Patents Issued in October 5, 1982
  • Patent number: 4352214
    Abstract: A toilet seat cover is provided in the form of a blank consisting of at least one layer having a central opening, said layer being formed of a non-porous flexible foil such as of polyvinyl alcohol which foil is soluble in an aqueous medium, the foil being provided on one side with fibres such as of textile waste which fibres are bonded to the foil but freely exposed over part of their length. An endless chain of such covers is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventor: Roland Belz
  • Patent number: 4352215
    Abstract: Jet stream device consisting of a submersible electrical motor, a pump, a housing, an outlet nozzle and fixing means, in which the motor drives the impeller of an axial pump, located in a necked-down portion of the casing and wherein the smallest cross-section of said necked-down portion coincides approximately with the cross-section of the outlet nozzle, which is positioned behind the necked-down portion and wherein furthermore motor, pump impeller, necked-down portion and outlet nozzle are surrounded by a housing whose width coincides approximately with the width of the outlet nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventor: Karsten Laing
  • Patent number: 4352216
    Abstract: To relieve pressure on the back of the neck during two lengthy rinse periods in the permanent wave cycle, a head support of open mesh material supports the head over the center of the lavatory thereby promoting comfort during normally uncomfortable periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventor: Dale D. Grim
  • Patent number: 4352217
    Abstract: A water mattress base support having a flat bottom wall of flexible waterproof sheet material and raised sides extending around the periphery of the bottom wall, each of the raised sides being formed by a pocket of flexible waterproof sheet material and resilient bolster or infill means inserted therein, the bottom wall and the peripheral pockets co-operatively defining together a recess the dimensions of which are such that it can accommodate a water mattress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventor: Peter W. O'Rourke
  • Patent number: 4352218
    Abstract: A mobile chair for use i.e. by handicapped persons, for instance in a boat, comprises a seat and a foot-rest, and is slidable along guide rails and rotatable about a trunnion mounting the foot-rest at a base plate. The seat is carried by an arcuate guide, which in one embodiment has an extension of at least 180.degree. and is carried by guide rails above the foot-rest. In another embodiment the guide can have a full annular extension, and is then carried by supports from a base plate, slidable along two guide rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventor: Lars Lundberg
  • Patent number: 4352219
    Abstract: A tri-lobular, all metal, prevailing torque nut is disclosed providing a cone having three locking sections, each of which extends around the threaded opening for about one-third of the surface of its thread. Each locking section provides a minimum radial distance at its center and extends with gradually increasing radial distance to the ends thereof. When the nut is threaded onto a mating threaded fastener, portions of each locking section are radially displaced from their unstressed condition to the circular shape of the mating fastener, producing frictional engagement between the nut and the fastener to resist unintentional loosening. Each locking section is arranged so that it provides a maximum resistance to deflection at its center and decreasing resistance to deflection at locations progressively spaced from the center so that excessive pressures are not developed which would tend to produce excessive wear or permanent deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventors: John C. McMurray, Arthur G. Kudelko
  • Patent number: 4352220
    Abstract: Method for the construction of a cable-stayed or rein-girth bridge in which the stiffening beam is built together with the guying provided for the final state by the cycle-pushing method and brought into its final position. The guying takes over in this case the support of the stiffening beam during mounting and displacement of the bridge, so that temporary supports between the bridge piers and a temporary guying at the front end of the super-structure are not required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Polensky & Zollner
    Inventor: Hans Wittfoht
  • Patent number: 4352221
    Abstract: An apparatus for washing curved glass sheets comprising a cluster of brushes including a pair of upper brushes and a lower brush mounted above and below, respectively, the horizontal path of movement of the glass sheets. Each brush is formed into an arcuately shaped configuration conforming to the shape of the glass sheets being processed. Each brush is mounted on a composite shaft having an arcuately shaped inner core and an outer, driven, flexible sleeve assuming the shape of the core and rotatable thereabout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Libbey-Owens-Ford Company
    Inventors: Robert G. Revells, John N. Eggert
  • Patent number: 4352222
    Abstract: A hinge with a snap-in mechanism is activated by a spring. The spring is housed in a bush-like member pivotally mounted on a hinge axle of the hinge arm. There are two hinge links that connect the hinge arm with the hinge casing. The bush-like member presses on one hinge link when the hinge is in its closed position but rests mainly or completely on the hinge axle of the hinge link when the hinge is in its open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Julius Blum Gesellschaft m. b. H.
