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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4787421 | Flow path defining means and method of making Flow path defining means such as curved conduits, ducts, spillways, engine manifolds and ports, vehicle bodies, missiles and other means defining interior or exterior flow paths for fluids may be designed and generated through the use of a modified super-... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787422 | Weaving reed with profiled teeth A profiled weaving reed, especially for shuttleless looms with pneumatic weft thread insertion, has profiled reed teeth which are so deformed along the path of weft thread insertion that a first deformation forms an edge slanted in the direction of weft t... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787423 | Method of and device for inserting weft yarn in jet looms The present invention relates to a method of and apparatus for inserting weft yarn in jet looms, in which the weft yarn is inserted by the action of an inserting fluid jet and entraining fluid jets. The weft yarn is projected by the inserting fluid jet in... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787424 | Method of inserting loops of continuous weft thread in a needle loom The method of inserting loops of continuous weft thread in a needle loom includes feeding the weft thread through a tubular inserter needle in a stream of air and inserting the weft thread into the shed in continuous loops by reciprocating the needle. The... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787425 | Prefeed and bender assembly for bale wires An assembly to receive, guide and bend a bale wire having a preformed end. The bale wire is bent to facilitate the joining of the preformed ends to be applied to a bale. The assembly includes a plurality of fixtures which receive an preformed end of a plu... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787426 | High-speed electrical component lead forming apparatus and method In apparatus for disposing DIP leads in a predetermined and preselected condition of straightness and orientation, a trackway for operatively supporting and moving DIPs therealong from a loading station to a discharge station, a forming station positioned... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787427 | Apparatus for filling containers using counterpressure A filling apparatus operating by counterpressure and intended for use on bottling or filling machines for a barrel 1 equipped with an electric sensor 2 for controlling the fill level of the containers, and connected to a solenoid valve E and supply tank B... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787428 | Container filling apparatus with selectively communicated chambers Liquid from a supply tank B flows into a container C via outer and central annular chambers 14, 8 of filling apparatus A. Communication between the chambers is controlled by a flexible diaphragm 5 selectively urged against an annular seat 15 on a wall 10 ... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787429 | Device for coupling a small tube to an apparatus adapted for fitting a syringe to a drug holding bottle Device for easily and simply coupling to the free end of a small tube (7) mounted on a transfusion needle an apparatus of the type used for coupling a syringe to a drug holding bottle. The device comprises a hollow shaped body (1) that can be coupled to t... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787430 | Duplicating router A duplicating router of the type in which a cutter unit provided with a motor and a cutter is fed vertically and horizontally with respect to a base. A cutter unit feeding screw rod is installed parallel with guide bars and rotates for operation on a vert... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787431 | Flail apparatus A flail type apparatus (10) for removing limbs and/or bark from trees (101) by dragging the trees through the apparatus with a skidder (100) is described. In particular, drum 15 and 23 are mounted on the apparatus such that there is an opening A leading t... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787432 | Apparatus and method for producing mortise and tenon joints A single mortise or a plurality of conveniently spaced mortises may be created in a single workpiece. A corresponding single or plurality of tenons may be created in a second workpiece to be joined to the first workpiece. The method of creating the mortis... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787433 | Bead breaking device for tractor tires A manually operated hydraulic pump having been modified to break the circumferential bead of a pneumatic tire from a wheel rim, the hydraulic pump including a pump unit and a horizontally disposed cylinder having an internal piston rod, the pump unit bein... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787434 | Vacuum lift foam filled casting system A lost foam casting system (2) is provided with vacuum lift of molten metal (16) to an evaporative foam pattern assembly (8) surrounded by unbonded particulate media such as sand (6) in a flask (4). A gas permeable member (34, 70) or passage (72, 74) is p... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787435 | Core box assembly with wear strip A core box assembly includes an outer aluminum box containing an inner plastic or wooden mold section having a core depression therein adapted to receive mold sand. A strike-off surface on the box and mold section surrounds an opening providing access to ... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787436 | Gas venting device for molding operations A gas venting device for molding operations is disclosed having a valve for closing off a gas evacuation system from a mold when the mold cavity is filled with melt. A positive drive mechanism is provided for closing the valve, and a mechanism is provided... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787437 | Method for starting a continuous casting plant For the automatic casting start-up of a strand in continuous casting installations, a programmed start-of-casting curve is started with a slightly throttled sliding gate valve and each partial real time of the rising actual metal level is compared with th... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787438 | Method and apparatus for continuously casting metal Apparatus and processes for use therewith are provided for the start-up of the continuous casting of strip metal, preferably steel, in which liquid metal is poured into a flared type continuous casting strip-shaped mold equipped with detector means for mo... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787439 | Casting of reactive metals into ceramic molds The invention concerns a composition for making a coating consisting essentially of a refractory material selected from the group consisting of yttrium oxide, zirconium oxide, fused yttrium oxide, fused zirconium oxide, fused stabilized zirconium oxide, a... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787440 | Spiral flow in a shell and tube heat exchanger Rod type supports or baffles are disclosed for arrays of tubes, especially those arranged in the form of a tube bundle. Each baffle comprises a pair of arcuate surfaces with a plurality of rods extending therebetween and each rod being non-normally dispos... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787441 | Heat transfer element A heat exchanger wall incorporates a partition wall (11-12), one side of which is in contact with a heat exchange medium. A mechanically stable part (11) of the partition wall (11-12) has provided on one surface thereof a thin metal foil (12), which is pr... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787442 | Delta wing and ramp wing enhanced plate fin A sine-wave like plate fin for a finned tube heat exchanger coil is provided having an improved enhanced heat transfer area between adjacent pairs of holes in the plate fin. The enhanced heat transfer area includes a plurality of rows of triangular delta ... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787443 | Ceramic heat exchanger element A ceramic heat exchanger element comprises a ceramic honeycomb body, fluid passages formed in the ceramic honeycomb body and ceramic tubes extending through and fixed to the ceramic honeycomb body so as to intersect the fluid passages. The ceramic of the ... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787444 | Heating and cooling system A heating and cooling system is provided which utilizes a heat exchange material such as water which undergoes reversible phase changes from a solid to a liquid phase during operation to store heat energy. The system includes a storage chamber, solar, amb... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787445 | Hermetically sealed, relatively low pressure cooling system for internal combustion engines and method therefor A hermetically sealed low pressure, low temperature cooling system for internal combustion engines which include a thermostat that operates at a predetermined temperature, typically 195° F. Thermostatic control of engine operation temperature is maintain... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787446 | Inflatable packer and fluid flow control apparatus for wellbore operations Apparatus for interconnecting a tubing string with downhole tool and for controlling the flow of fluid into a wellbore through the tubing string comprising an elongated body member and a resiliently deformable sleeve disposed around the body member and ra... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787447 | Well fluid modular sampling apparatus A well fluid sampling apparatus for sampling fluids from a formation reservoir in a wall. The sampling apparatus comprises a body portion defining a large sampling chamber therein and at least one sampler module disposed in the sampling chamber. The sampl... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787448 | Rod guide A rod guide assembly for rods of a sucker rod string having a pair of longitudinally spaced stops rigidly secured to the sucker rod and a plurality of independently movable guide body sections mounted on the rod between these stops for limited longitudina... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787449 | Oil recovery process in subterranean formations Oil recovery from a subterranean, oil-containing formation having relatively highly permeable and/or fractured zones and relatively low permeability zones is improved by first injecting a predetermined amount of a plugging agent into the formation, prefer... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787450 | Gas lift process for restoring flow in depleted geothermal reservoirs A method is provided whereby continuous injection of lift gas into a producing geothermal well, preferably from a liquid-dominated reservoir, increases production flow of geothermal fluids from the well by initiating a steam distillation effect within the... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787451 | Melamine/formaldehyde cross-linking of polymers for profile control An improved process for forming improved gels where biopolymers and synthetic polymers are cross-linked with melamine/formaldehyde and other amino resins at an optimal range of ratios of amine to aldehyde in the amino resins. This optimal range of ratios ... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787452 | Disposal of produced formation fines during oil recovery Recovered formation fines are pumped in slurry form into an injection well during an enhanced oil recovery process e.g. a steam flood. Said injection can be done incrementally in stages in conjunction with said process. Said fines improve the sweep effici... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787453 | Permeability stabilization in subterranean formations containing particulate matter A method for treating a fines-containing formation to prevent the migration and/or swelling of particulate matter. The method comprises injecting into the formation water and/or steam which contains at least one water-soluble organosilicon compound. Suita... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787454 | Recovering hydrocarbons with surfactants from lignin A method of producing surfactants from lignin is disclosed by reducing lignin in the presence of a carbon monoxide or hydrogen reducing agent at high temperature and pressure to produce low molecular weight lignin phenols and subjecting the lignin phenols... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787455 | Method for scale and corrosion inhibition in a well penetrating a subterranean formation A method for inhibiting the formation of scale and corrosion in a well penetrating a subterranean formation for the production of fluids from the formation comprising injecting a predetermined amount of microparticles of a basic anion exchange resin provi... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787456 | Method to improve matrix acidizing in carbonates A process for improved acidizing in carbonate formations, where controlled pulse fracturing (CPF) is utilized in combination with a retarded acid. The retarded acid comprises hydrochloric, formic, acetic acid or mixtures thereof which is placed in a wellb... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787457 | Method and apparatus for rotating casing string segment A method and apparatus for rotating a portion or segment of a casing string in a relatively highly deflected well bore. A straight well bore portion is provided adjacent the completion interval, beyond the deflected portion. A casing string is made up wit... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787458 | Spring bow, centralizer, and related methods A spring bow with a contact angle reduction member, a centralizer with such a bow, and methods for their use. The centralizer bow has a contact angle reduction member for affecting and reducing the angle of contact between the centralizer bow and the edge... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787459 | Release technique and device Disclosed are a quick release device and a release technique. The device comprises a pair of members or sections which are releasably joined together. These members have opposed surfaces, which in turn have aligned indentations or grooves that form an ope... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4787460 | Mounting plate for a fire extinguisher having a self-location feature A wall mounted plate for a hand-operated fire extinguisher in which the plate has markings thereon to signal to the prospective user its location. The plate is composed of a fiberglass reinforced plastic, the markings thereon being of a striped pattern an... | 11/29/1988 |
