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Mountable Printable Placard With Headband
A resilient headband in a shape for being mounted on the head of the user. The headband is equipped with a longitudinal slotted member for holding a placard.
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| 7093544 | Control device for a railroad car Pivotally mounted doors forming the floor of a railroad car are prevented from opening inadvertently through not allowing air pressure to be applied to a door opening piston until the air pressure exceeds a predetermined amount. ... | 08/22/2006 |
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| 6725768 | Method and apparatus for crushing cans The lowermost of a plurality of vertically stacked cans, which have their longitudinal axes substantially vertical, is held at a first stop. A crush plate is advanced to have a first portion of its front wall engage a mid portion of the lowermost can to fold it abou... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6721546 | Wireless communication system including a unique data transmission device A microprocessor, powered by a low cost battery, controls a wireless transmitter of a communication system. A sensor senses the value of at least one condition at a predetermined location. The transmitter transmits to a wireless receiver a data packet, which include... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6557860 | Collet retainer Each of a plurality of passages in a fixture has a piston movable therein and cooperating with a collet therein to simultaneously move each collet to its workpiece retaining position and to release each collet from its workpiece retaining position. A rece... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6341803 | Coupling device A plurality of female couplers and a plurality of male couplers are simultaneously connected or disconnected by simultaneously applying an axial force along the aligned axes of each pair of female and male couplers. A pushing force is employed for connect... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6226968 | Tobacco plant transport apparatus After a cutter of a tobacco harvester cuts each tobacco plant, the cut tobacco plant has its stalk penetrated by toothed elements on two chains on opposite sides of the cut tobacco plant to advance it to an elevated position. Just prior to being released ... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6148504 | Operator safety device for attaching apparatus A cycle of operation of an attaching apparatus begins with determining whether an operator's extremity is in an area in which it can be struck by a downwardly moving ram during attachment of two fasteners to each other and to a material therebetween. If i... | 11/21/2000 |
| 5933944 | Article feeding arrangement A fastener apparatus, which attaches a first article to a second article at a setting station, includes a plate-like support, a feed in finger for receiving and engaging a first article at a first predetermined position, and a lever pivotally mounted on t... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5863018 | Bar feeder support A bar feeder support has two longitudinally spaced swivel mounts for supporting longitudinally spaced portions of a cylindrical body for both sliding and swivel movement. The cylindrical body supports a feed tube for feeding a bar stock to a lathe. The fr... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5781989 | Fastener attaching apparatus Two mating fastener elements are attached to material and each other at a setting station through an electric motor. The motor rotates a cam having its profile cooperate with a cam follower on an upper pivotally mounted arm to move a ram, which supports o... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5640737 | Multi-component sponge A multi-component sponge has a central or main foam layer of reticulated single cell polyurethane flexible foam and an outer foam layer adhered to each of its two substantially parallel sides so that liquid can flow between the main foam layer and the two... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5603442 | Rotary hopper for an attaching apparatus A rotary hopper includes a door, which is pivotally mounted on the main mounting plate for pivoting about a vertical axis, having a transparent element to enable viewing of the interior of the rotary hopper. The pivotally mounted door enables easy access ... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5561962 | Insert apparatus A compact disc (CD) is inserted into a sleeve as the sleeve is continuously advanced past a load position at which the CD is removed from a vertical spindle by a pivotally mounted lift arm and inserted into an open edge of the sleeve with the arm moving a... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5467108 | Adjustable pointing stick assembly A pointing stick, which is used to control the position of a cursor on a computer monitor, has its axial longitudinal position relative to its fixed cover adjusted so that a flat bottom surface of a pad on the bottom of the pointing stick does not exert a... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5454652 | Adjustable keyboard A keyboard has two segments connected to each other at their rear ends by a connector. The two segments can be pivoted about the connector through 90° in the plane of a support surface for the keyboard. In one embodiment, each keyboard segment may be dis... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5413415 | Rotary table deck bushing An outer sleeve of a rotary table deck bushing has an axial passage extending therethrough and within which is disposed an inner core, which has an axial passage extending therethrough to receive a drill string of a drilling tool. The inner surface of the... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5400577 | Tobacco harvester A tobacco harvester includes a plurality of linearly spaced tobacco plant engaging flights attached to an endless chain at equal linear distances with the sensing of a tobacco plant at a first position resulting in a cycle of operation occurring to advanc... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5344274 | Envelope removal apparatus A sealed envelope, which encloses a rectangular shaped container having an audio or video tape therein to form a package, is automatically removed from the container through cutting a first edge of the envelope during its travel in a first direction and t... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5339984 | Fastener attaching apparatus having multiple sources of fastener hardware First and second complementary articles of hardware are fed to a single attaching station by first and second reciprocating feed-in fingers, respectively. Different types of first articles are selected during initial retraction of the first feed-in finger... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5319848 | Apparatus for attaching fasteners to material Two mating fastener elements are attached to material at a setting station through a first electric motor. The motor rotates a cam for causing a first pivotally mounted arm to move a support, which supports one of the fastener elements, towards a ram, whi... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5297705 | Bow forming apparatus A strip of acetate of a selected length is cut from a ribbon of acetate by a heated cutting wire after the strip has a middle portion clamped between two pairs of fingers. A first outer portion of the strip is then folded beneath the middle portion of the... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5268816 | Movable display screen for a computer A portable personal computer has a display screen movable between a substantially vertical position when a keyboard is in a substantially horizontal position and exposed for use and a substantially horizontal position in which the keyboard is not accessib... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5249842 | Collector cart A collector cart includes a body having an open rear end closed by a canopy pivotally connected to the body adjacent their front ends. A tow bar, which has the body pivotally connected thereto, has a support, which has caster wheels connected thereto for ... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5234063 | Removable wear protective means for a drilling tool A drill bit sub, which has a drill bit with three equally angularly spaced cutters releasably threaded into its bottom surface, has its lower portion reduced in diameter. A collar is welded to the uppermost portion of the lower portion of the drill bit su... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5230200 | Wallboard and method of joining wallboards A wallboard is formed with each of its abutting top and bottom surfaces extending from its rear surface substantially perpendicular thereto for less than 50%, preferably 371/2%, of the distance between the rear surface and the front surface. The wallboard... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5222565 | Drill section of a drilling tool A drill section includes a hollow tube having a reduced portion of a box disposed in each end. Each box is welded to the hollow tube by a circumferential weld extending around an angled portion connecting the reduced portion of the box to a portion of the... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5199378 | Aquarium filtering system and method A system and method is presented for filtering waste and debris from an aquarium tank and from the water supply therein without having to empty the tank or remove the fish therefrom. The invention generally includes a movable cleaner positioned adjacent t... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5186282 | Vertical transport apparatus A support platform for a person in a wheelchair is disposed at ground level and mounted on the top of a movable support frame within a hole in the ground. The movable support frame is surrounded by a fixed frame having guide rollers for guiding the movabl... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5171978 | Trackball assembly including a loosely mounted ball support A trackball assembly has a ball supported on a bottom ball support, which is rotatably and translationally mounted on a lower support having an upper support conntected thereto. The ball protrudes through an opening, which has a beveled inner surface, in ... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5080442 | Collector cart A collector cart includes a body having an open rear end, which is closed by a canopy pivotally mounted adjacent its front end on the body adjacent its front end. The body has a support pivotally connected to caster wheel supports and a tow bar attached t... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5058689 | Wear protective means for a drilling tool A drill bit sub, which has a drill bit with three equally angularly spaced cutters releasably threaded into its bottom surface, has its lower portion reduced in diameter. A protective sleeve, which is a hollow cylindrical metal tube, is releasably attache... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5042243 | Tine mounting arrangement and method A tine mounting tray includes a substantially planar portion from which a plurality of smaller substantially planar portions are punched out. Each of the punched out portions is spaced from the remainder of the substantially planar portion of the mounting... | 08/27/1991 |
| 5037290 | Apparatus for molding a one-piece molded end closure An injection molding apparatus produces a one-piece molded end closure has a pull ring spaced from a main panel, which has an annular flange extending therefrom and may have score lines. The pull ring is connected to the main panel by a tenon. The apparat... | 08/06/1991 |
| 4985987 | Fastener attaching apparatus A two prong symmetrical shaped element is connected to a non-symmetrical shaped element on opposite sides of a material by disposing the two prongs in two holes in the non-symmetrical shaped element, which is a hook or an eye. The non-symmetrical shaped e... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4983346 | Method for molding a one-piece molded end closure A one-piece molded end closure has a pull ring spaced from a main panel having an annular flange extending therefrom. When the end closure is frangible through having score lines formed in the main panel, the pull ring is connected by a tenon adjacent a s... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4842279 | Indicating device When a golfer strikes a ball on a tee connected to a latch release for a pivotally mounted arm, the arm is accelerated by a preloaded torsion spring from an inactive (vertical) position to an indicating (horizontal) position in which an opening in the arm... | 06/27/1989 |
