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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4449372 | Gas powered motors The gas powered vehicle has a reservoir for holding liquified gas, means to evaporate the liquified gas and a delivery conduit to deliver gas from the evaporating means to a motor to power the motor. A heat exchanger is provided for thermal communication ... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449373 | Reduced vacuum cryopump A cryopump 20 for differentially pumping water vapor and inert gases from a work space comprising a two stage refrigerator 45 in which a radiation shield 32 substantially encloses a second stage cryopanel 40. The radiation shield 32 incorporates a baffle ... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449374 | Combination hot gas and air defrost refrigerated display case A refrigerated display case having a defrost means which combines the supply of hot refrigerant gas to the refrigeration coils with the supply of ambient air in order to provide defrost action during a defrost cycle. The ambient air band is taken into and... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449375 | Method and apparatus for controlling the operation of an indoor fan associated with an air conditioning unit A method of operating an air conditioning system including a refrigeration circuit having a compressor and a thermostat for sensing heating and cooling needs together with an indoor fan is disclosed. The indoor fan operation is controlled based upon a mic... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449376 | Indoor unit for electric heat pump An indoor unit for an electric heat pump is provided in modular form including a refrigeration module 10, an air mover module 12, and a resistance heat package module 14, the refrigeration module including all of the indoor refrigerant circuit components ... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449377 | Thermosyphon coil arrangement for heat pump outdoor unit For a heat pump, the outdoor unit is provided with a coil and a refrigerant flow arrangement therefor which is such that in the heating mode of operation of the heat pump they operate in a thermosyphon fashion. The coil 32 has a feed portion 30 and an exi... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449378 | Insulated chest An insulated chest for the storage and transportation of hot and cold foods to be carried as a backpack is disclosed. The chest has a hollow box-like body having four side walls, a bottom wall and top wall. There is a first opening in one of the side wall... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449379 | Method and apparatus for extracting heat and mechanical energy from a pressured gas The disclosure provides an apparatus for extracting heat and/or mechanical energy from a pressured gas wherein the pressured gas is applied to the radially outer ends of rotating cylinder elements defining logitudinally extending fluid pressure chambers h... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449380 | Warp knitted fabric and process for its production A warp knitting machine using warp and weft threads produces a fabric with a woven appearance on one side. The machine has at least one forward thread system for forming stitches and at least one rearward thread system for forming stitches. This rearward ... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449381 | Warp knitting machine with Jacquard attachment A warp knitting machine with Jacquard attachment including two knitting needles situated side-by-side, to which there are allocated two eye-pointed needles and only one urging feeder pin. Typically, the eye-pointed needles allocated to, respectively, two ... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449382 | Warp knitting machine equipped with latch-type needles A warp knitting machine typically equipped with latch-type needles, trace comb, and numerous guide bars for underlapping purposes. The keep-off rails for the pattern threads, running from the hook needles or guides to the latch-type needles, are mounted b... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449383 | Combination lid and excursion switch and alarm for automatic washers A combination lid and excursion switch and alarm for automatic washers is provided in which the opening of the lid or excursion of the tub due to an imbalance in the load during the spin cycle causes an interruption of power to the washer motor. An imbala... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449384 | Washing appliance control circuitry An appliance control circuit particularly adapted for controlling a washing appliance such as a washing machine or a dishwasher is provided. The invention is comprised of a timer interval selector switch including a program cam defining an operational cyc... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449385 | Electro-mechanical anti-theft device for automobile vehicles An anti-theft device for an automotive vehicle includes a lock and key housed separately and remote from a bolt and its actuating mechanism. The bolt portion is located in an inaccessible housing and connected to the lock by means of a burglar-proof conne... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449386 | Steel pipe rolling mill In an apparatus for changing the rolling mill rolls and/or disk shoes of a steel pipe rolling mill, the top and bottom rolls vertically movably mounted in the housing are individually placed on a supporting bed positioned below the bottom rolling roll and... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449387 | Tube bending machine A tube bending machine with rotary arms carrying a bending moment roller and a bending fulcrum roller has arm shafts mounted for axial movement. The arms are rotated for the tube bending action, whereby the bend so made in the tube lies in a predetermined... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449388 | Method of bending shaped metal sheet and apparatus for carrying out the method This invention relates to the bending of shaped sheet metal, which shows alternatingly occurring longitudinal ridges and valleys, the lateral portions of which constitute lateral portions of the ridges, about an axis, which extends perpendicularly to the ... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449389 | Device for bending a tool holder of a folding press or the like This device for bending the tool holder of a folding press comprises structure for controlling the deformation of the wedge secured at either end, in the form of a hollow screw engaged in a socket rigid with the tool holder so that it can accomplish movem... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449390 | Automatic unit for hot molding and trimming of metal parts An automatic unit for hot molding, e.g., forging or stamping, and subsequent trimming of metal parts. A molding press and a trimming press are served by two robot pairs. One robot of one pair delivers hot ingots to the molding press, the other pair of rob... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449391 | Method for separating closed bolls of cotton by maturity A method for separating/classifying closed bolls of a given variety of cotton by maturity is disclosed. Harvested, unopened cotton bolls are immersed in a series of solutions having a specific gravity of less than one. The bolls of cotton are thus identif... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449392 | Device for testing filters, particularly sterile filters A filter testing device has a filter housing which has an air inlet and outlet and receives the filter. An inlet line is connected to the air inlet. An inlet valve for the inlet line is controlled to produce a continuous and evenly increasing air pressure... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449393 | Energy (test) door A test door has wheels mounted thereon so that one person can easily roll the door to a doorway of a house to be installed. The test door has a fan permanently mounted thereon. The test door has panels or flaps, which slide against the doorway to seal the... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449394 | Efflux viscosity cup This invention provides a rugged dip-type viscometer suitable for use in a rotogravure printing plant, for example. The capillary of the viscometer is joined to a protective collar and gives high precision measurements with inks that contain air. The prot... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449395 | Pheological measurement method and apparatus Method and apparatus for testing thermoplastic material comprising: passing as a stream a fractional, continuous, molten and flowable sample of the material to and successively through each of either a controllable pumping zone maintained at constant temp... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449396 | Probe for measuring electrical conductance A probe for measuring electrical conductance to determine water concentration in a fluid is disclosed. The probe comprises a pair of spaced apart electrodes and a bridge of protein gel between the electrodes. The probe is especially useful for monitoring ... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449397 | Apparatus for measuring the mass of a pulsating medium flowing in a flow cross-section An apparatus for measuring the mass of a pulsating medium flowing in a flow cross-section, in particular for measuring the aspirated air mass of internal combustion engines. The apparatus includes a temperature-dependent measuring resistor, whose temperat... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449398 | Sheet property sensor with sheet wrinkle remover Apparatus is provided for sensing a property of a sheet (18). A sensor element (32) is adapted to be placed alongside the sheet path, and a base member (34) is adapted to be positioned on one side of the sheet and in sliding contact with one surface there... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449399 | Apparatus for detecting the passage of multiple superposed documents along a feed path A double detect device includes first and second parallel and superposed rows of steel balls retained in a block, the first row being in contact with a steel roller whose axis is parallel to the rows of balls. An actuating rod is urged resiliently against... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449400 | Radionuculide counting technique for measuring wind velocity and direction An anemometer utilizing a radionuclide counting technique for measuring both the velocity and the direction of wind. A pendulum 12 consisting of a wire 13 and a ball 14 with a source of radiation 15 on the lower surface of the ball is positioned by the wi... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449401 | Hot film/swirl fluid flowmeter A low pressure drop hot film/swirl air flowmeter (10) for an automotive engine is disclosed. The flowmeter includes a main air flow passage (18), a relatively small venturi (20) disposed within the passage for receiving a portion of the air flow, a consta... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449402 | Apparatus for measuring the flow velocity of gases and liquids There is described an anemometer for the measurement of the flow velocity of gases and liquids particularly for the measurement of the intake air of internal combustion engines whereby the heated resistances are film resistance made of a metal layer and c... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449403 | Guide tube inserted liquid level sensor This invention relates to a system for sensing the liquid level and coolant properties in a fluid containing vessel by insertion into the vessel of a plurality of matched spaced sensor probes comprising a first and second temperature sensor, the first sen... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449404 | Thermoelectric level measuring device A thermoelectric level measuring device for measuring the fill level of a container having a filling material therein and a free space above the filling material comprises a series connection of three sensing resistors, the first of which is always surrou... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449405 | Rod-like probe for the capacitive measurement of the level in a container Disclosed is a capacitance level measuring device comprised of a container whose level is to be measured and a probe inserted into and spaced from the container. The capacitance between the probe and container varies in relation to the level in the contai... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449406 | Method and device for measuring the fat content of meat For measuring the fat content of meat it is known to determine the specific gravity of the meat, which at a given temperature and for a given type of meat is a measure for the fat content. This invention provides a novel way to realize this easily and rap... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449407 | Drive shaft mounting assembly for dynamic wheel balancing machine A drive shaft mounting assembly for dynamic wheel balancing machines includes force sensors supporting bearings at axially spaced positions of the shaft. The assembly further includes rods extending between the bearings in a manner absorbing the forces of... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449408 | EMAT Test apparatus having retractable probe An electromagnetic acoustic wave transducer (EMAT) probe is supported with its magnetic field issuing device for movement from a retracted position into closely spaced relation to a test object. Relative movement is provided as between a magnetic flux cou... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449409 | Pressure measurement system with a constant settlement time The invention provides a pressure measurement system with a substantially constant settlement time. The invention includes a closed loop pressure measurement system having an input impedance configuration and a feedback impedance configuration where a sig... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449410 | Axial turbine flowmeters In order to compensate the hydrodynamic pressure on the turbine of a flowmeter, means are provided to create a zone of reduced pressure of constant value upstream of the turbine hub, together with means for creating a zone of pressure, on the downstream f... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449411 | Magnetic and ultrasonic objects testing apparatus Nondestructive object testing is carried out in a magnetic aspect as by leakage-flux detection and in an ultrasonic aspect by electromagnetic acoustic wave generation and detection, portions of magnetic flux being derived from a common source for the resp... | 05/22/1984 |
