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Pillow with retractable umbrella
A pillow assembly having a supporting assembly and a retractable umbrella assembly that is easily transportable and allows a user to support his/her head while covering their face from sunlight.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5326349 | Artificial larynx An artificial larynx consists of (1) a first unit mounted in the mouth comprising a dental prosthesis, including a loud speaker, a power amplifier, a self-contained power source, plus a radio frequency receiver, and (2) a second unit held in the hand equi... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5324378 | Transfer sheet assembly for wrap around design and method for making and using A two-step press type transfer operation is made practical by a particular rendering of pictorializations for use upon the transfer sheets. A pictorialization should have a major portion of some object in the center of the pictorialization or a portion of... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5318155 | Disk brake for textiles A disk brake for textile yarns is mounted upon a horizontal brake support for a warp creel with the disk axis disposed perpendicularly to the brake support. The upper disk can be adjustably loaded for adjusting the braking force. The entire adjustable ran... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5316521 | Textured oil-free bowling lane surface An oiless surface for a bowling lane is formed from a high density polyolefin and particularly a high-density polyethylene having a reduced friction surface with alternating high and low points. The high points contact a bowling ball passing over or resti... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5277785 | Method and apparatus for depositing hard chrome coatings by brush plating Thick layers of hard dense chromium coatings are formed on metal substrates by an electrolytic brush plating operation in which a lead-tin electrode having a porous polypropylene felt topped by an polypropylene molded brush element is maintained during co... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5257462 | Apparatus for measuring the length of filamentous textile material Apparatus for measuring the length of textile material wound onto a lap beam and in particular, onto a dyeing beam, having (a) a pressure roll bearing upon the beam lap and mechanically connected with a displacement detecting transducer that emits measure... | 11/02/1993 |
| 5241790 | Kick-proof doorjamb reinforcing means and assembly A reinforcing plate for reinforcing a doorjamb to prevent break-ins and particularly kick-ins of the door by unauthorized persons is mounted in back of the doorjamb in the space between the jamb and the door frame. In order to install the reinforcing plat... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5242453 | Device for puckering the flesh to facilitate injections A self-injection facilitating device is made in the form of two arm portions having body contacting jaws at one end and manipulating handles at the other. The jaws are biased toward each other by a spring and have a sharp taper at the inner sides opposed ... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5236067 | Treading device for wheels An anti-skid mechanism for vehicles interposes a series of blades or fins between the wheels and the road surface. The fins are mounted upon a sprocket chain or endless belt which rotates about a pair of sprocket wheels with straight section of the sprock... | 08/17/1993 |
| 5211322 | Security sheath for knives A thermoplastic molded sheath for a knife grips the knife tightly to prevent accidental loss or withdrawal. The security of such grip is sufficient to enable the knife to be carried in the sheath in an inverted position upon the body of the wearer. The sh... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5205669 | Rotary trowel for troweling polymer/aggregate toppings on substrates A fluid driven adjustable speed rotary trowel for troweling a resin/aggregate topping over a substrate weighs not more than 40 pounds nor less than 20 pounds. The attack angle of the troweling blades is adjustable either manually or continuously and autom... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5198113 | Septic system filtering arrangement, filter material and method of using A filtering arrangement is provided for effluent from a septic tank prior to passage to a drain field or other disposal. The filtering arrangement makes use of an open-top, U-shaped filter means into which the septic effluent is conducted from the top, pr... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5192145 | Cross coupling for bars A cross coupling arrangement for two bars disposed at right angles to one another and provided with undercut longitudinal grooves, having a screw bearing a head and disposed parallel to the symmetry axis of a longitudinally running bar in an undercut long... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5183009 | Mechanized animal litter apparatus and method of operating An apparatus and method are provided for partially automating the placement of litter bags in animal litter pans. The apparatus uses two pivoted arms over the tops of which the upper portion of a litter bag may be folded when the arms are extended upwardl... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5147306 | Device for puckering the flesh to facilitate injections A self-injection facilitating device is made in the form of two arm portions having body contacting jaws at one end and manipulating handles at the other. The jaws are biased toward each other by a spring and have a sharp taper at the inner sides opposed ... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5070569 | Brush cleaner for sprocket chains An adjustable brush for cleaning sprocket chains, particularly on motorcycles, has a three-sided adjustable rectangular cleaning channel, one wall of which is adjustable manually during use inwardly and outwardly to change the width of the cleaning channe... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5058520 | Apparatus for influencing the position of a boat in water An apparatus for influencing the position of a boat in water, with trim flaps disposed on either side of the longitudinal axis of the boat, the flap angles of said trim flaps always being adjustable by a drive with a control device, which acts upon all th... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5042724 | Fluorescent tube crusher with particulate separation and recovery A digesting system for disposal and separation of the component materials, including potentially toxic materials, from used fluorescent tubes, wherein the fluorescent tubes are fractured with a rotating fracture blade while passing stripping air through t... | 08/27/1991 |
| 5040742 | Equipment for the start-up control of bobbin creels A device for the start-up control of bobbin creels for warp beams or warping reels, the winding heads of which, disposed in rows and columns, each have associated with them a yarn monitor, which causes the yarn to be deflected by a stop-motion sensor, and... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5035439 | Method and means for providing rear steerability in a trailer assembly A tractor trailer or other truck or vehicle is equipped with an auxiliary rear steering arrangement in which one or both sets of dual wheels are equipped for vertical movement and/or a pivoted turning movement plus locking at various angles of turning. In... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5015274 | High efficiency industrial vacuum cleaner and filter element A vacuum cleaner uses a special self-cleaning filter arrangement including an initial fabric filter having a relatively large mesh size with a broad open mesh ratio of 5 to 11 flat filter threads 0.025 to 0.045 inches in width defining oblong filter openi... | 05/14/1991 |
| 4949528 | Method and means for reclamation and recycling A recycling bag assembly is formed from a series of plastic bags similar to trash or garbage bags temporarily secured together by heat tacking or otherwise. The individual bags are usually color coded to facilitate identification of the solid waste materi... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4949385 | Apparatus and method for making precipitation audible A series of substantially horizontally disposed and extended chimes are mounted upon a bracket and positioned to interrupt the fall of rain adjacent a building. The impact of rain or other precipitation upon the chimes gives forth a pleasing sound which i... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4882072 | Method and apparatus for treating bodies of water A method of treating bodies of water such as lakes to correct chemical, biological or other imbalances in the aquatic environment by accurately dispensing a treatment agent into the water in an amount based upon the volume of water being passed over and c... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4877524 | Apparatus for treating bodies of water An apparatus for treating bodies of water such as lakes to correct chemical, biological or other imbalances in the aquatic environment by accurately dispensing a treatment agent into the water is an amount based upon the volume of water being passed over ... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4860650 | Method for attaining longitudinal registry of rolls in printing presses A method of and apparatus for rough registration of printing rolls, or plate cylinders, is provided which makes use of a strip gage, preferably formed from a plastic material, and a pointer or indicator to indicate positions on the plate cylinders at each... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4838907 | High efficiency industrial vacuum cleaner A vacuum cleaner uses a special self-cleaning filter arrangement including an initial fabric filter having a relatively large mesh size with a broad open mesh ratio of 5 to 15% and a total opening area of 5 to 45 times the cross section of the inlet, whic... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4834913 | Apparatus and method for forming finely divided dry materials from wet materials having a tendency to form lumps A series of preferably superimposed low inclination troughs containing serial inclined blade rotating mixers and transporters is provided to react dry materials and liquids, and in particular borax with water and acid, in a manner which avoids the formati... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4826540 | Adjustable depth thermocouple system An adjustable mounting system for a thermocouple temperature detection device includes a thermocouple cable and a bushing type fitting having an externally threaded end for engagement with threads within the thermocouple well or orifice and an internal th... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4822388 | Method of operating mineral wool cupolas and using spent electrolytic aluminum pot lining The operation of mineral wool cupolas is improved in several respects and a waste material is efficiently disposed of by using spent pot lining from electrolytic aluminum reduction vessels in the mineral wool cupolas as a partial or complete replacement f... | 04/18/1989 |
