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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7478719 | Core plate structure The invention concerns a segmented core plate for a disc. In accordance with the invention, provision is made for the core plate to be composed of multiple, especially two, segmented core plate discs, wherein segments of adjacent core plate discs are arranged offset... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478720 | Workpiece changer for machining machines A workpiece changer for transfer of workpiece palettes between a storage arrangement arranged in front of a machining machine for such workpiece palettes and a workpiece table, possesses a gripper device for receiving and putting down workpiece palettes and a rotary... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478721 | Device for conveying sheet-type flat items A feed conveyor feeds in flat items to a discharge conveyor that discharges the same. A joint upper belt conveyor extends across feed-in and discharge regions and has a lower belt section above the feed and discharge conveyors. An operating mechanism moves a lower b... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478722 | System for transporting coat hangers The invention relates to a system for transporting coat hangers employing a conveyor screw capable of being driven about its longitudinal axis by a driving system. The conveyor screw is adapted to convey, in a direction of transport, hook coat hangers to be transpor... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478723 | Tire cover with adjusting means The present invention relates to a tire cover or casing that includes two flexible sides and a central member. The flexible sides have a width sufficient to essentially cover a sidewall of a tire, while allowing, when mounted on the tire, access to the inner opening... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478724 | Firearm housing with heavy-duty locking mechanism A safety housing for a firearm includes a biometric or other access authentication device, an enclosure, a frame assembly, a slide assembly, and a door. The frame and the slide assemblies nest within the enclosure, the frame assembly affixes to the enclosure, and th... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478725 | Carton with dispenser A carton for enclosing cylindrical articles includes a dispenser that provides access to at least two endmost articles in an uppermost row, and to at least one article in a lowermost row, when fully loaded. The dispenser is defined by contiguous severance lines that... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478726 | Collapsibile crate with support members A collapsible crate includes a plurality of retractable supports movable from a retracted position generally within a first wall to a support position generally diagonally across the corner, wherein the support is supported in the first end by the first wall and a s... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478727 | Hot magnetic separator process and apparatus System and method for a continuous process for separating particles according to their magnetic properties such as Curie point includes a feed of hot particles having different magnetic properties on a moving surface spaced above a stationary magnetic assembly. The ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478728 | Screen system A screen system 8 suitable for use in a vibratory screen apparatus 1, comprising: a screen element 11 consisting essentially of a mesh panel 19 provided with first and second elongate support members 22, 23 extending along opposite... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478729 | Fuel-filtering device A fuel-filtering device is disposed inside a fuel tank for filtering a fuel. The fuel-filtering device includes a filter body having a bag shape and a communication hole, and is formed of a plurality of laminated filter layers. The laminated filter layers includes a... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478730 | High density panel with rotating tray A telecommunications termination panel with a tray pivotably mounted within the front opening of a housing. The tray pivots about a hinge located adjacent one of the sides of the housing and includes a raised floor. The raised floor of the tray cooperates with the s... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478731 | Product display partition and biasing device An assembly for securing to a shelf having products disposed thereon and connection points spaced apart by a fixed distance includes an adjustable product display partition and a biasing device for biasing a row of products toward a front of the shelf. The product d... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478732 | Modular footwear display and storage system and method A modular footwear display system includes a display module having a display surface for supporting an item of footwear and a divider for identifying boxed footwear associated with the displayed item of footwear. The display module has at least one mounting fixture ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478733 | Baby bottle with an air valve device A baby bottle with an air valve device has a bottle, an air valve device and a cap. The bottle has a mouth. The air valve device is a check valve and has a valve seat mounted on the mouth of the bottle and having at least one through hole, a valve stem and a valve d... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478734 | Collapsible container A volumetric efficient collapsible and tamper proof container for protecting goods contained therein during transportation and storage. The container comprises six walls perpendicularly and hingedly mounted to each other to define a cubic space therein. Long and sho... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478735 | Secure removable gripping device A removable gripping device for a container has two clamp-forming elements which are mounted to a gripping body, one of which can move longitudinally between an open position and a closed position; and movement elements which are designed to move the mobile element.... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478736 | Ergonomic frosting applicator A hand-held icing dispenser for use by a person in decorating a cake with icing dispensed through an icing tip, comprising a dispensing nozzle constructed of an integrally formed cylindrical base section with a threaded exterior surface, an integral intermediate off... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478737 | Beverage dispenser An apparatus allowing the automatic drawing out of beverages from bottles (wherein the bottles are kept in their vertical position) comprising a drawing tap (12) which permits the entering of the gas in the bottle, the drawing of the liquid and the cleaning o... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478738 | Trigger sprayers A trigger spray assembly (1) has generally cubic container (2) with a trigger sprayer (3) mounted thereon. The trigger sprayer (3) is mounted offset form the centre of the container (2) to allow stacking of mutually inverted contai... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478739 | Snap down bayonet connector A connector cap of a trigger sprayer is integrally formed with the sprayer housing of the trigger sprayer. The connector cap has a flexible cylindrical sidewall of varying thicknesses that enables the cap to be flexed and snap fit on a bayonet-type connector of a bo... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478740 | Enhanced fuel passageway and adapter for combustion tool fuel cell A combustion nailer is configured for use with a fuel cell having an internal metering valve and a reciprocating, biased main stem. The nailer includes a tool housing defining a fuel cell chamber constructed and arranged for receiving the fuel cell, a fuel cell actu... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478741 | Solder interconnect integrity monitor An apparatus and method for non-destructive solder interconnect integrity monitoring that can detect existing fracture damage, identify new or incipient fractures, and be implemented across multiple component configurations. Said components can be implemented to det... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478742 | Method for brazing ceramic surfaces A method for producing a brazed joint having at least one of a metal/ceramic joint and a ceramic/ceramic joint. The method includes forming bores in at least one ceramic surface to be brazed, and the bores have an average diameter of greater than 550 μm. The instan... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478743 | Carton for tapered and cylindrical articles A carton is provided with side walls and chamfered corners shaped to securely or tightly enclose a group of cylindrical articles, such as beverage bottles. The curvature of the edges of each side wall is selected to cause the end wall or end closure structure to con... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478744 | Box shaped container made of cardboard or similar material with associated cursor A shaped box, made of cardboard or similar material, suitable for packaging products such as medicines, wherein the precut cardboard forming the box comprises an additional precut layer (35) to define a cursor (35A) attached on the inside of one wall (... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478745 | Container and blank having easy opening feature A container for storing and displaying produce made from a blank having a variety of side panels, top panels, and bottom panels. The various side panels are arranged such that one of the side panels and its associated top panel are attached to the adjoining side pan... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478746 | Two-dimensional color barcode and method of generating and decoding the same A two-dimensional color barcode using gradations of color is disclosed. The barcode includes a black and white configuration block that encodes configuration information about the barcode and a plurality of color data blocks that encodes data. Each tile in the data ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478747 | Retail sales and dispensing fuel management system The present invention extends to managing the dispensing of petroleum products. A kiosk (e.g., at a gas station) and fuel management system are connected over a network. The fuel management system maintains balances for fuel purchasing accounts that can be debited t... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478748 | Access control system and method Access control devices are implemented at an access point of a plurality of remote properties. Each access control device has information unique to the access control device including the access control device unique identifier as well as a time determined, by an in... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478749 | Food preparation system A food preparation system and method that partially automates the ordering, preparation, and delivery of food items such as pizza. The food preparation system broadly comprising an ordering or point-of-sale station, a computing device, a conveyor system, at least on... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478750 | Reading device of scanning apparatus By combining a sensing module having a lens and an image sensor with a carriage module having a mirror set, a reading device of a scanning apparatus is assembled. The sensing module further includes two channels at bilateral sides of the lens and two guiding slots d... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478751 | Method and apparatus for authenticating a magnetic fingerprint signal using a filter capable of isolating a remanent noise related signal component A system for verifying the authenticity of data contained in a magnetic medium using the remanent noise characteristics of the magnetic medium. In one embodiment, the invention includes a sensing unit configured to generate a signal indicative of the magnetic field ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478752 | Method of entering an authorization code into a chip card terminal An authorization code is entered into a chip card terminal from a chip card. The authorization code is first entered into a chip card and stored in a secret memory location. A state on the chip card is temporarily changed from a first state to a second state. When t... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478753 | System and method for aiming an optical code scanning device A system and method for performing a read operation including acquiring a series of frames of image data; processing a first frame of image data including an array of pixel data acquired while an aiming pattern was generated for determining a location L of at least ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478754 | Axial chromatic aberration auto-focusing system and method A system and method utilizing the principles of axial chromatic aberration for auto-focusing an image onto an image sensor are provided. The system and method are particularly suitable for incorporation within an optical code reader. A signal processor analyzes data... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478755 | Communication system, communication apparatus and method, recording medium, and program A communication system includes a first communication apparatus; and a second communication apparatus, wherein the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus communicate with each other by wireless. The first communication apparatus include... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478756 | Method and apparatus for pen based data entry and storage Method and apparatus for pen based data entry and storage are provided. In one approach a digital pen capable of electronically storing several written responses is used to record responses to forms, surveys, polls, or tests. In one approach a tablet PC capable of e... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478757 | Method and device for the authentication of documents and goods The invention discloses a method and a device for the authentication of a document, a valued good or a packaging, carrying a marking (M) exhibiting a viewing-angle dependent light reflection spectrum. The authentication method is based on a measurement of the intens... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478758 | Method and apparatus for automatically tracking and communicating data storage device information using RF tags: operating condition, configuration and location The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for automatically tracking and communicating data storage device information using RF (radio frequency) tags. An apparatus includes a data storage device and a RF tag attached to the data storage device, wh... | 01/20/2009 |
