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Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher
A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5303442 | Machine for lasting side portions of shoe uppers A side (or heel seat and side) lasting machine comprises two lasting rollers (232; 232') arranged one at either side of a shoe support (20) by which a shoe is supported bottom up. Each roller (232; 232') has a helical rib arrangement (294) which, when rot... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5296060 | Drying a coating of solvent-based adhesive For drying coatings of solvent-based adhesive applied to shoe bottoms a through-flow drying apparatus is provided which utilises air at ambient temperature for the constant rate period (i.e. the period during which the surface of the coating is "wet"), an... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5296065 | Method of forming workpieces by means of multi-sectional pressing members A forming assembly comprises two presser members (22,24) each having a corrugated surface for receiving a workpiece made up of generally diamond-shaped pockets (10). Each presser member is made up of sections (22a,22b; 24a, 24b) mounted on slide rods (38)... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5246474 | Process for manufacturing a self-supporting filter unit A rigid self-supporting filter unit is produced by placing two portions of fiber fabric in face-to-face contact and stitching them along parallel regions, using two rows of stitches (16), to form pockets into which formers (20) are inserted to shape the p... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5230455 | Self-supporting filter units A filter unit is made of two portions (14) of rigid corrugated material secured together along lands (50,52) extending parallel with the corrugations and, if desired, intermediate them, and also along lands (54) formed along one end of the corrugations, t... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5210897 | Pulling over and toe lasting machines For accurately positioning a shoe upper on its last preliminarily to a pulling over and toe lasting operation, the machine comprises an optical scanning system (20) by which, in cooperation with a central processor unit (22), coordinate axis values can be... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5147919 | Reinforcing material comprising E-polycaprolactone and pulverized fuel ash A reinforcing material comprises an E-polycaprolactone binder in admixture with a filler. Said filler is pulverized fuel ash, and said mixture comprises from 50 to 95% by weight of polycaprolactone, from 5 to 45% by weight of pulverized fuel ash and from ... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5131385 | Orthesis for the human knee An orthesis for the human knee, having two joints which are disposed at the sides of the knee and from which there project arms which embrace the knee-cap and meet in pairs above and below the knee-cap in a centrally disposed tongue in each case, by each ... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5066210 | Apparatus for cooling and granulating extrusions of thermoplastic material Apparatus for cooling and granulating extrusions of thermoplastic issuing from extrusion dies is provided with a pair of mirror image symmetric channels formed of guide plates arranged back to back. The upper ends of the channels are exposed to a cooling ... | 11/19/1991 |
| 4959977 | Machine for and method of performing a roughing operation progressively along marginal portions of a shoe bottom A machine for progressively roughing marginal portions of shoe bottoms comprising a shoe support (18) having toe support means (470) and a heel support arrangement including two sets of clamps (390, 392), one set (392) of which serves also as sensing mean... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4909182 | Adhesive-applying apparatus A nozzle having a flexible blade member with a flat adhesive-receiving surface in combination with a rotary transfer roll and side wall elements forms a reservoir for adhesive "upstream" (in the direction of roll rotation) of the line of contact of a stra... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4876434 | Curing coatings of a moisture-curable composition An apparatus is provided with a chamber (20) into which a plurality of jets of moisture-laden air is directed through apertures (nozzles) 18. Through the chamber lasted shoes S, on the bottoms of which a coating of a moisture-curable adhesive composition ... | 10/24/1989 |
