Patents Issued in April 24, 1984
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Patent number: 4443935Abstract: A process for making an electrosurgical pencil with rocker switch for holding and controlling a monopolar electrosurgical scalpel blade, wherein the rocker switch pivots on the exterior of the pencil body and is isolated from the interior of the body by a flexible waterproof seal. In the process for manufacturing the electrosurgical pencil, a cable portion having at least a common conductor, first signal conductor, and second signal conductor is selected, clips are attached to each end of the three conductors of the cable portion, and a spring contact and a clip attached to one end of the common conductor are installed in a pencil body portion so that a central portion of the spring contact is held adjacent a switch seat. Clips attached to the first and second signal conductors are then mounted within the body portion beneath opposite ends of the switch seal and spaced apart from the spring contact, and a second body portion is sealed to the first body portion to create a unitary electrosurgical pencil body.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Trident Surgical CorporationInventors: Gene Zamba, Carl Foltz
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Patent number: 4443936Abstract: A contact is bulk fed into the side of a guide block where it is raised up into a crimping head. A sectioned funnel guides wire ends into the positioned contact, after which the sections move apart to permit bottoming of the wires in the contact, and then the contact is crimped to the wire.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Luis J. Lazaro, Jr.
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Patent number: 4443937Abstract: The present invention relates to the method and apparatus for manufacturing electrical connector pins. The method and apparatus make it possible to manufacture a pin from a blank of oblong shape (10), this blank being machined at different locations while held alternately by its ends (10A and 10B), the blank being moved from one location to another always substantially parallel to itself by means of gripping arms (27, 28, 61, and 60).Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Souriau-Cluses (S.A.)Inventors: Jean P. Dominici, Michel Morand
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Patent number: 4443938Abstract: A plastic disposable razor having one or more blades with a movable permanently attached sliding cap or cover for exposing and protecting the blade edge selectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Warner-Lambert CompanyInventors: Peter Bowman, Allan S. Frieze
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Patent number: 4443939Abstract: A flexible razor blade cartridge having an expansible cap plus a blade support composed of a plurality of contiguous sinews or ribbons of flexible plastic material defining a sinuous, convoluted, cage-like structure including an integral segmental flexible guard bar and means for releasably securing the cartridge to a handle.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Warner-Lambert CompanyInventors: Vincent C. Motta, Ernest F. Kiraly
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Patent number: 4443940Abstract: A safety razor head including a guard member, a platform member fixed to the guard member, a leading blade fixed to the platform member, a cap member, a following blade fixed to the cap member, and flexible bridge portions interconnecting the guard and cap members, the bridge portions extending transversely to cutting edges of the blades and being adapted to permit resilient flexing of the cap member relative to the guard member during a shaving operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: The Gillette CompanyInventors: John F. Francis, Brian R. Kirk, John C. Terry
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Patent number: 4443941Abstract: An instrument for cutting elongated pins used in orthopedic surgery includes a housing having a reduced diameter portion in which is disposed a piston reciprocable in a fluid chamber. An enlarged diameter portion of the housing forms a further part of the fluid chamber in which is disposed a second piston connected to a member forming a first cutting edge which is movable toward an anvil having a second cutting edge cooperable with the first cutting edge to shear a pin to a predetermined length. The smaller piston is engaged by a screw actuator disposed on the housing and which may be rotated to provide a substantial force multiplication whereby a sufficient cutting force is exerted on a pin. The instrument is provided with a transverse handle portion to facilitate handling and to hold the instrument against reaction forces of the screw actuator. The cutting edges are formed on cooperable anvil and actuating member portions.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Inventor: Jack L. McPhaul
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Patent number: 4443942Abstract: A tool for trimming lapping edge portions of sheet material, such as linoleum, to form a butt seam. The tool includes a roller supported base intended to be moved lengthwise of and in a straddling relationship relative to the overlapping portions; a tool operating handle pivotally supported on the base and fitted with a cutting blade; a lock device for selectively retaining the handle in either blade change or cutting/carrying positions; and an adjustment device for selectively controlling the depth of cut of the blade, while in its cutting/carrying position, such that the depth of cut is independent of pressure applied by an operator to the handle for purposes of effecting movement of the tool lengthwise of the overlapping edge portions during a seam cutting operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Inventor: Paul J. Demeter
