Patents Issued in April 3, 2001
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Patent number: 6209258Abstract: A potted plant support system which has a flat base member which is securabie to a plant pot by with a key which secures the base member to the pot. The key may be shaped to fit in slot-like openings in the base member and the pot. The plant is supported by rods which may be notched to retain plant ties. The system may also include a pot support clip which engages the pot periphery and includes a rod support extension. Also disclosed is a plant support hook which slidingly engages the rods and which releasably engages itself to form a plant retaining loop.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Inventor: Margie Schneider
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Patent number: 6209259Abstract: This invention pertains to combination seed capsules wherein each seed capsule includes both moieties of at least one soil conditioner and at least one seed, and optionally, one or more inorganic chemical fertilizer, growth enhancer, binder, and/or anti-fungal agent. The combination seed capsules are made by physically combining the respective soil conditioner and seed with one other, in the absence of any requirement for chemical reactions in the process of so combining the respective materials.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1998Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Encap, LLCInventors: Daniel Paul Madigan, Michael Dennis Krysiak, Ronald Dean Eichhorn, Glen H. Wesenberg
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Patent number: 6209260Abstract: A cemetery planter including a box having a first box portion with a bottom wall, a front wall, a back wall, an end wall and an open end, and a second box portion with a bottom wall, a front wall, a back wall, an end wall and an open end; the open end of the first box portion being received by the open end of the second box portion during sliding engagement therebetween. Also included are a plurality of longitudinally spaced apart U-shaped brackets substantially parallel to the end walls and substantially conforming to the front, back and bottom walls of the box portions; each U-shaped bracket having one end defining an inwardly directed first hook portion for engaging an upper front edge of the box and an opposite end defining an inwardly directed second hook portion for engaging an upper rear edge of the box and the first and second hook portions being shaped to receive pairs of overlapped front and back wall portions of the slidably engaged first and second box portions.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Inventor: Robert J. Surette
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Patent number: 6209261Abstract: A wooden planter box (1) using thin fiber-reinforced cement sheet as interior panels (24, 26) which are intended to contain solid nutrients such as soil and fertilizer. This constitutes a new and totally different application for fiber-reinforced cement sheet. The panels themselves form a receptacle in such a way as to protect the supporting wooden structure which encloses them from contact with the solid nutrients contained by the planter box while absorbing water and enabling the transmission of oxygen to the roots of the plant.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 1997Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Inventor: Alan C. Marks
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Patent number: 6209262Abstract: A sensing system for a gate to protect persons and equipment from impact damage by actuating a gate operating system when the end of the gate comes in contact with an obstruction. The force required to actuate the device varies between 3 and 5 pounds. Once the force is applied to the edge of the gate, the gate opening or closing operation will either stop or reverse depending on the specific safety requirements of the gate installation. The force can be applied to any available direction and the system will be activated.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2000Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Inventor: Calvin F. Mathis
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Patent number: 6209263Abstract: A hurricane shutter system for installing hurricane shutters fast and easy without the use of a ladder. The hurricane shutter system includes an upper mounting sleeve designed to be screwed to a building. A mounting bracket designed for coupling to the upper mounting sleeve. A cover panel assembly insertable into the mounting sleeve and bolted to the mounting bracket whereby the cover panel assembly is coupled to the building to cover a window of the building.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2000Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Inventor: Ronald R. Poirier
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Patent number: 6209264Abstract: A device for suspending and moving a door leaf perpendicular and parallel to a wall. The device comprising a first set of rails extending in a direction perpendicular to the wall, a second set of rails extending in a direction parallel to the wall and an elongated member which extends both parallel to and perpendicular to the wall. The door leaf is slidably mounted on the first set of rails and the first set of rails is slidably mounted on the second set of rails. The door leaf includes a motor which operatively engages the elongated member to move the door leaf perpendicular to the wall and parallel to the wall to open and close an opening in the wall.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: The Curran CompanyInventor: Garth D'Abreu
