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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5857501 | Fueling system A vehicle mounted fueling system identification unit including an inductive communication loop arranged to surround a fuel intake pathway of a vehicle and circuitry powered by electric power inductively received by the loop for transmitting via the loop a... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857502 | Packaging system for concentrated materials A packaging system for diluting a concentrated material to a preselected volume with a solvent for the concentrate, which system includes: a container for the diluted concentrate having an internal volume to at least the predetermined volume; an absorbent carr... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857503 | Apparatus and method for changing fluid in a motor vehicle A fluid channeling device to facilitate the draining of fluid from a fluid reservoir in a motor vehicle. The device may be attached to the vehicle so that it remains generally fixed, or the device may be temporarily attached to the vehicle for use while c... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857504 | Collapsible funnel The present invention relates to a collapsible funnel that is easily adaptable to a variety of liquid receptacles, with an associated moveable rod, extending within the funnel, connected to a screw cap which provides for the funnel to be pushed into a liq... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857505 | Root and stump cutter A depth-of-cut bushing is mounted above a cutter-arm array to provide a cutting head mounted on a rotary lawn mower or mower/trimmer. The bushing is shaped so that it acts together with the cutter-arm array to accomplish control of the cutting action. Thi... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857506 | Replaceable insert cutting tools The present invention provides a replaceable insert cutting tool combination. The combination comprises a cutter head having at least one peripheral transverse indentation and being rotatable about an axis, the cavity including a knife support wall at lea... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857507 | Table saw A table saw or other cutting machine includes carrying members on an underside of the work table generally adjacent the flanged table edge in order to provide an increased gripping surface area to be grasped by the operator when lifting and transporting t... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857508 | Method of fastening a wear plate and a knife base to a disc chipper, and a disc chipper A method for mounting a wear plate and a knife base on a disc chipper's disc, and a disc chipper. The wear plate (6) rests against the knife base (4) via two counter surfaces (12), one of which forms in the wear plate (6) a groove in parallel to the knife... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857509 | Bicycle tire lever A tire lever for removing tires from wheels having an axle and installing tires thereon provides separate hooks for removal and installation, an attachment to the wheel axle and length adjustment for accommodating different size wheels. Tire removal and i... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857510 | Reinforced sectional door A sectional garage door is formed of rectangular door sections which include hollow extruded plastic rail members interconnected by hollow extruded plastic end and intermediate stile members to form a door section. The rail members and stile members may b... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857511 | Drapery with heart-shaped headers An apparatus for providing fullness and a shape to the upper end of an elongated section of drapery fabric that selectably allows the drapery to be readily foldable when fullness is not needed. The apparatus may also connect the drapery to an overhead, tr... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857512 | Jewelry models and an improved jewelry model produced therefrom A nail polish or nail polish/enamel composition is applied to imperfections, errors, distortions or porosities in the model. The composition is thus used to correct the model's shape. The composition can be added at room temperature, and avoids the need t... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857513 | Aerator for vertical flaskless molding machine The assembly includes plural independently operated rotating shafts that contact the sand fill. As the fill is introduced into a first end of the vertical chute, the speed and rotational direction of the shafts with accompanying tines are controlled to re... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857514 | Strip casting A metal delivery nozzle (19) for delivery of molten metal to the nip between casting rolls in a twin roll caster to establish a casting pool supported above the nip. The trough (19) defines an open topped trough (61) to receive molten metal from a distrib... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857515 | Heat exchanging device A heat exchanging device absorbs heat from a heat source, in the form of waste fluid, and exchanges the absorbed heat to an object which benefits from warming. The heat exchanging device is coupled to a first structure, the combination of the heat exchang... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857516 | Pressure reducing heat exchanger A heat exchanger 10 comprises a pressure vessel 14 having a feed inlet 11 in an upper part thereof for particulate material to be subjected to heat exchange and an outlet 13 at a lower part thereof for the outflow of particulate material from the vessel 1... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857517 | Heat exchanger with brazed plates The heat exchanger is of the type comprising a stack of parallel plates and, between these plates, undulant spacers, each pair of plates defining a passage for fluid of generally flat shape. Certain passages (20) are subdivided over one part of their leng... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857518 | Oil well pump leakage accumulator An oil well pump leakage accumulator and bypass apparatus installable around a polish rod, and which apparatus effectively prevents contamination of the environment when the primary stuffing box in the blow out preventer unit fails. An adjustable stuffing... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857519 | Downhole disposal of well produced water using pressurized gas A method and apparatus for the downhole disposal of the water component of production fluid while using gas lift techniques to lift the hydrocarbon component to the surface is disclosed. Separation of the hydrocarbon component and the water component take... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857520 | Backup shoe for well packer A backup shoe for a well packer provides high pressure sealing capability without requiring a large setting force or setting stroke of the packer. In a preferred embodiment, a backup shoe has an inner portion with a relatively thin cross-section and an ou... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857521 | Method of using a retrievable screen apparatus A retrievable screen apparatus provides increased filtration in a retrievable screen disposed within a receptacle, the receptacle being positioned in a subterranean well. The receptacle has a lower filtration screen attached thereto for filtering larger p... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857522 | Fluid handling system for use in drilling of wellbores This invention provides a fluid-handling system for use in underbalanced drilling operations. The system includes a first vessel which acts as a four phase separator. The first vessel includes a first stage for separating solids. Oil and gas are separated... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857523 | Well completion lubricator valve Apparatus and method of isolating a well to allow intervention equipment to be installed in the upper section of tubing and surface equipment to be tested prior to running in the well is described which enables a surface test tree to be leak-off tested on... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857524 | Liner hanging, sealing and cementing tool A liner hanger will actuate remotely in a well to support a liner in casing. A running tool is secured to drill pipe and attached to the upper end of the liner. The liner hanger mounts to the exterior of the liner and includes a pair of tapered wedge memb... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857525 | Inert gas fire fighting system having a pressure control valve An inert gas fire fighting system is designed to extinguish fire by discharging inert gas fire extinguisher stored in a gaseous state in a fire extinguisher storage vessel into an object fire fighting section while maintaining the concentration of the ine... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857526 | Portable fire fighting apparatus A portable fire fighting and vapor suppression apparatus includes a cart having sides defining an enclosure and is a size so that it can be manually moved by a single individual. The cart includes a bottom having wheels mounted thereon. The cart has an in... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857527 | Apparatus for the cutting of one or more grass sods and a method for the stacking thereof An apparatus for cutting grass sods out of grass land and for stacking or rolling up into a predetermined amount of stacks or rolls of one or more grass sods. The apparatus includes a frame provided with two or more wheels suspended thereon, a cutting hea... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857528 | Garden tool with depth control mechanism A garden seeding tool is provided including a handle and a blade coupled to the handle and having a pointed end. Further included is a depth control mechanism for preventing the pointed end of the blade from penetrating the ground past a predetermined dep... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857529 | Weed uprooter An apparatus for uprooting weeds comprising a rotatable handle, a base, a rotatable contacting assembly co-axial with the handle, and a co-axial co-directional rotation multiplying assembly linking the handle to the contacting means wherein the rotation o... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857530 | Vertical positioning system for drilling boreholes A borehole drilling system has a well tubing actuator with a well tubing connector on a working end of the well tubing actuator, a transducer responsive to longitudinal movement of the working end of the well tubing actuator and a control system for the w... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857531 | Bottom hole assembly for directional drilling The bottom hole assembly of the present invention includes a drill bit driven by a positive displacement drilling motor, the motor being constructed of tubular housings, one of said housings having a bend so as to cause the bit to drill directionally, ano... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857532 | Differential steer system for a machine A differential steer is provided for use in a machine and includes a variable displacement motor operatively connected to a differential disposed between first and second output members. The variable displacement motor is an over-center type and the displ... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857533 | Vehicle carried and driven by articulated legs The invention relates to a device at a vehicle (8) supported and driven by articulated legs (10), the legs (10) comprising a number of leg-segments (1 . . . 7) which are moveably connected to the chassis (9) of the vehicle and to each other by means of jo... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857534 | Robotic inspection apparatus and method A robotic assembly (20) is provided which is adapted to traverse the surface of a member (138) for inspection and/or work on or about the surface of the member (138). The preferred assembly (20) includes two or more robots (10a-10c) spaced about the body ... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857535 | Seat for self-propelled narrow-track vehicle A low aspect self-propelled vehicle (1) operated by a driver (4) sitting on top of it, has its seat (7) supported from beneath by a flange (12) which is pivoted to tilt about a horizontal axis (15) in the mid-vertical plane of the vehicle. The spacing bet... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857536 | Sun sensing arrangement and method of arranging a sun sensor in a motor vehicle A sun sensing arrangement for a motor vehicle, and a method of arranging a sun sensor in a motor vehicle, in order to sense incident sunlight. The motor vehicle has an engine hood which includes a top-side air inlet grid area. The sun sensor is arranged i... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857537 | Motorized bicycle A motorized bicycle includes an electric motor, a motor current detector, a pedaling force detector and a controller. The controller compares the range of fluctuation in a pedaling force detected by the pedaling force detector with a predetermined range v... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857538 | Motorcycle A motorcycle similar to a Harley-Davidson motorcycle that has a very rigid frame that does not twist and flex appreciably while rapidly accelerating and turning at high speeds of sixty miles per hour and greater. Both front and rear wheels remain in close... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857539 | Automatic-steering apparatus An automatic-steering apparatus for an agricultural machine (1), has at least one locating apparatus (OV), particularly an apparatus that locates the edge of the crop or row, whose locating signal (OS) is compared, as an analog voltage value (nominal valu... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5857540 | Harness for human wear A harness for human wear comprises an elongated belt for encircling a waist f a wearer. A first strap is fixed to the belt and is extendible transversely of the belt with a longer portion of the first strap extending from a lower edge of the belt and a sho... | 01/12/1999 |
