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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4862558 | Method and device for boning meat portions A method and device for boning meat portions, making use of two opposite pressing elements adapted to be moved to and from each other, wherein each pressing element comprising a recess provided with inserts, along the borderline of the recess each pressin... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862559 | Conditioning of baled materials For conditioning baled material, such as wool, which is subject to taking a set upon being frozen or remaining stored for an extended period, steam is forced into the bale from two opposite sides for a short period of time, over a substantial part of the ... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862560 | Irreversible tie strap with specialized clasp to permit the strap to be inserted through the clasp twice An irreversible tie strap in which the tieing strap comes in a roll including an elongated strap member having a multiplicity of holes, grooves or slots therein to accommodate a pair of mating tongues. The strap in roll form can be cut to any desired leng... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862561 | Irreversible tie strap with specialized clasp An irreversible tie strap in which the tieing strap comes in a roll including an elongated strip member having a multiplicity of holes, grooves or slots therein to accommodate a mating tongue. The strap in roll form can be cut to any desired length, there... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862562 | Device for the adjustable fastening of a strap, especially of a wristwatch A device for fastening a strap to a buckle, in particular a leather strap to a self-extending buckle of a wristwatch comprises spindle around which a band making up the strap is coiled, and a support holding a first part of the band in place coiled around... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862563 | Securing strap and fastener The present invention is directed to a flexible securing strap having at one end a double-sided strip of VELCRO.RTM. hook material. The other end is bifurcated into two sections, each of which have the VELCRO.RTM. loop material on the internal surface, su... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862564 | Apparatus for stretching a thermoplastic material web A thermoplastic material web is stretched transverse to the machine direction along a stretch course which widens exponentially in the stretching zone, an improved stretching apparatus being used to effect such stretching.... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862565 | Spreader roll for wrinkle-free traveling web This invention pertains to a spreader roll adapted to remove wrinkles, ripples, bags and torque marks from fast-traveling webs of material of fabric, plastic or combinations thereof. The resulting fast-traveling web has a smooth, uninterrupted surface. Th... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862566 | Auxiliary device for a seam weaving machine for joining the ends of flat-woven fabrics An auxiliary device for a seam weaving machine for joining the ends of flat-woven fabrics by a woven seam couples each auxiliary warp thread to a tensioning string. The auxiliary device includes a barbed needle in a guide sleeve with the barbed needle hav... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862567 | Seating die for use in a reloading press A seating die that is suitable for use in a cartridge reloading press of the type common employed by marksmen for reloading ammunition. The die includes a retainer housing that is adapted for mounting in the stationary head of the press opposite a coactin... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862568 | Apparatus to drill and tap a hollow underwater member An apparatus of reinforcing a hollow underwater member of an offshore platform which includes removable power-actuated motors, retaining means for preventing rotational movement of the motors relative to the retaining means while permitting axial movement... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862569 | Machine with a table with intermittent rotation Machine with a table with intermittent rotation makes it possible to perform with great rapidity the working and assembly of parts requiring great precision. It comprises operating units (49, 49') placed above, below and at the side of rotating table (28)... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862570 | Apparatus for removal of scale from hot-rolled steel strip An apparatus is provided for removing scale from a hot rolled steel strip by rolls acting by grinding and/or milling so that these rolls are uniformly effective in all regions of the steel strip and an appropriate uniform removal of the scale layer occurs... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862571 | Method of making a valve sleeve In manufacturing a tubular valve sleeve having axially extending grooves on its inner surface, the valve sleeve groove ends are closed by radially inward displacement of sleeve material, which is limited by a mandrel to minimize the formation of cracks in... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862572 | Retaining ring tool A tool for installing and removing both internal and external large retaining rings. The tool includes a pivotally interconnected pair of lever arms. Each lever arm includes a retainer ring engagement tip. The tool further comprises a lever arm actuator i... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862573 | Medical sampling needle removal and disposal device A device for removing and disposing of blood sampling needles with a minimum of manipulation and without manual contact with any contaminated part. An electrical motor operates a cog wheel to unscrew the needle from the vacuum container sleeve to drop int... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862574 | Panty protector Improvements are made in a panty protector of the kind comprising adhesive attachment and provided with transversely extending flaps. The peripheral shape of the protector is such that it is possible to produce the sheet of material of construction for th... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862575 | Method and apparatus for finishing grooved articles Grooves in an article such as a commutator are filled with a soft brittle material before a grooved surface of the article is cut. With the grooves thus filled, the cutting is performed continuously and smoothly without involving formation of burrs projec... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862576 | Method for restressing and locking HHL anchor A method for restressing and locking HHL anchor, comprising a bearing plate placed between a gripping wedge and ground, a bearing shell is mounted over and connects with a jack, a load cell and a nut in series, a jack rod is inserted within the jack and h... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862577 | Method of making a refrigerator cabinet A refrigerator cabinet includes an outer shell having a transverse flange terminating in a channel generally parallel with the flange and opening transversely inwardly. A liner is disposed within the shell and defines a storage space which is divided into... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862578 | Tube magazine component feeder A tube magazine component feeder is disclosed. The component feeder is reconfigurable to accommodate different tube magazine sizes and different component configurations. The component feeder includes a pair of upright masts for supporting loaded tube mag... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862579 | Apparatus for adhering ribbons to cartridge shell plate An apparatus for adhering ribbons to a cartridge shell plate comprises a conveyor for continuously conveying thin sheets disposed side by side, a pressure adherence unit for pushing two ribbon webs coated with an adhesive against edge portions of the thin... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862580 | Multi-purpose modular plug crimp tool This invention discloses a multi-purpose modular plug crimp tool which is provided with at least one set of modular plug receiving groove, conduction piece pressing block, bus pressing block etc., and is thus applicable to perform crimp operations for sev... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862581 | Method of constructing a dynamoelectric machine A dynamoelectric machine, preferably a motor adapted for use in ceiling fan applications, has a conventional rotor assembly mounted within a bore of a stator assembly. A stationary shaft extends through the rotor assembly and provides both a cableway for ... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862582 | Method for manufacturing an electric motor A method of manufacturing an electric motor including the steps of providing a cylindrical housing having a plurality of recesses spaced from one end, providing a shaft bearing having a radially extending flange around the periphery of the bearing, provid... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862583 | Method of making a fiber-optic reed switch A magnetically responsive reed switch assembly having one or two cantilevered reed members arranged to close and open a gap responsive to respective levels of magnetic exposure, supports two optical fiber members in end-to-end closely spaced confrontation... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862584 | Disk drive assembly station An assembly station is provided for use in the assembly of disk drive units of the type used in microcomputers, such as personal computers and the like. The assembly station comprises a main platform having a head fixture and a disk fixture for respective... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862585 | Apparatus for attaching top end stops to slide fastener chain A pair of top end stops is attached to respective beaded edges of a pair of stringer tapes of a slide fastener chain which is fed along a feed path. A punch and die assembly disposed above the feed path has a pair of pockets for gripping the top end stops... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862586 | Lead frame for enclosing semiconductor chips with resin A lead frame for enclosing a semiconductor chip with resin has a plurality of leads and at least one side frame member for supporting the leads. The lead frame is formed at a required location with a resin adhering portion for effectively removing resin a... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862587 | Harness producing apparatus and method A wire harness is produced by attaching terminals to one of the respective ends of a plurality of wires and gathering the other ends and attaching a single terminal thereto. The plurality of insulated wires are intermittently fed by respective predetermin... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862588 | Method of making a flexible interconnect A method of making a flexible interconnect for connection between stacks of electronic components. The method includes punching a plurality of holes through a flexible insulating material, plating copper studs into the holes extending out of at least one ... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862589 | Dry-shaving apparatus comprising a slidable shutter In a dry-shaving apparatus comprising a slidable shutter (3) for optionally covering or exposing a shear foil of the dry-shaving apparatus an arm (15) of a slide (14) for actuating a switch (11) in the motor circuit extends in the path of the shutter end ... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862590 | Retractable blade knife A retractable blade knife having a self-sharpening facility which can be selectively rendered inoperable. The sharpener is spring biased in an upward direction so as to be urged into engagement with the cutting edge of a knife blade, and manually operable... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862591 | Ice spud An ice spud is provided with a blade having cutting means which comprises a pair of spikes and a cutting edge defining a notch in an end of the blade, the cutting edge intersecting lateral edges of the blade to define the spikes therewith, whereby the spi... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862592 | Write head for a drawing machine having a deformable mounting for a writing member A write head for an X-Y plotter comprises a write head body (10) movably mounted in a horizontal direction relative to a write medium (14) and a pen (30) movably mounted in a vertical direction with respect to the head body (10) between pen-up and pen-dow... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862593 | Saw chain hook angle gauge A hook angle gauge having a bar with a straight bottom edge that lays across the cutting corners of successive cutting links in a length of saw chain. A face plate includes a series or row of holes or openings that simulate the cross section of the file u... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862594 | Magnetic compass system for a vehicle A compass and method of operation are disclosed for finding the heading of a vehicle. The heading is found using a compass having a rotor with a compass magnet thereon and means on the rotor defining a reference line in known relation with the polar axis ... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862595 | Extension level A standard three foot carpenter's level with two sleeve-like extensions adjustably movable upon it to provide accurate plumbing and trueing facilities to six foot-six inch and eight foot lengths. The top and bottom surfaces of the base level have projecti... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862596 | Apparatus for measuring size of seamed portion of cans An apparatus for simultaneously measuring at least the width and thickness of a seamed portion of a can at the same point on the seamed portion. The apparatus comprises a measurement base for receiving the seamed portion of the can thereon, and a referenc... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4862597 | Variable stencil A stencil is constructed from a stationary envelope and an insert sheet disposed in the envelope but free to be moved with respect to the envelope. The subject matter to be stencilled is cut through the envelope and through the insert sheet. The cuts crea... | 09/05/1989 |