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Patent number: 6209265Abstract: The present invention relates to a door for a refrigerator appliance having reinforcing corner brackets that structurally complete the corners of the door. The corner brackets are located at the door corners of the vertical and horizontal side walls of the outer door skin. The brackets structurally replace and reinforce the horizontal side wall immediately adjacent the vertical side wall with a thicker, stronger material, such as, metal or steel, so that loading normally transferred to the outer door skin through the horizontal side wall at this corner location is instead transferred directly to the brackets mounted in the door. The horizontal side wall at the corner adjacent the vertical side wall has a cut-out or an open section. The brackets each have an opening positioned at the cut-out section. The opening is adapted to receive a hinge pin or closure cap. The door has an elongate supporting strut in the form of a hollow cylindrical tube engaging the brackets to reinforce the corners.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Camco Inc.Inventors: Nedo Banicevic, Arnold Estravillo, Murray Klaas
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Patent number: 6209266Abstract: A workspace display comprises a sidewall partition defining a workspace with a portal opening and a door partition to selectively close the portal. A first display screen is disposed on the interior side of the door partition for individual viewing from inside the workspace. A second display screen is disposed exterior of the sidewall partition and positioned a spaced apart distance in general alignment therewith, without substantial interference with user ingress and egress through the portal opening. A video device is positioned overhead in optical communication with the first display screen when the door partition is in its fully closed position to support individual activities. The video device is in optical communication through the portal opening with the second display screen when the door partition is in its fully open position to support group activities. An image on the second display screen can be viewed on either the interior or exterior screen surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Steelcase Development Inc.Inventors: Joseph R. Branc, Mark A. Baloga, William L. Miller, Mitchell Niewiadomski, Joel D. Stanfield
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Patent number: 6209267Abstract: A modular decking system for use in constructing a deck of the type normally attached to a house or cottage includes a plurality of square, typically one meter by one meter, frames which are mounted on posts; deck or floor panels which are mounted on the frames; finishing planks for mounting on the outside edges of the frames to finish the base of the deck; and a railing assembly including posts for mounting on the corners of the base and at the junction between finishing planks, and rectangular fence panels which are connected to the posts, mainly by sliding the panels into longitudinally extending grooves in the posts.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 1998Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Inventor: Hugh A. Dantzer
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Patent number: 6209268Abstract: This invention provides an overhang support system for gable roofs which eliminates any need to put a notch in the gable end truss top chord member. It utilizes a novel unitary connector device for improved support of overhang structures in a gable roof of the type including an overhang member, a gable end truss top chord member, and a first adjacent truss (to the end truss) top chord member. The rigid connector provides some holes for nailing to an intermediate support member, situated between the first adjacent truss top chord member and the gable end truss top chord member, or, optionally, in one preferred embodiment, if no intermediate support member is used, these holes are used for nailing to an overhang support member; and it provides some holes for nailing to an overhang support member, situated between the gable end truss top chord member and the overhang member; and also holes for nailing to the gable end truss top chord member. The connector is channel-shaped to fit snugly over, e.g.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Inventor: Dwight M. Schmidt
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Patent number: 6209269Abstract: An assembly system used to build two pane thermoacoustic windows for houses and buildings is provided. The assembly system uses a set of profiles and joints and a permanently installed valve to assemble the window frame without a fusion welding machine. The system creates an airtight chamber directly on the frame. The valve allows the assembler to evacuate the air in the airtight chamber to make a vacuum, or to inflow a gas. The system improves the insulating thermal and acoustic capacity of the window, and allows a supplier to sell the components to build the window, which is then assembled by snapping together profiles and joints. The system can also be applied to assembly one pane window and for other purposes.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Inventor: Mario Valderrama
