a method The bridges between apertures located at the edge of the shadow mask of a color display tube are made at least 20% wider than the others. The width of the bridges increases linearly from row to row from the center to the edge of the mask whereby a continu... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159178 | Stimulated brillouin scattering ring laser gyroscope A stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) ring laser gyroscope. The SBS laser gyroscope is fabricated from a single-mode optical fiber waveguide and is optically coupled to a laser to accommodate being pumped in two directions by laser radiation having suff... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159179 | Colorimeter An improved Colorimeter which can be used to analyze samples in either a stationary mode (e.g. in a test tube) or in a flow-through mode wherein the sample flows through the apparatus. The Colorimeter is equipped with means to direct the illuminating radi... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159180 | Ground fed blender A land vehicle for use as a blender for the mixing of dry, particulate, and liquid materials comprising a chassis having an articulated frame thereon, the articulated frame including a first translatable portion and a second translatable, rotatable portio... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159181 | Mixing and pelletizing machine A mixing and pelletizing chamber includes a semicylindrical flexible trough of rubber or other material in which a rotor assembly mixes and pelletizes material moved from an inlet end to an outlet end. Springs are attached to the trough to resist movement... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159182 | Combination toothpick and beverage stirrer An improved frangible beverage stirrer is disclosed which is capable of being broken into two toothpicks. The utensil includes a handle portion having an upper surface and a lower surface with a relatively long dimension along an axis. A first end of the ... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159183 | Keyboard employing photoelectric key actuation sensing In a key-operated machine in which actuation of a key moves code elements of an associated code card into the path of a photoelectric sensing system, each code card is moved by a drive mechanism so as to cause the code elements to traverse the sensing sys... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159184 | Friable thread electrode joint An electrode joint having tapered threaded recesses in the mating electrode sections and a connecting threaded nipple, with a friable thread segment either in each threaded recess, or on each half of the threaded nipple, the friable thread being thickened... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159185 | Ferrule for high voltage fuse and method of fabrication thereof A high voltage dropout type expulsion fuse has a lower trunnion assembly mounted on one end and a fuse release assembly mounted on the other end thereof. To assure the proper positional relationship between the trunnion assembly and the fuse release assem... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159186 | Ball joint, particularly for use in motor vehicles A ball joint includes one member having a socket portion which has an internal support surface bounding a cavity, and another member having a mounting portion which is received in the cavity, and has a spherical contact surface that contacts the support s... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159187 | Five piece brake lever connection A brake lever connection is formed from a tube with a two-piece jaw welded to each end, each jaw having laterally spaced side portions merging at one end into end portions engaging each other to form the inner end of the jaw, which has a first frusto-coni... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159188 | Dam with reversible hydroelectric station A reversible hydroelectric station associated with a dam having a water passageway includes shiftable components selective displaceable to achieve alternately, either an energy generation or an energy accumulation mode. One or more rotatable hydromotive a... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159189 | Tie-in method and apparatus A method and system for connecting the ends of a pair of tubular conduits for use at the bottom of a body of water in which terminal portions of said conduits, adjacent to and including said ends, are buoyantly supported in a generally elevated attitude w... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159190 | Laydown tool for plastic crop-irrigation tubing This invention provides apparatus and a method for laying flexible irrigation tubing underground, the apparatus comprising a plow attached to a frame, means located on the frame to support and unreel a spool of flexible tubing, a rigid tube affixed to the... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159191 | Fluid rotor A conical shaped rotor is described for rotation about a horizontal shaft axis for responding to or creating a moving airstream. The rotor is elongated and conical shaped along the rotor axis with elongated blades extending longitudinally and radially inw... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159192 | Transfer dyes and transfer printing process The invention relates to a process for printing flat-surface structures made from synthetic man-made or regenerated man-made polymer materials, for example polyester, polyacetate and preferably polyacrylonitrile fibres, by transfer printing, by means of a... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159193 | Method for sampling and fixing urinary metabolites on an immobilizing support and apparatus therefor A method for sampling and fixing urinary metabolites on an immobilizing support which is a paper comprising a substance appropriately activated before use. The determination of the or each required metabolite is expressed in relation to the determination ... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159194 | Crystallization apparatus and process A crystallization apparatus and process especially useful for the continuous regeneration of metal processing solutions, such as copper etchants, where direct recovery of metal values in the form of large crystals of high solids content is achieved and fo... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159195 | Hydrothermal alkali metal recovery process In a coal gasification operation or similar conversion process carried out in the presence of an alkali metal-containing catalyst wherein solid particles containing alkali metal residues are produced, alkali metal constituents are recovered from the parti... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159196 | Apparatus for the wet purification of gases Apparatus for the wet purification of gases, in which a wash liquid is sprayed into a gas to be purified and the gas is then forced or drawn through a separating wall having passage slots. The gas flow is divided up by pairs of such slots into pairs of su... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159197 | Suspension gasket seal and system for baghouse filter units An improved gasket means for suspending a filter element from a venturi air nozzle in a dust collector. The gasket means is an annular member of elastomeric material and has an annular recess in the inner side wall in which is received the flared bottom l... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159198 | Method of making a nozzle plate for spinning glass fibers made of special alloy and resulting nozzle plate An alloy for a nozzle plate for spinning glass fibers which contains between 82 and 92 percent by weight platinum, between 3 and 10 percent by weight gold, and between 3 and 12 percent by weight palladium. This alloy displays an excellent resistance to we... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159199 | Method and apparatus for forming fibers by gas blast attenuation Gas blast attenuation is disclosed including the use of a pair of gaseous jets having axes lying in a common plane and directed to impinge upon each other preferably at an acute angle, the attenuable material being introduced into the influence of air ind... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159200 | Air nozzle assembly for use in apparatus for producing glass fibers In an apparatus for producing glass fibers wherein an orifice plate formed with a greater number of orifice holes in high density is provided to draw glass fibers therethrough and air nozzle means is provided for impinging air flow against the undersurfac... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159201 | Process for producing a carbon monoxide-rich gas A carbon monoxide-rich gas of a carbon monoxide concentration of at least 98% by volume is produced by [a] generating a hydrogen and carbon monoxide-containing crude gas by gasification of a finely divided solid fuel, including dust-like fuel, with oxygen... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159202 | Photopolymer having 2-pyridone side group This invention relates to a photo-cross-linkable polymer containing units each having a 2-pyridone side group. The invention also relates to a photosensitive copying material including the novel photo-cross-linkable polymer.... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159203 | Aqueous black ink and process for the production thereof An aqueous black ink for a writing process in which ink is transferred in droplets onto a print carrier. The ink comprises 25-42 g./l. of the direct Diamine Blue 6B, extra high concentration; 14-22 g./l. of the direct dye Diamine Scarlet 4BS, extra concen... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159204 | Process for the manufacture of refractory ceramic products A ceramic molding composition comprising an alcoholate of aluminum or a metal of the fourth sub-group of the Periodic System, a refractory metal oxide and an agent selected from the group consisting of diketones of the formula ##STR1## wherein R... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159205 | Process for producing polycrystalline oxide fibers A process for the manufacture of an aluminum oxide or zirconium oxide fiber comprising fiberizing a liquid containing lactic acid and an oxidizable compound selected from basic aluminum chloride, zirconium acetate and zirconium oxychloride and the resulti... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159206 | Weatherable, abrasion resistant coating composition, method, and coated articles A weatherable coating composition, especially for imparting abrasion resistance to thermoplastic substrates, comprising about 30-50 parts by weight of a colloidal silica and about 50 to 70 parts by weight of a mixture of (i) dialkyldialkoxysilane and (ii)... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159207 | Pigment A double phase pigment is disclosed including a first phase of a lattice of zinc sulfide, and a second phase of a lattice of zinc oxide serving as a host for manganese oxide in solid solution. The pigment may be prepared by reacting zinc oxide and mangane... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159208 | Process for production of color developer A process for the production of a color developer comprising reacting an alkali metal salt of an aromatic carboxylic acid and a water-soluble metal salt in the presence of clay and a water-insoluble aluminum compound.... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159209 | Metal complexes Metal complexes prepared by the reaction of less than one mole of an alkanolamine with at least one mole of a metal alkoxide and a polyhydric alcohol. The complexes are useful for imparting thixotropy to systems containing protective organic colloids.... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159210 | Maple sugar product and method of preparing and using same A transformed, crystallized maple sugar product comprising aggregates of crystals having a crystal size in the range about 3-50 microns is prepared by concentrating a maple syrup containing at least about 63% sucrose to a solids content of about 93-98%. T... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4159211 | Dishwasher water temperature control system A domestic dishwasher is provided with a control system having circuitry including timer switch means adapted to insure automatic wash water at a normal set temperature for all cycles with the user having an option to preselect an elevated wash water temp... | 06/26/1979 |