Quotables
"The horse is here to stay, the automobile is only a novelty - fad."
President of Michigan Savings Bank ; 1903
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4449452 | Rapid plate mounter A printing plate mounting device (10) to receive a print cylinder (14) to aid in the application of a printing plate to the cylinder (14), the mounting device includes a support (12) for the cylinder (14) enabling vertical movement of the cylinder (14), a... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449453 | Device for drying printed sheets on offset printing presses Device for drying printed sheets on an offset printing machine, including infrared radiators disposed above a delivery pile of the sheets and between an upper and a lower run of an endless delivery chain, the infrared radiators being displaceable from a r... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449454 | Safety mechanism for an explosive body An explosive body such as a rocket, bomb, cluster shell, or the like is pided with a safety mechanism which assures that the explosive body cannot explode in its launching tube nor shortly after leaving the launching tube. The mechanism also makes sure t... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449455 | Inertia fuse with a self-destruct device for use in spinning projectiles An inertia fuse for use in spinning projectiles includes a firing pin and a spring for pushing the firing pin into a detonator. The spring force is isolated from the firing pin during flight by means of centrifugally-responsive bodies which are interposed... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449456 | Safety device for a projectile A safety device for a projectile, adapted to make a barrier between an ignition charge in the forward end of the projectile and one or more incendiary and/or explosive charges situated behind the ignition charge. The device comprises two discs having conc... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449457 | Safety device for the fuzes of nonspinning or slowly spinning projectiles 44A fuze is provided for projectiles of the nonspinning and slow spinning types which possess a rotor that carries a detonator, and a first safety device preventing the rotor from bringing the detonator to an active position. The first safety device is re... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449458 | Cartridge case closure plug A cartridge case closure plug for closing a cartridge case, enhancing plug reakup in the shortest time span after ignition of the cartridge, and substantially reducing plug mass to reduce the impact loads exerted on the projectile by the plug. The plug is ... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449459 | Pivoting head continuous tamper A track tamping machine particularly a track tamping, levelling and lining machine is equipped with at least one tamping unit including a carrier which carries tamping tools. The tamping unit is vertically movable on a sub-frame by means of a hydraulic cy... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449460 | Process and apparatus, mainly for burning agricultural plant refuse Freshly harvested agricultural materials having a moisture content no greater than 45% by weight are burned in a furnace in which the housing thereof is divided into preburning and afterburning spaces by a baffle wall. The preburning space contains a hori... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449461 | Process and apparatus for hydrocarbons recovery from solid fuels Inexpensive process for synthetic fuel production, contained fluidized-bed burner, pyrolysis reactor with layer of fuel & hot material mixture and hot material circulation system. Fuel is heating up to pyrolysis temperature by surrounded hot material in l... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449462 | Coal burning apparatus A coal burning apparatus actuated by a stoker of the underfeed type includes a burner body formed of a plurality of vertically stacked rings with spaces between the rings extending horizontally to form a tuyere. A tuyere is easily made by stacking rings o... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449463 | Fabric tensioning device A fabric tensioning mechanism for pulling taut a flexible material arranged in a support frame, which frame is controllably movable in X-Y directions in a sewing machine setup. The fabric tensioning device is particularly useful to tension flimsy material... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449464 | Walking foot feed for sewing machines A walking foot top feed for a sewing machine in which a walking foot is supported on a beam and a presser foot is supported on an arm, an independent beam being connected to both the presser foot arm and to the walking foot beam and a source of power bein... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449465 | Universal stitching guide A universal stitching and seam guide attachable to any sewing machine for permitting the operator to produce straight or curved stitchings, and even and uniform seams and hems. A thin steel mounting plate having a pressure sensitive adhesive on its bottom... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449466 | Sailboard The sailboard has an opening, which contains a tongue of a mast base, which is articulatedly connected to the mast, so that the mast base is detachably connected to the sailboard. One side face of the opening is provided with a detent cam, which is adapte... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449467 | Variable weight cloth roller-furling sail A Roller-furling sail both main sail and head sail, such as jibs or genoas, are constructed in the reverse miter cut or Scotch cut. The sails are constructed of sail cloth panels to the luff with one mitered seam bisecting the angle made by the panels tha... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449468 | Adjustable roller furling spar An adjustable roller furling spar includes an elongated base member which is securable on a sailboat and an adjustable periphery assembly which is attached to the base member and coextends a distance therewith. The periphery assembly is adjustable to defi... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449469 | Mechanical clutch/decoupler for hydraulic pumps A ship steering system includes a pump assembly for controlling hydraulicy actuated rudders, a first actuation unit for translating a helm steering command signal into a mechanical control signal for the pump assembly, and a second actuation unit for tra... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449470 | Hydraulic control package for a marine steering system A hydraulic control package or assembly (30) for use in a marine steering system (10) having a steering helm pump (12) with port (14) and starboard (16) fluid outlets and a return inlet (18) for hydraulically actuating a piston (22) in a hydraulic cylinde... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449471 | Steering combination of pusher tug and barges The invention relates to a combination of a pusher tug and one or more barge units, whereby each barge unit may comprise one or more barges coupled alongside each other. Between the barge units and/or between the rear-unit and the pusher tug, pivotable pu... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449472 | Detachable storage tank for hydrofoils An easily detachable storage tank for use with existing hydrofoil ships is onnected to the ship by two struts with minimal modifications to the ship. The shipboard connections are such that the ship is also usable without the storage tank. The tank may sto... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449473 | Inflatable boat with demountable transom An inflatable boat having parallel side sponsons joined by a floor and hag a rigid keelson member includes a demountable transom capable of supporting an outboard motor. The transom is characterized by a motor mount pad connected to the keelson and havin... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449474 | Personal security device A personal security device is disclosed which comprises a trigger actuated aerosol canister contained in a two-piece telescoping housing. The canister contains a pressurized offensive odor containing gas such as mercaptoethanol which, when ejected from th... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449475 | Cleaning device for the intermediate image carrier of an electrophoretic printer The cleaning device for the drum-shaped intermediate image carrier of an electrophoretic printer is used in the field of technical data processing in order to improve the quality of the electrophoretically printed color images. The toner suspensions of di... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449476 | Apparatus for coating or impregnating a guided substrate in the form of a web Method of coating or impregnating a guided web-shaped substrate with a flowable medium, which includes monitoring the composition of the flowable medium; continuously measuring the rate of travel of the substrate; applying a metered amount of flowable med... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449477 | Liquid dispenser Apparatus for dispensing a liquid utilizing surface tension of the liquid for control of amount dispensed.... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449478 | Arrangement for coating substrates by vacuum deposition An arrangement for coating substrates in an apparatus for vacuum deposition comprises a rotatable substrate holding structure in the form of a circular plate provided with holders for the substrates. The holders are arranged in circular rows around the ax... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449479 | Crayfish, harvesting, sheltering and spacing apparatus An apparatus for spacing crayfish more evenly in a water pond and, at the same time, providing protection from predators during times of low water is disclosed comprising a submersible, hollow dome-shaped structure having at least one opening in its side ... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449480 | Culture of freshwater mussel glochidia in an artificial habitat utilizing complex liquid growth media A proess, and a composition of matter utilized therein, to obtain transformation of the glochidia of freshwater mussels to the juvenile stage. In nature, glochidia normally transform while as parasites on fish. The instant artificial process involves the ... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449481 | Calf cart A cart for transporting a new-born calf permitting its mother to closely follow it in a natural manner which includes a frame having a front ground-engaging portion, rear ground-engaging portions and at least one central longitudinal member interconnectin... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449482 | Fluidized bed boilers A fluidized bed boiler having a water-wall type construction has a steam-water natural circulation system for heat exchange. Vertical in-bed heat exchange tubes are provided and the steam drum of the boiler extends across the full length of the boiler com... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449483 | Unfired drying and sorting apparatus for preparation of solid fuel as a feedstock for a combustor The invention comprises a drying and sorting apparatus which is integrated with a conventional steam generator for separating organically derived solid fuel from solid inert materials and for removal of moisture from the solid fuel prior to feeding such f... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449484 | Hot water supply system A hot water supply system comprises a base of cylindrical shape; a storage tank supported on the base, the tank having an upper end plate and a lower end plate supported on the base and defining, together with an inner face of the base, a soundproofing ch... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449485 | Separable combination boiler A separable combinaton boiler comprising: a boiler body consisting of at least two horizontally aligned cylindrical boiler units each of which has in each end wall a central opening and a gas port above the central opening for the passage of combustion gases, ... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449486 | Cooling system for water-cooled engines for vehicles A cooling system for a water-cooled engine having a cooling water jacket and installed in a vehicle, includes a cooling unit, an outlet pipe for supplying cooling water from a lower portion of the cooling unit to a lower portion of the jacket of the engin... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449487 | Internal-combustion engine having lubricating and cooling oil circuits An internal-combustion engine includes an oil reservoir, a lubricating oil circuit, a lubricating oil pump drawing oil from the oil reservoir and driving the oil in the lubricating oil circuit and a cooling oil circuit coupled to the lubricating oil circu... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449488 | Free piston internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine in which a rotor or turbine is driven by the exhaust gases of a pair of interconnected double-acting pistons. The double-acting pistons are interconnected by a pinion gear and are internally constructed to have an inner pisto... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449489 | Varying geometric compression ratio engine An automotive engine having an automatically adjusted geometric compression ratio, wherein the charge is compressed to maximum permissible values under all throttle settings. This is achieved by a cylindrical valve carrier, raised or lowered by a screw ja... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449490 | Concentric intake and exhaust valve assembly An internal combustion engine having a cylinder bore providing a combustion chamber, and a piston located in the cylinder bore. A head mounted on the cylinder has concentric intake and exhaust valves operable to control the flow of gas into and out of the... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449491 | Lubricating device for internal combustion engine A lubricating system of an internal combustion engine is equipped with intake and exhaust valves and a valve operating mechanism having rotating portions and reciprocating portions. The rotating portions are communicated with an oil pump via a first oil p... | 05/22/1984 |