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Patent number: 4443943Abstract: A pipe cutter comprising a guide member, a pair of supporting arms which are slidably arranged on the guide member, rotatable supporting rollers which hold a pipe to be cut on at least three points of the peripery thereof, a sliding member having a cutting tool fixed thereto, which is mounted on one of the supporting arms, and a feed screw shaft provided with a handle and screwed to the sliding member, wherein by turning the feed screw shaft, the sliding member and cutting tool can be moved in a predetermined direction, the improvement comprising a frictional clutch which is interposed between said handle and said feed screw shaft so that rotation of the handle is transmitted to the feed screw shaft only when the cutting resistance acting on the side of the feed screw shaft is smaller than a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Rex Industries Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masaaki Maruyama
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Patent number: 4443944Abstract: In a spring retracted tape measure in which the tape measure is retracted into a housing (1,2) onto a spring biassed drum (3), the ratchet is constituted by teeth (23) formed on the housing and detents (27) on flexible arms (24) on the drum which bias the detents into contact with the teeth (23). A portion (20) of the housing is resiliently connected to the rest of the housing, and can be depressed inwardly to engage the flexible arms (24) thus disengaging the detents (27) from the teeth (23) to permit the tape to be wound in.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Howard Wall LimitedInventor: Phillip G. Beesley
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Patent number: 4443945Abstract: An electric micrometer with a U-shaped frame hasa contact-type rotary encoder comprising a disk which has conductor patterns thereon, and a rotary brush holder which holds rotary brush contacts. The rotary brush holder is rotated by rotation of a spindle. A coupler connects a sleeve journaled to the spindle with the rotary brush holder so that the rotary brush holder rotates together with the sleeve and the spindle but need not have the same rotational axis as the sleeve.Integral to the frame is a count-and-control circuit which counts the output signal of the rotary encoder and indirectly computes a distance between the frame and an end of the spindle, and a digital indicator which is disposed on a part of the frame and indicates the computed distance.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takehide Takemura, Hiroshi Yamada
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Patent number: 4443946Abstract: A probe having a movable member including an elongate stylus and a plate extending in a plane transverse to the longitudinal axis of the stylus. The plate is seated on a seat having a circular edge provided on the fixed member. Displacement of the free end of the stylus, either transversely to or longitudinally of the stylus, is measured by a transducer having an electrical output signal. Like transverse and longitudinal displacements of the free end unavoidably produce unlike signals. To compensate for this, the signal is passed through a voltage divider whose output is made variable by a relay in a circuit containing the plate and the edge as electrical contacts. Transverse displacement of the free end tilts the plate on the edge, thus maintaining engagement therebetween. Longitudinal displacement separates the plate from the edge, thus breaking contact therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Renishaw Electrical LimitedInventor: David R. McMurtry
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Patent number: 4443947Abstract: A plug comparator for checking the diameter of holes of mechanical parts comprising a support, a movable measurement unit and a protection casing.The movable measurement unit comprises two movable arms bearing respective feeler elements which come into contact with the part to be checked.A position transducer detects the position of the movable arms and is connected by an electric cord to an electric supply and indication group.The casing has a lower base with a frustoconical seat for the fitted housing of a closure plate. The closure plate has a cut in diametral direction which subdivides it into two adjacent portions connected by a third portion which is elastically yieldable so as to permit fitting the closure plate in the frustoconical seat.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Finike Italiana Marposs S.p.A.Inventors: Mario Possati, Guido Golinelli, Narciso Selleri
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Patent number: 4443948Abstract: A pig for monitoring the internal surface profile of a pipeline carries a plurality of sensors to trace the surface as the pig traverses the pipeline. Output signals from the sensors are compared with an expected value and a reference signal generated when they differ by more than a predetermined amount. The sensor signals are recorded simultaneously with the reference signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Inventor: Richard Reeves
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Patent number: 4443949Abstract: A specially constructed template is provided for use in hanging wall-supported members, such as framed pictures, paintings, and the like. The template comprises an elongated body including two mirror imaged arrays of closely spaced holes distributed symmetrically on opposite sides of the longitudinal center of the template and in association with corresponding indicia to indicate the spacing of each hole from the center. The template is used to mark a wall-supported member and the wall at corresponding aligned locations so that specially configured two-part fasteners may be secured to the wall supported member and the wall in positions for mating alignment thereby permitting the wall-supported member to be hung in a stable manner and in a desired position on the wall.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Inventor: Charles Newton
