Patents Issued in February 26, 2004
  • Publication number: 20040035298
    Abstract: A fryer in which an overshoot is prevented by an accurate oil temperature control is disclosed. A pulse burner 4 is controlled to be switched ON/OFF based on a condition which is different by each temperature range. This enables to control the pulse burner 4 in accordance with factors which effect on the oil temperature such as an amount and heat capacity of foods and heat quantity of a utensil. Whereby, the oil temperature control in an excellent level is performed under various conditions. Moreover, as the condition to perform ON/OFF control of the pulse burner 4 is simple, for example, which is whether or not the temperature gradient of cooking oil exceeds the standard value, it needs no complicated control and reliability is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Applicant: Paloma Industries, Limited
    Inventor: Akira Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20040035299
    Abstract: A fryer which notifies an appropriate oil filtering timing is disclosed. While various kinds of cooking is repeated, the degree of amount of fry residues set previously in accordance with menu switch is accumulated every time each menu switch (M1-M5, M7-M11) is pressed (S3-S12, S13: NO, S14: NO). When an accumulative value of amount of accumulated fry residues N is over 50(S14: YES), a notification for filtering timing is performed by blinking a filtering sign “*” at the right side of the display portion 14 (S15). In this way, the oil filtering timing is determined based on an estimated amount of fry residues. Therefore, the notification is performed appropriately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Applicant: Paloma Industries, Limited
    Inventor: Akira Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20040035300
    Abstract: An apparatus for baking an article in a mold comprises retractable mold portions that define a mold cavity, at least one mold portion having associated therewith a mold stripper, the mold stripper fitting within the mold portion and being capable of remaining in contact with the baked article while the mold portion is retracted, to facilitate release of said baked article from said mold portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Lawrence S. Maccherone
  • Publication number: 20040035301
    Abstract: The present invention of a method and device of making dough mixed with cooking oil, fruit and vegetable filling, more especially, a forward operation of making a dough chunk of a green onion crepe, is mainly characterized that it continuously provides a thin dough skin of a constant breadth and evenly spreads a layer of oil on the surface thereof; it evenly sprinkles a layer of fruit and vegetable filling on the surface of the layer of oil; it rolls the dough skin with layers of oil and filling into a continuous dough bar to be conveyed outwardly; it cuts the dough bar into a circular cylinder with ring-shaped oil and filling layers spread evenly therein; by virtue of the prevent invention, chunks of dough with evenly mixed shortening layers and the filling layers of fruit and vegetable are manufactured in mass production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Lien-Fu Huang
  • Publication number: 20040035302
    Abstract: The invention relates to a belt calender, comprising a first roll (11), a second roll (13; 15), and a belt loop therebetween, comprising an incompressible metal belt (12) pressed by the second roll (13; 15) against the first roll (11) to establish a calendering zone between the first roll (11) and said belt (12). The second roll (13; 15) is provided with a compressible belt section (14; 18) to be pressed against the metal belt (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Markus Laitila, Mika Viljanmaa
  • Publication number: 20040035303
    Abstract: This invention relates to a press (20) for forming a conical component (58) from sheet metal or the like and to a method of forming a conical component (58) from a metal sheet (53) or the like. The press (20) comprises two spaced elongate arm members (39, 40) and an elongate tool member (23) movable between a clear position in which the tool member (23) is clear of a gap (41) between the arm members (39, 40) and an interposed position in which at least a portion of the tool member (23) penetrates the gap (41), wherein a member (23, 49, 50) is disposed out of parallel alignment with at least one of the other members (23, 49, 50). The required alignment may be achieved by arranging the press (20) such that, when in the interposed position, the penetration of the tool member (23) into the gap (41) is greater at one end (24) of the tool member (23) than the other (25). Alternatively or additionally, the arm members (49, 50) may diverge along their length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Emlyn J Smith
  • Publication number: 20040035304
    Abstract: Centering member of a plane tool useful for a packaging production machine, comprising a boss projecting from a base for allowing permanent fastening of the tool in at least one aperture in one of the sides of the plane tool without adding any mechanical fastening element and without adding any material or any adhesive element. The shape of the boss and of its head are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Applicant: Bobst SA
