Patents Assigned to M
  • Method and apparatus for playing mixture of Twenty-one and Baccarat using three, four or five player cards
    Patent number: 5702104
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for playing a mixture of Twenty-one and Baccarat. Each player initially receives three cards, one for Twenty-one, one for Baccarat, and one common card to be summed with the Twenty-one card and the Baccarat card. The player then has the option of receiving a second Twenty-one card to be summed with the first Twenty-one card and the common card, and a second Baccarat card to be summed with the first Baccarat card and the common card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: Mehrdad M. Malek
    Inventors: Mehrdad M. Malek, Thomas P. Kadlic, Frank D. Borsenik
  • Loading device
    Patent number: 5701719
    Abstract: Loading device, particularly for loading containers carried on a conveyor, including a vertically fixed funnel with a shutter arranged in the area of its delivery aperture. In order to ensure reliable loading of the containers in such a device, it is provided that lateral of the funnel, adjustable covering elements, such as slides, are arranged, which can be positioned close to the upper rims of the containers, which may vary in their vertical dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: P.E.E.M. Forderanlagen Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Helmut Neukam
  • Process for charging and discharging zinc/bromine batteries
    Patent number: 5702842
    Abstract: A process for charging and discharging zinc/bromine batteries with a plurality of anode and cathode chambers into and from which anolyte or catholyte fluids are fed and drained. Metallic zinc is deposited on the anode and atomic and/or molecular bromine is deposited at the cathode, and bromine is bonded in an only slightly water soluble complex with a complex-forming agent from the aqueous phase. The anolyte and/or catholyte fluids are circulated periodically. The oleophilic cathode phase is separated from the hydrophilic cathode phase. Only the aqueous phase of the catholyte is circulated through the cathode chambers, and the times at which the fluid is circulated is dependent upon the temperature of the anolyte in the anode chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: Elin Energieanwendung Gesellschaft M.B.H.
    Inventor: Gerd Tomazic
  • Method and apparatus for removing bark balls from a log flow
    Patent number: 5699919
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for removing bark balls from a log flow traveling on a conveyor (3) which extends from a debarking drum (1) to a chipper (2), said conveyor (3) including a roller assembly (4) provided with an opening (5) for dumping from the conveyor (3) a sub-flow consisting of wood pieces and bark balls. The apparatus comprises an adjustable dispenser device (6) for further dividing the sub-flow falling from the conveyor (3) into a portion including mainly wood pieces and a portion including mainly bark balls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: Andritz-Pantentverwaltungs-Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Matti Pylkkanen, Lennart Thornquist
  • Device for electromagnetically securing a lock barrel
    Patent number: 5699686
    Abstract: The device for electromagnetically blocking the closing cylinder (2) of a lock (1) includes a rotary drive comprising a coil (12) and a rotor (7). Depending on the rotary position of the rotor (7), the movable tumbler (4) may be disengaged from the recess (3) of the locking cylinder. In the blocking position, disengagement is prevented by abutment on the end face (11) of the rotor. (FIG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: EVVA-Werk Spezialerzeugung von Zylinder- und Sicherheitsschlossern Gesellschaft m.b.H. & Co.
    Inventors: Harald Neumayer, Roland Krewenka
  • Headrest for motor vehicle seats and a method for its manufacturing
    Patent number: 5700057
    Abstract: A headrest for motor vehicle seats comprising a resilient body incorporating a molded plastic material supporting framework connected in a frictionally rotatable way to a bearing structure. The supporting framework has an integral tubular base directly overmolded on the transverse member of the bearing structure, so as to perform a mutual rotatable coupling with interference without any need of auxiliary friction members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: Gestind-M.B. "Manifattura di Brusolo" S.p.A.
    Inventor: Emilio De Filippo
  • Device for cooling and gas turbine rotor
    Patent number: 5700130
    Abstract: This device embodies a centrifugal compressor secured to a joint-carrier disk secured to an upstream flange of the rotor disk to be cooled. The recompressed air is ejected through channels near the roots of the blades of the disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: Societe National d'Etude et de Construction de Moterus d'Aviation S.N.E.C.M.A.
    Inventors: Andre M. Barbot, Jacques E. J. Caruel, Marcel R. Soligny
  • Food supplement comprising a mineral complex and a method for its production
    Patent number: 5700503
    Abstract: A food supplement comprising a mineral complex obtained from coral by soaking it in a solution of organic acid suitable for ingestion such as citric acid or acetic acid and by extracting minerals from the coral by the action of said organic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: M.P.G. Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Kunio Hirota
  • Meat-comminuting machine with improved vacuum discharge mechanism
    Patent number: 5699970
    Abstract: A discharge mechanism for meat-comminuting machine is disclosed, which comprises a housing structure and a discharge rotor. The housing structure defines a discharge chamber adapted to receive meat comminuted by the meat-comminuting machine, through a front mouth of the discharge chamber, and defines a back wall of the discharge chamber and a cylindrical wall thereof. The discharge rotor is arranged to be rotatably driven in the discharge chamber for discharging the comminuted meat from the discharge chamber, through an outlet of the cylindrical wall, via centrifugal force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: 2 M Tool Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Vladan Mihailovic
  • Rotary tabletting machine
    Patent number: 5698238
    Abstract: A rotary tabletting machine, for compressing powder or granular material, includes a rotating turret (3) supporting a ring-shaped member (5) in which openings (2) are made to be filled with the powder or granular material, with pairs of punches moved by driving means (10) which engage pairs of rollers (41) joined to the punches. The punches (20,30) have operative heads (21,31) adapted to compress the material inside the openings (2), and outer mobile heads (24,34), made of wear resistant material. The pairs of opposite punches (20,30) feature also, for each of the punches (20,30), respective tightness seals (25,35).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: I.M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A.
