"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6857375 | Traction pins for railway cars A one-piece, cast traction pin for use with railway cars. The traction pin is used to connect the railcar cab with the railcar truck assembly. The traction pin includes a mounting plate cast integral with the pin, thereby eliminating the use of multiple welded plate... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857376 | Vehicle carrying rail road car A rail road car has a deck for carrying wheeled vehicles. The rail road car can be coupled to other rail road cars of the same type. Bridge plates are provide that permit wheeled vehicles to be conducted between adjacent rail road cars. The bridge plates have one en... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857377 | Load bearing structure for a shipping pallet A shipping pallet that has a load bearing deck with a plurality of domes that provide high strength, stiffness, and rigidity to the deck, and an undercarriage for supporting the deck and for receiving a forklift, palletjack, hand truck, or other automated machinery.... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857378 | Table with adjustable support A table has an adjustable support wherein the ratchet mechanism that locks the position of the tray with respect to the base may be moved to the unlocked position with the user's leg while the tray of the table is held by the user's hands. The table may also have a ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857379 | Method and device for incinerating organic waste material According to a conventional method for incinerating organic waste material, a fluidization device causes an oxygenous fluidizing gas to flow through the waste material, which is located in an incineration chamber, from underneath while forming a fluidized particle l... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857380 | Sailboat spinnaker bowsprit A retractable bowsprit for a sailboat is suitable for use with an asymmetrical spinnaker. A support element and a bowsprit positioner such as a track mounted within a hull of a sailboat allow the bowsprit to assume either an extended or retracted position. The bowsp... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857381 | Cam cleat with automatic fairlead A cam cleat has at least one cam mounted on a base. The cam has a fairlead projection that is spaced from the base and that rotates with the cam. When the cam is in its idle position with no line gripped by a jaw of the cam, the fairlead projection is rotated out of... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857382 | Magnetic docking apparatus and method for using the same A magnetic docking apparatus includes a support member having an electromagnet attached thereto. The support member includes a fastener for attaching the magnetic docking apparatus to a vessel. The support member and the fastener cooperate to position the electromag... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857383 | Convertible anchor A convertible anchor capable of being converted between a first position usable on sandy bottom floors and a second position usable on debris laden bottom floors, such as reefs. The convertible anchor may include an elongated shank and one or more flukes rotatably c... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857384 | Gas tank shade system A first strip of a fastener is securable to the vertical rear wall in a horizontal orientation at an elevation above the container and parallel with a horizontal platform. A shading member fabricated of a flexible material is in a rectangular configuration. The shad... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857385 | Foldable road warning device A road warning device includes a board having a lower housing, a casing rotatably secured to the housing with a shaft and rotatable into and out of a chamber of the housing. A plate is selectively and detachably attached to the casing and moveable in concert with th... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857386 | Flag fastening assembly Flag fastening assembly for fastening the upper and lower portion of the leading edge of a flag to a flag supporting member in a manner that balances the weight of the flag about the axis of the flag supporting member and prevents furling. Each flag fastening assemb... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857387 | Multiple frequency plasma chamber with grounding capacitor at cathode An apparatus and method for fabricating an electronic workpiece in which first and second electrodes within a plasma chamber are respectively connected to low frequency and high frequency RF power supplies. At least one capacitor is connected between the first elect... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857388 | Cold wall chemical vapor deposition apparatus with a heater control unit A cold wall chemical vapor deposition apparatus includes: a chamber; a susceptor movable up and down in the chamber by a driving means, the susceptor including a heater and an internal electrode; a heat reflector over the susceptor, the heat reflector reflecting a h... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857389 | Teat cup system A teat cup system including a tubular sleeve, a milk receiving cup having a portion configured to be operatively coupled to a lower end portion of the tubular sleeve, and a liner member including a head portion and a tubular elongate inflation portion and wherein th... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857390 | Strip dispenser rearing hatchlings Hatchlings are raised initially on a strip of sheet material which is laid on the floor of a containment pen by a vehicle having a support on the vehicle for receiving a roll of a sheet material and a hopper on the vehicle for receiving a feed material for the hatch... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857391 | Animal toilet enclosure The animal toilet enclosure has a bottom section removably coupled to a floorboard section, a cover section removably coupled to the floorboard section, and a controller for the enclosure. The bottom section has a bowl with an outlet in fluid communication with a gr... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857392 | Aquarium pumping and airing apparatus An aquarium includes a pump disposed in a chamber of a container to circulate water and having a spindle. An air supplying device is coupled to the spindle of the pump and driven by the spindle of the pump, to pump air into the water contained in the chamber of the ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857393 | Cheshire cat house Habitats for housing and displaying animals having compartments stacked and/or side-by-side. Walls and doors can be plastic, acrylic, laminate, and glass. Doors walls, and floors can be see-through, and/or colored allow. Letters can spelling “CATS” can be mounte... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857394 | Window seat perch and protector for domestic birds An article for a domestic bird is provided with a perch rod surrounded by protective base, window wall, and side walls for mounting inwardly of a window of a building. A domestic bird free-flying in the building, or a clipped bird climbing a ladder or braided rope, ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857395 | Animal ear holder apparatus A pair of ear retaining members designed to hold the ears of an animal in a substantially forward position to control undesired behavior. A Strap attaches both ear retaining members together and further holds the ears in the ear retaining members. The ear retaining ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857396 | Heating device for hydrogen storage canister A heating device for a container in which a hydrogen storage canister is disposed. The hydrogen storage canister supplies hydrogen to a fuel cell including a discharge port, and the heating device includes a water jacket and a seal member. The water jacket is dispos... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857397 | Hydrogen generation apparatus for internal combustion engines and method thereof A system and method are provided for generating hydrogen for use with an internal combustion engine. The system includes a venturi device coupled with an exhaust stream from the internal combustion engine. The venturi device creates a gas flow through a condenser to... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857398 | Cooling system for internal combustion engine A cooling system for an internal combustion engine includes a radiator provided in a coolant circulation path of the internal combustion engine, and an actuator that controls a flow rate of a coolant that passes through the radiator. In the cooling system, the actua... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857399 | Air cleaner assembly for internal combustion engines An air cleaner for small internal combustion engines, including a removable or replaceable air cleaner element detachably mounted within an air cleaner cavity which is defined at least on part by the shroud of the engine. The air cleaner element includes engagement ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857400 | Method for controlling the compression ratio of an internal combustion engine A method for controlling the compression ratio ε in a supercharged combustion engine. The latter is provided with a control device in which a maximum final compression temperature T2,max is ascertained, and, within the framework of a precontrol, an optim... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857401 | Variable compression ratio sensing system for internal combustion engine A sensing system for an internal combustion engine having variable compression ratio connecting rods includes a connecting rod sensor which outputs digital signals having characteristic values corresponding to the compression ratio state of the connecting rods. ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857402 | Two-stroke engine A two-stroke engine, (1) is disclosed which includes (I) transfer channels (15, 15′, 15″, 16, 16′, 16″) which open into the crankcase (8) and fluidly connect the crankcase (8) to the combustion chamber (3) at specific posit... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857403 | Hydraulically controlled actuator for activating a valve An hydraulically controlled actuator for activating a valve, especially for activating a gas-exchange valve in a combustion cylinder of an internal combustion engine, which includes two fluid-filled pressure chambers having controllable chamber volumes and a movable... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857404 | Hydraulic engine valve actuator An integrated hydraulic valve actuator for use in a camless internal combustion engine. The valve actuator includes a separate bolt-on housing defining a through opening receiving a cylindrical liner. The liner internally defines an internal cylinder providing a rid... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857405 | Valve timing control for marine engine An engine has a combustion chamber. An air induction system communicates with the combustion chamber through an intake port. An exhaust system communicates with the combustion chamber through an exhaust port. Intake and exhaust valves move between an opening positio... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857406 | Valve driving device for an engine A valve driving device including a tappet assembly adapted to slide in a tappet guide hole to drive a valve and including a high-speed center tappet and low-speed side tappet; and a high-speed center cam and a low-speed side cam provided corresponding to the center ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857408 | Internal combustion engine provided with decompressing mechanism A decompressing mechanism included in an internal combustion engine has a flyweight supported for swinging motion by a pin on the camshaft of the internal combustion engine, a decompression cam and an arm connecting the flyweight and the decompression cam and having... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857409 | Air intake system for engine An air intake system which includes a first member, a second member connected to the first member for forming an air intake passage for introducing an intake air from an upstream mechanism of an engine to cylinders of the engine, a first convex portion provided on e... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857410 | Engine control system A small internal combustion engine having user interfaces which are located proximate to one another and within a centralized portion of the engine which is easily accessible by a user, such that the user may readily identify and manipulate the user interfaces. The ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857411 | Lubricating oil supply system for the connecting rod bearings of a crankshaft of a multi-cylinder internal-combustion engine A lubricating oil supply system is provided for the connecting rod bearings of a crankshaft of a multi-cylinder internal-combustion engine. Oil ducts extend from the bearing journals to the crank pins of the crankshaft. Oil supply takes place by way of the main bear... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857412 | Motor with rotary connecting rod bolt The motor according to the present invention consists of a piston (1), cylinder (2), connecting rod (3), connecting rod rotary bolt gear wheel (4), connecting rod rotary bolt (5), crank shaft (6), crank shaft bolt (7)... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857413 | Power working machine with internal combustion engine having spark plug A spark plug guard can be switched between a spark-plug covering position to protect a spark plug and a spark-plug opening position. An operator displaces the spark plug guard from the spark-plug covering position to the spark-plug opening position, thereby obtainin... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857414 | Control system and method for internal combustion engine There is provided a control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of matching an output torque of the engine with a demanded torque excellently when the combustion mode is switched, thereby enhancing drivability. A demanded fuel amount and a dem... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6857415 | Control system for internal combustion engine A bypass passage for bypassing a check valve is connected with a vacuum introducing passage of a brake booster. The bypass passage is provided with a switching valve. Just before the start of an engine, the switching valve temporarily opens the bypass passage whereb... | 02/22/2005 |