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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6282839 | Cable-actuated window lifter A cable deflection pulley pertaining to a window lifter comprising a drive unit, a guide rail for a driver which is connected to the window and to the cable, and cable deflection pulleys with a guide or bearing groove for the cable. The device has an axia... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282840 | Mechanically interlocked weatherstrip A mechanically interlocked belt type weatherstrip provides a seal between the upper portion of a door and the lower portion a window. The weatherstrip comprises three individual components: a cover, a body and a sealing lip. These components may be either... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282841 | Stop device for sliding closures A stop device that is used to prevent unauthorized opening of sliding closures, such as windows and doors, which is esthetically pleasing, is adjustable in length and includes removable decorative accessory items. The stop device includes first and second... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282842 | Inflatable roof support systems A sports stadium or building complex is covered by a huge fiberglass fabric dome that is supported by an inflatable dual-membrane bladder on a hollow compression ring with a diameter of 800 to 1200 feet. A central vertical spreader having upper and lower ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282843 | Pneumatic structure A pneumatic structure in the form of a barrel roof which has openings at the opposite ends thereof includes outer and inner walls of a sheet or membrane material connected by a plurality of partition walls in the form of ribs provided therebetween to defi... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282844 | Gargoyle style diverter for rain gutters A gargoyle style diverter construction (10) for rain gutters (100) wherein the diverter construction (10) includes a mounting unit (11) having a U-shaped mounting member (20) including a mounting plate element (24) and a pair of elongated legs (21), (22) ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282845 | Gutter anti-clogging liner A liner for a rain gutter and the like comprises a sheet of rigid material which fits independently down inside a gutter underneath any cross-pieces to form an upper longitudinally extending barrier surface and a lower longitudinally extending liquid pass... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282846 | Roof drain de-icer apparatus A sleeve-like container fabricated from a waterproof material, comprising an upper and lower surface with a hollow interior filled with salt. At least a portion of the lower surface is perforated with a plurality of openings and is positioned with the low... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282847 | Workcell door and wall assembly An improved workcell is provided with a door hinged at a midpoint between the opposite sides and maintained in a parallel relationship to the workcell access opening, thereby minimizing the clearance space required to open and close the door. The workcell... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282848 | Floor, ceiling and wall construction for a magnetically shielded room A floor, wall and ceiling construction for a magnetically shielded room which provides a stable and homogeneous magnetically shielded space or environment having an extremely high attenuation value while absorbing exterior as well as interior vibrations.... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282849 | Structural system The present invention relates to a building system comprising prefabricated plates for self-supporting space boundaries. To enable simple construction of load-bearing structures that are versatile in three dimensions and that enclose spaces, plates, at le... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282850 | Method and apparatus for seismically retrofitting a household chimney A method and apparatus for seismically retrofitting pre-existing household brick chimneys is described to meet current building codes. Vertical steel rebar and horizontal chimney anchors are inserted into the chimney and a polymer concrete is poured betwe... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282851 | Door frames A door frame comprises opposed door jambs and a door head, with the jambs and head each being formed from a metal section (6) of channel-shape having a base wall (8) which carries a door stop (12) and opposed side walls (10) of a width such that when the ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282852 | Apparatus for installing a door frame An apparatus for installing door frames which comprises at least two template members and at least three apertures on each template member. To provide horizontal adjustment means between said at least two template members, at least one elongated member ma... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282853 | Building block; system and method for construction using same A building block, and a system and method for constructing a building envelope using a plurality of building blocks, roof panels, and trusses. Each building block may be pre-fabricated and stacked upon one another at the construction site. The blocks and ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282854 | Frame-based workplace system An improved workspace management system for dividing a space into separate work areas comprises a rigid structural framework formed of rigid rectangular frames rigidly joined together at the edges thereof to form at least one work area. Each of the frames... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282855 | Extruded trim system for ceramic tile wall A water-proof wall trim system for an interior building wall includes a baseboard trim element which is affixed directly to the wall studs and which abuts the floor underlayment. A tongue extends from the top of the baseboard trim an abutment with the bot... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282856 | Stabilization pad providing lateral and longitudinal support system for premanufactured building The present invention provides an apparatus and method for supporting a manufactured home (1) having at least a first and second support joist (14a, 14b) for mounting horizontally on at least a first and second vertical support structure (9a, 9b). Each ve... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282857 | Articulating plate assembly for retaining sheets of roofing material on a roof surface An articulating plate assembly for retaining sheets of roofing material on a roof surface includes a plate defining (i) a generally hemispherically-shaped recess in a central portion of a first surface thereof, and (ii) an aperture disposed in the recess ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282858 | Roofing panel system and method for making same An injection molded rigid roof panel system for constructing pitched roof structures of the type affixed directly to roof trusses or rafters and needing no structural or supporting sheathing surface or moisture barrier. Comprised of no less than (23) stan... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282859 | Building system comprising individual building elements Building system comprising individual building elements (1), each element having an upper and a lower surface which are substantially parallel to each other and each building element having at least one opening (10, 11) extending from the upper surface to... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282860 | Wire mesh support A support device for a wire mesh. The wire mesh is held in place by the supporting device which includes legs and cup shaped members. The legs will stand on a support surface and the cup shaped members will engage the bars of the wire mesh to hold the wir... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282861 | Reinforced pole with apparatus and method for anchoring A pole, such as for a parking meter, that is reinforced by a hardening compound applied to its surface, preferably in vertical strips, to prevent theft, and a method of anchoring the pole or other upright object. The hardening compound is preferably a sol... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282862 | Structural member The present invention relates to a structural member (10) for the use as a chord (41, 42) for forming a roof truss (40) for a building. The invention in one aspect broadly resides in an elongated open structural (10) member having a cross section includin... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282863 | Scaffoldless tank erection method A method of erecting the shell of an aboveground storage tank involves erection of the first shell ring; erecting the second and higher shell rings by using a mobile man lift to provide access for the construction personnel to the shell plates being erect... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282864 | Overhead boom arrangement for a packaging machine There is provided for a packaging machine an overhead boom arrangement 20 having a number of endless belts 22, 23 driven around sets of rollers 25. The belts 22, 23 contact the tops of articles/bottles 11 or carton blanks 50 and are driven at the same spe... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282865 | Apparatus for applying drinking straws The invention relates to an apparatus for applying drinking straws on prefabricated packaging containers. The apparatus includes a rotary drive means for advancing drinking straws which are guided in towards the drive means wrapped in protective envelopes... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282866 | Packaging machine A packaging machine comprises a base frame having an input side and an output side as well as a transport path from the input side to the output side. A plurality of tray carriers for holding trays are arranged in succession from the input side to the out... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282867 | Method and apparatus for handling reels A method and apparatus for opening an outer wrapping (11) of a reel (10) of, in particular, packaging material For the provision of a reel (10) of, for example, packaging material, such as paper, tinfoil or the like, it is necessary to remove an outer wra... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282868 | Method and device for strapping or wrapping objects Objects are conveyed to a strapping position (U) along a conveying path (F), are strapped in this strapping position and are conveyed away from it. For the strapping a strapping material (4) is positioned curtain-like across the conveying path (F) and is ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282869 | Method of cutting and sealing film In the packaging of a wide variety of products in flexible film bags, problems with edge tear and incomplete bag cut-off have been encountered. The edge tear and incomplete cut-off are worse for films containing low melting polymers, such as metallocene-c... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282870 | Process and device for packaging products and corresponding packaging boxes A process and a device for packaging products in thermoformed boxes, uses a single strip of thermoplastic or thermoformable material to produce cavities (B) and covers (A) and to fold them down (13) about the product to be packaged before thermowelding (1... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282871 | Method and apparatus for opening and transporting bags A method of opening a bag mounted on a tape includes the steps of providing a bag including a first panel, a second panel, a first bag edge, second bag edge, a bag bottom, and a bag mouth; gripping the bag between a first means for vacuumizing and a secon... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282872 | Safety mounting assist stirrup An assist step for a stirrup associated with a saddle wherein the step is secured to or formed integrally with an outer side element of the stirrup which is pivotally mounted at a base of the stirrup such that when pivoted downwardly relative to the base,... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282873 | Belt tension mechanism A belt tension mechanism for tensioning an associated belt drive system on an associated vehicle is provided. The associated belt drive system includes a double stacked pulley, a first belt for providing power from a power mechanism to the double stacked ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282874 | Ducted fan mower deck A mower deck comprises an auxiliary source of pressurized air in order to avoid clipping buildup under the mowing deck, most particularly at the trailing edge of the discharge chute. The auxiliary source of air comes through a cloverleaf shaped hole in th... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282875 | Agricultural vehicle and implement with wheels A self-propelled forage harvester includes a main frame supported on front and rear pairs of wheels. A crop intake arrangement extends forwardly between the front wheels and releasably mounted thereto is the central component of a rowless header having ri... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282876 | Crop divider for the wheel of an agricultural vehicle A crop divider is mounted in front of a ground wheel of an agricultural vehicle to divide the crop to pass on either side of the wheel. The divided includes two diverging divider sheets with two trailing side sheets. Each divider sheet carries a free roll... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282877 | Fruit and vegetable harvesting apparatus and methods Method and apparatus for harvesting vinous crops includes cutting a fruit-carrying vine mass from its growing roots, sweeping the vine mass with rotary reel motion onto a upwardly inclined endless conveyor for carriage to a position of commencement of a f... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282878 | Produce catcher A produce catcher is provided that includes a support frame having a support member, a first extending arm and a second extending arm. The first extending arm is substantially parallel to and extendible from the support member, and the second extending ar... | 09/04/2001 |
