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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6267191 | Self advancing mining sled Disclosed is a self propelled device and method for transporting and positioning bulk solids handling equipment across working surfaces of limited bearing strength. Multiple advancing sleds (10) and equipment base sleds (12) are connected by interlocking ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267192 | Reversing system for a motorcycle A motorcycle is described which has a driving device including an internal-combustion engine and a transmission which is driven by the engine and has several shifting positions. A starting device for the internal-combustion engine includes an electric mot... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267193 | Motorcycle muffler A motorcycle includes a muffler defining an air scoop for directing air toward the motorcycle's engine and transmission assembly. The muffler also has a substantially planar upper portion and a lower portion having a convex surface.... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267194 | Brake control system for a motor vehicle In a brake control system for mitigating the consequences of an accident in the case of a rear-on collision of a motor vehicle, it is provided that a comparison signal assigned to the positive longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle is determined, that t... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267195 | Excavator operator cab An excavator operator cab (10) has an operator seat (12) and a control console (15) mounted beside the seat. A forward control stick (20) and a rear control stick (22) are positioned in the console (15) such that the rear control stick supports the arm of... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267196 | High mobility vehicle A vehicle, for driving over a ground surface, has a body with a left side, a right side, a front and a back. The vehicle includes left and right drive mechanisms. Each mechanism includes first and second traction elements for engaging the ground surface a... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267197 | Axle shaft spacer member An axle shaft spacer member for use with a suspension lift kit. The spacer member enables the wheel spindle of a vehicle to be moved laterally a desired distance, which in turn enables the upper control arms associated with the wheel spindle to be lowered... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267198 | Offset kingpin for a rear steering axle on an agricultural combine The invention consists of an offset kingpin in the rear steering axle of a self-propelled combine harvester. Attached to the rear axle is a knuckle. The kingpin is pivotally attached to the knuckle and the spindle is rotationally attached to the knuckle. ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267199 | Automobile exhaust tube An exhaust tube of the rear of an automobile includes a muffler tube and an outer tube. The muffler tube is provided with a plurality of holes in a central area therof. One end of the muffler tube is provided with a concave annular trough and further prov... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267200 | Lift apparatus with floating lift cylinder attachment A lift method and apparatus for moving an arm structure includes a first arm structure and a second arm structure pivotally connected to the first arm structure. The apparatus further includes a moving device and a displacing link for displacing the movin... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267201 | Work platform for roof construction work A method of performing roof construction work on a roof with inclined rafters using a work platform which includes a structural frame (10), an upper work surface (15) having multiple removable sections (16) mounted by the frame on which a worker can move ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267202 | Elevation platform A treestand platform is strung in a manner at least similar to the stringing of a sports racket, such as a tennis racket, and a treestand having such a platform. The platform might comprise a peripheral frame supporting and delimiting a tension surface fo... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267203 | Axle housing bowl lubricant temperature reduction system An improved method of removing heat from a lubricant in an axle housing includes the use of a deflector in the axle housing. The deflector is positioned on a cover secured to the housing bowl. Lubricant is thrown against the deflector by a ring gear in th... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267204 | Device for the supply of liquid under pressure to an element at a rotating axis A device for the supply of a liquid under pressure to a flow passage (13) in a member in a shaft suspension unit (1) of a centrifugal separator, which has a stationary casing (3) and a unit, which is resiliently and oscillation dampingly suspended in the ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267205 | Magnetic guidance for an elevator rope An elevator system includes a magnetic guide that dampens vibration of a flat rope that move the car and counterweight up and down in the hoistway. The flat rope is guided through an opening in the magnetic guide between a pair of ferromagnetic flux conce... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267206 | Brake lining for disk brakes The brake lining (100) for disk brakes comprises a carrier plate (10) and a friction material block (20) fixed thereon made of a pressed friction material, the friction material block (20) being fixed positively and/or nonpositively on the carrier plate (... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267207 | Apparatus for brake actuation An apparatus for actuating a brake of vehicles, in particular a parking brake, has an electric motor and a coupling element which is movement-coupled with the motor drive shaft of the latter, is linearly movable, can be connected to a brake tensioning mec... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267208 | Pedal travel simulator A brake pedal path simulator, with a restoring device which exerts a restoring force with a progressive force-path characteristic curve on a pedal. The restoring device includes at least two permanent magnets, whose mutually repelling poles are oriented t... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267209 | Brake unit with a non-metallic brake disc made of ceramic and a hub made of another material A brake unit having a brake disc of ceramic and a hub of a different material, which radially overlap one another with their mutually facing rims and are mechanically joined by a wreath-type rim of mounting bolts that axially penetrate the overlapping rim... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267210 | Brake hub with floating rotor A hub rotor assembly includes a hub, a rotor supported by the hub and a plurality of fasteners that connect the rotor to the hub and allow relative movement between the rotor and the hub. The hub rotor assembly of the invention focuses on a brake hub and ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267211 | Drive unit for machinery, especially mining machinery A drive unit for a mining machine such as a mining plow or conveyor drives a sprocket wheel of the chain thereof by an electric motor through a drive train having a turbocoupling and a transmission driven by the motor. A free-shifting clutch is provided i... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267212 | Automatic controlled transmission The invention concerns an automatic controlled transmission having a hydrodynamic converter (1) and a lock-up clutch (10) between an input shaft (7) and an output shaft (8) of the converter (1) wherein the lock-up clutch (10) is actuated by the differenti... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267213 | Lock-up damper of torque converter A lock-up mechanism 7 of a torque converter 1 has a piston 44 with a lock-up damper 45. The lock-up damper 45 includes a drive member and a hub flange 53 with the elastic members or torsion springs 54 operatively coupled therebetween to dampen vibrations ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267214 | Differential-speed-dependent automatic coupling with reduction switching means A viscous coupling comprising two parts which are supported inside one another, which are rotatable around a common longitudinal axis and which form an annular chamber which is filled with a highly viscous medium and in which there are arranged inner plat... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267215 | Clutch The invention concerns a clutch (1) comprising a sliding sleeve (17) with selector teeth (19), two synchronizing rings (28, 29) situated on either side of the sliding sleeve (17) with locking teeth (30, 31) and friction surface (24, 25) which can be turne... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267216 | Friction plate, in particular for motor vehicle clutch The invention concerns a friction plate (15) in particular for motor vehicle clutch, comprising a support ring-shaped disk (14) whereof the outer peripheral part is divided into radial blades (70) bearing friction linings, in particular axially on either ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267217 | Modular console assembly for vehicles having transmission shifter and parking brake mechanisms pre-assembled thereto and method for mounting the console assembly to a vehicle interior A console assembly is provided for mounting within a vehicle interior in an area between a pair of seats. A vehicle support member is provided on the vehicle interior having a quick connect fastener provided thereon. A carrier is adapted to mount to the v... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267218 | Clamp-type locking mechanism A clamp-type locking mechanism has a driven element rotatably arranged with respect to a holding element and having ramps which together with a track of the holding element define clamping gaps for receiving spring-loaded clamp rollers. An adjustment elem... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267219 | Electronic safety system for escalators An escalator safety system monitors a variety of sensors, contacts, and switches over an electronic safety bus. A plurality of bus nodes are distributed throughout the escalator system and are in constant communication with the bus master over the safety ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267220 | Flange feeder for wooden I-beam assembly machine A flange feeder utilizes a pair of left and right handed gripper assemblies mounted to an overhead horizontal transport drive to successively convey a pair of flange members into overhead vertical alignment with left and right handed infeed sections of a ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267221 | Conveying system for carrying containers, especially bottles, through different working stations A conveyor includes a support element (4), that defines a running surface (5), and an endless dragging belt (9,10). The belt (9,10) has seats (3) made, with inwards decreasing section, along one longitudinal edge located over a corresponding section of th... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267222 | Visual inspection station for fruit The visual inspection station (14) for articles, such as fruit, comprises transport means (18) for the articles and at least one viewing post (90, 92) arranged on the transport path of the articles. According to the invention, it comprises two viewing pos... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267223 | Feeder for electronic chip components At least one partition wall is disposed in a hopper of a feeder for feeding electronic chip components. The at least one partition wall reduces the potential for damage to the components due to the reciprocating movement of a movable pipe disposed on the ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267224 | Apparatus for separating and orienting pouched articles An apparatus for separating flexible packages has a first stage. The first stage has an inclined conveyor having a lower end for receiving flexible packages and an upper end. The inclined conveyor has an inclination sufficient for causing an overlying fle... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267225 | Sheet-conveying device for machines used in the printing technology field A device for conveying thin workpieces for machines used in the printing technology field having at least one movable conveying element having an electrically insulating contact surface supporting at least one workpiece as it is being conveyed, the contac... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267226 | Bucket elevator improvements A bucket elevator for use in grape harvesting which has buckets in sequential alignment which are each attached to a bucket elevator chain so that the orientation of each bucket will remain that of the chain to which it is attached. There are disclosures ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267227 | Conveyors for particulate material A tubular slow speed drag or aero mechanical conveyor assembly (1) for transporting particulate material, includes a tubular valve (11) positioned in line with conveyor tubes (1) of the assembly and rotatable relative thereto. The valve (11) has at least ... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267228 | Conveyor belt tracking and tensioning system A device to permit manual adjustment of the track or path of a conveyor belt (1) while providing constant, predetermined belt tension. A removable conveyor roller (23) is supported by a pivotable yoke (11), which is pivoted about a shaft (12) from a nonop... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267229 | Apparatus and methods for storing and releasing hydrogen A rechargeable device that stores and discharges hydrogen is described. The device stores hydrogen in a solid form and supplies hydrogen as a gas when needed. The solid storage medium may be metal hydride in a ground particle form that avoids the need for... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6267230 | Jewelry case with interleaved ring supports A jewelry case includes a bottom wall; a top wall; a side wall having one edge hinged to a first edge of the top wall and an opposite edge hinged to a first edge of the bottom wall such that the top wall can be positioned in parallel spaced relation above... | 07/31/2001 |