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Patent number: 6209270Abstract: A multilevel building including a first row of personal occupancy spaces arranged on one side of one level of the building which is above ground level, a second row of personal occupancy spaces arranged on an opposite side of the one level of the building, an elevated street arranged on the one level of the building between the first and second rows of personal occupancy spaces, and at least one helical ramp for carrying a vehicle between the ground level outside the building and the elevated street inside the building.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Inventor: Hugh W. Johnston
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Patent number: 6209271Abstract: A guard assembly for a framed opening in a structure includes mounting brackets attached to the framed opening. Each bracket has three angled flanges forming an intersection channel for retaining a grid work member extending between the mounting brackets. The grid work member is compressively urged into the intersection channels and further secured by locking screws extending through one of the angled flanges.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Inventor: John C. Kovacs
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Patent number: 6209272Abstract: A method of making a seal on a panel for a door or window by applying and curing a sealant on the surface of the panel is provided, preferably by screening the sealant onto the surface of the panel. The panel with the seal is mounted in a window or door frame such that the seal is disposed between the panel and the frame itself. To assemble the door or window, the panel may be inserted into “U” shaped grooves in the structural members comprising the door and the frame members assembled about the panel. The panel may have multiple layers with such seals interposed between the layers.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 1996Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Morgan Products, Ltd.Inventor: John R. Holzaepfel
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Patent number: 6209273Abstract: A partition wall system providing for lay-in of cables, includes a plurality of interconnected panel sections. Each panel section has a base surface and a plurality of protrusions extending from the base surface and a plurality of covering skins. At least one of the covering skins is attached to each of the panel sections so that a passage is formed between the covering skin and the base surface of the panel section to allow the cables to travel through each panel section and between interconnected panel sections.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Steelcase Development Inc.Inventors: Robert Eugene Jeffers, Karl Jahn Mead, Douglas Bruce MacDonald, Charles Anthony Seiber
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Patent number: 6209274Abstract: A vent flow apparatus and method for general application in venting and filling air pockets in conduit or duct type apparatuses designed for passage of material therethrough is provided including a hollow vent flow conduit preferably in the form of a tube having an entry opening and a downstream exit opening with both openings being in communication with a duct for flow of material therethrough. The entry opening is in communication with the duct at a first location of greater cross-sectional area of the duct than a second location of communication of the exit opening with the duct. The vent flow conduit has particular applicability for post-tensioning systems for concrete or other suitable structures, particularly post-tensioning systems which include body sections interconnected in series by an intermediate anchor head and which use a transfer means for routing grout between the body sections and around the intermediate anchor head.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: VSL InternationalInventor: John R. Crigler
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Patent number: 6209275Abstract: Construction and remodeling of a cleanroom wall system is facilitated with a universal stud design. A variety of wall configurations may be assembled with the same stud. Also provided is a useful connector block for joining perpendicularly oriented studs, or for splicing together axially aligned studs. A corner stud is also provided, as well as a deflection track for connecting the top track of a wall panel to a conventional ceiling grid to allow deflection of the grid relative to the wall and to facilitate easy access to the portion of the ceiling immediately above the wall panel.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Southland IndustriesInventors: Dennis O. Cates, Roger K. Crawford
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Patent number: 6209276Abstract: Trapped air is used to hold a sleeve onto an elongated member such as a vertical post or pillar. A sleeve is provided having an open end and a closed end, and an inner diameter which is at least slightly greater than the outside diameter of the member being covered. At least one spacer is provided circumferentially around the member, which is positioned proximate to the end over which the open end of the sleeve is placed for installation purposes. As the sleeve is subsequently urged over the member, air trapped between the end of the member including the spacer and the closed end of the sleeve is expelled past the spacer and out the open end of the sleeve between the outside wall of the member, such that when the sleeve is fully installed, a relatively small volume of air remains between the end of the member with the spacer and the closed end of the sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Inventor: Frank Venegas, Jr.