    Inventors: Bernhard Mages, Erich Rock
  • Patent number: 4352223
    Abstract: A web crushing arrangement for a card web comprises cooperating working rolls (6,7) which are supported by a pressure-loadable support member (23), elastic pressure transmitting means (26,29) being provided between the working roll (7) and the support member (23). By supplying compressed air between the surface of the working roll (7) and the pressing surface (27), of the pressing slat (26) facing and shaped to be complementary to it, an air film is generated between the complementary surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Rieter Machine Work, Ltd.
    Inventors: Graf Felix, Armin Wirz, Giancarlo Mondini
  • Patent number: 4352224
    Abstract: The invention relates to opening rollers for open-end spinning apparatus, particularly roller which comprise a body on which is wound a helical coil of metallic wire type card-clothing.The roller body comprises two body parts secured together in end-to-end relationship, and the metallic wire type card-clothing is formed into a pre-set helical coil which is located on an external cylindrical surface of the body, the end flanks of the coil engaging respectively with two abutments one on each of the two parts of the roller body, so that the coil is constrained axially between the abutments in a manner such that adjacent convolutions of the coil are held in abutting relationship.It is preferred to use interlocking card-clothing wire. It is also preferred to make the roller body parts in plastics material, and to secure them together by an adhesive, and in this manner a disposable roller is produced.The specification describes methods of refurbishing existing opening rollers, in accordance with the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: The English Card Clothing Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Keith Grimshaw, Roger C. Spratt
  • Patent number: 4352225
    Abstract: The lower wall of the pre-formed jacket of a bullet is thicker than the upper portion of the jacket and the uppermost or open end of the pre-formed jacket is deformed on its interior surface to provide a plurality of flat surfaces which are joined by a plurality of axial grooves. An inwardly-extending annular ring having a downwardly sloping upper surface and an upwardly sloping undersurface is formed at a shoulder by compression between the lower, thicker wall and the thinner wall adjoining it and, where the core is pressed into the jacket, the annular ring is deformed so that its undersurface becomes perpendicular to the wall of the jacket, thus engaging and holding the base of the core within the jacket. The core and jacket are subsequently deformed into a conventional dynamic shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Hornady Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Charles J. Schreiber
  • Patent number: 4352226
    Abstract: A system for applying an implosion protecting band to a CRT has a worktable which is slidable with respect to a stationary base. The CRT rests on supports which properly position and locate the CRT with respect to the worktable. At least one of these supports includes pads which center the CRT on the worktable. A channel-shaped segmented band guide loops the band around the CRT. The stationary part of the tension device is affixed to the stationary base. The band feed mechanism and the tensioning mechanism are moveable with respect to the worktable so that the worktable does not deflect in response to the tension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventors: Laurence B. Kimbrough, Leonard P. Wilbur
  • Patent number: 4352227
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a wire fin tube for heat transfer which comprises a wire fin forming station, a fin guiding station, a wire fin delivery station, a tube feeding device and a welding device, whereby a plurality of wires are simultaneously shaped into wavy wires which in turn are wound around a tube in the form of plural helices. The fin guiding station is characterized by having at least two different paths of different lengths whereby the wavy wires are wound around the tube in at least two different phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Nishiyodo Air Conditioner Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Ogata, Motoshi Yoshihara, Masahira Tada
  • Patent number: 4352228
    Abstract: Mechanical drive apparatus for rotating the cylindrical shell of a roll, such as a suction or deflection-compensated roll utilized in paper machines, wherein an elongate member, such as a tubular shaft in the case of a suction roll or a massive axle in the case of a deflection-compensated roll, extends longitudinally through the interior of the shell, including a gear transmission having transmission gears through which rotative power is supplied to the shell from an input shaft thereof includes a support member annular portion disposed around one end of the elongate member so as to support the same, unitary bearing means disposed around the annular portion of the support member, drive gear means rotatably mounted on the unitary bearing means within a housing, apparatus preferably in the form of a coupling sleeve, which interconnects the drive gear means and the roll shell whereby the rotational power is transferred from the drive gear means to the shell in a manner such that changes in position of the roll s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Valmet OY
    Inventor: Kalevi Iso-Aho
  • Patent number: 4352229
