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...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090031464 | RESTRAINT FREE GARMENT A restraint-free garment comprising an upper body part having at least one hand shield that defines a space adapted to removably receive a portion of a wearer's hand. The present invention also relates to a restrain-free garment comprising an upper body part having at l... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031465 | Glove with Strapping System A baseball or softball glove includes a strap to provide a compressive force across the fingers of a hand inserted into the glove. The compressive force facilitates the snapping the glove to catch and secure a ball. Additionally, the ring finger and the pinky finger may... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031466 | Protective infant crawling chaps This invention relates to a pair of protective crawling chaps for a crawling infant or an infant beginning to walk. The chaps are worn directly over an infant's legs or over clothing and provide protection from abrasions, dirt and wear and tear when crawling on various ... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031467 | Garment for storing and/or carrying items A garment for storing and/or carrying one or more items, including a torso receiving portion for wearing on at least part of a wearer's torso; and one or more receptacles for receiving said item/s, the or each receptacle being at least partially comprised of a semi-rigi... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031468 | Reversible Sweatshirt with Secure Pocket Slot and Secure Interior Pocket Pouch and Method for Embroidering Same Reversible sweatshirt has a pair of contiguous configurations, each of which may have distinct coloration and distinct embroidery and a secure pocket slot, the application of such embroidery is facilitated through a secure pocket slot having a secure interior pocket pou... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031469 | COMBINATION GARMENT AND FIGURE-ENHANCING DEVICE AND METHOD A combination garment and figure-enhancing device provides for an enhanced or more desirable appearance of the buttock region of a wearer thereof. Figure-enhancing devices are positioned within casings, which, in turn, are coupled to the garment. In one embodiment, the ... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031470 | PANTS [Problem to be Solved] To provide pants which look like ordinary pants, have a buttocks supporting effect and assure excellent wearing comfort. [Solution] Pants, in which a lining fabric covering the region ranging from the buttock portion ... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031471 | Garment With Thoracic Access A garment for a person to wear includes a torso enclosure and a flap. The torso enclosure has a neck opening, a pair of arm openings, and a transverse chest opening. The transverse chest opening is formed in the torso enclosure so as to be positioned over the inferior t... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031472 | GARMENT WITH DEPLOYABLE HOOD AND METHOD FOR USING SAME A garment, and methods of using the garment, including a main body portion, a collar attached to the main body portion, and a hood attached to the main body portion adjacent to the collar. The collar includes first and second flaps that define a collar pocket. The hood ... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031473 | Noiseless over garment with apertures An outer garment, worn over a jacket and other clothing, for additional warmth. The garment comprises apertures or openings instead of sleeves to allow a user to tuck his arms into the garment like a blanket, or extend his arms through the apertures noiselessly. The gar... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031474 | Advanced isolation gown A medical isolation gown is disclosed. The gown is to be used by medical personnel treating isolated patients with contagious diseases. The gown comprises slots and pouches that can be used to isolate the worker and his or her instruments from contamination when examini... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031475 | CAP HAVING ILLUMINATING AND PIVOTABLY MOVABLE FAN A cap having a crown sized for receiving a head of a wearer and a lid connected to a front portion of the crown, the cap including a pivotably movable fan having a fan body and a motor for driving a plurality of rotateable fan blades for providing cool ambient air to th... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031476 | SPLASH GUARD A splash guard for protecting a person's eyes, nose and ears from soap and other hairdressing preparations, such as shampoo, applied to a person's hair is provided having a body encircling a part of a person's head above the person's eyes, nose and ears. A sealing membe... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031477 | Transformable Womens' Trousers Transformable womens' trousers which, comprised of an upper part with means to fasten a belt around a user's waist, and having a zipper on its lower hem region with which to join other parts corresponding to the trouser legs, with side zippers that allow its extension i... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031478 | Watersport Hiking Support System A device that provides support for sailors while hiking from a sailing vessel is disclosed. The device is a pair of sleeves tailored with pockets under each thigh that allow for supporting pads to be inserted in various combinations. The pads are ergonomically designed ... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031479 | Athletic helmet An improved athletic helmet comprises an outer shell having an interior and an exterior surface, an inner liner attached to the interior of the outer shell, and a face mask attached to the exterior of the outer shell. In an embodiment, the face mask engages within a rec... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031480 | CEPHALIC PROTECTION CELL (CPC) A new concept in cranial protection, is a device of individual protection with the purpose of protect the user's head against impact and decelerations. The Cephalic Protection Cell must be used with the objective of avoid direct injuries caused by impact and resting and... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031481 | Protective helmet pad interface structure A shock-absorbing, protective interface pad structure usable between the shell of a helmet and the head of a helmet wearer including (a) an acceleration-rate-sensitive, viscoelastic core structure made of a product having substantially the same characteristics as at lea... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031482 | HELMET ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM A protective sport helmet, such as for lacrosse, includes a hard shell portion, a lining portion, and an adjustment mechanism. The inner side of the adjustment mechanism includes an adjustment protective pad. Together, the lining portion and the inner surface of the adj... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031483 | Protective Helmet A protective helmet with a helmet shell (3) which, when it is in use, at least partly encloses the user's head with the exception of the face area, a chin guard (1) which, when it is in use, encloses the lower parts of the user's face area, as well as a vi... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031484 | Protective face guard with transparent shield A protective face guard for use in playing sports. The guard includes a shield having a transparent portion extending over an unobstructed viewing area to enable the wearer to have a clear line of vision. The unobstructed viewing area is preferably greater in diameter t... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031485 | Face Shield for Safety Helmet A substantially clear cycle face shield adapted for use with a cycle helmet comprised of: a mesh face cover adapted to be secured to the cycle helmet, either temporarily or permanently, for protecting the user's face when bicycling, which is manufactured using a process... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031486 | Articles Of Base Layer Apparel Including Zones Having Different Thermal Properties Cold weather garments include one or more zones with increased thermally insulative and/or thermally resistive properties. Such garments reflect different gender needs. Such garments can allow wearers to maintain a necessary or desired degree of warmth with decreased ga... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031487 | TILTING-BOWL TOILETS Tilting Bowl Toilet comprises a frame, a toilet basin, and a tilting bowl. The tilting bowl is supported below the toilet basin to receive and hold water/waste delivered from the toilet basin. The tilting bowl tilts to discharge its content to drainage. The tilting bowl... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031488 | FLUSH VALVE ASSEMBLY A flush valve assembly includes a valve body in which a flexible film, a hollow tubular member and an activation member are received. The flexible film has a weight enclosed therein which includes a neck extending from an underside of the flexible film and the neck is t... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031489 | Swimming Pool Overflow Grating The present invention is directed to a grating for an overflow drainage channel of a swimming pool including a plurality of bars having a passage extending in a transverse direction therethrough, a plurality of spacer elements having an aperture substantially aligned wi... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031490 | Child bath chair A child bath chair includes a base member having a seating surface portion, and a back member having a backrest surface portion and detachably attached to the base member.... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031491 | System And Method For Controlling The Environment Of A Steambath A steambath system is responsive to verbal commands to control the various aspects of the shower and steam environment such as water flow rate, water temperature, steam activation/de-activation, lighting intensity and/or color, music volume, music content, quantity and ... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031492 | Timepiece shower head A modified shower head provides a timepiece imbedded within a shower head insert allowing a person showering to keep track of time and also to monitor water usage. It also provides the person showering with a timing mechanism to determine the length of time for use of h... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031493 | WATER DISCHARGE SYSTEM There is provided a water discharge system. A water discharge system includes a water discharge portion; a sensor unit which acquires movement information about an object based on a radiated electric wave, and outputs a detecting signal; and a control unit which control... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031494 | Sleep sofa wherein seat and back cushions provide bedding surface A sleep sofa includes a main frame, a seat unit, a back unit and a supporting linkage assembly that can move the back unit along an arc to the front of the seat unit when the sleep sofa is converted to a bed state, the supporting linkage simultaneously lifting the rear ... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031495 | Oscillating device for children's swing apparatus A swing apparatus for children and an oscillating device used in combination with a swing apparatus according to the present invention are aimed to solve the problems such as the motor is damaged due to overloaded current and a sitting device in the swing apparatus is s... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031496 | CRIB BUMPER A crib bumper for use in a baby crib is presented. The crib bumper includes at least one bumper section of dense non-absorbent material. The crib bumper may include a plurality of bumper segments abutting each other lengthwise to extend the length or width of a crib. Th... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031497 | Operating Table The invention relates to an operating table having a support column and a table panel mounted on the support column. In order to facilitate improve monitoring of a patient on the table panel, the operating table has a force measurement system for determining the weight ... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031498 | CPR DROP MECHANISM FOR A HOSPITAL BED A patient support apparatus, such as a bed, stretcher, or the like, includes a support deck having a plurality of pivotable sections adapted to support a patient thereon. A head section of the support deck generally supports a patient's torso and is movable between a ge... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031499 | UPPER EXTREMITY SUPPORT A support for use with the upper extremity of a patient is disclosed. An upper extremity support including a wedge for supporting the upper extremity is provided. The upper extremity support may include a block for supporting the wedge. The upper extremity support may a... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031500 | Infant Positioning System and Prone Positioning Apparatus Therefor A prone positioning apparatus includes a support member for supporting an infant in a prone position. The support member has first and second ends, first and second sides having first and second opposing recesses, respectively, a top surface facing the infant, and a bot... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031501 | FOLDING DEVICE FOR ROLLING UP SLEEPING BAGS, SELF-INFLATING PADS, AIRBEDS, FOAM MATS, BED COVERS, OTHER SIMILAR BEDDINGS, OR THE LIKE A rigid folding device for rolling up sleeping bags, self-inflating sleeping pads, airbeds, flexible foam mats, bed covers, other similar beddings, or the like is provided that consists of a rectangular or oblong shaped frame-like construction, with adequate opening for... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031502 | Mattress and Method of Manufacturing the Same A mattress includes a plurality of individual foam blocks which are secured together using one or more plastic fasteners to form a five-sided foam encasement. A spring unit is fittingly disposed within an interior cavity defined by the foam encasement. One or more top l... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090031503 | Extension Apparatus for Hardware and Tools A device that enables a user to install most any hardware item into any structure. The inventive apparatus includes a core portion with a standard female ACME thread so the core may be threaded onto a standard extension pole. At the upper end of the core is a cavity des... | 02/05/2009 |
