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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4665721 | Warp knitting machine for diagonally layable threads There is provided a warp knitting machine for diagonally laying warp threads with thread guides that circulate around a continuous pathway. The warp threads are taken from spools located on a fixed creel and are led through a fixed thread feed arrangement... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665722 | Dye spring protection system Dye spring protection system which employs a substantially circular member between each yarn package being dyed and allows the dye packages to abut one another but at the same time protects the ends of the dye spring. The dye spring protector has an inter... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665723 | Nozzle assembly for applying liquid to a moving web A nozzle assembly for applying a treatment liquid to a web moving horizontally in a predetermined direction and having a width measured horizontally perpendicular to the direction has a body extending longitudinally above the goods the full width thereof ... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665724 | Wire lock A wire lock comprising a take-up unit which encloses therein a locking wire so that the wire can be drawn out against the biasing force of a spring and rewound by the same force. A locking member is connected to a projecting end of the wire. The locking m... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665725 | Vehicle anti-theft system An anti-theft system for a vehicle having a starter motor with a pinion for engaging the flywheel of the vehicle's engine to start it. A sleeve is mounted on the starter motor shaft so as to be slideably moveable between a disabling position in which the ... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665726 | Lock cylinder with rotatable magnetic tumblers The lock cylinder comprises a cylinder housing and a cylinder core having at least one rotatable magnetic tumbler supported therein, wherein in the cylinder core at least one axially slidable bolt member is provided, whose slidability is controlled by the... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665727 | Manually operated lock mechanism for bypass of customer operated electronic digital safe lock In an electronic digital safe lock including a slide plate pivotally connected by an articulated linkage to a bolt operating lever for retracting safe door locking bolts after digital input of the electronic lock combination, a lock override is provided w... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665728 | Strap to cover ignition lock cylinder A strap to cover an ignition lock cylinder is provided and consists of a hollow housing having a lockable cover pivoted thereon to encompass the ignition lock cylinder. The housing is secured to a steering post by a band that fits around the post and into... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665729 | Thickness control method and system for a single-stand/multi-pass rolling mill In a method and system for controlling a final thickness of a strip material being rolled in a single-stand/multi-pass rolling mill having an adjustable main parameter affecting the final thickness and one or more auxiliary parameters affecting an interme... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665730 | Method of controlling product tension in a rolling mill In a rolling mill wherein product is rolled continuously in successive first and second blocks at the finishing end of the mill, a pinch roll unit is interposed between the two blocks. The motor speed of the pinch roll unit is employed in combination with... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665731 | Bending apparatus A bending apparatus wherein a long material to be bent is inserted into an axial guide hole of a cylindrical material guide, the bending direction of the long material being determined by a bending direction setting body which is provided rotatably on the... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665732 | Method and apparatus for hole coldworking A method and apparatus for coldworking of holes using a split mandrel. The apparatus uses a mandrel having radially directed slots to permit contraction of its outer diameter as it is fitted within a hole. The mandrel contains a pilot inside the mandrel. ... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665733 | Die clamp A die clamp arrangement for a press has a clamping lever that is shifted horizontally by a dog between an extended and a retracted position and rotated in a vertical plane between a clamping position and a released position. The cam and dog are interconne... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665734 | Method and installation for selective detection of defects in a workpiece For selective detection of microscopic defects in a workpiece to be checked presenting at least one macroscopic discontinuity of known nature, upon relative motion in respect to such workpiece according to a given check line, detecting the times when such... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665735 | Device for detecting metallic ticking sounds An improved device for detecting ticking sounds produced from inside some mechanism, is described. The purpose of the device is to sense the ticks and produce a well defined electrical pulse for each tick while rejecting other noises and electrical interf... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665736 | Stirring device for automatically measuring dissolved oxygen A rotor having N and S poles is rotatively supported through bearings from the lower end of an electrode to be immersed in a water sample in which dissolved oxygen is measured. A rotor driving means is disposed adjacent to the rotor, the means generally c... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665737 | Device for detecting pressure fluctuations in a combustion chamber of internal combustion engine A device for detecting pressure fluctuations in a combustion chamber of an internal combustion chamber includes two ionic current gages positioned in an end gas region of the combustion chamber and spaced from each other by a predetermined distance in an ... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665738 | Accelerated solvent resistivity test A method for testing electronic assemblies for resistivity to fluorocarbon solvent permeation. After attaching electronic components on host boards, sample assemblies are selected for testing. Fluorocarbon solvent is added to a container suitably sized to... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665739 | Surface roughness measuring instrument A surface roughness measuring instrument wherein an analogue output signal from a displacement detector (32) for electrically detecting a turning displacement of a measuring arm (5) is converted into a digital signal, and this output signal is interpreted... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665740 | Combustion process sensor A combustion process sensor for detecting combustion processes occurring in a combustion chamber of an engine has a generally tubular mounting casing to be screwed into a threaded hole in the combustion chamber wall and a quartz-glass rod axially extendin... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665741 | Method of hair damage assessment Described is a method for measuring hair damage by copper uptake using in the process a simple hair volume measuring device.... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665742 | Method for determining the closing point of a pump piston relative to a transverse bore in the pump cylinder A method for determining the closing point of a pump piston relative to a transverse bore in a corresponding pump cylinder, the method including the steps of providing compressed air to the cylinder via the transverse bore, axially sliding the pump piston... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665743 | Automatic rain gauge An automatic rain gauge or pluviometer comprising a first receiver for receiving dry fallout; a second receiver for receiving wet fallout, provided with a first sensor able to emit a signal when a certain wet fallout sample volume has been collected; a cl... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665744 | Combined rain gauge and weather vane A combined wind direction indicator and rain gauge is described in which the rain gauge is mounted on a vertically suspended sail at one end of a horizontally disposed elongated member which rotates in a horizontal circle in response to the force of inpin... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665745 | Heat wire type air flowrate measuring apparatus An air flowrate measuring apparatus with a heat wire measures the flow rate of the air flowing through the intake pipe of an engine. The apparatus has a temperature sensitive element which has a specific temperature-resistance characteristic and is dispos... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665746 | Liquid level measuring apparatus and method There is disclosed an apparatus of the bubble type for accurately measuring the quantity of liquid in a tank. The apparatus functions by supplying an accurately measured quantity of purge gas at an accurately controlled predetermined pressure and flow rat... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665747 | Flight instrument using light interference for pressure sensing Aircraft instrument for indicating air pressure, air pressure rate of change and accelerations of the aircraft movement based on the use of an optical laser interferometer. The air pressure is connected to one of several mirrors in the interferometer whic... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665748 | Automatic continuous nulling of angular rate sensor An angular rate sensor comprising a pair of accelerometers that includes means for continuously nulling error signals resulting from misalignment of the accelerometers. The first accelerometer (10) has a first force sensing axis and produces a first outpu... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665750 | Underwater transducers A transducer for sensing transient elastic waves in metallic components particularly in steel weldments below water on offshore structures comprises a piezoelectric sensing element (1) for coupling to the metallic component and shielded from noise arrivin... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665751 | Method for measuring the wall thicknesses of bodies by means of ultrasonic pulses and devices for applying the method The invention relates to a method and a device for measuring the wall thickness of bodies by means of ultrasonic pulses. The ultrasonic pulses are created in the bodies and reflected on the walls. The transit times of the ultrasonic pulses reflected on th... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665752 | Electrodynamic transducer An electrodynamic transducer (10) is disclosed for non-destructive material testing comprising at least one internal pole shoe (16) of an electromagnet with core (12) and magnetic winding (14). The end section (18) of the internal pole shoe (16) is arrang... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665753 | Inductive differential pressure sensor A measuring diaphragm (1) separates in a pressure-tight manner two half chambers (9, 10) suitable for being respectively subjected to two pressures to be compared. In a central zone of the diaphragm (1) there are two magnetic cores (118, 127) which are di... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665754 | Pressure transducer Disclosed is a pressure transducer comprising a pressure sensitive silicon die having a front side exposing piezoresistive means and a back side for receiving pressure from a pressure medium. The transducer further comprises a pressure vessel having an ap... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665755 | Device for monitoring the spring force exerted by spring actuated bar coupled cable clamps for chair lifts and cable cars A spring actuator having a multiplicity of plate springs whose force is to be monitored, is retained on a thrust cam where it is located between a thrust ring and a fixed collar. Between the collar and the spring stack are arranged two rotating and latera... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665756 | Torque tool A combined torque wrench and geared wrench which includes a ratchet mechanism, so that it can be operated in either a clockwise or a counter-clockwise output direction and so that a nut can be run down by ratcheting if necessary (due to space limitation) ... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665757 | Flow rate meter with pressure equalizer conduit A flow rate meter which serves to ascertain the mass of a flowing medium, in particular the flow rate of the air aspirated by an internal combustion engine via its air intake tube. The flow rate meter includes a measuring device that is pivotable about a ... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665758 | Sample taking device An apparatus for taking samples of a toxic or radioactive substance by inducing such substance into sample vessels, comprising a rotatable cylinder containing a recess movable between two positions for receiving a sample vessel; a needle head filling ass... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665759 | Sample cup with a cantilever beam venting means A sample cup for use in holding a sample for spectrochemical analysis consists of a main cell member which is cup-shaped and has a closed top surface. Located on the top surface is a venting means which includes a beam-like section of a given thickness ex... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665760 | Mounting and traversing assembly for in situ particle size measuring device A mounting and traversing assembly (10) particularly suited for employment with an in situ particle size measuring device. The subject mounting and traversing assembly (10) includes an enclosure (12) operative as a housing and/or support surface for other... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4665761 | Long stroke pumping unit A long stroke pumping unit comprising a tower mounted on a base and a counterweight-polished rod system which bestrides a top wheel mounted on the top of said tower, employs an electric motor as its prime mover. The motor rotates in a fixed direction, and... | 05/19/1987 |
