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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D623698 | Accordion folding door hanger with detachable coupons | 09/14/2010 |
| D617387 | Door hanger with fold-up skirt | 06/08/2010 |
| 7650714 | Fisheye The body of the fisheye device is sized to be supported around the fisherman's neck and rest against his chest. The body carries a convex lens, a spinner hook for engaging and holding a fishing hook with the eye free. A visual panel is in the line-of-sight beyond th... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7565935 | Powered tap driver with rotary control structure The tap driver is configured to be hand-held. It has a tap-holding chuck and a motor to drive the chuck. An external switch rocks forward to rotate the motor in the tapping direction and backward to withdraw the tap. A control circuit causes forward motion of the ta... | 07/28/2009 |
| D596240 | Folding circular door hanger | 07/14/2009 |
| 7459620 | Guitar pick The guitar pick is formed of flexible sheet material and has a central opening therein, which is slotted open. The guitar pick is formed of flexible synthetic material and has a pick point for picking the guitar strings. The body of the guitar pick is sufficiently l... | 12/02/2008 |
| D581985 | Hanging sign | 12/02/2008 |
| D571059 | Dog leash shock absorber | 06/10/2008 |
| 7308796 | Fruit refrigerator The fruit refrigerator has a cold plate which is cooled by a thermal electric unit secured underneath. Power is supplied to the thermal electric unit and to a cooling fan which blows air over the thermal electric unit. The cold plate has a depressed center, and liqu... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7245199 | Miter bar The saw table guide bar has magnets thereon so that when it is inserted into the slot in an iron saw table it is urged to slide along the side of the slot. The magnetic saw table guide bar is used to support various measuring devices and overcomes measuring difficul... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7217122 | Candle wick snuffer The candle wick snuffer is mounted on a baseplate which is at the bottom of the candle. The baseplate carries a swing arm which is released when the temperature rises to critical point in the bottom of the candle. The baseplate may also carry a wick retainer to main... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7168599 | Water-handling system A platform receives at least two water bottles. A handtruck is configured to engage under a water bottle on the platform and carry it to the dispensing cabinet. In the handtruck, the water bottle is tilted so that the lowest corner of the bottle is directly below it... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7153053 | Dispenser for lip coloring and coating fluids Fluid material, including medication, dermatological fluids, cream eye shadow and lip-coloring material such as lip gloss, is stored in a reservoir. Rotating a collar with respect to the reservoir advances a piston therein to deliver lip coloring or other material t... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7101106 | Rotary dispenser with extended handle for cream, lotion, gel or liquid The dispenser has a rotary dispenser roller mounted on a reservoir with a telescoping handle. The dispensing head preferably has a valve in its supply channel to control and stop dispensing of cream, lotion, gel or liquid fluids for application to the body surfaces.... | 09/05/2006 |
| D517864 | Water bottle | 03/28/2006 |
| 6901672 | Caliper gauge The caliper gauge has a V-shaped gauge body. The V-shaped gauge body has stepped pairs of measuring surfaces both externally and internally of the V-shaped gage body. The pairs of measuring surfaces are a known distance apart for setting external and internal calipe... | 06/07/2005 |
| D503309 | Water bottle with carrier | 03/29/2005 |
| 6771821 | High-speed image transfer system This invention is directed to the transferring of information in two-dimensional form. The form may be an image or may be printed word. The information is converted to a digital bit map. The bit map information is compressed by any compression technique (JPEG, MPEG,... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6766584 | Angle setting and measurement gage The gage has a body made of flat plate which has a reference edge. Another edge is a gage edge which is angular and defines a sharp apex away from the gage edge. A foot is slidable along the gage edge to rotate the gage body around the sharp apex pivot. Indicia indi... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6665946 | Machine alignment system The machine alignment system comprises a master alignment plate having parallel faces. The alignment plate is mounted on a spindle in place of a saw blade to define the plane perpendicular to the spindle axis. The saw table surface is adjusted to be at a ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6637988 | Adjustable pocket drilling fixture The pocket drilling fixture has a clamp base with a clamp face thereon. Opposing it is a clamp body with an opposing clamp face. Clamp structure, including a clamp arm on the base urges the faces together to clamp over a workpiece therebetween in a clampi... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6594913 | Protractor The protractor has a body which has three reference surfaces, two being parallel and one being at right angles to them. A web between the surfaces carries a protractor dial which is rotatable on the protractor body. The dial carries a reference surface an... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6485443 | Seating products with self powered dynamic massage units Massage pressure devices are fitted onto a chair which has a rocking back, either conventional rocking chair or an office chair with pivoted an spring-loaded back, so that massage is applied to the back of a person seated in and rocking the chair. The mas... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6363655 | Young tree support The young tree support comprises a flexible polymer tube having its end staked by a first stake close to the tree. The flexible polymer tube is wound up the tree to a point between one-third and one-half the distance up the trunk of the tree. From that po... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6321647 | Perforating machine The novelty perforating machine perforates paper, such as paper money and similar paper or paperlike sheet material, in a manner that the original purpose of the paper is not lost, but when it is held to the light, a light pattern representing the novelty... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6244776 | Applicators for health and beauty products The applicators for health and beauty fluid materials (or products) have an elongated reservoir with a dispenser head at one end and a telescoping extender thereon. When extended, the telescoping extender increases the length between the manual grasp and ... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6173725 | Canopy structure A canopy is formed of an oval flexible sheet of solar radiation and wind resistant material held in extended position by a resilient band and sized so that the band and sheet material are pulled into a saddle shape. Support for the canopy is provided by t... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6165059 | Abrasive medium with selected density The hard coated abrasive medium is formed by providing a hollow body with abrasive deposit on the outer surface. The buoyancy is provided by the enclosed air space, and the weight is defined by the weight of the body plus the hard plating or the abrasive ... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6126352 | Applicators for health and beauty products The applicators for health and beauty fluid materials (or products) in accordance with this invention have an elongated reservoir with a dispenser head at one end and a telescoping extender thereon. When extended, the telescoping extender increases the le... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6056616 | Flying ball The flying ball of this invention is a solid foamed synthetic polymer composition ball having an opening therethrough in which is engaged a solid foamed fuselage so that the ball can be moved front and back on the fuselage. The ball carries wings, and the... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5975932 | Language wheel The language wheel has an interchangeable "wheel" with the same words of two languages in corresponding positions on the wheel. Two cursors are coupled together so the when one is manually moved to indicate a particular word, the other indicates the corre... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5928189 | Activity responsive therapeutic delivery system One or more physical activity sensors, such as pressure switches, position sensors and accelerometers, as well as a breath sensor are connected to control a valve. The valve is electrically actuated and has first and second states. A control circuit betwe... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5888301 | Tile-holding fixture for adhesive application The tile-holding fixture has a fixture wall with an adhesive mask opening therein. Stops adjacent the opening permit positioning of a tile on the face of the wall while tile adhesive is applied by the applicator through the mask opening. The fixture also ... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5879116 | Self-locking machine screw for high temperature applications This invention is directed to a self-locking machine screw which includes a recess in the body of the machine screw extending from the end of the machine screw and interrupting the outer surface as slots. The slots join the recess. A resilient locking mem... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5867936 | Resilient tree guy The tree guy includes a loop of resilient tubular synthetic polymer composition material which engages around the tree trunk. Separate tension members engage in the two ends of the loop and extend from loop end closures into tubular legs which extend towa... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5860942 | Dental water irrigator employing hydrodynamic cavitation A handpiece has a cavitation orifice therein. A pump supplies water from a reservoir through the cavitation orifice to produce cavitation in the water downstream from the orifice. This cavitation produces OH radicals and ions in the water flow. The water ... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5826346 | Measuring gage The measuring gage has a body which is positioned in the upright direction for vertical measurement or can be positioned in any direction for other measurements. The body includes a notched land area for nesting a ruler which is locked in by rotatable sto... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5797359 | Stepped piston two-cycle internal combustion engine The engine has at least first and second stepped cylinders with the pistons therein operated from the same crankshaft at different portions of the engine cycle. The pistons in the cylinders to define a combustion space and first and second air compression... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5780133 | Variable value retail coupon system The variable value retail coupon system comprises a sheet which is covered to hide coupons and two offers with each coupon. First and second longitudinal perforation lines, preferably parallel and along the side edges, extend to separate the offers from t... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5769634 | Dental articulator The main member of the Dental Articulator is a unitary structure of first and second bodies attached by legs. Each of the legs has a self-hinge. The body each has a socket which receives a ball. The balls each has a tapered spline which engages in the cor... | 06/23/1998 |