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Patent number: 6209277Abstract: Provided is a wallboard repair clip which includes a patch wallboard receiving structure for contacting inner and outer surfaces of a patch wallboard, an existing wallboard receiving member and a securing structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Inventor: John T. DiGate
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Patent number: 6209278Abstract: Flooring panel with two connection members whose sides face each other for attachment to other flooring panels of the same type. A first connection member has an upper projection, a lower projection, and groove between them. A second connecting member features a tongue for insertion in the groove of an adjacent connection member. In order to achieve good assembly as well as economical production of the panels, provision is made for a lower protuberance, lower indentation, lower auxiliary protuberance, and lower auxiliary indentation on the lower projection of the first connection member. The profile thus created is fitted to a corresponding profile on the lower side of the tongue which has an upper indentation, an upper protuberance, an upper auxiliary indentation, and an upper auxiliary protuberance.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Kronotex GmbHInventor: Detlef Tychsen
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Patent number: 6209279Abstract: In order to anchor, reinforce, affix or keep together construction or machine parts, construction members, construction works or parts thereof, or at least to apply a force component, the invention involves a looping anchor or retaining element including several supeposed belt layers or plies.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 1997Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Eidgenossische Materialprufungs—und Forschungsanstalt EmpaInventors: Urs Meier, Andreas Winistoerfer
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Patent number: 6209280Abstract: A jig for aiding in securing a fascia board on the downwardly extended ends of a row of eaves of a frame of a building being constructed including a U shaped member and an angle bracket with an angle bracket with one leg swivelly attached to an end of one leg of the U shaped member. Two jigs are used for temporarily supporting the board across the ends of the row of eaves permitting that the board be nailed to the ends of the eaves. The jig is preferably made of resiliently flexible polycarbonate so that the jig can be twisted when required to enable aligning of the board in a required direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1998Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Inventors: Ray F. Bruce, Stephen Bruce, Noah D. Bruce
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Patent number: 6209281Abstract: The invention is directed to a masonry anchor for tying a masonry veneer wall to a stud back-up wall having an outer covering, the anchor comprising a generally planar anchor plate having an outer coupling end for connection to a veneer tie wire and an inner anchoring end for securement to the back-up wall. In one embodiment, the anchor plate has struck-out tabs extending laterally from the anchor plate, intermediate the coupling end and the anchoring end. The outer coupling end of the anchor is insertable through a slot opening cut into the outer covering adjacent a stud in the back-up wall until the tabs engage the outer covering of the stud back-up wall to provide for proper spacing of the coupling end from the back-up wall. In a second embodiment of the masonry anchor, at least the outer coupling end is of a corrosion resistant material.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1998Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Bailey Metal Products LimitedInventor: John Rice
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Patent number: 6209282Abstract: A composite wood joist for the construction of building structures is comprised of an elongated straight main member and a transverse elongated web piece connected thereto. Both the main member and the web piece are of rectangular cross-section with the web piece being secured along a narrow flat end face of the main member. The web piece is dimensioned and disposed to extend beyond the opposed flat side faces of the main member to define opposed wing sections. The web piece also has a width which is narrower than the width of the main member and it provides an arresting force against longitudinal distortion of the straight elongated main member and improves the load bearing capacity thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1998Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Inventor: Claudex Lafrance
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Patent number: 6209283Abstract: A sealed roof and a method of sealing a roof is disclosed. The sealed roof is of the type having a inclined substrate with a first layer of shingles attached thereto. A waterproof membrane is adhered to at least a portion of the first layer of shingles. A second layer of shingles is placed over the waterproof membrane and attached to the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Inventor: Jonny Folkersen
