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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6209333 | Mobile air conditioning system and control mechanism The performance of mobile air conditioning systems is improved with the use of a pressure sensing valve to control refrigerant flow in the system. The pressure sensing valve is connected between the condenser and the evaporator. The control valve senses t... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209334 | Systems and methods for capacity regulation of refrigeration systems An arrangement is provided for insuring that excessive demand is not placed on a refrigeration unit that supplies pressurized subcooled refrigerant to different channels having independent needs for use of refrigeration capacity. A separate reference chan... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209335 | Environmental distribution control module Enhanced controls added to conventional heating and air conditioning equipment provides a uniform comfort environment though out the structure. Enhanced control module monitors variously placed sensors within the structure and activates a conventional fan... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209337 | Water collection and purification system A portable water purification and collection system includes a cabinet member having an interior chamber defined by a plurality of side walls, one of which has a vent thereon. Received within the interior chamber and adjacent the vent is a fan for inducin... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209338 | Systems and methods for controlling refrigerant charge A refrigerant storage reservoir, connected by valves to the high and low pressure lines of a refrigeration system, and controlled by a microprocessor based system that monitors temperatures and pressures, provides a means of regulating the overall amount ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209339 | Modular ice delivery system for a beverage dispenser A modular ice delivery system includes a beverage dispenser unit for dispensing beverages therefrom and an ice delivery unit linked with the beverage dispenser unit for supplying ice to the beverage dispenser unit. A docking pathway formed between the ice... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209340 | Ice clearing structure for ice makers A modified water drain pan for use in an ice maker is positioned below a vertically oriented evaporator and includes a front lip for receiving run off water from the evaporator during an ice making cycle. The lip includes a plurality of spaced apart ice r... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209341 | Dry-ice container, and process and plant for manufacturing a dry-ice container A dry-ice container comprising: a casing and, in this casing; carbon dioxide, part of which is in a solid state and another part of which is in a gaseous state, wherein the casing comprises at least one passage for spontaneous escape of carbon dioxide in the g... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209342 | Refrigerator evaporator housing A refrigerator cabinet has an exterior cabinet shell and a plastic liner insert defining a fresh food compartment and a freezer compartment where foamed in place insulation extends between the exterior cabinet shell and the interior liner. The liner has a... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209343 | Portable apparatus for storing and/or transporting biological samples, tissues and/or organs An apparatus that utilizes the heat transfer ability of cryogenic materials to maintain its contents at low temperatures includes a container having inner and outer shells. The inner and outer shells have a chamber formed therebetween. An insulation layer... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209344 | Multi-walled container A preform and a blow molded container formed therefrom and having plural cavities or compartments for providing enhanced properties including vacuum containers for hot and cold product, or barrier materials including gases or layered material, improved cr... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209345 | Ice cream caddy system A system for transporting ice cream to locations where freezer facilities are unavailable. The ice cream caddy system includes an insulated holder for containing a quantity of ice cream surrounded by a supply of ice and rock salt. The ice cream caddy syst... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209346 | Tailgate picnic device A picnic tailgate device includes a housing with a lid hingedly connected thereto. The housing is internally divided into a plurality of zones including an insulated zone for supporting food-containing containers therein and maintaining the containers in ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209347 | Adsorbent unit with refrigerant tracer compartment An adsorbent unit for a refrigerant accumulator having a housing with a bottom wall and a side wall and a U-shaped pipe with a return bend adjacent the bottom wall and with first and second pipe portions extending from the return bend along the side wall,... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209348 | Condenser equipped with receiver A condenser equipped with a receiver includes an inlet portion for refrigerant of the receiver opening in an axial direction of the receiver; an outlet portion for refrigerant of the condenser communicating with the inlet portion of the receiver; and an i... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209349 | Air conditioning condenser comprising a reservoir mounted on a base The invention concerns an air conditioning condenser for a motor vehicle passenger compartment comprising a reservoir mounted on a base. The reservoir is axially screwed in the base, itself soldered on a manifold box of the condenser, communicating therew... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209350 | Refrigeration process for liquefaction of natural gas A process is disclosed for conveying gas stream rich in methane, such as natural gas. In the first step of the process, gas is supplied to a pipeline at an entry pressure that is substantially higher than the output pressure of the pipeline. The drop in p... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209351 | Interchangeable jewelry accessory An interchangeable jewelry accessory for accessorizing a setting-mounted gemstone includes an ornament support base having an ornament support section and a setting-engaging clip section projecting from the ornament support section. The ornament support s... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209352 | Methods of making negative thermal expansion glass-ceramic and articles made thereby An athernal optical device and a method for producing the device, such as an athermal optical fiber reflective grating, are described. The athermal optical fiber reflective grating device comprises a negative expansion substrate, an optical fiber mounted ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209353 | Method for producing an object having a flange and apparatus therefor A known method for producing an object having a flanged tubular portion at the outer periphery, comprises supplying a continuously extended, cylindrical body made of the flange material to a welding zone at the tubular portion of the object and welding th... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209354 | Method of preparing silica glass article A method of preparing a high purity massive synthetic silica glass article. The method includes a homogenizing step, wherein a rod shaped synthetic silica glass material has a greater optical homogeneity in a plane perpendicular to its rotational axis tha... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209355 | Method for melting of glass batch materials An apparatus for melting materials is provided comprising a melter body having a batch injection portion including a batch inlet port, a batch melting portion including a batch melting chamber adapted to receive materials from said batch injection portion... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209356 | Method of making polarization-maintaining optical fibers To manufacture polarization-maintaining optical fibers, a fiber is directly and continuously irradiated with at least one beam of UV radiation during drawing and before application of external coatings.... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209357 | Method for forming article using sol-gel processing A silica body useful for forming an optical fiber preform exhibits an ultimate strength of at least 20 MPa at 10 wt. % water loss. The body attains this strength, it is believed, by precipitation of silica at the contact sites of adjacent silica particles... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209358 | Semicontinuous method of drawing fibers from preforms, the method including a preheating step In the fiber-drawing method, a first preform is lowered along a fiber-drawing axis through a fiber-drawing oven so as to be heated and drawn down into an optical fiber, and a second preform is lowered along the fiber-drawing axis through the fiber-drawing... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209359 | Manufacturing process of loops on a sheet through knitting, loop material manufactured by this process and its use A loop manufacturing process which utilizes a gang of needles, each including a closing string and a hook, and at least one transverse gang of small strainers located on either side of a sheet in conventional fashion, together with a transverse gang of lo... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209360 | Latch needle having a latch supported on a pin A latch needle includes a head; a cheek having two facing side walls each having an inner wall face and an outer wall face; a sawslot defined by the inner wall faces of the side walls; and a pivot pin being formed at least on one of the side walls by plas... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209361 | Yarn-holding apparatus for a circular knitting machine An improvement in a yarn-holding apparatus for a circular knitting machine which functions to hold a plurality of yarn ends in the ready position at the air shoe near the machine yarn feeds so that the held yarn ends can be selectively engaged by the yarn... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209362 | Warp knitting machine, especially crocheting machine The invention relates to a warp knitting machine, especially a crocheting machine, comprising knitting needles guided on a knock-over sinker with warp thread layers which are fitted upstream with warp thread guides and weft thread layer rods assigned to w... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209363 | Process for facilitating closure of a tubular knit article A method for facilitating in seaming closed an open end of a generally tubular structure is described. The method involves providing first and second handles extending from opposite sides of an open end of the tubular structure, extending the first and se... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209364 | Espagnolette-lock for a door, french window or the like An espagnolette-lock for a door, French window or the like, having, accommodated in a casing (2), a control mechanism (3) including, on the one hand, operating mechanism (4) for at least one operating rod (5, 5A) and, on the other hand, a key-operated mem... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209365 | Lockout device A lockout device to prevent tampering with the manually set position of a valve or regulator or other device having a rotatable shaft for adjusting, for example, the flow of fluid through the device, from a position intially set to some other position. Th... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209366 | Truck tailgate locking device A tailgate locking device includes a bezel used in place of the conventional bezel to surround a tailgate handle aperture. When a key-operated lock is rotated to a locked position, it moves a locking arm into position in front of a handle arm thereby prev... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209367 | Electronic cam assembly A cam assembly may be constructed with lock cylinder perforated by a centrally positioned keyway, and having an exposed circumferential surface surrounding the keyway rotatably fitted within a centrally positioned keyhole of a housing, and rotated within ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209368 | Combination lock A combination lock includes a male lock body including a rod a female lock body. The female lock body includes a column having a longitudinal slit for releasably receiving the rod of the male lock body. A number of resilient sleeves mounted are around the... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209369 | Key actuated exterior cam lock The present invention provides a key actuated cam lock. The cam lock has a corrosion resistant metal cap. A weather resistant plug cap is rotatably mounted in the corrosion resistant metal cap. The weather resistant plug cap has an opening permitting the ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209370 | Non damaging key lock A key retaining device that secures the functional section of the key while leaving the non functional section exposed for easy identification. The device is able to lock individual keys on a large key chain without interference with the non locked keys. ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209371 | Pipe bender angle indicator An angle indicator is provided for use with a pipe bender and is adapted to be removably mounted to a handle of a pipe bender. The angle indicator includes a plate; a first wheel rotatably mounted to the plate and including a plurality of angle indicating... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209372 | Internal hydroformed reinforcements A hydroformed member having internal reinforcements and method of manufacturing the same. The method includes the steps of providing a die having a tooling cavity and a pair of opposing rams disposed in the tooling cavity. A tubular member is enclosed wit... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6209373 | Tubular plate and method of producing the same A tubular plate is formed for a wiper device as a support for at least one wiper bearing and a wiper drive, with tubular members for receiving a wiper bearing. The tubular plate is deformed without removal of a material, has tubular members for receiving ... | 04/03/2001 |