    Abstract: An arrangement for retaining and positioning a tapered journal sleeve or bearing on the tapered journal of a rolling mill roll utilizes a circumferential groove in the cylindrical end of the roll, in which groove a number of cylindrical rollers are placed. The rollers have a diameter which is greater than the depth of the groove. Thus the rollers project outwardly from the groove and act as a stop for an extractor sleeve. Hydraulic fluid is used to force the tapered journal sleeve onto or off of the tapered journal of the rolling mill roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Bethlehem Steel Corporation
    Inventor: Edward A. Moore, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4352230
    Abstract: A metallic cylindrical mandrel is covered with short cylindrical fiber shells and is used for high temperature applications. The shells are fabricated of aluminum silicate fibers with a binder and are independent of each other to permit relative movement between the shells and the cylinder due to thermal expansion and bending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: New Hudson Corporation
    Inventor: Robert J. Sukenik
  • Patent number: 4352231
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to the method of making a dependable, low cost, low pressure accumulator characterized by the provision of a bladder support sub-assembly secured to an end cap member by an annular weld line, the connection between the noted components being effected prior to insertion of the assembly and end cap into a cylindrical pressure vessel component, whereby the opposed surfaces in registry with the weld are exposed to ambient temperatures, eliminating the danger of damage to the bladder in the course of welding. The bladder sub-assembly and end cap are thereafter inserted into and weldingly connected to a pressure vessel, the open mouth portion of which is inwardly deformed to overlie the end cap and retainer portion of the bladder sub-assembly, dependably to secure the components together and to effect the desired seals between adjacent components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: VSI Corporation
    Inventor: A. A. Jacobellis
  • Patent number: 4352232
    Abstract: A clip attachment device for affixing a generally circular clip about a mass of material includes a split mandrel mounted on a support arm. The mandrel is elastically deformable and in its normally expanded condition frictionally engages and retains or stores a plurality of clips. The pivotal support arm for the mandrel is movable between a position over a clip attachment opening in the base of the device and a clip indexing station. The mandrel is translatable in a longitudinal direction so that a clip at the clip attachment station may be positioned by longitudinal movement for engagement by clip closure dies. The dies can partially close and compress about one clip. The mandrel may then be withdrawn with the remaining clip to the indexing station. The retained clip may then be further compressed by the dies about a mass of material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Tipper Tie, Inc.
    Inventors: Gordon R. Winders, Fredric M. MacKay, Thomas E. Whittlesey
  • Patent number: 4352233
    Abstract: A low cost, simple to manufacture, two axis gyro having an outer flexure assembly and an inner flexure assembly. Each flexure assembly contains two flexure hinges which represent a reduction in the number of hinges and milled cuts from those required in prior art devices. The inner flexure assembly is designed to nest within the outer flexure assembly and both are mounted centrally on a rotatable shaft for rotation about the gyro spin axis. The two flexures of the outer assemblies are separated 180.degree. from each other and adjacent to two slots also separated by 180.degree. in the rim of the outer gimbal. Likewise, the two flexures of the inner flexure assembly are separated 180.degree. from each other and 90.degree. from each of the outer flexures. The outer flexure assembly axis is offset axially by a controlled amount from the inner flexure assembly axis to achieve nominal balance on both flexure axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: The Singer Company
    Inventor: Walter J. Krupick
  • Patent number: 4352234
    Abstract: An inflation for use in a teat cup assembly for automatic milking machines employing a vacuum milk line and a pulsating vacuum line is disclosed. The inflation comprises an elongate, tubular, body member having a novel mouth-forming diaphragm at one end thereof for engaging the teat of a cow to retain the teat cup assembly from falling off the teat at the end point of milking. The mouth-forming diaphragm is formed by bonding one end of a relatively short tubular mouth-forming member to one end of the body member, wherein the mouth-forming member has a maximum cross-sectional dimension smaller than the maximum cross-sectional dimension of the tubular body member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventor: Daniel O. Noorlander
  • Patent number: 4352235
    Abstract: Flanges are formed on each end of a metal cylindrical base member. The surface of the base member is roughened and a colored epoxy resin is applied to the rough surface as the base is rotated. After drying and curing the resin is shaved down to the height of the flanges and the article is polished. A plurality of different colored resins may be applied in order to give a marbled appearance and the surfaces of the flanges may be coated with a metal by an electroplating process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventor: Kazuo Masuda
  • Patent number: 4352236
