| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 4205973 |
Method and apparatus for measuring the volume and shape of a glass gob |
June 3, 1980 |
| Apparatus and method for measuring the volume and shape of a falling gob of glass. Two cameras are used to make section by section measurements of the horizontal extent of the moving gob. Timing of the measurements is controlled so as to cause measurements to be made at equal increments |
| 4205730 |
Mounting and driving mechanism for the steerable wheels of a multi-wheel off-road vehicle |
June 3, 1980 |
| This invention relates to a mounting and driving mechanism for the steerable wheels of a multi-wheel, off-road vehicle of the type utilized for transporting long loads, such as trimmed tree trunks or whole trees, over roadless terrain. Such vehicles generally have front and rear quad |
| 4205392 |
Gas discharge display device |
May 27, 1980 |
| There is disclosed a gas discharge device containing at least two electrodes, at least one of the electrodes being insulated from the gas by a dielectric member. There is particularly disclosed a multiple gaseous discharge display/memory panel having an electrical memory and capable of |
| 4203526 |
Plastic drum assembly |
May 20, 1980 |
| There is provided a plural part freestanding receptacle assemblage for storage and handling of bulk quantities of material which comprises a plastic drum and handling means concentrically and holdingly assembled about the drum grippable by chime-handling devices to enable transportat |
| 4202660 |
Glass-ceramic article and method of making same |
May 13, 1980 |
| Disclosed is an assembly or matrix comprising an arrangement of integrally fused tubes forming a series of nonporous, longitudinal parallel passageways therethrough. The matrix is of a low-expansion ceramic material and the passageways therethrough have thin walls; a high proportion |
| 4201562 |
Method for coating glassware |
May 6, 1980 |
| This invention relates to the art of coating glassware while the ware is moving through an annealing lehr which is provided with a cooling section near the exit end of the lehr. The cooling section is of the continuous recirculation type providing an arrangement for generally cooling the |
| 4201535 |
Apparatus for forming tubular plastic articles |
May 6, 1980 |
| A method and apparatus are disclosed for injection molding tubular plastic articles around cylindrical core pins at a molding station, for cooling the articles while supported on the core pins, and for then axially stripping the articles from the core pins at an ejection station. The |
| 4201264 |
Solar water tank |
May 6, 1980 |
| There is disclosed a solar water glass lined tank in which a copper tubing heat exchanger coil is installed and connected across inlet and outlet fittings of the tank. The circuit for circulation of a fluid which is to be heated or cooled is connected to these fittings for thermal exchan |
| 4200822 |
MOS Circuit for generating a square wave form |
April 29, 1980 |
| A circuit for generating a square wave form which circuit comprises two MOSFETs and is driven by only one control logic signal. A first MOSFET is connected between a ground potential power supply and the circuit output line while a second MOSFET is connected between the circuit output li |
| 4200238 |
Method of preparing a rapidly soluble and machine handleable particulate composite and product |
April 29, 1980 |
| A method of economically producing a relatively rapidly soluble machine handleable particulate composite material from a material of relatively low solubility comprising pulverizing a material of low solubility, selecting a first appropriate size fraction from the pulverized material |
| 4200183 |
Apparatus for moving glass containers through a series of inspection positions |
April 29, 1980 |
| Apparatus, as set forth, in which glass containers moving on a horizontal conveyor in an upright attitude are guided into a bottle-engaging pocket, while the pocket is in position at an entrance position. The pocket is one of a series which are connected together in an endless series. An |
| 4199952 |
Modular solar powered heat pump |
April 29, 1980 |
| Disclosed is a solar powered heat pump useful for both heating and cooling building space and for providing refrigeration. The device operates on a chemical effect (adsorption) intermittent heat pump cycle in which the moderately high temperature heat generated by insolation is used to d |
| 4199851 |
Apparatus for applying plastic sleeves to glass bottles |
April 29, 1980 |