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Patent number: 6209284Abstract: An asymmetric structural insulated panel for building construction includes a generally planar insulating core such as of plastic foam or wheat-, straw-, or agricultural board. Adhered to a first surface of the insulating core is an outer facing of a conventional building material such as wood, oriented strand board (OSB), gypsum composite or cement. Adhered to a second opposed surface of the insulating core by means of a conventional adhesive is a thin, high strength sheet of paper impregnated with plastic such as polyisocyanurate. The plastic impregnated paper provides a high tensile strength for the structural insulated panel to accommodate large transverse loads on the panel. The panels may be incorporated in conventional stick construction employing 2× dimensional structural lumber members by attaching the panel's outer facing to one side of a 2× structural member after notching out an edge of the panel's insulating core.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Inventor: William H. Porter
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Patent number: 6209285Abstract: Automatic device for packing in a container, of the strip provided by a carding unit, consisting of an eccentric distributor which rotates relative to the collection container, which is rotated by an underlying rotary platform, and also comprises a device for movement and centring of the collection containers.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Marzoli S.p.A.Inventors: Silvano Patelli, Giovanni Battista Pasini, Giovanni Bellotti
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Patent number: 6209286Abstract: A machine and method for the manufacture of a continuous production of pneumatically filled packaging pillows for use as void fill packaging for the safe shipping of articles. A strip of flattened preformed film material with a repeated sealing pattern is advanced along a path through the machine and include a common inflation channel that is guided onto a longitudinally extending inflation tube at a first station. The inflation tube has an orifice through which pressurized air is expressed in controlled fashion to inflate pillow chambers that emanate off the common inflation channel of the film material. The film material is advanced to a second station where continuous longitudinally extending heat seals are formed in the film material in a manner to trap and confine a quantity of air inside the inflated pillow chambers. The film material is then advance to a third station where the common inflation channel is slit open in order to release the film material from the inflation tube of the machine.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Novus Packaging CorporationInventors: Andrew Perkins, Nicholas P. De Luca, Philipp Borchard
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Patent number: 6209287Abstract: An invention for forming, filling, and sealing a flexible recloseable container. Both vertical and horizontal methods for placing product within the container are disclosed. The invention includes guiding a web of film which has interlocking fastener strips sealed to the web. A slider for locking and unlocking the fastener strips is placed in the correct orientation, spread apart at a pair of inner feet and inserted over the fastener strips. The slider is positioned to close a substantial portion of the strips, and then an end stop, docking station, and corner seal are formed against a sealing plate. The slider is then repositioned, and a tamper evident seal may be placed over the fastener strips.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Huntsman KCL CorporationInventor: Ronald G. Thieman
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Patent number: 6209288Abstract: An apparatus for laying band-like or strip-like material is disclosed, having a carrying structure and a platform, having at least one laying arrangement, which is assigned to the carrying structure and is intended for laying the material, having at least one material-feed device, which is assigned to the laying arrangement, and having at least one receiving device, which is assigned to the platform and is intended for the material which is to be laid by the laying arrangement. The laying arrangement comprises a laying arm, which is assigned to the receiving device, and wherein the platform and the laying arm can be moved at least horizontally, in each case orthogonally with respect to one another and reversibly.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Kortec GmbHInventors: Roberto E. Rahn, Christian Lenk
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Patent number: 6209289Abstract: A composition for absorbing oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide in a high moisture environment including by weight an iron-based component for absorbing oxygen in an amount of between about 15% and 60%, a carbon dioxide releasing component for releasing carbon dioxide in an amount of between about 8% and 50%, an acidifying component for providing acid for activating the carbon dioxide releasing component, and a dry water-attracting component for preventing premature activation of the iron-based component and carbon dioxide releasing component and for attracting water from a high moisture environment to thereby supply water for activating the acidifying component and the iron-based component.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1993Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Multisorb Technologies, Inc.Inventors: John S. Cullen, George E. McKedy
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Patent number: 6209290Abstract: A packet for long articles comprises a first inner wrap around a group of articles and a second outer wrap around the first wrap which, together with the inner frame, envisaged when the packet is of the rigid type with hinged lid, constitute specific packaging components of the packet. The packet is equipped with a length of magnetic strip for data storage which is applied directly to a specified part of at least one of the specific packaging components in a hidden position not visible from the outside of the packet. If the packet has a revenue stamp or an insert, constituting additional components, the length of magnetic strip may be applied to at least one of said additional components, again in a hidden position.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: G.D S.p.A.Inventors: Silvano Boriani, Lorenzo Cocchi, Chiara Colo', Alessandro Minarelli