    Inventor: Jean-Pierre Steiner
  • Publication number: 20040035305
    Abstract: A rotary press to lay patterns of a material on a strip material comprises a working cylinder bearing embossing plates of the patterns of the aforesaid material to be laid and an opposed anvil cylinder. The working cylinder is rotated. A heater for the working cylinder. A device to exert a defined prestress between the working cylinder and the anvil cylinder. Ball-bearings between the anvil cylinder and its shaft. A device adjusts the space between the working cylinder and the anvil cylinder, independent of the device to exert the defined prestress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Applicant: Bobst SA
    Inventor: Georg Strasser
  • Publication number: 20040035306
    Abstract: When solder paste passes through a first gap (34) located between a pressurizing member (28) and a printing mask (3) during solder paste printing, a pressure directed toward the printing mask is applied from the pressurizing member to the solder paste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Hiroaki Onishi, Toshinori Mimura, Naoichi Chikahisa, Ken Takahashi, Toshiyuki Murakami, Hitoshi Nakahira, Sadayuki Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20040035307
    Abstract: A stencil is made by thermally forming perforations arranged in both a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction in a thermoplastic resin film of heat-sensitive stencil material by the use of a heat source which is heated through supply of energy. Supply of energy to the heat source is cut so that the quotient obtained by dividing a maximum diameter of a perforation at the time at which supply of energy to the heat source is cut by the energizing time is not smaller than 0.015 m/s and not larger than 0.23 m/s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Applicant: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Ohshima, Jun Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20040035308
    Abstract: A stencil is made by thermally forming perforations arranged in both a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction in a thermoplastic resin film of heat-sensitive stencil material by the use of a heat source which is heated through supply of energy. Supply of energy to the heat source is cut when a time interval not shorter than 50% and not longer than 100% of an estimated perforating time lapses from the time at which supply of energy to the heat source is started. The estimated perforating time is a time interval expected to be necessary for a perforation to be produced by the heat of the heat source and to be enlarged to a desired size as a final size as measured from the time at which supply of energy to the heat source is started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Applicant: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Nakamura, Kenji Ohshima
  • Publication number: 20040035309
    Abstract: A printing unit has at least five cylinders in one of the printers. At least two of these cylinders rotate independently of each other. At least one of these cylinders has a rotational speed that is different from a zero rotational speed and is also different from a production rotational speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Kurt Johannes Weschenfelder
  • Publication number: 20040035310
    Abstract: A self-inking stamp with overhead inking, with a lower component (1) for positioning on a surface to be stamped, with a swivel mechanism (W) for a print platen support arranged in the lower component for reciprocal swiveling movement between a stamp pad (4) and a support frame (A) and with an actuator upper component (2) movable against the bias of a spring relative to the lower component, the actuator upper portion being connected by its lateral parts (2″) to the lower component by a swivel axle of the print platen support extending through elongated openings (12) in narrow side walls of the lower component, whereby the actuator upper component is connected to the lower component by lateral elastic snap connections (7, 8) and is provided at its lower end with lateral snap recesses (9) which may be engaged by swivel axle stubs of the print platen support inserted into the guide slots of the lower component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2002
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Peter Zindl
  • Publication number: 20040035311
    Abstract: Described is a method of positioning a male die member (34) on a backing roller (14) of a stamping station (10), which backing roller co-operates with a stamping roller (12), wherein the stamping roller (12) has a die (18). Temporarily fixed to the die (18) of the stamping roller (12) is a flexible transfer male die member (24) having a fitting window (32). The transfer male die member (24) is transferred from the stamping roller (12) to the backing roller (14) and fixed to the backing roller (14). The male die member (34) is then fixed in accurately fitting relationship in the fitting window (32) of the transfer male die member (24).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Herbert Moll
