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Patent No. 6293874

User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks

An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.

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Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company


Location: St.Paul, MI
No. of patents: 15

NumberTitleIssue Date
6045913At least partly fused particulates and methods of making them by flame fusion
The disclosure describes methods for producing bulk, particulate material that includes solid, generally ellipsoidal particles. Irregularly shaped feed particles with average particle sizes of up to 25 microns on a volume basis are dispersed in at least a...
04/04/2000
6045648Thermoset adhesive having susceptor particles therein
Multilayered film and film based assembly which are environmentally-compatible, and which exhibit one or more desirable characteristics of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) film and film based assemblies, such as clarity, flexibility and toughness, but without the...
04/04/2000
5885708Antistatic latex adhesives
A latex antistatic adhesive comprising an emulsion of polymerized microdrops dispersed in an aqueous medium, having an average diameter less than about 0.1 μm, and a glass transition temperature (Tg) of from about -120° C. to about 25° C., wherein the ...
03/23/1999
5883208Initiator system and adhesive composition made therewith
Systems for initiating the polymerization of acrylic monomers comprising (1) organoborane amine complexes and (2) decomplexers comprising at least one anhydride group. Adhesive compositions prepared from the initiator systems advantageously exhibit low le...
03/16/1999
5849358Apparatus and method for applying coating materials to individual sheet members
Sheets to be coated with water-based coating material, for example a primer and a low adhesion backsize, are supplied from a feeder (1), in end-to-end overlapping relationship, to a dual coater (3) in which the sheets are coated individually on both sides...
12/15/1998
5837179Method of making abrasive filaments comprising abrasive-filled thermoplastic elastomer
An abrasive filament, including a thermoplastic elastomer having abrasive particles dispersed and adhered therein, exhibits improved life over previously known abrasive-filled polymeric filaments. Methods of making abrasive filaments of the invention, art...
11/17/1998
5811186Undrawn, tough, durably melt-bonded, macrodenier, thermoplastic, multicomponent filaments
Undrawn, tough, durably melt-bondable, macrodenier, thermoplastic, multicomponent filaments, such as sheath-core and side-by-side filaments, comprising a first plastic component and a second lower-melting component defining all or at least part of the mat...
09/22/1998
5795657Organoborane polyamine complexes and adhesive compositions made therewith
A complex comprises organoborane and polyamine. The polyamine is the reaction product of a diprimary amine-terminated material and a material having at least two groups reactive with primary amine. The complexes are useful in systems for initiating the po...
08/18/1998
5658670Multi-layer compositions having a fluoropolymer layer
A method for increasing the adhesion of a first layer comprising fluoropolymer to a second layer comprising a melt-processable, substantially non-fluorinated polymer is disclosed. The method comprises mixing, preferably in a melt, an aliphatic di- or poly...
08/19/1997
5288359Method for adhesively bonding close fitting components
A method for adhesively bonding an at least partially hollow first member to a second member received interiorly of the first member. Adhesive is applied to the second member and allowed to attain a substantially nonflowable condition. The first and secon...
02/22/1994
5043383Heat-shrinkable film having high shrinkage upon brief exposure to low activation temperatures
Disposable diapers can be manufactured at high production speeds by using for the waistband a heat-shrinkable plastic film that is dimensionally stable at ordinary room temperature and shrinks in one direction at least 25% within 5 seconds at 54° C. Such...
08/27/1991
4916634System for preparing garment pattern data to enable subsequent computerized prealteration
A computerized system for preparing garment pattern data to enable subsequent computerized prealteration based on standard or individual body measurements. The system comprises pattern storage for storing garment pattern data comprising points and lines d...
04/10/1990
4875895Buffing apparatus for book-fold carton; and method
A buffing apparatus is provided for use in association with a case sealing arrangement, to buff lead and rear depending tape tails against a tape/carton combination. The buffing apparatus includes a single buffing member moved, by means of a motive mechan...
10/24/1989
4853310Triiolide salts of cyanine dyes suitable for sensitization of photoconductive systems
Cyanine dyes, particularly indocyanine dyes, having at least 7 carbon atoms in the polymethine chain which may possess a fused cyclopentene or cyclohexene ring in the form of a tri-iodide salt exhibit a substantial reduction in the propensity to associate...
08/01/1989
4218735Digital motor control system
A digital motor control system is provided to regulate the speed of a variable speed motor. Information concerning the speed and acceleration of the variable speed motor is used to generate a correction signal which causes the measured speed of the variab...
08/19/1980
 
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