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Patent number: 4443950Abstract: The invention relates to rotating saw blade adjustment devices in general, and more specifically to a very simple apparatus, comprising two metal brackets, which when used in conjunction with an adjustable triangle and/or framing square, can provide precision adjustments for either a radial arm saw or a table saw.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Inventor: Eugene A. Cockeram
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Patent number: 4443951Abstract: An arrangement for the measuring and correction of the steering geometry of motor vehicles, in particular their alignment and camber angles, through the intermediary of mechanical components associated with each wheel of a wheel pair and which serves for the scanning of the actual value of the wheel angles, whereby the values determined in this manner are converted into electrical signals through the utilization of data pick-ups and are then displayed.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Mauser-Werke Oberndorf GmbHInventors: Claus Elsasser, Gunther Ross, Volker Schwarz
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Patent number: 4443952Abstract: Apparatus is operable gyroscopically to determine direction and to determine north. This apparatus includes a case (34), a gimbal (20) and a central gyro (10). The gimbal (20) is rotatably mounted in the case for rotating azimuthally. The central gyro (10) has transverse to its spin axis (16), a single degree of rotational freedom. This central gyro (10) is mounted in the gimbal (20) to rotate about its spin axis (16) and shift the degree of freedom between a vertical (12) and a horizontal (18) axis. The central gyro (10) has a transducer (28) and a torquer (26). The transducer (28) can sense motion about the single degree of freedom and can provide a deflection signal signifying this motion. The torquer (26) is connected to the transducer (28) and can respond to its deflection signal for applying a torque to the central gyro (10) tending to affect motion about the single degree of freedom, when this freedom is oriented along the vertical axis (12).Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: The Bendix CorporationInventors: Howard E. Schulien, Raymond M. Bendett, Michael J. Lanni
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Patent number: 4443953Abstract: A handle for a drafting instrument and the like comprising a ring body structure having a traverse slot therethrough for permitting the ring to be compressed, and further provided with a groove or ridge structure for complementary engagement with the perimeter of a hole and double aperture of a drafting instrument with which the handle is used. The preferred embodiment has one ridge which is closest to the gripping surface of a handle of larger diameter than a contact ridge furthermost from the gripping surface for permitting easy indexing of the handle during installation with the drafting instrument. Another embodiment reverses the respective diameters of the two ridges, while a further embodiment employs an internal spring for increasing the outward tension of the ring when released, and a further embodiment wherein tongue and groove structure is complementarily provided between the drafting instrument and the engaging portion of the handle ring.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Inventor: Stephen E. Gregory
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Patent number: 4443954Abstract: A masonry guide including an upright standard; a fork affixed to the standard adjacent its lowermost end for engaging the external corner of a building structure; a pair of arms pivotally engaging the standard at right angles to one another, the arms each carrying a common pin and an end pin adapted for placement upon the top surface of the walls under construction; and adjustment rods pivotally and angularly connected between the standard and each arm for vertically plumbing the standard and for providing arm support. Guide line blocks are attachable to the standard for holding horizontally extending guidelines in place. The masonry guide also preferably includes a pair of spirit levels adjacent the top of the standard for vertical positioning of the standard and may also include a measurement rule for setting of guidelines at proper height. An accessory pin, rearwardly extending from the standard, cooperates with the end pins of the arms to permit the device to be used on an internal corner.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Inventor: John S. Clark
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Patent number: 4443955Abstract: Method and apparatus for cooling hot bulk material, such as red-hot coke, sinter, or clinker, and, in particular, for relieving a gas stream flowing through the hot bulk material to cool the same includes continuously charging hot bulk material into a cooler housing and onto the free surface of spread bulk material already contained within the cooler housing and cooling the hot bulk material by absorbing and removing the intensive heat radiation radiated from the surface of the hot bulk material in a radiation cooling surface extending over in facing relationship to the free surface of hot bulk material.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Waagner-Biro A.G.Inventor: Georg Beckmann