  • Publication number: 20040035312
    Abstract: A pyrotechnic charge structure, in particular for use as propellant in a rocket motor, is disclosed. The charge structure has a predetermined longitudinal extension and cross sectional area adapted to the intended purpose. The pyrotechnic charge structure (1; 2; 3; 4) is in cross sectional view in cellular form aimed at having similar wall thickness for all the cells of the charge structure. The wall (6) of the cells comprises the pyrotechnic charge, i.e. the propellant, and each cavity of the cells occupies air or oxygen-rich gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Hans B. Biserod, Johans Hamarsnes
  • Publication number: 20040035313
    Abstract: A device arranged to enable the engagement of targets (5) by means of a shaped charge function. An ammunition unit is arranged to operate with at least two configuration modes where in the first mode the ammunition unit comprises solely a first modular charge (3). In the second mode the first modular charge is conjoined with a second modular charge (4). The modular charges each effect their own type of shaped charge function. Another feature is that the ammunition unit is arranged to enable changeover from the first configuration to the second before firing, launch or release of the ammunition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Torsten Ronn, Nils Johansson
  • Publication number: 20040035314
    Abstract: A turntable for production line applications is provided which is suitable for large surface area applications, such as, for example, in the production of automobiles. The turntable has an annular platform surface around a central vertical structure which houses a vertically orientated drive motor. The platform is preferably supported at its outer edge by a series of rollers or casters, and is supported at its inner edge by a ring bearing. By providing a vertically orientated motor in the central structure, more useable space on the turntable is provided. In addition, the turntable is more easily maintained, and is less prone to accidental damage. As such, a turntable of improved overall efficiency is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Ivan Muchalov
  • Publication number: 20040035315
    Abstract: A point-to-point transit system for riders includes an elongate guideway, a plurality of autonomous vehicles disposed in the guideway, a plurality of selectively actuable rider access portals in the side of the guideway, and a control system, configured to automatically guide the vehicles within the guideway. The rider access portals are configured to allow ingress and egress of riders to the autonomous vehicles in the guideway. The control system is configured to allow each vehicle to travel between origin and destination locations that are independently selected by a rider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Bryan Richards
  • Publication number: 20040035316
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cobalt electroless plating bath composition and method of using it for microelectronic device fabrication. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to cobalt electroless plating in the fabrication of interconnect structures in semiconductor devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Ramanan V. Chebiam, Valery M. Dubin
  • Publication number: 20040035317
    Abstract: A polish composition includes a siloxane polymer of the formula 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Christopher Lloyd Jones
  • Publication number: 20040035318
    Abstract: A process is described to render flame-and fireproof surfaces and materials of various, diverse, and different chemical nature and affinity, and inhibit the spread of fire on materials of various, diverse, and different chemical nature and affinity, by coating them with one basic fire and flame retardant multiple-use material, with wide ranging chemical affinity. These preparations are water based, non toxic, and can be used in households as well as professionally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Henry Gang
  • Publication number: 20040035319
    Abstract: This invention pertains to aqueous inkjet inks containing self-dispersing pigments and effective amounts of one or more multivalent cations, said inks having increased optical density when printed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: An-Gong Yeh, Jose E. Valentini
  • Publication number: 20040035320
    Abstract: The present invention provides an ink set comprising at least two black ink compositions each containing a carbon black and a complementary colorant, wherein the at least two black ink compositions have different carbon black contents from one another, and wherein the complementary colorants of at least two of the black ink compositions are different from one another. Also disclosed are a recording method, recorded matter and a recording apparatus using the ink set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Sano, Seishin Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20040035321
