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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4434631 | Apparatus for treating pile articles An apparatus for producing pile articles having complicated and high color tone and structure, such as artificial furs, writing brushes, brushes, etc. comprises a rotating body to which a pile article is fixed and which is rotated together with the pile a... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434632 | Apparatus for the application of liquids to moving materials Apparatus for the application of liquids to moving material, such as patterned application of dyes to moving textile material, including a liquid applicator positioned above the material path of travel for continuously discharging liquid in a row of plura... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434633 | High expression squeeze roll liquor extraction of nonwoven batts A squeeze roll arrangement and method is disclosed for high expression squeeze roll liquor expression of non-woven fiber batts. An auxiliary conveyor belt is provided to squeeze the batt before passing through the nip of the squeeze rolls with the batt. I... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434634 | Lock A door or window lock has a body which is securable to the door, window, or a surround for a door or window, and has at least two passages therethrough that extend angularly relative to one another. A locking bar is slidable axially in any one of the pass... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434635 | Manually and electrically commanded automatic hooklock An automatic hook lock which is electrically and manually operable and is particularly adapted for manual, motorized or remotely controlled sliding gates to which it is attached on the surface thereof or within the interior thereof. The lock consists of a... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434636 | Lock having a cylinder core and a housing The cylinder lock includes, in addition to conventional segmented tumbler pins, auxiliary tumbler elements movable at an oblique angle relative to the keyway and being engageable at one end into arresting recesses in the housing; the other end of the auxi... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434637 | Method and apparatus for flattening corrugated heat exchanger plate A method and apparatus (32) is provided for crushing a portion of a corrugated sheet (10) in an area (20, 22) extending transversely to the corrugations in the sheet without blocking the passages (14) between the crowns (12) of the uncrushed portions of t... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434638 | Method and apparatus for severing corrugated metal products A method and apparatus is described for use in combination with a machine for corrugating a continuous strip of flat sheet material which prepares the sheet material for separation into sections after it has been corrugated. A platform is located upstream... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434639 | Arrangement for producing drawn formations on workpieces, particularly in a cutting and pressing machine A drawing arrangement for producing drawn formations in sheet-shaped workpieces includes a lower tool having a supporting surface for the workpieces and a recess which opens onto the supporting surface, and an upper tool having a female die and movable to... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434640 | Process for the production of a bearing bushing without machining A method for making a bearing bushing for the support of the trunnion in universal joints comprising a cylindrical sleeve section, a bottom section at one axial end of the cylindrical sleeve section, the peripheral edge joining the sleeve section and bott... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434641 | Buckle resistance for metal container closures The present invention relates to improvements in the strength of ends used on metal beverage containers. Such ends generally comprise a central panel portion of a substantially planer character, a surrounding U-shaped sidewall having inner and outer legs,... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434642 | Reverse forging or replacement grouser bars A method for making replacement grouser bars particularly contoured to fit rock worn grouser shoes from blanks cut from inexpensive sheet metal. The blank has a straight lower edge and a curved upper edge such that the bar is thicker at the ends than in t... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434643 | Method and a device for embossing heat exchanger plates The invention relates to a method of embossing heat exchanger plates in several steps by a pressing tool, in that after a portion of the sheet blank has been embossed a subsequent portion of the blank is embossed, after this has been positioned and fixed ... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434644 | Rotary bending and forming devices A bending and forming device is disclosed having an operating head and its holder features a holder which is a multi part structure including a saddle for seating the head and a releasably connected gib, a limited portion of which is adapted to releasably... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434645 | Apparatus for the radial shaping of tubular articles Apparatus for radial shaping of rotors, stators, crankshafts, spindles and the like from an elongate seamless tube where a supporting ring performing a reciprocating motion according to an adjustable stroke of a connecting rod causes by way of rollers and... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434646 | C-Frame press A C-frame press includes a C-shaped frame having a crown part and a bed part defining an opening therebetween, and spacers positioned in the opening and being sufficiently long for urging the crown part and the bed part apart in the vertical direction a d... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434647 | Dynamic spot calibration for automatic particle counters The invention is a dynamic spot calibration system (60) and process for calibrating, both for sizing and counting, an automatic particle counter (APC) (42). The APC includes a sensor (38) which uses a light source that focuses through a sensing window (48... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434648 | Electroacoustic transducer calibration method and apparatus Methods and apparatus for calibrating terminated ultrasonic electroacoustic transducers are disclosed. The transducers are excited by a driving signal to emit an ultrasonic acoustic wave, which wave is received either by the same transducer after reflecti... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434649 | Gauge having a surface follower with peripheral vent An apparatus such as a caliper gauge can be utilized in performing a measurement, such as a thickness measurement, of a traveling sheet or the like. The apparatus comprises a surface follower body (18, 72, 74) adapted to be constrained during the measurem... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434650 | Hydrocarbon sensor float A hydrocarbon sensor float for use in detecting the presence of hydrocarbons on the surface of a liquid provides an elongated floatation member having a top end and a bottom end and also having a cavity located centrally therealong and extending completel... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434651 | Hardness test indenters A hardness test indenter having a retangular base and four operative plane aces, a first pair of said faces meeting each other in a straight ridge with an included angle in the range from about 60° to about 150°; and a second pair of said faces making su... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434652 | Automated tire measurement techniques An improvement in a tire manufacturing system including apparatus for testing by different combinations of testing algorithms and tire sensors. An operator selects the combinations best suited to test the tire according to the user's specifications. The t... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434653 | Apparatus for testing earth formations Apparatus is provided for collecting a plurality of samples of fluids in earth formations traversed by a well bore. The sampling apparatus includes an elongated body member adapted to carry an extensible and retractible fluid admitting probe which is sele... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434654 | Borehole orientation detection system employing polarized radiation A borehole survey instrument has a probe with a polarized light system for transmitting a signal representing the angular orientation of the probe to the surface. Light from a source in the probe is directed through a polarizing filter with an axis of pol... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434655 | Black powder flamespread tester A black powder flamespread tester is disclosed in which powder to be qualed is packed in a sample tube provided with a plurality of sight holes. Light sensors are disposed adjacent each sight hole and emit signals upon flame front passage of the sight ho... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434656 | Mass air flow sensor A heated element mass air flow meter 10 includes a cylinder 20 having a surface 21 with an area of stagnation 22. Element 11 is positioned aft of area of stagnation 22 and forward of a downstream area of turbulence 23. Deposition of air born dirt takes pl... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434657 | Liquid quantity measuring apparatus An apparatus for measuring the quantity of a liquid such as a fuel in a tank, which comprises liquid level measuring electrodes, comparing electrodes dipped always in the liquid to detect the capacitance inherent to the liquid, an LC oscillator for conver... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434658 | Ultrasonic wave tomographic imaging system In an ultrasonic wave tomographic imaging system wherein an acoustic image in an object is focused on the ultrasonic wave receiving means by means of an ultrasonic wave lens in order to pick up an image of the desired tomographic plane in the object, the ... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434659 | Two-dimensional scanner apparatus An X-Y scanner is illustrated which utilizes an eddy current or ultrasonic current test probe for detecting surface defects in small flat plates and the like. The apparatus includes a scanner C which travels on a pair of slide tubes (20) in the X-directio... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434660 | Ultrasonic inspection and deployment apparatus An ultrasonic inspection apparatus for the inspection of metal structures, especially installed pipes. The apparatus combines a specimen inspection element, an acoustical velocity sensing element, and a surface profiling element, all in one scanning head.... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434661 | Ultrasonic diagnostic system An ultrasonic diagnostic system for observing the state within a measured object by transmitting ultrasonic waves to the interior of a measured object such as the human body and by receiving acoustic waves reflected from the object. The system employs plu... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434662 | Ultrasonic image generating apparatus The ultrasound apparatus contains a focusing device such as a lens or lens system for focusing ultrasound waves. It also contains an ultrasound detector for receiving the focused ultrasound waves. The detector includes a number of elongated piezoelectric ... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434663 | Electromagnetic acoustic transducer Disclosed is an electromagnetic acoustic transducer for use with electrically conductive objects. The transducer includes an electromagnet for establishing a static magnetic field directed into the object in a first region and directed out of the object i... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434664 | Pressure ratio measurement system A pressure ratio measuring system is disclosed. The system includes two quartz capacitive pressure transducers (16, 22). Each capsule contains a pressure sensitive capacitor (Csa, Csf) which is fed by an alternating excitation signal. Capacitance (Csa) is... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434665 | Integrated capacitive transducer A capacitive transducer indicates the value of a physical quantity to be measured and is constructed with two spaced electrically conducting plates movable relative to one another in response to a mechanical signal representative of the physical quantity ... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434666 | Electromagnetic flowmeters and methods for measuring flow An electromagnetic flowmeter for measuring the mean velocity of a fluid flowing through a duct is described. In one embodiment the electrodes are shaped to provide a uniform weighting function relating fluid velocity distribution over the duct cross secti... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434667 | Permanent magnet flowmeter having improved output terminal means Disclosed is an improved permanent magnet flowmeter capable of withstanding bending stresses in the direction of induced emf signals. The flowmeter includes a unique terminal arrangement integrally formed with the flowmeter by trepanning opposing wall sec... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434668 | Detector for use in measurement of flow speed or flow rate of a fluid A detector for use in measurement of flow speed or flow rate of a fluid, comprising a bluff body disposed in a pipe, detection elements provided in the groove of the bluff body for detecting Karman's vortex streets shed by the bluff body, and a fluid pass... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434669 | Apparatus for transmitting and receiving sound In an ultrasonic Doppler velocimeter for measuring blood flow it is necessary to change the frequency of insonation according to the site and size of a vessel to be investigated. Several different crystal pairs are employed in a single probe, each pair as... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434670 | Fluid flow meter A fluid flow meter is provided for indicating the fluid flow rate in two or more predetermined flow ranges. The flow meter comprises a housing having an inlet open to a cylindrical inlet chamber and an outlet open to a cylindrical outlet chamber. At least... | 03/06/1984 |
