Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5704183 | Composite masonry block A composite masonry block having a front surface and a back surface which are adjoined by first and second side surfaces, as well as a top surface and a bottom surface each lying adjacent the front, back, and first and second side surfaces. Each of the si... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704184 | Impact pad for ladles A refractory brick that has a rear portion with a geometrical concavity on one side and a corresponding convex projection on the other side, the concavity and projection being matched so that the concavity mates with the corresponding projection of a simi... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704185 | Joint for connecting members of a load bearing truss A load bearing truss constructed of composite materials. The truss is made of three or more longitudinal load bearing composite members. Bracing for the truss is a combination of perpendicular and diagonal composite cross-members or all diagonal composite... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704186 | Construction element A construction element, preferably a constructional toy, including a tubular body portion and, formed integrally with each of the opposite ends thereof, a pair of gripping jaws, each pair constituting a coupling portion. The constituent jaws of each pair ... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704187 | Composite utility pole A hollow, tapered, fiber-reinforced plastic utility pole, and a method for making the pole. The pole is designed by a computer-modelling technique that simulates applying resin-coated, reinforcing strands over the outer surface of a mandrel. A plurality o... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704188 | Post structure A post structure which includes a support pole, a casing, and spring clips for securing the casing to the pole. The spring clips each include a spiral portion which grips the pole, and arms which project outward to engage the inner sidewalls of the casing... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704189 | Methods and apparatus for installing conductor cables in rigid building structures A method of identifying and installing a plurality of electrical or other signal carriers, pipes, tubes or the like within a building structure. The method includes the steps of determining the paths along which the various carriers are to be laid out wit... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704190 | Filling aparatus and packaging materials To simplify the operation of an input unit of a filling apparatus and achieve accurate filling of packaging containers with a liquid food. The filling apparatus includes a read-out unit which reads out packaging material information from a magnetic record... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704191 | Low stress batt folder An apparatus for folding a fibrous insulation batt having a length and a width is disclosed. The batt has first and second sections, where each section is approximately one half the length of the batt. The apparatus comprises a lower conveyor for conveyin... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704192 | Guide mechanism for opening pockets of a continuous web A guide mechanism (3) for positioning a continuously flexible packaging web (20) which has two opposite walls (21a, b) defining packaging blanks (26) disposed, in succession, in the longitudinal direction of the web. The packaging blanks have closed botto... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704193 | Container for shipping and displaying articles, and method for making A container for shipping and displaying articles is formed from a continuous, foldable sheet of corrugated boxboard to form a container body having a bottom, enclosing end and side walls attached with and extending generally normal from the bottom and a p... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704194 | Process and apparatus for applying wrapped packages to cups A method and apparatus are disclosed for applying wrapped packages to each cup associated with a nested stack of cups. The stack of cups is continuously fed through a channel defined by a conveyor belt assembly and a pair of rotatable cylindrical rollers ... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704195 | Method and machine for packaging cans or tubes A method for packaging cans or tubes continuously delivered from a production installation to pick-up elements, which are moved in steps, of an intermediate station. A gripper device brings the cans or tubes in groups according to the desired number of pi... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704196 | High speed blank set-up apparatus and methods Apparatus (10) for partially setting up a blank (12) is disclosed including first suction cups (122) for removing the first blank (12) from a magazine (96). The first suction cups (122) are pivotally mounted to the ends of pivot arms (110) to move the fir... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704197 | Bag filling and closing machine Bag pick up and feed assembles pick up a flat folded bag from a magazine and direct the picked up bag to a bag positioner assembly, the feed assembly including a first set of rollers moved away from a second set before the bag is moved therebetween and th... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704198 | Stirrup straightener connector A stirrup straightener connector perpendicularly connects a stirrup having a stirrup bar to a saddle strap. The connector includes a stirrup holder and a holder bar. The stirrup holder has a first side portion, an indentation portion, an angled portion an... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704199 | Method for moving a shearbar in a forage harvester A method for moving a shearbar (102) towards a fixed stop (109), wherein the method comprises the steps of; energizing a bidirectional motor (110/112) for driving a guide screw (106/108) to move the shearbar towards the fixed stop (109), monitoring a vari... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704200 | Agricultural harvester ground tracking control system and method using fuzzy logic A method and control system for an agricultural harvester having a frame and a cut crop receiving header coupled to a hydraulic cylinder. The header has a cutter pivotably mounted on its bottom. The header has a height relative to the frame that is adjust... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704201 | Implement carrier and method for using An implement carrier for mounting implements such as mower blades, spreader blades, tiller blades or nozzles. The implement carrier includes a deck pivotal about a pivot axis that is generally perpendicular to the deck. The deck defines a slot having an o... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704202 | Universal corn picking row unit This corn harvesting row unit, which can be assembled into a corn header capable of efficiently harvesting individual rows of corn regardless of the row width. This improvement or novel structure is configured to reduce the number of moving parts required... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704203 | Pot-spinning machine A pot-spinning machine is equipped with a rewinding tube mounted on each yarn guide and with a central, common shogging drive of the yarn guides at one side of the machine. After a yarn break or similar interruption in spinning, in order to be able to ini... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704204 | Method and apparatus for piecing yarn slivers to a parent yarn in a yarn spinning machine This invention is related to a yarn piecing apparatus of a spinning machine arranged with a holding member (12) that holds the parent yarn (Y') which is inserted in the hollow spindle (6) of the spindle member (5) which is seperated from the nozzle member... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704205 | Method of setting a main controlled variable during the operation of a gas-turbine group In a method of setting a main controlled variable during the operation of a gas-turbine group, the gas-turbine group essentially comprises a compressor (40), at least one combustion chamber (43), at least one turbine (41) and a generator (46). A desired v... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704206 | Coal burner combined power plant having a fuel reformer located within the coal furnace A coal burner combined power plant includes a gas turbine for burning coal in a furnace under the pressure and uses produced gas. A steam turbine is combined with an exhaust gas boiler using exhaust gas from the gas turbine. Another fuel is burned at an i... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704207 | Flow control apparatus for gas turbine engine installation pressure relief doors An improved pressure relief system for a turbine engine (10). The pressure relief system includes a pressure relief door (12) attached to the engine shroud (16) at its forward edge. The aft edge of the door (12) is free to pivot onward in the occurrence o... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704208 | Serviceable liner for gas turbine engine A serviceable liner is provided comprising an outer wall, an inner wall, a plurality of standoffs disposed between the walls, and a plurality of attachment assemblies for attaching the walls to one another. The outer wall includes a plurality of first ape... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704209 | Externally fired combined cycle gas turbine system An externally fired gas turbine system has a compressor for compressing ambient air and producing compressed air, an indirect-contact air heat exchanger for heating the compressed air to produce heated compressed air, an air turbine for expanding the heat... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704210 | Intercooled supercharged gas generator engine A gas generation engine having improved fuel economy and performance comprises a gas generator in the form of a supercharged internal combustion engine coupled to an expander in the form of a gas turbine. The exhaust produced by the internal combustion en... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704211 | Gas turbine engine with radial diffuser A gas turbine engine with first and second axial flow compressors and an intercooler therebetween is provided with a diffuser to diffuse the air flow leaving the downstream end of the first axial flow compressor at a first radial distance from the axis to... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704212 | Active cooling system for cradle of portable electronic devices An improved cradle assembly has a base with a mounting surface configured to removably receive a portable electronic device. The cradle assembly also has a cooler supported by the base to facilitate use of the portable electronic device in warm, or harsh,... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704213 | Method and apparatus for controlling the temperature of a device using independent multi-stage thermoelectric coolers A method and apparatus for controlling the temperature of a device, wherein said method and device includes a plurality of thermoelectric coolers with independent temperature feedback control loops monitors and controls the temperature of a device. One th... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704214 | Apparatus for removing tramp materials and method therefor A trap body is removably attached in the housing inserted in that portion of the exhaust passage which is situated on the upstream side of a vacuum pump, and has cooling fins for cooling the tramp materials in the exhaust gas brought into contact with the... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704215 | Internal oil separator for a refrigeration system condenser An oil separator for a refrigeration system having a screw compressor for pressurizing and circulating refrigerant through the system, an evaporator, a condenser and an oil separator. The oil separator is placed within the housing of the condenser.... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704216 | Refrigerating unit A refrigerating unit having at least one refrigerating machine oil using polyol ester system oil as its base oil in at least one refrigeration cycle using at least one hydrofluorocarbon system refrigerant as a refrigerant, the present invention sets the p... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704217 | Air conditioner for vehicle, improved for frost deposition According to the present invention, in a heating operation where a heating indoor heat exchanger function as a condenser and an outdoor heat exchanger functions as an evaporator, an air amount supplied by a blower is reduced when a predetermined amount of... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704218 | Integrated environmental control system An integrated environmental control system is disclosed for providing conditioned supply air to loads such as a passenger cabin of an aircraft. The system comprises at least two shafts, each shaft having a fan, compressor, and turbine mechanically secured... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704219 | Air conditioning apparatus In an air conditioning apparatus employing a heat pump system in which a cooling evaporator and a heating condenser are disposed inside the compartment. A compressor is provided with a gas injection port, a fixed throttle for reducing pressure of refriger... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704220 | Testing equipment having refrigerator incorporated therein A testing equipment having a refrigerator incorporated therein which is capable of accomplishing a test for electrical characteristics of a tested object under stable circumstances substantially free from any vibration. A refrigerator and a counter balanc... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704221 | Refrigeration exchanger, method for control thereof and cooling installation including such exchanger A refrigerating exchanger (1) for a refrigeration facility such as a cold storage room or a refrigerated display case, including a refrigerant or heat-removing fluid circulating assembly (5) connected to a heat exchanging assembly (6) with a large surface... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704222 | Refrigerating apparatus and method A rapid refrigeration apparatus and method for beverages having a container (10) with a flexible thin-film aluminum or plastic receptacle (16) secured to an upper end of the container (10) by way of an expansion nut (18). The receptacle (16) has a variabl... | 01/06/1998 |
