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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5909705 | Vacuum seal for slide guiding A mechanism for guiding and controlling the clearance of slides of single or multiple slide mechanical presses. A novel gib mount assembly with at least one substantially flat bearing surface is utilized adjacent a portion of a slide to control clearance ... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909706 | Support table for supporting a module board and screen printing method using the same A support table supports a module board during a screen printing thereof. The support table has a body in which rectangular grooves are formed in both upper and lower surfaces thereof, a plurality of slots formed in a middle portion thereof and open to th... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909707 | High-speed printing system having multiple slipping nips A dampening system for an offset printing press system uses an intermediate roll between the press system and dampening rolls to create multiple slipping nips. By driving the intermediate roll at a surface velocity greater than the dampening roll speed an... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909708 | Sheet-fed offset rotary printing machine A sheet-fed offset rotary printing machine is used for multicolor printing. A plate cylinder and a rubber blanket cylinder are utilized, as are first and second impression cylinders. Either of these two impression cylinders is operable with the blanket cy... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909709 | Stackable stamps A stackable stamp assembly used to form images on a surface includes a substantially congruent and releasably engageable base, intermediate members, and cover assembly. A stamp is attached to each of the intermediate members. The intermediate members are ... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909710 | Air-levitated train A vehicle system for high-speed passenger transport between metropolitan centers comprises a guideway having a pair of parallel guideway tubes; a plurality of carriages levitated and propelled by pressurized air stored within one or both tubes; and a pass... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909711 | Bogie for a railway vehicle with adjustable wheel sets and railway vehicle with such a bogie The bogie contains a bogie frame supported on two wheel sets with a coupling device via which the two wheel sets are coupled to one another so as to be steerable in opposite senses. The coupling device contains an additional adjustment device for the tran... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909712 | Structure of paper pallet An improved structure of a paper pallet includes a generally inverted U-shaped portion, a generally E-shaped portion, and two rectangular portions all cut out from a rectangular paper blank. A plurality of the inverted U-shaped portions and the E-shaped p... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909713 | Foldable table device A foldable table device has an upper plate, a lower plate coupling with the upper plate, a drawer disposed on a bottom of the lower plate, a first link bar connected to the lower plate, a second link bar connected to the lower plate, a first leg plate con... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909714 | Tree digging apparatus An apparatus for continuous field digging and cleaning of nursery trees for transplanting comprises; a support frame pulled by a tractor with a fixed ground engagement digging blade and a pivoted removal and treatment basket extending therefrom. A powered... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909715 | Method of conversion of a vessel from single to double hull A method of conversion of a single hull vessel to a double hull vessel is provided and has at least the steps of: (a) positioning a section of a second hull shell beneath a first hull of a vessel; (b) raising the section of second hull shell to locate it adjac... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909716 | Apparatus for and a method of milking animals A milking robot has articulated arms extensible into a milking compartment or parlor to place a teat cup onto each of the animal's teats. Also extended from outside into the parlor is a further articulated arm that carries a detector for ascertaining the ... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909717 | Portable collapsible livestock feeder A portable collapsible livestock feeder comprising a rear panel hingedly attached to a lower container, and a restrainer fibrous feed attached to the rear panel. At least one hinge attaches the rear panel to the lower container. The rear panel is adjacent... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909718 | Particulate absorbent material from waste paper A paper based particulate absorbent material and method of manufacture using shredded paper along with water and a binder mixture. In the first step of the process the waste paper is subjected to a size reduction treatment. In the second step, the paper i... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909719 | Shoe last and method of constructing a shoe A shoe last and method for forming a shoe which is particularly constructed to be worn with and matingly interface with a wearer's custom-shaped sock. The shoe last includes a body having a backpart and a forepart connected to the backpart and extending f... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909720 | Driving system with engine starting control In the process of starting an engine 150, the structure of the present invention lags an open and close timing of an intake valve 152 of the engine 150, thereby enabling a first motor MG1 mechanically linked with a crankshaft 156 via a damper 157 to motor... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909721 | Cylinder block with stepless plating coating and method for forming stepless plating coating A cylinder block, such as that for an internal combustion engine, having at least one cylinder bore formed by a cylinder wall continuously comprised of a piston-sliding surface and at an end of the cylinder bore a recessed surface, wherein the entire area... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909722 | Method and device for controlling a final controlling element in closed-loop A method and a device for controlling in closed-loop a final controlling element having integral action, in particular an injection-timing device of a high-pressure fuel pump. On the basis of a system deviation, an automatic controller defines a driving s... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909723 | Apparatus and a method for controlling the ignition timing of a cylinder-injection internal combustion engine An apparatus for controlling an ignition timing of a cylinder-injection gasoline engine includes an electronic control unit (ECU) for controlling the operation of an ignition coil. The ECU advances the ignition timing in accordance with the throttle openi... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909724 | Engine control method An engine combustion condition judging method for detecting a crank angle speed of a multiple cylinder engine, for judging a combustion condition of each of cylinders of the engine based on the detection of the crank angle speed, wherein the improvement i... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909725 | Automotive emission control valve retaining clip and mounting method An emission control valve is retained in a mounting on an engine intake manifold by a retaining clip. The clip is formed from a single piece of metal strip stock to have tines that pass through slots in the mounting to axially capture the valve in the mou... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909726 | Fuel control system for automobile engine A fuel control system for feedback controlling a purge gas flow rate as well as an air-to-fuel ratio which learns the concentration of fuel of a purge gas based on an average of air-to-fuel ratio control values at adjacent reversal there of between an upw... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909727 | Evaporated fuel treatment device of an engine An evaporated fuel treatment device comprising a purge control valve for controlling an amount of fuel vapor fed into the intake passage from a charcoal canister. The fuel vapor concentration is divided into a first fuel vapor concentration changing propo... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909728 | Air assist device of an engine An air assist device comprising a slit shaped air intake formed in the inner wall of an intake duct around a throttle valve. The assist air is taken in from the air intake ports. A downstream side edge portion of the opening of the slip shaped air intake ... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909729 | Smoker adapter for barbecue grills A barbecue grill provided with an adapter sleeve to convert the grill to food smoker apparatus having a cylindrical sleeve equipped with handles and means to support the food grill and a water containing pan. The support means provide fixed or removable s... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909730 | Bitumen container THE INVENTION provides a beatable container for bitumen, cut-back or the like, comprising a body member defining a base zone, side wall zones, end wall zone and a roof zone, characterized in means for transmitting heat from a heating medium to the base zo... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909731 | Lung ventilator safety circuit The lung ventilator safety valve circuit includes a normally open, pulse width modulated solenoid safety valve connected to a patient airway of a ventilator system. A pressure sensor monitors pressure in the patient airway, and a control unit maintains th... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909732 | Insert to provide conformal support for the reflective seal of an oxygen mask A mask insert to provide conformal support for the reflective seal of an oxygen mask comprising a formed rim made of a resiliently deformable material which is held in place beneath the reflective seal by a supporting framework which conforms to the conto... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909733 | Mechanism for securing a patient's limb An adjustable limb restraint mechanism (11) easily attachable to human medical transporting devices to rigidly support a limb (15) of a patient. The limb restraint mechanism has a pad surface (13) for support of the limb, and an adjustable mechanism (14) ... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909734 | Administration of products of the 5-lipoxygenase metabolic pathway to enhance antimicrobial defense The use of leukotrienes and other products of the 5-lipoxygenase pathway to enhance bacterial defense and treat infections is described. The products are especially useful when administered to the lungs for the treatment of pneumonia and other lower respi... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909735 | Smoking article holder A smoking article holder that is lightweight, inexpensive and can be used to retain a player's smoking article during a round of golf. The holder comprises a generally oblong member for receiving and retaining the smoking article, a pin extending from the... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909736 | Removal of noxious oxidants and carcinogenic volatile nitrosocompounds from cigarette smoke using biological substances This invention refers to a method of withholding noxious compounds contained in cigarette smoke (NO, NOx, carcinogenic nitrosocompounds, free radicals, H2 O2, CO, aldehydes, and trace elements) which were up to today insufficiently r... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909737 | Combination brush and hairspray system A combination brush and hairspray system for allowing a user to simultaneously brush and apply hairspray to their hair with only one hand. The inventive device includes a head supporting a plurality of bristles, a handle attached to the head, a chamber wi... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909738 | Method for sealing a housing and corresponding housing The case comprising a base (2) and a lid (3) articulated thereon includes a container (5) which can receive, for example, a more or less volatile cosmetic product which may deteriorate in contact with the ambient air. According to the invention, the case ... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909739 | Disposable toothbrush with toothpaste The invention's toothbrush comprises an open end which is rolled up and placed in a small and convenient package. The closed end of the disposable toothbrush supports a number of clusters of bristles. The toothbrush is placed onto the user's index finger ... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909740 | Protective cap and mirror unit for cosmetic pencil A protective cap and mirror unit for a cosmetic pencil having a sharpened tip. The unit is molded of plastic to define a small rectangular frame whose rear face is integral with a tubular cap, the entry of which is at the lower end of the frame, a mirror ... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909741 | Chemical bath apparatus Method and apparatus for processing a workpiece in a chemical bath liquid contained in a liquid container. The liquid container is fabricated from a material such as polyetheretherketone (PEEK), poly-amide-imide (PAI) or polyphenylene sulfide (PPS). A vib... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909742 | Metal cleaning method A method of cleaning metal surfaces by using a composition of citric acid, a hydroxycarboxylic acid salt, a nonionic surfactant and a coupling agent is used for cleaning metal surfaces and methods of using the same.... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909743 | Automatic purge filtration system for a dishwasher A dishwasher pump and automatic purge system which includes a wash impeller supported for rotation within a pump chamber wherein the pump chamber has a main outlet and a sample outlet port. Wash liquid pumped out through the main outlet is recirculated th... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5909744 | Dibasic ester stripping composition A mixture of a dibasic ester (DBE), an alcohol, and water to remove photoresist from a silicon wafer substrate. Photoresist is effectively removed at ambient temperature with this non-phenolic, non-halogenated stripper solution. Dissolved photoresist is e... | 06/08/1999 |