    Abstract: Printing inks and paints comprising a polyolefin wax component prepared from one or more olefins by catalysis using a single-site catalyst based on a complex of a transition metal from groups 5 to 8 of the Periodic System of the Elements, which comprises not more than one cyclopentadienyl system per transition metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Shahram Mihan, Andreas Deckers
  • Publication number: 20040035322
    Abstract: The present invention provides an aqueous ink composition comprising a color microparticle dispersion including an oil-soluble dye, a hydrophilic organic solvent and a perfluoroalkylenesulfonic acid or a fluorine type surfactant other than derivatives thereof, and an ink jet method for recording an image by using this aqueous ink composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Takahiro Ishizuka, Kenji Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20040035323
    Abstract: The present invention provides an ink-jet recording black ink containing at least water, a water-soluble organic solvent and a self-dispersible carbon black, and an ink-jet recording ink set and an ink-jet recording method using the ink-jet recording black ink. A volume mean diameter of dispersed particles contained in the black ink is in a range of 85 to 115 nm, and a volume of dispersed particles having a particle diameter of 0.5 to 1.0 &mgr;m contained in the black ink is in a range of 0.001 to 0.03% relative to a volume of the ink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Suzuki, Kunichi Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20040035324
    Abstract: The invention relates to a compound of the 1-aminoanthraquinone, anthanthzone, anthrapynimidine, quinacridone, dioxazine, diketopyrrolopyrrole, flavanthrone, indanthrone, isoindolinone, isoviolanthrone, perinone, perylene, phthalocyanine, pyranthrone or thioindigo series, which compound has one or more sulfonate groups of formula (1) wherein R1 is methyl or ethyl, R2, R3? and R4 are each independently of the others C6-C24alkyl or C6-C24alkenyl, m is a number from 0.3 to 1.0 and n is a number from 0 to (1.0 m), the compound being suitable for use as a pigment dispersant and rheology improver. Also claimed are modified pigments having that compound on their surface, and also pigment compositions and dispersions comprising that compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Philippe Bugnon
  • Publication number: 20040035325
    Abstract: A substrate coating is provided for application in association with ink jet ink imaging on the substrate. The coating material, for application on a printable substrate for use with an ink jet printing system, includes a substrate property enhancing component, a surfactant, and deionized water. When the coating material is applied to the printable substrate, prints are produced which have improved print quality. The coating can result in enhanced permanence of black and specialty non-black color ink jet prints, when the substrate enhancing component is a polymer. The coating material of the present invention can also be applied to the porous substrate as a pre-print coating to reduce paper cockle and curl, when the substrate enhancing component is a polyhydroxy compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Applicant: Scitex Digital Printing, Inc.
    Inventors: Raouf Botros, Russell H. Tobias, Lutfar Rahman
  • Publication number: 20040035326
    Abstract: The invention relates to pigment preparations that contain A) at least one organic or inorganic pigment, and B) at least one ethoxylated and propoxylated and/or butoxylated polyethylenimine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Oliver Borzyk, Jurgen Huff, Manfred Mielke, Rudiger Sens
  • Publication number: 20040035327
    Abstract: The invention relates to insulating material and to a method for coating nozzles, pouring spouts, pouring-stream protective tubes and similar tools for casting or converting melts, especially molten baths used in the steel industry. The aim of the invention is to produce a low-cost insulation which does not damage people's health, is not harmful to the environment, is thermally stable at operating temperatures especially at temperatures of over 1200° C.—and which exhibits low thermal conductivity. The insulation material is a mixture of at least one raw material and at least one binding agent. Said mixture forms a microporous structure once it has hardened. The surface of a workpiece for forming the insulation is at least partially coated with the insulating material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Gunther Schrick
  • Publication number: 20040035328
    Abstract: A non-efflorescing cementitious body is formed from sources of calcium aluminate, calcium silicate, calcium sulphate and reactive silica, these ingredients being present in such relative proportions that, upon hydration, both monosulphate (C3A.Cŝ.12H) and hydrated alumina (AH3) are formed. Also disclosed is a hydraulic binder and a paste from which such bodies can be formed and a method for forming such bodies. In addition to exhibiting low efflorescence, these bodies retain satisfactory physical properties, especially good durability to natural weathering conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Anastasia George Constantinou, Colin Dow, Charles Hubert Fentiman, Mary Ruth Hoy, Karen Louise Scrivener
