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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5699717 | Diaphragm pump with shaped diaphragm having radially and circumferentially extending ribs A diaphragm pump (1) has a shaped diaphragm (2) of elastic material. The central zone (3) of the diaphragm (2) is thickened in the direction of stroke and is surrounded by a flexible annular zone (5) held on the pump case by an external clamping edge (6).... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699718 | Coffee making machines An expresso coffee maker includes a steam outlet valve for supplying steam to froth milk for making cappuccino coffee. A valve member automatically closes off a tube when a water level in a water compartment falls below a low level. This closing off compl... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699719 | Thermal carafe brewing device with brew-through lid A thermal carafe brewing device includes an automatic drip brewing machine and a thermal carafe having a brew-through lid which utilizes a pressure controlled valve in a liquid passageway through the lid to allow liquid to flow directly from a brewing bas... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699720 | Corn popping kettle assembly A kettle assembly for popping corn comprises a Teflon coated, cast aluminum popping bowl with an sidewall aperture. The sidewall aperture introduces cooking oil directly into the popping bowl, and is in communication with an oil conduit leading from a coo... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699721 | Egg cooker An egg cooker has a holder forming at least one egg seat and adapted to be set in a body of water with an egg in the seat at least partially below a level of the water. A temperature sensor on the body detects a temperature of the body of water and an aco... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699722 | Rapid cooking device A rapid cooking method is provided in which food pieces are contacted with an air stream at a velocity of at least 1,000 linear feet per minute. Rapid cooking equipment is disclosed which creates high velocity air current.... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699723 | Device for making sausages The present invention relates to a device for supplying sausage strings made coherently in chains to a smoke stick, the device comprising a transportation device including rotating transportation hooks to which the sausages are transferred. To facilitate ... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699724 | Cleaning and sorting bulk material For cleaning foodstuffs in the form of a bulk material, such as cereal grains, rice grains, soybeans, sunflower seeds, coffee beans, and the like, there is provided an optical sorting device (24, 24a, 24a') subsequent to a precleaning system (6), which en... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699725 | System for preparing baked apples and other edible fruits and vegetables A system for preparing baked applies (12) and other edible fruits and vegetables which comprises a component for coring through a top of an apple (16) and into a core (18) thereof to remove the core (18) with its seeds, so as to form a hole (20) therein. ... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699726 | Continuous soaking system The invention relates to a soaking system for solids. The system includes stacked tanks each of which has a conical bottom. The tanks are connected through perforated valves through which the solids move from the top and water is fed from the bottom. The ... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699727 | Method of manually tying bales in waste material presses A method of and a device for manually tying bales of cardboard, foils and similar used packaging materials produced in waste material presses predominantly of upright construction, i.e., with a vertically acting pressure ram. The method includes the steps... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699728 | Waste food treatment apparatus A waste food treatment apparatus including a screw rod turned in a container by a motor unit through a spindle to squeeze water from waste food, a scraper turned by the motor unit to scrape out food dreg, a circular block and a food dreg propelling block ... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699729 | Roll having means for determining pressure distribution A roll system for use particularly in a papermaking press nip for dewatering a fibrous web, comprising a roll disposed so as to rotatingly cooperate with another roll in a press nip, the roll having a helical sensor for sensing pressure exhibited on the r... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699730 | Bag squeezer A bag squeezing apparatus for breaking up bridging of material being delivered from the bag. A pair of jaws are sequentially operated to impact opposite sides of the bag.... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699731 | Ink-supply control device and stencil printing machine having the same In a stencil printing machine, when quantity of ink supplied into an ink supplying section in a rotary cylindrical drum is smaller than a predetermine value, ink complementing means is driven to supply ink from an ink storing container into the ink supply... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699732 | Combination stretch screen and its production method This invention is aimed at achieving a high-tension combination stretch screen. First, a print screen-mesh is bonded to a supporting screen-mesh at a bonding area. Then a portion of the supporting screen-mesh overlapping the print screen-mesh is removed. ... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699733 | Screen printing on film coated substrates An improved method of screen printing is described wherein a double sided tape (dry film) is applied between the substrate and the screened-on paste. Since the dry film ensures the adhesion of the paste, no minimum thickness of paste is needed to attain g... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699734 | Guard provided at a printing machine A guard provided on a printing machine, the guard safeguarding perpendicularly a printing unit/coating unit, on both sides thereof, between the side frames and covering horizontally an upper area. Parts of the guard being mounted, on both sides thereof, o... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699735 | Web-fed rotary press A web-fed rotary press has an adjustable reel changer for accommodating printing material webs of different widths, a printing couple with printing cylinders, which can be engaged with one another to form printing stations, and an adjustable folder. The w... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699736 | Method and apparatus for controlling the sheet supply in a sheet-processing printing machine A method and an apparatus for controlling the sheet supply in a sheet-processing printing machine, in particular a sheet-fed offset printing machine. In order that, at the beginning of printing, before which a specific process for predamping and/or preink... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699737 | Device for the throw-on and throw-off of rollers To improve the throw-on and throw-off movement of the rollers in the roller train of inking or dampening units of a printing machine, an improved and simpler throw-on and throw-off device is provided. For this purpose, intermediate rollers are carried in ... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699738 | Apparatus and method for cleaning a roller A cleaning system for removing contaminants from the surface of a roller. A stationary cleaning pad is forced at a first urging force against a roller to be cleaned, and the roller is driven in rubbing contact with the pad. Preferably, the pad is supplied... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699739 | Assembly and method for reclaiming incompatible resins from printing plates The nonpolymerized portion of the resin on a photopolymerizable resin is recovered from a printing plate by squeezing the liquid resin off of the plate with the doctor roller. The plate is mounted on a drum and the drum is caused to rotate in a predetermi... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699740 | Method of loading metal printing plates on a vacuum drum Metal printing plates can be loaded onto a drum and held in place by vacuum alone if flat plates are given a permanent curl by a set of four rollers. Same rollers cancel out the curl when plate is unloaded from drum. The invention is useful for Computer-t... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699741 | Document printer and a process for registering the documents by means of control markings using this document printer A document printer, configured as a check printer, in a check dispenser (18) contains a reading device (30), disposed immovably in the delivery-side transport duct (10) of the printer, for registering a consecutive-running control marking imprinted on the... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699742 | Method and device for exactly aligning a printing image relative to a geometrically correct print position of a printing machine A method and a device exactly aligning a printing image relative to a geometrically correct print position of a printing machine for printing carriers, for example CDs, which employ use of a printing foil having a hole system which has been aligned relati... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699743 | Composition and method for raised thermographic printing The present invention relates to a product having raised thermographic print and a method for making the same. The product relates to a raised thermographic product having raised thermographic print greater than about 0.01 inches. The method includes prep... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699744 | Adjustable monitor support for flat monitors An improved adjustable monitor support assembly is provided that utilizes a plurality of interchangeable side support assemblies and monitor supporting shelf assemblies. Each such shelf assembly is engageable with each pair or side support assemblies. Thu... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699745 | Animal carcass incinerator An incinerator and a process for the incineration of animal carcasses. The inner combustion chamber of the incinerator is lined with a high temperature fibrous insulation material and a stainless steel liner thereby permitting the temperature of the liner... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699746 | Method and apparatus for feeding air into a furnace Combustion gas is fed to a furnace, preferably a recovery boiler for combusting black liquor from cellulose pulp processing, through a gas nozzle disposed in association with a wall of the furnace. The nozzle has a longitudinal axis of elongation, an exte... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699747 | Apparatus for restraining violent detainees Restraining methods and apparatus for restraining violent detainees, including a rigid binder for binding the upper and lower legs of the detainee, a waist belt, and suspender straps for joining the binder to the waist belt. An erection tether for maintai... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699748 | Line handling device for positioning and handling of mooring lines The present invention is a line handling device designed to facilitate positioning and handling of a mooring or docking line during a boat docking operation. The device employs a pair of arc-shaped spreader arms connected to an extendable pole. Each arm h... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699749 | Exhaust system, hull, and speed indicator for watercraft A personal watercraft exhaust system, hull underplate, and speed sensor and sponson arrangement. The exhaust system for the engine provides a compact assembly that incorporates a pair of expansion chamber devices on opposite sides of the tunnel to provide... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699750 | Self-bailing watersprite with positive buoyancy A watersprite has a modified inner hull liner and an automatic liquid bailing system to reduce chemical deterioration of the inner hull liner and eventually other components of the watersprite. The inner hull liner provides a dam for water and/or spilled ... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699751 | Method and apparatus for in ovo injection A method of introducing a beneficial material into the allantois of an avian egg through the shell thereof comprises the steps of orienting the egg to maximize a target area of the allantoic sac and directing the injection device through the shell and int... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699752 | Gelatin-plastic foam bird feeding station and process A bird feeder station including a clear plastic canopy provided with a hanging line for suspension thereof from an overhead structure and three depending chain supports for wire baskets containing bird seed suspended under the protection of the canopy. Ea... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699753 | Animal feeder An animal feeder having a lower base member that includes an annular trough and a cylindrical feed tube that is supported on the lower base member. Formed about the lower end of the cylindrical feed tube is a plurality of feed cut-outs that are disposed a... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699754 | Litter box A litter box is provided having a litter-holding tray supported over a urine-collection cavity. The litter is contained within a disposable element which generally lines the tray. The disposable element and tray are permeable by liquids so that liquid was... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699755 | Livestock handling apparatus and method Apparatus for loading live poultry into open-topped containers (19) comprise a plurality (preferably three) loading units (28) arranged side by side so that each loading unit (28) is aligned with a column of containers (19) accommodated in a standard modu... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5699756 | Wet-base, down-fired water heater A fuel-fired, forced draft, down-fired water heater is provided with an improved combustion product flow path that permits the heater to operate with improved fuel efficiency, lowered CO and NOx emissions, and an improved water heat input distribution alo... | 12/23/1997 |