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Patent number: 6209291Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of producing crease-lined packaging material with a high degree of accuracy as regards the placing and forming of longitudinal crease lines. A web-shaped starting material (1) is provided, in connection with the laminate production, with a pattern of crease lines (6) extending at an angle to the longitudinal direction of the web, whereafter the material is divided into part webs (9). In connection with the conversion of each part web (9) into individual packaging containers in a filling machine, each part web is provided with complementary, longitudinal crease lines (17, 18).Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.Inventors: Anders Delén, Mats Martinsson, Johnny Pedersen, Tor Söderlund
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Patent number: 6209292Abstract: A method of packaging and displaying a relative flat product, and intermediate and final package produced, allow a desirably thick package to be produced yet the package can be shipped in a low volume configuration to save shipping costs, and can be expanded at or adjacent the display site in a simple yet effective manner. The package is particularly suitable for packaging a prepaid phone card having machine readable indicia, an opening being provided in the package blank so that the machine readable indicia is visible through the opening so that the phone card can be activated without removing the phone card from the completed package.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2000Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Moore North America, Inc.Inventor: Gerald C. Krahn
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Patent number: 6209293Abstract: A packing apparatus for packing multiple layers of containers into a receptacle is shown. The packing apparatus includes a placement assembly and a carriage assembly. The placement assembly includes a plurality of pickup devices mounted on one end of a moveable arm. The arm is moveable so that the pickup devices can pick up and transfer the containers to the receptacle. The receptacle is supported by the carriage assembly. The carriage assembly includes a moveable carriage that adjustably moves the position of the receptacle, relative to the placement assembly, to enable the articles to be placed into the receptacle in a preselected pattern. A system controller controls the timing, sequence, and movement of the placement assembly and the carriage assembly, both individually and relative to each other, in order to place and pack the containers into the receptacle in the preselected pattern.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Box Loader, LLCInventor: Whitney S. Powers
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Patent number: 6209294Abstract: A coin wrapping machine including a coin stacking section for stacking deposited coins, a coin wrapping section for wrapping coins stacked by the coin stacking section and a coin supporting post for supporting the stacked coins and moving them from the coin stacking section to the coin wrapping section, the coin wrapping machine further including a light projector disposed between the coin stacking section and the coin wrapping section for projecting light onto the stacked coins being moved from the coin stacking section to the coin wrapping section, a line sensor disposed between the coin stacking section and the coin wrapping section for photoelectrically detecting light impinging onto the stacked coins from the light projector and reflected by edges of the stacked coins and a CPU for detecting portions between adjacent coins based on detection data produced by the line sensor, thereby determining the number of the stacked coins supported by the coin supporting post.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 1998Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Laurel Bank Machines Co., Ltd.Inventor: Eikou Hibari
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Patent number: 6209295Abstract: A tube holder assembly is provided for use with an output track assembly of an IC test handler so as to eliminate the need of transferring tested SOIC packages loaded in plastic tubes to metal tubes for a “burn-in” process. The tube holder assembly is comprised of an output tube guide member, a tube holder member, a tube holder guide member, and a holder screw. The tube holder member is vertically slidable relative to the tube holder guide member between a lower position and an upper position. The tube holder member is pushed downwardly into the lower position so as to load directly SOIC packages into plastic tubes and is raised to the upper position so as to load directly the SOIC packages into metal tubes.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Wong Han Boon, Hasan Bin Odek, Peter Heng Yiak Khian