| The present invention relates to an apparatus for applying a plastic sleeve to a rigid base article, such as a glass bottle. A blank of plastic is wrapped around a mandrel and seamed to form a plastic sleeve. The bottle to which the sleeve is to be applied is preheated and longitudinally |
| 4199344 |
90.degree. Sweepout cylinder with adjustable stroke |
April 22, 1980 |
| Apparatus for moving newly formed glass containers from a cooling dead plate to a moving machine conveyor in which the ware is engaged by a finger, with the finger being generally horizontal and engageable with the container at a point on its sidewall which best suits the moving of the |
| 4197948 |
Nestable foam cup |
April 15, 1980 |
| A fabricated cup or nestable container having a unitary sidewall formed from a double-ended sheet of a heat-shrinkable thermoplastic material, the inner suface of which is adapted to contact a liquid product to be contained in said container. The ends of the sheet are joined to one a |
| 4197070 |
Apparatus for controlling a plastic extruder |
April 8, 1980 |
| A control system for a plastic extruder which automatically controls both the melt pressure and the melt temperature of the plastic material at the outlet of the extruder barrel. The extruder barrel is divided into a plurality of heating zones and a zone temperature control means ind |
| 4196275 |
Thermoplastic polyesters prepared from bis(4-.beta.-hydroxyethoxyphenyl)sulfone |
April 1, 1980 |
| Disclosed are new copolyesters of terephthalic acid, bis(4-.beta.-hydroxyethoxyphenyl)sulfone, ethylene glycol and a very small amount of trimellitic acid, particularly useful as molding compounds, especially for the extrusion-blow molding process of making hollow articles, and a met |
| 4193784 |
Method of loading containers into an annealing lehr |
March 18, 1980 |
| Glass containers received on a machine conveyor which passes a plurality of forming machine sections and receives the ware from the sections is coordinated in its relationship to the machine sweepouts, such that a gap is provided periodically in the row of ware carried by the machine |
| 4192688 |
Product and process for forming same |
March 11, 1980 |
| Colored and/or transparent, low-expansion, crystallized glass-ceramics formed by thermal in situ crystallization from a differently colored crystallizable base glass and having lithium-containing crystals as the predominant crystalline species. The products have coefficients of thermal |
| 4191548 |
Method and apparatus for forming glass containers |
March 4, 1980 |
| Method and apparatus for forming glass containers by the blow and blow process in which a parison mold and blow mold are positioned relative to each other, such that parisons can be transferred by an invert arm. The parisons are formed with their necks down in the parison mold from a |
| 4191320 |
Degradable article |
March 4, 1980 |
| There is disclosed a degradable article made from photodegradable polymeric or plastic compositions comprising at least one organic polymer or copolymer and at least two different aromatic carbonyl photosensitizers. |
| 4190465 |
Luminescent solar collector structure |
February 26, 1980 |
| Disclosed is a luminescent solar collector comprising a relatively thick layer with a photocell coupled to a face surface thereof and at least one thin luminescent layer optically coupled to said thick layer, said thick layer having an index of refraction at least 0.04 more than each of |
| 4189729 |
MOS addressing circuits for display/memory panels |
February 19, 1980 |
| A driving and addressing circuit for applying sustaining, writing and erasing voltages to the cells of a multicelled gas discharge display/memory panel. The voltage generating circuitry is isolated from each panel electrode by a pair of oppositely poled diodes individual to that elec |
| 4188357 |
Method of preparing hollow articles from thermoplastic polyesters |
February 12, 1980 |
| Disclosed are new copolyesters of terephthalic acid, bis(4-.beta.-hydroxyethoxyphenyl)sulfone, ethylene glycol and a very small amount of trimellitic acid, particularly useful as molding compounds, especially for the extrusion-blow molding process of making hollow articles, and metho |
| 4188239 |
Luminescent solar collector structure |
February 12, 1980 |
| Disclosed is a luminescent solar collector optically coupled to a photovoltaic cell and in confronting relationship thereto a diffusing layer of a particulate phosphorescent material deposited on and backed by a mirror. |
| 4188238 |
Generation of electrical energy from sunlight, and apparatus |
February 12, 1980 |
