Patents Represented by Attorney John J. Torrente
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Patent number: 4659379Abstract: A nickel anode electrode fabricated by oxidizing a nickel alloying material to produce a material whose exterior contains nickel oxide and whose interior contains nickel metal throughout which is dispersed the oxide of the alloying material and by reducing and sintering the oxidized material to form a product having a nickel metal exterior and an interior containing nickel metal throughout which is dispersed the oxide of the alloying material.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 1985Date of Patent: April 21, 1987Assignee: Energy Research CorporationInventors: Prabhakar Singh, Mark Benedict
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Patent number: 4650709Abstract: A helix of great length wherein the structure is filled with a filler and wherein the structure is produced by a practice in which the helix structure and filler material are caused to rotate about each other upstream of the point of convergence, while the helix retains its orientation, and the speed of advance of the helix and the speed at which the filler material and helix are rotated are so adjusted that the helix is advanced by one winding during each rotation. The filler material is a braided tubing. A core preferably prevents the tubing from collapsing.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 1985Date of Patent: March 17, 1987Assignee: Siteg Siebtechnik GmbHInventor: Johannes Lefferts
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Patent number: 4631917Abstract: An air valve for an internal combustion engine, said air valve comprising a valve body (10,19), a passage (27) in said body, valve means adapted to normally close said passage (27) to prevent egress therethrough of spent combustion products from said engine and to open on creation of a pressure drop within the engine to permit air to flow through the passage (27) into the engine. The valve means comprises a flexible valve element (18) engageable with a valve seat (26) associated with said passage (27), and means (17,22) for tensioning said flexible valve element (18) to assist effective operation of the valve element (18).Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 1985Date of Patent: December 30, 1986Inventor: Desmond E. Wales
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Patent number: 4629835Abstract: A fault isolating apparatus, system and method employing a fault isolator comprising first, second, third and fourth ports, the first and third ports being adapted to be connected to the ring and tip lines of a subscriber loop and the second and fourth ports being adapted to be connected to a subscriber location; and first and second circuit means connected between the first and second ports and the third and fourth ports, the first circuit means being adapted to block the passage of current from the first to the second port and to allow the passage of current from the second to the first port and the second circuit means being adapted to allow passage of current from the third to fourth port and to block passage of current from fourth to the third port.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 1984Date of Patent: December 16, 1986Assignee: New England Telephone and Telegraph CompanyInventor: Brian L. Miller
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Patent number: 4620914Abstract: Purification of hydrogen is realized in an assembly comprising anode and cathode gas diffusion electrodes, an electrolyte situated between the electrodes, first and second gas passages adjacent the electrodes and means for applying a voltage across the electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 1985Date of Patent: November 4, 1986Assignee: Energy Research CorporationInventors: Sandors G. Abens, Mohammad Farooque
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Patent number: 4619291Abstract: A duct for carrying cable comprising a tubular member having a barrel portion and a larger diameter bell portion, the duct further comprising a member disposed in the barrel portion for segmenting the barrel portion into compartments, the segmenting member have a first section and a second section, the second section extending into the bell portion and being adapted to interfit with the first section.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 1984Date of Patent: October 28, 1986Assignee: Nynex CorporationInventor: Said Shirian
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Patent number: 4602660Abstract: A pneumatic picking mechanism for weaving shuttles wherein the weaving shuttle is driven by a piston moved in a cylinder cavity by pressurized gas and wherein the pressurized gas is supplied from a reservoir through a main valve to the cylinder cavity and the main valve is controlled via a control valve assisted by an auxiliary valve.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1985Date of Patent: July 29, 1986Assignee: Hermann Wangner GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Pekka F. Alm
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Patent number: 4592395Abstract: A papermachine clothing comprising a fabric whose weave pattern does not have an axis of symmetry in the length direction, and which has in at least a portion of one fabric half a weave mirror-symmetrical to that in at least a portion of the second fabric half and wherein, along the line of contact of the mirror-symmetrical regions, corrective longitudinal wires are interwoven to prevent excessively long floats of the transverse wires on the running side.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1984Date of Patent: June 3, 1986Assignee: Hermann Wangner - GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Georg Borel
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Patent number: 4592396Abstract: A clothing for use in a papermaking machine wherein the fabric includes two or more fabric layers, each layer comprised of woven structural longitudinal and transverse threads and each interconnected by additional transverse binder threads, and wherein at least the structural transverse threads of the lower fabric layer jointly interwoven with the transverse binder threads are arranged in pairs or as twin threads.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 1984Date of Patent: June 3, 1986Assignee: Hermann Wangner-GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Georg Borel, Bengt Jonsson