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Patent number: 4443956Abstract: A shoe replaceable heel device including a heel base including a replaceable heel mounted on the bottom of the heel portion of the sole of a shoe, a replaceable heel connecting means for removably screwing said replaceable heel to the underside of the heel base and fastening means for securing the heel base to the sole. The connecting means includes a circular base plate secured to the underside of the heel base and a circular replaceable plate secured to the top of said replaceable heel. The base plate has a male threaded perimeter and the replaceable plate has female screw threads adapted to mate with the threaded perimeter of the base plate. The connecting means for women's replaceable high heel is to secure base plate directly to heel portion of shoe sole and apply fastening means described.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Inventor: Albert Caccavale
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Patent number: 4443957Abstract: A unitary urethane snubber is provided to snub opening and closing movements of a dipper door. The snubber has an elongated working section that is stretched to snub door closing and bent to snub door opening. A pair of integral end lugs pivotally attach the snubber to the dipper and to the door. The snubber is unstressed in an intermediate position to facilitate installation.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Abex CorporationInventors: Raymond J. Novotny, Henry J. Ihlein
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Patent number: 4443958Abstract: A means for removal of snow and/or ice from a road or other equivalent area, meant to be attached to a work machine, said means comprising a helical cutter (10) disposed substantially transversally to the direction of travel of the work machine, a drive means (11) for rotating the cutter about its central axis (12), and members (6,7,8) for collecting the material detached by the cutter (10) and for their removal from the ground and transportation onto a load platform (9). The object is to eliminate the drawback encountered in means of this kind that it is not possible with them to remove the snow and ice simultaneously from the carriage-way and pavements and from behind traffis signs, posts and other similar obstacles.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Inventor: Veijo E. Huotari
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Patent number: 4443959Abstract: Stackable storage holders for photographs are provided with a viewing window in a first side and a projecting land on the opposite side, the land being configured to fit within the window region of an adjacent holder when a plurality of the holders are stacked. A base member, provided with regions having a high coefficient of friction, is provided with a recess in its upper surface which receives a land on a holder.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Licinvest AGInventor: Peter Ackeret
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Patent number: 4443960Abstract: A framing device which includes a plurality of adjustable arms to tension the frame by pressing against the inner surfaces at each of the corner points and with each arm also being adjustable about a transverse plane.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Inventors: Jack Abel, Cora Abel
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Patent number: 4443961Abstract: A transparent panel assembly consists of an upper and lower plate defining a space therebetween. It is secured to the cart and extends across the space between the transverse push rod and the upper transverse rod or bar of the rear side of the cart body. Printed advertisements or notices etc. may be detachably inserted within the space or spaces between the upper and lower panels, visible to the shopper pushing the cart. Clamps extend around the push bar and are secured to the adjacent edge of the panel holding this edge adjacent the underside of the push bar and further clamps extend around the other transverse rod and engage the underside of the other edge of the panel which rests upon the upper transverse rod for support. The sheet or sheets of display material carrying the advertisements or notices, extend slightly from the panel under the push bar where it is shielded yet permitting easy access for removal and replacement purposes.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 1983Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Inventor: Edward J. Gilroy
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Patent number: 4443962Abstract: A hand weapon includes a weapon housing, a breechblock accommodated in the housing for reciprocating motion, a bolt affixed to the breechblock and a slot, having opposite longitudinal edges, provided in the weapon housing. The bolt projects through the slot. There is further provided a slot guard arranged for covering the slot. The slot guard comprises a first and a second sealing lip held by the housing along respective longitudinal edges of the slot and projecting outwardly. The sealing lips are, at least along outer edge portions thereof, in a face-to-face engagement with one another and are locally spread apart by the bolt.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: SIG Schweizerische Industrie-GesellschaftInventors: Alois Bernet, Eduard Brodbeck
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Patent number: 4443963Abstract: A fishing rod having a handle which stores a bolt having a pointed shank or spike that can be axially extended from the handle to be extended into the ground or engaged in other structure to support the fishing rod, as when a hook is being baited or the rod is left unattended, or the like. A locking arm is provided fixed to the shank of the bolt for movement thereof and to releasably secure the shank in the stored or the extended position. The pole portion of the fishing rod can have an axial passage for accommodation of the fishing line.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Inventor: Donald L. Braaten
