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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5918309 | Blunt force resistant structure for a protective garment A protective garment of multi-component construction for covering and protecting vital portions of a body of a wearer. The protective garment has a layer of body armor material which has at least one of ballistic resistant and puncture resistant capabilit... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5840128 | Water service line cleaning device and method An apparatus for removing an obstruction within a pressurized fluid service pipeline which includes a flexible rod; a module for connecting to the service pipeline in which the module defines a channel and a first opening in which the first opening commun... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5829898 | Printing assembly with discrete load enhancement apparatus and method A printing assembly (10) having a printer (30) and a single sheet transport mechanism (22) for automatically transporting discrete sheets seriatim from within a tray held in a tray receptacle (32) to the printer and a discrete sheet load enhancement appar... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5825109 | Vehicular oil cooled alternator with stator coil terminal assembly terminal assembly kit and method In an oil cooled alternator (10) having a plurality of commonly connected, relatively inflexible stator coils (14) with distal ends (16) for providing electrical output power from the alternator (10), the improvement being a terminal assembly (18) for mak... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5820281 | Printer with discrete sheet load enhancement apparatus and method A single sheet printer (21) is adapted to receive continuous carrier forms for printing by a burster module (16) for separating continuous printable stock (24) into separate bursted sheets which are fed to the printer transport mechanism (12) in lieu of t... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5814752 | Musical instrument crossover circuits and method of using same A musical instrument amplifier system (FIGS. 1 and 2) with a frequency selective crossover circuit (10) using passive band pass filters (36, 44) to separate the amplified signals from the power amplifier (14) of an amplifier system (12) into low frequency... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5797140 | Ballistic resistant garment assembly and method of using the same A ballistic resistant garment carrying assembly having a foldable ballistic panel movable from a nondeployed position from a pouch to a deployed position in which the panel extends from the pouch. The pouch being mountable to the body of a wearer. The fol... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5763850 | Welding process with upright noncoaxial orbital transverse motion contact with electric resistance heating An improved welding process in which two metallic pieces are each composed of weld compatible parent metal, one metallic piece has one surface and the other metallic piece has another surface each having prominences positioned thereon and an oxide of pare... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5695151 | Printing press assembly with powered paper roll loader A printing press assembly (10) with a powered paper roll loader (22) having a triangular frame made of a pair of spaced upright triangular frame sections (28) supporting a pair of load chains (36A, 36B) to raise and lower a pair of load hooks (32) and ass... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5636916 | Boat safety lighting apparatus and method of using same This invention provides an improved boat lighting system which includes a mounting bracket secured to the boat to position a portion of the bracket closer to one of the port and starboard side of the boat and to position the portion at an elevation above ... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5622110 | Printing press with dampening liquid spray control apparatus and method A printing press (10) with a dampener roller (16) and a spray bar assembly (12) for spraying dampening liquid (20) onto the dampener roller is provided with a dampening liquid spray control apparatus (15) including a control member (18) with a diagonal bl... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5611533 | Gripping sleeve apparatus and method of using the same An improved gripping sleeve for enhancing a hand grip of a shank portion of an object, which provides a tube member having interior and exterior wall surfaces in which the interior wall surface is for engaging the shank portion of the object and an abrasi... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5607065 | Shelving storage unit A shelving storage unit (10) for supporting at least one of recorded-media and boxes (12) or the like containing recorded-media having a width (W) of greater dimension than thickness (T) of opposing side edges (14) and opposing ends (16) having an axis (1... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5581903 | Apparatus for heating purge gas and transmitting microwave energy for desiccant regeneration An improved regenerative gas drying system (30) having an adsorbing chamber (36) and a regenerating chamber (46) with both chambers containing desiccant (38) in which the adsorbing chamber (36) receives wet gas (31) for adsorption of moisture by the desic... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5541395 | Card package production system with burster and code reader An embossed card package production system (10) with a printer (48) supplied with a plurality of interconnected card carrier forms (26) for receipt of corresponding cards (30) inserted into the carriers at a card inserting apparatus (24) to form card pack... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5539927 | Hockey garment comprising inner leggings and outerwear shorts attached thereto A unitary hockey garment (10) having an outerwear pair of shorts (12) for wearing about a lower trunk area of a wearer having at least one leg portion (14) for wearing about at least an upper portion of a wearer's leg. The leg portion (14) defines an open... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5531647 | Bowling ball A bowling ball (10) with a weight block assembly including a weight core (28), an annular weight block (22) surrounding the weight core (28) and a top weight block member (23) spaced, at least partly, from the annular weight block (22). In one embodiment ... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5509805 | Radiographically readable information carrier and method of using the same An identification apparatus (10) having a personal information carrier (12) having information carried by a radiopaque configuration (12) which is radiographically discernable with the personal information carrier (10) secured to an external and noninvasi... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5509886 | Card package production system with modular carrier folding apparatus for multiple forms A card package production system (20) for producing card packages (22) with cards (26) mounted to bifold carrier forms (24) with a pair of parallel, spaced, preweakened fold lines (33) and (34) dividing the body (32) of the carrier forms into leading end ... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5494544 | Automatic verified embossed card package production methods Methods of operating embossed card package production system (10) by verifying by reading and comparing information obtained by reading embossed (32) and magnetically encoded information (35) and coded information (27) on a carrier (26A, 26B) stored card ... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5489053 | Gun securement assembly and method to use the same A gun securement assembly (10) for holster (12) in which holster (12) has sidewall member (14) in form of a receptacle to hold gun (16) and defines opening (18) at which butt and hammer portion (20) of gun (16) is positioned for access having strap member... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5479659 | Lightweight ballistic resistant garments and method to produce the same A ballistic resistant garment (10) for covering and protecting vital portions of a human body having at least two panels (28, 30) which are adjacent and overlie one another in which each panel comprises at least two layers of ballistic resistant material ... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5476157 | Elevator control system with elevator hoistway operation monitoring system and method An elevator control system (40) for automatically controlling the operation of an elevator car (22A) having a car door (24A) in which the elevator moves between different floor levels of an elevator shaft (30A) in which each floor level has associated hoi... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5456444 | Concrete form wall assemblies and methods A wall form assembly (10, 10", 10'") has a pair of form wall assemblies (12A, 12B) which are kept in preselected spaced parallel relationship by means of cross members (16) fitted within end slots (36) and interlocked by means of pins (38) with elongate b... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5435008 | Athletic hand glove with collapsible glove pocket assembly and method An athletic hand glove 20 having a thumb portion 22 for receipt of a thumb of a user and a finger portion 26 for receipt of a plurality of fingers 28 from a hand 30 of the user, a collapsible glove pocket assembly 32 with a pocket member 34 moveable betwe... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5433364 | Card package production system with burster and carrier verification apparatus An embossed card package production system (10) with a printer (48) supplied with a plurality of interconnected card carrier forms (26) for receipt of corresponding cards (30) inserted into the carriers at a card inserting apparatus (24) to form card pack... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5429665 | Apparatus for introducing microwave energy to desiccant for regenerating the same and method for using the same A gas drying device (30) in which wet gas (31) is introduced into a chamber (36) containing desiccant (38) in which the desiccant (38) adsorbs moisture from the wet gas (31) to dry the wet gas (31) and in which energy is utilized to energize and to remove... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5419589 | Apparatus and method for carrying imprints of body portions An apparatus (10) for carrying imprints of body parts (12) having at least one opening (16) and having a surface area of dye absorbent planar surface (18) in which the surface area (18) is greater than the surface area in the at least one opening (16) of ... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5419768 | Electrical medical vacuum regulator A medical vacuum regulator (10) with a solenoid regulating valve (20) and a comparator (22) for electrically, automatically controlling the solenoid regulating valve (20) to intermittently open and close to achieve a preselected regulated vacuum (v) which... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5403234 | Radon gas evaluation system and method An apparatus for removing gas from above a floor slab of the interior living space of a structure to below the floor slab. The apparatus includes providing an opening which communicates from the top of the floor slab which communicates through the floor s... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5388815 | Embossed card package production system with modular inserters for multiple forms A card package production system (10) with interchangeable inserters (24A, 24B) and carrier folders (86A, 86B) to enable use of forms (26A, 26B) of different types verifies the carriers (30) if they are properly produced and rejects them if they are not p... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5377768 | Tool for driving a tubular stake A tool is presented which includes a shaft portion for insertion into a tubular stake; a head portion for receiving and conveying an applied impact; and a flaring portion intermediate the shaft portion and the head portion for contacting the upper edge of... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5356251 | Collapsible void filling apparatus A collapsible void filling apparatus (10) with at least one multiple elongate hollow rectilinear member (14, 16, 74 80) arranged in side by side relationship to form a body (21) for insertion into a void (24) between stacks of cargo (12) in a freight vehi... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5331885 | Semiautomatic beverage maker and method A semiautomatic beverage maker (10) with a valve actuator or handle (12) for manually moving a valve (14) from a stop, closed position to a brew, open position through means of a mechanical linkage (20, 32, 36). The dispenser valve is held in the open pos... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5305705 | Collapsible road marker and method A traffic marker body defined by a conical spiral arm (16) mounted for collapse into a flat core held in matching recess (22) in a base (12) by means of an automatic locking mechanism including a latch member (24) with friction reducing rollers (34, 36) t... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5291378 | Fiber optically lighted food dispenser valve handle assembly A fiber optically lighted food dispenser valve handle assembly (10) with at least one fiber optic filament (12) with an elongate body extending between a pair of opposite ends (14, 16) means for illuminating (18) including a light source (26) with one of ... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5288268 | Radon gas evacuation system and method An apparatus for removing gas from above a floor slab of the interior living space of a structure to the juncture of the floor slab and a foundation wall, down along the foundation wall to and over a footing to below the floor slab. The apparatus includes... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5232247 | Writing assistance assembly for disabled people A writing assistance assembly for use by disabled people comprising a planar base with a smooth writing surface. A smooth adhesive layer overlies the smooth writing surface for holding writing paper sheets against lateral sliding movement across the smoot... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5228307 | Multitemperature responsive coolant coil fan control and method A cooling system (10) with a control temperature sensor (24) for sensing the temperature of a coolant coil (14) for control of a coolant coil fan (18) in cooperation with ambient temperature sensed by a thermostat (30) to obtain optimum utilization of res... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5217029 | Therapeutic glove An elongate body extending between opposite ends for wrapping around hand of a person in which one of the opposite ends is resiliently releasably clamped to a wrist of a person. The glove also secures the two opposite ends together at the wrist of a perso... | 06/08/1993 |