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Patent number: 6209296Abstract: An apparatus for enrobing tablets in a gelatin layer includes a pair of die assemblies with each assembly including a rotatable, cylindrical die support and a series of die blocks mounted on this support for movement along a circular path. Each block has recesses formed in a top surface thereof and each recess of one assembly cooperates with a similar recess in the other assembly to form a cavity at a nip formed by the two assemblies. Each cavity is dimensioned to receive loosely therein one of the tablets. Two casting drums deliver gelatin strips to the die assemblies and each strip is pulled by one assembly into the nip. A time tablet dispensing mechanism is used to dispense tablets onto one of the strips at a feeding location. The preferred die blocks are made of hard plastics material. In one version of the apparatus, the blocks have substantially enclosed recesses except for their open tops and each block has one or more vacuum applying passageways including one with an open end at one end of the block.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Inventor: Aldo Perrone
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Patent number: 6209297Abstract: An implement for a combine, having an integral transport system with a pair of ground engaging wheels that are moved between transport positions used in transporting the implement and stowed positions on the implement during use of the implement. The wheels may be used as gauge wheels during use to support the ends of the implement. A trailer tongue is retractable and stowed onboard the implement during use, as is a tongue jack. Lights are provided at the end of the implement for visibility during transport. The lights are stowed beneath a cover on the end of the implement to protect the lights from damage during use. All components of the transport system are carried on the implement during use to ensure that they are with the implement when needed to transport the implement. All components are mounted with pins, enabling the implement to be converted between transport and use configurations without the use of hand tools.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Sidney Wayne Yeomans, Bradley James Watts, Gordon Lee Salley, Kevin D. Brase
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Patent number: 6209298Abstract: In a process for the manufacture of dipped tire cord fabrics made of organic fiber cords, two organic fiber cords before treatment, each formed by subjecting two or more bundles of organic multifilaments to cable twisting and ply twisting, are connected to each other in a particular connection apparatus to form a continuous cord having a joint portion, and a tire cord fabric is made from many organic fiber cords inclusive of the above continuous cord having the joint portion and subjected to a dipping treatment and subsequent heat treatment under particular conditions.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Bridgestone CorporationInventor: Kojiro Tamoto
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Patent number: 6209299Abstract: An apparatus is provided comprising a first twisting device that dispenses a first wire and imparts a twist to the same, a second twisting device that receives the twisted first wire and twists the same about a second wire, and a metering device or capstan positioned on the outside of the second twisting device that controls the input velocity of the first and second wires. The apparatus can further include a third twisting device that dispenses a second wire and imparts a twist to the same. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the first and second wires are back-twisted and the second twisting device receives the first and second back-twisted wires and twins or pairs the same. A tension transducer is also provided which measures the tension of the wires before they enter the second twisting device.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Thermoplastics Engineering Corp.Inventors: Ernest L. Landry, Timothy P. McKeon
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Patent number: 6209300Abstract: A condensing zone for pneumatic condensing of the drafted, still twist-free fiber strand is arranged downstream of the drafting apparatus of a ring spinning machine. The condensing zone is limited by a delivery roller pair, whose driven bottom roller is a suction roller, which is arranged directly downstream of the front roller pair of the drafting apparatus. The fiber strand loops the suction roller at an angle of at least 45°.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2000Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignees: Fritz StahleckerInventor: Hans Stahlecker
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Patent number: 6209301Abstract: A texturing machine is described which consists of a plurality of processing-points for thermoplastic threads. A feed bobbin, a first delivery mechanism, an elongated first heating device, an elongated cooling device, a false-twist unit, a second delivery mechanism and also a winding-up device are arranged at each processing-point. In this connection several feed bobbins are arranged above one another in a creel frame, and several winding-up devices are arranged above one another in a winding frame. The first delivery mechanism, the heater and the cooling device are located above the frames. In order to guarantee a careful course of the thread as well as operability, the first delivery mechanism is arranged together with a drive in an operational position directly upstream of the inlet of the first heating device.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2000Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Barmag AGInventors: Uwe Baader, Thomas Wortmann