| Disclosed is a process and apparatus for concentrating sunlight optically and impinging the concentrated light on at least one luminescent solar collector coupled to a first photocell, passing residual concentrated sunlight to at least one other luminescent solar collector in one emb |
| 4187688 |
Solar powered intermittent cycle heat pump |
February 12, 1980 |
| Disclosed is a solar powered heat pump useful for both heating and cooling building space and for providing refrigeration. The device operates on a chemical effect (adsorption) intermittent heat pump cycle in which the moderately high temperature heat generated by insolation is used to d |
| 4187276 |
Method of making a plastic package |
February 5, 1980 |
| A package is provided comprising an uprightly unstable thermoplastic bottle having a generally convex bottom and a peripheral sidewall extending upwardly therefrom and a base directly contacting and loosely supporting the bottle in an upright position the package further comprises pr |
| 4187267 |
Laser safety system |
February 5, 1980 |
| A laser detection system for detecting parisons or portions of parisons remaining on cylindrical core pins at an ejection station. Injection molding of tubular parisons around cylindrical core pins occurs at a molding station; cooling the parisons while supported on the core pins occ |
| 4186033 |
Structure for conversion of solar radiation to electricity and heat |
January 29, 1980 |
| Disclosed is a modified flat plate thermal collector, modified to substitute for one of its insulating flat light conducting members a flat luminescent solar collector plate coupled to a photocell and having a thin layer containing a luminescent species responsive to solar radiation, to |
| 4184895 |
Structure for conversion of solar radiation to electricity and heat |
January 22, 1980 |
| Disclosed is a structure which in one apparatus converts a part of incident solar energy to electrical energy by the use of photocells mounted on a luminescent solar collector of tubular design while another portion of such incident energy is converted to thermal energy. |
| 4184604 |
Drinking lid |
January 22, 1980 |
| Disclosed is a lid for a container which is designed to allow drinking of the contents while the lid is in place and to prevent spillage of the contents. The lid includes a generally circular body member and a sealing edge located along the periphery of the body member. A raised platform |
| 4184309 |
Method and apparatus for assemblying tubular sleeve preforms and containers |
January 22, 1980 |
| This invention relates to method and apparatus for producing a composite container having a neck label or tubular sleeve mounted temporarily thereon adapted to be shrunken into final surface covering position. The tubular sleeve is preformed of relatively-stiff material and flat-folded |
| 4180209 |
Solar energy operated system and method |
December 25, 1979 |
| There is disclosed a solar energy operated system and method in which a quantity of liquid media is placed in solar collectors and heated to a preselected temperature therein. Upon reaching this temperature, the liquid is transferred to a first storage vessel. The liquid is replaced in |
| 4179757 |
Biocompatible articles having high permeability to gases derived from polysulfones |
December 25, 1979 |
| There is disclosed the preparation of an alpha-olefin-sulfur dioxide copolymer derived from the C.sub.8 to C.sub.18 alpha-olefins. The polymers undergo clean thermal degradation, having high permeabilities to oxygen and carbon dioxide, and are readily processed into a membrane article. |
| 4177548 |
Method and device for assembling coaxially interfitting parts |
December 11, 1979 |
| A method and device for assembling pre-shaped pairs of coaxially mating parts in interfitting assembled relationship one within the other and briefly embodying the concepts of rotating the mating parts in unassembled positionally oriented relationship through a first arcuate path with th |
| 4175988 |
Melt-formed polycrystalline ceramics and dopant hosts containing phosphorus |
November 27, 1979 |
| Disclosed are new polycrystalline ceramic bodies formed from melts containing as essential components P.sub.2 O.sub.5, Ta.sub.2 O.sub.3 and Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 and sometimes containing small amounts of SiO.sub.2. Also disclosed are such bodies in the form of planar dopant hosts for doping |
| 4175236 |
Method and apparatus of cavity identification of mold of origin |
November 20, 1979 |
| This invention relates to a system of determining which of a plurality of molds produced a particular container. A concentric ring code is molded into the bottom of each container as it is produced. The containers are then passed by a reading station, where light whose intensity is p |
