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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6148842 | Compensation element for the compensation of temperature-conditioned length changes of an object The compensation element is compensating for temperature-conditioned length changes of an object. An injection valve that is fully functional in the entire range of the operating temperatures of a motor requires a device that compensates thermally conditi... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148843 | Variable orifice gas lift valve for high flow rates with detachable power source and method of using The present invention is a surface controlled gas lift valve designed for high flow rates and used in a subterranean well, comprising: a valve for sealable insertion in a mandrel, having a variable orifice which alternately permits, prohibits, or throttle... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148844 | Condensate removal device A condensate removal device for removal of condensate from a fluid system. The device includes a body adapted for connection to the fluid system, the body having an inflow opening and an outflow opening. A trap between the inflow opening and the outflow o... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148845 | Valve housing with a connecting part and a cap The valve housing can be used for valves and steam traps with a compact automatic control unit. It has a connecting part with two flow ducts and a base on which the open end of a cap rests tightly. Two post-like projections with fastening orifices are pro... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148846 | Waste liquid collection system The waste liquid collection and transfer system includes at least one waste liquid transfer vessel that has a liquid input valve and a liquid output valve for controlling the flow of waste liquid therethrough. A pressurized gas liquid transfer system incl... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148847 | Low vapor pressure gas distribution system and method A system and method for distributing a low vapor pressure gas to one or more points of use in which a recirculation path and a recirculation device are provided. The recirculation path includes a distribution conduit in communication with the point(s) of ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148848 | Multicannular fluid delivery system with pressure sensitive alarm The instant invention consists of an inner cannula of hosing amenable to transport of a liquid coupled with an outer cannula of hosing amenable to transport of a gas. As respects one embodiment, affixed to outer walling of the inner cannula and to inner w... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148849 | Safety vehicular fuel system A safety system is provided for a vehicular fuel line installation which includes a fuel tank, an engine and delivery and return lines extending between the tank and the engine. A pump is operatively associated with the delivery line to feed fuel from the... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148850 | Washing machine outlet box with common tailpiece for two drain outlets A washing machine outlet box includes a bottom wall having a first drain port for a washing machine hose and a second drain port for a condensate line. Communicating with both drain ports is a common tailpiece integral with the bottom wall. The common tai... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148851 | Valve lock apparatus and lockable valve A lock apparatus for a valve that has a valve body and an actuator stem protruding therefrom for selectively rotating a flow control member within the valve body between open and closed positions and a handle attached to the valve stem that defines a firs... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148852 | Sump pit regulating valve A valve assembly that is composed of simple parts is described that is used to provide a sump pit water control device that operates due to the level of water within the sump and not by electricity. This valve assembly includes an adapter in the form of a... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148853 | Damper valve for hydraulic power steering device A damper valve for a hydraulic power steering device is disposed on a hydraulic oil circuit for connecting an oil passage changing-over valve in a gear box and left and right oil chambers of a power cylinder, and is provided with a partition plate member ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148854 | System for leak detection from underground and aboveground fuel storage tanks A leak detection system for detecting a fuel leak from a storage tank comsing a vertically positioned reference tube that spans the full useful length of the fuel tank which is generally located underground. The reference tube is filled and drained with ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148855 | Valve control unit and method of attaching it to a valve block A valve control unit includes a housing and an electronic circuit disposed therein for controlling valve coils mountable on valves, the housing being formed as a conductor track carrier for carrying the electronic circuit, and conductor tracks carried by ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148856 | Control valve The invention relates to a control valve for the control, independently of a load, of a hydraulic consumer with a distributing slide valve to control the direction of movement and the speed of movement of the consumer and a throttle valve associated with ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148857 | Combination fluid supply and aspiration valve assembly for use in medical procedures A combination suction and irrigation fluid supply valve assembly includes a first body part with an axial passage and opposed bosses and second and third body parts mounted on the first body part and supporting respective spool type closure members for co... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148858 | Pressure balanced couplings A sub-sea coupling comprises a male probe coupler and a female receiver coupler containing mutually engageable poppet valves which have intermediate valve heads between nose and shank portions which seal with respect to the respective couplers. Each valve... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148859 | Hydraulic control valve assemblies for hydraulic braking systems A solenoid-controlled valve assembly comprises a solenoid (1) for controlling operation of a spool valve (2), and the solenoid is contained within a solenoid body (3). The spool valve comprises a spool (40) working in a bore (41, 42) in a spool housing (1... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148860 | Low volume vacuum toilet assembly A vacuum tank assembly has a low volume configuration so that it can be used in boats and recreational vehicles where space is at a premium. A stack of components, with a waste tank at the bottom, then a vacuum tank with directly connected vacuum pump, an... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148861 | Multiway valve for fluids and its use The present invention comprises a multiway valve for fluids, consisting of an inlet line (1), a connector housing (9), basic valve bodies (2, 3) and additional valve bodies (25, 26, 26') branching off from the connector housing (9), with each of the valve... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148862 | Solenoid valve coil pack A valve bank has a coil pack assembly with multiple solenoid coils bound to one another by a single resin body. An L-shaped magnetic (but not magnetized) bracket is also bound within the body and extends between upper pole pieces of the valves and the man... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148863 | Multi-compartment tank for agricultural implement A multi-compartment tank structure for an agricultural air cart is formed in a modular configuration with two, three or more containers operable to carry different supplies of materials to the field. Each container is formed with an interlocking mating wa... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148864 | Permitting two adjacent pipe lengths to be joined together A method for permitting the joining together of two adjacent pipe lengths with adjacent ends curving with substantially the same sense, the method comprising rotating the end of one of the pipe lengths about its axis until it curves in substantially the o... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148865 | Braided sleeve, tubular article and method of manufacturing the tubular article A sleeve, a method of manufacturing a rigid, tubular article manufactured from the sleeve and an article made according to the method. The sleeve has elastic crisscrossing first and second filaments which enable the sleeve to be expandable in a radial dir... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148866 | Composite spoolable tube A spoolable composite tube capable of being spooled onto a reel for storage and for use in oil field applications. The spoolable tube exhibits unique anistropic characteristics that provide improved burst and collapse pressures, increased tensile strength... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148867 | Duct liners Ducts are formed from rigid or semi-rigid insulation boards by forming a plurality of longitudinally extending, spaced apart, parallel kerfs in a first major surface of each of the insulation boards which is adapted to be the interior surface of the duct.... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148868 | Reed with doglegged blades for water jet loom and weaving method using the same A reed attached to a water jet loom has reed blades each having an upper portion which is doglegged toward a cloth-fell relative to each lower portion, wherein each front edge of the doglegged reed blade facing the cloth-fell has a flat outline. A method ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148869 | Dual layer papermaking fabric formed in a balanced weave A wear resistant dual layer papermaking fabric, of stable construction, having a fiber support surface and a machine contact surface. The fabric comprises first picks of weft yarn woven with warp yarns to form weft yarn floats of equal length arranged dia... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148870 | Tubular fabric weaving machine with turnover fold control A weaving machine arrangement incorporates a shaft frame machine and, arranged on both sides thereof, two Jacquard machines. The weaving machine arrangement is coordinated, and first warp threads for the woven material are obtained from the shaft frame we... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148871 | Woven fabric with flat film warp yarns A textile fabric comprises a plurality of weft yarns extending generally in a weft direction and a plurality of flat film warp yarns extending generally in a warp direction. The warp yarns are interwoven with the weft yarns in a series of identical repeat... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148872 | Method and apparatus for determining the starting time of the weft insertion following a speed change of the main drive of a jet loom The starting time of a weft thread insertion in a jet loom is automatically adapted to a change in the speed of the main loom drive shaft, in order to assure that the leading end of the weft thread always arrives at the same time at a weft stop motion dev... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148873 | Apparatus for producing reinforcing cages for rectangular pipes made of concrete A suitable automatically operating apparatus is proposed for producing reinforcing cages for rectangular pipes made of concrete. Longitudinal-wire sections, which are parallel to the pipe axis, are held together in a framework. The latter essentially comp... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148874 | Filling head mechanism that removes material from a spout of a filled container before completely disengaging from the spout A machine and method for filling bags with liquid through spouts attached to the bags, wherein a piston within a filling head that operates to control flow of the liquid from the filling head is also extended out of the filling head and into the spout, af... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148875 | Vacuum food storage system A vacuum food storage system comprising: (a) a storage container open at its top or front and suitable for containing fruit, vegetables or cold cuts; (b) a lid to cover the open top or front of the storage container and having an air-tight gasket surrounding i... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148876 | Method and tank for dispensing liquid substances into containers Containers are directed onto a carousel rotatable as one about a vertical axis with a tank affording a fluid-tight enclosure and equipped with filler valves, each positionable over the mouth of a relative container; the tank is filled with a liquid substa... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148877 | Fluid filling system with fill time optimization A fluid filling system is disclosed wherein containers to be filled with fluid materials are supplied first to one or more time-metered filling stations, and then to a weight-metered filling station. At first, the time-metered filling station(s) is/are in... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148878 | Automated microplate filling device and method An automated machine for filling a plurality of microplates. The automated machine includes at least one input stacking chamber for stacking empty microplates, at least one output stacking chamber for stacking filled microplates, and a microplate filling ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148879 | Wood planing machine A wood planing machine includes a base, a carriage mounted on the base and having a top surface, a rotary cutter mounted on the carriage, a shaving discharge plate overlying the top surface of the carriage to confine a shaving passageway and having a plur... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148880 | Flat-surface milling machine A planer-type face milling machine for processing wood having a drive motor that is coupled to a work spindle, which supports, on a free end, a milling head, which on its front side supports cutting edges, the milling head being configured particularly as... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148881 | Workbench A workbench is provided that can be used as a conventional table (for the dining room, for card games, etc,.) and also provides the features of a carpentry and mechanics workbench. The workbench can be used in conjunction with an electric drill to provide... | 11/21/2000 |
