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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5704223 | Thermoelectric medicine cooling bag A personal manually portable thermoelectric-cooling medicine kit, particularly for insulin, is provided. The medicine in the kit is cooled by a Peltier heat pump. The vials of medicine inside the kit are tilted to maximize heat transfer efficiency when th... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704224 | Cooling air circulating structure for refrigerator An improved cooling air circulating structure for a refrigerator which is capable of enabling a smooth flowing of a cooled air by providing a vertically arranged duct unit in a refrigerating compartment thereof and integrally forming a cooled air returnin... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704225 | Regenerator It is an objective of the present invention to improve the response performance of absorption refrigeration machine to changes in air-conditioning load by reducing irregularity in solution concentration. A spreader 34 is provided with openings 34a having ... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704226 | Manifold for a refrigerant receiver There is provided herein a refrigerant receiver for use in an automotive air conditioning system. The receiver includes a generally cylindrical body, a circular closure member secured at one end of the body and a manifold member configured to engage the c... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704227 | Method of condensing a volatile compound out of a gas stream and an apparatus for this purpose A method and apparatus is provided for the condensation of one or more gasses out of a gas stream. The degree of the condensation of volatile compound out of the gas stream A is controlled by regulating the liquid level of the cooling agent in a heat exch... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704228 | Process and device for the evaporation of a liquid flow In a process for liquid evaporation by heat exchange with a gas which condenses, the pressure of the liquid to be evaporated is reduced and it is enriched in a constituent which has little volatility after evaporation. According to an alternative form, th... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704229 | Process and apparatus for producing nitrogen An air separation process and apparatus employing a single column nitrogen generator. Part of the incoming air stream to be separated is expanded and combined with a waste stream. After partial warming of the combined stream, the combined stream is expand... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704230 | Process and apparatus for treating cellulosic fiber-containing fabric A process and apparatus for treating fabric articles containing cellulosic material to provide control shrinkage and durable-press properties for the fabric includes a system for exposing the fabric to an aerosol mist that uniformly supplies a liquid cell... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704231 | Lock and protective cover assembly and kit for the same The improved padlock and protective cover assembly includes a flexible resilient cover of natural or elastomeric material releasably disposed around the body of a padlock. The hasp, including its rungs, project up and out of the top of the cover. The cove... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704232 | Lock positioning device for a bicycle A positioning device includes a fastener member fixedly mounted on a supporting post and having an abutting base protruding outwardly from a periphery thereof. A recess is defined in an end face of the fastener member. A substantially U-shaped adjusting r... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704233 | Anti-theft device for vehicles An anti-theft device for vehicles is disclosed. Generally, the device includes a catch member adapted to catch onto a brake pedal located within the vehicle; a rod member extending from the catch member; an attachment member, fixedly mounted on a second r... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704234 | Cylinder lock incorporating a slam resistance pad A cylinder lock is provided having a sleeve rotatably receivable within the inner core of a sleeve. A cylinder retainer is slidably mounted within a cylinder retainer slot in the cylinder for radial movement therein. The cylinder retainer is movable betwe... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704235 | Key case for an ignition key A key case for holding a key, the key having a head portion via which the key may be gripped by a user and a blade portion which is insertable into a lock, the key case comprising: a body portion having a wall which surrounds an interior space, a longitud... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704236 | Concealed handcuff key A device for concealing, storing and permitting ready access to and use of a handcuff key which is not readily identifiable as a key holder but is easily retrieved and utilized by law enforcement personnel. The handcuff key is camouflaged and concealed in... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704237 | Apparatus for continuously leveling thin metal strip The stretch leveling or stretch-bend leveling of aluminum or stainless steel strip of a thickness of 0.1 to 0.5 mm is carried out following a measurement of strip nonplanarity or strip profile by regulating the stretch in the stretch leveler or the contou... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704238 | Automatic die driving amount correction method According to data from an NC device 10, a processing factor specifying section 13 specifies processing factors having effect on the bending angle. A tolerance setting section 14 sets a tolerance for each specified processing factor and a bend grouping sec... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704239 | Method for ceramic peening of orthopaedic titanium alloy implants A method of preparing fretting wear resistant titaniumbase alloy orthopaedic implants includes the steps of shot peening the surface of the implant with spherical ceramic beads of a selected size and density, and with selected intensity such that the fret... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704240 | Method and apparatus for forming threads in metal containers A methods for forming threads in the neck portion of a can made of thin gauge, hard temper metal which minimizes stretching of the metal in the neck portion. The method employs a grooved arbor and roller having a single thread lead around less than 360° ... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704241 | Method and apparatus for inside can base reforming An apparatus and method is shown for reforming the bottom of a container. The container is supported during processing by a container holder. A number of tooling rams each have a reforming roller supported by a pivot roller shaft that is in turn connected... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704242 | Universal ring bender Universal pipe bender comprising a geared motor (1; 11); a box, on a working table whereof two or more pairs of hollow rotary motion drives having fixed parallel rotation axes (2, 2a; 2', 2a'; 2", 2a"; 12, 12'; 12a, 12a') intended to receive, interchangea... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704243 | Forming method and forming stand for welded pipes The present invention is to provide a forming method and forming stand for forming a welded pipe of high dimensional accuracy on a welded pipe manufacturing line in which a metallic strip of a predetermined width is continuously formed by rolls and then w... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704244 | Apparatus for reshaping a container A seamless drawn and ironed container body having a side wall with portions of the side wall expanded radially outward from an initial cylindrical configuration and a method and apparatus for reshaping such containers.... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704245 | Progressive forging machine with individually adjustable tools Apparatus for separately adjusting the shut height of individual tools on a progressive forging machine "on the fly" when the machine is running. The apparatus includes individual load bearing wedge blocks on the slide for supporting associated tool casse... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704246 | Device for measuring the thickness of objects to be handled in document-handling machines A device for measuring the thickness of objects to be handled in mail processing machines, particularly collating machines, inserters and the like, has a relatively-stationary back-up part; a gripper jaw; a rotating axis for mounting the gripper jaw pivot... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704247 | Compact manual transaxle for motor vehicles A compact manual transaxle includes an input shaft having four fixed input gears, a first intermediate shaft rotatably supporting three speed gears meshing with three of the input gears, a second intermediate shaft rotatably supporting a pair of speed gea... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704248 | Bearing tooth gear Elaboration on the merits of an improved gear family known as Bearing Tooth Gears. The rotative contact of meshing Bearing Teeth in a Bearing Tooth Gear set, allows for an increase in candidate materials, used in the construction of these gears and allows... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704249 | Screw drive mechanism for articulated beds and the like A screw drive mechanism for articulated beds and the like includes a drive shaft having external screw threads, a segmented drive nut having internal threads which engage the external threads of the shaft and a drive member in which the segmented drive nu... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704250 | Ball screw drive with dynamically adjustable preload A threaded ball screw is stationarily non-rotatably mounted in a machine tool to extend parallel to the line of action traversed by a carriage. A pair of threaded ball nuts are laterally restrained in and mounted for free rotation thereof in a drive mecha... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704251 | Motor vehicle gearbox with internal shift system In a gearbox of a motor vehicle, a shift console is installed with a shifter shaft unit as a preassembled module in a housing opening of a transmission housing that houses a driveshaft. The shift housing part has a mounting flange extending transversely t... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704252 | Compact shift assembly with interlock A transmission includes an input shaft aligned along an axial direction and mounted for rotation, an output shaft, a plurality of gears selectively connectable between the input shaft and the output shaft for providing a plurality of gear ratios between t... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704253 | Trajectory guidance apparatus and method A trajectory guidance apparatus can guide motion with passive actuators with at least two degrees of freedom. The trajectory guidance apparatus has a linkage that is mounted to a reference and an interaction part that is to be manipulated by a master, suc... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704254 | Steering column isolator pads A steering column support having a bracket on the steering column secured to vehicle support structure by fasteners at the rear edge of the bracket. Isolator pads at the front edge of the bracket are clamped under pressure between the bracket and the supp... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704255 | Push-pull control with crimped swivel tube A motion transmitting remote control assembly (10) including a core element (12) movably supported by a conduit (16) with a unique swivel tube joint between a fitting (18) and a swivel tube (26) wherein a counterbore (34) is formed to define a female end ... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704256 | Device for fastening a shoe on a pedal, and shoe and pedal with such a device A device for fastening a shoe to a pedal, e.g., a bicycle pedal, is light in weight and allows a cyclist to walk comfortably when wearing the shoes. The fastening device includes a magnetic element attached to at least one of the shoe and the pedal. A met... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704257 | Securing mechanism for securing a drive shaft of a rotating tool member of a working tool A securing mechanism for securing a drive shaft of a rotating tool member of a working tool against rotation includes a securing member fixedly connected to the drive shaft. The securing member has at least one engagement opening. A lock bolt for engaging... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704258 | Bottle opening device A bottle opening device includes a flat base member which is adapted to be secured to a counter top or the like by suction cups on an under surface of the base member. A support member is secured to an upper surface of the base member and is provided with... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704259 | Hand operated impact implement having tuned vibration absorber A hand operated impact implement having a tuned vibration absorber includes a head for impacting an object, a handle connected to the head, and a tuned vibration damper attached to the handle and/or head to damp overall handle/head vibration of the impact... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704260 | Screw driver handle A tool handle includes a base and a cap pivotally coupled together at a folding line. The base includes a flange and two punctures and a latch formed in one side edge. The cap includes a groove and two projections and an ear for engaging with the flange a... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704261 | Torque-transmitting tool A tool, particularly a torque-transmitting tool, such as a screwdriver or a screwdriver bit, having a shaft and a working region. In order advantageously to take up peak torques with such a tool, a damping region of lower hardness or lower torsion-bar con... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5704262 | Multiple-spindle lathe The multiple-spindle lathe described has at least two parallel-acting workpiece spindle units mounted to move in the X and Z directions. The spindle units operate in conjunction with fixed workpiece carriers and themselves convey the workpieces to and fro... | 01/06/1998 |
