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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7686305 | Craps game improvement A proposition bet for Craps referred to as a FIRE BET™. The method includes predetermining a schedule of a pay-out table, players placing FIRE BET wagers at respective player betting areas prior to a shooter's initial come out; accumulating points responsive to ou... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7153070 | Drill bit guide for a hand-held drill A simple and inexpensive hand-held drill bit guide that can be conveniently used with electrically powered hand-held drills to provide a precisely perpendicular orientation angle with respect to the surface of an article to be drilled, wherein the surface may be fla... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7100223 | Longitudinally divided fitted sheet an top sheet combination A longitudinally divided fitted sheet and top sheet combination. The fitted sheet is longitudinally conjoined to the top sheet along a conjoining seam, wherein the conjoining seam demarcates a pair of separate and adjoining sleeping regions for a mattress to which t... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6796593 | Head impact energy absorbing sun visor pivot rod connection interface cover A pivot rod connection interface cover for covering the connection interface of a sun visor pivot rod which protects occupants from head impact injury in the event of a crash, yet allows the sun visor to both pivot and rotate in a fully normal and familiar manner. T... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6715479 | Torqueless buss cable positioner for a compound bow A torqueless buss cable positioner for a compound bow which is fixedly mounted thereto, whereby the buss cables are displaced from the bow plane, yet, optimally, the buss cables do not subject the limbs to any force component perpendicular to the bow plane. A guided... | 04/06/2004 |
| D581091 | Miniature light base holder | 11/18/2008 |
| D570419 | Proposition bet area for a craps table layout | 06/03/2008 |
| 7357860 | Skimmer system A skimmer system composed of a base and a slidable float assembly. The base has a base chamber defined by a sidewall, an endwall, and a conduit having an intake communicating with the base chamber. The float assembly has a float chamber defined by an outer float wal... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7325268 | Wheel cleaner apparatus An automatic wheel cleaner apparatus providing cleaning of the inner side of a motor vehicle wheel having an inflated tire mounted thereto (a mounted wheel) prior to attachment of adhesively attached balancing weights. The apparatus includes: a main frame, a rollers... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7185788 | Compartmented fluid dispensing apparatus A compartmented fluid dispensing apparatus suitable for use as a beer “bong”, which provides for simultaneous dispensing to multiple drinkers, wherein the fluid distribution is equitable and wherein fluid is distributed to only those who are actually drinking in... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7100919 | Craps game improvement A proposition bet for Craps referred to as a FIRE BET™. The method includes predetermining a schedule of a pay-out table, players placing FIRE BET wagers at respective player betting areas prior to a shooter's initial come out; accumulating points responsive to ou... | 09/05/2006 |
| D522069 | Proposition bet area for a craps table layout | 05/30/2006 |
| D501230 | Craps table layout | 01/25/2005 |
| 6746200 | Auxiliary vehicle transporter An auxiliary vehicle transporter for a master vehicle which has a platform that reverse articulates and is removably connected thereto. The auxiliary vehicle transporter includes a main frame, a platform pivotally connected to the main frame for supporting an auxili... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6655689 | Craps game improvement A proposition bet for Craps referred to as a FIRE BET™. The method includes predetermining a schedule of a pay-out table, players placing FIRE BET wagers at respective player betting areas prior to a shooter's initial come out; accumulating points respo... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6629327 | Combined cutting and clipping tool for sealed bags A tool having a combined synergistic function for users of sealed plastic bags in order to quickly and safely open and reseal them, wherein a cutting tool for cutting the bag open is connected with a clipping tool for clipping closed the opening.... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6612552 | Head impact energy absorbing sun visor pivot rod connection interface cover A pivot rod connection interface cover for covering the connection interface of a sun visor pivot rod which protects occupants from head impact injury in the event of a crash, yet allows the sun visor to both pivot and rotate in a fully normal and familia... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6494521 | Head impact energy absorbing sun visor pivot rod connection interface cover A pivot rod connection interface cover for covering the connection interface of a sun visor pivot rod which protects occupants from head impact injury in the event of a crash, yet allows the sun visor to both pivot and rotate in a fully normal and familia... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6446968 | Themed board game A themed board game, is family oriented and recreates the fun and wonder of Halloween, preferably for 3 to 8 players (ages preferably 8 and older), and takes about one hour to play. A game board has printed thereon a thematic scene, a preferred example of... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6431187 | Epicycloidic inductrial cleaning system An industrial parts cleaning system including immersion and spraying which provides epicyclic parts movement (a plurality of revolutions per rotation, wherein the revolution is supersposed the rotation), rotating spray which synchronously follows the part... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6401658 | Height adjustment bird feeder apparatus A height adjustable bird feeder apparatus which allows for the selective lowering and raising of a bird feeder relative to a stationary, vertically oriented pole, wherein the apparatus includes a pole, a sleeve concentrically mounted to the pole so as to ... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6383041 | Rudder mechanism for jet propelled personal watercraft A rudder assembly for interfacing with a jet nozzle of a water jet propelled watercraft so as to thereby provide steering of the watercraft by pivoting of the jet nozzle even when a water jet is absent from the jet nozzle. A rudder is connected to a sleev... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6332903 | Materials processing cylinder containing titanium carbide A bimetallic materials processing cylinder formed of a titanium carbide alloy via a vacuum melt process, for example at a pressure of about 10-4 Torr, the purpose of which being to utilize titanium as a main ingredient binded by the best availa... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6300728 | Method and apparatus for powering fluorescent lighting The present invention is a power supply for a fluorescent light, particularly a sub-miniature fluorescent light (SFL) which provides compensation for temperature and age effects of the fluorescent light. One or more SFLs are powered by a variable output a... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6261192 | Tensioned, locally hardened and weighted golf club head face plate A golf club head having a face plate that is tensioned, locally hardened and weighted at the impact zone by the presence of at least one hardened, dense metal plug to thereby provide enhanced distance and directional stability to a struck golf ball. The f... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6202585 | Rubrail mooring line receptacle apparatus A rubrail mooring line receptacle apparatus integrating a rubrail with a mooring line receptacle. A pair of bow mooring lines are connected at their respective near ends to the bow of the watercraft, for example via respective starboard and port cleats, o... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6179365 | Head impact energy absorbing sun visor pivot rod elbow cover A pivot rod elbow cover for covering the elbow of a sun visor pivot rod which protects occupants from head impact injury in the event of a crash, yet allows the sun visor to both pivot and rotate in a fully normal and familiar manner. The pivot rod elbow ... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6164132 | Capacitive liquid level indicator A capacitive liquid level indicator having a capacitive sensor array superposed on each side of a dielectric substrate, wherein the sensor signal detection electronics are located immediately adjacent each capacitive sensor. These provisions result in hig... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6164481 | Paint roller spin spray shield for buckets A spin spray shield connected with a bucket to thereby assist the bucket to retain centrifugal paint spray when a roller is cleaned with a spinning tool, without detracting from the funtionality of the bucket for other purposes. The spin spray shield gene... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6158450 | Epicycloidic industrial cleaning system An industrial parts cleaning system including immersion and spraying which provides epicycloidic parts movement (a plurality of revolutions per rotation, wherein the revolution is supersposed the rotation), rotating spray which synchronously follows the p... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6112758 | Gas line automatic shut-off assembly A gas line shut-off assembly which is automatically actuated in the event of a catastrophic break of a gas line, wherein gas is retained safely inside the remaining intact portion of the gas line. The gas line shut-off assembly is preferably composed of t... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6079684 | Step ladder bracket A step ladder bracket which easily, safely and stably supports a step ladder with respect to a wall. The step ladder bracket includes a back plane for flatly abutting a vertical wall surface, a stiffening flange formed at an upper end of the back plane, a... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6041729 | Mooring line receptacle apparatus A mooring line receptacle apparatus for a watercraft includes an elongated mooring line receptacle for each mooring line, wherein each mooring line receptacle is composed of a plurality of discrete segments and is connected with the hull of the watercraft... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6035444 | Freight handler's glove A glove which addresses the grip ability and injury protection of freight handlers in the course of they daily work needs of lifting and moving articles, composed of a glove body having the following features: a plurality of generally distributed ventilat... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6036559 | Flotation device for a submerged article A flotation device for causing an article to float if accidently dropped into water has protection from being triggered unless submerged. The flotation device includes a casing, a compressed gas cartridge, a pierce head biased by compression of a firing s... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6036709 | Ophthalmic instrument and method for preparing an eye for LASIK An ophthalmic instrument and ophthalmic method for preventing epithelium cells from being deposited at the stroma interface during LASIK. The ophthalmic instrument has a base having a flat abutment face, two mutually concentric annular blades upstanding f... | 03/14/2000 |