| 4174476 |
Laser cutting of tubular articles |
November 13, 1979 |
| Method and apparatus for cutting tubular material with two separate laser beams having a constant power ratio by using a laser source having a single output beam of random polarization. A beamsplitter is positioned so that the output of a laser source strikes it at a near normal angle of |
| 4173738 |
Solid state laser amplifier having two output wavelengths |
November 6, 1979 |
| A solid state laser including a plurality of plate like lasable elements in an array on a common optical axis. There are two different plate like elements, arranged in an alternating pattern, each containing a lasing ion which lases at a wavelength that is different from the wavelength o |
| 4173495 |
Solar collector structures containing thin film polysiloxane, and solar cells |
November 6, 1979 |
| Disclosed is a composite collector and concentrator structure comprising a laminate having a self-supporting layer of solid light transmitting material of extended area in one plane in optical contact with a relatively thin layer of a silicone resin derived from a trifunctional silan |
| 4172873 |
Method for applying a heat shrinkable sleeve to a plastic bottle |
October 30, 1979 |
| Heat sensitive containers with loosely fitting circumferentially heat shrinkable sleeves are conveyed linearly while rotating, past heating means for impinging hot gas against the sleeve serially from the bottom to the top thereof to heat shrink the sleeves around the bottles; also d |
| 4171502 |
Gaseous breakdown display device |
October 16, 1979 |
| A gaseous breakdown display device is disclosed capable of producing a chromatic picture or display pattern. This is accomplished by a selective excitation of electrodes associated with dielectric sheets containing phosphors capable of emitting the primary colors. Also disclosed is a dot |
| 4170622 |
Method of making a blown hollow article having a ribbed interior surface |
October 9, 1979 |
| A method is disclosed for reinforcing hollow articles, such as bottles, blow molded from a heated thermoplastic material. A hollow parison is preformed with concave grooves in its exterior surface and corresponding ribs on its interior surface at locations in which the finished article i |
| 4170074 |
Powder dryer including fluidized bed aspirator |
October 9, 1979 |
| Apparatus for preconditioning of organic hygroscopic coating powders to render them free flowing and facilitate their electrostatic application to preheated workpieces. The preconditioning technique includes drying the powder prior to electrostatic application to remove moisture and brea |
| 4169985 |
Gas discharge device |
October 2, 1979 |
| There is disclosed a gas discharge device containing at least two electrodes, at least one of the electrodes being insulated from the gas by a dielectric member. There is particularly disclosed a multiple gaseous discharge display/memory panel having an electrical memory and capable of |
| 4169823 |
Coating composition comprising an aqueous emulsion of polyethylene containing a water-soluble po |
October 2, 1979 |
| A coating composition for imparting improved scuff resistance to a substrate and a process for its use are disclosed. The coating composition comprises an aqueous emulsion of polyethylene containing from about 0.5% to about 15% of a water-soluble polyethylene oxide by weight of the p |
| 4168128 |
Seal roller dispensing package |
September 18, 1979 |
| An improved dual-seal, wide-surface roller-type dispensing package combination for cosmetics and the like. A wide-surface dispensing roller is held in place in a fitment which is adapted to be attached to the finish portion of a container for the product to be dispensed. The dispensi |
| 4168073 |
Glass article handling chuck |
September 18, 1979 |
| A chuck for handling hollow, cylindrical glass articles, such as used in solar energy installations, is disclosed wherein such glass articles generally are in the form of concentrically assembled glass tubing having a coated exterior surface. In the orientation in handling these types of |
| 4165356 |
Method of forming tubular plastic material having a flare-top edge using a blow head |
August 21, 1979 |
| The method permits selective cooling of tubular plastic material as formed to provide for an exchange of internal cooling air through the central opening of the blow head. Air supply rings having outlet slots facing the tubing, as well as air guide surfaces of small axial length, are pro |