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Patent number: 4588659Abstract: A vaporizer for converting liquid fuel into fuel vapor wherein an annular chamber defined by inner and outer walls is provided and wherein rings are situated one after the other along the length of the chamber, each ring extending around the circumference of the chamber in contact with the inner and outer walls and including a passageway for conveying fluid and/or vapor between the liquid/vapor flow spaces situated on opposite sides of the ring.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 1984Date of Patent: May 13, 1986Assignee: Energy Research CorporationInventors: Sandors G. Abens, William Keil
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Patent number: 4585708Abstract: A fuel cell system employing a reformer for developing a fuel process gas from a hydrocarbon fuel-water mixture wherein the mixture is generated by exclusively delivering a water miscible hydrocarbon fuel to a mixing tank when the level of constituents in the mixing tank falls below a first predetermined level, ceasing delivery of the fuel and initiating exclusive delivery of water to the mixing tank when the level of constituents in the mixing tank rises to a second predetermined level, ceasing delivery of water when the constituents in the mixing tank rise to a third predetermined level, with the level in the mixing tank at the third predetermined level, delivering the hydrocarbon fuel-water mixture to a holding tank when the hydrocarbon fuel-water mixture in the holding tank falls below a first predetermined position, and ceasing delivery of the mixture to the holding tank when the level of constituents in the mixing tank falls below said first predetermined level.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 1985Date of Patent: April 29, 1986Assignee: Energy Research CorporationInventors: Sandors G. Abens, William Keil, Mohammad Farooque
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Patent number: 4579706Abstract: Apparatus for making blocks from earth, soil or like material wherein a horizontally disposed channel is provided with a fill chamber and with a compression chamber downstream of the fill chamber and wherein further means is provided which, during a first cycle and while inhibiting further material from being supplied to the fill chamber, moves already supplied material from the fill chamber to the compression chamber to form a block and which, during a second cycle, enables further material to be supplied to the fill chamber.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 1985Date of Patent: April 1, 1986Assignee: Adobe International, Inc.Inventor: Henry Elkins
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Patent number: 4575472Abstract: Double helices each comprising two helix elements made from plastic wire with the longitudinal axes of the two helix elements extending in parallel and with the windings of the two helix elements intertwined, the double helices being formed by winding two plastic wires in parallel and without twist on a mandrel and being used to assemble a spiral belt by interengaging in zipper fashion a multiplicity of helices via meshing the windings of one helix with the windings of the next helix, and by inserting a pintle wire into the passage formed by the overlapping windings.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 1984Date of Patent: March 11, 1986Assignee: SITEG Siebtechnik GmbHInventor: Johannes Lefferts
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Patent number: 4569375Abstract: A composite fabric for use as a clothing in paper-making machines comprising a plurality of interconnected fabric layers, each fabric layer having interwoven longitudinal wires and transverse wires and the fabric layers being interconnected in that at least part of the transverse wires of one or both of two adjacent fabric layers are interwoven with the longitudinal wires of the other fabric layer, the interweaving of the transverse wires of the one fabric layer with the longitudinal wires of the other fabric layer being such that the course of the transverse wires of the one layer and the other layer are interchanged.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1984Date of Patent: February 11, 1986Assignee: Hermann Wangner GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Georg Borel
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Patent number: 4567117Abstract: A fuel cell comprising a catalyst for endothermic reforming of the hydrocarbon content of fuel in such a manner as to promote uniform temperature distribution in the cell.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1984Date of Patent: January 28, 1986Assignee: Energy Research CorporationInventors: Pinakin Patel, Dilip Dharia, Hansraj Maru
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Patent number: 4564992Abstract: A helix of great length wherein the structure is filled with a filler and wherein the structure is produced by a practice in which the helix structure and filler material are caused to rotate about each other upstream of the point of convergence, while the helix retains its orientation, and the speed of advance of the helix and the speed at which the filler material and helix are rotated are so adjusted that the helix is advanced by one winding during each rotation.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1983Date of Patent: January 21, 1986Assignee: Siteg Siebtechnik GmbHInventor: Johannes Lefferts
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Patent number: 4564052Abstract: A double-layer woven fabric comprising longitudinally extending warp wires and two layers of transversely extending weft wires, at least part of the warp wires being interwoven with weft wires of both weft layers and warp wires, separated by not more than one intermediate warp wire, extending pair-wise in parallel at least over part of their length on the paper side and/or on the running side of the fabric.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 1984Date of Patent: January 14, 1986Assignee: Hermann Wangner GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Georg Borel
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Patent number: 3944951Abstract: An improved monolithic crystal filter is disclosed. The filter has input and output ports formed from particular combinations of first, second and third terminals, the latter terminals having been adapted to be connected to certain preselected electrodes of the two adjacent resonators comprising the filter. More specifically, the first terminal is adapted to be connected to one of the electrodes of a first one of the aforesaid two resonators, the second terminal to the other electrode of the first resonator and to one of the electrodes of the second of the two resonators, and the third terminal to the remaining electrode of the second resonator.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 1974Date of Patent: March 16, 1976Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, IncorporatedInventor: Carl Ferdinand Kurth