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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5562015 | Automatic ratchet reversal device An automatic ratchet reversal device actuated by any reversible rotatable motor is disclosed. A rotatable force applied by a motor in one direction causes a linkage means to reciprocate once to actuate a ratchet pawl for one-direction ratcheting. Reversal... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562016 | Centering device, in particular, a centering device for steering valves A centering device for steering valves contains a torsion bar (1) that is clamped between a drive part (2) and a power take-off part (3). Because torsion bar (1) does not permit any exact central positioning, a radial borehole (6) of a valve bushing (3A) ... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562017 | Reusable press fit connection of a hydraulic power apparatus and method of assembly An apparatus (10) including a housing (14) defining a chamber (16) and a movable piston (18, 100) dividing the chamber (16) into first and second chamber portions (20, 22). An apparatus (38, 40) directs fluid pressure into either the first or second chamb... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562018 | Hydraulic valve A check valve (10) for a hydraulic actuator (14), wherein the check valve (10) includes a valve seat (72) and a displaceable valve component (62) for controlling the flow of hydraulic oil through valve seat (72). Check valve (10) also includes a cylindric... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562019 | Hydrostatic drive system A hydrostatic drive system including a pump (1) and consumers (6, 8) which can each be actuated by a directional control valve (5,7) is disclosed. Each directional control valve (5, 7) is assigned a pressure compensator (9, 10) which can be controlled by ... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562020 | Stirring blade driving device for bread maker A stirring blade driving device for a bread maker. In the device, a stirring blade is rotated by a motor having a main coil and speed-changing coils, and the respective coils of the motor are selectively connected to an ac power supply by a plurality of t... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562021 | Device for preparing grain cakes A device for preparing puffed food products from cereals such as rice wherein the cereal is subjected to pressure and heat, the device comprising a mold having a cavity defined by a wall thereabouts, an interior surface extending about the cavity, a pisto... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562022 | Oven system The invention is an oven system for roasting, cooking, baking and regenerating, as well as for grilling foodstuffs by supplying heat into a cooking space of the oven. The oven system includes at least one slide-in frame movable into and out of the cooking... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562023 | Rib rack with sauce pan A rib rack with sauce pan comprised of a rack system comprised of elongated rods. The rack system is arranged to hold a plurality of racks of ribs therein. The device includes a sauce pan having an open top, a closed bottom, and upwardly extending periphe... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562024 | Apparatus for electroheating food employing concentric electrodes An electroheating apparatus to continuously treating pumpable food is made up of a number of connected electroheating cells. In one embodiment, all of the cells include a pair of concentric electrodes between which the food is pumped. The electrodes are c... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562025 | Salad spinner apparatus A salad spinner comprising a bowl, a colander adapted to nest within the bowl, and a lid for the bowl and colander. Drive means are associated with the lid for rotating the colander relative to the bowl. The drive means include a handle having one end for... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562026 | Method for the hydraulic control of an articulated or toggle-lever press and articulated or toggle-lever press having a control adapted for carrying out the method A method for hydraulic control of a toggle lever press in which the velocity of a driving piston rod is increased at least once in the working region of a press ram. The velocity of the press ram is thus kept relatively constant up to bottom dead center (... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562027 | Dynamic nip pressure and temperature sensing system A system for measuring the dynamic pressure distribution between rolls in a nip roll press comprises a roll adapted to rotatingly contact at least one other roll in a press nip, having one or more sensors thereon, for measuring the nip pressure at several... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562028 | Longitudinal and convex flexural deformation of a press plate/heating plate in a continuously operating press A continuously operating press for production of particle boards, fiber boards or similar wood boards and plastic boards includes flexible endless steel belts which transmit pressing pressure and pull materials to be pressed through the press. The steel b... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562029 | Conveying and compacting apparatus having a shaftless spiral in a casing with drainage openings Apparatus for conveying and compacting material which includes fractions of different sizes, densities, elasticity, moisture-content, etc., wherein a shaftless spiral is disposed in a casing and the spiral is driven in rotation at an end of the casing whe... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562030 | Process and apparatus for simultaneously preparing a plurality of silk screens An apparatus and process for the manufacture of silk-screens is provided for use in the printing of halftones, e.g. in a four color printing process. The angle at which the mesh of a silk-screen should be relative to the screen frame to eliminate or at le... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562031 | Method and apparatus for driving a bridge roller on a printing press A printing press has a plate cylinder, an inking system and a dampening system. A bridge roller provides a path between the inking and dampening systems. The bridge roller is in contact with a dampening form roller, which in turn is in contact with the pl... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562032 | Corrugated board sheet transporting system in printing line Disclosed is a corrugated board sheet transporting system in a printing line, in which a plurality of printers, each provided with an ascendable printing cylinder having a printing die mounted thereon and a press roll opposing to the printing cylinder, ar... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562033 | Suspension system for a plate nipping element in a printing machine A suspension system which is used to mount a plate nipping element on the frame of a printing machine is provided. The suspension system includes a setting arrangement adapted to move the nipping element between a position where it is engaged against the ... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562034 | Media roll braking system for a thermal label printer A brake apparatus for a printer is provided which rapidly decelerates and stops a rotating roll of print media in between printing operations, and allows the roll to rotate freely during printing operations. The printer includes a print head mechanism tha... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562035 | Adjusting device with a pneumatic cylinder in a printing press An adjusting device has a pneumatically operating piston-cylinder unit pressurizable in an operating function thereof for actuating adjusting elements in a printing press. The piston-cylinder unit includes a cylinder housing formed with a cylinder chamber... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562036 | Device for securing packings in printing cylinders A device for fastening a printing packing to a jacket surface of a printing cylinder uses a clamping carriage that is supported in a cylinder trough. The clamping carriage carries a clamping frame having a clamping face which cooperates with a clamping su... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562037 | Single substrate, repeat-pass printing process A low basis weight, continuously moving substrate is printed by a single substrate, repeat-pass printing process. The continuously moving substrate is passed a first time through the printing station without receiving any pattern directly printed thereon,... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562038 | Method and apparatus for pivoting a bidirectional pivot frame A bidirectional pivot frame of a paper web changing device is supported for pivotal motion about a selected one of two pivot axes. The support for the pivot frame is accomplished by slidable locking supports that positively lock one set of pivot pins in p... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562039 | Method for mounting a flexible printing plate onto a printing cylinder The invention relates to a method and apparatus for mounting flexographic printing plate in registration onto a printing cylinder with a mounting bar and a carrier sheet having the plate mounted thereto. The mounting bar and the carrier sheet each have mu... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562040 | Rope guide system for an aerial ropeway, particularly a circuital aerial ropeway A rope guide system and for an aerial ropeway includes a haulage rope that travels along a path between two stations, and comprises two driving wheels 41, 42 disposed at one of the stations and laterally offset with respect to each o... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562041 | Linear induction motor actuated stop The present invention provides a carrier stopping device for a conveyor having a disengageable propelling member, such as a power and free conveyor. The stopping device preferably utilizes a linear induction motor to activate a stop plate of the stopping ... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562042 | Elastic membrane The elastic membrane is designed as a flat, three-dimensional object. It has prominences and depressions. This makes possible a deformation which is substantially free of stress, in particular free of tensile stress, simultaneously in all three dimensions... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562043 | Rail and carriage system with magnetically adhered plastic track A system for moving a work element along a work surface for performing work thereon includes an elongated track of flexible plastic material formed with gear teeth along one edge thereof. A carriage having a drive motor and a drive wheel driven thereby, i... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562044 | Steering railway truck A railway vehicle truck having side frames which are supported with respect to the journals of spaced apart wheelsets with the respective pair of wheelset axle ends supporting each side frame being constrained to move simultaneously in opposite directions... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562045 | Bearing adapter and adapter pad for railway trucks In a railway car truck assembly, a bearing adapter assembly includes an adapter and an adapter pad positioned between the adapter and a corresponding side frame end. The adapter is provided at each longitudinal end thereof an adapter opening having a late... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562046 | Load bearing crossbearer connection A crossbearer connection (32) and method of forming a crossbearer connection (32) are disclosed, including a support bracket (34) angled to rest against an interior surface of a vertical and horizontal flange (54, 56) of the side sill (20) of a railway ca... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562047 | Modular spill deck A spill deck module includes a substantially planar bottom wall, a pair of opposing side walls and a pair of opposing end walls which form an interior chamber. Each side wall and end wall includes an aperture allowing fluid communication between adjacent ... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562048 | Structurally strong pallet facilitating easy manufacture fabricated from a stiff foldable material A pallet is fabricated from a sheet of stiff foldable material with each end of the sheet having four transverse score lines. A right angle fold is made about each score line so that each end portion of the sheet is folded back on itself into a rectangula... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562049 | Table with extendable and rotatable surfaces and mechanism for same A table having a pair of laterally extendable table surfaces. The table includes a base having a horizontally disposed periphery that defines a footprint on an underlying surface, first and second generally planar table surfaces, a table surface forward e... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562050 | Collapsible article of furniture An article of furniture such as a table, having four sides connected to each other by corner hinges. Two of the sides are each formed as two halves hinged together and normally rigidified by top rails, and by a horizontal work support panel located betwee... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562051 | Folding table leg construction A table includes a tabletop and a pair of opposing folding leg assemblies. Each folding leg assembly includes a base plate secured to the tabletop. A folding leg is pivotally connected to the base plate by a linkage arrangement that includes first links p... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562052 | Height-adjustable table A table having a top supported by a leg structure which projects downwardly from the underside of the top. The leg structure including right and left leg arrangements secured under the table adjacent opposite ends thereof, each leg arrangement including a... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562053 | Tunnel incinerator A tunnel type incinerator with cylindrical inner and outer barrels which are rotated in opposite directions relative to each other. A large number of crushing blades or protrusions are disposed and engaged with each other in a spiral shape on the wall of ... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5562054 | Seeding machinery A seeding assembly (20) for attachment to a cultivating or seeding tine (21). The seeding assembly (20) includes a seed tube (52) movably attached to the tine (21) by parallel linkages (53, 54). A wheel (63) is attached to the seeding tube (52) to regulat... | 10/08/1996 |
