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Patents Published on 08/28/1979


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4165582System 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
4165583Window-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
4165584Apparatus 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
4165585Automatic 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
4165586Spark 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
4165587Grit 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
4165588Furniture 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
4165589Reglets 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
4165590Industrial 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
4165591Component 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
4165592Cable 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
4165593Process 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
4165594Packaging 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
4165595Packaging 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
4165596Apparatus 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
4165597Cutter 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
4165598Self-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
4165599Arrangement 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
4165600Apparatus 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
4165601Control 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
4165602Yarn 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
4165603Apparatus 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
4165604Solar 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
4165605Electronic 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
4165606Device 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
4165607Watch 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
4165608Sensor 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
4165609Gas 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
4165610Internal 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
4165611Secondary 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
4165612Structure 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
4165613Control 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
4165614Self-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
4165615Pressure 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
4165616Apparatus 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
4165617Process 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
4165618Treatment 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
4165619Method 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
4165620Self-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
4165621Pendant 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
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