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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4732242 | Spot-type disc brake for vehicles A brake carrier (12) straddling the edge of a brake disc (10) guides two brake pads (24,26) disposed at one side each of the brake disc (10). The brake comprises an actuator (22) having an actuating axis (B) defining a radial center plane (C) together wit... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732243 | Automatic adjuster for a vehicle brake actuator An automatic adjuster for a vehicle brake actuator has a non-rotatable brake shoe-engaging tappet, an adjuster member having a threaded shank threadedly engaged with a nut, the adjuster member co-acting with the tappet so that said rotation of the adjuste... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732244 | Hydraulic shock damper assembly for use in vehicles A hydraulic shock damper comprises a hydraulic cylinder and a piston having apertures and dividing the cylinder in upper and lower chambers. Through a flow channel the upper chamber of the cylinder is connected to a dashpot accomodating a partition elemen... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732245 | Control apparatus for clutch torque in hydrodynamic power transmitting device The torque of a clutch disposed in parallel with a hydrodynamic power transmitting device provided between an engine and a transmission is gradually reduced upon disengaging the clutch when the torque of the engine is higher than a predetermined level. As... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732246 | Automatic transmission apparatus for vehicle A first clutch control is operated in response to an accelerator position signal so as to set a clutch from a disengaged state to a half engaged state. A second clutch control is provided for gradually engaging the clutch when a load signal from an engine... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732247 | Triple cone synchronizer with servo action An improved multi-cone strutless synchronizer has one or more cone rings concentrically disposed intermediate an outer blocker ring and an inner exterior cone surface of a ratio gear journally supported on a speed shaft. The cone ring is formed with a plu... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732248 | Method of and apparatus for controlling automatic clutch When the brake pedal on a motor vehicle is depressed, the braking force is detected, and thereafter the speed of rotation of the engine is detected, or the rate of increase of the braking force is detected. Whether the clutch is to be quickly disengaged o... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732249 | Fluid friction clutch A fluid friction clutch, suitable especially for a cooling fan of an internal combustion engine, has a shear gap of substantially serpentine form seen in axial longitudinal section, which is formed by concentric annular ribs. The ribs of the two parts whi... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732250 | Torque transmitting and torsion damping assembly A torque transmitting assembly which can be installed between the engine and the change-speed transmission of a motor vehicle has a first flywheel which is driven by the crankshaft of the engine and a second flywheel which is movable axially of the first ... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732251 | Motorcycle adjustable slider clutch A motorcycle slider clutch utilizing several original equipment manufacturers components, such as the output shaft (20) with gear cluster (24) and bearing (26), the center hub (30) and friction disks with plates (32) attached to a slider basket (34) and a... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732252 | Thrust plate unit for a friction clutch The thrust plate unit for a motor vehicle friction clutch comprises a clutch cover of annular pot form which comprises an annular face wall part and a side wall part standing axially away from the face wall part. An annular presser plate arranged in the c... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732253 | Power transmission A power transmission includes two piston-type actuators for selectively engaging and releasing their associated clutches. Each of the actuators is designed in such a way that in order to compensate a centrifugal hydraulic pressure to be developed in a wor... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732254 | Electronic component feeder In a feeder for carrying electronic components in a predetermined sequence such as ICs packed in a cassette, stick or the like in an electronic insertion machine, part of a carrying path is made movable between the two positions; a component passing posit... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732255 | Dispensing apparatus A dispensing apparatus 10 for elongate flat articles such as newspapers is described. The mechanism uses a rachet or pawl mechanism 36 or 36a to control a roller 23 or 23a rotatably mounted on a shaft 24 or 51 for dispensing the articles with the shaft an... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732256 | Storage unit for a conveyor system An improved storage unit for a conveyor system. Articles are conveyed on a main conveyor and a plurality of secondary conveyors extend laterally from a side edge of the main conveyor. When a slow-down occurs downstream in the conveyor system, successive r... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732257 | Continuous variable-speed transport apparatus The invention relates to continuous transport apparatus whose transport speed is variable. The embodiment illustrated is a moving walkway in which the load-bearing members are plates, adjacent plates overlapping to present a continuous surface. The load-b... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732258 | Vibratory feeding work station module and system A work station module which includes a buffer storage area (B) for the transitory storage of workpiece carriers (A) which are received at non-specific intervals and an escapement station (C) to facilitate performance of some operation of a workpiece carri... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732259 | Sorting conveyor with cross-over A continuous apron type sortation conveyor having carton pushers which travel with and crosswise of the apron is provided with branch lines arranged in pairs directly opposite each other along the main line to which oppositely angled guide tracks for the ... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732260 | Apparatus for the selection and sorting of objects An apparatus is disclosed for selectively sorting objects which comprises a fixed conveyor table having guide rails thereon and an endless conveyor member movable over the table. The conveyor member is formed of a plurality of connected plates which each ... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732261 | Method and apparatus for assembling and forwarding sets of sheets At least three storage devices (6,7,8) are serially arranged between an entrance station (1) and a processing station. Transfer devices are disposed between adjacent storage devices and between a last storage device and the processing station. The transfe... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732262 | Apparatus for segregating counted slugs of flats An apparatus for handling a plurality of flat, collapsed, folded paper boxes which have been produced on a high speed, folder-gluer, delivered in shingled formation onto the advancing apron of a stacker, counted into slugs of about fifty each and must be ... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732263 | Bulk feeder for electronic components A nonmagnetic bulk feeder for feeding electronic components one at a time into a lead forming machine or the like comprises a hopper and a chute for loading the components into the hopper. A conveyor is mounted for movement along the bottom wall of the ho... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732264 | Belt conveyer system A belt conveyer system where along various sections great differences in height must be overcome. A conveyer belt that is initially spread flat is guided in steeply inclined stretches to form a closed hose. To satisfactorily transport, without loss, even ... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732265 | Apparatus for the accumulating conveying of goods In an apparatus for accumulating conveying of goods constructed in the form of a roller conveyor with rollers (10, 12) in which via inflatable hose sections (42) a chain (28) is adapted to be brought into engagement with the goods to be conveyed, between ... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732266 | Bearing construction for mounting carriers on an endless chain elevator An improved bearing construction for mounting carriers on an endless chain elevator. The elevator comprises a pair of endless chains mounted to travel in parallel offset vertical paths. The opposite corners of a plurality of carriers or platforms are conn... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732267 | Transport intallation A transport installation comprises a conveyor belt extending along a curved track in a substantially horizontal plane for transporting goods in a conveying direction, separate conveyor belt support stations for the upper and the lower strand of the convey... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732268 | Arrangement on conveyors An arrangement on a conveyor of the type which comprises a flexible chain whereupon objects, e.g. parallelepipedic packing containers, are conveyed. The conveyor comprises guide rails (4) located on either side of the chain (1) which steer the packing con... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732269 | Jewelry display box A display box for an ornamental article including pivotally interconnected top and bottom members, the bottom member having an insert panel removably mounted therein and to which a display panel for receiving an ornamental article for display thereon is p... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732270 | Garment bag hanger support This invention provides a hanger supporting device for a garment bag which will accommodate both ordinary hangers and luggage-type hangers. The device includes a plate attachable to a garment bag, a first channel connected to the plate, a second channel c... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732271 | Canister and light sealing, anti-blooming tab A light-tight, self-contained canister and light sealing, anti-blooming tab, of generally rectangular shape, for preventing a roll of core wound photosensitive media, containable within the canister and used in a microfiche or microfilm reader-printer, fr... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732272 | Packaging film product Packaging film product for the packaging of paper rolls or equivalent into a consumer package provided with a handle. The packaging film product consists of a web-like film (1) wherein the edge borders (1a, 1b) of the film are folded towards each other ov... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732273 | Protective container for caramel apples A container for storing, transporting and displaying a caramel apple, or the like. The container is a single molded piece of plastic, with a pair of pivotal sections and a base section pivotally mounting the pair of pivotal sections. Each pivotal section ... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732274 | Portable tray table A portable tray table having an upper surface for supporting food, a lower surface and a peripheral edge. A skirt is coupled to the peripheral edge of the panel and extends downwardly therefrom. The panel includes an opening therein wit a cup holder suppo... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732275 | Openable and reclosable carton An openable and reclosable pour spout forming carton formed from a one-piece blank of paperboard. The carton is generally brick shaped and has a sealing fin on its upper surface, the fin defined by two panels sealingly adhered together. This double thickn... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732276 | Hinged-lid package A box with an integral hinged lid is formed from a blank, typically by folding the blank about an open-ended inner wrapper containing the article to be packaged. Prior to opening of the package the lid is joined to the front of the package by integral con... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732277 | Toner cartridge with removable sleeve closure A toner cartridge for use in a copying machine for supplying fresh toner to the developer for the machine is disclosed as being formed with an elongated opening to permit discharge of toner when inverted. A removable flexible strip covers the opening and ... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732278 | Apparatus for transporting cartridge for exposed roll film An apparatus for transporting cartridges for exposed photographic roll films to an opening station has a downwardly sloping duct whose inlet can receive the shells of successive cartridges only in a predetermined orientation. The lower end of an inserted ... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732279 | Convertible letter/flat mail sorting case A mail sorting case having a plurality of shelves, each of which is divided into a plurality of letter receiving slots defined by vertically extending, spaced, parallel partitions swingably supported from above, includes mechanism to swingingly withdraw t... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732280 | Reel display device A device for mounting fishing reels on a display panel comprising a shaft which penetrates the panel, sleeves moveably carried on the shaft and operable to clamp a reel to the shaft, and a fastener cooperable with the shaft to secure the device to the pan... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732281 | Mounting bracket assembly for electronic instrument mounting, heat dissipation and environmental protection A mounting bracket assembly for electronic instrument mounting which also provides for heat dissipation and environmental protection. Side slots in the sides of the mounting bracket permit natural convection air currents to circulate through a plurality o... | 03/22/1988 |
