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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6192767 | Aerobiological sampler for airborne particles A portable sampler able to collect airborne particles present in the surrounding air with characteristics of sampling air at particular aspiration flow corresponding to a medium value of current volume of air (ten liters per minute) that is mobilized by a... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192768 | Flow-through sampling cell and use thereof A sampling cell of flow-through type and use of such a sampling cell. The sampling cell is preferably manufactured by etching of silicon wafers. It is especially useful for continuous picovolume sampling in an analytical flow. The pressure pulse generator... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192769 | Adjustable gearhead for a hedge trimmer attachment A gearhead assembly between a drive shaft and an output shaft of a trimmer arranged parallel but staggered to one another, includes a bearing shaft extending perpendicularly between the drive shaft and the output shaft. The bearing shaft has a first end s... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192770 | Shift select lever device for manually-shiftable automatic transmission A shifting arrangement for an automatic transmission with manual gear shift feature has a control member which is operative to connect and disconnect operational linkage between a shift lever and a shift cable connected to a manual valve in a hydraulic co... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192771 | Operating system for a vehicle transmission An operating system for a vehicle transmission has a shifting lever which, for the shifting between gear ratios, can be swivelled in one shifting channel respectively about a shifting axle essentially in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and, for ... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192772 | Controller for the brake of a rolling walkkit A controller for the brake of a rolling walkkit includes a controller base, a grip and a connect rod combined together. The controller base has an upper cylindrical portion fixed around a handrest of the rolling walkkit and a lower hollow portion for pivo... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192773 | Stem for a bicycle An improved stem for a bicycle comprises a pivot member having a lateral member and a locking member attached to the underside of the lateral member, wherein the pivot member has two free ends each having a pivot portion and the locking member has two fre... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192774 | Control-knob top part A control knob (1) includes a companion part (2) as a base of the control knob and a control-knob top part (3) having a grip handle (4). The control-knob top part (3) includes a plate (9) having a flexible elastic material coated thereon to form sidewalls... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192775 | Link connecting rod for wiper apparatus A link connecting rod for wiper apparatus is provided with a tubular rod body, a plate portion with a first and a second plane flattened by compressing an end of the rod body, a semicylindrical portion with a third plane having a semicircular cross sectio... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192776 | Chuck with coupling The application relates to a chuck (10) with a coupling and a housing (34) for clamping cap-screws and/or studs having a screw spindle (11), a drive spindle (12) fixed axially in relation to the screw spindle (11) with at least one spring-loaded and axial... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192777 | Method and apparatus for pattern matching with active visual feedback An apparatus and method for cutting pieces of material from a workpiece, such as a web of patterned fabric, which includes irregularities or which is misaligned with respect to a coordinate system of the cutting apparatus. The workpiece is spread on a cut... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192778 | Cutting apparatus for separating packages from a line A cutting apparatus for separating packages from a line of interconnected packages. The technical problem is to simplify the cutting apparatus and shorten the set-up times and the work cycles. This problem is achieved with a lower knife (4) capable of bei... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192779 | Vertically-operating bread-slicing machine with an oiling device The invention relates to a lubrication device in a vertically functioning bread slicer having several blade bands (3), next to each other and a predetermined width of bread slice apart, continuously circulating crosswise around blade band rollers (2). Bot... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192780 | Forward receiver buffer Positioned on a rear portion of a front receiver lug post on a gun so that when the bolt carrier springs forward the impact of the bolt carrier striking and abruptly stopping against the receiver lug post will be minimized. The forward receiver buffer com... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192781 | Assembly for reversing a fluid driven motor An assembly for reversing a fluid driven motor. The assembly includes a fluid driven motor, and a reversing valve that reverses inlet and exhaust porting to and from the fluid driven motor. An actuation device opens an actuation valve and a fluid supply v... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192782 | Torque control means for hydraulic motor A fluid pressure control system for limiting the torque output of a positive displacement hydraulic motor (21) for rotating a screw anchor (11, 11') into the ground. A normally closed solenoid operated control valve (76) is mounted in a bypass line (86) b... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192783 | Brake booster A brake booster which permits a booster ratio to be changed in two stages. A first spring 25 is disposed between a first plunger plate 24 and the bottom of a stowage 8A of a valve plunger 8. Toward its front end, the outer periphery of the first plunger p... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192784 | Swash plate compressor The invention is related to a swash plate compressor in which the wear resistance and the lubricating ability of the surfaces of the swash plate which are in contact with the shoes can be enhanced and maintained for a long period of time. In the swash pla... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192785 | Automatic dispenser of frothed milk and pre-made liquid coffee An automatic dispenser of frothed milk and pre-made liquid coffee received from refrigerated milk and pre-made liquid coffee containers that selectively delivers cold and hot Italian-style coffees, such as, cappuccino, latte, espresso, and other. The refr... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192787 | Electrically heated beverage appliance A beverage warming device for collecting, temporarily storing, and thermally maintaining an elevated level of a hot beverage which includes a heated drinking container and a mating holding structure for holding the heated drinking container and connecting... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192788 | Grilling appliance A grilling appliance has two housing sections provided with heating plates and connected to each other by means of a pivotable/slidable hinge construction at both sides of the appliance. The housing sections can be positioned with respect to each other in... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192789 | Contact toaster An improved contact toaster for heating bagels, muffins and other food items features a housing containing a toasting chamber with an inlet and an outlet. The toasting chamber contains a pair of conveyor belts with a removable platen positioned between th... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192791 | Boiling sink cooking system for a kitchen A cooking system includes a sink having a basin recessed within a kitchen countertop. The sink is provided with a water inlet, a water outlet and an energy source for heating water introduced into the basin. The cooking system also includes a container th... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192792 | Apparatus for cooking reduced fat poultry or meat An integrated poultry and meat cooking apparatus is provided having a collecting pan and a vertical steaming tube permanently fixed thereto upon which the poultry or meat is supported in an upright position during cooking. The steaming tube has a well whi... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192793 | Drum type printer having mechanism for adjusting transverse position of printed image A printing drum (12) is supported by a first frame (36) to be rotatable around its central axis (38). The first frame (36) is supported by a second frame (52) to be movable relative to the second frame (52) along the central axis (38) for at least a dista... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192794 | STS dayloader system A screen printing apparatus for printing multiple impressions on a substrate carried to and from a printing station wherein the apparatus has a frame for the screen printing apparatus with at least one printing station on the frame holding the printing sc... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192795 | Screen printing apparatus with independent screen adjustment In one aspect, the present invention is an apparatus for microregistering a screen within a screen printing device, wherein the screen printing device has at least one pallet and a pallet drive mechanism for indexing the pallet. The apparatus includes a s... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192796 | Spray dampening device for a printing press A spray dampening device for spraying fountain solution on a rotating roller (1) in a printing press has a spray casing (2) to be mounted in the vicinity of the roller and a spray beam (3) with a number of spray valves (7). The spray beam is at each end a... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192797 | Ink cartridge for automated dispensing systems An improved cartridge for dispensing highly viscous fluids in which the nozzle is recessed for ease of packaging, shipping and storing. The cartridge comprises a hollow cylindrical body, a plunger and a dispensing fitment. The cylindrical body holds a sup... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192798 | Lithographic printing members having secondary non-ablative layers for use with laser imaging apparatus Provided is a lithographic printing plate comprising a support substrate having disposed thereon an ablative-absorbing layer and, optionally, a durable, ink-accepting surface layer that is not ablative-absorbing. The ablative-absorbing layer contains a hi... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192799 | Heat mode sensitive imaging element for making positive working printing plates According to the present invention there is provided a heat mode imaging element for making a lithographic printing plate having on a lithographic base with a hydrophilic surface a first layer including a polymer that is soluble in an aqueous alkaline sol... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192800 | Method and apparatus for handling printed sheet material A support cylinder for guiding freshly processed substrate material between printing units or at the delivery end of a printing press is provided with a low coefficient of friction, semi-conductive covering for supporting and transporting the freshly proc... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192801 | Measurement field group for detecting quality data in multicolor printing of single editions A measuring field group for detecting quality data in the multicolor printing of single editions has measuring fields printed on a printed product in an optically scannable manner with at least one color-measuring surface (F) for determining a color densi... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192802 | Radio frequency and electrostatic discharge insensitive electro-explosive devices An electro-explosive device ("EED") having resistors fabricated on a thermally conductive substrate and interconnected by a central bridge element. The resistance of the bridge element is lower than that of the resistors, which have a larger surface area ... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192803 | Travel control system for transport movers A proximity sensor (22), which generates an alternating current magnetic field in the direction of a guide rail (B) and detects a detection object by a loss of energy caused by a current which this alternating current magnetic field generates to flow to t... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192804 | Hydraulically actuated railway car dumping system A hydraulically operated side dump railroad car that operates by utilizing high pressure hydraulic fluid from delivered by a pneumatic to hydraulic converter pump located on the railroad car. On the railroad dump car, the hydraulic fluid is pumped from a ... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192805 | Storage bin for workstation A storage bin for storage and containment of cabling associated with work-related items such as computers, telephones and the like. The storage bin is mountable generally along a terminal edge of a furniture component such as a worksurface, so that cablin... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192806 | Angle adjustable table used on steering wheel A foldable and surface angle adjustable table device mountable upon a steering wheel, the device including an arch shape support (3) with clamp(s) on it, and a flat table surface (1) pivotally connected to each other. A pair of table angle controls (9) is... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192807 | Pallet protector assembly A pallet protector assembly for use with a conventional pallet, e.g., a wooden pallet having a plurality of stringers disposed generally parallel to one another between upper and lower decks formed of plural spaced-apart deck-boards. The pallet has a pair... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192808 | Folding table with latching linkage A folding table includes a folding table top and a framework typically mounted on casters or rollers. A linkage provides for folding of the table top between a use position wherein the table top is substantially horizontal and a storage position wherein t... | 02/27/2001 |