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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6729370 | Syringe safety device A syringe safety device coupling between a vial and a syringe, including a tubular connector having a first axial end receiving the vial and a second, opposing axial end releasably receiving a syringe. The tubular connector encloses a sliding joint having opposing o... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729371 | Workbench A household workbench assembly (1) that utilizes dry dimensional lumber, plywood, metal, and plastic to provide a versatile, rugged workbench, requiring minimal assembly time and having a pleasing cosmetic outer appearance. The versatility and simplicity of t... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729372 | Tree delimber A delimber (10) for removing secondary limbs from a primary limb of a tree Comprises an arm (12) arranged to extend around the primary limb. The arm is provided with cutter segments (18) oriented to cut the secondary limbs from the primary limb ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729373 | Tire noise reducing system A tire noise reducing system comprises a wheel rim, a pneumatic tire to be mounted on the wheel rim and a noise damper to be disposed in an annular tire cavity enclosed by the wheel rim and the pneumatic tire mounted thereon, wherein the noise damper is made of a mu... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729374 | Label laminating device A device for laminating labels disposed upon a continuous strip of liner. The device includes a plurality of spindle structures for supplying a continuous strip of protective film and the continuous strip of liner to a laminating structure, which adheres the continu... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729375 | Labelling apparatus and method To label products on a conveyor, a target area for a given product conveyed on the conveyor is determined relative to a frame of reference. One of a plurality of labellers fixed at different transverse positions over the conveyor, which one labeller is at a transver... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729376 | Sheet sorting apparatus A sheet sorting apparatus which easily sorts sheets into groups, and makes these groups readily distinguishable on a single output tray. According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a sheet sorting apparatus located at the sheet outlet location of an i... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729377 | Hand-held device for transferring a film and having an angular application member The invention relates to a hand-held device for transferring a film of adhesive, covering or colored material onto a substrate. The invention has a housing in which a film supply is arranged and an application member which extends from the interior of the housing to... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729378 | Device for sealing guiding slideways for a handling door A handling door that includes vertical opposed uprights. Each upright has vertical guide slideways. Each vertical guide slideway is at least one of a semirigid member and a flexible member and includes one of a woven material, a deformable plastic material, and a sh... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729379 | Fabric blind assembly A fabric blind assembly is constructed to include a receiving member, a bottom rail suspended below the receiving member, fabric blind slats arranged in parallel between the receiving member and the bottom rail, two braided ladders connected between the receiving me... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729380 | Guide member silencers for track guided doors Track guided doors, such as upward acting multipanel garage doors are provided with roller guide member support brackets on opposite side edges of the panels for supporting guide rollers disposed in the opposed guide tracks. The support brackets include bearing bore... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729381 | Process for the production of industrial tubes or section bars from metal and related apparatus A process for the production of industrial tubes or section bars from metal, such as copper, copper alloys, special brasses, cupronickel or aluminum bronzes, includes the following steps: melting the metal material with possible compatible working scraps; obtaining ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729382 | Condenser for vehicle air-conditioning systems A condenser for vehicle air-conditioning systems, comprising a pair of parallel distributors (12) between which there is set a heat-exchange core (14) including a plurality of pipes (16) having a flat cross section, which are parallel to one ano... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729383 | Fluid-cooled heat sink with turbulence-enhancing support pins A pin array is connectively disposed between a surface region of a heat sink and a surface region of an entity to be cooled. Cooling fluid flows between the heat sink's surface region and the entity's surface region, the fluid flowing adjacent each surface region an... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729384 | Cooling fin assembly A cooling fin assembly according to the invention includes a plurality of cooling fins joined with one another for forming a plurality of vertical and parallel cooling fins mounted on a base of a heat sink. Wherein, two sides at a bottom portion of a main body of ea... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729385 | Fin structure and the assembly thereof A fin structure is disclosed. The fin structure includes a first concavo-convex portion formed with a concave on a first surface of the fin in the direction of thickness and a corresponding convex on a second surface of the fin in the direction of thickness. Besides... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729386 | Pulp drier coil with improved header A steam heat exchanger for a wood pulp dryer includes a plurality of tubes. The tubes extend between the ends of the heat exchanger in parallel, spaced-apart relationship. There is a steam inlet header near a first end of the heat exchanger and an outlet header near... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729387 | Double sided heat exchanger core A double sided-double heat exchanger core includes a plurality of sets of fluid passageways separated by a plurality of “S” shaped thermally conductive walls. Each set includes a plurality of fluid passageways. Each thermally conductive wall is configured to sep... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729388 | Charge air cooler, especially for motor vehicles The invention provides a charge air cooler, especially for motor vehicles, having a finned-tube block. The finned-tube block includes flat tubes through which charge air can flow and at least one fin member attached to the flat tubes. At least one fin member include... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729389 | Heat transfer apparatus with zigzag passage A heat transfer apparatus with a zigzag passage is provided. The apparatus includes a pair of opposed plates 11, 12, a bent plate 21 having a wavy cross sectional shape for dividing the space between both plates into a plurality of side-by-side passage... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729390 | Control for heat pump with auxiliary heat source A method of controlling a heating system including at least a first stage heat pump and a second stage auxiliary heater, and a control that implements the method. The control shuts off the first stage heat pump during cold outside temperatures without the need to di... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729391 | Insertable progressing cavity pump An insertable progressing cavity pump is taught. The pump is insertable in a bore of a tubing string by carriage on a drive string, the insertable progressing cavity pump includes a stator, a helical rotor locatable in the stator and including a coupling for connect... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729392 | Tubing hanger with ball valve in the annulus bore A tubing hanger is provided for suspending a tubing hanger from a wellhead housing. The tubing hanger body includes a production bore and an annulus bore, a valve opening inlet port, a valve closed inlet port, and a hydraulically operated ball valve to selectively o... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729393 | Zero drill completion and production system Apparatus for a one trip completion of fluid production wells. A completion tool string includes a pressure activated cementing valve, an external casing packer, a pressure activated production valve, an opening plug and a plug landing collar and a closing plug and ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729394 | Method of producing a communicating horizontal well network A method of producing fluids from a subterranean formation through a single well in a network of separate well-bores, comprising the steps of: forming a well having a horizontal section located within the formation; completing and equipping such well to produce flui... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729395 | In situ thermal processing of a hydrocarbon containing formation with a selected ratio of heat sources to production wells A hydrocarbon containing formation may be treated using an in situ thermal process. A mixture of hydrocarbons, H2, and/or other formation fluids may be produced from the formation. Heat may be applied to the formation to raise a temperature of a portion o... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729396 | In situ thermal processing of a coal formation to produce hydrocarbons having a selected carbon number range A coal formation may be treated using an in situ thermal process. A mixture of hydrocarbons, H2, and/or other formation fluids may be produced from the formation. Heat may be applied to the formation to raise a temperature of a portion of the formation to... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729397 | In situ thermal processing of a hydrocarbon containing formation with a selected vitrinite reflectance A hydrocarbon containing formation may be treated using an in situ thermal process. A mixture of hydrocarbons, H2, and/or other formation fluids may be produced from the formation. Heat may be applied to the formation to raise a temperature of a portion o... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729398 | Methods of downhole testing subterranean formations and associated apparatus therefor Methods and apparatus are provided which permit well testing operations to be performed downhole in a subterranean well. In various described methods, fluids flowed from a formation during a test may be disposed of downhole by injecting the fluids into the formation... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729399 | Method and apparatus for determining reservoir characteristics A downhole tool for collecting data from a subsurface formation is disclosed. The tool is provided with a probe for testing and/or sampling an adjacent formation. The tool is also provided with a protector positioned about the probe for engaging and protecting the s... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729400 | Method for validating a downhole connate water sample A downhole connate water sample drawn from the formation surrounding a well is validated when mud filtrate concentration is acceptably low. A preferred method includes drilling the well with a water-based drilling fluid, or more generally a water-based mud (WBM), co... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729401 | In situ thermal processing of a hydrocarbon containing formation and ammonia production A hydrocarbon containing formation may be treated using an in situ thermal process. A mixture of hydrocarbons, H2, and/or other formation fluids may be produced from the formation. Heat may be applied to the formation to raise a temperature of a portion o... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729402 | Method of recovering hydrocarbon fluids from a subterranean reservoir This invention is directed to a composition comprising expandable cross linked polymeric microparticles having an unexpanded volume average particle size diameter of from about 0.05 to about 10 microns and a cross linking agent content of about 1,000 to less than ab... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729404 | Methods and compositions for consolidating proppant in subterranean fractures Improved methods of coating dry proppant particles with a hardenable resin composition, suspending the coated proppant particles in a fracturing fluid and consolidating the proppant particles after being placed in fractures into high strength permeable masses are pr... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729405 | High temperature flexible cementing compositions and methods for using same Natural fiber-containing cement compositions for cementing wellbores in high stress and high temperature environments. The cement compositions may contain natural mineral fiber materials such as wollastonite in an amount of greater than about 10% and in an amount se... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729406 | Method and apparatus for performing cutting operations in a subterranean well Apparatus and associated methods of using the apparatus are disclosed for performing cuts in a subterranean well. The apparatus utilizes linear shaped charges arranged in an endless pattern which are used to cut a pattern in a downhole structure. The charges are dis... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729407 | Method for removing gravel pack screens A method of removing a gravel packed screen to reach another zone is described. The method involves a bottom hole assembly comprising an isolation device for the screen and a tool to latch on to it. A perforating gun is shot off to put holes in the screen to allow g... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729408 | Fracturing fluid and method of use Improved aqueous fracturing fluids are disclosed that are particularly useful as well stimulation fluids to fracture tight (i.e., low permeability) subterranean formations. Gas wells treated with these fracturing fluids have rapid cleanup and enhanced well productio... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729409 | Foamed nitrogen in liquid CO2 for fracturing A method for fracturing subterranean formations surrounding oil and gas wells using a fracturing fluid consisting of a foam constituted by a liquid phase and a gaseous phase. The liquid phase has a foam forming substance dissolved therein. The foam forming substance... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6729410 | Multiple tube structure A multiple tube structure provides enhanced utilization of limited cross-sectional area in a wellbore. In a described embodiment, a tube system includes multiple tubular members rigidly attached to each other along axial lengths thereof. The tubular members are conf... | 05/04/2004 |