    Abstract: A process for growing field oxide particularly for a dynamic memory is described. The process results in thinner field oxides in the storage array (2000-3000 A) and thicker oxides for the peripheral circuits (7000-8000 A). The thinner field oxide regions have smaller bird-beaks, reducing required substrate area. The plate for the storage nodes are coupled to ground potential, thus the thinner field oxides in the storage region provide sufficient isolation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: John L. McCollum
  • Patent number: 4352237
    Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, after underetching a first polysilicon layer beneath spaced SiO.sub.2 cover layers to produce pairs of confronting SiO.sub.2 overhangs with gaps therebetween, and providing an insulating layer at the end faces of the spaced poly-Si-1 electrodes formed from the first polysilicon layer, a second polysilicon layer is produced by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) so as to fill the cavities beneath the SiO.sub.2 overhangs via the gaps between each pair of confronting overhangs. The second polysilicon layer is then etched away so as to leave intervening self-adjusting, nonoverlapping poly-Si-2 electrodes formed from the second polysilicon layer with surfaces terminating for example slightly below the upper surfaces of the SiO.sub.2 cover layers. For a center-to-center spacing of poly-Si-1 electrodes of six microns, the SiO.sub.2 overhangs may have an extent (e.g. 0.7 microns) about equal to the electrode layer thickness (e.g. 0.8 microns).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Dietrich Widmann
  • Patent number: 4352238
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a vertical static induction semiconductor device comprising depositing a polycrystalline silicon film on a single crystal silicon layer, and forming an insulating film comprised of silicon nitride on the polycrystalline film. The insulating film is selectively etched to form islands of the insulating film overlying areas where a gate region and a main electrode region of the semiconductor device are to be formed. An oxide film is formed on the surface regions exposed by etching, and the oxide film is used as a mask for controlling introduction of impurity atoms to form the gate region and the main electrode region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Daini Seikosha
    Inventor: Masafumi Shimbo
  • Patent number: 4352239
    Abstract: A process for suppressing electromigration in conducting lines formed on integrated circuit structures includes the steps of forming the conducting lines on the integrated circuit structure and heat treating the lines to cause the average grain size in the lines to become larger than the width of the conducting lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Fairchild Camera and Instrument
    Inventor: John M. Pierce
  • Patent number: 4352240
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electrical connector for a coaxial cable which has in a through-hole for receiving the coaxial cable, a projecting positive terminal axially provided in the center and a plurality of projecting ground terminals axially provided in various radial directions in conformity with radiuses of outer conductors of various standards of coaxial cables. The positive terminal and the ground terminals are insulated from each other. The method comprises the steps of severing an end of the coaxial cable smoothly normal to the longitudinal axis thereof, axially moving the severed end of the coaxial cable into contact with the connector, connecting the positive terminal and the ground terminals of the connector axially with inner and outer conductors exposed on the severed end of the coaxial cable and securing the coaxial cable to the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventor: Hitoshi Komada
  • Patent number: 4352241
    Abstract: A circular saw blade of centerless type which has a sawing depth greater than the radius of the circle, comprises an annular blade and at least one central disc provided inside the annular blade. The central disc contains at least one conduit or passage for a fluid, e.g. for a coolant or a flushing agent to the part of the disc which lies within the region of the maximum sawing depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventor: Mats A. Johansson
  • Patent number: 4352242
    Abstract: A gourmet press for producing hors d'oeuvres and similar snacks in the form of morsels of various foods stacked on a skewer. The press is a tubular device with a sharpened end which is pressed into various foods such as cheese, meat, bread, fruit and the like to cut out portions of such foods. Cut portions of food stack successively inside the tube and, when the required stack is complete, a skewer is inserted through the stack. The skewered stack is then ejected by a finger operated plunger mounted in the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventor: Catherine Plet
  • Patent number: 4352243
    Abstract: Apparatus for cutting vegetation with a rotatable head carrying a non-metallic cutting line extended into a cutting plane. Additional line is extended from a supply line coil within the head into the cutting plane without independent operator action. A mechanism in the head automatically feeds replacement line whenever the free end of the cutting line is reduced to less than a predetermined maximum length in the cutting plane. The cutting line length is always extended to this predetermined maximum length at all operational rotational speeds, without adjustment, and in a positive step-by-step mode of segmental line advancement. The line feeder mechanism, has an escapement lever with a triggering toggle that also can be actuated at the operator command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventor: Marco H. Lombard
  • Patent number: 4352244
