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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 |
| 4612749 | Set of construction elements A panel (1) intended to constitute a wall element is formed by two rectangular pieces of sheet metal (2, 3) separated by expanded resin (4). On the periphery of the panel, the connection between the pieces of sheet metal is realized by a shape (6) of synt... | 09/23/1986 |
| 4581016 | Dual cartridge wet/dry syringe A multi-cartridge syringe assembly includes one cartridge containing a diluent and insertable within another cartridge containing dry medication. The nose of the diluent cartridge supports a cannula and is surrounded by a lock head member. In an initial m... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4575090 | Putting aid An aid for persons wishing to improve the golf stroke known as putting. The aid comprises two planar surfaces with a relfex angle of between 127 and 140 degrees therebetween. One surface is reflective and supports a cylindrical leveling device in a cylind... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4573291 | Ridge or hip covering for tiled roofs In this ridge or hip covering, flexible sealing strips (9) are arranged between the covering caps (7) fastened to the ridge or hip board (6) of the roof structure and the roofing tiles (3). In order that the sealing strips (9) can universally be used with the ... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4571879 | Sinker for a fishing line A sinker for attachment to a fishing line, the sinker comprises a pentahedral body of isosceles triangular section which tapers from end to end of the body. The ends are in parallel planes at right angles to the apex edge of the body. A longitudinal line ... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4567837 | Sewing machine A sewing machine includes a stud carried by a journal surrounding a tubular needle bar having a lateral opening. A link connected to the journal normally drives the needle bar when the stud is engaged within the needle bar opening. A disconnecting rod wit... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4564187 | Sheet feed device for a printer or typewriter The sheet feed device (1) comprises several cassettes (13) on which the sheets (11) are stacked, a removal mechanism, associated with each of the supports, intended to remove a sheet from the cassette (13) and introduce it into the printer (2), and a sele... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4562824 | Compound bow A compound bow includes a single, integrated cam assembly supported by the bow handle and having separate, adjacent cam elements receiving string cable segments and power cable segments from the bow limb tips. All the cam elements are fixedly disposed rel... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4561413 | Compound bow with improved limb tip hanger A compound bow is provided with a hanger assembly for attaching wheels or cams and power cables to both bow limb tips and includes a pair of hanger members removably engageable with the distal portions of two split limb portions on each bow limb without t... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4558868 | Arrowhead with interchangeable elements Arrowhead capable of being converted, by interchange of head elements, from an archery head to any selected one of various types of hunting heads. Comprises an elongated main body having an axially extending space and a plurality of longitudinal slots, bo... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4555232 | Hair drying apparatus A portable hair drying apparatus has a tubular body (60) with an air inlet at one end also containing an electric motor driving impeller (73) and powered by rechargeable cells (74). The air flows over a gas burner assembly (61) fed with gas from a liquid ... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4550929 | Ski boot heel binding A heel binding for ski boots cooperates with a boot heel plate for use in either alpine or cross-country skiing and includes a pivot member displaceable between locked and unlocked positions. In the locked position, during alpine skiing a forward shoulder... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4541313 | Adjustable torque wrench A tool, such as the torque wrench shown, has a fixed tube 2 and rotatable coaxial handle 9 which serves to move nut 5 longitudinally by means of screw 6, thus adjusting the compression of spring 4. The torque value is indicated by a scale 14 rotatable in ... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4540977 | Surveillance apparatus A surveillance apparatus against theft or intrusion includes a box containing a detector reacting to an abnormal presence and operable to selectively activate a camera, a flash and/or an acoustic warning device. The open rear of the box is hingedly attach... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4539770 | Pressable latch for semiautomatic pistol magazines, adaptable for use by left-handed persons A pressable magazine latch for semiautomatic pistols adaptable for use by either right or left-handed persons includes a guide-tube anchored wihtin the pistol frame which contains a displaceable rigidly connected two-part latch member therewithin. A sprin... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4535702 | Articulated railway vehicle A railway vehicle for urban use has at least one motorized truck and at least one non-motorized supporting truck. The supporting truck is provided with wheels of smaller diameter than the wheels of the motorized truck which enables a lowering of all of th... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4533544 | Method of forming stable dental gel of stannous fluoride A method of producing stable gels consisting essentially of from about 0.38% to about 0.42% of stannous fluoride, from about 0.25% to about 0.45% hydroxyethylallulose and the remainder anhydrous glycerin.... | 08/06/1985 |
| 4532726 | Ticket holders for shelving A ticket holder for shelving such as in supermarkets, comprises a front support surface with parallel channels to engage and retain the edges of a price ticket. The rear surface has an integral formation defining a hook which has a first pair of parallel ... | 08/06/1985 |
| 4523637 | System for the refrigeration of liquids and/or gases The invention consists of a central tube (1) manufactured of high thermal conductivity materials in which a liquid or gas is made to pass at low temperature thus refrigerating other tubes (2) around its periphery also made of high conductivity materials w... | 06/18/1985 |
