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A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4570666 | Unidirectional, fluid control valve In the first-depicted embodiment, the valve is of the ported, plate-type, having a ported valve seat, stop plate, a buffer plate, and a pair of valving elements. Stop pins extending from the stop plate restrict the lift of one of the ported valving elemen... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570667 | Demand responsive flow regulator valve A demand responsive flow regulator valve for use with a power steering pump and steering mechanism has a valve spool slidably disposed in a housing and responsive to a pressure differential across an orifice for the purpose of bypassing excess pump flow. ... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570668 | Flow dividing valve A flow dividing valve wherein an outer sleeve (26) is maintained in a valve body (10) and has a primary flow valve seat (32). An inner valve sleeve (50) that is slidably maintained in outer sleeve (26) has an end face (51) that cooperates with the valve s... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570669 | Simplified springless check valve Disclosed is an improved check valve for in-line mounting with fluid conduits under pressure subject to directional flow control of the type comprising two components of simple configuration, the improvement including a tee shaped movable short valving pi... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570670 | Valve A gate valve with inlet and outlet body portions with annular valve seats thereon and a gate assembly movable between open and closed positions between said body portions and carrying sealing rings in opposite faces thereof adapted to be brought into seal... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570671 | Fluid distributors The fluid distributor (D1) is intended to be stacked against similar distributors (D2); it comprises a distributor body (1) in which a slide-valve (2) may slide; this body comprises a transverse channel (8) extending from one bearing face (3) to another b... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570672 | Hydraulic control valve with independently operable bypass valve A hydraulic sectional control valve includes separate pump pressure and function control spools. The spools may be actuated independently and sequentially to provide raising, holding and power down functions for earthmoving and construction vehicles. Addi... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570673 | Fluid flow delivery system A fluid flow system comprises a plurality of operational elements which are interconnected by rigid conduits. One type of rigid interconnecting conduit includes a statically adjustable assembly including two telescopically associated members having a comb... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570674 | Mechanically programmable-sequencing valve A programmable-sequencing valve assembly for controlling plural fluid-operated motors, which includes a series of valve housing modules, sealably joined to one another thereby forming an elongate valve housing which receives plural valve inserts. The valv... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570675 | Pneumatic signal multiplexer An invention is disclosed in which a fluidic counter generates fluidic switching signals in response to a fluidic oscillator for sequentially activating a plurality of fluidically activated electrical switches for multiplexing a plurality of electrical co... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570676 | Lumbar support air valve assembly A lumbar support air valve assembly is comprised of a housing having a chamber therein adapted to be connected to a source of air under pressure. A plurality of outlet ports are provided through the housing corresponding in number to the number of air bag... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570677 | Unitary multiple control valve assembly Control valves for a plurality of outlets supplied from a single fluid source are combined in a single manifold. Each outlet conduit is selectively connected to an inlet conduit by an independently actuatable source valve. Each outlet conduit is also prov... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570678 | Conduit system for transporting low temperature fluids The conduit system is comprised of a corrugated inner and a corrugated outer tube with a helical spacer in between, the spacer being comprised of intertwined, stranded and/or, braided ceramic fibers.... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570679 | Conduction of low temperature fluid Two corrugated metal tubes in a low temperature conduit system are spaced apart by a ceramic spacer made of braided ceramic threads, each thread being composed of stranded or twisted together ceramic filaments, the space between adjacent loops of this spa... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570680 | Conduction of a chemically aggressive fluid A chemically aggressive fluid e.g. a fluid containing chlorine or a chlorine compound, is conducted through a polytetrafluorethylene tube coated with lead and covered with a thermal insulation wrapping. Other tubes and/or a heating element may be included... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570681 | Apparatus for stopping weaving machine at predetermined position A weaving machine is combined with a stop control means. A warp feeler, a weft feeler or a manual stop switch produces a stop signal and sends it to the control means. A comparator compares a crank angle sensed by a crank angle sensor with a preset angle ... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570682 | System for conditioning textile material in a weaving machine The weaving machine is provided with an air conditioning system which delivers air upwardly from the floor between the heddles and cloth beam. The conditioning system uses a covering over the air outlets which has a plurality of outlet openings for passin... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570683 | Yarn holding device A yarn end holding device for a loom, the device including a fluid channel along which a fluid flow is directed to draw the yarn end into the channel and clamp means positioned to receive the yarn end and hold it during beat-up.... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570684 | Tape restraining shoe for shuttleless looms The tape restraining shoe for a shuttleless loom includes an arcuately shaped body member having a replaceable polymeric wear strip in the sole portion thereof. The tape restraining shoe is adjustably mounted to maintain the wear strip at a prescribed dis... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570685 | Vacuum tube engine oil sampler An engine or gearbox oil sampling device for use with an engine or gearbox containing lubricating oil. The device includes a hand held container having a flexible tube communicating with its interior. The free end of the tube is provided with a hollow mem... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570686 | Apparatus for preventing blockage of vapor recovery hose by liquid fuel Wick material is included along the length of the interior and exterior walls of vapor recovery and product hoses, respectively, the product hose being carried within the length of the vapor recovery hose, whereby the wick material absorbs liquid entrappe... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570687 | Method and apparatus for producing lumber products which are machined on all sides A method and apparatus for producing lumber products which are machined on all sides. With this method, the curved trunk which is to be machined, and which increases approximately conically in thickness toward one of its ends, is first, prior to flattenin... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570688 | Security wallet A foldable wallet intended to be secured on or about the user's person, by means of a cord. The wallet is made of various panels peripherally secured to each other, and defining a number of separate pockets for receiving and storing articles such as passp... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570689 | Bicycle tire tread A bicycle tire which has a raised, circumferential center rib and laterally opening grooves of scalene trapezoidal shape alternatively in the right and left sides of the center rib whereby the center rib defines a zigzag shape. Groups of polygonal, raised... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570690 | Mixing procedure for obtaining filled rubber vulcanizates containing aromatic furazan oxides Filled rubber vulcanizates containing aromatic furazan oxides exhibit many improved properties such as increased filler-rubber interaction and decreased hysteresis. Useful furazan oxides have both carbons of the furazan ring as part of a fused aromatic ri... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570691 | Tire pressure regulation system A vehicle wheel-tire assembly wherein the tire has a low inflation pressure (large tire footprint) in a low vehicle speed range, and a large inflation pressure (small tire footprint) in a high vehicle speed range. The tire is partitioned into a series of ... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570692 | Methods of pouring metal A method of pouring metal to provide improved physical properties is provided including the steps of: (a) pouring the metal through a generally vertical consumable tube extending from a pouring source to a point submerged beneath the surface of a molten p... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570693 | Method of squeeze forming metal articles A squeeze formed aluminum alloy article, such as a piston, is formed with a re-entrant cavity (14) by locating an isostatically compacted salt core (10) in the mould cavity of the squeeze forming press prior to introduction of the molten metal therein. Th... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570694 | Mold-blowing apparatus As in the parent application, a freshly mixed quick-setting sand mix is blown from a blow box into a mold while a plunger moves through the blow box to chase all of the fluidized sand into the mold. Here, the blow box sand cavity is formed by a tube exten... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570695 | Thin metal band and a method for the manufacture of the same This invention provides a method for manufacturing a burr-free thin metal band by jetting molten magnetic metal from a nozzle onto a rotating cooling roll or a running cooling belt to permit it to be solidified. During the manufacture of such burr-free me... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570696 | Design of bottom blocks for electromagnetic casting A bottom block for use in electromagnetic casting of metals wherein the block is constructed of a material having a closely matched electrical resistivity to that of the metal to be cast. The block may be provided with a deeply hollowed out central sectio... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570697 | Method of treating final continuous cast strand in a horizontal continuous casting process A method of treating a continuous cast strand in a horizontal continuous casting process wherein when the level of molten steel within a tundish becomes lower than a prescribed level at a portion near the upper surface of a tundish nozzle at final stage o... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570698 | Method of and apparatus for centrifugal casting The mold is rotated during casting while projecting at least one traveling magnetic stirring field tangentially into the melt so as to rotate melt to the mold speed.... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570699 | Multi-turn coils of controlled pitch for electromagnetic casting An apparatus and process for casting metals wherein the molten metal is contained and formed into a desired shape by the application of an electromagnetic field produced by a multi-turn inductor. The pitch or spacing of individual turns of the inductor is... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570700 | Flat, multi-luminal tube for cross-flow-type indirect heat exchanger, having greater outer wall thickness towards side externally subject to corrosive inlet gas such as wet, salty air A transversally corrugated multi-luminal flat tube for circulating the refrigerant of an evaporator for an automotive air conditioner in indirect heat exchange relation with air is provided with one laterally marginal portion, being the one which faces in... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570701 | Dual purpose closure for heat exchangers Closures for double pipe and hairpin-type heat exchangers that permits opening the tube side of the closure without losing the shell side fluids or seal. A flanged split thrust ring is positioned between the shell side flange and the tube side flange and ... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570702 | Shell and tube vertical heat exchanger with sleeves around the tubes A heat exchanger comprising a shell connected to vertically spaced apart horizontally arranged circular upper and lower tube sheets; a plurality of vertically positioned parallel tubes, with each tube extending through and connected to a hole in each tube... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570703 | Tube support grid and spacer therefor A tube support grid and spacers therefor provide radially inward preloading of heat exchange tubes to minimize stress upon base welds due to differential thermal expansion. The grid comprises a concentric series of rings and spacers with opposing concave ... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570704 | Support for heat exchanger tubes An improved support for a heat exchanger is disclosed and includes a support member providing four engagement surfaces. The surfaces of adjacent supports, within the heat exchanger, engage so as to provide a force distribution system therein, such that th... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570705 | Sheave drive assembly for flexible production tubing Flexible production tubing is wound about a reel for convenient transport to and from a well site. A submersible pump is attached to the end of the flexible tubing and is inserted through the well casing to a producing formation. The flexible production t... | 02/18/1986 |