  • Publication number: 20040035329
    Abstract: A packaged dry blended cementitious matrix composition for mixing with predetermined amounts of a decorative aggregate and water for producing a decorative aggregate-containing cementitious slurry for applying to a base, and for producing a durable surface with exposed decorative aggregate; and process for producing a decorative aggregate-containing surface. The composition comprising about 50% to about 79% of a quartzitic silica blend; about 20% to about 35% of a hydraulic cement selected from the group consisting of Type V hydraulic cement and white portland cement; a particulate material selected from the group consisting of fly ash not exceeding about 8%, silica fume not exceeding about 5% and mixtures thereof; optionally, a superplasticizer or water reducer; and an optional substance selected from the group consisting of shrinkage reducers, alkali-silica reactivity controllers, colorants, permeability reducers and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Francis W. Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20040035330
    Abstract: A synthetic slag is produced by melting the mineral content of an organic carbon-containing mineral, for example, oil shale or tar sands, with a source of lime such as cement kiln dust. The organic carbon, especially hydrocarbon, content of the mineral is oxidized by oxygen gas, which typically is derived from air or an air/oxygen combination, in an exothermic reaction and the heat generated provides the thermal energy for the reaction between the mineral content and the source of lime. In this way the gaseous products will typically comprise nitrogen, unreacted oxygen, water vapor and carbon dioxide, and heat energy can be readily recovered from the hot off gas products evolving during the combustion reaction. The synthetic slag may be pelletized and employed as lightweight mineral aggregate or milled, or atomized and then milled, to cement fineness to provide slag cement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2002
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: David Bridson Oates, John Graham Whellock, Philip Souza Zacarias
  • Publication number: 20040035331
    Abstract: The invention concerns a cementing composition for cold zones cementing operations in an oil well or analogous, said composition comprising a aqueous fluid base, solid particles including cement particles, and a dispersing agent in solution in the aqueous fluid base, said dispersing agent having a comb-like structure composed of a graft copolymer, said graft copolymer being constituted by a backbone carrying grafted chains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Edgar Volpert
  • Publication number: 20040035332
    Abstract: A tabletop suspension system is constructed to include a plurality of upright support members for fastening to the top of a table, a connecting rod member horizontally supported on the upright supports, the connecting rod having two coupling units symmetrically formed in top and front sidewalls thereof, and a set of device holders for fastening to the connecting rod member to hold different implements, each device holder having a coupling unit for selectively fastened to one coupling unit of the connecting rod member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2002
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Chin-Chih Lin
  • Publication number: 20040035333
    Abstract: Table comprising a fixed worktop (10) under which there are attached the legs for the support thereof, as well as a pull-out, ie. extractable extension (30). The means (20) used to link the fixed worktop (10) with the extension (30) comprise members (21, 23) that are attached on respective section planes (13, 32) and are provided with interacting part (22, 24) extending along an axis (Z) that is orthogonal to said inclined section planes (13, 32). In this manner, the sole and only operation that has to be carried out in order to extract to retract the extension (30) is a rotation by 180° about said axis (Z). The fixed worktop is preferably either rectangular or square while the same worktop and the extensions can even be made with crystal panes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Luciano Lucatello
  • Publication number: 20040035334
    Abstract: The invention relates to a folded medical cover (30) for use in operation rooms, especially for instrument tables (2) or operation tables or for the extremities of a patient. The cover comprises a tubular section (36) with at least one first open end (32) for putting the cover onto the table (2) or the extremity, and has a second, preferably closed end (34). The tubular section (36) is folded at least once transverse to its longitudinal direction (16) and the second end (34) functions as a stop (53) when the cover is pulled over the table or the extremity. The aim of the invention is to simplify handling of such a cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Armin Lohrengel, Theresia Knecht, Ralf Sprick
  • Publication number: 20040035335
