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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5662172 | Aerator appartus with retractable turf penetrating members An aerator apparatus, having retractable penetrating blade members, for attachment to lawnmowers is shown. The aerator apparatus includes a support disc affixed to the face of a lawnmower wheel with a pivot disc pivotally connected thereto. Sandwiched bet... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5474750 | Resonant power supply circuit for ozone generators An ozone generator is provided, with a resonant power circuit to energize the corona plates. The circuit includes a pair of transistors where the primary winding of the transformer acts as the collector load on each of the transistors. Additionally, two o... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5141226 | Ball recovery system A tennis ball recovery system utilizes an elastic screen (15) suspended from a back stop at an angle and is joined to a trough that lies on the ground by means that allow the screen (15) to pivot as the trough is moved to a storage position against the ba... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5097939 | Synchronous position product feed system A controlled product feed system for delivering discrete products at high speed to a downstream industrial operation which requires accurate speed and position of delivery. A retarding force is applied to the product stream to accumulate an abutting seque... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5062390 | Bird feeder Feeder for birds, especially hummingbirds, that has a stem rising from the center of a bowl and that has a cover for the bowl through which the stem passes, which cover is selectively locked to the stem for loosening on occasion to permit filling of the b... | 11/05/1991 |
| 4879963 | Fishing seat A sport fishing seat for fishing boats is provided with a saddle seat and a foot pedal assembly. In one version the foot pedal assembly pivots of the seat support which enables a fisherman to utilize the leg muscles while reeling in a game fish. The foot ... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4847998 | Cake cutter A cake cutter is disclosed that has a vertical blade with an outline of an isosceles triangle. The base wall of the blade is in two parts, a handle beign affixed to each part, the two legs of the handle being joined by an arcuate spring section.... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4847601 | Remote transmitter kit A remote transmitter conversion kit for converting garage door openers and the like, utilizes a voltage regulator which reduces the vehicle's power source to the operating voltage of the remote control transmitter device. The transmitter device is designe... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4844492 | Two wheeled roller skate A two wheel roller skate has a roller that has two distinct surfaces consisting of a central part that is a curved surface and matching right and left frusto conical sections that have an angle that equals the degree of arc in the central part measured fr... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4818040 | Debris stripper A wheeled tractor has a debris stripping plate affixed to the body and extending outwardly therefrom at each axle of the tractor to strip debris from accumulating about the inner portion of the wheel.... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4761851 | Article with a handle being retained by a cup shaped retaining element An article such as an item of holloware such as a saucepan, comprises a body and a handle, the body having an elongate member projecting outwardly therefrom, to which the handle is attached, the handle having an internal recess receiving a retaining eleme... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4755270 | Method of processing solutions A method of processing waste solutions containing metal salts or complex involves applying ultra-sonic vibrations to a container in which the solution is placed and treating the solution or the generated misting therefrom to insure that the metallic ions ... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4677928 | Circular linked rotating foil assembly for vessels A sailing craft has a circular linked rotating structure mounted on a vertical support or mast and within the circular structure are a plurality of parallel thin foils. The entire circular structure may be rotated in two axes to achieve directional contro... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4676668 | Multi-deflection pad-type hydrodynamic bearing A hydrodynamic bearing is disclosed in which there are a plurality of bearing pads that each have a face member and a support member, the pad being separated from the support member by at least one leg-like ligament. Each leg-like ligament is arranged at ... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4674388 | Cord tuning mechanism for guitar A stringed musical instrument of the Hawaiian guitar type has a plurality of parallel strings that are led through a plurality of tensioning pins. The pins which are spring loaded in a tensioning attitude, may be partially moved in an upwardly direction t... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4666400 | Radiant gas burner A radiant gas burner has a gas plenum and a surrounding non-combustible gas plenum. In this structure, a matrix which is gas permeable is clipped into the first gas plenum by means of a sintered metal plate that extends from the wall of the non-combustibl... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4610713 | Settle blow head and baffle arm attachment for glassware molding machine A carrier arm for a glass blowing machine employing two or more holders with removable heads. The heads fit into the holders by the utilization of a bayonet fitting, and a retainer ring is provided that encircles the holders and maintains the heads in loc... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4597748 | Method and apparatus for forming gauze pads Gauze pads ready for packaging are formed by drawing web material from a roll and then folding the same longitudinally into a vertical attitude. Nip rolls driven at a controlled rate, draw the web from a folding station and then into an air stream which i... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4587158 | Deformable label A label system is disclosed that is deformable and is useful for the decoration or marking of squeezable bottles or other flexible substrates. The label system is composed of a film of low or medium density polyethylene which is corona treated to accept p... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4584743 | Belt buckle A belt buckle of two piece construction has a removable top member. The base member has a pivoting locking plate therein that engages the butt end of a belt and a hook pin depending therefrom that engages apertures in the other end of a belt.... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4567437 | Dual oscillator method for detecting flaws in a moving chain A method of detecting a flaw in a moving chain is disclosed in which two identical free-running oscillators are used, and through the inductive core of one a chain is passed. A comparator circuit monitors the oscillators' outputs so that changes in mass o... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4563574 | Hub odometer A hub odometer having a protective case adapted to be mounted axially on an axle cap of a vehicle with a substantially cylindrical carrier plate rotatably mounted in the case for supporting a counting mechanism having figure wheels. The shaft of the figur... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4517759 | Stopper for braided line A stopper for a braided line having a core and a braided cover is disclosed, the stopper having a post-like part with an enlarged central section which stopper is adapted to be placed within a braided line extending substantially diametral thereof, the en... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4515398 | Device for elevating closet bowl An elevating device for a toilet closet bowl is disclosed in which an extender pipe having upper and lower flanges is provided, along with a support platform that embraces the extender pipe and onto which the lower rim of the toilet bowl may rest.... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4505171 | Foldable cross wrench The foldable cross wrench has four wrench members pivoted to a coupling member the wrench members can be stretched into a cross shape, and secured in stretched position by a cap member which is provided with keys to engage with key ways on the wrench memb... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4506091 | Removal of catalyst residues from polyesters A process for preparing esters which comprises reacting a polycarboxylic acid with an excess of alcohol and in the presence of an organotitanate catalyst, treating the crude mixture with a suitable chelate compound, removing the unreacted alcohol and hydr... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4504780 | Test probe A test probe has a housing that releasably receives a plunger that is normally urged out of the housing by a spring, and which has a probe contact end normally lying external of the housing. The plunger has a compressible enlargement that normally engages... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4496251 | Pad-type hydrodynamic bearing A pad-type sliding surface bearing is disclosed, in which the bearing surface is segmented into a plurality of pads that rockingly displace themselves to form a wedge shape converging in the direction of motion with a relatively moving part. The pads are ... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4492564 | Clamping means for matrix in radiant gas burner A radiant gas burner construction is disclosed which utilizes a gas combustion mixture plenum closed on one side by a porous refractory matrix. The matrix is supported in the plenum by a plurality of clamping clips that extend about the marginal edge of t... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4482030 | Support platform A support platform for a ladder is disclosed which is arranged to be assembled with eight bolts by placing a platform on to a pair of straps which have hook members at either end thereof. Further, a spreader bar, that serves as a handle, is fastened acros... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4435154 | Heat transfer device There is disclosed a heat transfer device which combines controllable, infrared electromagnetic energy transfer with controllable, convective energy transfer and as desired, mass transfer of water or solvent vapors and which includes the use of a porous r... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4429826 | Slip case for filing box A slip case which has an inner part that slides within an outer part is disclosed, the slip case being constructed with a one-piece outer cover for the outer part and a one-piece cover for the inner part so that the printed matter that lies on the cover w... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4424510 | Fire alarm system The invention relates to a fire alarm system in which the fire alarm is located in an enclosure which must be entered by the operator of the fire alarm, and the door to the enclosure, or opening through which the operator passes, must be closed in order t... | 01/03/1984 |
| 4364638 | Side view mirror pivoting assembly for a vehicle A side view mirror assembly for trucks or similar vehicles is disclosed in which a mirror bracket that supports an elongated mirror is pivotally mounted to a door frame, and a motor having a rod or linear output is mounted on the door frame and is coupled... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4362096 | Tying machine A tying machine for tying articles of varying size utilizing tying material is disclosed that has a pair of normally spaced rotatable gripping devices, tying material being fed to the rotatable gripping devices in a pre-adjusted controlled length, said gr... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4355932 | Indexable spade drill blade The present invention relates generally to spade drills and more particularly to an indexable spade drill blade which is adapted to be clamped in the clamp slit of a boring bar or holder and which may be readily reversed so that an unused cutting edge may... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4333218 | Method of repairing a box beam A method of repairing a box beam is disclosed in which a cracked or broken portion of a box beam may be repaired and the strength returned to normal by forming a pair of plates that fit snugly about at least one half of the box beam, the plates being weld... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333472 | Compensatory-corrective orthopedic foot devices The present invention consists of the construction and specific application of a series of differentially-sized geometrically-shaped and specifically configured, generally wedge-shaped, prosthetic devices being structures composed of urethane foam that ar... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4328992 | Adjustable foot stool An adjustable foot stool is disclosed which embodies a pair of legs that are pivoted to each other, and which carry at their upper ends a flexible member that is fixedly attached to one pair of legs, the other pair of legs carrying a revolvable roller to ... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4327911 | Game apparatus utilizing a signalling means The present invention comprises a game apparatus utilizing a plurality of multi-colored signalling, indicating cubes. A combination random shaking device and game storage container is used to obtain a random array of the plurality of multi-colored signall... | 05/04/1982 |
