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User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks
An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5626212 | Motor vehicle with a gearshift lever and a hand brake lever in the center of the vehicle The present invention pertains to a motor vehicle, in which a gearshift lever and a hand brake lever are arranged in the center of the vehicle, and the hand brake lever, designed as a short-arm lever, is mounted pivotably around a transverse axis, and coo... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5625902 | Protective hood made of an elastic material A protective hood (1) made of an elastic, elastomeric, gas-impermeable material, with a head area (2) and a neck area (4) joining the head area (2) with its top end (3), is to be improved such that good seating of the protective hood is achieved at differ... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5626603 | Hydraulic stent inserter The present invention pertains to an instrument to insert stents into arterial ducts in which a coaxial hose and sheath together, adjacent to a push rod, define a housing (27) designed to receive the stent (28) and the sheath slides longitudinally with re... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5624364 | Tool change device for manipulators A tool change device for manipulators, which have a rotary connection for fluidic supply lines of the tool. The rotary connection comprises a fixed part and a rotary part, whose contact plane is directed at right angles to the power take-off axis of rotat... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5623738 | Machine and method for the continuous washing of a fabric A machine is disclosed for the continuous washing of fabric (T), comprising eans (3) for introducing the fabric to be treated into said machine, means (5) for extracting the treated fabric from said machine and, between said means of introduction and said ... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5623811 | Process and device for packaging and supplying fiber material The present invention pertains to a process and a device for packaging and supplying fiber material 5. In a multi-location fiber plant 1, the fiber material is filled into a closable freight container and is compacted in a filling station 2, and the freig... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5622434 | Linear bearing structure A linear bearing structure comprises a bearing bush, a plurality of annular ball retainers each holding a plurality of bearing balls, circumferentially and a pair of annular endpieces respectively removably secured to ends of the bush to confine the ball ... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5621185 | Warhead The warhead comprises a preliminary shaped charge, a coaxial main shaped charge which is arranged at a distance from the latter, and an arrangement for increasing the axial distance between the preliminary shaped charge and the main shaped charge, which a... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5620332 | Terminal element The present invention relates to a terminal element including electrical contacts in insulation displacement technique in chambers of a receiving part for the strapless connection of conductors. The terminal element defines openings for receiving the elec... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5618117 | Roll paper type recording unit A paper guide printer with simple structure, high positioning accuracy and color print of excellent picture quality. The printer/recording unit includes a platen roller, a roll type recording paper which is pulled and fed on the platen roller and a record... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5618043 | Game based on data base of characters of different geographic regions A game wherein characters are defined to form a data pool. Each character in the data pool is related to and distinguished from the other characters in the data pool by a geographic location data. The data preferably includes actual information such as ge... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5617912 | Process for preparing and using a ceramic shell as a casting mold with reducing properties The present invention pertains to a process for preparing ceramic shells as casting molds, wherein a) a pattern of a part to be cast, which pattern can be melted or dissolved out, is prepared, b) the pattern is dipped into a dip-coating composition of a s... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5613396 | Index-feed machining system An index-feed machining system having such a construction that a plurality of machining units on which a cassette incorporating a plurality of machining means is detachably mounted are disposed at intervals of mp (m being a given positive integer, p being... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5613797 | Anhydrous viscoelastic buffer joint An anhydrous viscoelastic buffer joint including a filling of viscoelastic bituminous material between the floor slab including the joint slit and the upper zone covered by the vehicles. The joint further includes drainage and canalization systems for the... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5611663 | Geared multishaft turbocompressor and geared multishaft radial expander A geared multishaft turbocompressor with impellers arranged in series in terms of flow, which are fastened to two or more pinion shafts, which are arranged in parallel to one another and are driven directly via a central gear or indirectly via pinion shaf... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5611274 | Apparatus for screen printing of viscous materials An apparatus for printing a viscous material onto a surface of a board through the medium of a screen having openings therein. The apparatus includes a viscous material dispenser of the type having a box-like housing in which a chamber for containing the ... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5609816 | Process and device for preparing a molding In a process for preparing a molding from fibers and/or flakes and thermoplastic binder, the material is introduced into a mold, compacted, and bonded by thermal effect. To make it possible to introduce the material rapidly and such that a consistently eq... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5606876 | Device for handling knitted products manufactured on circular stocking knitting machines A process and device for picking up and transferring stockings from a stocking circular knitting machine to a sewing machine for closing the toe of the stockings. The device includes conveying units for taking hold of the stocking at two opposite zones of... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5603969 | Press for the injection moulding of plastic materials with a double-toggle closing unit A press for the moulding of plastic materials (or for die-casting) of the type with a double-toggle closing unit, having an additional mobile plate (20) which is guided on columns (14) and can be moved between the closing plate (11) and the mobile mould-h... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5602827 | Method and apparatus for correcting a defect in a token ring network Beacon recovery is performed separately on each module. After a module recognizes that a beacon condition has occurred, each module checks to determine if the defect or fault is on its module. If the defect is on the respective module, the module disconne... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5601873 | Method for granulating and coating The present invention relates to a granulating and coating technique, and more particularly to a technique wherein powder and granules are contained in a drum rotating about a substantially horizontal axis and the rotary drum is rotated for granulation of... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5601305 | Ball-and-socket joint for chassis parts in motor vehicles A ball-and-socket joint for chassis parts in motor vehicles, in which a joint ball provided on a pivot pin is mounted within a housing in a sliding shell made of plastic, wherein the outer jacket of the sliding shell is tightly enclosed by the inner jacke... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5601078 | Breathing apparatus with a display unit A breathing apparatus with a display unit for the transmission of measured data via a display field of the display unit into the field of vision of a person wearing the unit. The readability of the measured data displayed is improved in daylight with simu... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5601024 | Optical proximity fuse The present invention is directed to an optical proximity fuse for missiles with laser transmitters and optical receivers, whose optically bundled beam paths are oriented in such a way at a small angle to the direction of flight that they intersect in pre... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5602970 | Process for setting the halftone dot sizes for a rotary offset printing machine The present invention pertains to a process for setting the halftone dot sizes for a rotary offset printing machine, in which average set values based on production technical situations are predetermined for the halftone dot sizes of the printing block, t... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5598997 | Rail section for a container of an oxygen supply unit A rail section on a container of an oxygen supply unit for hanging the container into a mount in an aircraft. Hook parts on the end tips of the rail section are provided, which end tips project from the container and engage the mount on a first contact zo... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5598944 | Single hand use food tray The present invention is a food tray wherein a portion of the food tray is molded into a food bowl for holding the food. The food bowl includes a food bowl base, a food bowl wall extending away from the food bowl base, and a food bowl rim positioned on an... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5598045 | Miniature motor A miniature motor comprising a case having a permanent magnet fixedly fitted to the inner circumference thereof, a rotor having an armature iron core and a commutator, and a case cap having power-feeding brushes and input terminals in which a pair of conn... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5595232 | Device for manually operating a blind, preferably a vertical blind A device for the manual operation of a blind, preferably a vertical blind, by way of a pull cord, which is pulled as a loop with a leading end and a return end by a slat carriage movable in a guide with a slat each arranged on them around their longitudin... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5595779 | Eucalyptus tea This invention relates to a Eucalyptus tea prepared by steaming, rumple-twisting and drying Eucalyptus leaves, which contains a large amount of soluble polysaccharides and tannins, and further richly contains inorganic components such as potassium, sodium... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5594824 | Coupling device between a glass fiber and a dielectric waveguide A coupling device between a glass fiber and a dielectric waveguide integrated on a substrate. A low-loss and low-back-scatter, but cost-effective coupling is achieved by that the fiber end being reduced--principally by drawing under heat exposure until br... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5593233 | Radially and axially loadable bush bearing for chassis parts in motor vehicles The present invention pertains to a radially and axially elastic slide bush bearing for chassis parts in motor vehicles with thrust bearings between an inner pipe (1) and an outer bush (2) and with an elastomer body (4) surrounding the outer bush (2). To ... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5594299 | Dispenser cathode with porous sintered compacted metal dispenser body containing chromium oxide A dispenser cathode including a dispenser body formed of a metal matrix and an emission surface formed of emission material impregnated into the dispenser body metal matrix. The metal matrix is a porous sintered metal matrix containing at least one metal ... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5590862 | Device for adjusting the length of a support A device for adjusting the length of a support composed of an outer tube and an inner tube slidably inserted in the outer tube, includes an opening extending radially through the outer tube, a spacer radially movably received in the opening and confronted... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5590442 | Device for producing a nonwoven fabric made of fiber material A device for producing nonwoven fabric with a carding machine 3 and a nonwoven fabric layering apparatus 2. A web storage device 5 with a variable storage volume is arranged between the web producer 3 and the nonwoven fabric layering apparatus 2. The web ... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5589292 | Portable booster battery In a tool for boosting (jump starting) a vehicle, it is know that there is a battery as a power source and booster cables to bring the energy to the engine. In this invention, the battery and the cables are incorporated into one unit which includes the ba... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5588592 | Method and apparatus for detecting the onset of flooding of an ultrasonic atomizer Deleting the onset of flooding of a surface of an ultrasonic atomizer having an ultrasonic transducer with liquid to be atomized, in particular liquid fuel in connection with heaters, wherein the natural resonance frequency of the vibrating ultrasonic tra... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5587327 | Process for preparing a heterojunction bipolar transistor A process for preparing a bipolar transistor for very high frequencies is described, which is especially advantageous for the preparation of heterobipolar transistors and leads to components with low parasitic capacities and low base lead resistance. The ... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5586840 | Apparatus for digging soil foundation and method for constructing underground wall by using the apparatus The digging bits system contains left, right and central cylindrical digging bits and left and right plate digging bits being installed between the cylindrical digging bits, respectively. To the cylindrical digging bits, percussion force and turning force... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5586721 | Dual-circuit vehicle heater The invention relates to a vehicle heater with two circuits. One circuit leads from the vehicle's engine via a heating device and a heat exchanger back to the engine. The other circuit leads from the heating device via the heat exchanger back to the heati... | 12/24/1996 |
