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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6279459 | Coffee maker A coffee maker having interchangeable carafes, a serial heating system, and a centrifugal brewing system. The coffee maker includes a glass carafe and a thermal carafe, either of which interchangeably fits within a carafe cavity. The presence of the glass... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279460 | Tea brewing funnel The present invention provides a novel tea brewing funnel for prolonging the steep time of a brewed beverage. The funnel has a sump in its bottom surface having a drain aperture therein. A delay mechanism is provided in the funnel and formed of a housing ... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279461 | Beverage extraction apparatus A diffuser is provided on a beverage supply tube having a beverage supply valve. Air bubbles formed in the beverage in the final stage of filtration for extraction are removed from the beverage, and only the gas is passed through the beverage supply tube,... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279462 | Electric barbecuing cooker The barbecuing cooker according to the invention comprises a main body(10) with side and rear reflecting plates(20 and 30) as the inner walls of a cooking chamber(11); an upper and lower door(40 and 50) for opening or closing the inlet opening of the cook... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279463 | Cooking apparatus A cooking apparatus has a cooking vessel (1), a bottom heater (3) for heating the bottom (13) of the cooking vessel, a heat exchanging jacket (5) for passing steam to exchange heat with the body of the cooking vessel, a fluid source (7) for supplying and ... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279464 | Cooking appliance A cooking appliance (100) comprising a housing (10) providing a cooking chamber (12), a cooking mechanism associated with the cooking chamber (12) for cooking food therein, and a peltier unit (20) arranged to alter the temperature of the interior of the c... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279465 | Carousel grille with rotating tines A carousel-like grille assembly which surrounds an oven. The carousel assembly carries tines which extend over the oven. The carousel assembly moves circumferentially around the oven while at the same time the tines rotate about their longitudinal axes. T... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279466 | Toaster with variable wire guards For an upright toaster, wire guards of spring material of inverted U-section with diverging arms are provided for defining the toaster slots. A toaster has a casing and one or more toaster slots for receiving bread, heating elements on each side of each s... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279467 | Expandable cooling rack for foodstuffs An expandable rack for foodstuffs or other articles for temporary use after baking or cooking to allow the foodstuff to cool. The expandable rack consists of a plurality of tiers or layers which are slidably arranged with respect to one another such that ... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279468 | Roll-up grill with integral fold-up support frame A roll-up grill having an integral and foldable frame. The roll-up grill comprises a flexible grill surface, such as a wire mesh grid. The integral frame comprises a first end frame member attached laterally to a first end of the flexible grill surface an... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279469 | Cookie baking sheet Cookie Baking Sheet with a perforated aluminum plate one sixteenth of an inch thick, seventeen and one eighth of an inch long and fifteen and three quarters of an inch wide having a plurality of regularly spaced three thirty seconds of an inch diameter ci... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279470 | Portable and self-contained system for maintaining prepared meals in a cool state and reheating them A food heating and cooling device including a tray, at least one main dish plate in the tray, at least one secondary dish plate in the tray, a cover associated with the tray for maintaining the food hot or cold, an inducer for heating, reheating or mainta... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279471 | Drilling fluid recovery defluidization system A press process and structure is disclosed for defluidizing earth drill cuttings, thereby extracting valuable drilling additives and returning them to the drilling system while producing a dense, drier material which may be chemically treated for distilla... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279472 | Web curling prevention device for a rotary printing press or the like A rotary printing press has a postprinting processing station where the printed web of paper, stretched out between two pairs of nip rollers, is slit longitudinally into a pair of web halves and where the web halves are subsequently superposed one upon th... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279473 | Inker unit An inker unit for a printing unit of a web-fed rotary printing press has a pair of ink application rollers in direct contact with a forme cylinder and with a central, ink receiving roller. A pair of inking rollers are also in direct contact with the ink r... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279474 | Method and device for transferring ink in a printing unit of an offset printing press Method for metered transferring of ink to an ink roller in a printing unit of a rotary offset printing press, wherein the ink is applied under pressure to a casing surface of the ink roller, includes determining digital data for effecting a two-dimensiona... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279475 | Apparatus for supplying flowable printing ink to a printer for cigarette paper webs A running strip of cigarette paper or the like is provided with printed matter by the profiled peripheral surface of a printing roller which receives ink from one of several rollers including a pair of transfer rollers defining a nip which receives ink fr... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279476 | Lithographic imaging with constructions having inorganic oleophilic layers Negative-working and positive-working lithographic plate constructions include a durable hydrophilic layer; a hard, inorganic, oleophilic layer; and a substrate, which may be metal. If a metal substrate is employed, an overlying layer provides sufficient ... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279478 | Imaging-infrared skewed-cone fuze A fuzing system for non-spinning or substantially non-spinning weapons is implemented by means of wide angle optics providing at least forward-hemisphere coverage, an array of infrared detectors and a microprocessor for image and data processing, aim-poin... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279479 | Method and firing circuit for triggering a vehicle occupant protection system To fire a firing cap of a vehicle occupant protection system of a motor vehicle, at least two firing capacitors are provided which initially remain connected in parallel at the start of a firing process and are connected in series after expiry of a time i... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279480 | Firing pin assembly for a warhead detonator A firing pin assembly for mechanically igniting a warhead detonator of a projectile by being accelerated in a forward direction by inertia upon impact, includes a firing pin having a rearward firing pin part and a frontal firing pin part arranged in serie... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279481 | Device for provoking the collapse of snow cornice The invention concerns a device for provoking the collapse of a snow cornice comprising several exploders (11). Each exploder (11) consists of a main cylinder (12), perpendicular to the support base (14) arranged flat on the ground, and a positioning tube... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279483 | Rail/road transport A method for transporting road haulage trailers by railway train using carriages having flat load bearing tops (2). The carriages are constructed so that they are on the same level as a railway platform (61) so that trailers (7) may be driven directly ont... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279484 | Actuating mechanism for a transit vehicle guide beam switch A mechanism is disclosed for actuating a switch guide beam swinging laterally between two or more fixed guide beam ends, in order to make a route selection for a beam guided vehicle. The moving guide beam pivots distantly of the primary fixed guide beam e... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279485 | Pod assembly for light rail transportation A pod assembly is disposed inside and thrusted along a slotted tube having a longitudinal slot. The pod assembly comprises a first pod, a second pod coupled with the first pod, and a strut disposed between and coupled with the first pod and the second pod... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279486 | Device for damping the transverse and hunting movements of a vehicle, and vehicle provided with such a device This damping device comprises: two symmetrical jacks (10, 10'), extending respectively between each support member (8, 6) and the housing (4), each jack (10, 10') defining two chambers (24, 24', 26, 26') filled with a hydraulic fluid (16, 16'), two hydraulic l... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279487 | Railroad hopper car door assembly An apparatus for controlling discharge of material from a bottom dump railroad car having a centersill defining a longitudinal axis for the hopper car is disclosed. The apparatus includes a plurality of longitudinally mounted discharge door assemblies. Ea... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279489 | Multiple utility table A table, for allowing several people to comfortably sit at a couch or a similar seating system, with their legs extending comfortably under the table. Accordingly, the table has an upper level and a lower level and comprises seating portions and non-seati... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279490 | Epicyclic stage A movable stage assembly suitable for use in a vacuum has three circular stages rotating independently of one another. The stage assembly includes a base and a large rotatable circular table mounted on the base. This large table has a second smaller circu... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279491 | Method of treating exhaust gas A method of removing dioxins from an exhaust gas, including the steps of introducing gamma-alumina into a stream of the dioxin-containing exhaust gas, and sorbing dioxins on the gamma-alumina.... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279492 | Method of thermally decomposing waste materials A method of burning tires in a horizontally rotating combuster includes the steps of loading the tires into a rotating combustion chamber through a traveling air lock and burning them until they are reduced to ash; enhancing combustion by tumbling the bur... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279493 | Co-combustion of waste sludge in municipal waste combustors and other furnaces A system and method for treating, injecting and co-combusting sludge in a municipal waste or other combustor is disclosed. The system includes a sludge receiving and treatment module and a sludge injection and combustion module. The sludge is received and... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279494 | Method and apparatus for operation control of melting furnace An operation control method and apparatus are provided for a melting furnace 1 having a supply opening 2 for incineration ash 6, a discharge opening 3 for molten slag 7, and a heat source 9 for applying an amount of heat to the supplied incineration ash. ... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279495 | Method and apparatus for optimizing the combustion air system in a recovery boiler A method and an apparatus for optimizing the combustion air system in a power boiler or chemical recovery boiler by improving fluid flow and gas mixing are disclosed, whereby one can increase boiler capacity and combustion uniformity and reduce particulat... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279497 | Method of manufacturing textured carpet patterns and improved tufting machine configuration A looper and needle configuration with lower set rear needles and corresponding loopers is provided to create more uniform low pile height yarns in a multiple pile height fabric. The tufting and tip shearing such fabrics will simulate woven fabrics.... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279498 | Headgear frame apparatus A headgear frame apparatus comprises: a headgear frame for clamping a headgear; and a rotary drive frame for fitting the headgear frame replaceably thereon on the side of a sewing machine. The headgear frame is provided at its outer circumference with a b... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279499 | Rotational jet-drive bow thruster for a marine propulsion system A propulsion system for a watercraft is provided, which may be an integral part of a watercraft or may be retrofitted to a particular watercraft. The propulsion system is fixedly mounted to the hull in a central area, rather than along the perimeter of th... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279500 | Aircraft carriers and methods of operation thereof An aircraft carrier is provided with an airflow deflector such as flap 26, an inflatable flap 26 or an airjet curtain such that air passing along the flight deck is provided with an upward component of velocity, thereby to provide an upwash in the airwake... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279501 | Umbilical constraint mechanism An umbilical constraint mechanism. The mechanism keeps the umbilical line near the center of the payload bay opening when the umbilical line is deployed. The mechanism will transfer lateral umbilical loads into the drone vessel frame near the bottom of th... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279502 | Resist developing method by magnetic field controlling, resist developing apparatus and method of fabricating semiconductor device A semiconductor device is fabricated by the steps of coating an underlayer formed on a semiconductor substrate with chemically amplified resist, exposing the resist to light, bringing the resist into contact with an alkaline developing solution with apply... | 08/28/2001 |
