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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4088167 | Handbag with detachable handles A handbag including an open top receptacle portion. A plurality of straps, each affixed at one end, are positioned along the periphery of the opening. The straps extend through slots in a pair of substantially planar handles. The free ends of the straps a... | 05/09/1978 |
| 4067422 | Attache case with auxiliary access opening An attache case having a slot through one of its walls closed by a spring-loaded internal shutter. Articles may thereby be placed into the attache case without opening the main lid.... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4063659 | Car top boat carrier A readily mountable and demountable car top boat carrier. The carrier includes a cradle portion on the car top which carries a boat secured thereto and a ramp comprising a pair of folding rails which extend downwardly from the car top cradle when unfolded... | 12/20/1977 |
| 4059020 | Filter for micropipettes A disposable two part filter assembly for use on the detachable tip of a laboratory pipette. It comprises a body member with an opening shaped and sized to engage the tip. Such body members may be provided for a wide range of tip sizes and shapes. Inserte... | 11/22/1977 |
| 4055771 | Test body for a scanning tomographic analytical apparatus A test body is provided for determining an operating characteristic of a tomographic apparatus of the type that scans a human body member with an X-ray beam along an edge of a slice through the member, accumulates data in electrical form which is represen... | 10/25/1977 |
| 4052062 | Combination racket press and cover A combination racket press and cover which is formed from two identical molded plastic halves. Integrally molded into each half are ribs aligned in the same geometry as the members of a conventional press. The two halves are held in place on opposite side... | 10/04/1977 |
| 4050492 | Support for flexible bag A hinged ring for supporting the open top of a flexible bag. The ring is formed by two semicircular ring members hinged to be positioned between either of an open circular configuration and a folded configuration. A combination latch and handle member is ... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4046005 | Three axis joystick control A device for generating isometric control signals in three axes is formed of a shaft having opposed pairs of strain gauges mounted thereon at angles to the shaft axis. One end of the shaft is fixed and the opposite free end is operable by the fingers. Ele... | 09/06/1977 |
| 4035963 | Method of forming dual mirrors A method of forming a pair of identical spherical mirrors having their centers of curvature separated in space. A blank having substantially parallel planar front and rear surfaces is provided. The front surface is scored to divide it into two surface seg... | 07/19/1977 |
| 4028595 | Multi-voltage capacitor section A multiple capacitor and method for making the same. A single capacitor section is wound in the usual manner from two metallized films. After the winding has progressed through the proper number of turns for one of the capacitors, the metallized layer is ... | 06/07/1977 |
| 4007713 | Test circuit A test circuit for use with a boiler control circuit. A test switch and a lamp are connected between ground and a water level electrode. In the presence of a water path, a sufficient potential drop exists between ground and the electrode to light the lamp... | 02/15/1977 |
| 3999867 | Sampling cell of salt crystals amalgamated to metal spacer An improvement in the method of assembling a pair of windows and a spacer by amalgamation to form a sampling cell. The improvement comprises evaporatively depositing a thin layer of metal on each of the windows prior to amalgamating them with the spacer.... | 12/28/1976 |
| 3994291 | Salmasian inflatable intra-uterine device An intra-uterine device comprising a support member and a plurality of branch members connected to said support member and extending from all sides of said support member, said support member and branch members being inflatable and being adapted so as to ... | 11/30/1976 |
| 3994288 | Colposcope A colposcope including a camera selectively mountable to take photographs along one optical axis of the binocular microscope and a flash unit for illuminating the field of examination along the optical axis of the colposcope illuminator by means of a mirr... | 11/30/1976 |
| 3993005 | Table leg and supporting structure A table leg supporting structure is formed by a pair of metallic side rail flange members mounted at right angles to each other on the underside of a table top and abutting each other to form a corner therebetween. A hollow tubular leg has a ninety degree... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3991687 | Table with foldable legs A flat top table has opposed pairs of legs disposed in spaced relation from the periphery of the table top when in their extended upright positions. Each pair of legs is mounted on a rigid cross bar pivotally supported on a first axis of a frame secured t... | 11/16/1976 |
| 3985032 | Micropipette filter tips A removable, disposable molded plastic tip for use with a spring-loaded plunger-actuated vacuum pipette. The discharge end of the tip is provided with a solid porous filter member designed to filter a sample fluid during either of fluid entry into, or dis... | 10/12/1976 |
| 3983956 | Noise reduction barrier A noise reduction barrier is formed by connecting together a plurality of prefabricated vertically oriented panel members so configured that a hollow tubular wall is formed between opposed panels. The space between panels is filled with sand or loose eart... | 10/05/1976 |
| 3977560 | Pressurized fluid container with built in filter There is disclosed a pressurized Freon cylinder having a cap including a threaded nipple with a puncturable end wall. Positioned within the nipple, by screwing into its internal threads, is a porous plastic filter in the path of the fluid as it leaves the... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3963329 | Small pupil binocular indirect ophthalmoscope A binocular indirect ophthalmoscope of the type having a central reflecting prism and a pair of adjustable oculars. The instrument may be used in the examination of eyes having either normally dilated or small pupils. Small pupil capability is achieved by... | 06/15/1976 |
| 3960658 | Multi-media petri dish A disposable article of manufacture is provided which comprises a Petri-type dish which is divided into separate compartments containing culture media adapted for the rapid identification of uropathogenic bacteria and colony count determination.... | 06/01/1976 |
| 3950890 | Ball bouncing device A novelty device for sustainingly bouncing an object such as a ball. The cone of a loud-speaker is covered by a taut elastic diaphragm against which the object is bounced. When the object strikes the diaphragm, the speaker produces a small electrical puls... | 04/20/1976 |
| 3949742 | Medical dressing A medical dressing is provided which is adapted to perform as a synthetic skin for the therapy and protection of skin wounds such as burns, donor sites for skin grafting, ulcers, and the like. In a preferred embodiment, the medical dressing is transparent... | 04/13/1976 |
| 3947079 | Temperature compensated spindle A precision machine tool spindle is mounted in a housing and machine frame by means which maintain the working end of the spindle in a fixed axial position while allowing the driven end to shift axially due to thermal expansion. The foregoing abstract is ... | 03/30/1976 |
| 3933240 | Anti-theft security container A transparent security container for an article to be displayed, such as a tape cassette. The container includes an anti-theft device such as a microwave reradiator which triggers an alarm if it enters a microwave field. The container includes a pair of s... | 01/20/1976 |
