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Wearable Device For Feeding and Observing Birds and Other Flying Animals
A device for feeding and observing flying animals comprising a hat, a support mounted on the hat and extending outward from the hat, and a feeder mounted on the support.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5109637 | Abrading implement Implement having a flexible core to which compressible, resilient and flexible fiber mats bearing fine abrasive material are secured to form a tool that can conveniently conform or coincide with convex, concave, flat or curved surfaces and to corners and ... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5036561 | Combined depiller and delinter Device for removing fiber pills and lint from a fabric in which a supporting substrate has affixed on one surface an abrasive coating of substantially uniform particles lying in the range of 280-600 grit size for removing pills and on another surface a fa... | 08/06/1991 |
| 4979841 | Member for sheet binding staple Retainer element for releasably inhibiting movement of a restraining clip along a clinched blade end of a staple used to bind one or more pieces of sheet material. The element is wedge-shaped, inexpensively formed and inserted between the clinched blade e... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4917035 | Monohull sailboat with enlarged deck area A lightweight monohull sailboat of length less than sixteen feet having a clear uninterrupted, full beam, deck area above the waterline of the hull of at least sixteen square feet. The sailboat is molded fiberglass or plywood construction including integr... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4785135 | De-coupled printed circuits Arrangement for reducing cross talk between electrical circuit conductors wherein the conductors lie within individual parallel channels within the same plane or different parallel planes within the induced voltage or cross talk region of an energized and... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4772136 | Self-filtering apparatus for hydrodynamic bearing gas Gas bearing of the hydrodynamic self-acting type in which replenishment gas for the support film is drawn by the operating bearing through filter means as required to assure entrapment of potentially damaging particles before they can enter the gas film i... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4756923 | Method of controlling resistivity of plated metal and product formed thereby Method and product resulting therefrom of controlling the residual resistivity of an electrolessly deposited metal by first, calculating the mathematical relationship between the residual resistivity of the deposited metal and its rate of deposition and s... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4650198 | Moldable ski-sled A single runner ski-sled for use by youngsters on snowy slopes and particularly adaptable to molded plastic construction. The ski-sled comprises a principal frame member to which the single runner is permanently attached and a removable seat member on the... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4644261 | Method of determining cylindricity and squareness Method of determining cylindricity and squareness of mating shaft and bearing members by rotating one member with respect to the other stationary member while using a fluid film as a stiff supporting lubricant to establish a stable and dynamic reference a... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4603985 | Backstop and damping apparatus for actuator Damping apparatus within an actuator device in which a backstop is supported on one portion of a dual cantilever to match the movement of the impacting actuator to reduce wear and provide positive restoration of initial position, wherein the backstop-supp... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4602733 | Desoldering apparatus and method Apparatus for the selective removal of the solder and a connector soldered in the through hole of a circuit panel including means for heating the solder and a pair of aligned tubes placed against opposite surfaces of the panel surrounding the connecting t... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4596037 | Video measuring system for defining location orthogonally Apparatus for determining the location of a physical feature, such as a hole in a panel, relative to two coordinate axes by optically scanning across the panel and hole from a reference while measuring the distance of the hole from the reference and the l... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4579772 | Glass cloth for printed circuits and method of manufacture wherein yarns have a substantially elliptical cross-section Woven glass cloth and method of its manufacture suitable for use as a resin-impregnated substrate for printed circuits in which the major dimension or transverse axis of the elliptical warp yarns exceeds a predetermined fraction of that dimension of the f... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4563385 | Hybrid glass cloth for printed circuit boards Woven glass fiber cloth for printed circuit substrates in which the warp is of plied yarn and the fill is of unplied or twisted yarn to facilitate more thorough polymeric resin impregnation and achieve improved dimensional stability.... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4504723 | Renewable brazing electrodes In apparatus for repairing printed circuit lines or attaching electrical components, a pair of brazing electrodes and holder therefor in which the electrodes can be repetitively extended to compensate for wear without necessity of removal and machining he... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4477484 | Electroless plating monitor Apparatus and method for determining the initiation, progression and quality electroless plating of blind or through hole walls in circuit panels. A test coupon for monitoring plating is provided having a sensitized initiation conductivity zone and sensit... | 10/16/1984 |
| 4449119 | Self-clocking serial decoder Apparatus for generating clocking pulses from serially transmitted data in which a level shift recurs with each bit. The circuit uses a coincidence of data word recognition and initial level shift to generate an initial clock pulse and thereafter uses the... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4445796 | Print electrode control circuit Circuit for selectively enabling energization of printing electrodes in sequence in a print head to achieve a more nearly constant current flow in the electrodes to thereby produce recorded marks of more uniform size. The formation of the electrodes into ... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4397576 | Print head actuator Apparatus for moving a print heat of a serial matrix printer into or out of contact with a recording medium in which the required motion is achieved during translation of the print head along the print line by a cam and follower and in which the contact p... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4395715 | Method and arrangement for controlling the print current in metal paper printers For record carriers with a greatly varying thickness of the metal layer, the burn out process is effected dynamically with respect to the current strength. During the starting phase up to the beginning of the actual arcing phase a relatively high current ... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4389008 | Web supply roll jogger Apparatus for incremental feeding of a paper web from an arborless supply roll over a transverse dancer bar resiliently supported at each end with the respective supports having different and variable spring rates to effect uneven pulling of the web durin... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4343012 | Printer control circuit Circuit for generating from a pair of pulse trains produced in phase quadrature both an indication of the direction of print head motion and the production of timing signals from the leading and trailing edges of the pulses of only one of the two pulse tr... | 08/03/1982 |
