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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6276407 | Device for automatic refuelling of vehicles A system for automatically fuelling vehicles, primarily automobiles, that includes a sensor to detect the presence of a person in proximity to the fuelling system. A fuelling robot includes a robot head that can be moved relative to the robot to enable th... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276408 | Installation for the treatment of at least one fluid, uses in the treatment of an air flow and process for loading a mass of particulate material of such an installation An installation for the treatment of fluid having a receptacle (1) defining a non-vertical portion of a path for fluid through at least two adjacent masses (A; B; C) of particulate materials, typically different from each other, each mass being in direct ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276409 | Container feed and in-line filler system A container feed and in-line filler system comprises an organizer including a conveyor and guide rails and a stop for organizing containers to be filled with a flowable material into rows and files, and a filler rack carried above the organizer whereby em... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276411 | Funnel A funnel for convenient storage and usage of a funnel. The funnel includes a panel. The panel has a front side, a back side, and a peripheral edge extending between the front and back sides. The panel has a hole therethrough. The hole is positioned in a m... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276412 | Timber incisor In a timber incising machine incorporating a shaft mounted rotating incisor drum, an improved incising drum comprising a shaft configured for rotation by the incising machine; a plurality of circular incisor plates, each of the incisor plates having a plu... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276413 | Method of making a wood product A method of making two wood products using a single attaching or laminating step. A cut is made only partially through a first piece of wood. A second piece of wood is laminated or otherwise attached to the first piece of wood to make a composite piece of... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276414 | Money trap wallet A wallet for carrying currency. The wallet includes first and second rectangular members having inner and outer faces and adapted to be maintained so that the inner faces are in near abutment. The wallet can be folded along a crease when the inner face of... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276415 | Pneumatic radial tire for motorcycle A pneumatic radial tire for motorcycle comprises a belt containing cords extended substantially in a circumferential direction of a tread and has a directional tread pattern defined by plural main slant grooves having a given inclination angle with respec... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276416 | Run-flat tire with pair of rigid rings in shoulders inside carcass A run-flat tire comprises a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions with a bead core therein, a carcass ply extending between the bead portions through the tread portion and sidewall portions and turned up around the bead cores... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276417 | Heavy duty pneumatic radial tires with specified bead core compression ratio A heavy duty pneumatic radial tire comprises a pair of bead portions each containing a bead core, a radial carcass, a belt comprised of at least one belt layer, and a tread, in which (1) a tapering angle θC of an inner side of the bead core in... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276418 | Pneumatic radial tire with turned down carcass layer A pneumatic radial tire having carcass layers of three plies each constituted by organic fiber cords and in which both end portions of a first one and a second one of the carcass layers enumerated from an inner side to an outer side direction of the tire ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276419 | Sealing apparatus A sealing apparatus includes a base having a fixed jaw, a press lever having a movable jaw and pivotally supported on the base, a posture changing mechanism for pressing the press lever toward the base, and a heater for heating material to be sealed clamp... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276420 | Coated corrugator belt A corrugator belt for a corrugator machine includes a base having two sides. One of the two sides is the face side of the corrugator belt when the belt is in the form of an endless loop on a corrugator machine. A layer of polymeric resin material is coate... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276421 | Release sheet application apparatus An apparatus for applying sheets to substrates including a rotating blade roller with a blade on its surface; a vacuum roller rotating with the blade roller, oriented parallel to the blade roller, and with a surface adjacent to the blade roller surface; a... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276422 | Device for facilitating tire fitting and removal The device is used for facilitating a tire fitting and is usable in combination with a self-centering platform, rotatable about an axis, and with a fitting tool. The device is constituted by an auxiliary tool provided with a frame and having a lower free ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276423 | Portable tire bead breaker A portable tire bead breaker includes a base over which a tire and rim may be placed, a beam attached to the base and extending upwardly therefrom, an arm assembly pivotally attached to the beam so as to extend over the base, and a driver attached to the ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276424 | Awning extension and retraction mechanism An awning includes a roller assembly having a torsion spring, a canopy connected between a wall the roller assembly, and a pair of "four-bar" arm assemblies supporting opposite ends of the roller assembly. The arm assemblies move the roller assembly betwe... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276426 | Vehicle rear window screen A screen assembly for use in a rear window of a vehicle such as a pick-up truck is formed of a laminate structure including a screen element disposed between a pair of plastic frame members. The structure is glued together to permanently fix the screen be... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276427 | Slatted apron A slatted apron for covering movable tool machine parts includes a multiplicity of links connected in an articulated manner which present a major surface presenting a cover surface portion and subsequent lateral surfaces. In this slatted apron, or the lin... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276428 | Device in door arrangements In accordance with the invention a device in door arrangements is provided comprising a plurality of door panels which by hinge means are hingedly interconnected in sequence to pivot axes. The door panels are arranged to be guided by rollers arranged betw... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276429 | Woven window shade A woven window shade has multiple rods woven together by two weaving threads and at least one slat element formed from a herb plant separating adjacent rods. By such an arrangement, wind can pass through the gaps between adjacent slat element. This can ke... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276432 | Directional solidification method and apparatus Method as well as apparatus for DS casting using a multi-stage thermal baffle disposed proximate a lower end of a DS casting furnace. The thermal baffle comprises a fixed primary baffle disposed at the lower end of the casting furnace and a secondary baff... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276433 | Liquid metal cooled directional solidification process A liquid metal cooled directional solidification process provides improved solidification characteristics at the solidification front. In the process, a mold is filled with molten metal; and a solidification interface is caused to pass through the molten ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276434 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing metallic parts by ink injection molding from the semi-solid state An injection molding system includes a feeder in which a metal is melted and a first chamber into which a desired amount of melted metal is introduced. A piston in a second chamber first retracts to create suction, assisting in drawing in the melted metal... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276435 | Casting wheel A casting wheel (10) for use in filling ingot molds (36) of an ingot mold line has a wheel member (12) comprising a hub (14) and a plurality of spouts (20). The wheel member (12) has a central region (18) and is mounted by the hub (14) for rotation on an ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276436 | Method and apparatus for high-speed continuous casting plants with a strand thickness reduction during solidification A method and an apparatus for continuous casting plants for producing strands whose cross-section is reduced during solidification. The continuous casting method for producing strands, wherein the cross-section of the strands is reduced during the solidif... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276437 | Method and apparatus for the manufacture of formable steel Continuous casting machine for the casting of a thin slab with a thickness of less than 150 mm comprising a vacuum tundish having a first atmospheric chamber (7) and a second low pressure or vacuum chamber (1) hydraulically connected to the first chamber ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276438 | Energy systems An earth energy transfer system with a moving energy transfer fluid, the system for transferring energy for an entity, the system, in certain aspects, having apparatus and related items for measuring an amount of energy transferred for the entity to or fr... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276439 | System for the thermoregulation of a room with radiant panels A system for the thermoregulation of a room with radiant panels, comprising a source for feeding thermovector liquid; radiant panels in which a thermovector liquid passes; the radiant panels comprising a rear wall and a front or radiant wall for thermal e... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276440 | Device for controlling diffused air An air outlet has a plurality of vertical vortex generating structures 21 in a triangular shape arranged so as to be oriented at an angle θ with respect to diffused air.... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276441 | Method and regenerator for regenerative heat transfer The present invention relates to a heat transferring device for transferring heat energy from a first gaseous flow into a second gaseous flow. The heat transferring device includes first and second circulating fluidized bed reactors. A first gaseous flow ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276442 | Combined condenser/heat exchanger A combined steam condenser and liquid-to-liquid heat exchanger has an outer shell forming an enclosure within which a first plurality of tubes are supported at opposite ends by tube sheets to provide a steam condenser. Within the outer shell an inner shel... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276443 | Air conditioning coil An air conditioning coil system having a first and a second outside tubing slab, a first and a second inside tubing slab, the inside tubing slabs positioned between the outside tubing slabs, a top of the first outside tubing slab contacting a top of the f... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276444 | Protecting device for sealing openings of heat tube and method for manufacturing the same A protecting device for scaling openings of a heat tube and the method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. After punching the rim of a plate-like or tube-like heat tube, a protecting clamp covers thereon. After the protecting clamp clamps the rim, t... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276446 | Recooling system A recooling system for cooling water from a condenser of a steam power plant includes a number of cooling modules, each of which can be fed through a water-feed shaft allocated thereto. The water-feed shafts are connected to one another like communicating... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276448 | Heat-transfer connector A heat-transfer connector 1 comprises a heat-collection side connector half 10, a heat-radiation side connector half 20 and comb-like contacts 25. The heat-collection side connector half 10, which is made of a metal, includes a concave receptive part 10a ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276450 | Apparatus and method for rapid replacement of upper blowout preventers Apparatus and method for rapid replacement of upper inside blowout preventers (IBOP) on a top drive system (TDS) utilizes a hydraulic pressure booster to increase the operating pressure of a pipe handler/torque wrench, an air amplifier to increase the air... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276451 | Pressure relief system for live well snubbing A pressure relief system for use in live well snubbing has blow-out preventers (BOPs) mounted one above the other in a BOP stack on a live well bore and spools installed between successive ones of the blow-out preventers, the spools and the blow-out preve... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276452 | Apparatus for removal of milling debris An apparatus and method for drawing small milling debris into a combination milling and debris retrieval tool, during the performance of the milling operation. A milling tool has a fluid intake port near its lower end, where debris-laden fluid is drawn in... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276453 | Method and apparatus for forcing an object through the sidewall of a borehole A method and apparatus for forcing drainage devices through the sidewall of a borehole and into the formation to increase oil and gas recovery from the formation. The object usually comprises a plurality of drainage devices, which may be a plurality of ne... | 08/21/2001 |