    Abstract: This invention relates to a straightly extensible measuring tape which can maintain a straight extension when it is extended. It comprises a curvature portion having a larger arc than a semicircle at section of a width direction of the measuring tape under a forceless state when it has been extended, and a flattened portion integrally formed with the curvature portion. Consequently, the measuring tape of this invention is able to be wound or extended at one's option by using a preferred winding means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventor: Yasushi Tomuro
  • Patent number: 4352245
    Abstract: A distance indicating device comprises a probe having therein a light source and light sensitive element to receive light reflected from the surroundings of the probe. A reference point is movable relative to the probe. The light sensitive element gives rise to an electric signal. A first storage means stores a signal representing the maximum reflected light returned to the light sensitive element. A second storage means stores a signal representing the light returned to the light sensitive element representing the minimum reflected light. A selection means selects a signal level between the maximum and minimum stored signals' and a measuring element measures the distance between the reference point and a further reference point, associated with the probe, when the signal level reaches the selected signal level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignees: John B. Hennessy, The Development Finance Corporation of New Zealand
    Inventors: John B. Hennessy, Rodney J. Twizell
  • Patent number: 4352246
    Abstract: The tracer head comprises a casing, an axially movable tracer and a radially movable tracer. The radially movable tracer comprises a ball head, a feeler disc and a stem connecting the ball head with the feeler disc. The ball head has the form of a ball zone, the lower flat surface of which rests on the bottom surface of the casing when the radially movable tracer is in its inoperative position. The upper surface of the ball head is a contact surface with the axially movable tracer. The ball-like circumference surface of the ball head lies free of play on the inside wall of the casing. The stem passes with a certain amount of play through a bore provided in the bottom of the casing. The axially movable tracer contacts the upper flat surface of the ball head always only in one point. By means of this a precise transfer of the tilting movements of the radially movable tracer is secured. The tracer head has a substantially smaller diameter than the known tracer heads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: ETA A.G. Ebauches-Fabrik
    Inventor: Ulrich Hauert
  • Patent number: 4352247
    Abstract: A square for plotting angles, parallels, and polygonal shapes on the circular surface of a cylindrical body. The square includes a pair of contact arms forming a right angle, and a center arm forming a bisector of the right angle. A protractor frame is slidably attached to the center arm, and a pointer is attached to the arc-shaped portion of the protractor. The square includes a separate attached straightedge parallel to the center arm, and movable in variable spaced relation thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventor: Norbert-Josef Rohde
  • Patent number: 4352248
    Abstract: A bonnet type steamer including an ultrasonic atomizer for generating a mist at room temperature and an electric heater for heating the mist for the generation of steam before the mist enters into the interior of a bonnet where the customer's head is inserted for hair treatment. Specifically, the steam is ejected from the entire periphery of the bonnet while running upward within the bonnet. Control circuitry made up of a microprocessor senses and regulates the temperature of the steam with the aid of a temperature sensor. The temperature of the steam and the duration of operation of the steamer are easily selectable and adjustable by the use of manual switches. A hot air generator is provided for generating hot air for drying purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takehiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 4352249
    Abstract: A fruit dryer comprising a roller conveyor passing through an elongate drying chamber is disclosed. An air plenum having a plurality of transverse nozzle openings is disposed above the conveyor and directs a series of curtain-like air streams on the fruit below. The major portion of the air within the dryer is recycled by a fan while a smaller portion of said air is exhausted by a second fan. A heater heats both the recycled air and fresh air introduced as make-up for the exhausted air. A means is provided to rotate the individual rollers of the roller conveyor as the conveyor is advanced in order to expose all sides of the fruit to the air streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventor: Boyd W. Rose
  • Patent number: 4352250
    Abstract: A suction dredger installation provided with a vessel, at least one pump, at least one suction pipe hingedly connected to the vessel, said suction pipe comprising three pipe sections hingedly interconnected, the first of which is supported by a ladder, and together therewith being adapted for hinged movement relative to the vessel about a horizontal shaft extending thwartships and being connected to the second suction pipe section in lazy tong relationship, and means for controlling the position of the suction pipe, of which the control means for the position of the second suction pipe section are mounted on the ladder adjacent the pivot pin thereof with the vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Koninklijke Bos Kalis Westminster Group N.V.