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Patent number: 6209302Abstract: The invention relates to a false twist texturing machine and to a method of texturing synthetic yarns in, in each case, one processing point, in which a twist-stopping device, a heating device, a cooling device and a false twisting unit are disposed inside a false twisting zone. The yarn is withdrawn from the false twisting zone by means of a delivery mechanism. According to the invention, the twist-stopping device takes the form of a rotatable transport roller, around which the yarn is at least partially wrapped in a peripheral direction and which is drivable by a drive in such a way that the yarn is braked or delivered, so that the yarn tensile force is adjustable inside the false twisting zone.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Barmag AGInventors: Thomas Wortmann, Dietrich Berges, Hellmut Lorenz, Johannes Bruske
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Patent number: 6209303Abstract: An arrangement and method for spinning a yarn from a plurality of yarn components includes a drafting arrangement, a condensing zone arranged downstream thereof and also a ring spindle which twists all yarn components jointly. The condensing zone has a stationary sliding surface for a perforated transport belt which transports the yarn components through said condensing zone. At least one suction slit is located on the sliding surface, which suction slit extends essentially in a transport direction of the yarn components. The condensing zone is defined on its exit side by a nipping roller, which presses the yarn components and the transport belt onto the sliding surface. The at least one suction slit extends to the nipping point. The yarn components may be a sliver or roving and a core yarn, or two slivers or rovings, which, with or without any core yarn, together form the subsequent yarn.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignees: Fritz Stahlecker, Hans StahleckerInventor: Hans Stahlecker
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Patent number: 6209304Abstract: A device for producing spun yarn by means of an airflow acting in the area between a sliver guide and a spindle (13) on fibers of a non-twisted sliver (10) drafted and delivered by a drafting arrangement in order to twist the fibers. Thereafter, the sliver (10) is passed through the spindle (13). Outside of an imaginary center line (9) of the traveling sliver (10), the sliver guide is arranged such that the fibers are passed along the inward lying surface of the sliver guide. The sliver guide comprises fiber guide elements (16) spaced apart from each other, which permit the free passage of a core fiber bundle. An improved spinning process, along with high productivity and increased yarn strength is possible by means of the device of the invention. The spinning device can be manufactured and operated cost-effectively.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: W. Schlafhorst AG & Co.Inventors: Helmut Feuerlohn, Liberto Coll-Tortosa, Frances Roig Munill, Thomas Weide, Jose Antonio Tomero-Garcia, Oliver Schulze
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Patent number: 6209305Abstract: A driving and supporting device for a transporting roller for textile fibers formed as a drawing roller in an open end spinning machine, the device has an electric motor for driving a transporting roller and having a drive shaft, a device part which is completely mechanically uncoupled from the drive shaft of the motor and supports the transporting roller in an axial and a radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1997Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: SKF Textilmaschinen-Komponenten GmbHInventor: Anton Paweletz
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Patent number: 6209306Abstract: A decorative rope chain and a manufacturing process to produce a rope chain in which each link used as a basic building element exhibits a unique visual property, such as surface texture, coloration, attribute, feature, characteristic, shape or other physical appearance. Such unique visual property traits for the succession of links results in a more attractive, fanciful, more delicate and interesting fashion item. In one aspect of the invention, each of the interconnected links has a first side surface exhibiting a first visual property and an opposite second side surface exhibiting a second, perceptively different, visual property. In other aspects of the invention, the side surfaces of the links may have differently colored, textured, or patterned surface portions. In yet another aspect of the invention, each link may have differently shaped portions.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Inventors: Meang K. Chia, Cheo K. Chia, Huy K. Chia
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Patent number: 6209307Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for generating work that comprises the steps of: (a) combusting natural gas and oxygen in a combustor to form a gas stream; (b) passing the gas stream through a regenerator where heat from the gas stream causes a strong liquor present in the regenerator to form a carbon dioxide stream and a weak liquor, the reduction of heat from the gas stream resulting in an exhaust gas stream; (c) extracting work from the carbon dioxide stream resulting in a work-extracted carbon dioxide stream; (d) introducing the work-extracted carbon dioxide stream, the exhaust gas stream and the weak liquor to an absorber to cause carbon dioxide to be absorbed by the weak liquor converting the weak liquor into the strong liquor; (e) introducing said carbon dioxide stream remaining from the absorber to waste and/or the combustor; and (f) introducing the strong liquor from the absorber to the regenerator.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: FPL Energy, Inc.Inventor: Thomas L. Hartman