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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4165582 | System for supporting plants, bushes and small trees A system for supporting plants, bushes and small trees, by the use of per se known channel formed metallic batten or rail with C-formed cross-section suitable for attachment on walls or for insertion into the earth and adapted to take up attaching means o... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165583 | Window-raiser, in particular for automobile vehicles The window-raiser comprises a window support and a guiding device and an actuating device for this support. The actuating device comprises a U-shaped rack which is pivoted to the window support in the region of the apex of the U by a pin, a drive pinion h... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165584 | Apparatus for lapping or polishing materials Wafers to be processed are mounted to a lapping plate of a lapping machine using a photosensitive thermoplastic material, such as a photoresist. In a preferred embodiment, the wafers are laminated to a dry film photopolymer disposed on a carrier sheet, af... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165585 | Automatic doffing and donning apparatus An automatic doffing and donning apparatus is disclosed for replacing a plurality of full bobbins which are mounted on winding spindles disposed parallel to each other on a yarn processing machine with a plurality of empty bobbins which are mounted on a b... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165586 | Spark plug cleaner and method The invention provides a spark plug cleaner operating to break up fouling carbon deposit by blasting the fouled surfaces of a spark plug, with a blasting abrasive such as granular tungsten carbide, zirconium or aluminum oxide of 36 to 46 grain size to bre... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165587 | Grit blasting apparatus A method and apparatus for grit blasting in which fuel and air are combusted in a flashback combustion chamber to produce a high velocity gas blasting jet and a stream of grit is introduced into the blasting jet.... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165588 | Furniture unit A free standing furniture unit has a pair of spaced vertical posts, and connecting rods extend between upper and lower end portions of the posts. The connecting rods and the posts, when assembled, provide an open rectangular frame which receives a rectang... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165589 | Reglets and associated components This invention relates primarily to reglets and the associated components in a weatherproofing system for buildings in which the reglet comprises an elongate element including first and second walls connected to each other along adjacent longitudinal edge... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165590 | Industrial building structure and method of erection An improved industrial building structure for housing the dryer section of a paper-making machine where a building substructure transfers the substantial part of the weight of a building superstructure and roof to the opposed, weight-bearing sides of the ... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165591 | Component type building construction system Building construction system utilizing a modular or component type construction in which the components are prefabricated at a plant location and then assembled at a job or building site. The system utilizes wall, door, plumbing, over-window, under-window... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165592 | Cable directing apparatus Apparatus through which electrical cables of an underground distribution system may pass from a generally horizontal plane to a generally vertical plane so as to be directed upwardly for connection with terminals of an above ground transformer comprising:... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165593 | Process for attaching a hanger loop to a wrapper section closed with a U-shaped clip The invention relates to convoluting a doubled, unknotted length of thread about a clip which is closed about the gathered mouth of a tubular wrapper such as a sausage casing to form a loop by which the sausage can be hung. The clip secures the loop to th... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165594 | Packaging of a product in a sterile medium A joint strip is used comprising a container strip in thermoplastic material and a cover strip having sterile sides facing one another and isolated from the outside in a sealed manner along their edges. The container and cover strips are separated each fr... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165595 | Packaging machines A packaging machine is described in which articles or groups of articles are wrapped in a sleeve of stretch-wrap material. The machine includes a sleeve feeding and cutting assembly for drawing the leading end portion from a roll of stretch-wrap tubing, f... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165596 | Apparatus and method for simultaneously cutting two rows of cane and piling four rows of cut cane on two rows Two pairs of cane gatherers are mounted forwardly on a four-wheeled power train, for driving a plurality of constant and variable volume hydraulic pumps, the cane gatherers being provided with gathering chains for holding and moving cane through a pair of... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165597 | Cutter pin for rotary mower As an article of manufacture, a tapered cutter pin for a rotary mower formed of durable resilient plastic having a shank and terminating at its outer end in a relatively thin but stiffly resilient tip portion, the shank having a head at its inner end for ... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165598 | Self-cleaning rake A self-cleaning rake including an elongated handle having a rake head frame with spaced tines rigidly secured to one end of the handle. A plate is pivotally mounted on the handle for pivotal movement relative to the rake head frame and tines. The plate is... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165599 | Arrangement for twisting of fibrous material Filaments or yarn are twisted by means of an arrangement provided with three at least partly hollow shafts rotating at equal or different rotating speeds and in the same or different sense, while the fibrous material is guided so as to pass alternately th... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165600 | Apparatus for open-end spinning of fibers Apparatus for open-end spinning of discrete fibers in a narrow gap between adjacent, air permeable surfaces of two tapered drums whose axes of revolution are at an acute angle and which rotate in the same direction, while drawing air through said surfaces... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165601 | Control system for yarn-tying device of thread-winding machine A yarn-tying device in a thread monitor patrolling a bank of spindles periodically receives enabling signals for at least one if its units from a drive mechanism serving for the vertical reciprocation of a ring rail associated with the spindles. The drive... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165602 | Yarn texturing machine A texturing machine for yarns having a row of upright yarn supply packages, a texturing section opposite the supply packages, an upright heater extending above the supply packages, a cooling guide extending from the heater downward to the texturing sectio... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165603 | Apparatus for waxing yarn using solid wax on a textile machine A wax body is rotatably and slidably mounted on a guide pin which, in turn, is pivotally mounted about a horizontal axis. The guide pin and wax body are movable between a working position in which a yarn is run between the wax body and a stop on the guide... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165604 | Solar battery timepiece A solar battery timepiece has a structure of a module, a base plate on the module, a solar battery cell on the base plate, an insulating flexible sheet provided with a print wiring and interposed between the base plate and the solar battery cell, and a di... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165605 | Electronic timepiece An electronic timepiece comprises a reference oscillator, a counter for counting reference clock signals from the reference oscillator to obtain a time count signal, and a display device for displaying a time count value of the counter, in which there is ... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165606 | Device for the automatic operation of weight driven clocks An automatic winding device for weight driven clocks wherein the driving unit is contained inside a suspended winding weight, has a roller to wind a flexible pulling means upon and a motor within the suspended winding weight actuated by switch means in th... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165607 | Watch module An improved electronic watch module structure includes a chassis member having an egg-crate configuration. A substrate having electronic watch components and conductors mounted thereupon has a piezoelectric crystal elememt mounted on it. The substrate is ... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165608 | Sensor for rocket engines A sensor for rocket engines having at least one combustion chamber including a pressure-sensitive sensing device responsive to pressure in the combustion chamber for providing an output signal to a control device in response to the pressure in the combust... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165609 | Gas turbine mixer apparatus Fluid mixing apparatus for mixing the coaxially flowing streams of fan air and primary exhaust within a turbofan engine are disclosed. Each of the disclosed arrangements include a generally tubular mixer section that extends axially rearward from the engi... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165610 | Internal combustion engine with variable cylinder disablement control A multicylinder internal combustion engine is provided with a means for disabling several cylinders when reduced power can adequately operate the vehicle and an exhaust gas treatment device. An additional fuel injector is provided to increase fuel quantit... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165611 | Secondary air feeding device for an internal combustion engine Disclosed is a secondary air feeding device for feeding secondary air into the exhaust passage located upstream of the catalytic converter. A diaphragm type secondary air control valve is provided for usually controlling an amount of secondary air fed int... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165612 | Structure for mounting an exhaust manifold to the body of an internal combustion engine A structure for mounting an exhaust manifold of the type having a plurality of branch tubular portions and a continuous strip-like flange portion which joins the free end portions of the branch tubular portions to the body of an internal combustion engine... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165613 | Control apparatus for a plurality of simultaneously actuatable fluid motors A control apparatus is disclosed for permitting simultaneous actuation of a plurality of fluid motors whose combined flow capacity exceeds the available flow rate. The plurality of fluid motors are actuated by a corresponding plurality of open center, pre... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165614 | Self-contained vapor-power plant requiring a single moving-part A simple vapor-power plant, completely self-contained in an enclosed space, whose working fluid executes, in a truly continuous fashion, a complete cyclic operation involving at least vaporization, expansion, condensation and recycling of itself by flowin... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165615 | Pressure regenerator for increasing of steam, gas, or hot air pressure and rotating steam boiler, with additional equipment Apparatus for reheating the exhaust steam or other working fluid from an external combustion engine, e.g., a turbine, comprises two contra-rotating drums, each containing conduit means arranged in a spiral through which the exhaust fluid flows in successi... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165616 | Apparatus and method for restricting turbine exhaust velocity within a predetermined range An apparatus and method for controlling fluid velocity exhausting from an elastic fluid turbine within a predetermined range. Elastic fluid flow rate and velocity is measured through the turbine's exhaust stage and coolant flow rate to heat exchange tubes... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165617 | Process and apparatus for applying and compacting castable material in strips on a sloped surface An earthen structure for holding back a body of water has a sloped surface which is paved with an overlapping arrangement of strips constructed of castable material. Each strip is formed by conveying castable material from a mobile receiving hopper that i... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165618 | Treatment with liquid cryogen A product, such as tobacco, is introduced into a processing chamber that is coupled with a holding chamber. A cryogen vapor pressure is established in the processing chamber, and a compressor is operated to transfer liquid cryogen near equilibrium conditi... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165619 | Method of controlling a heat pump, and a heat pump device adapted to operate in accordance with said method A heat pump device and method of controlling the heat pump device which includes a cold generating fluid circuit, a first heat exchanger associated with the circuit in order to draw calories from a heat containing fluid passing through a cooling circuit, ... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165620 | Self-service cooling cabinet A self-service low temperature cooling cabinet for easily spoilable food and/or edible products, especially ice cream, with an easily accessible front withdrawing opening and two cooling units or groups of cooling units comprising a ventilator and an evap... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4165621 | Pendant ring A finger ring embodies a tube located so as to project sidewardly into the finger space and to have opposite ends contoured to match the curvature of the ring periphery. A holder such as a clasp is receivable into the tube.... | 08/28/1979 |