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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4449532 | Dilator to facilitate endoscope insertion into the body A dilator for surgical use having a ball on the end of a thin stiff stem. A plurality of telescoping tubes are adapted to be slid along the stem and atop one another so as successively to enlarge the path opened by the dilator. An endoscope shaft can be s... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449533 | Brassiere A brassiere wherein left and right bust cups are fashioned from upper and lower fabric panels with the upper panels being connected to a ring element and the lower marginal edges of the cups being connected by an elastic member. Each cup is provided with ... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449534 | Liquid-flow measuring devices, particularly useful for drip chambers A liquid-flow measuring device particularly useful as a drip chamber for infusion administration sets includes a housing having an internal chamber for accumulating the liquid dripping thereinto by gravity introduced via an inlet port which terminates in ... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449535 | Apparatus for measuring in situ the state of oxidation-reduction of a living organ Apparatus having application to surgical operations has an ultra-violet laser pulse generator (1), an infrared laser pulse generator (3), an optical fibre (11) which transmits these pulses in one direction to the organ (13) and returns the fluorescence em... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449536 | Method and apparatus for digital data compression Digital data compression method and means are disclosed which allow for transmission of digital data over a short time period and/or narrow bandwidth transmission line. Also a maximum amount of information may be stored on a movable recording medium using... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449537 | Respiration monitor A respiration monitor for detecting effective respiration of a patient includes circuitry for suppressing the indication of unwanted signals due to heart activity, noise and flat breathing. A first threshold circuit is provided for increasing the sensitiv... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449538 | Medical-electronic body fluid accounting system A medical-electronic body fluid accounting system for use in surgical procedures and in post-operative and non-surgical care to afford a running account of the fluid intake to a patient and fluid outtake therefrom. The system is provided with a microcompu... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449539 | Blood extraction device A blood extraction device is disclosed herein, which is an improvement over similar devices having a cylindrical extraction tube enclosing an air-tight piston and sealed with a closure cap having an axial projection which contains a self-sealing puncturab... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449540 | Separation of lamina from stems in baled tobacco Disclosed is a method and apparatus for processing baled tobacco leaves to separate the lamina portions of the leaves from the stem portions. The bale is cut symmetrically, crosswise to its length, into three or preferably five separate sections, of diffe... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449541 | Tobacco treatment process Cut shredded or otherwise comminuted tobacco is treated with a volatile flavoring additive in a continuous process wherein the additive is combined with a polyhydric alcohol carrier and the additive/polyhydric alcohol combination is applied to the tobacco... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449542 | Portable hunting blind A portable hunting blind assembly having a collapsible umbrella roof structure supported from a central hollow cylinder and extending outwardly for terminating in a polygonal body having sides defined by the ribs of the roof structure, a handle supporting... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449543 | Fluid injecting method and apparatus A fluid injector suitable for injecting a fluid into a flowline having a fluid under pressure therein in which a piston divides the interior of a hollow body into a power chamber and a pumping chamber with a piston rod extending through the pumping chambe... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449544 | Blowdown valve A ball valve is provided for cleaning out piping systems between steam boilers and turbine generators of electrical power generating plants prior to start up operations. The valve is designed to minimize impingement between foreign substances trapped in t... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449545 | Breakaway safety valve A breakaway safety valve comprising interengageable plug and socket components having a fluid flow passage therethrough, and a plurality of breakaway members holding the plug and socket components in assembly. The breakaway members are adapted to break wh... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449546 | Controller with adjustable proportionality range A controller with adjustable proportionality range wherein a ring is acted upon by a pressure differential in measuring unit formed as, for example, pairs of bellows or the like. The measuring units have axes of effectiveness which are perpendicular to ea... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449547 | Long life gate valve A gate valve presents on a flat valve seat surface defining a fluid flow path the mating flat surface of a freely rotatable circular disc carried at its center along a longitudinally moving straight line axis. The valve seat defines a fluid flow aperture ... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449548 | Flow control device A flow control device includes a housing (10) having a hollow metering valve element (55) disposed therewithin to control the effective flow area of the device. A pressure regulating valve element (70) is received within the metering valve element and mai... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449549 | Shutter device for air conduit or the like The invention relates to an improved shuttering device for preventing back-flow in air conduits or the like. The device includes an attachment section and a frame section, the latter being provided with a series of elastic lamellae shiftable between block... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449550 | Control system for intraocular surgical device A control system for an intraocular surgical device has first and second actuatable one-way valves connected in series with a high pressure gas input, with the output of the second valve vented to the atmosphere and each valve being actuatable between a c... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449551 | Mixing valve A single mixing valve has a ball-like valve plug with hot and cold water inlet ports and outlet ports and a valve housing having a valve seat face of the same form as the plug. The housing has inlet ducts for the hot and cold water to be mixed and an outl... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449552 | Prestressed assembled oleo-pneumatic accumulators An oleopneumatic accumulator having a first chamber receiving hydraulic fluid and a second chamber receiving pressurized gas with the chamber being separated by a flexible diaphragm is disclosed. The accumulator has a cylindrical shell with two open ends ... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449553 | Electrically heated pipe thawing apparatus Apparatus for thawing a pipe having a frozen blockage therein, the apparatus including a self-contained unit on wheels, the unit including a tank for holding water, an electric immersion heater in the tank for heating the water to a temperature of 100°-1... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449554 | Universal removable insulation A universal insulation (10) is the subject of this patent application. The insulation (10) is bifurcated into two portions (16,18) for application to a fitting in a fluid flow or distribution system. Cut-outs (26) are provided in edges (20, 22) of the por... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449555 | Device for transferring articles A guide device for the transfer of articles from a feed path or a tooling path to a lower discharge path of a machine tool. The guide device has a vertical component situated at the end of the tooling path of the machine tool and a horizontal component wh... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449556 | Rotary cutter heads In a rotary cutter block a blade is clamped in an inwardly divergent recess by a wedge. A spring positioned between the cutter block and the wedge takes up any slack when the wedge is loosened thereby eliminating the need for operator manipulation of the ... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449557 | Method and apparatus for sawing a piece of timber A method and an apparatus for sawing a piece of timber and particularly for edging a board. The piece of timber is brought to pass in its longitudinal direction through a measuring station and further, maintaining its position, to a sawing machine. The op... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449558 | Method and apparatus for trimming wooden boards A method and apparatus for trimming boards, wherein a first stage, a first mechanism initially fixes and cuts two positioning short end cuts for each board. These positioning short end cuts are then used for advancing the board into the corresponding cutt... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449559 | Hand tool with handle storage of interchangeable elements A hand tool such as a socket wrench has a handle with integral means at one end to selectively mount any of a plurality of interchangeable tool elements in the form of socket wrench sockets. Longitudinally extending pockets about the periphery of the hand... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449560 | Heavy duty pneumatic tire A heavy duty pneumatic tire includes a tread surface divided along circumferential directions by at least two zigzag tread grooves to form a plurality of circumferential zigzag ribs whose at least one side edge is formed with a plurality of narrow cuts op... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449561 | Non-skid device for wheelchairs and the like A non-skid device made of side link sleeve and pin chain for the spoked wheels of wheelchairs, bicycles and the like. The chain includes a removable pin to enable assembly of the chain onto the wheel with a spoke of the wheel captured between the free end... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449562 | Mullion section member A mullion section member is disclosed for fitting between a pair of adjacent roller shutter doors in a door opening. The mullion section member is of a suitable length, has opposed channels at opposite sides each for slidably receiving the edge of the cur... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449563 | Counterbalance system for sagging rotating element A slat rotatably supported at its ends has its mass center offset from the axis due to sag. A spring biased mass is attached to the slat for creating a torque when the slat is rotated which counterbalances the torque created by the offset slat mass center... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449564 | Adjustable track for louver drapes or blinds An adjustable track means for louver-type drapes or blinds having a telescoping supporting frame and telescoping driving means for drawing the drapes transversely and for rotating the individual louvers is described.... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449565 | Connecting arrangement for support members cooperating with a liquid permeable web A connecting arrangement for a hard-material plate, block or other member, serving as a support for a liquid-permeable web in a paper making or similar machine, in which the hard-material body, e.g. an oxide ceramic, receives a clip which also engages a r... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449566 | Foundry sand reclamation A dry method of conditioning spent foundry sand is disclosed. After having sized the sand and removal of tramp metallic elements, the sand is subjected to a sequence of squeezing under a high-stress low kinetic energy system for a period of 5-30 minutes, ... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449567 | Method and apparatus for use in casting an article A plurality of mold wall segments are positioned in a circular array in an adjustable fixture to form a mold assembly. The fixture includes a base with a plurality of upstanding pin members. Two of the pin members engage the bottom portion of each mold wa... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449568 | Continuous casting controller Apparatus is provided for controlling the extrusion of molten metal from a tundish through a nozzle onto a rotating quenching surface in the high speed continuous casting of glassy metal alloy continuous filaments. An inverted pressure bell is disposed in... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449569 | Method and apparatus for regulating fluid flows in parallel-connected conduits (e.g. in furnace installations having air preheaters and by-pass conduits) Fluid flow in parallel-connected conduits is regulated by sensing the pressures and/or temperatures at the junctions of the conduits, and regulating the supply of power to a fluid propelling means operable in one of the conduits in accordance with a signa... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449570 | Air circulation apparatus An air circulation apparatus provided with a plurality of outlet nozzles separating the air flowing from the air circulation apparatus into a plurality of diverging air jet streams. The air circulation apparatus may take the form of a recirculation blower... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449571 | Heat recovery system This invention relates to method and apparatus used as an addition to any existing heating system--burning any fuel--for heat recovery from stacks and chimneys. It uses a suitable heat exchanger mounted at the apex of such stacks, by virtue of which locat... | 05/22/1984 |