    Inventor: Huibert de Vries
  • Patent number: 4352251
    Abstract: A portable and lightweight suction dredge head which is held by a diver and is hand operated so as to be easily moved about in the working position. These heads are, for example of sizes from three inches to eight inches in intake diameter. The dredge head is used for excavating under water and is of the suction type wherein the material is conveyed away from a suction pipe from the dredge head. A jet digger may also be used with the dredge head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventor: Albert H. Sloan
  • Patent number: 4352252
    Abstract: The invention relates to a steam generator with direct evaporation comprising a first plate provided with an inlet channel for a pressurized fluid to be evaporated, a second plate independent of the first plate and superposed thereon, a steam recovery cavity in communication with a peripheral part of the first and second plates, and an electric heating resistor located at least approximately in a plane parallel to said first and second plates. The pressurized fluid inlet channel opens out freely from the first plate perpendicularly thereto and to the second plate, in a central part of the generator, and has an outlet diameter greater than about 2.5 mm, and the face of the second plate located opposite the first plate is maintained applied against the corresponding face of the first plate by elastic return means.The invention finds an application in hand-operated ironing presses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventor: Claude G. Brenot
  • Patent number: 4352253
    Abstract: An animal marking system for cattle and the like comprises a flexible strap (14) designed to be secured around the neck of an animal. One set of patches (22) bearing numbers and another set of patches (20) bearing a color are replaceably secured at two separate locations to the strap (14) so that the numbers and colors are clearly visible from a distance and from each of the two sides of the animal. The system includes sets of patches (20) bearing different identifiable colors to indicate the condition of the cow with respect to health, breeding condition or lactation. The patches are secured to the sides of the strap through a Velcro fastening system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventor: William L. Oswalt
  • Patent number: 4352254
    Abstract: A package for cartridges for rapid reloading of bolt-type magazine or clip for a weapon especially for automatic and semiautomatic military weapons, comprises a generally U-shaped frame whose shanks form inwardly open channels receiving opposite ends of the cartridges or rounds. The mouth of the package is formed with a substantially funnel-shaped seat adapted to surmount the mouth of the magazine or clip so that the stack of cartridge can be pressed from its side opposite the mouth into the magazine, e.g. by the insertion of fingers through windows defined between the shanks. The seat is asymmetrical with respect to the median plane through the package with side of the seat being formed with openings opposite the aprons which define the funnel shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventors: Kurt Peter, Gerhard Muck
  • Patent number: 4352255
    Abstract: A group use toy structural construction set comprising various lengths of a straight resilient plastic tubes with slotted ends, large size tubular member resilient plastic hoops, three basic types of tubular member connectors, and an optional wheel hub. The three basic types of connectors are used for releasable interengagement of: (a) tubular member body-to-tube end; (b) tubular member body-to-tubular member body; and (c) tube end-to-tube end. Connectors use identical clutching elements and identical frictional fitted plugs, with clutching elements designed to grasp and frictionally hold tubular member bodies, and plugs designed to be fitted into slotted tube ends and frictionally hold therein. Tubes and hoops have same outside diameter for tubular bodies. Hoops have overall diameters ranging up to those of a "hula" hoop, or about 36 in. (90 cms). Some connectors are fixed type, and some pivotal type, with latter having angular latitude advantage over former.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventor: Norwood R. Warehime
  • Patent number: 4352256
    Abstract: A greenhouse structure includes a central hub having a revolving floor therein and a plurality of arms radiating outwardly from that hub. The arms are growth chambers, and movable trays located within those growth chambers move plants from the arms onto and from a workbench in the hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventor: Dale P. Kranz
  • Patent number: 4352257
    Abstract: Two overlapping laterally slidable windows in a main frame are separated by a vertically disposed sash bar having weather stripping on opposite surfaces thereof. A U-shaped edge frame is secured to each of the vertically extending overlapping window edges with the leg portions of the edge frames disposed between said windows being spaced from each window. The opposite vertically extending end surfaces of said sash bar are provided with vertically extending beveled grooves adapted to receive and retain the spaced legs of the U-shaped edge frames when the windows are moved to the closed position within the main frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shunichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 4352258
