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A pillow assembly having a supporting assembly and a retractable umbrella assembly that is easily transportable and allows a user to support his/her head while covering their face from sunlight.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5403955 | Mordants for ink-jet receptors and the like Novel mordants based upon a polyethyleneimine backbone and either pendant phosphonium or quaternized-nitrogen compounds are disclosed. The mordants find use in stopping or controlling ink-bleeding into ink-jet receptors and photographic films.... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5395747 | Stabilized thermal-dye-bleach constructions Certain poly(lactic acid) and poly(glycolic acid) polymers or copolymers, and certain carbonates, lactones, lactates, lactylates, lactides, glycolates, glycolylates, and glycolides have been found to stabilize thermal-dye-bleach constructions containing a... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5381504 | Optical fiber element having a permanent protective coating with a Shore D hardness value of 65 or more An optical fiber element includes an optical fiber having a numerical aperture ranging from 0.08 to 0.34 and a protective coating affixed to the outer surface of the optical fiber. The protective coating has a Shore D hardnees value of 65 or more and rema... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5368894 | Method for producing a multilayered element having a top coat A method is provided for producing a multilayered element having a top coat. The method includes the application of an undercoating to the upper surface of a support and the application of a continuous top coat coating composition to the surface of the un... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5354379 | Apparatus for applying a protective coating to a film strip A method and apparatus are provided for applying a protective coating to a film strip. The apparatus includes a coating unit for applying a coating of a curable liquid material to at least one surface of the film strip, a curing device for curing the coat... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5344751 | Antistatic coatings A coating of a mixture of sodium metasilicate together with a silica sol and a silane coupling agent provides antistatic protection when overcoated with a gelatin containing photographic construction.... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5342645 | Metal complex/cyanoacrylate compositions useful in latent fingerprint development A cartridge useful in detecting fingerprints includes a housing with a chamber therein and an outlet from the chamber. The chamber contains a thermally stable porous or fibrous support impregnated with both: 1 ) a cyanoacrylate ester, and 2) a volatile, emissi... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5334094 | Carbonless pad assembly The present invention comprises a pad assembly for carbonless sheets. The assembly comprises a plurality of carbonless sheets wherein each sheet is disposed in a stack and wherein each carbonless sheet has a band of repositionable pressure sensitive adhes... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5326619 | Thermal transfer donor element comprising a substrate having a microstructured surface Laser-addressable thermal transfer donor elements for producing color proofs, printing plates, films, printed circuit boards, and other media are disclosed. The thermal transfer donor elements include a substrate having a microstructured surface. The micr... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5290670 | Silver halide photographic elements An infrared sensitive silver halide photographic element which contains an infrared-absorbing dye represented by the following formula ##STR1## wherein: R1 and R2 each independently represents a sulfoalkyl or a sulfatoalkyl grou... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5266452 | Photographic element containing a thermal dye bleach system A photographic element containing a thermal-dye-bleach construction includes a thermal nucleophile-generating agent in association with a polymethine dye having a nucleus of general formula (I): ##STR1##... | 11/30/1993 |