| 4521593 | Process for obtaining lacto-N-norhexaosyl ceramide From human placental tissue, gangliosides and lacto-N-norhexaosyl ceramide of formula: are successively extracted. Lacto-N-norhexaosyl ceramide is used in the diagnosis and treatment of certain tumors and autoimmune diseases.... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4510691 | Device for measuring distances between two opposite surfaces The measuring device comprises a body (1) whose end (1a) is secured to a rod (2) connected to a measuring instrument. A probe assembly (3,4,5) is provided with a feeler head (4a) and is secured to a lever (6) which rotates around a pin (8) in the body (1)... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4509665 | Pouring device A pouring device which is fixed into the outlet of a liquid container. The device has a main portion and bifurcated legs which conform to the internal shape of the container outlet. A vent tube provides access for air forced into the container by the low ... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4509433 | Collapsible expansible handling facility for unitized and unit loads A pallet carrying industrial loads includes on the base thereof, two parallel longitudinally extending sleeve members of which the sides are pleated whereby the sleeve may collapse in a vertical direction with the folded sides supporting the weight of the... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4507049 | Wheel intended to work with a fluid A wheel intended to work with a fluid includes wing-shaped components (2) arranged around a central shaft (1) generally perpendicular to the direction of relative movement of the fluid (5). The wing-shaped components are articulated along pivoting axes (3... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506117 | Electroacoustic transducer The electroacoustic transducer comprises an oscillating element (6, 7) holding a coil (8), the oscillating element (6, 7) being connected to a magnet frame (11-17) by an elastomer ring (10'). The magnet frame (11-17) has two magnets (14, 15) and constitut... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4505863 | Carburetor A carburetor includes a pendulum metering element delivering fuel to a hollow throttle shaft from a fuel metering chamber by means of a graduated depth groove in the chamber wall which is engaged by a spring urged jet member carried by the pendulum elemen... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4496090 | Surgical stapler A stapler for interconnecting adjacent penetrable bodies such as vertebrae includes a barrel with a staple support and deforming anvil at one end thereof; a plunger slidably mounted in the barrel for pressing the staple against the anvil to deform and dri... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4492483 | Means for detecting the end of a ribbon for typewriters The detection means for the ends of a ribbon for typewriters includes a light flow conductor member 17 integral with the bottom 2 of the case for the ribbon cassette. The member 17 has two light guides between which the ribbon passes. One of the guides is... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4490930 | Flexible support for an ironing press hinge The frame of an ironing press has flexible abutments made of steel against which a support for roller tracks rests in order to assure a stable position for a lever arm of the press when the press is in an open or closed position. The flexibility of the ab... | 01/01/1985 |
| 4489876 | Method of making a fabricated sheet metal compression mold A compression mold includes punch and cavity components fabricated from initially flat sheets of relatively thin metal. The sheets of each component are shaped, assembled and joined to provide box-like components defining mating mold surfaces yielding mol... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4482364 | Oil gas/separator A separator for separating gas from oil in a mixture thereof such as at an oil well head comprises one or a plurality of separator devices (13) each basically comprising a foraminous wall constituted by a sleeve (22;56) surrounding a closely fitting solid... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4480188 | Method and device to determine interplanar distances in electron diffraction images The invention relates to a method and device that make it possible to determine interplanar distances in electron diffraction images in electron microscopes. This is done through its beam stopper, which originally was used only to interrupt the central be... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4479785 | Leg rope for a surfboard A leg rope to secure a surf board to a surfer includes a cuff to engage around the leg of a surfer, an anchoring member to secure the leg rope to a surf board, the cuff being connected to the anchoring member by a helically coiled extensible member fixed ... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4478203 | Compound bow cable and bowstring attachment means A copound bow having low-rotation cams includes an improved anchor member adapted to releasably attach one end of both a bowstring and tension cable to each cam. The cams are formed with a main body or lobe joined to a secondary body or lobe and configure... | 10/23/1984 |
| 4475723 | Elongated spring member An elongated spring member is formed of fiber reinforced plastics, particularly resin-impregnated glass fiber strands, and includes end provisions adjacent the two ends for the reception of attachment elements associated with the use of the spring. The sp... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4471877 | Crane sensor to detect out of plumb lift cable A sensor assembly on a crane apparatus includes a multi-pole switch such as a wobble switch mounted adjacent the head of a crane boom. The switch is carried by a pendulum arm and is activated by an actuating member engageable by the crane lift cable whene... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4470713 | Writing head The needle writing head comprises a support in two parts (5 and 6), each comprising recesses (15, or 18) forming guide paths for needles (16) located along two rows. The part (6) is movable parallel to the row of needles (16) over a distance equal to one-... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4468153 | Symmetric tidal station A tidal station includes a plurality of turbine/generator sets removably insertable along the central axis of a caisson to provide a symmetrical installation. Fixedly disposed basin side and sea side diffusers include inlets alternately juxtaposed opposit... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4467834 | Device for controlling the mixture and flow of at least two fluids The supply conduits (1, 2) for two different gases to be mixted are each associated to a pressure regulator (3, 4) and lead into two chambers (5, 6) connected by chokes (7, 8) having a variable section area to a mixing chamber (9). A control member (13) a... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4461267 | Compound bow A compound bow includes a pair of improved pivotally mounted cam assemblies having separate, specification profiled string cable segments and power cable segments constructed and arranged to produce a draw force curve representing a greater area of stored... | 07/24/1984 |
