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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5209159 | Printing press A printing press comprising press units inclusive of a press unit that does not correspond to a standard floor, the press units being stacked in stages. The standard floor is provided with an operation floor that faces a press unit and with an operation f... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209160 | Blower mounting for dampening fluid evaporator A dampening fluid evaporator for a lithographic printing press which incorporates an elongated transflow blower which is mounted to be driven by a roller in the inking system. The blower is formed by a plurality of impeller segments mounted end to end.... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209161 | Method of mutually adjusting single-colour images on a multicolour rotary printing press A method of mutually adjusting single-color images on a rotary printing press for printing multicolor images on a continuous paper strip, each single-color image being printed by a respective printing cylinder adjusted in relation to the other printing cy... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209162 | Additional color density method Additional Color Density Method is a process utilizing, but not limited to, an additional plate of each of the 4 standard process colors; magenta, cyan, yellow, and black, whereas the first plate of each color is the same as conventional 4-color plates an... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209163 | Printing cylinder with retractable plate register pin and method of assembly A magnetic printing cylinder has retractable plate register pins. The printing plate is positioned on the cylinder by engagement of an edge of the plate with the pins in extended position. The pins are moved to retracted position and the plate wrapped aro... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209164 | Mechanism for selectively engaging the doctor blade with the washer roller in a washer for a printing press blanket cylinder A mechanism for selectively engaging the doctor blade in a washer for the blanket cylinder of a printing press. The mechanism permits independent control of doctor blade engagement and, through the use of a plurality of adjustably mounted fluid pressure a... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209165 | Buffer stop In a friction buffer stop, each side wall of the buffer structure has at its lowermost edge mutually spaced slots extending parallel to the adjacent rail, each slot being directly opposite to and of the same length as a slot in the other side wall. Pairs ... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209166 | Aerodynamic self cleaning hopper car A curved sided aerodynamic self clearing hopper car uses the curved sides, end skirts and top chord and side sills for improved strength and reduced aerodynamic drag.... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209167 | Trolley wheel assembly and housing having injection molded plastic parts The present invention relates to a wheel casing with a housing formed of two shells with bearings for a wheel. According to the invention, the shells (6, 7) of the housing (5) are injection molded parts, and they are connected to each other in a force-loc... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209168 | Secure closure system for metal cabinet doors A security system for a metal cabinet door comprises a latch adapted to be locked by a lock operating the latching members of the door. These comprise upper and lower strip members each having a plurality of hooks each of which, when the door is closed an... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209169 | Incinerator improvements Improvements for an incinerator system including double reburn tunnels, an excitor within a reburn tunnel, a choker for closing off part of a reburn tunnel, a grate near the incinerator's inlet to permit the drying and initial combustion of refuse, an ash... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209170 | Setting machine A setting machine for transplanting plugged seedlings of vegetables along predetermined transplantation ridges in a field used in combination with seedling culture trays made of synthetic resin and formed with cells as through-holes. The setting machine i... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209171 | Carpet edge binding machine A machine for sewing a binding tape to a cut edge of carpeting comprises a wheel-mounted sewing machine having an opposed pair of pinch rollers engaging opposed sides of the carpeting, the pinch rollers being inset from the cut edge and one of the rollers... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209172 | Upper fabric feed device for sewing machine, utilizing parallel motion mechanism for reciprocating feed foot and presser foot An upper fabric feed device for a sewing machine, including a feet reciprocating mechanism for reciprocating feed and presser feet for feeding the work fabric on a throat plate. The reciprocating mechanism includes a first swing arm pivoted by a drive dev... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209173 | Elongate fitting with an eye and a "V"-channel for compressively engaging a rope, particularly for cargo tie-down A generally elongate fitting has a distal-end region for affixing an external object, a mid-region eye, and a proximal-end region for attaching a rope. In one embodiment, the distal-end and middle regions are configured as an eye hook having an eye at its... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209174 | Mast climbing apparatus for sailboats A mast-climbing assembly for enabling a person to climb a mast includes a pair of step-leg units, a plurality of hook brackets each securable to the mast, and a pair of hand hangers. Each of the step-leg units includes a step member and a leg member that ... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209175 | Emergency release device for drilling A system for severing anchor cable mooring lines and oil well drill pipes is disclosed in which a primary hydraulic system containing a first fluid under pressure is utilized to actuate cutters and a secondary hydraulic system containing a second fluid un... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209176 | Boat bottom flotation scrubber A flotation scrubber for cleaning boat bottoms while in the water having a cylindrical tubular head floatable in the water surrounded by removable and replaceable scrubbing material and operated by an elongated tubular handle providing a reinforced substa... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209177 | Pontoon-type boat A pontoon-type boat comprising a deck having opposite sides, and a modified tunnel hull supporting the deck and including a first outer sponson located adjacent one of the sides of the deck, a second outer sponson located adjacent the other of the sides o... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209178 | Dual position boat seat A fishing boat has a flat inner floor with a front operating station having a seat moveable between a lower run position and a raised fishing position. A base frame includes abutting box-like members having a common wall. The frame is secured to the floor... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209179 | Liquid coating apparatus for use in conjunction with printing presses where access of the coating apparatus to the press cylinders is restricted A liquid coating apparatus capable of applying a liquid coating fluid to a workpiece traveling over a press cylinder rotatably mounted in a printing press is provided. The coating apparatus includes an applicator means which communicates with the press cy... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209180 | Spin coating apparatus with an upper spin plate cleaning nozzle A spin coating apparatus for use in applying a coating solution in film form to an upper surface of a substrate. This apparatus includes a spinning table for supporting and spinning the substrate in horizontal posture, an upper spinning plate disposed par... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209181 | Surgical tube painting machine A machine for precisely painting large numbers of small various sized tubular pieces. The painting machine includes a chain driven track assembly which moves the tube pieces held on paint fixtures into a paint chamber for painting and into an oven to dry ... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209182 | Chemical vapor deposition apparatus for forming thin film An apparatus for forming, by a chemical vapor deposition process, a thin film of crystals such as diamond on a surface of a heated substrate placed in a reaction vessel. The apparatus has a substrate supporting structure, a heater for heating the substrat... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209183 | Portable feeder apparatus A feeder apparatus includes a feed hopper including front and rear end walls, a pair of opposed side walls each formed by upper and lower side panels secured together by a first plurality of removable fasteners, and a lid movable between open and closed p... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209184 | Pet travel bowl In order to make it possible especially during travel for there to be water and/or food available for a pet such as a dog, a bowl has been provided which has a container portion with an open top surrounded by a skirt portion. The open top of the container... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209185 | Artificial litter for pets comprising tapioca An artificial litter for pets is prepared by kneading grains of tapioca and corn obtained from refined tapioca powder and corn in a humidified grain cracking machine, or expander. The kneaded tapioca and corn is then expelled under pressure through a nozz... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209186 | Animal bedding nodules mode from paper pulp and method of making the same Described herein is a method of producing nodules from paper pulp. The method includes partially dewatering the paper pulp and tumbling the partially dewatered pulp in an externally heated enclosure until the nodules are formed. Additives may be added to ... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209187 | Low pollutant - emission, high efficiency cyclonic burner for firetube boilers and heaters A low pollutant emission, high efficiency cyclonic burner and cyclonic combustion process for firetube boilers and heaters in which the combustion air required for complete combustion is introduced into the cyclonic burner in stages. Fuel and primary comb... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209188 | Fluid bed combustion reheat steam temperature control A reheat steam temperature control system that utilizes the separate components of a reheater and a reheat heat exchanger to generate hot reheat steam. The reheater uses the fluidized bed as its source of heat while the reheat heat exchanger uses main ste... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209189 | Internal-combustion engine A reciprocating internal combustion engine whose thermally loaded components are cooled by a cooling liquid. The internal combustion engine has at least one cylinder with piston and a cylinder head associated therewith having an exhaust duct, as well as a... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209190 | Rotary power device A rotary power device comprises an open ended stationary housing defining an interior having a sinusoidal cam track disposed therein and end walls closing each open end of the housing. At least one fluid inlet port and one fluid outlet port is provided in... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209191 | Air intake manifold for an internal combustion engine An air intake manifold for an internal combustion engine including a mounting flange through which a plurality of intake ducts open. Blow-by gases from the crankcase of the engine are introduced into the intake ducts through channels or passageways commun... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209192 | Two-cycle engine Two-cycle engine with fuel injection, of the type having at least one cylinder (3) in which a piston (5) is mounted to slide. A crankshaft is connected to this piston and housed in a housing (2), cylinder (3) further communicating with an intake circuit w... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209193 | Intake- and/or exhaust-valve timing control system for internal combustion engines An intake- and/or exhaust-valve timing control system for an internal combustion engine comprises a timing belt pulley having a driven connection with an engine crankshaft, a camshaft journaled by a bearing member mounted on a cylinder head and receiving ... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209194 | Variable valve timing apparatus An apparatus for controlling a valve timing in an internal combustion engine. A timing piston 7 is in splined engagement with both a camshaft sleeve connected to the camshaft 1 and a pulley sleeve connected to the timing pulley. The timing piston 7 is con... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209195 | Ignition distributor An ignition distributor wherein at least either one of the discharge element of a stationary electrode and the discharge element of a rotary electrode are composed of a sintered body comprising at least a ferrite and silicon oxide and have a surface preci... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209196 | Operating-mode position selector arrangement for internal combustion engine The invention relates to an operating-mode position selector arrangement for an internal combustion engine in a portable handheld tool such as a motor-driven chain saw. The engine includes an electrical ignition system and is supplied with a fuel mixture ... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209197 | Cylinder head/cylinder sealing device for a reciprocating pressurized gas machine In a sealing device between a cylinder head (1) and a cylinder (2), formed by a removable thin cylindrical liner (7) sleeved into a bore provided in a cylinder block (4), when the cylinder head rests on the upper surface of the liner, before the cylinder ... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5209198 | Process for simple and high speed oil change and/or flushing the engine oil distribution channels of the moving components of the crankcase in an internal combustion engine A process and apparatus for changing the oil in an engine and/or flushing and scrub cleaning the moveable parts in the engine utilizing the internal lube oil distribution system of the engine. The device includes an oil filter adapter adapted to be positi... | 05/11/1993 |