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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE38751 | Foldable tow bar A car towing apparatus which, in its extended locked position, is a rigid tow bar attached to the front end of a towable vehicle and which subsequently can be folded into a compact structure and stored in a visually and non-obstructing, secured position to facilitat... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6260602 | Casting of molten metal in an open ended mold cavity When the starter block commences reciprocating along the axis of an open ended mold cavity, with a body of start up material in tandem with it, successive layers of molten metal are relatively superimposed on the body of start up material, and layers ther... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6158498 | Casting of molten metal in an open ended mold cavity When the starter block commences reciprocating along the axis of an open ended mold cavity, with a body of start up material in tandem with it, successive layers of molten metal are relatively superimposed on the body of start up material, and layers ther... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6085828 | Molten metal admission control in casting An opening 206 is provided in a system for delivering molten metal to the mold cavity 18 of a molten metal casting apparatus. A valve closure device 192, 196 is mounted at 198 to be reciprocated in relation to the opening 206 to control the flow of molten... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5850870 | Molten metal admission control in casting Balance beams are pivotally mounted on and crosswise of an elongated rack extending parallel to a trough over a series of mold cavities, valve closure devices are suspended from corresponding first end portions of the beams to throttle valve openings in t... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5845885 | Universally positionable mounting device Couplers with ball-shaped heads are mounted on a pair of objects, and a split arm assembly is interposed along a line of juncture between the pair of couplers and clamped together about the heads thereof. However, before that time, a spring is interposed ... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5709260 | Molten metal admission control in casting To control the admission of molten metal to a series of mold cavities through a series of valve openings in the downspouts of a trough thereabove, an elongated rack is arranged parallel to the trough, a set of balance beams is pivotally mounted on the rac... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5685359 | Direct cooled annular mold The mold has a first chamber defined by a pair of inner and outer peripheral walls circumposed about the axis of the cavity and spaced apart from one another transverse the axis. The first chamber has oppositely disposed end walls that extend transverse t... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5681288 | Indwelling catheter The proximal end portion 29 of the relatively outer cannula 6 of the catheter 2 has a pusher tab 44 relatively radially upstanding on the cylindrical surface 32 thereof, which projects relatively radially outwardly from the cylindrical outline of the rela... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5669097 | Straddle-type tooth brushing device The elongated handle of the device has L-shaped first and second arms thereon which project in a horizontal plane from the distal end thereof, and the laterals of which depend from the main portions thereof. Interposed in a slot between the first and seco... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5582230 | Direct cooled metal casting process and apparatus In direct cooling an ingot emerging from a mold, two sets 136 and 142 of liquid coolant streams are discharged onto the ingot from an annulus 62 circumposed about the lower end opening 72 of the mold. One set of streams, 136, is discharged downwardly at 2... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5531582 | Apparatus for injection molding a plastic monolith The monolith includes a base of plastic resin material having elongated bristles of the same resin material monolithically relatively upstanding on one side thereof so that the monolith can be used as a brush. The base of the monolith is molded in a cavit... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5518063 | Direct cooled metal casting apparatus The apparatus includes a first chamber disposed about the mold cavity and defined by a top, a bottom, and walls extending between the top and bottom at the inner and outer peripheries of the first chamber. A liquid coolant is supplied under pressure to th... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5497526 | Tooth brushing device The device is a straddle-type device in which the handle thereof has a pair of elongated arms and a cowling on the distal end thereof. The arms extend from the handle in generally parallel relationship to one another, with a slot therebetween, and the cow... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5474534 | Indwelling catheter The proximal end portion 29 of the relatively outer cannula 6 of the catheter 2 has a pusher tab 44 relatively radially upstanding on the cylindrical surface 32 thereof, which projects relatively radially outwardly from the cylindrical outline of the rela... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5450976 | Subdividing the bin of an open-topped refuse container A bar 26 comprised of a pair of adjustably interlocked rods 40, 42, with inverted U-shaped cleats 68 rotatably mounted on the relatively remote ends thereof, is supported on the fore and aft rims 18 and 20 of a refuse container 2, so that the open end por... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5360025 | Tooth brushing device and method The device and method employ a pair of spaced jaws which have a tooth cleaning implement connected therewith, in the gap therebetween. In use, the jaws are straddled about a row of teeth, transverse thereof, and translated along the row opposite the insid... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5360026 | Tooth cleaning device and method The device and method employ a pair of spaced jaws which have a tooth cleaning implement connected therewith, in the gap therebetween. In use, the jaws are straddled about a row of teeth, transverse thereof, and translated along the row opposite the insid... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5334065 | Water ski boot and binding The housing 156 has an elongated chamber 158 therein, which extends along a generally horizontal axis and has a port 160 at one end thereof, and another port 188 in the top thereof. A pin 140' is mounted in the chamber at the port 160 to be advanced and r... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5323841 | Annular metal casting unit As a reversal of previous practice, the annular body of the mold in the unit has an annular case at the bottom thereof, rather than at the top thereof. The case is relatively thick axially of the mold, so as to form the greater portion of the axial length... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5318098 | Metal casting unit A casting unit 6 consists of a monolithic body which is annular in shape and has an annular flange 72 outturned about the axis and monolithically outstanding on the body at the outer periphery, a set of lugs 110 angularly spaced about the axis on the lowe... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5316027 | Straddle type tooth brushing device Earlier devices of the genre, had a yoke-like head for brushing the teeth, and a cowling of reentrantly folded flexible material interconnected with the arms of the head so as to straddle the slot between the arms. The midsection at the bight of the cowli... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5284168 | Tooth cleaning device The device and method employ a pair of spaced jaws which have a tooth cleaning implement connected therewith, in the gap therebetween. In use, the jaws are straddled about a row of teeth, transverse thereof, and translated along the row opposite the insid... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5239752 | Apparatus and technique for assembling an anti-friction bearing A ball bearing is balanced by orbiting the balls in the gap between the race defining members, magnetically causing the orbiting balls to assume a spaced symmetrical array about the gap, and then inserting a keeper device in the spaces between pairs of ba... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5238691 | Process for coloring fish flesh The rate of color development in fish flesh is dramatically accelerated by injecting the fish flesh with a first aqueous solution of the dye, lecithin with which to emulsify the fatty oils of the fish flesh, and a food grade salt; and then ageing the inje... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5228191 | Apparatus for making a barrel type fluid heat exchanger An apparatus for manufacturing a fluid flow cartridge for circulating a second fluid in heat transfer relationship with a first fluid includes first and second racks and a drive to reciprocate the first and second racks in relation to each other.... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5228466 | Toothbrush The brush 2' in FIGS. 8-11 is rod-like and a monolith of semi-rigid but resiliently flexible plastic material. It comprises elongated spaced parallel handle forming members 34 which are discrete from one another, but hingedly interconnected so as to be ro... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5224764 | Tooth cleaning device and method for making the same The device is improved over earlier versions in providing for the wings of the device maintaining the angular relationship therebetween when the reciprocate crosswise of the space between the arms to accommodate to variance in the diameter of the teeth. I... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5181332 | Water ski boot and binding In the illustrated embodiments, the boot (22) has a sole plate (24) and a monolithic (54) shell of substantially rigid plastic material upstanding thereon. The shell forms an open top shoe structure (26) in which the user can insert the base of his foot, ... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5170742 | Davit with low level of dynamicism The davit 10 has an arm structure 16 with an indentation 44 therein within which it "hugs" the object 14 suspended from the same so as to reduce the objects's dynamicism on the mother vessel 2 when the vessel is underway and reacting to the water. This fo... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5171066 | Tooth cleaning device and method for making the same The device is improved over earlier versions in providing for the wings of the device maintaining the angular relationship therebetween when they reciprocate crosswise of the space between the arms to accommodate to variance in the diameter of the teeth. ... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5137039 | Tooth cleaning device The device and method employ a pair of spaced jaws which have a tooth cleaning implement connected therewith, in the gap therebetween. In use, the jaws are straddled about a row of teeth, transverse thereof, and translated along the row opposite the insid... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5121791 | Barrel type fluid heat exchanger and means and technique for making the same The barrel assembly of the heat exchanger is manufactured with abutment joints between the housing and the headers thereof, and is clamped together along the axis of the assembly by a rod extending through the respective headers, and the housing, parallel... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5119883 | Apparatus and process for direct cooling an emerging ingot with gas-laden coolant A body of partially solidified metal emerging as ingot from the exit end 10 of an open ended mold 2, is direct cooled by charging liquid coolant into an annular retention chamber 32 circumposed about the exit end opening of the mold in the body thereof, a... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5082403 | Core-drilling apparatus with mandrel driver-ejector In one embodiment, the bodies of the mandrel and the drill have radially opposing portions thereof which are threadedly engaged about the axis of the drill. Through bores in the respective body portions make it possible to latch the drill to the mandrel f... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5067854 | Apparatus and technique for installing an elongated rod in an earth formation A tubular casing 2 is installed in a tunnel 82 in the earth and the rod 14, 49 is advanced telescopically through the bore of the casing until a portion 49 of the rod is projected into the tunnel ahead of the casing, whereupon a pair of harpoon-like deten... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5063663 | Barreltype fluid heat exchanger The barrel assembly of the heat exchanger is manufactured with abutment joints between the housing and the headers thereof, and is clamped together along the axis of the assembly by a rod extending through the respective headers, and the housing, parallel... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5062539 | Compartmentalized refuse container The container comprises two or more tube-like storage modules that are stacked on top of one another and interconnected by a plate-like lid which is removably interposed in the joint between the modules and has male/female joint-forming attachment grooves... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5040595 | Means and technique for direct cooling an emerging ingot with gas-laden coolant A body of partially solidified metal emerging as ingot from the exit end of an open-ended mold, is direct cooled by discharging liquid coolant onto the surface of the ingot through a passage of the mold opening into the exit end of the mold at an aperture... | 08/20/1991 |
| 4961505 | Rod holder The bracket 6 of the rod holder 2 is constructed of substantially resiliently flexible material and has four slots 24, 26, 28 and 30 in the rim 18 thereof, which depend to points 37 substantially contiguous to the base plate 4, so that the bracket is divi... | 10/09/1990 |
