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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5612689 | Finger articulation controlled information generating system A plurality of finger articulation units that individually mount on finger and thumb nails and together, by selected up and down movement of the fingers and thumbs (ten fingers), serve as an alternate to a keyboard and/or for any human to machine and/or c... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5586413 | Self on center leveling pot hanger A hanger for plant pots having an upper hanger hook, a downward interim depending portion with a section laterally displaced from a vertical line from the hanger hook through the area of the center of gravity of a flower pot. The laterally displaced secti... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5541495 | Battery polarity connection adaption solid state switch A bi-polar solid state battery switch is provided enabling the DC pulse output of battery reclaimer and charger circuits to be connected to a battery without regard to battery terminal polarity. The battery polarity bias itself determines bias to an condu... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5492621 | Sewage water and solids treatment and disposal system Sewage water with entrained solids as an effluent is fed into the trough bottom shaped process tank that is a totally enclosed tank other than for inlets and outlets therefore. The system disposes of water from sewage effluents and also residual solids th... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5304979 | Vehicle antitheft system A solid state computer circuit system is provided that senses the state of the ignition switch, setting a lock out circuit to prevent the car from being started if a hidden switch (or other enabling circuit) is not activated. There is a solid state timing... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5301398 | Plastic body container A primarily plastic cadaver container is molded in the form of caskets, coffins, sarcophagues, mummy shaped containers, etc., produced from primarily plastic and other materials. While all the plastic can be new virgin plastic in most instances it can, ad... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5293105 | Rain sensor car electric window closure control With an automobile having electric power windows a power drive control circuit includes a solid state on-off power solid state device such as a PNP transistor with a moisture content sensor element interconnecting two electrodes of the solid state device ... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5286940 | Microwave oven break away element trim kit A trim kit for a microwave oven inserted in a rectangular wall opening is provided with opposite side upright trim elements and upper and lower trim air vent elements surrounding the front face of the microwave oven. Both upper and lower trim air vent ele... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5276393 | Solar radiation powered battery reclaimer and charger A solar powered battery reclaiming and charging circuit is provided having a high frequency section (a bistable multi-vibrator, relaxation blocking bistable multi-vibrator or an oscillator inverter circuit) which is solar powered and output coupled by a c... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5243415 | Limited range stereo-audio video RF transmitter to multiple receiver system A stereo-audio video limited range low power RF transmitter to receiver system is provided transmitting signal from a video cassette recorder (VCR), satellite converter, TV camera, cable select box and a TV receiver/monitor, or VCR, utilizing a wireless s... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5222893 | Instrument panel cross check training device An assemblage of instruments such as in an aircraft instrument panel, either actually in an aircraft or training simulator pictured in various states of activation, are positioned behind a selectively programmed viewing device. Various individual instrume... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5217824 | Battery holder A battery holder of electrical non-conductive plastic, shorter than elongate batteries inserted therein, is provided having an opening receiving the upper contact end of an elongate nickel-cadmium battery that generally come in 7.2 volt and 9.6 volt capac... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5216979 | Toilet bowl mountable trap door cat litter box A portable cat litter box adjustably mountable on a toilet bowl is provided with the litter box equipped with a trap door and trap door opening mechanism for dumping litter from the box directly into a toilet bowl for ease of litter disposal. A pull membe... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5195765 | Paper sack holding dolly with top entry guide and bag top to guide shank holding strap A paper sack carrying wheeled dolly is provided having a bottom platform supporting the bottom of a biodegradable paper sack such as is now required by some municipalities in their recycling programs. The upright frame of the dolly has a rearwardly extend... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5193866 | Transportable positive dead bolt lock for doors A portable positive dead bolt lock temporarily installed in a door frame and then removed and carried from one location to another to present, while temporarily used, a positive dead bolt lock. A planar lock plate is provided having a tab flange extended ... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5184608 | Well pipe top cap A well pipe top enclosing pipe cap is provided that has two pivotally interconnected half cylindrical concave pipe end enclosing halves pivotal from an open state to a closed state. The half cylindrical concave halves made of iron, or steel, have half cir... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5183353 | Pavement hole seal covered repair fill A seal-cover is provided for paving material filled pavement openings such as pot holes. A hot mix (used in good weather) or a cold mix (used in bad weather) of asphalt paving repair material is used to fill a hole in the existing pavement. A coating or l... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5171162 | RF coaxial cable tap interconnect A coaxial cable tap is provided for connection to a coaxial line that is accomplished without disconnection of the coaxial line or otherwise disrupting service. A precise oval area of the outer jacket and shield is removed along with a controlled depth pe... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5168988 | Scene and verse coordinated coin and card packaged in a single entry two section interconnected transparent package Greetings along with a portrayal scene are duplicated on both a greeting card and a coin (medallion) packaged together in respective sections of a two section transparent plastic package. The package has a single opening at the top, an elongate rectangula... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5165789 | Limited access long stemmed small diameter probe light A probe light is provided with two power lines passed through a long tubular small diameter brass rod extended from a handle with a plug in socket connection to a power supply to a small cross sectional halogen lamp bulb socket for a small diameter haloge... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5147096 | Easy latch and unlatch cam action trailer hitch A trailer hitch is provided where a longitudinally moveable rectangular cap is slidably mounted on a rectangular (square in some instances) pipe used as a trailer hitch tongue mounting within its lead end a trailer hitch ball socket member welded in place... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5146490 | Passive telephone line monitoring system A passive telephone line monitor is provided for keeping a log of telephone line activity, both incoming and outgoing, with a microcomputer (MCU) controlled by an onboard program read only memory (ROM) working with 64K bytes of random access memory (RAM) ... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5138790 | Easy release-detachable fishhook A three piece easy release detachable fishhook is provided having a hook member with an angle formed portion terminating with an upward extended shank end, an upper hook connection member having a top end fish line tie on opening, an upper round shank por... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5132789 | Tilt rack video tape library and VCP to multiple subscriber system A self contained tilt rack video cassette library cabinet containing multiple VCP units with an XYZ motion tape cassette selection and delivery system to computer directed insertion in a subscriber VCP and return after play to a tilt rack library storage ... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5113616 | Fish line to hook shank snap on and release connector An easy connect and disconnect two piece fishhook structure is provided with the hook portion having a stem shank with an annular cold formed or machined depression adjacent its free end. The other portion of the two piece fishhook structure is a spring c... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5104094 | Car door latch mechanism viewing tool A relatively thin bend formed shim tool formed of sheet metal, or plastic, is provided to help a locksmith view and have access to lock release mechanism of a locked vehicle door from the outside when the vehicle door key is lost, or left inside the vehic... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5100280 | Magnetic roller and belt steel shot and grit pick up recovery machine A machine to collect iron or steel shot or ferrous grit from factory plant floors for reuse in blast machines or other industrial processes. Round doughnut like magnets mounted on a through shaft are stacked together with like North and South poles adjace... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5084996 | Fishing lure laser surface pattern cut reflective patterned spinner blade A twisted spinner blade with laser beam cut surface patterns is provided for use with fishing lures designed to be especially effective in bass fishing. The laser beam cuts that are shallow can have spacing consistent with cuttings running to a much as pr... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5084664 | Solar powered lead acid battery rejuvenator and trickle charger A solar powered lead acid battery rejuvenator circuit is provided that generates fast time very short duration pulses on the order of five micro seconds or less with a five mega volt per second rise time to 1:1 to 1:3 times the theoretical cell voltage wi... | 01/28/1992 |
| 5080027 | Seed planter ground hole manual tool A hard material pointed bottom tool is presented having a top handle and a stand-on side extension enabling body weight through a user's foot to drive the pointed bottom end into the ground for repeatedly providing seed receiving planting holes. The stand... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5069433 | Article multiple position swivel ball mount with position hold clamping A multiple (infinite positions) position swivel ball mount with the swivel ball position clamp locked between two clampable base members that may be clamped toward each other between the jaws of a vise tightly on the swivel ball. Recesses are provided in ... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5065778 | Finger nail polish removing device A finger nail polish removing structure including a container for holding nail polish removing liquid with a base and a lid, and a finger nail scrubbing structure mounted within the container in spaced relation to the container base bottom wall and to the... | 11/19/1991 |
| 5063341 | Lead acid battery rejuvenator and charger An electrical power source, either AC or DC, lead acid battery rejuvenator and charger circuit switchable between rejuvenator and charger modes of operation. For the rejuvenator mode of operation a rejuvenator pulse signal generating circuit supplies volt... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5061224 | Variable speed bicycle automatic torque converter transmission A fully automatic torque converter transmission is presented that uses a "V" belt with inner teeth that engage mating teeth on a variable pitch pulley core in a low speed high torque state transformable into an infinitely variable higher speed shift mecha... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5059089 | Infinitely adjustable travel lead screw and multi-cylinder driven movement unit A multi-cylinder and short lead screw driven travel arm or machinery movement unit achieving infinitely variable travel through the design limits of travel imposed thereon. In one working configuration using 1", 2", 4" and 8" travel pneumatic cylinders an... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5058465 | Key holding tool for impressioning A device for holding a lock key firmly while inserting the key in a lock on a building, automobile, filing cabinet or other. The purpose of the tool is to impart torque simultaneous with a rocking motion to the key. This causes marks to be made on the key... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5052140 | Gun magazine entrance guide accessory A guide for the insertion of gun magazines with a mounting extension insertable into a bottom opening in the butt of the gun with a butt bottom rim receiving opening with a bottom at the back end extended to opposite side shoulders with opposite sides eng... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5052148 | Hanging rope mounted adjustable position plant pot A plant container is in the form of a plant pot (flower pot) having a bottom with a center opening and several water drain openings with the bottom receivable in a circular pot tray formed with a center tubular pole that extends upward through the bottom ... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5038583 | Gas expansion motor equipped air conditioning/refrigeration system A basic air conditioning/refrigeration system charged (filled) with, typically, Nitrogen gas six to ten atmospheres with a specific heat of gas equal to 0.022 B.T.U. per degree F. change per cubic foot per atmosphere when in operation. The system may be r... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5033614 | Cue stick section straightener and protector Resilient material elongate cloth strips are inserted into a tubular cue stick section enclosing, supporting and protecting tube with the elongate cloth strips folded over the smaller diameter end of the cue stick section for initial insertion into the en... | 07/23/1991 |