| 4329698 | Disposable cartridge for ink drop printer A convenience package for drop-on-demand ink drop recording devices which includes drop generating means for projecting ink droplets to a recording medium, filter means, and the ink supply, all of which are quickly interchangeable, and intended for dispos... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4326656 | Evacuated printing platen Printing platen for positioning a recording medium such as paper which includes an evacuated chamber having a slotted face plate for attracting, holding and guiding the paper. Slots are arranged parallel to each other and the direction of paper travel, an... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4326603 | Lubrication control apparatus Automatic lubrication control system in which current flow between two mating electrically conductive, lubricated members in sliding contact is integrated with respect to time and used to provide a control signal for a pump that applies lubricant to the c... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4320330 | Apparatus and method for determining step motor drive pulse timing by rotor displacement Step motor control in which a coded emitter disk is formed with a plurality of sensible secondary marks between each pair of primary motor step marks for use as different optional delay times for the generation of a motor advance pulse after a step mark i... | 03/16/1982 |
| 4319255 | Tinted metallized recording medium Method of coloring the erodible metal surface of a metallized record medium by overprinting discrete limited areas of the surface with one or more inks of preselected colors to provide a distinctive halftone tint to the surface without adversely affecting... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4302700 | Electrode guide for metal paper printers Guide for electrodes in a metal paper printer in which V-shaped grooves are formed in monocrystalline silicon by crystallographic etching and the guide is thereafter coated with a glass passivation layer.... | 11/24/1981 |
| 4295746 | Arrangement for feeding electrodes in metal paper printers Two electrodes are arranged within an insulating tube to have longitudinal contact with each other. One of the electrode wires is connected to a voltage source and the other can be pulled out of the insulating tube as it is consumed, as for electrode feed... | 10/20/1981 |
| 4255708 | Magnetoresistive position transducer with invariable peak signal Position identifying transducer using a pair of serially connected magnetoresistive elements with an output terminal at their juncture and which lie in a common plane with the flux-sensitive areas of each element symmetrically disposed about a common cent... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4243332 | Electrode guide Guide for electrodes in a metal paper printer comprising a multipart arrangement of a guide portion, with parallel grooves for the electrodes, and of a cover portion assembled to the guide portion. The cover portion has a recess extending transversely of ... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4242658 | Magnetic actuator using modulated flux Magnetic actuator arrangement in which the actuator or armature is retained in a cocked position by unidirectional magnetic flux having a density that cyclically varies in magnitude with time and is released by selective energization of a bucking coil to ... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4224589 | Low energy magnetic actuator Magnetic actuator apparatus in which the armature is held in a restrained position on a magnetic core by magnetic flux whose density is cyclically varied in time, and the armature is selectively released by a bucking coil that is energized only when the a... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4212550 | Ribbon storage mechanism having eccentrically mounted feeding elements Apparatus for packing ribbon into a storage compartment in regular, uniform pleats. A pair of eccentric rotating feed rolls form a nip gripping the ribbon and alternately extend peripheral portions into the storage compartment beyond fixed stripping eleme... | 07/15/1980 |
| 4186406 | Multiple-electrode print head for electroerosion printers Apparatus for and method of providing multiplex control for the plurality of electrodes in an electroerosion print head. This technique allows the elimination of a number of control leads originally required and reduces the cost of electrode drivers. Elec... | 01/29/1980 |
| 4163285 | Control circuit for metal paper printer head Control circuit for a print head of a metal paper printer in which electrodes are arranged on a slope, said electrodes being staggered in horizontal projection by the D-fold of their electrode width. The martrix-like structurized character to be printed c... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4153950 | Data bit assembler Apparatus for assembling binary data bits in parallel by groups in variable, selected locations in a shift register for subsequent serial readout. One or more shift registers are arranged in a matrix of rows and columns of storage cells and addressed alon... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4150619 | Printer for different character densities Impact printing apparatus for recording at different character densities having an interposer unit movable between a plurality of print hammers and type chain to provide a translation function for the variable character-to-character distances required of ... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4146874 | Method and apparatus for addressing a character generator Method and apparatus for supplying to marking means, character bit data from a two-dimensional matrix of rows and columns of storage elements wherein character selection is made by specifying the character storage cell and character width. Characters are ... | 03/27/1979 |
| 4141290 | Print hammer for type printers Print hammer actuating apparatus of the double lever type in which one lever is moved in response to an input force and carries a pivotally mounted second lever which provides the output force through either an "inertia" principle or "ratio" principle. Th... | 02/27/1979 |
