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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4800792 | Cutting device for hot granulation of thermoplastic polymers A cutting device for the hot granulation of thermoplastic polymers including a rotary driving shaft, a blade-carrying disc rigidly keyed on the driving shaft and blades not rigidly mounted on said disc and sliding on the cutting plate, each blade being pa... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800793 | Compound miter box A portable miter box for making miter cuts with a hand saw comprising an elongated work board supportable by legs at each of its ends. A swivel plate means positioned under the middle portion of the work board and adjustable for a limited horizontal movem... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800794 | Harmonic coefficient generator for an electronic musical instrument A keyboard operated electronic musical instrument is disclosed which has a number of tone generators each of which is assigned to an actuated keyswitch. Musical waveshapes are generated by a computation using a set of harmonic coefficients. Apparatus is d... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800795 | Electronic drum with angle adjustment An angle adjusting apparatus for a percussion instrument has a ball member and a seat in slidable contact with the ball member. One of the ball member and the seat is mounted on a musical instrument support member of a musical instrument stand. The other ... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800796 | Method of manufacturing structural members by braiding threads, and structural members obtained thereby A method of manufacturing an elongated braided structural member having high mechanical strength, including the steps of providing at least three primary elongated cores, parallel and spaced from one another, and helically winding a plurality of threads a... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800797 | Hydraulic percussion device and method of controlling same A hydraulic percussion device comprises a housing defining a longitudinal cylinder, a piston longitudinally reciprocal in the cylinder and subdividing same into a front compartment and a rear compartment, and a tool engageable longitudinally with the pist... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800798 | Control surface dual redundant servomechanism A dual redundant servomechanism for moving aircraft control surfaces is disclosed. The servomechanism is of the type whose input commands, from the pilot of the aircraft, are transmitted electrically. Force fight, which is associated with such dual servom... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800799 | Vacuum type brake booster The present invention relates to a booster for automobile braking systems. The booster includes a booster housing with a movable wall disposed in the booster housing and dividing the interior of the housing into a constant pressure chamber connected to a ... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800800 | Fluid pressure translating device A fluid pressure translating device comprising a housing with a pumping mechanism therein including a rotary cylinder barrel having a plurality of cylinders with pistons slidable therein operatively associated with a cam block, each cylinder having a port... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800801 | Pump A swash plate pump includes a housing and cylinders arranged in a circular pattern around the drive shaft. Piston rods are pivotally connected at one end to the swash plate and mechanism surrounding the drive shaft and axially slidable along it controls t... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800802 | Hydraulic remote center compliance device The device has primary and secondary frame members interconnected by extensible and retractable positioning members connected by fluid circuits that cause extension of the member at either end of a circuit in response to retraction of the member at the ot... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800803 | Ventilation device A ventilation device for a vehicle roof window disposed in a window opening having a light-permeable cover (6). The cover is adjustably movable between at least one open and one closed position. The ventilation device consists of at least one motor-driven... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800804 | Variable air flow diffuser An air diffuser adapted for mounting in a building for controlling air pressure within a space, the diffuser comprising a tile such as can be placed in a ceiling and having an air inlet side and an air discharge side, a wall providing an air flow port in ... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800805 | Espresso machine with cappuccino making attachment An espresso machine with an attachment for the making of cappuccino wherein the attachment has a pipe with an open air admitting inlet at its upper end and an open air discharging outlet at its lower end. The steam conduit of the espresso machine has an o... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800806 | Method of and apparatus for selectively operating a cooking apparatus with circulating heated air or water vapor The conversion operation of a cooking apparatus which is initially operated using heated air at approximately 250° C. to an operation using water vapor is made possible in a short period of time and without danger by lowering the temperature to approxima... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800807 | Apparatus for the manufacture of perforated pita bread An apparatus for the manufacture of perforated pita bread is disclosed. The apparatus includes a cylindrical roller having disposed on the surface thereof substantially circular blades with a sawtooth blade disposed along the diameter of each circular bla... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800808 | Apparatus for production of milk concentrate In order to produce a milk concentrate by membrane filtration of the milk produced at a milking plant the milk is during the milking continuously led to the concentrate space (2) of a member filter unit (1) possibly after heating to a temperature of 50°-... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800809 | Equipment for continuously coagulating milk preferably pre-acidified milk for preparing yoghurt Equipment for continuously coagulating preferably preacidified milk for preparing yoghurt, provided with means for keeping the milk at a desired temperature during coagulation, with means for feeding in the milk and with means for discharging the yoghurt,... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800810 | Impact rice huller A vertical type impact rice huller which is free from the occurrence of collision of the grain is disclosed. The apparatus comprising a vertical rotary shaft; an unbrella type feeder rigidly mounted on an upper portion of the shaft and adapted to turn wit... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800811 | Dwell-effecting twine arm drive link A pair of twine arms are mounted for pivoting back and forth between first and second locations for dispensing twine into a bale chamber. The arms are oscillated by a reversible gear drive including a drive gear having a drive arm fixed thereto and couple... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800812 | Automatic tape cutter/sticker An improved automatic tape cutter/sticker is composed of an outer housing, inner housing, side cover, plate spring, circular ring tube, printing equipment, rotating cutting equipment, compressing rod and tape. The device further includes a circular ring t... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800813 | Planetary transmission device for driving an oscillating auxiliary gripper of a printing press A device for driving an oscillating auxiliary gripper of a printing press includes an eccentric shaft rotatably mounted in the side upright of the press and on the eccentric portion of which a cam-actuated auxiliary gripper shaft is rotatably mounted for ... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800814 | Arming devices An arming device for a missile having a rotating tail fin assembly is disclosed. The device includes a distance counter comprising a given length of coiled tape contained within a rotatable drum, the length of the tape being determined by the distance req... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800815 | Shaped charge carrier A shaped charge carrier assembly includes a thin wall carrier having a charge opening disposed therethrough for freely receiving a shaped charge therein. A deformable retaining device is integrally formed with the thin wall carrier adjacent a periphery of... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800816 | Delay discarding sabot projectile A low dispersion delay discarding sabot projectile comprising a full caliber cylindrical pusher having a forward facing cylindrical recess, a cylindrical subcaliber penetrator positioned in the recess with a significant annular gap defined therebetween, a... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800817 | Rail joint alignment system and method of connection An alignment system and method are described for aligning and supporting facing ends of two rails so that they can be secured together (e.g., by welding or bonding). The alignment system includes a pair of lift plates to support the ends of the rails. The... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800818 | Linear motor-driven conveyor means A linear motor-driven conveyor means includes a linear motor and a linear step motor and provides high speed conveying and sotp position determining of high accuracy with a simple controlling device.... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800819 | Railway car A railway idler car used as a spacer car between loaded cars that carry very long objects, such as plates, girders, structural steel, pipe, poles and the like. The car is of a skeleton design and is incapable of carrying freight.... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800820 | Side sill arrangement for a gondola-type railroad car A center sill-less type gondola railroad car having an aluminum car body which includes an extra large load carrying compartment or container supported on a surrounding horizontal rectangular framework that consists essentially of a pair of transversely o... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800821 | Dispensing rack A dispensing rack has a knockdown construction that permits quick and easy assembly and disassembly without any tools. The rack construction is also modular to facilitate varying the size and shape of the rack, and to greatly reduce manufacturing and tran... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800822 | Gun safe with ejectable drawer A gun safe having an ejectable drawer is disclosed. The gun safe comprises a door hingedly connected to the opened end of a housing. The drawer is reciprocatingly mounted within the housing and is springloaded to bear against the closed door so that, upon... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800823 | Aquasafe™ a temperature tolerant safe An improved storage device is provided for enhanced protection from fire and theft. It has advantages of lightweight for transportation and installation, heavyweight for protection when in use, steel construction for theft protection, dry insulation for h... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800824 | Pyrolytic incineration system An incineration system utilizes a circular cross-section pyrolysis chamber in which waste materials are gasified. A flat cast iron hearth serves as the floor of the pyrolysis chamber and has a number of small holes which are raised above the general heart... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800825 | Slagging-combustor sulfur removal process and apparatus In the operation of a slagging combustor, including an apertured baffle defining part of a cylindrical combustion chamber having a head end which includes a nozzle for injection of sulfur-containing particulate carbonaceous material to be combusted in a w... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800826 | Agricultural machine An agricultural machine comprises a frame (1) carrying a hopper (2) for a fluid material, the hopper (2) is located in a sealed chamber (4) having an inlet communicated with a source (5) of working fluid and a device for causing the fluid material to move... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800827 | Apparatus and improved method for dispensing matter into the ground An improved apparatus for dispensing matter into the ground having a rod, and a body conduit terminating at one end into a funnel and terminating at another end into a body aperture. The rod is slidably disposed within the body aperture and the body condu... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800828 | Double needle bar loop pile tufting apparatus A multiple needle tufting machine incorporating a pair of relatively transversely adjustable front and rear needle bars, each needle bar supporting corresponding front and rear needles in transverse rows for simultaneous penetration of a base fabric movin... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800829 | Device for placing a presser foot in an automatic sewing machine A sewing machine having a presser foot for positioning a fabric to be sewn and a device for holding the presser foot. This device comprises a pair of hook arms, the ends of which releasably engage a presser foot and a scissor arm actuating device for actu... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800830 | Hemmer seamer assembly A hemmer seamer assembly comprising an apparatus for positioning a chain of stitches for stitching onto fabric having a needle and a throat plate, including a device for positioning the chain of stitches forwardly of the needle, and a device for moving th... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4800831 | Ice breaker Broken ice floes move laterally by the prow of an ice breaker into a position below the unbroken ice cover laterally limit the fairway channel formed and surround the stern of the ship, so that as a result of the increased water speed produced by the prop... | 01/31/1989 |
