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Patent No. 5205055

Pneumatic Shoe Lacing Apparatus

This invention provides a pneumatic shoe lacing apparatus for the pneumatic lacing of shoe.

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Attorney: Muckelroy; William L.


Number of patents: 29
Last date: February 09, 2010

NumberTitleIssue Date
7658804Duct brush and duct cleaning system
A duct cleaning apparatus and method for cleaning and maintaining the interior of most types of ducts, including chimneys, air conditioning and heating ducts, dryer ducts, vents, plumbing and rain gutter ducts. The apparatus is made up of a flexible rope (24)...
02/09/2010
7591616Drill bit holder attachment
A detachably mountable hand drill tool bit holder and static tool presenting apparatus holds a plurality of bits for use with a hand drill tool. The apparatus comprises a horizontally oriented oblong oval shaped receptacle with two parallel sides forming an aperture...
09/22/2009
7563756Scented tablet for toilet and method for scenting restroom effluent
A fragrance formulation that uses effervescing agents to emit a fragrance from a non-splashing cone-shaped delivery tablet. The cone shaped tablet provides a short timed release and delivery of fragrance agents after immersion in a toilet bowl. The method of use inc...
07/21/2009
D577324Windshield wiper cover
09/23/2008
7267252Corrugated clothes hanger structure
An improved clothes hanger is biodegradable, disposable, and non-metallic. It is adapted to be usable in a prison, commercial airplane, or other weapons-free environment. The improved clothes hanger is provided by construction entirely of folded corrugated paper wit...
09/11/2007
7153135Method for automatically creating a denture using laser altimetry to create a digital 3-D oral cavity model and using a digital internet connection to a rapid stereolithographic modeling machine
A method is presented for rapidly making and delivering directly to a consumer a full upper and/or lower denture on the basis of contemporaneous digital image information laser scanned from the person's oral cavity after all respective upper and/or lower teeth have ...
12/26/2006
7063307System and structure comprising integrated vehicle lift system
An improved integrated combination of an automobile and jack structures attached to the reinforced lift points on each side of the automobile adjacent its wheel wells is a rigid orthogonally telescoping housing which includes a plurality of jacks, each jack having t...
06/20/2006
D523097Frog hand puppet
06/13/2006
6925964Pet drain and capture device
An apparatus (10) and a device (30) are provided for catching pet hair during the process of bathing a pet in a bathtub (12) or sink-like structure. Typically the apparatus (10) is comprised of a net (18) having a selected mesh siz...
08/09/2005
6854798Bleacher chair and method of vending same
A bleacher chair for use with a bleacher structure having tiers of bleacher seating of a standard width, said bleacher chair comprising a chair portion, two lateral arm members, a forward member, and a rearward member and wherein the chair portion can rest upon a bl...
02/15/2005
6820940Dump cart sustainer
A dump cart sustainer with a wheeled platform is provided for receiving, holding, transporting, and dumping a large heavy drum holding building materials such as concrete. The sustainer is structured to allow easy release, disposal, and replacement of the drum by re...
11/23/2004
D491839Combination artificial Christmas tree and musical speaker
06/22/2004
5050245Cephalic tool for construction of a ceiling
A combination protective head gear and cephalic tool for construction workers is made of a thick cylindrical member having therein a soft cushioning material attached to a thin, relatively hard disk, the cylindrical member being enclosed in a fabric and a...
09/24/1991
5037051Novelty hanger mountable on rear view mirror
An article support mountable on a rear view mirror located in the interior of an automobile which provides means for hanging and displaying a plurality of novelties usually hung from the neck of the rear view mirror....
08/06/1991
4973054Portable backboard and hoop assembly
A portable basketball backboard and hoop assembly attachable to a variety of structures comprising, in combination, a backboard; a hoop fixedly attached to the background; a substantially square tubular frame member selectively attachable to the backboard...
11/27/1990
4973945Magnetically linked theft sensing system
A theft sensing system which provides an output signal and actuation of an alarm upon cut off of its electrical power source. The system includes an oscillator which provides an output signal. The amplitude of the oscillator signal is modulated responsive...
11/27/1990
4960302Shopping cart bonnet
A cover is disclosed for preventing impingement of solar radiation, rain, sleet, snow, and dust upon the contents of a shopping cart and which in addition provides glow-in-the-dark advertising indicia disposed on the cover. The cover comprises a trapeloid...
10/02/1990
4880019Hair coloring implement
An implement to be used in the treatment of human, animal or artificial hair provides an impervious platform for the application of a treating composition, such as a dye or bleach, for example, to a selected portion of the hair while shielding the remaind...
11/14/1989
4832716Ambient facial air cleaner for contact lens insertion
A facial air cleaner adapted to remove airborne particles in the vicinity of a person's face prior to insertion of contact lenses to eliminate the airborne particles from being deposited on the contact lenses during insertion. The cleaner is an enclosed u...
05/23/1989
4566217Bait casting device and method
A device for casting a weighted fishing line that includes a hollow cylindrical member having threaded thereon at one end a conical augered spike and having on the other end a cap which is held onto the cylindrical member by means of a ridge on the cylind...
01/28/1986
4112840Driving device for a print head
A driving device for a print head including printing mechanism actuated at predetermined times for marking characters on a data carrier carried by a print roll, comprising motion converting mechanism comprising a housing including an interior continuous g...
09/12/1978
4110795Method of graphic data redundancy reduction in an optical facsimile system
A method of graphic data redundancy reduction in an optical facsimile system wherein picture elements are optically represented by a grey coded number having N digits where N is at least 5 comprising evaluating at least the first N-2 bit planes to determi...
08/29/1978
4054894Edgeless transistor
An MOS mesa transistor is comprised of a silicon island on an insulating substrate. The silicon island consists entirely of a source region, a drain region, and an I-shaped channel region which separates the source and drain regions. The island has a coat...
10/18/1977
4039887Electron emitter including porous antimony
A reflective type photocathode of a photomultiplier includes a porous antimony layer in overlay relation to a layer of solid antimony along a supporting substrate....
08/02/1977
4038106Four-layer trapatt diode and method for making same
A method for making a four-layer P+PNN+ or N+NPP+ diode, and the diode, wherein the impurity profile about the PN junction is optimally graded for TRAPATT operation throughout the span of the avalanche region by ion implantation of the impurities to a dep...
07/26/1977
4034127Method of forming and treating cadmium selenide photoconductive bodies
A cadmium selenide base layer is vapor deposited on a substrate and thermally treated to achieve a desired photosensitivity, crystallographic structure, and granularity....
07/05/1977
4034399Interconnection means for an array of majority carrier microwave devices
An improved means for interconnecting a semiconductor array to a carrier wherein the array comprises a plurality of MESFET transistors each having a distinct gate pad and a distinct drain pad, the improvement comprising a bilaterally symmetric conductive ...
07/05/1977
4029542Method for sloping the sidewalls of multilayer P+ PN+ junction mesa structures
A method for insuring that the sidewall of a P+ PN+ layered junction mesa semiconductor structure is tapered smoothly from the P layer to the N+ layer of the structure upon formation thereof by immersion of a wafer comprised of the structure in an etchant...
06/14/1977
3951708Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device
A semiconductor device having a pair of laterally spaced multiple-layer metal films, each located in a different vertically-spaced parallel plane on a body of a single crystalline semiconductor material and a channel between the spaced edges of the pair o...
04/20/1976
 
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