    Abstract: An adjustable rack is composed of two opposite vertical supports, multiple shelves and multiple securing members. The opposite ends of the shelves respectively are slidably mounted on the vertical supports. The securing members are detachably and selectively fastened in opposite vertical supports to support the corresponding shelves at the desired positions, whereby distances between adjacent shelves are adjustable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2002
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Wen-Shan Ko
  • Publication number: 20040035336
    Abstract: Users of desks and work surfaces; such as drafting tables, clothing-pattern layout tables, artist composition surface and architect's modeling display tables may readily adjust the working surface level for comfort and visual acuity, merely by activating a toggle switch conveniently located along side the elevating surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2002
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Fred Whittaker Coble
  • Publication number: 20040035337
    Abstract: The present invention is a metal worktable comprising a tabletop and a plurality of table legs. The worktable has leg-supporting gussets to secure each of the table legs. Each gusset has a socket for receiving one of the table legs. Inside the socket of the gusset, there are stop protrusions that prevent the top surface of the table leg from directly contacting the underside of the tabletop. The worktable also has a inverted hat-shaped channel frame having a pair of side flanges that form the “brim” of the inverted hat shape. There are openings in the channel frame corresponding to the location of the table legs. At each opening in the channel frame, the corresponding leg-supporting gusset is recessed in the channel frame. The gusset contacts the side flanges of the channel frame rather than the underside of the tabletop. The channel frame is attached to the underside of the tabletop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2002
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: William L. Bartz, Thomas A. Lewis
  • Publication number: 20040035338
    Abstract: One incinerator according to the invention characterized by that incinerator chambers (3) of cylinder inner shape set preferably at equal distance from rotatory axle (t1) in an outer casing (1) provided with thermal insulation (2) rotated around (t1) are realised as incinerator units, the longitudinal axle of the incinerator chambers (3) is parallel with the rotatory axle of the outer casing (1), and inside the incinerator chambers (3) incinerator carriages (21) are rolling preferably on a roller path (30) serving placing of the body to be incinerated. Further a door (18) ensuring placing of bodies is put on one of the front walls perpendicular to the rotatory axle (t1) of the casing (1), on the opposite wall the equipment is provided preferably with a blast inlet (15) and a hot air feed pipe (9), further one or more burner (13) are placed within the inside of the casing (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Gabor Fldes
  • Publication number: 20040035339
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for converting energy by combustion of solid fuel, especially incineration of bio-organic fuels and municipal solid waste to produce heat energy and which operates with very low levels of NOx, CO and fly ash, in which that the oxygen flow in the first and second combustion chambers are strictly controlled by regulating the flow of fresh air separately into each combustion chamber in it least one separate zone and by scaling off the entire combustion chambers in order to eliminate penetration of false air into the chambers, the temperatures in the first and second combustion chamber are strictly controlled, in addition to the regulation of the oxygen flow, by admixing a regulated amount of recycled flue gas with the fresh air which is being led into each of the chambers in each of the at least one separate zones, and both the recycled flue gas and fresh combustion gases are filtered in unburned solid waste in the first combustion chamber by sending the unburned soli
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Sigvart Kasin
  • Publication number: 20040035340
    Abstract: Apparatus for loading a row of tuft retention sites (TRS) in a gripper loom with a row of tufts (T) arranged in a predetermined pattern sequence, the apparatus including a group of yarn sources movable along said row tuft retention sites (TRS), drive means for sequentially moving said group of yarn sources along the guide means (33) and temporarily locating a desired yarn source in registry with a predetermined tuft site (TRS), and selectively operable tuft forming means which, on selection, transfer a tuft (T) from said desired yarn sources to said predetermined tuft site (TR).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Richard Stewart
  • Publication number: 20040035341
    Abstract: The present invention provides a double end yarn drive pattern attachment for tufting machines characterized by independent servo-motor control of yarn feed rolls capable of increased torque to carry multiple yarn ends on a single feed roll, thereby economically retaining many advantages of a single end pattern attachment. The improved attachment utilizes an intermediate gear to provide a relatively high torque drive adaptable between single and plural yarn pattern attachments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Steven Frost, Richard Prichard