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Patent number: 4443964Abstract: Disclosure is made of a novel trap which is specifically useful for the entrapment of Heliothis virescens and related insects. The trap comprises a skewed frusto-conic member having open ends and fabricated from a reticulated, flexible, synthetic material. At one open end, a container fabricated from reticulated side walls of a synthetic, polymeric resin secures and closes that open end. A removable closure allows entry into the chamber formed in the container. The trap is supported with the container closed end uppermost and the opposite open end lowermost. Support means in a simple embodiment comprises lacings or loops secured to a staff.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Albany International Corp.Inventors: John D. Horn, Ralph J. Hodosh
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Patent number: 4443965Abstract: An insect killer having a housing containing a motorized suction fan for drawing insects into the housing and securing them to a screen member covering a rear opening of the housing, and a scraping bar mounted on a rotating shaft in sliding contact with the interior side of the member which will crush the insects when rotated.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Inventor: Ong T. Gie
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Patent number: 4443966Abstract: A toy car which includes an internal tubular spring retainer which extends from one end of the car to the other, and a coiled spring mounted within the retainer. A key is inserted into the rear end of the retainer to compress the spring, and the key is latched with the retainer after it has been inserted to cock the spring. The key is held in the hand of the operator, and it is squeezed or otherwise moved to unlatch the key from the retainer. This causes the forward end of the spring to move against the forward end of the car chassis, while the rear end of the spring engages the forward end of the key, thereby propelling the car forwardly away from the key, as the key is held stationary in the hand of the operator.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Inventor: John D. Birdsall
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Patent number: 4443967Abstract: A toy vehicle is provided that can be manually activated to store kinetic energy. The rear wheels of the vehicle can be positioned so that upon tilting and movement of the vehicle, a gear assembly provides a high gear ratio to rotate a flywheel held off of the support surface. Subsequently, upon release of the toy vehicle, the contact of the flywheel with a support surface drives the car with the rear wheels held off of the support surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: California R & DInventors: Lawrence T. Jones, Anson Sims, Ashley G. Howden
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Patent number: 4443968Abstract: A miniature self-powered four wheel drive vehicle is disclosed which will climb grades of about 50.degree.. The vehicle is powered by a small electric motor positioned over the front wheel axle and having its center of mass in front of the axle, and a AA battery located behind and perpendicular to the motor. A propeller shaft extends the length of the vehicle and has a crown gear which engages a pinion on the motor drive shaft and two worm gears each of which engages a spur gear on the front and rear axles. Traction and climbing characteristics are enhanced by overscale tires having highly pronounced treads. An optional 1.5 light bulb and light distributor simulates headlights.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Soma Traders, Ltd.Inventor: N. Y. Law
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Patent number: 4443969Abstract: In the cultivation of mushrooms from an underlying bed containing mushroom spores, novel compositions and processes are provided for a casing layer which is placed over the compost layer containing spawning mycelium. A hydrophilic, thermosetting prepolymer resin is mixed in with a casing substrate, preferably Canadian peat, other optional additives and sufficient amount of water to form a slurry and the mixture is allowed to cure to a spongy block. The cured material is then pulverized and deposited as a casing layer over the compost layer. Because of the high water retention qualities of this material, watering the mushroom beds is reduced by a factor of three or more, thereby reducing operation and production costs, as also the incidence and severity of disease and displeasing blemishes.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Castle & Cooke, Inc.Inventors: William A. Hanacek, James E. Kahl, Angus B. Mackenzie
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Patent number: 4443970Abstract: A contact bar of permeable, absorbant, exudative material such as a paint roller is attached by a spring bar to a mounting bracket. The contact bar is moistened with a treatment liquid such as a herbicide. Each time the contact bar rubs against a plant, additional herbicide is applied to the contact bar, e.g., a spring arm, carrying the contact bar, can be pushed back by the plant against a microswitch, which will open a solenoid valve. The opening of the solenoid valve may apply liquid to the contact bar by spraying the liquid from a nozzle onto the bar or by feeding liquid through a perforated tube under the surface of the material on the contact bar.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1979Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Inventor: Joe G. Randolph