    Abstract: An adjustable sill and threshold assembly for a door in which a stationary sill base is provided with a longitudinally upwardly opening groove therein and in which a threshold is received in the groove and adapted for adjustable vertical movement therein, including a plurality of generally vertically extending longitudinally spaced adjusting screws which are rotatably captured in the threshold and extending in depending relation, and which are adjustable through apertures in the threshold, and a plurality of sheet metal channel-shaped screw retainer nuts are received and located in the base corresponding to the spacing of the screws and having an aperture for receiving one of said screws therein so that rotation of the screws causes a raising or lowering movement of the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Pease Company
    Inventors: William M. Bursk, Jacob G. Doll
  • Patent number: 4352259
    Abstract: An inflatable movable ceiling or partition is installed in a greenhouse to limit the interior volume of the greenhouse which must be heated by artificial means. The tubes are inflatable transparent plastic tubes, which are arranged longitudinally in the greenhouse, and when inflated form a complete false ceiling partition. When the tubes are deflated, they may be pushed back to lie against the sides of the greenhouse. The ceiling or partition is formed of adjacent cylindrical inflatable tubes which are in fluid communication by means of an inventive jumper system which forms an airtight seal between adjacent members. The jumpers may be installed at the time the system is installed in the greenhouse and the ends of the cylinders sealed by wire ties or they may be taped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: X. S. Smith, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard W. Smith, Robert H. Frank
  • Patent number: 4352260
    Abstract: An underground house includes a dome-shaped structure disposed on a solid floor slab. A plurality of curved arch members extend from the floor slab to a ring structure. A layer of stiff mesh supporting a layer of fabric extends between each arch member and the arch members adjacent thereto. Alternate layers of spaced horizontal and vertical reinforcing rod extend over and generally parallel to the fabric and are supported by the various arch members. The various pieces of reinforcing rod are tied together and to the adjacent mesh by pieces of tie wire to support the mesh and the fabric. The fabric provides support during construction for a layer of gunnite or shotcrete into which various pieces of the reinforcing rod are embedded. Front and rear atriums with vertical, semi-cylindrical walls extend to the lower floor level. The atrium walls extend to adjoin the layer of gunnite to laterally enclose the atriums.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventors: Leroy G. Pearcey, Dale A. Pearcey
  • Patent number: 4352261
    Abstract: Skirt construction for mobile homes which includes a series of individual panels, interconnected at their vertical edges, and rod members connected at their upper ends, extending downwardly through the connections of the panels and into the ground to prevent lateral displacement of the panels, yet permitting relative individual movement of each when the ground heaves or settles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventor: Louis Wargo
  • Patent number: 4352262
    Abstract: A method of repairing cracks in a concrete structure to prevent leakage wherein rods are inserted in the crack at spaced intervals to extend outwardly therefrom. A surface seal is applied to extend partially into the crack near the structure outer surface from which the rods extend, and to the structure outer surface adjacent to the crack and around the rods so that the surface seal acts as a surface barrier for the filler to be injected. Port members, having hollow shaft portions, and a flange portion are placed over the rods with the flange portions approximately adjacent the structure outer surface. Substantially the entire flange portion is embedded in the surface seal. The surface seal is allowed to cure to define a surface barrier for the filler, and the rods are removed from the crack and port members such that the ports communicate with the crack cavity behind the surface seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventors: Frank E. Edelmann, James R. Post
  • Patent number: 4352263
    Abstract: Stretch bagging, particularly a method for stuffing a chicken carcass into a stretch plastic bag. The method is characterized by its alternate application of a central pushing force and a chicken leg pushing force, so as to hock or compress the chicken within the stretch bag. The hocking of the chicken within the bag eliminates the time-consuming and expensive necessity for clipping the chicken legs together prior to packaging and, also, presents a more uniform and pleasing appearance of the packaged carcass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Assignee: Star Packaging Corporation
    Inventor: H. David Andrews, Jr.