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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4341057 | Wrapping machine A device for wrapping a sheet material about an object is disclosed such as a heat shrinkable plastic material about a container in a shrink bundling process. The device is able to cover both the top and the bottom of the container or in the alternative c... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341058 | Exercycle mower apparatus In accordance with the present invention, a pedal powered exercycle mower apparatus is provided. In one embodied form, the apparatus comprises a mobile vehicle member having a main supporting frame and a centrally positioned cutting apparatus mounted on t... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341059 | Dual coupling mechanism for providing floatational operation of a front mounted cutting assembly There is provided a coupling section which comprises a main planar body having an aperture at one end. Extending from the main planar body on a first side is a rod. Secured to the end of this rod is a depending flange having an aperture coaxial with the a... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341060 | Carriage for a grass trimming device A wheeled platform is provided with a centrally located aperture for receiving and supporting the lower portion of a housing for a grass trimming device so that the cutting element of the device will extend beneath the platform and the motor housing will ... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341061 | Reel-type stubble conditioning device A frame assembly mounted in the windrow discharge area on a swather or windrower on which a plurality of vertical assemblies, are mounted thereto. On these assemblies are mounted fraying and cutting blades. These blades are operated at a required speed to... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341062 | Coffee harvester This disclosure relates to a coffee harvester incorporating a mobile frame having extendable and rotatable wheel supporting hydraulic struts; opposed tined shaker with successive shaker arrays being mounted in an offset relation so that the tips trace a h... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341063 | Air textured yarns Method to provide a novel air textured yarn by combining a cold drawn core yarn and a false twisted effect yarn in a fluid tangling zone.... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341064 | Cable making apparatus What is disclosed is an improvement in a braiding assembly having a structural framework and a main rotating braider deck carrying a plurality of bobbins, each having a plurality of spools from which cable is pulled at the desired tension for being braide... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341065 | Production of bindings of fiber bundles This invention relates to a method and an apparatus for avoiding untwisting during the formation of a binding of two fiber bundles. The rotational direction of deformation members acting on the fiber bundles is selected to be different in different groups... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341066 | Method of and apparatus for the binding of fiber bundles A method of and apparatus for binding fiber bundles which reduces an abrupt cross-sectional course at each end of the fiber bundle resulting from the loose ends of the bundles having been removed. The loose ends are, during the binding operation, severed ... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341067 | Bobbin holding device in a doffing apparatus A bobbin holding device for holding at least one bobbin includes a hollow body having a bobbin receiving opening and connected at a base portion thereof to a doffing bar of a bobbin doffing and donning apparatus, a bobbin holding member disposed in the bo... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341068 | Method for producing an improved bundle of fibrous elements Disclosed is process for producing a bundle of fibrous elements, at least some of which are uneven in the thickness in the axial direction thereof, namely some of which include thick portions having a larger sectional area and thin portion having a smalle... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341069 | Method for generating power upon demand Fuel for satisfying low, normal and high electric power generation requirements is obtained from coal in the form of syngas and dimethyl ether fired in turbine-compressor arrangements driving electric generators, wherein the storable ether fuel is fired i... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341070 | High thermal efficiency power plant and operating method therefor A method of performing work and an apparatus for performing the method utilizing the following thermodynamic cycle. Ambient air is isothermally compressed to a predetermined degree (A-B) and then heat is added to the air at constant pressure (B-C). This i... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341071 | Fuel control system for a gas turbine A gas turbine control system with a control signal generator for a two-shaft gas turbine having a compressor turbine and a power turbine. The gas turbine control system comprises, in combination, a control signal generator for outputting signals for givin... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341072 | Method and apparatus for converting small temperature differentials into usable energy A method and apparatus for converting temperature differentials to usable energy employs a crystalline fusible material (47) having a fusion temperature in the range of from 70° to 120°. The fusible material (47) is mounted inside a cylinder housing (26... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341073 | Control circuit for variable displacement pumps with override valve A fluid control cirucit for selectively varying the displacement of a variable displacement pump (P), such as the type employed in a hydrostatic transmission, comprises a primary control circuit connecting a pressurized fluid source (10) with the pump (P)... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341074 | Wave-energy converter The invention provides a device for converting wave energy into useful work, and comprises a body adapted to be moved to and fro by waves on a liquid, and means such as a hydraulic piston in a cylinder for converting this movement of the body into a power... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341075 | Method and a device for energy conversion A method and a device for converting low temperature heat energy into mechanical or electrical energy, wherein at least one liquid or gas chamber performs work in response to temperature variations. According to the invention one or more expansible and co... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341076 | Hydraulic brake booster The brake booster comprises a working piston for activation of a master cylinder piston and a transmitting piston having a greater diameter than the working piston in a tandem relationship with the working piston. A transmission pressure chamber is dispos... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341077 | Process and system for recovery of energy from geothermal brines and other hot water sources Process and system for recovery of energy from geothermal brines and other hot water sources, which comprises direct contact heat exchange between the brine or hot water, and a hydrocarbon working fluid, e.g. n-butane, in a heat transfer column, the heat ... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341078 | Immobilizing toxic liquids Toxic liquids, especially halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons, are immobilized within a container by dispersing cryogenically comminuted polymer particles in a surface active state throughout the liquid. The polymer is injected into a container holding the ... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341079 | Cryopump apparatus Cryopump apparatus for evacuating very large chambers to ultra high vacuums includes cryogenic panels alternating with radiation shields having a unique Z-configuration which optically blind the panels. The panels and shields are supported by and housed w... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341080 | Method for refrigeration Apparatus is disclosed for refrigerating a moist article, the apparatus comprising a cold room, means for circulating cooling atmosphere through the cold room, a moisture absorbent liquid cooling spray in the path of said atmosphere, means for collecting ... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341081 | Multiband open front refrigerated case with air defrost An open front refrigerated display case having mechanisms for establishing an inner refrigerated air band encircling the display portion of the case and secondary air band also encircling the display portion and being positioned outside of the inner air b... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341082 | Open top refrigerated display case having ambient air defrost An open top refrigerated display case having an ambient air automatic defrost system and a method of operating such a case. A single air conduit extends in a U-shaped formation extends around the case and has openings at both ends in the location of the u... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341083 | Door operating mechanism for refrigerated merchandiser display cabinet An improved refrigerated merchandiser cabinet for food products storage and displaying which is equipped with transparent barrier doors which are openable by a door operating mechanism which selectively creates a gap between the door and the covered acces... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341084 | Cold and/or heat production involving an absorption cycle and its use for heating buildings Cold or heat are produced by an absorption process comprising an absorption step, a desorption step, a rectification step, a condensation step and a vaporization step. The process operates at a lower pressure level and at a higher performance rate than th... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341085 | Freeze concentration apparatus and method Freeze concentrating an aqueous liquid mixture by feeding an aqueous liquid mixture to a freeze exchanger for indirect cooling by heat exchange to a cold fluid to form ice crystals in the liquid mixture; feeding the liquid mixture containing ice crystals ... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341086 | Refrigeration system A refrigeration system comprised of a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve and an evaporator, wherein the expansion valve includes a means for separating a gaseous phase refrigerant generated within the valve from a liquid phase refrigerant so as t... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341087 | Automatic ice cube making apparatus Ice cube making apparatus of the type having a vertically disposed evaporator plate with a lattice structure on side thereof in which cubes are formed as water runs down the plate. The ice making cycle is controlled by a timer which is actuated by a press... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341088 | Highway vehicle exhaust gas refrigeration system An energy efficient absorption refrigeration system is described that is mounted on a highway vehicle, such as a truck, and that is driven by the hot exhaust gases discharged from the engine. Eutectic plates are used as the evaporator section of the refri... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341089 | Self heating refrigerator A refrigerated display case having a mechanism for impeding the formation of condensation around the frame of the opening of the display case or at the junction of a door and a case frame of the display case. In one preferred embodiment, the ballast used ... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341090 | Variable orifice metering A heat pump system is provided which uses a combination variable orifice valve means and check valve means in place of a separate thermal expansion valve and a separate check valve in parallel fluid flow relationship therewith to control flow between the ... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341091 | Container method and apparatus A cold temperature chilling storage and transportation container specifically is used for fish. The space between double walls of regular or crosslinked polyethylene is filled with polyurethane foam. The outer bottom wall has nine legs formed integrally t... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341092 | Liquid modulator A compression refrigeration system having means to pass the low pressure gas from the evaporator in heat exchange relationship with the high pressure liquid passing from the condenser to the expansion valve. The low pressure gas is passed in heat exchange... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341093 | Device for leading cooling liquid out of rotary electric machine with liquid cooled rotor A device for conducting cooling liquid out of a liquid cooled rotor type rotary electric machine in which a sealing means is provided for preventing the leakage of cooling liquid from an outlet chamber adapted to receive the cooling liquid discharged from... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341094 | Circular knitting needle A circular knitting needle includes two rigid tips interconnected by an intermediate flexible portion. Each of the tips is formed with a projection inserted into an elongated recess formed in each end of the intermediate portion. Each projection is provid... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341095 | Stretchable garment knit of cotton yarn This garment is knit exclusively of cotton yarn and has sufficient stretchability and recoverability to properly fit several body sizes. The garment comprises single courses of large stitch loops (courses C-1, C-3 and C-5) of cotton body yarn (C) alternat... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341096 | Sock with triple layer fabric in foot and method The triple layer fabric extends throughout at least a substantial portion of the foot portion and provides improved cushioning and moisture-absorbing characteristics thereto. The sock can be knit on a conventional hosiery knitting machine with very little... | 07/27/1982 |