Screw Patents (Class 48/54)
  • Patent number: 8118888
    Abstract: To support a deck of an exercise treadmill one or more arcuate leaf springs are used in a deck support structure. The leaf springs can be made of a single member of elastomeric material. An adjustment mechanism can be used to change the radius of the leaf springs in order to vary spring rates of the leaf springs. Where a number of different leaf springs are used, the adjustment mechanism can be used to adjust the spring rates of different springs independently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Brunswick Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel E. Molter, Yury Galperin, Rachel L. A. Buckley, Juliette C. Daly
  • Patent number: 5362453
    Abstract: A device for the generation of synthesis gas with a plurality of catalyst-filled reformer tubes suspended in a pressure vessel, the reformer tubes being at least partially enveloped by jacket tubes intended to conduct product gas in an upward direction from a lower mixing chamber into the head space of the pressure vessel, the intended purpose of said device being to provide a solution, in particular for improving the mixing of the ensuing streams while simultaneously equalizing the heat transfer by mechanically simple and economical means.This is achieved by making the jacket tubes protrude beyond the ends of the reformer tubes thus forming an individual mixing chamber for each reformer tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignee: Uhde GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Dieter Marsch