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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4226057 | Self-cleaning invertible gutter system A self-cleaning invertible gutter system is provided in which a gutter having a projecting downspout connector positioned on the end thereof is mounted on the facia board of a building for roll-over invertible movement thereon. The gutter extends beyond t... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226058 | Anchor for roof mounted equipment An anchor bolt for securing a bracket to a roof supported by a beam is disclosed. The anchor bolt includes a shank having a threaded upper end and a lower end and extends through a hole in the roof located adjacent the beam. A nut threaded onto the thread... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226059 | Attaching device for soffits An attaching device to secure soffits under the eaves of a roof and to cover their ends. The attaching device is made of two separate pieces with snap action interlocking means. A top piece is first secured to the eaves and, once the soffit is fitted and ... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226060 | Floor plate for forming a foot path and method of laying a walking surface on a roof Walkable foot plates are laid directly on a concrete slab or a water resistant layer on a roof. Each foot plate has crack inducing grooves which divide the plate into blocks which are connected to each other by weak joint portions defined by the grooves. ... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226061 | Reinforced masonry construction Reinforced masonry construction including walls or slabs comprising elongated panels having permanent wall or slab forms (or skins) which are spaced a predetermined distance apart by unique ties which also serve as a web member or a component thereof resu... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226062 | Molded storage receptable A molded storage receptable that is disposed in the ground having a sealed, removeable cover that provides for a variety of uses including subterranean water or article storage or a mechanic's working pit. The device includes a molded fiberglass shell hav... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226063 | Hermetic seals in multiple pane windows A multiple pane window has an inner filamentary seal and an outer seal. The inner seal contains desiccant material whose concentration is greater in the inner portion thereof than in the outer portion thereof. The concentration may change progressively. T... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226064 | Flooring comprising adjoining plastics elements Flooring for stables and the like consisting of adjoining plastic elements interconnected by means of provisions formed in the material of the element.... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226065 | Stair construction and method for making same Stair construction and process for producing same are provided wherein at least one wooden plate is provided to form a wooden shell which constitutes the stair outer surface. A reinforcement member and filler material are disposed within the interior stai... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226066 | Door jamb A door jamb comprising, a first sheet metal section having a flat portion for attachment to a vertical face of an aperture in a wall and a pair of channel-shaped portions on either side of said flat portion, an inner flank of one channel-shaped portion be... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226067 | Structural panel A modular lightweight structural panel is made of a lightweight expanded plastic filler reinforced by wire lattice structures. A number of long, narrow filler elements are interleaved with a number of substantially flat lattice structures to form a lamina... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226068 | Appearance system System consisting of a series of decorative panels arranged in coplanar relationship over the vertical surface of a structure, each panel being attached to the structure at its central point by a single separable connection.... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226069 | Shingle simulating strip material Shingle simulating laminated flat strip sheet material for application in horizontally extending weatherproof interlocked courses, comprising a thin, flexible underlying plastic base sheet having a self sealing asphalt mastic coating layer and a mineral g... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226070 | Synthetic Spanish or Mission tile roofing system A roofing system having the appearance of Spanish or Mission tile made of fiberglass, with an interlocking overlapping means, which may be secured by conventional means such as nails or adhesives to new roofing structure or over existing roofing.... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226071 | Method for the preparation of low temperature structure Masonry buildings for low temperature applications such as freezers and the like are insulated by applying the insulation on the exterior and providing an external vapor barrier.... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226072 | Apparatus for applying a film lid to a cup Apparatus is provided for automatically applying a lid comprised of a film of thermoplastic sheet material to the top of a cup. The film is supplied in a roll and the leading end is fed into a position between the top of the cup and a heat sealing head. I... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226073 | Tray loader An automatic tray loading apparatus for cookies or the like in which cook are divided into two rows with cookies in each row separated into groups of a given count and continuously conveyed to a loading station for loading into trays. A pair of drop chut... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226074 | Lawnmower deck A lawnmower deck of inverted dish shape having three generally circular, laterally spaced but interconnected open-bottomed compartments in each of which is mounted a horizontally extending blade rotatable on a vertical axis and operable to impel cuttings ... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226075 | Fruit picking apparatus An apparatus for picking fruit from trees which takes the form of an elongated member which has a cutting blade arrangement at the upper end of the member and a handle structure at the lower end of the member for activating the cutting blade. Once the ste... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226076 | Apparatus and process for producing a covered elastic composite yarn A process and apparatus for covering elastic single strand core yarns with a plurality of inelastic cover yarns, such as nylon, is provided. The core yarn is stretched in a controlled manner between a set of feeder rolls and a pair of drawing rolls. Inter... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226077 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing wrapped yarns Method and apparatus for producing high quality wrapped yarn by a wrapping operation wherein a binder strand, carried by a supply package supported by a rotatably driven hollow spindle, is fed to the free end of the hollow supply spindle and wrapped aroun... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226078 | Wire rope A wire rope is formed by twisting two different metal wires which vary from each other by at least 5% in their acoustic wave propagation velocities. In the longitudinal direction, the two different metal wires are combined in two embodiments: first wires ... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226079 | Heather yarn made by combining polyester and polyamide yarns A continuous process is disclosed for producing a heather yarn from a continuous filament polyester feed yarn having a residual draw ratio in the range of from 1.6 to 2.0 and a continuous filament polyamide feed yarn having a residual draw ratio in the ra... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226080 | Loading device for false-twist apparatus A false-twist apparatus has a support defining three generally parallel and radially spaced axes surrounding a central axially extending twisting region. Respective shafts are journaled in this support for rotation about the axes and carry respective stag... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226081 | Electronic timepiece An electronic timepiece which makes use of a lithium battery having a high electric power capacity is disclosed. The timepiece comprises in combination a voltage converter and a voltage detection circuit. The output signal delivered from the voltage detec... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226082 | Ornamental part for watches and method of producing the same An ornamental part for watches such as a watch case having a composite coating layer consisting essentially of titanium and titanium nitride, the ratio of the two components being varied in the direction of the thickness of the layer. The composite coatin... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226083 | Method and apparatus for reducing nitrous oxide emissions from combustors An improved combustor for a gas turbine engine is disclosed. Techniques for reducing the level of noxious pollutants emitted by the combustor are developed. In one embodiment, a combination of serpentine geometried, fuel-mixing tubes discharging to the ra... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226084 | Ducted fan engine exhaust mixer A turbofan engine has an exhaust arrangement for the bypassed air and turbine exhaust gases providing for mixing of the two before a common propulsion nozzle. The turbine exhaust gas is directed to a number of circumferentially spaced exhausts, the outlet... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226085 | Unitary plug mixer and support therefor A single point attachment for a unitary tail pipe plug and convoluted lobe mixer supports the assembly in the tail pipe of a turbofan engine.... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226086 | Automatic restart control for a power plant boiler An automatic control is provided for fast restarts of a hot power plant. Boiler fuel demand is increased to reach a target load based on measured turbine metal temperature and throttle pressure. Fine tuning of the fuel demand is performed to achieve an ac... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226087 | Flameholder for gas turbine engine A flameholder of a burner for a gas turbine engine includes a discrete pattern of judiciously shaped apertures having projectiles in the form of cusps formed on the upstream face facing the airstream so as to improve the flameholder with a consequential r... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226088 | Gas turbine combustor A combustor for gas turbines includes a stepped cylindrical tube defining first, second and main combustion spaces. Primary air supply openings are formed in the tube portion defining the first combustion space, secondary air supply openings in the tube p... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226089 | Waste heat recovery device A cascade heat exchange system in which the heat given off in condensing a superheated vaporized refrigerant is used to vaporize carbon dioxide and to add sensible heat to a water system. The superheated discharge vapor of a refrigeration system is pumped... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226090 | Control system for vehicle air conditioner A control system (14) for a vehicle air conditioner driven by an associated internal combustion engine of the vehicle is disclosed as including a control circuit (40) for selectively operating the air conditioner to provide cooling of the vehicle in a man... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226091 | Heat pump containing a piston compressor and driven by a piston engine A heat pump contains a piston compressor which is driven by a piston engine. The refrigerant on the low pressure side of the heat pump drives the engine during the compression stroke of the engine. An accumulator chamber for the low pressure refrigerant i... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226092 | Device for cooling heated textile yarns of thermoplastic material A device for cooling heated textile yarns derived from thermoplastic material includes a cylindrical cooling pipe (1) through which the yarn (2) is passed, the pipe (1) being filled with a cooling fluid and having a curved plate (3) inside it which covers... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226093 | Rapid-freezing apparatus for food products A rapid-freezing apparatus, comprising a refrigeration chamber accomodating a conveying mechanism for partly prepared and ready-made food products to be frozen, a fan and an air cooler. According to the invention, the conveying mechanism for partly prepar... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226094 | Finger ring A finger ring constructed of an inner annular section threadably attached to an outer annular section, the outer annular section being concentric with the inner section so that no portion of the inner peripheral surface of the outer section is in direct c... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226095 | Mechanism for maintaining contact between the driving side of torque transfering surfaces of a first rotatable member and the driven side of matching torque transfering surfaces of a second rotatable member A mechanism for maintaining contact between the driving side of spline teeth of a first rotatable member against the driven side of matching spline teeth of a second rotatable member including a coil spring carried by the rotatable second member. One end ... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4226096 | Pattern drum control device in a circular knitting machine For stepwise advancing a pattern drum in a circular knitting machine there is provided a device comprising a peripheral tooth formation on the pattern drum, a pawl capable of engaging the tooth formation and pivotally supported on a support which is cause... | 10/07/1980 |
