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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5913263 | Device and method for stretching a screen on a roller frame A device for stretching a screen on a roller frame includes at least three torsion stations and a support structure. Each torsion station includes a torsion tool, for example, a wrench head, which can be attached to one end of one of the sides of the fram... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913264 | Screen printing machine with rotor and stator guiding means A screen printing machine having a rotor, a stator, a device for moving the rotor and stator into juxtaposition, and an annular track and track followers for guiding the rotor in vertical and radial directions.... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913265 | Stencil printing drum, with opening to allow ink return to inside of drum A stencil printing drum includes a cylindrical circumferential wall which includes an ink permeable area and an ink impermeable area surrounding the ink permeable area. The wall is wrapped with a perforated stencil sheet and driven to rotate around a cent... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913266 | Printing cylinder having annular groove A printing cylinder 20 has a length for mass printing and is used for an inking roller group for supplying printing ink, a plate cylinder having a printing plate, a blanket cylinder for printing with the ink transferred from the printing plate, etc. A rin... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913267 | Process and device for adapting the position of printing plates to the deformation of the paper to be printed In a process and a device for adapting the position of printing plates (4) to the deformation (fan-out) of the paper web (2) to be printed through damp, ink absorption and mechanical stress on passing between several successive pairs of printing rolls (1)... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913268 | Pneumatic rollers and paper handling arrangements A roller assembly is provided with openings in its outer surface for selective communication with a source of vacuum or a positive pressure. The openings may be angled along the roller rotational axis to impart a component of velocity to the paper perpend... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913269 | Collapsible stand for beverage cans A collapsible stand for holding beverage cans or the like is provided. The stand is comprised of a table top or deck having cup shaped openings for receiving beverage cans. A collapsible supporting stand is removably connected by a column to the table top... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913270 | Portable modular field kitchen A portable modular field kitchen for use in preparing and serving food in the out-of-doors typically employed at camp sights, roadside camping facilities for recreational vehicles, at a city park, the beach-or even on the patio or in the back yard of a re... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913271 | Collapsible massage table A collapsible massage table has two sides, each side being supported by a support structure including two legs. Various cable lines are used to stabilize the legs when the table is open and upright. The cables also function to automate or semi-automate le... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913272 | Folding table release latch apparatus A folding leg apparatus is provided to mount a leg to an article of furniture, such as a tabletop, so that the leg can be moved between extended and retracted positions. The table leg has a pair of upright bars disposed apart from each other. the apparatu... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913273 | Incinerator including vibrator and incinerator including drying chamber A waste incinerator including separate burning-, blower-, chimney- and ash-receiving chambers. A suction-discharge port is provided in a wall between the burning chamber and the chimney chamber for discharging gases from the burning chamber through a chim... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913274 | Incineration grate with internal cooling A grate for a firing plant, having at least one grate track with a plurality of fixed and moving rows of grate-lining units, which rows alternate in the longitudinal direction, are bounded on both sides by side walls and are provided with cooling passages... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913275 | Multiple use quilting frame A quilting frame which can be used in hand quilting or machine sewing quilting. The multiple use frame includes three parallel, spaced rods rotatably supported by a pair of parallel frame ends with the rods being individually rotated and individually lock... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913276 | Multihead sewing machine with improved shuttle drive control A multihead sewing machine includes a sewing machine motor, a main shaft rotated by the sewing machine motor, a plurality of sewing needles driven by the main shaft, a plurality of shuttles for capturing thread loops in cooperation with the sewing needles... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913277 | Apparatus for cutting and hemming cloths, particularly for manufacturing quilts, duvets and the like An apparatus comprising two horizontal and parallel guides in which the lateral borders of the cloth to be quilted are inserted. The guides have grippers and can move transversely to the cloth advancement direction. Downstream of the guides there are prov... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913278 | Floating dock A method of dry docking vessels comprising: (i) providing a floating dock (1) comprising: a main balast vessel (3); a load supporting raft (2); the load supporting raft (2) and the main ballast vessel (3) being selectively attachable to each other, the ma... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913279 | Bearing arrangement for limiting deflection of a turret of a turret mooring device A turret mooring device includes a vessel carrying a turret, the turret being connected to the hull of the vessel by an upper and a lower bearing arrangement, the turret being provided with devices for fastening and guiding anchor lines and with at least ... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913280 | Method and system for towing multiple streamers Methods, systems, and towing bridles, are provided to increase spread width, streamer separation, and number in marine seismic data acquisition. The invention is applicable for towing seismic equipment behind a marine seismic data equipment handling vesse... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913281 | Implement for milking animals and separating the foremilk from the milk yield An apparatus for milking animals, such as cows, which comprises a milking compartment including a milking robot for automatically connecting teat cups to the teats of an animal to be milked in the compartment and automatically milking the animal. The appa... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913282 | Pet litter box The device of the present invention is useful as a disposable litter box and comprised of a base flexibly attached to a cover and constructed from a single piece of biodegradable, lightweight construction material that either is, or is treated to be, mois... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913283 | Equestrian barrier An equestrian barrier having a standard, a jump cup that can be adjusted to various positions along the standard, and a pole supported by the jump cup. The standard has notches formed at intervals therein. Each notch is defined by a lower arcuate surface.... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913284 | Stimulation device and technique An animal training system has a stimulation unit for administering an electrical stimulation to an animal, a receiver for receiving a control signal, and a controller for processing the control signal and activating the stimulation unit for a predetermine... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913285 | Non-choking pet restraint A non-choking pet restraint which applies restraining pressure to an animals shoulder's and chest and not to the neck and throat area. The device has a chest/belly panel, which also serves as a brush protective guard for dogs in the field, and two shoulde... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913286 | Method and apparatus for loading poultry through a vision blocking gate Method and apparatus for loading a poultry coop. Each compartment in the coop has a rectangular frame opening which is blocked or unblocked by a pivoted door. A flexible vision blocking curtain is hung across the opening to prevent the escape of any poult... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913287 | Method and apparatus for enhancing the fluidization of fuel particles in coal burning boilers and fluidized bed combustion Semi-permeable screens are installed in a pulverized coal burning boiler and rotatably driven by a high speed rotatable shaft. A first one of the screens is located above the main combustion zone of the boiler and a second one of the screens is located di... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913288 | Dual drum boiler A long-lasting hot water boiler. The boiler has a lower drum with a first pass fire-tube for generating combustion gases, an upper drum with a second pass fire-tube bundle for the gaseous products of combustion, and a lined fire reversing chamber for dire... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913289 | Firetube heat exchanger with corrugated internal fins A firetube heat exchanger having a tubular member with a fluid inlet end and a fluid outlet end and a plurality of axially aligned fins secured to the interior wall of the tubular member. The axially aligned fins are constructed of at least one sheet of c... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913290 | Power plant A power unit with a diesel free piston device which is fed with air from a compressor device (96), and whose exhaust gas runs a turbine (150). The device has a cylinder (12) with two pistons (24, 26) which are movable in anti-phase and which between them ... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913291 | Two-cycle internal combustion engine A two-cycle internal combustion engine including a carburetor, a crankcase provided with a crank chamber and a suction port, an insulator attached to the crankcase and provided with a suction passage for introducing the air-fuel mixture from the carbureto... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913292 | Variable valve timing and lift mechanism of internal combustion engine A drive shaft is synchronously driven by an internal combustion engine. A cylindrical hollow cam shaft is rotatably disposed about the drive shaft. The cam shaft has thereon a cam which actuates a valve of the engine. A first flange is formed on one end o... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913293 | Oil passage structure for engine An oil passage structure of an engine is provided, wherein oil is prevented from being drained from an oil passage when the engine is stopped, and air mixed into the oil in the oil passage can be surely removed. The oil passage structure includes a first ... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913294 | Outboard motor fuel supply system An outboard motor for a watercraft includes a simply structured fuel supply system of a smaller size and a longer life than prior fuel supply systems. The fuel supply system includes a delivery fuel tank carried by the outboard motor. Fuel is pumped from ... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913295 | Combination air cleaner fluid reservoir For use with a vehicle, a combination unit includes a fluid storage chamber for storing fluids such as windshield washer fluid and an acoustic resonance chamber for attenuating vehicle air intake noises. The fluid storage container and the acoustic resona... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913296 | Disposable modular fuel container for internal combustion engines A fuel supply system is described which allows the use of a disposable fuel tank prefilled with the required fuel mixture. The system includes a mounting bracket having a fuel coupling, a disposable tank, and a venting manifold.... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913297 | Internal combustion engine A cylinder direct injection spark-ignition internal combustion engine. The engine comprises a cylinder block having a plurality of cylinders. A cylinder head is fixedly mounted on a block deck of the cylinder block. The cylinder head has an intake port fo... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913298 | Valve timing system for engine An internal combustion engine having a variable valve timing mechanism, a throttle valve and a flow control valve for controlling the generation of turbulence in a combustion chamber. The control valve is operated so as to generate turbulence in the combu... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913299 | Fuel supply control system for internal combustion engines There is provided a fuel supply control system for an internal combustion engine installed on an automotive vehicle. The engine has an exhaust system, and an exhaust gas-purifying device arranged in the exhaust system. A start of the engine is detected. A... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913300 | Injector An injector is disclosed which comprises a valve needle spring biased into engagement with a seating. The spring engages a spring abutment piston which defines, in part, a chamber which communicates, in use, with a spill valve, a restricted drain passage,... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913301 | Protection system for a turbocharged internal combustion engine With a protection system for a turbocharged internal combustion engine, it is determined, using a parameter characterizing the turbocharging, whether an overshoot or a serious defect, such as for example a hose failure, is present in the turbocharging pre... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5913302 | Ignition coil dwell time control system A two-stroke direct fuel injected internal combustion engine has an ignition coil dwell time control system. An electronic control unit controls switching of electronic ignition coil drivers in a manner to minimize ignition coil dwell times at medium and ... | 06/22/1999 |
