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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4375147 | Bridoon bit A bridoon bit is provided with a thickened center portion having a curved lateral axis, and with end portions outwardly thereof having an opposite curvature in order that the bit may best conform to the anatomy of a horse's mouth, avoiding pressure points... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375148 | Mower blade An improved blade for a rotary lawn mower includes cutting elements which are removably attached to a base member. The removable elements may be made of a higher quality steel than the base member and may be easily removed for sharpening or merely replace... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375149 | Textile machine shut-off device A textile machine such as a spinning machine has, for each spindle, a comparator which senses the voltage at a motor driving said spindle and compares it with a reference voltage. Upon the comparator sensing such a change in the motor voltage as would be ... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375150 | Continuous ignition turbo motor An internal combustion engine, which is particularly adapted for vertical take-off and landing aircraft, has a plurality of fixed annularly arranged combustion chambers and an opening in each chamber. The chamber openings are arranged to define either a c... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375151 | Control in wave energy conversion device employing a flexible walled enclosure Hydrostatic pressure of a passing wave crest causes collapse of flexible bags pumping air from the bags via a non-return valve into a high pressure air conduit 14a, 14b. The bags are re-inflated in the wave trough from a low pressure air conduit 13. One o... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375152 | Reciprocating thermal actuator with hydraulic multiplier A reciprocating thermal actuator with hydraulic multiplier has a thermally expansible fluid (expansible by heating or in an alternative embodiment by cooling) and heat exchange means including powered means for causing the thermally expansible fluid to cy... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375153 | Process and apparatus for control of two-phase flow to geothermal power plants Method and apparatus for transmitting a two-phase fluid of water and steam from a geothermal well head to a thermal energy use plant. A pipeline with substantially no flow restrictions and a decoupling tank, with the pipeline directly feeding the tank, an... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375154 | Air heating system A self-starting, fuel-fired, air heating system including a vapor generator, a turbine, and a condenser connected in a closed circuit such that the vapor output from the vapor generator is conducted to the turbine and then to the condenser where it is con... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375155 | Reach-in refrigerated display case with ambient air defrost A refrigerated display case, of the reach-in type having a door normally closing a customer access opening, utilizes ambient air for defrost purposes by channeling it through an inlet conduit at the bottom of the case. The air is introduced into the norma... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375156 | Closed loop compressed gas system with oil mist lubricated screw compressor A rotary helical screw compressor for a refrigeration system employing a condensable refrigerant comprises intermeshed rotors mounted for rotation by way of anti-friction bearings, within a hermetic housing. A lubricating oil miscible in liquid refrigeran... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375157 | Downhole thermoelectric refrigerator Cooling of electronic components, positioned downhole in a high temperature environment in a deep well, is achieved by a thermoelectric cooling system within a long vacuum insulated dewar flask which encompasses the electronic components and the cooling s... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375158 | Apparatus for applying patterns to a planar structure A pattern is applied to a travelling web, such as a rug, by delivering a carrier liquid with individually spaced apart quantities of a pattern liquid therein to the surface of the rug. The pattern liquid is delivered into or onto the carrier liquid via va... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375159 | Changeable combination tumbler wheel type key lock A tubular wheel type key lock operable by a key, comprising a lock case, a plurality of peripherally gated tumbler wheels supported for rotation about a common axis. Each tumbler wheel include center hub portions and rim portions encircling the hub portio... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375160 | Manufacture of seamless steel tube In the manufacture of seamless steel tube by hot-rolling a tube blank on a mandrel in a continuous rolling mill, the tube is withdrawn from the mandrel and reduced by reducing roll stands downstream of and in alignment with the rolling mill which operate ... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375161 | Device for opening flanged joints Disclosed is a device for opening a flanged joint of the type wherein one or more flange extensions on one flange part of the joint are bent around into engagement with the other flange part of the joint. A first leg member including a first generally tap... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375162 | Portable air test kit and system The invention is an improved air test means in kit form that is portable and, additionally, includes a complete system arrangement for a plurality of modes of use. The portable kit is self contained for compressing air with a built-in power supply means. ... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375163 | Method and apparatus for on-column detection in liquid chromatography On-column detection by an optical detector is accomplished with a flexible silica column. The flexible fused silica column has an inner diameter less than 500 μm, an external protective coating with a stripped portion near the end of the column. The stri... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375164 | Formation tester A well tool for developing measurements of pressure or temperature in a well bore comprising an elongated well tool which utilizes a coherent beam of light which is applied to the ends of separate fiber optics and the other ends of the fiber optics are de... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375165 | System for inspecting welded joints in pipe lines by means of ultrasonic waves An ultrasonic flaw detection system is used for inspecting circumferentially welded joints in a pipeline. The ultrasonic probes include crystals for directing and receiving longitudinal waves reflected from the pipe interior surface in order to measure th... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375166 | Ultrasound examination apparatus comprising a mosaic of transducers of an electrostrictive material An ultrasound examination apparatus comprises a processing circuit for echo signals from a mosaic of ultrasonic transducers which are made of an electrostrictive material with a non-remanent polarization. These signals are applied to processing channels w... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375167 | Ultrasonic transducer suspension system for on-line high speed ultrasonic inspection of flat rolled products Apparatus and method for acoustically inspecting hot flat plates while on-line by utilizing an array or arrays of transducers continually spaced a set distance from the bottom of the plates by serrated rollers spring mounted with the array of transducers ... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375168 | Apparatus for low g-level vibrational pulse detection Apparatus is provided for monitoring vibrational activity proximate to a rce of mechanical vibration. The apparatus includes a bridge rectifier which may be positioned proximate to the source, and which provides a voltage output when the source generates... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375169 | Turbulence conveyor flow meter A turbulence conveyor flow meter for medical use includes a turbulence chamber with variable input and/or output areas, a transducer system for the pressure drop across the turbulence chamber and connected between two external points of the chamber, a ser... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375170 | Decontaminating fluid sensor mechanism A sensor mechanism for measuring a property of a fluid which must not be allowed to escape into the environment. A sensor housing provides a chamber from which a sensing element may be extended into contact with the fluid to be measured, and into which th... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375171 | Automatic transmission Disclosed is a power shift transmission having two input shafts, an output shaft, two countershafts which are first synchronized and clutched with either of the input shafts, and then alternately clutched to the output shaft. Each countershaft rotatably s... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375172 | Blocked change gear transmission utilizing resilient shifting mechanisms and improved jaw clutch assembly therefor An improved, blocked, change gear transmission utilizing at least one improved resilient jaw clutch assembly to selectively engage a selected gear to a shaft is provided. The improved jaw clutch assembly comprises two axially engageable jaw clutch members... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375173 | Saw chain holding device A device for holding a saw chain during sharpening of the chain cutters which prevents wobble by gripping both the cutter train and the drive train of the saw chain.... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375174 | Adjustable end wrench releasable locking feature A thumb adjustable, parallel jaw end wrench, that uses a worm gear and a movable jaw with a rack, is provided with a locking feature. The worm gear is so mounted in the fixed jaw portion of the wrench that it has play in its axial direction. A first hole ... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375175 | Towel cutting machine A method and apparatus for automatically severing individual towels from a length of material comprising a plurality of terry towels. The method includes the steps of measuring slightly less than the supposed length of a towel, then activating a sensor th... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375176 | Keyboard latch for electronic organ An electronic organ having a scanned keyboard manual (10) includes a keyboard latch (24) interposed between the scanning apparatus (12) and the organ keyers (26). The keyboard latch (24) comprises a gate (42) for comparing the serial data pulses, each of ... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375177 | Automatic electronic musical instrument An automatic electronic musical instrument generates structured and pleasing musical sound patterns from a random sequence. One phase of the random sequence is supplied to a first shift register. A first plurality of outputs from the first shift register ... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375178 | Dynamic frequency modulation controller for an electronic musical instrument In an electronic musical instrument having at least one keyboard with keys corresponding to the notes of a musical scale apparatus for controlling the dynamic frequency modulation of tones reproduced from key pulses associated with active keys of the keyb... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375179 | Action for electronic piano A piano action is provided for an electronic piano. Tones are generated electronically, but the action retains the feel of a conventional piano action without the necessity of a hammer or hammer-like member. The piano key is provided with a rounded, conve... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375180 | Automatic tuning device A stringed musical instrument is provided with an automatic self-tuning device which tightens or loosens those of the instrument's strings which may be out of tune. Each string is provided with an independent automatic tuning device and all of the devices... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375181 | Hydraulic cylinder extending in three force modes A multiple mode hydraulic piston assembly employing a regenerative hydraulic circuit which when incorporated in the piston of a hydraulic cylinder and assembled with a pressureized hydraulic source through appropriate piping and valving, will sequentially... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375182 | Ultra-sensitive diaphragm with dual stress-relief structures A discal diaphragm body with a plurality of radially stress-relieving full-wave annular corrugations and a plurality of circumferentially stress-relieving full-wave radial spokes. The spokes follow and conform to the annular corrugations and are integrate... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375187 | Ejection mechanism for a round baler An ejection mechanism is described which automatically assists in the discharge of completed bales from the bale-forming chamber. As implemented the ejection mechanism forms a part of a baler which produces generally cylindrical bales in a chamber of fixe... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375188 | On-machine supercalender apparatus On-machine supercalender apparatus adapted to be located at the discharge end of a paper making machine of the type which includes hard and soft calender rolls forming soft calendering nips with each other. The calender rolls are arranged in at least thre... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375189 | Label printer A label printer for printing both human readable and machine readable indicia on the end label in a strip of perforated label stock includes a drum printer providing printing at a print station and label advancing rollers for advancing the label stock fro... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4375190 | Printing press having a plurality of printing stations Paper gripper improvement in a printing press of the type having a frame, a large paper carrying impression cylinder drum mounted on the frame and a plurality of retractable printing stations mounted on the frame and spaced around the drum. Each gripper h... | 03/01/1983 |
