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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6032567 | Surf zone mine clearance A device for clearing obstructions from surf zones comprising an elongated enerally cylindrical housing having a first end and a second end, the housing encasing a fuse positioned inside of the first end and a compartment containing a gas generating compou... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032568 | Means for controlling the muzzle velocity of a projectile A means and method of controlling the muzzle velocity of a gun launched projectile to ensure that the muzzle velocities of several rounds of the same type tend towards the same value or that of an individual round approaches some nominal value. A sensor m... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032569 | Locking device for securing a piston to a piston rod For locking against rotation a piston on a piston rod, the piston having a peripheral groove and at least one radial through-hole to be positioned over a notch, a locking clip with a first straight end part and a curved part has a first end part extending... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032570 | Composite piston for machine A composite piston and method for forming such a piston for a reciprocating machine such as an internal combustion engine. A blank is formed from a pair of dissimilar alloys, one of which has substantially greater properties such as strength or abrasion r... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032571 | Automated home beer brewing machine and method An automated home beer brewing machine and method makes beer in a single vessel under automatic control. The machine and method allows making of wort for beer without requiring apparatus to be sanitized, without boiling the wort, without the use of a trad... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032572 | Corn popping apparatus A corn popping apparatus comprising a box-like cabinet with a tiltable lid to which is attached a large metal popping kettle. When the lid is lowered the bottom of the kettle projects downwardly into the cabinet interior through a panel covering the top o... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032573 | Method and apparatus for making cheesecake A cheesecake batter is baked in individual cups as it is continuously moved from one end of an oven to the other. Thereafter, it is cooled by being transferred to a cooling table covered with a hood. The cooling table and the hood are arranged in line wit... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032574 | Re-configurable modular food processing cells Re-configurable modular food processing cells (10) consisting of rapidly re-configurable functional modules (50) are easily transported to any site for appropriate reconfiguration to process harvested crop material. Each cell (10) provides a shipping cont... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032575 | Automatic baler with tying system having simultaneously engaged twister pinions An automatic baler for creating a bale of compressible material comprises a mechanism for compressing an amount of the material into a bale and moving the bale along a path past a continuous strand of wire which extends across the path to engage a front e... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032576 | Method and apparatus for screen printing on a hard substrate A method of screen printing on to a hard non-absorbent substrate (1) involves using a screen (10) which has an ink permeable area (B) whose pattern corresponds to whatever is to be printed. The area B is divided into two parts (X and Y). Part X is of norm... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032577 | Method and apparatus for transporting substrates A method and apparatus is provided for transporting circuit boards in a screen printer. In embodiments of the present invention, a transportation system is provided for a printer that prints material on a substrate. The transportation system has the abili... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032578 | Method for controlling printing density in stencil printing and device for the same In a stencil printing in which a perforated stencil sheet is wound around a circumferential surface of a printing drum to which an ink is supplied, and the ink is transferred from the printing drum to a printing sheet through the perforated stencil sheet ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032580 | Stamping toy with sound and lighting effect A stamping toy with sound and lighting effect which comprises an ornamental seat, a main body mounted at the bottom of the ornamental seat, a bottom cap mounted at the bottom of the main body, a spring within the ornamental seat, a circuit board mounted a... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032581 | Register control device for a printing machine The present invention generally describes register control equipment for the cylinder of a printing machine. It specifically pertains to the printing plate of sheet-fed offset printing machine that has fitted register pins. The register pins are electrica... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032582 | System and method for optimally controlling the restart of a sheet-fed offset printing operation A method and a corresponding control are described for the start-up of production printing in a sheet-processing printing machine, in particular, a sheet-fed offset printing machine, in which ink is supplied via a vibrating roller which is movable back an... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032583 | Ammunition unit in the form of a shell The present invention relates to an ammunition unit in the form of a shell or the like, with at least two warheads connected via a supporting structure. In order to prevent the impact from the first activated warhead reaching the warheads situated to the ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032584 | Apparatus for transferring paper rolls along an incline A carriage and track assembly for transferring paper and paperboard rolls along an inclined track. The assembly is useful for the transfer of paper rolls of slippery grades and is based on using a dual track (5, 6) over the length of the inclined section ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032585 | Folding banquet table A table includes first and second sections coupled together for pivotable movement therebetween and a pair of legs pivotably coupled to the respective sections to move between storage and support positions. The table further includes a pair of channels co... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032586 | Arm resting stand An arm resting stand for permitting a user to rest their arms thereon when reading on a toilet. The arm resting stand includes a bin with an open top and a lid substantially covering the open top of the bin. The lid has a resiliently compressible exterior... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032587 | Folding table A table that can be pulled out is located on the underside of a pivotable armrest on a center console of a motor vehicle. The table consists of a base panel as well as a pivot panel. The pivot panel can be pivoted by a bearing mechanism which can be raise... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032588 | Convertible table system There is described a convertible table system which has a fixed central portion and leaves along at least two adjacent edges. The leaves fold from an operative position where they are substantially co-planar with the table top to a stored position where t... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032589 | Shelf for the top of a monitor A shelf for the top of a monitor has a base with groups of seriate polygonal sockets formed on the bottom and two support feet each including an upper foot and a lower foot. The upper foot has a top polygonal plug correspondingly fitted into the socket of... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032590 | Knockdown table/chair assembly A knockdown table/chair assembly including a table face and multiple telescopic table legs. The table face is composed of multiple table board members each having coupling sections on lateral edges for coupling with each other to assemble the table board ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032591 | System for recycling refuse A refuse recycling system which recycles municipal waste as energy, includes a shredder for shredding the waste and removing rejects via a feed pipe to a circulating fluidized bed reactor, the reactor producing flue gases. The reactor includes a side dens... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032592 | Hand held motor driven applicators A hand held motor driven applicator (10) for applying liquids including weedicides selectively to undesired plants. The applicator includes a motor (12), and a rotor assembly (22) including a rotatable wick support (41) having one or more applicator wicks... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032593 | Grain drill opener with separate placement and a concave disk therefor A combination seed and fertilizer opener having separate placement includes a first angled flat disk with a gauge wheel arrangement providing an initial furrow for a first material such as fertilizer. A second opener disk, smaller than the first and conca... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032594 | Embroiderable sewing machine, embroidery data processing apparatus, and design data recording medium A sewing machine having an embroidery capability stores embroidery frame outline data and data of a net embroidering area together with design data in a storing medium and displays the embroidery design, the embroidery frame outline, and the net embroider... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032595 | Electronically controlled sewing machine having animation information display system An electronically controlled sewing machine has a liquid crystal display as well as a needle bar rocking mechanism for driving a needle bar to which a needle is attached, a thread take-up lever driving mechanism, a needle thread catcher and so on. One of ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032596 | Embroidery data processing apparatus In an embroidery data processing apparatus, each time an editing action is executed with respect to an embroidery pattern to be edited, the name of the editing action is stored to an edit history memory. When a certain key is operated to effect retrospect... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032597 | Shuttle hook driver for sewing machine A shuttle hook driver for a sewing machine includes a driving pulley mounted on a main shaft, a driven pulley rotatable about a second shaft substantially crossing the shaft center of the main shaft and extending horizontally, a timing belt extending betw... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032598 | Scissors-type thread-cutting device for a sewing machine A scissors-type thread-cutting device for a sewing machine includes an elongated base, which is adapted to be fixed on the machine bed. An elongated first blade member is mounted telescopically on and locked releasably on the base, and is movable lengthwi... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032599 | Suspension apparatus for a sailboard A suspension apparatus is described for use in the sport of windsurfing. The apparatus reduces loads exerted by a mast member on a sailboard, and includes a shock absorbing system having a compressible element, a housing connected to the shock absorbing s... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032600 | Weighted daggerboard stabilizer for wind surfing apparatus A wind surfing apparatus formed with a hull supporting a mast and sail includes a removable daggerboard having a weighted mass in a lower end portion thereof to lessen the tendency of the hull to be unstable or flip during use. The weighted mass may eithe... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032601 | Combination boat lift and dock A preferred embodiment of a combination boat lift and dock 10 is described having two spaced pontoons with an intermediate boat support 18. Pivot arm structures 20, 22 pivotally interconnect the boat support 18 with the pontoons. A drive mechanism 24 is c... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032602 | Stabilizer for ocean going vessels and a stabilizer for other ocean going bodies, such as ships A device for guiding the flow of floating objects. The device is connected to a hull of the floating object and, depending on the flow, feeds hydrodynamic forces into the hull. The device shows a main flow body which is designed in a more flat-topped mann... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032603 | Method and apparatus to increase the velocity of sailing vessels An asymmetric wing for decreasing the leeward drift of a vessel has two different surfaces, one of which is cambered in cross-section and the other which has less camber in cross-section or flat. The asymmetric wing has a leading edge pointed toward the b... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032604 | Boat docking device A device for aiding a person on a boat to dock the boat is disclosed. The device includes an elongated, flexible rod with a vertical section, a curved section extending from the vertical section, and a horizontal section which extends from the curved sect... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032605 | Adjustable sponson system for watercraft An adjustable sponson system for a watercraft includes a coupling mechanism that allows the position of the sponsons relative to the hull of the watercraft to be varied by the operator of the watercraft while seated on the watercraft. The adjustable spons... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032606 | Boat with integrated floor and stringer system and associated method of manufacturing A boat includes a hull and a unique integrated, molded, floor and stringer system for positioning in the hull for providing structural support and stiffening thereto. The floor and stringer system may include first and second stringers and at least two bu... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032607 | Emergency location signaling device An aerial lift balloon and signaling components attached thereto are stored within a closure member held assembled with a breakaway housing to form a package storing an inflating device for the balloon. Removal of the closure member initiates inflation of... | 03/07/2000 |
