Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4330142 | Formed hose couplings A deformable metal or plastic tube, the nipple end of which is provided with a plurality of circumferential ribs or grooves and a plurality of aligned longitudinal projections to provide a rough surface over which a resilient rubber or plastic end section... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330143 | Apparatus for connecting together flowline end portions An apparatus for connecting first and second flowline members for fluid flow therethrough and a method of utilizing same for effectuating such a repair, with the apparatus including a first housing member adapted to be mounted with the first flowline memb... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330144 | Tube fitting assembly with deformable seal A tube fitting assembly is disclosed wherein a ductile metal tube is forced into first and second orifices within a fitting. The tube is closely received within the first orifice and the second orifice is larger so that the axial force on the tube axially... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330145 | Double-latch mechanism A door-mounted double-latch mechanism consists of two forwardly-sprung latching pawls which are adapted to engage a keeper mounted on the door jamb. One of the latching pawls, the secondary pawl, has a wider keeper-receiving recess at its forward end than... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330146 | Portable door lock The purpose of the door lock is to secure a door from both sides temporarily (while building is vacated) with as little damage to door and frame as possible. When the apartment is again occupied, door lock can be used on another residence (apartment). Mos... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330147 | Locking bar for doors from the inside of dwellings This locking bar device enables a person to further secure a door against intruders, when the user is inside of his or her dwelling, and it consists primarily of a pair of brackets installed on the door jambs, that have steel pins, which receive a horizon... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330148 | Adjustable sun visor extender An extender for motor vehicle sun visors includes two opposed plastic panels hinged together by a hinge section which is integral with the plastic panels. A plurality of U-shaped spring elements extend around the outer surfaces of the hinge section and th... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330149 | Suspension device, for the suspension of a cabin in particular, on the chassis of a vehicle Suspension device, for the suspension of a cabin on a vehicle chassis. The undertray of the cabin is suspended in at least three points on the chassis of which at least one point at the front and two points at the rear, the middle front point of the cabin susp... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330150 | Removable roof panel for vehicles A removable roof panel for motor vehicles of the type having an access opening which is adapted to be covered by the removable panel. In a preferred embodiment of the invention the removable roof panel is fabricated from a pair of wire frame members pivot... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330151 | Multi-purpose adjustable table and bench device This disclosure describes a multi-purpose adjustable table and bench device having a table top and benches all with adjustable heights so that the device can be used, for example, either as a table with benches attached on either side for sitting, or as a... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330152 | Support and restraint apron An apron for supporting and restraining an elderly or injured person in a sitting position within a chair. The apron includes a main body section from which extends two free-ended straps and two looped straps. The body section is to be placed adjacent the... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330153 | Identification of fluid flow under in-situ mining conditions The instant disclosure relates to a method of tracing the flow of a solution for extracting values from an ore, wherein such extraction leaves behind an extracted ore, which method comprises (a) providing a material in said solution which will interact with sa... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330154 | Mining apparatus A control means for use in a mining apparatus includes a radiation-emitting device on a cutting machine, a number of receiving devices, one associated with each roof support of the apparatus, for receiving radiation from the radiation-emitting device as t... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330155 | Bore hole mining Minerals, in particular coal, that have been deposited in layers or along seams in the earth can be mined utilizing a large diameter bore hole drilling equipment. With the drilling equipment stationed on the surface of the earth, a drilling member is dril... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330156 | Resonant system speed control A resonant work performing apparatus is disclosed which includes a resonant system which is vibratory in resonance at an unloaded resonant frequency. The resonant system has a vibratory input at a frequency near the resonant frequency, and a vibratory out... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330157 | Modular control valve A braking system for a tractor-trailer combination vehicle having air brakes includes a two plunger control valve in which one of the plungers controls the brakes on the tractor and the other plunger controls the brakes on the trailer. However, the valve ... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330158 | Rotary rock bit with improved thrust flange A rolling cone cutter earth boring bit is provided having a pair of facing thrust bearing surfaces, one such surface on the rolling cone and the other surface on the journal pin. The latter surface defines an annular groove which has separate arcuate segm... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330159 | Pneumatic bearing arrangement A pneumatic bearing arrangement comprising an outer element and an inner element which both have generally conical configurations. The elements also have concave and convex bearing surfaces, respectively. The elements are disposed in generally concentric ... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330160 | Bearing cage, in particular for two-row angular contact ball bearings A bearing cage having two rings connected by webs for angular contact two-row ball bearings where the bearing cage ring has cage pockets of a partial spherical shape. The radial plane of the bearing passes through the centers of the partial spheres and is... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330161 | Storage unit for tape cassettes A storage unit for a plurality of items such as tape cassettes, and video tape recorder (VTR) cassettes, including a container which has a number of pivotal elements, each of said elements holding a cassette box which permits the box to be pivoted outward... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330162 | Tape cartridge storage device A device or holder is disclosed herein for storing a pre-record program tape cartridge which employs a pair of side panels separated by an end panel so as to define an internal cavity for slidably receiving the cartridge via an open entrance between the s... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330163 | Zero insertion force connector for LSI circuit package An electrical connector for interconnecting a large scale integrated (LSI) circuit package having a plurality of conductive interfaces with a printed circuit board or other electrical unit. The LSI circuit package can be inserted or removed from the conne... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330164 | Hermaphrodite electrical connector An hermaphrodite electrical connector in which the two substantially identical connector parts are adapted to be associated, after they have been located side by side and pointing in the same direction, by a flip-flop type of relative movement, that is to... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330165 | Press-contact type interconnectors The invention provides a novel interconnector of presscontact type of a rod-like configuration used as sandwiched between two circuit boards for electric connection therebetween. Different from the conventional interconnectors of the similar types compose... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330166 | Electrical connector substantially shielded against EMP and EMI energy This invention is directed to an electrical connector having substantial shielding effectiveness against EMI energy and especially against EMP energy. The invention improves on known EMI shielded connectors by adding a conductive spring washer, such as a ... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330167 | Fused electric plug A fused electric plug is consisted of a unique housing assembly, two unique fuse elements and an upper cover. Two unique copper plates having three leg elements are mounted respectively in the housing assembly, and the fuse elements are put on the housing... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330168 | Electrical contact and method of making same A stamped contact is disclosed having an integral closed crimp barrel suitable for military/aerospace applications. In one embodiment, the crimp barrel has a rectangular cross section. A method is disclosed for making the contact in which the contact is s... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330169 | Device and method for aiding vision A microscope with a flexible fiber-optic bundle used as a scanner is provided to assist the vision of people; particularly to enable persons with vision defects to read. The eyepiece of the microscope spreads the enlarged images onto the functional portio... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330170 | Low-loss star couplers for optical fiber systems The low-loss reflection star coupler has a bundle of multimode optical fibers which is folded on itself and fused over a predetermined length to form a bundle loop. During the fusion process, the fibers are elongated into biconical tapers in the fused sec... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330171 | Optical-fiber connector, centering device and method of manufacture of said connector In order to connect fibers so as to ensure high efficiency of light transmission through connectors, fiber ends must be centered in terminals with a high degree of accuracy. In the proposed connector, each fiber terminal serves as a mold for the injection... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330172 | Optical fiber connector having transversely mateable plug portions A separable in-line fiber optic connector adapted for coupling a pair of optical fibers or a single optical fiber and a light source or detector. The fiber connector includes a terminal plug member having a through hole extending axially therethrough for ... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330173 | Conductor for optical cables An improved conductor for optical cables in which the protective casing for each individual transmission element or fiber optic comprises a double layer protective casing placed on the fiber or fiber bundle with a spacing, said casing having an inner laye... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330174 | Fail-safe fiber optic pushbuttons, displays, and systems employing the same A method of incorporating at least one fiber tube into a plastic pipe, such that the pipe becomes useable for carrying optical signals along the fiber optic tube as well for carrying a fluid such as water. The fiber optic tube is affixed to the wall of th... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330175 | Blazed diffraction grating structures and method of manufacturing the same In a diffraction grating made of a single crystalline silicon substrate, one major plane thereof is provided with a plurality of asymmetric triangular grooves, each having a wall inclined by an angle θ with respect to the major surface so as to satisfy a... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330176 | Lens assembly for enabling change of image position in a camera A lens assembly for a camera which enables rotation of the camera relative to a front member of the lens assembly in order to alter the image position thereof is formed with the lens barrel divided into a forward lens barrel part and a rear lens barrel pa... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330177 | Curtain for shrouding welding operations A curtain for surrounding welding and cutting operations, especially electric arc welding and electric arc cutting operations to protect the eyes of otherwise unprotected observers such as supervisors, adjacent workers, and visitors to the welding operati... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330178 | Illuminated subject matter image dissecting and elemental light output alignment control means The invention relates to optical systems incorporating means for dissecting a formation of light stemming from illuminated subject matter at one location within a telecommunications system and thereupon establishing a series of elemental light spot inform... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330179 | Variable magnification projection device A variable magnification projection device includes a principal lens displaceable along its optical path and at least a supplementary lens movable into and out of the optical path at a fixed conjugate distance from the principal lens as the latter is disp... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330180 | Zoom lens system having a plural number of relay lenses The disclosed invention involves a zoom lens system having a plural number of pick-up tubes whose picture sizes are different from each other, a zoom section which is mounted at the object end of each of the pick-up tubes and which has a focusing front le... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330181 | Compact zoom lens A compact zoom lens covering a range from standard to telephoto and having a high zoom ratio of approximately four adapted for use with 35 mm SLR cameras. The zoom lens system includes a first convergent lens group, a divergent lens group and a second con... | 05/18/1982 |