  • Publication number: 20040035342
    Abstract: A buttonhole sewing machine for producing buttonhole seams with seam end sections of various shapes in a work piece comprises an input equipment for feeding buttonhole parameters; and a computer for calculating, from the buttonhole parameters, sewing data that determine the respective buttonhole geometry. It further comprises a memory for storing the computed sewing data and a key to be shifted into two key statuses, by means of which to trigger conversion of a buttonhole seam from a position to the left to a position to the right or vice versa, and storage thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Frank Pannwitz, Rudiger Morbt, Werner Maasjost, Thomas Noltge
  • Publication number: 20040035343
    Abstract: The present invention features a boatlift leg and frame structure utilizing a ball screw lifting mechanism driven by a reversible electric motor to raise and loser a boat support carriage. The raising and lowering operation of the ball screw mechanism is controlled by electronic circuitry that includes wired and remote direction selection; lifting logic with conflict detection and direction reversal delay; lighting control logic; motor power control; and overload detection logic to detect lifting overload and disable power to the motor power control. A drive train mechanism converts high-speed low torque rotation of the motor drive shaft to low-speed high-torque rotation drive of the ball screw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Wayne G. Floe, Daniel C. Myers
  • Publication number: 20040035344
    Abstract: A collapsible pontoon paddle boat that includes inflatable pontoons that may be deflated, and a series of frame pieces that may be disassembled. The frame structure includes metal tubes that snap into anchors that are integrally formed on the sides of the pontoons. A removable seat is provided for the boat that is supported by a series of cinch straps that allows fore and aft sections of the seating surface to be adjusted up and down relative to the pontoons. A plurality of mounting locations may be provided for removable cranks and paddle wheels so that their position may be adjusted relative to the seat. A rudder for the pontoon paddle boat is connected to the frame for the pontoon paddle boat by a friction connection and includes a pivot mechanism that permits folding to a position where it extends parallel to the boat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Applicant: The Coleman Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew T. Metzger, Shin Tsai Wu
  • Publication number: 20040035345
    Abstract: A control device for a steering kite on a boat. The steering kite can be steered by a steering device and at least two or three, preferably at least four or five, suspension lines. The control device comprises at least one force introduction rail that extends horizontally over the water line and on which a deviation device for the suspension lines is positioned in such a way that it can move back and forth. The rail is fixed to the boat between the steering kite and the steering device in such a way that the traction force of the steering kite produces torque about the longitudinal axis and/or the transversal axis of the boat in the water, by means of which the boat facing the wind is lifted upwards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Edwin Lundgren
  • Publication number: 20040035346
    Abstract: A pivotal fin system, for use with an aquafoil, such as surfboards, body boards, wave skis, sail boards, wake boards and the like, comprising a pot (3) and a fin (2), having a tab (18) extending from the base (17) of the fin (2). The pot (3) has a central slot (11) and is mounted in the board (23) with the opening of the central slot (11) flush with the board (23). The slot (11) has a releasable locking means (6 & 7) therein, and the tab (18) has a connection means (21 & 22), which is releasably engaged by locking means (6 & 7). Preferably the releasable locking means (6 & 7) is a substantially c-shaped clamp, and the connection means (21 & 22) has a recess or recesses (22) behind a bulbous extension (21), which is engaged in the c-shaped clamp, with arms (5) of the c-shaped clamp engaging in the recess or recesses (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Graeme Davey, Jim Banks, Derek Harper
  • Publication number: 20040035347
    Abstract: A chair is stabilized in two orthogonal axis, pitch and roll, can hold a person stable in relation to the horizon. This solution to motion sickness is effective because the fluid in the inner ear no longer moves in relationship to the vehicle motion upon which the person is located. Therefore a main cause of motion sickness is substantially reduced or eliminated. Additionally, the invention can be a table, a bed, or even an entire room that is isolated from the rolling, pitching and jolting imparted by the host vehicle. Additionally, some applications such as a chair and table, may be stabilized in a third orthogonal axis, azimuth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: David E. Grober