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Patent number: 4443971Abstract: This invention relates to herbicide-tolerant plants prepared by plant tissue culture. These plants are produced by culturing tissue of a plant sensitive to a particular herbicide in the presence of an amount of the herbicide, and for a time less than that sufficient to kill the entire plant-tissue population, but sufficient to kill a majority of the tissue population. If desired this procedure is repeated for sufficient passages, preferably with increasing amounts of said herbicide to provide a herbicide-tolerant strain of plant tissue which is subsequently subjected to differentiating growth conditions to provide herbicide-tolerant plants. In a preferred embodiment, plants, which display a heritable tolerance toward said herbicide as compared to the original plant, are selected from the whole population of tissue culture-derived plants. These plants can be propogated vegetatively using tissue culture methods to produce additional plants of the same genetic constitution.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.Inventor: Roy S. Chaleff
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Patent number: 4443972Abstract: An overhead tilting door assembly is provided, particularly for use in large buildings. The door assembly includes a door member having a quadrant member attached to each of its upper corners. Generally horizontal support members are provided on either side of the door member extending rearwardly therefrom. Each quadrant member is rolled along a support member to tilt the door between open and closed positions. A drive means is pivotally attached to a quadrant member for tilting the door member and for locking the door member against movement, unless being tilted by the drive means. The assembly also includes anti-skid means between the quadrant members and the support members to force the quadrant members to roll and not skid along the support members.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Inventor: Alfred W. J. Dolhaine
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Patent number: 4443973Abstract: An access door is constituted by an outer framework adapted to be fitted in a rough opening formed in a building ceiling, wall, or the like, an inner framework set in an opening in the outer framework, a cover plate secured to the inner framework so as to close an opening in the inner framework, a pair of bearings and axis for pivotally connecting the inner framework to the outer framework, and a locking means for locking the inner framework to the outer framework when the inner framework closes the opening in the outer framework. The bearings are projected on one framework of the opposite inner surfaces of the outer framework and the opposite outer surfaces of the inner framework, and have U-shaped bearing surfaces. The axis are projected on another framework of the opposite inner surfaces of the outer surfaces of the inner framework, and pivotally supported to the bearings, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Naka Gijutsu KenkyushoInventor: Hiromitsu Naka
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Patent number: 4443974Abstract: The frame shim comprises a first and a second elongated plate made of a porous material, which plates are located in planes extending parallel to each other and which are connected to each other along their longitudinal sides. A groove is formed in one longitudinal side of one of the plates, and a laterally located ridge is formed in a longitudinal side of the other plate, which ridge is set into the groove. The other longitudinal side of the laterally offset plate is strengthened and the door fittings are mounted to this longitudinal side. The legs of the groove are also strengthened. This allows the manufacture of the frame shim of a door from a plate made of a porous material.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Keller & Co., AktiengesellschaftInventor: Hans Schulthess
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Patent number: 4443975Abstract: An automatic external cylindrical grinding center (10), having a pair of driven grinding wheels (86, 88) capable of straight and angular wheel feed for grinding a workpiece in on-center or chucking configurations. The grinding center (10) has a base (16) with a swivel table (20) pivotally mounted thereon. A longitudinally positionable work head (24) and footstock (26) are mounted on the base (16). A carriage (56) is slidably mounted on ways (52, 54) which extend longitudinally on the base (16). A pair of rearward extending ways (72, 74) are provided on top of the carriage (56) to support a wheel slide assembly (76) for back and forth movement. A rotatable wheel head (84) is mounted from the wheel slide (76) and supports two driven grinding wheels (86, 88) mounted thereon. The rotatable wheel head (84) is positionable at various positions to bring either grinding wheel (86, 88) into position for contacting the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: The Warner & Swasey CompanyInventors: Martin A. German, Joseph F. Volk
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Patent number: 4443976Abstract: A cylindrical grinder for effecting stock removal from a cam surface on a workpiece, the cam surface including a base portion, a nose portion and flank portion joining the base and nose portions, the nose portion having a smaller radius of curvature than the base portion and being more distant from the axis of rotation of the cam than the base portion, comprising means for supporting the workpiece for rotation about a predetermined axis, means for defining a selected velocity profile for each revolution of the cam, the velocity profile having a plurality of acceleration/deceleration segments whereby the velocity of the surface of the cam at the grinding location is selectively varied, stock removal means including a grinding wheel and grinding wheel feed control means, the grinding wheel feed control means including rough feed control means having means for infeeding the grinding wheel at a plurality of sequentially operable feeds, finish control means having means for infeeding the grinding wheel at a pluralType: GrantFiled: January 29, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Litton Industrial Products, Inc.Inventor: Russell E. Kaiser, Jr.
