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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4787221 | Apparatus for pelt processing An apparatus for fleshing fur pelts with two conical poles, on each of which the pelt is positioned with the fur side facing inwardly. A ring is disposed concentrically of one pole. The ring is clamped to the pelt and moved axially of the pole by a piston... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787222 | Combination lock for blood identification system A system is disclosed for positive identification between a patient and a blood unit to be administered to the patient incorporating a combination lock which positively prevents access to the blood unit unless its code matches that of the patient. An alph... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787223 | Door lock device for automobile A door lock device for automobile, including a manual lock member provided inside of the door for locking and unlocking the door, and a key or laser key for unlocking the door, is so arranged that the engine is made operable only when the door is unlocked... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787224 | Mechanism for keyless lock systems A mechanism for a keyless lock has a generally prismatic body with a longitudinal hole and orthogonal transverse holes therethrough. A longitudinal cylinder axially movably in the longitudinal hole carries a lock-operating element and has concavely-rounde... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787225 | Key for a lock cylinder For increased security the key (2; 40; 44) has one or more blade portions (43; 45; 46; 5, 6). The longitudinal central plane (A, B) of the or each blade portion is offset from the guide region (42; 7) running along the back edge of the key shaft (3). Furt... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787226 | Roll adjustment method A method of aligning the horizontal and vertical rolls of a beam mill stand. First the upper horizontal roll is brought to a datum position, and then the vertical rolls are brought into contact with the opposite flanks of upper horizontal roll, to establi... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787227 | Feed-through element for a vacuum apparatus The invention relates to a feed-through element for application in a vacuum apparatus for the continuous feeding through of material with wire character to be treated at least made up of a casing and a sealing element set up therein that is in contact wit... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787228 | Making molds with rectangular or square-shaped cross section A round copper or copper-alloy tube is internally coated with a relatively thick nickel or nickel-alloy layer and formed into a tube of rectangular or square-shaped cross section; the tube or cut-off sections thereof will serve as molds for continuous cas... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787229 | Method of rolling a pipe by flat cutters A method of rolling with flat cutters having finishing blades for rolling a periphery of a pipe. In working, the pipe is rotatably supported at both ends by a pair of centers, a pair of flat cutters which have a plurality of corrugated finishing blades fo... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787230 | Rolling flat cutter and method of rolling thereby A rolling flat cutter having finishing blades corresponding to corrugation of a product to be obtained by working a tubular or cylindrical workpiece, and a method of rolling by the flat cutter. When the workpiece is worked, a pair of flat cutters are disp... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787231 | Roller machine for profile cold bending A roller machine for profile cold bending includes a bearing framework with mounted supports, carrying power driven shape forming calibers. The bearing framework is composed of at least two module components at the adjacent ends of which are mounted suppo... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787232 | Roll forming member and/or a roll former A roll former comprises a bed and at least one roll forming member mounted on the bed, each roll forming member comprising a stand, a support member pivotally mounted on the stand for rotation relative to the stand about a selected axis, a pair of shaping... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787233 | Roll forming machine with auxiliary roll set assembly A roll forming machine for the production of metal siding for installation on a building. A metal strip is progressively shaped by upper and lower roll sets spaced along the roll machine to shape the strip edges. An auxiliary roll set assembly is detachab... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787234 | Method and apparatus for extruding superalloy material The present invention provides a method and apparatus for a forwardly extruding superalloy parts. The method provides for extruding metal parts from a superalloy material in an extrusion press having a lower press table assembly accommodating the extruded... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787235 | Method for manufacturing a stack of supporting plates Washer or supporting plate with means preventing the sticking together of the washers in a magazine. Said means are formed by protrusions. The method for manufacturing the washers as well as the device make the protrusions such that in the stack they are ... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787236 | Clip pliers A hog ring type clip applying device having an upper jaw and a lower jaw to receive and clench the clip with the lower jaw attached to a rear handle and the upper jaw attached to a diagonally disposed lever member, such lever member and rear handle pivota... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787237 | Failsafe tool clamping system for press brake A failsafe hydraulically operated tool clamping system for use on press brakes comprising a series of pressure/spring actuated piston control units or actuators. These actuators are attached to the press brake tool clamps by a plurality of spaced bolts wh... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787238 | Method and device for measuring the quantity of water dampening the face of an offset printing plate A method and device for measuring the quantity of water dampening the face of an offset printing plate in which a light beam is made incident at a suitable angle to the face of the printing plate and the light beam directly reflected from the plate at the... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787239 | Sensor for hand held gas chromatograph A portable gas chromatographic detector includes two identical platinum coils mounted on identically aligned conducting posts. One coil is placed in an occluded chamber; the other coil is placed in an identical isolated chamber. Both coils have connection... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787240 | Liquid measurement arrangement A pipe section through which a liquid passes includes a transmitting and receiving transducer diametrically opposed on the surface of the pipe and arranged to project acoustic energy through the interior of the pipe whereby the output signal from the rece... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787241 | Flow test stand and fluid supply system A flow test stand system comprising a plurality of like test table units arranged in a head-to-tail manner to form an endless test-unit-chain to enable testing work to be carried out by only three operators in a minimum amount of time.... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787242 | Measuring piston steady-state temperatures An apparatus is disclosed for calculating the steady-state temperatures experienced by an Aluminum-Silicon piston. That piston has incorporated therein an Aluminum-Copper alloy device, such as a band integrally cast within the piston, a setscrew, or an in... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787243 | Device for detecting a dimension, in particular a tread width on a path The device comprises: an elongate support part (4) suitable for being embedded in the path and having a low upstanding wall (17) running along the edge thereof; a plate (30) cantilevered out from the low wall (17) with its cantilevered portion being subdi... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787244 | Well pipe or object depth indicator A movement measuring device includes circuitry which produces signals functionally related to the amount and direction of movement of a cable or drill line in relation to up and down movement of an object such as pipe and the like in a well bore. A totali... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787245 | Torque measuring apparatus for valve operating system An apparatus for monitoring, measuring and recording rotational forces and torque within a valve actuator comprises a load cell supported between two arm members, one arm member being mounted stationary to the housing of the valve actuator and the other a... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787246 | Bidirectional shock sensor A bidirectional shock sensor in which a slidable weight is slidably fit in a container. Elastic projections on the ends of the weight face pressure-sensitive sheets placed on the walls of the container so as to record the impact acceleration of the weight... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787247 | Scanning apparatus and method A scanning apparatus and method for scanning an object including a frame, a transducer for obtaining information from an object and a motor oscillating the transducer. The motor comprises a spring/solenoid combination driven at the resonant frequency of t... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787248 | Method for measuring amplitude of mechanical vibrations A method for measuring the amplitude of mechanical vibrations comprises the application of a measuring sign in the form of a measuring circle to the surface of the vibrating object, the radius of said measuring circle being of any length selected out of t... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787249 | Differential pressure transducer A differential pressure transducer determines a differential between two pressures. The transducer comprises a closed measuring chamber formed by at least two measuring membranes arranged to be acted upon by the two pressures, respectively. At least one p... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787250 | Method of producing a uniform fluid-tight seal between a thin, flexible member and a support and an apparatus utilizing the same A method of producing a fluid-tight seal between a thin, flexible member and a member support including the steps of providing a braze material receiving recess on an external surface of the member support having a depth to accommodate excess braze materi... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787251 | Directional low differential pressure transducer A pressure differential measuring apparatus (25) wherein the direction of fluid flow (5) is determined by calculating the ratio between pressures of two discrete fluid masses (3, 4). The device includes two tandem thermal sensors (7, 6), the upstream sens... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787252 | Differential correlation analyzer A flow meter, or flow path intervalometer, transmits a transmission signal modulated with digital pseudo-noise or similar code. The received signal is correlated with the transmitted signal at successive times to produce a correlation function having a pe... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787253 | Electronic display flow meter A flow meter having electrical signal outputs and a digital display is described. A transducer uses a magnet inside the flow meter to position a ball on a resistor bar and a contact bar and, thus, generate a position signal. The position signal provides a... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787254 | Mass flow meter A mass flow meter includes a hollow base pipe having an inlet adapted to be attached to the discharge line of an air compressor or like apparatus to be tested. The base pipe also has an outlet end which is fitted with one of a plurality of convergent nozz... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787255 | Torquemeter The present invention relates to a device for detecting and measuring tor transmitted from a prime mover to a rotary machine acting as a load. The device includes a torsion shaft through which the torque is transmitted and as a result it is slightly twis... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787256 | Resistance-gauge force transducer A resistance-gauge force transducer comprises a resilient bar having one end adapted to be fixed to a stationary support and the other end subjected to the force to be measured. The bar carries two pairs of resistance gauges symmetrically disposed on both... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787257 | Gearshift device In a gearshift device, especially in a motor vehicle, for shifting the speeds of a transmission, with a bearing bracket with a ball joint cup that receives a ball joint sphere mounted on a gearshift lever pivotable in two planes, stops mounted on the gear... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787258 | Control systems for automatic transmissions A control system for automatic transmission employed in vehicle comprises a torque converter coupled with an engine, a power transmitting gear arrangement coupled with the torque converter, a speed change device for giving rise to speed change in the powe... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787259 | Rotary drive apparatus having multiple drive shafts Rotary drive apparatus includes a plurality of driving elements connected by a cable to a single driven element, with the multiple drive elements spaced apart about the periphery of the driven elements for imparting rotary motion to the driven element in ... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787260 | Self-alignment device for ballscrew arrangement There is provided a self-aligning ballscrew assembly for a manipulator device for reciprocating an extension element along a linear extension axis, with the self-aligning ballscrew assembly including a ballscrew having a longitudinal axis. A ballscrew bea... | 11/29/1988 |
