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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6553891 | Hydrostatic variable displacement pump having springs arranged outside the servocylinder pressure chamber A hydrostatic variable displacement pump has a swash plate (3), which is used to adjust the stroke of displacement pistons in a cylinder block. The swash plate has its angle position pivoted in relation to the stroke direction of the displacement pistons ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553892 | Mounting structure for piston packing A piston packing has a mounting surface and a seal surface. The seal surface and the mounting surface are fitted with a head and an annular groove portion, respectively, of a piston.... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553893 | Piston assembly for reducing the temperature of a compressor cup seal A piston assembly for a compressor that reduces the temperature experienced by a compressor cup seal during operation of the compressor. The piston assembly includes a piston sleeve having a top portion and an interior. A valve plate is supported by the t... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553894 | Drip-type coffee-maker comprising a water treatment device A drip-type coffee-maker includes a water reservoir (1) supplying a water-heater with continuous circulation (6), and a device (9) for treating the water in the reservoir with a water-soluble scale preventive agent. The water treating device (9) includes ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553895 | Brewing apparatus for electric coffee maker A brewing apparatus for an electric coffee maker includes a plunger unit and a sleeve unit, which can be driven by a driving unit to move horizontally on a machine base. When an unsealed chamber is defined among a coffee-discharging unit, the plunger unit... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553896 | Beverage can cooking apparatus A collapsible cooking stand or apparatus is disclosed and includes two"U" shaped members pivotally attached to a base member. In use the two members are securely retained in their assembled vertical position. A can holder is movably attached to the second... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553897 | Steamer for pastries and the pastries to be steamed thereby A steamer for pastries and the pastries to be steamed thereby. The steamer includes primary and secondary receptacles, a lid, and a mold. The primary receptacle holds water therein that is turned into steam when the primary receptacle is heated. The lid s... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553898 | Cooking tongs A barbecue cooking tool with a pair of hand holdable implements. The implements are configured so as to be capable to firmly hold an entire rack of ribs therebetween during a barbecue grilling process without the ribs separating and falling apart. The too... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553899 | Juicer with an easy-to-assemble pivotal connection for the handle A juicer comprises a base, a column extending upright from the base, a head securely attached to an upper end of the column, a vertical rod extending vertically through the head, a Y-shaped handle including a main section and two arms branching from an en... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553900 | Three-part wire return for baling machine The invention is a baling machine with an articulated guide track disposed in three operationally distinct sections. One section of the articulated guide track, representing approximately one-half of the track perimeter, is movable between a first positio... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553901 | Drilling fluid recovery and cuttings processing system A drill cuttings slurry process system 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 discharged directly in... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553902 | Method for calculating a value relating to a feed rate of crop entering a baler A baler is described which has a collection chamber or duct and a baling chamber. Crop material enters the duct until a pre-determined level has been reached at which time a stuffer transfers the pre-compressed crop to the baling chamber. A control system... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553903 | Hydraulic press An hydraulic press includes a head member removably connected at each opposite end to a leg and formed of a unitary sheet of steel rolled into a generally U-shaped transverse cross-section. The head member includes a reinforcing tube at its mid portion. T... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553904 | Self-tensioning silk screen frame An improved silk screen frame for tensioning a panel of screen material via the rotation of a pair of screen-tensioning members adapted to grip a flexible strip secured to the edge of the screen material in an off-center position with respect to the axis ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553905 | Screen printing method It is possible to obtain a screen printing method that may assure excellent printing qualities since the screen printing method of the present invention includes: (A) sliding a squeegee head with paste stored in the squeegee head on a mask plate, while th... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553906 | Method and apparatus for sensing a register discrepancy in a multi-color printed item, and register control system and register marks A method for sensing a register discrepancy (r) in a multi-color printed item, the position of at least one register mark (1, 1') that is associated with one color being sensed with respect to the position of at least one register mark (2, 2') that is ass... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553907 | Multi-color printing press with common blanket cylinder A multi-color printing press comprising a first print form cylinder; second print form cylinder; at least one first inking unit for inking the first and second print form cylinders; third print form cylinder; fourth print from cylinder; at least one secon... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553908 | Web fanout control system A printing cylinder has a first rotatable section having a central image area on the surface, and a first and second end. A first shell is disposed circumferentially about the first end, and a second shell is disposed circumferentially about the second en... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553909 | Apparatus for semi-automating switching operations of web offset printing press An offset rotary printing press for semi-automating switch operations has a first switch for reducing an ink amount to a basic ink layer thickness distribution by an ink supplement device 800 and web rolls 101 and 102 are exchanged and succeeded by contin... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553910 | Hermatically-sealed electrically-absorptive low-pass radio frequency filters and electro-magnetically lossy ceramic materials for said filters An electromagnetically lossy liquid- or gas-tight fusion seal for use as a low pass radio frequency signal filter constructed as a matrix of glass binder and ferrimagnetic and/or ferroelectric filler. Metal cased electrical filters are made by reflowing t... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553911 | Exothermic reactions and methods Exothermic reaction mixtures are electrically ignited with a low cost foil strip of two conductive strips separated by a layer of insulation. One or more holes are formed in the ignitor to create shaped spark plasma on one side and a venting plasma on the... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553912 | War games land mine A war games land mine includes a fluid supply mechanism, a housing and a sealing device. The fluid supply mechanism is configured for containing and selectively releasing therefrom a pressurized fluid. The housing has an interior surface, a first orifice ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553913 | Projectile and weapon system providing variable lethality A weapon system and projectile are disclosed. The projectile incorporates a rheological fluid, the viscosity of which is adjustable in the presence of an appropriate field of energy. The weapon system includes a launching device (e.g., a gun) for firing t... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553914 | Gas generator A gas generator according has a polymeric closure and an igniter subassembly comprising an igniter and a polymeric gas generator body. The gas generator body and the polymeric closure define a hermetically sealed combustion chamber for receiving a gas gen... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553915 | Traffic system and method A traffic system is disclosed to include a passageway defining a moving direction and a vehicle mounted in the passageway and running along the moving direction. In one instance, the passageway has two inner side walls and an inner bottom wall having a tr... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553916 | Car spotter drive The present invention provides a low clearance, compact guideway, train positioning system that can be installed in close quarters alongside an existing railroad track. The system is chain driven and features an improved over/under or vertical sprocket ca... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553917 | Auto rack railroad car bumper guard device An auto rack sidewall bumper guard device for auto rack railroad cars eliminates contact between a vehicle door and the sidewalls. The bumper guard device includes a mounting plate and a plurality of horizontally extending vertically spaced-apart relative... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553918 | Mobile writing stand A mobile work stand includes a base of a size and shape enabling the base to be positioned between the user's thigh and a seating surface and a top having a flat surface. A connector post extends between the top and base and a bracket disposed on the base... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553919 | Computer desk with concealable display The work surface has a recess into which a solid state display is received. The display is mounted for movement between a storage position, where the rear surface is co-planar with, and forms a part of, the work surface and a viewing position wherein the ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553920 | Table extensible by turning over its side boards A table extensible by turning over its side boards, constituted by a horizontal plane, having peripheral parts with upper side boards and lower side boards shaped as circle segments and a central part enclosed thereby. The central part is able to rotate o... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553921 | Table frame for fastening loading member An improved table frame for fastening loading members includes a fastening section extending from a table frame and a plurality of anchor elements fastened to the table frame at locations corresponding to the fastening section. Each anchor element has a f... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553922 | Safe for valuable documents A safe for valuable documents having a shell protection around the safe for impeding attempts to force an entry thereinto and processor unit actuated in response to damage to the shell protection to initiate a safe protection function. The safe contains a... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553923 | Blower housing with maximized interior spacing A blower for a high efficiency furnace is provided with an increased interior space for accommodating an impeller of maximum practicable diameter. The blower includes a blower motor and a blower housing having a bottom piece and a top piece assembling wit... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553924 | 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 solid fuel combustor. The system includes a sludge receiving and treatment module and a sludge injection and combustion module. The sludge is received and s... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553925 | No-till stubble row seeder guidance system and method The invention provides a method of reducing plugging of a no-till seeder with crop residue by guiding the furrow openers of the seeder between the standing stubble rows of the previous crop. A guidance system is provided comprising sensing means to sense ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553926 | Device for detachable fastening of an embroidery frame on an embroidery frame support A device for detachable fastening of an embroidery frame (27) with one or more embroidering fields on an embroidery frame support (25) of a program-controlled sewing or embroidering machine. On the embroidery frame (27), two sliding interlocks (61) are fa... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553927 | Spreader driving device of a sewing machine A spreader driving device is constructed so that the stepping motor (2) driven in synchronism with the elevating motion of a needle bar and the support shaft (3) are provided at a frame mounted to the back side of a presser foot. A lever (4), fitted onto ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553928 | Small watercraft having an improved structure of storage compartment A small watercraft includes expanded storage capacity so as to accommodate more of the type of articles that rider's typically what to carry on the watercraft. Such articles include, for example, towels, water skis, tow ropes, etc. At least one of the sto... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553929 | Hazard marker A compact and convenient hazard marker has a housing and a suction insert. The bottom end of the housing covers the suction insert where the releasing tab for the suction is hidden within the housing. Another embodiment of the invention has a spring-loade... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553930 | Tamper-indicating device having a glass body A tamper-indicating device is described. The device has a first glass body member and a second glass body member that are attached to each other through a hasp. The glass body members of the device can be tempered. The body members can be configured with ... | 04/29/2003 |