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Patent number: 4443977Abstract: In order to machine skew surfaces, adjacent cylindrical shaping rollers in adjacent relation are each freely mounted for rotation on roller support frames which are each capable of relative backward or forward longitudinal displacement under the action of a numerical control system. An abrasive belt which is applied against a portion of the periphery of the set of shaping rollers assumes during this portion of travel a configuration corresponding to the instantaneous envelope curve of the transverse cross-sections of the rollers and thus constitutes a tool which provides a variable profile for abrasive machining operations.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Ratier-FigeacInventor: Robert Gaiani
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Patent number: 4443978Abstract: A movable thermal barrier for a two-story building having a glass wall facing in a southerly direction and comprising a thermally insulated horizontal stationary rail panel adjacent to the glass wall. A thermally insulated horizontal movable inner panel is positioned between the rail panel and the glass wall, and is movable from horizontal alignment with the rail panel to above the rail panel. A similar outer panel is positioned between the inner panel and the glass wall and is movable from horizontal alignment with the rail panel to below the rail panel. Panel mounting means supported from the building are adapted to movably support the inner and outer panels so that one may be moved above and the other below the rail panel to provide a translucent thermal barrier between the upper and lower portions of the glass wall and the inside of the building. The inner and outer panels are of similar weights so they balance each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Butler-Merritt Inc.Inventor: Robert B. Butler
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Patent number: 4443979Abstract: An adapter for enabling a vertical slotted standard in the form of a steel bar to be mounted to a pair of back-to-back assembled sheet metal channel-shaped studs in a wall, the adapter being disposed within the wall and hidden from the exterior of the wall. The exterior covering of the wall comprises aligned adjacent wallboard members whose vertical adjacent edges engage against a pair of forwardly extending entrance flanges for receiving therein the shelf-supporting hooked end brackets which enter and engage within the slots of the standard. The wallboard members are secured to the studs with the same fasteners that connect a pair of wallboard-receiving wings of the adapter to the studs. The invention is concerned with means for anchoring the standard within the adapter and a method of effecting such anchoring during the assembly of the adapter.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Crown Metal Manufacturing CompanyInventors: David Varon, Steven C. Dorner, Burton L. Siegal
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Patent number: 4443980Abstract: A pulling iron enclosure is provided for recessing a pulling iron in a wall of an underground vault. The enclosure is defined by a base and a removable cover. The enclosure has a cavity therein with the cover overlying one side of the cavity. A wall of the enclosure has an opening through which a pulling iron may extend for positioning the pulling iron in the cavity so that the pulling iron will be readily accessible in said cavity when the enclosure and pulling iron are embedded in a wall of the vault.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Pennsylvania Insert CorporationInventor: J. Edward Pennypacker
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Patent number: 4443981Abstract: This invention is directed to a system for pouring concrete and thereby forming concrete floors, sidewalks and the like, wherein the forms used to retain the concrete in place remain as part of the permanent installation. The system is constructed basically of longitudinal rails, stakes and clips which fit snugly and securely together to form concrete retaining forms.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Inventor: David Weiss
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Patent number: 4443982Abstract: Structure for the construction of swimming pools, characterized in that it consists of: rigid vertical sections (3) each comprising at least one outer face (5) and one inner face (8) provided with an opening (7), at least one relatively flexible base band (1) comprising at regular intervals means of securing the said outer faces (5) in such a way that only small spaces remain between these successive faces (5), assembly sections (4) or keys which are relatively deformable transversally and capable of fitting on the lateral ends (9) of the said inner faces (8) to fix together and fill in the varying space between these ends of two successive sections (3).Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Inventor: Jacques Dalbanne
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Patent number: 4443983Abstract: The invention relates to a means for fastening a frame to a wall stud. In order to avoid the use of wooden studs between the frame (7) and the steel stud (6) there is arranged in those locations in the steel stud (5) where the frame (7) is fastened to the stud by means of a screw (13) a stud piece (14) whose web through which the screw (13) is passed is provided with a reinforcing plate (15) which together with the web provides a sufficiently thick wall for a stable securing of the screw (13).Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Inventor: Tore Karlstrom
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Patent number: 4443984Abstract: Door, window, and partition casing arrangements for dry wall partitioning in which a basic casing member is provided to line and mask the opening made in the dry wall partitioning for the purpose of providing door and window or the like installations in the wall structure provided by the partition, with the casing member having a basic generic arrangement in the form of an elongated plate having a longitudinally extending web portion which lines and masks a portion of the partition opening itself. This basic casing member may take a number of specific forms for specific applications. For doorways, the sides or jambs and head of the doorway may be framed with two such members for each end of the doorway, and two similar casing members may be employed for the doorway head.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 1981Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Inventor: Robert R. Rasmussen