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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5533089 | X-ray collimating and body shielding accessory instrument The invention is an instrument comprising a unit having a frame defining the perimeter about an aperture, and a manually adjustable rack connected to the frame for supporting the unit with its aperture disposed between a source of x-rays and the body of a... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5509754 | Driveway security post The invention provides a device which includes a bracket to be firmly embedded in a driveway; and includes a post which is adapted to be slidably seated in the bracket in a vertical position to serve as an obstruction to passage of a motor vehicle from th... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5491924 | Spring powered fishline casting instrument A manually held instrument having an elongated tube containing a compressed spring unit, into which tube a sinker of a connected fishline is adapted to be entered into abutment with the compressed spring unit. A stop restraining expansion of the compresse... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5402736 | Table having a tabletop adjustable to selectable levels A table unit having a tabletop which is subject, upon being manually released from a locked condition, to being raised relative to a base portion of the unit to a selectable level under pressure of weights constantly urging it upwards, and is subject to b... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5330252 | Device for centering the seating of small children in an automobile An elongated device which may be strapped centrally of the rear seat of an automobile against relative movement by means of the usual seat belts that are attached to the rear seat, and to the central area of which device two small children may be strapped... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5287578 | Wind breakup means for suspension bridges The invention provides wind flow dissipating units mountable in close relation to one another along the sidewalls of the roadway of a suspension bridge and providing pivotable plates hanging from the units in opposed parallel relation to the sidewalls, th... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5176013 | Anti-booting and anti-towing device for a motor vehicle A device having a pair of right-angle members slidable relative to each other to bring the jaws mounted to the foot of a leg of one of the members and the jaws of an opposed clamp mounted to the foot of a parallel leg of the other member into clamped enga... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5146492 | Anti-explosive return coin discharge unit for the cabinet of a coin operable telephone A return coin discharge unit mountable in the box cabinet of a coin operable telephone apparatus has an entry opening into which return coins from the apparatus will drop and it includes a ramp in a passage down which ramp the dropped coins will slide and... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5139160 | Portable knockdown wallpaper holding and cutting rack The invention is a rack having a pair of opposed upright columns between which rolls of wallpaper may be held upon dowel rods for unrolling. Below the dowel rods a unit is mounted between the columns. The unit includes a cutter guide member which is raisa... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5069667 | Device for effecting safe removal of a used needle A device for protecting the user of a medical blood drawing instrument of the evacuated tube type from being pricked by the needle when removing it from the instrument. An end portion of the needle is threadly engaged in the instrument; a splined portion ... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5067949 | Instrument for unsheathing, resheathing and disposing of a medical syringe needle An instrument for protecting the user of a medical syringe from being pricked by its needle when unsheathing or resheathing the needle. The instrument has an upper member releasably mounted atop a disposable container. A vertical passage through the upper... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5062535 | Side-sliding storage rack for 3480 cartridges In accordance with the invention, cartridge storage racks are subject to being arranged end-to-end and back-to-back in stationary rows; and, adapted to be mounted to slide alongside the front of each row are similar racks. The number of stationary racks, ... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5029275 | Apparatus having floating magnet unit with light reflecting mirror for detecting and indicating to an observer the presence upon a person entering a public place of ferromagnetic material that may be put to harmful use A detector of ferromagnetic materials having a permanent magnet floating in a contaier and restrained under the influence of a soft ferrite mass spaced below it to rotatable movement about a vertical axis centrally of the container. The magnet has a norma... | 07/02/1991 |
| 4938549 | Rotary file unit and cabinet A rotary file unit provided with radially extending shelves and compartments for the storage of files, which unit may be used standing alone or housed within a cabinet having opposed access openings. A door unit is rotatable within the cabinet relative to... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4905377 | Traveler's direction finder A unit comprising a base on which is mounted an atlas of maps each with an arrow thereon indicating the relation of the map area to north, and on which base is also mounted a compass having in a container a liquid on which floats a magnet bearing disk on ... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4848002 | Self-centering needle-less magnetic compass A magnetic compass having a magnet bearing float in a liquid and which float is self-centering and rotatable relative to an element of soft magnetic material spaced below it so as to align a pointer on the float with the earth's north magnetic pole and wi... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4837937 | Adjustable rear sight unit for a gun A rear gun sight unit including a head having a U-slot across which extends a screw provided with a notch for sighting a target, the screw being adjustable to carry the notch to the right or left of normal center for sighting under adverse wind conditions... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4810324 | Multiple cartridge label applying apparatus Apparatus for applying a label to the back of each of a number of computer cartridges seated in a container, including a slotted label stripping plate hinged to the container pivotable to position a separate slot over each cartridge, a sheet of labels to ... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4779381 | Carriage for a polishing tool A carriage comprises a base mounted on rollers for movement of the carriage under manual guidance over a work surface, a platform supported above the base on coil springs held in place by bolts fixed to the base and extending up through the springs and th... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4759737 | Doll having pneumatic actuated arms The invention provides a doll the arms of which are movable caressingly over the body of a child when the doll is held to the chest of the child with its arms about the sides of the child and when manual pressure is applied over the back of the doll. A co... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4750924 | Clean air flow and temperature equalizing apparatus Apparatus for filtering impurities from the air of a room and recirculating its including a cabinet in which a motorized blower unit functions to intake room air and blow its through a filter unit into an upper compartment or the cabinet from where it esc... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4695755 | Collar for the commutator of an automotive starter The armature of an automotive starter motor has a protective collar for its commutator. The collar has an annular disc body that is bonded to the rear wall of the commutator, and it has a projecting rim which overlays the marginal free ends of the bars of... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4653907 | Blood culture bottle examining instrument An instrument for making a visual examination of a blood culture bottle for the presence of microorganisms, the instrument having an elongated base on which is mounted a platform defining a seat for the bottle to be examined, a light source rearwardly of ... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4640426 | Cap for a carbonated beverage bottle A bottle cap is disclosed for use as a closure and as means for pressurizing a previously opened bottle containing a carbonated beverage. It has a body adapted to close over the mouth of the bottle; and has a resilient manually compressible and relaxable ... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4616561 | Vented heading for window unit A vented heading for the outer frame of an airtight double-hung sash window unit adapted to be seated in an opening of an exterior wall of an apartment. Vent holes in a head panel allow fresh air flow into the heading; and a baffle member at the back of t... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4599799 | Electric stippler with lobed cam-disk drive A draftsman's stippling device, small enough to be manually held during use, includes a vibratable cantelever bar supported in a small housing and having a free end projecting to the outside on which end a stippling pen is mounted. A cam disk having lobes... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4588236 | Rotary file cabinet A rotary file cabinet having two opposed open sides and two opposed walled sides mounted upon a rotatable base for selective rotation to present either its open or walled sides to face the user; the cabinet being of quadrate form adapted to be aligned in ... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4485997 | Rotatable base unit support for a file cabinet A file cabinet support in the form of a base unit having an upper member rotatable relative to a stationary lower member selectively in either direction so as to present to the user either an open or a walled side of a separable file cabinet mounted upon ... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4379532 | Aircraft attachable to the body of a pilot A winged aircraft attachable to the body of a pilot including multiple jet engines whereby it may be propelled into and sustained in flight, having angularly adjustable side fins, having pilot operable controls for simultaneously controlling directional i... | 04/12/1983 |
| 4253625 | Aircraft attachable to the body of a pilot A single winged aircraft adapted to be attached to the back of a pilot, including a jet fuel engine whereby it may be propelled into space and sustained in flight, and provided with manually operable controls for controlling operation of ailerons and the ... | 03/03/1981 |
| 4248448 | Bicycle enabling a substantially full length prone riding position A bicycle having a frame extended rearwardly and beyond the rear wheel of the bicycle provided in the extended portion with a pedal crank driven sprocket connected by an endless drive chain with a sprocket gear carried by the rear wheel, the extended port... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4230086 | Fuel drip priming system for cold internal combustion engines A system for fuel drip priming an internal gasoline combustion engine of a motor vehicle so as to enable it to subsequently start up quickly after it has become cold from being parked in cold weather for several hours or overnight, in which system the fue... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4217941 | Ketchup rapping apparatus Ketchup rapping apparatus having a pair of L-form racks hinged to one another, each adapted to hold a ketchup bottle in a stationary seated position, one of the racks being pivotable through 180 degrees from a back-to-back relationship with the other rack... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4120604 | Portable pneumatic nut running tool having air shut-off controls A hand held pneumatic nut running tool including an air vane rotary motor, manipulative valving for initially starting air flow to the motor and then terminating such flow, and an air flow shut-off control valve responsive to acceleration of the motor aft... | 10/17/1978 |
| 4084460 | Hand held nut running and crimping power tool An air powered hand tool having combined therein nut running and crimping mechanism in which a common cam member is motor rotated to effect run down of a work nut about a stud and is piston driven to effect crimping of the nut in locking relation to the s... | 04/18/1978 |
