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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5048362 | Device for tensionally connecting a fixed gearwheel and an adjustable gearwheel on a cylinder of a turning apparatus in a sheet-fed rotary printing press and, more particularly, to such a device which is electrically safeguarded In a sheet-fed rotary printing press, a device for tensionally connecting a fixed gearwheel and a gearwheel coaxial with and adjustable in rotational position thereof relative to the fixed gearwheel on a cylinder of a turning device in the printing press,... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048363 | Worm gear lubrication retainer and transfer apparatus A lubrication retainer and distribution system for a worm gear and the mating worm. Porous pads saturated with lubricating fluid are attached to both sides of the worm gear and located so that they spread slightly and wipe the high ridges of the worm. To ... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048364 | Motor-operated tilt steering device A motor-operated tilt steering device including a fixed bracket fixed to the body of a vehicle and supporting a lower steering shaft by means of a lower column, a tilt bracket pivotally movably attached to the fixed bracket and supporting by an upper colu... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048365 | Ordnance arming switch knob assembly An improved ordnance arming knob assembly. An arbor is secured to a switch shaft. A knob is keyed to the arbor to move in an axial direction relative to the arbor while preventing rotation between the knob and the arbor. A pin on the knob extends in a dir... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048366 | Modular camshaft with removable cams, particularly for circuit breakers and electrical changeover switches or the like A modular camshaft comprises at least two modular elements or modules removably coupled together; each module carries at least one cam and comprises two cylindrical elements disposed on the same axis and projecting in opposite directions from opposing fac... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048367 | Automatic balance apparatus An apparatus including continuous rigid or semi-rigid annular conduit includes a mercury balance fluid therein contained within the conduit within a predetermined arc. The conduit may include baffle members to maintain orientation of the fluid within the ... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048368 | Hollow connecting rod A precision cast connecting rod which has an elongate tubular shank member defining a hollow section for producing desired stiffness to weight characteristics. Piston and crankpin connecting members are attached to opposite ends of the shank member. The c... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048369 | Clipless pedal with fastening means A clipless pedal is disclosed herein which includes a mounting support fixed to a shoe sole and a pedal body which is rotatably mountable to a conventional pedal shaft for retaining the mounting support. The pedal body has a pair of rear jaw members which... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048370 | Gear shrouding system A shroud for a gear train (12) includes a plurality of meshing gears (14), each gear (14) having sides (14a, 14b), teeth (16) and an outer diameter (14c). The shroud (10) includes a curvilinear enclosure (20) for encircling the outer diameter (14c) of eac... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048371 | Continuously variable transmission provided with a torque converter A continuously variable transmission (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) is provided with a torque converter (2) having an ingoing shaft (1), whereby the torque converter has such torque converting factors at various speeds of the ingoing shaft that the torque characte... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048372 | Transmission gear position dependent output control system for automotive internal combustion engine An engine output characteristics control system includes means for monitoring a selection of speed ratios of a power transmission to provide information concerning transmission gear position. The control system receives transmission gear position indicati... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048373 | Control apparatus for automatic transmission A control apparatus for an automatic transmission is disclosed which has shift valves to which a kickdown pressure, governor pressure corresponding to vehicle velocity and throttle pressure are applied, wherein the shift valves are changed over in depende... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048374 | Vehicle speed control system for motor vehicle having an automatic transmission control system A vehicle speed control system comprising an automatic speed control system for controlling the vehicle velocity to a set velocity selected by an operator, and automatic transmission control system for controlling the speed stage of the automatic transmis... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048375 | Method for constructing a rotating cutting tool Disclosed is a very small sized rotating and cutting tool comprising a rotating and cutting part such as drill bit and a shank which is a separate solid body having a through aperture permitting insertion of the rotating and cutting part into the through ... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048376 | Tool, mounting means and ring device for anti-skid chains Tool (20,40), a ring device (63,64) and a mounting means (8), the chain being adapted to mounting on vehicle wheel (1;11) having an elastic tire (3;13). The mounting means comprises portions (8) adapted to engagement with coacting mounting means (30) of t... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048377 | Gripping and rotating tong device A gripping and rotating tong device for handling drill rods, drill bits and other corresponding, at least partially rod-like pieces. The tong device comprises a housing fastened to a movable transfer device, the housing having an axial hole and a radial a... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048378 | Tool and method for faucet nut installation A tool is provided for installing a faucet nut on a faucet assembly at the underside of a lavatory. The tool allows installation of the faucet nut to be performed with an electric drill, rather than manually, thereby greatly reducing the time required for... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048379 | Multi-functional double-ended socket wrenches Double-ended, hollow core socket wrenches, tooled for either an English or metric size nut and bolt engaging means in one socket cavity and tooled for either the closest English or closest metric equivalent size nut and bolt engaging means in the opposite... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048380 | Adjustable wrench An adjustable wrench has a stationary jaw formed at an end of a handle. A slidable jaw is mounted for linear reciprocal movement toward and away from the stationary jaw by a worm gear in mesh with a gear rack on the slidable jaw. An axially movable shaft ... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048381 | Torque-indicating screwdriver A torque-indicating screwdriver comprises a shaft assembly and a handle. There is also a fastener coupling which enables a fastener to be coupled to an end of the shaft assembly. The shaft assembly comprises a torsionally elastic torque transmitter which ... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048382 | Method for making elastomeric sealing device A method of making a plurality of concentric ring cuts in a pliable device such as an elastomeric seal, by rotating the device at a speed to generate a desired centrifugal force and cutting into the rotating device with a knife while flushing the knife an... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048383 | Guide-bar device for automatic lathe and method of fabrication thereof The device comprises essentially a body or shaped piece of cylindrical form and of a circular or polygonal cross section, comprising tubular cavities of different diameters for receiving the bars to be machined of different diameters. The tubular cavities... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048384 | Centering device A device for centering a feedback tachometer on an output motor shaft. The device includes a housing disposed on the motor shaft. The housing includes a base and flange in which is received a mandrel shaft. The central axis of the mandrel shaft may be ali... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048385 | Indexable multi-tool for punch press A punch assembly which may be provided at a punching station in a turret punch press. The punch assembly includes a striker body having a solid portion, and a punch carrier which carries a plurality of individual punches. A selectively actuable stop holds... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048386 | Feed mechanism for flexible sheet material dispensers A feed mechanism for feeding a web of rolled flexible sheet material, such as soft paper towels, out of a dispenser. The mechanism includes a feed roller within the dispenser and a web cutting blade in the feed roller and projectable and retractable there... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048387 | Horizontal perforation forming apparatus for rotary press A horizontal perforation forming apparatus for a rotary press includes an interaxial distance adjusting unit for adjusting a distance between axes of perforation and mating cylinders. The apparatus also includes a phase adjusting unit having a phase adjus... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048388 | Rotary knife assembly A rotary knife assembly includes a rotary shaft, a flange, a rotary knife of an annular shape and a resilient member. The flange includes a radially-outwardly protruding flange portion having opposite end faces and a reduced diameter portion disposed adja... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048389 | Circular saw blade with saw chain providing cutters The invention includes a cutting chain having links therein, including anchor links and cutter links. Each anchor link has an anchor portion which extends to one side of the chain. Opposed side links join the anchor links. Certain of the side links are cu... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048390 | Tone visualizing apparatus A tone visualizing apparatus for visualizing an inputted audio signal to thereby display an image corresponding to this audio signal includes at least a detector, image display (such as a CRT display unit) and display controller. The detector detects char... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048391 | Electronic musical instrument for generating musical tones on the basis of characteristics of input waveform signal A vibration of a string is picked up by a pickup to be converted to an electric signal. A pitch extracting circuit obtains pitch data expressing a pitch or a duration of the string vibration from the electric signal. A musical tone generating circuit gene... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048392 | Elevating bearing for a large-caliber weapon accommodated in the turret of a tank An elevating bearing for a large-caliber weapon accommodated in the turret of a tank, with a slant-ring bearing around the tube. The tube is mounted in a bearing ring that rotates around the axis of the tube and is itself mounted on another bearing ring a... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048393 | Removal tool for propelling charge modules A removal tool for propelling charge modules stored in a charge magazine one behind the other and having a hollow ignition channel, which tool facilitates both the rapid manual removal of the charge modules from the magazine, and the loading of the charge... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048394 | Multiplexed hydraulic control system with oscillator for multiplexer drive A multiplexed hydraulic control system in which high force margins for the multiplexer are achieved by employing hydraulic oscillators as the multiplexer driving means. The multiplexer is typically in the form of a hydraulic cylinder having an input port ... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048395 | Control device for cylinder A control device for a cylinder including a spool type valve which includes a spool and is formed therein with a cylinder port. In the spool type valve is arranged an operation check valve for permitting only flowing of fluid to the cylinder. An orifice i... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048396 | Bypass valve In the neutral position of a directional control valve in which the connection of the constant pump to the consumer is interrupted the entire delivery of the constant pump is led via a bypass valve to the tank. According to the invention the regulating ra... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048397 | In-line hydraulic pressure intensifier The subject invention comprises a hydraulic pressure intensifier (10) including a cylinder (42) having a fluid inlet (44) at one end and a fluid outlet (46) at the other end. Two telescopically disposed pistons (54, 56) are slideably supported between the... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048398 | Single, light-weight and low friction light-metal piston for internal-combustion engines The technical problem is to reduce the operating noise of such a piston. It is solved by means of a piston having the following dimensions: a) A=(0.45-0.65) D; b) H=(0.25-0.4) D; c) A=(0.3-0.4) D; d) A greater than or equal to B; e) T=(0.45-0.8) D; f) the... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048399 | Air intake for an automotive air conditioning system An air conditioning system for controlling the temperature in a passenger compartment in an automobile is provided. The air conditioning system includes a duct which defines an air passage and a blower disposed in the air passage for blowing air through t... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048400 | Pressure cooker with sensor A pressure cooker with a humidity sensor or gas sensor, wherein a micro-computer reliably detects the point at which the internal pressure of a pressure cavity reaches a prescribed value by using this sensor by detecting the point at which a pressure cont... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048401 | Barbecue apparatus and method of making the same A barbecue construction using a pair of dual-type truck wheels, one of the pair forming a lower base member and the other of the pair forming an upper firebox member. The lower wheel is disposed on an underlying ground surface with its wheel hub member fa... | 09/17/1991 |