    Inventor: Bruno Guido Fabbri, deceased
  • N-nitroso-N-substituted hydroxylamines as nitric oxide donors
    Patent number: 5698738
    Abstract: Nitric oxide has proved to mediate many important physiological processes. The nitric oxide donors of the present invention have a NONOate anion linked to an ortho-substituted aryl, a heteroaromatic substituent, asteroid, or a catecholamine. Preferred ortho substituents are alkoxy, halo, and alkyl. The cation of the salt is an alkali metal, an alkaline-earth metal, an ammonium or substituted ammonium group. Nitric oxide donors provided herein are more stable than that of nitrogen-bonded NONOates described previously. The by product left after release of NO, and the nitric oxide donors themselves, are very probably less carcinogenic than the corresponding nitrogen-bonded NONOates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignees: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, The Texas A&M University System
    Inventors: Robert E. Garfield, Alexandru T. Balaban, William A. Seitz, Douglas J. Klein, Melanie Lesko
  • Screening sieves, notably for paper pulp
    Patent number: 5697503
    Abstract: Sieve with slots or holes, made from a U-shaped section, constituted by a stack of identical circles, each circle (1, 1') being made from a tapered U-shaped section of which the two ends are welded or mechanically connected to one another, characterized in that this stack of circles (1, 1') is maintained tightly between two rings (2-3, 2-'3') by a plurality of tie rods (4, 4') and in that the lateral walls of the circles in the stack rest on one another without any further fastening together, so that the walls of the sections can undergo elastic deformation under the effects of the tightening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: E & M Lamort
    Inventor: Alain Serres
  • Method of treating birds
    Patent number: 5698193
    Abstract: A method of combatting microbial infections, including Escherichia coli and Salmonella infections, in immature birds by in ovo administration of an immune lymphokine (ILK) containing preparation in an amount effective to combat microbial infections in immature birds. A method of combatting microbial infections in immature birds by upregulating the production of endogenous Interleukin-8 (IL-8) in the bird. A method of combatting microbial infections in immature birds by in ovo administration of immune lymphokine (ILK).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignees: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Agriculture, The Texas A&M University System
    Inventors: Michael H. Kogut, John R. DeLoach, Billy M. Hargis, Edward D. McGruder
  • Pterin derivatives the preparation thereof and the use thereof
    Patent number: 5698408
    Abstract: Pterin derivatives having the general formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a group --(CHOH).sub.2 --CH.sub.3 or --(CHOH).sub.2 --CH.sub.2 OH,R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are not the same and represent either hydrogen or the group --(CH.sub.2).sub.3 CONH(CH.sub.2).sub.4 --NH--R.sub.4, wherein R.sub.4 represents hydrogen or a usual label group for immunoassays or usual coating/support materials for solid phase immunoassays or immunogenic groups for the preparation of antibodiesare useful for the preparation of sensitive immunoassays for the determination of neopterin and biopterin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: B.R.A.H.M.S. Diagnostica GmbH
    Inventor: Hartmut Rokos
  • Snowboard binding
    Patent number: 5697631
    Abstract: The snowboard binding having a sole part integrated in the snowboard boot and a first binding element cooperating with it and continuously connected to the snowboard. The sole part has two spring-loaded pins projecting laterally out of the sole part and capable of engaging with an opening of the first binding element. The pins can be retracted with a device attached to the snowboard boot and thus the binding can be opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: F2 International Ges.m.b.H.
    Inventors: Thomas Ratzek, Christian Niedermeier
  • Survival parka
    Patent number: 5694644
    Abstract: A parka is formed with a substantially rhomboid shaped beaver tail secured at the center and adjacent to the bottom of the back of the parka and is movable from a stored position to a deployed operative position wherein it extends between the legs and part way up the front of the parka, thereby to pull the bottom circumferential edge of the parka into close relationship with the top, the outside of the legs of the wearer while the beaver tail is in close contact with the inside of the legs in the crotch area to provide a better sealed garment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1997
    Assignee: M.E.T.A. Research Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Farnworth, Naomi Vidal
  • Excavating and conveying chain assembly with two-part scraper fingers
    Patent number: 5694708
    Abstract: An excavating and conveying chain assembly for transporting ballast of a track includes a plurality of chain links hingedly connected to each other for traveling along a transport path. Connected to each chain link is a scraper blade which has a link-distal end formed with a plurality of projecting scraper fingers. Each scraper finger is of two-part configuration, with a first part being formed by an engagement member secured to the scraper blade and jutting out therefrom in a finger-like manner, and with a second part being formed by a protective cap that is pushed onto the engagement member and detachably secured thereto by a fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1997
    Assignee: Franz Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen-Industriegesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Josef Theurer, Herbert Worgotter
  • Self-inking stamp
    Patent number: D387799
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: M&R Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean P. Daw, Michael D. Bailey, John R. Laverack, Frederick W. Dour, Steven J. Sculler, Walter W. Stefanski
  • Ink pad holder
    Patent number: D387800
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: M&R Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean P. Daw, Michael D. Bailey, John R. Laverack, Frederick W. Dour, Steven J. Sculler, Walter W. Stefanski
  • Expandable trivet
    Patent number: D388278
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: M. Kamenstein, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert T. Howitt