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Patent No. 6293874

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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Attorney: Ross; Martha L.


Number of patents: 18
Last date: December 23, 1986

NumberTitleIssue Date
4630556Method for burning coal-liquid slurry fuels and apparatus therefor
Process for preventing clogging of an atomizing device, which is used to feed a fluid coal-liquid slurry fuel into a combustion chamber in the form of a particulate spray, by continuously passing all of the slurry fuel through a comminuting means position...
12/23/1986
4504277Coal-water fuel slurries and process for making same
Coal-water fuel slurries having long-term storage stability and improved viscosities and comprising finely-divided coal within efficient combustion size range, water, and minor amounts of ammonium salt organic dispersant and alkaline earth metal salt orga...
03/12/1985
4498906Coal-water fuel slurries and process for making
Coal-water fuel slurries having long-term storage stability and improved viscosities and comprising finely-divided coal within efficient combustion size range, water, and minor amounts of alkali metal salts of organic dispersants and alkaline earth metal ...
02/12/1985
4465495Process for making coal-water fuel slurries and product thereof
A process for making fluid, stable slurries of finely divided coal in water and products thereof, which can be sufficiently highly loaded to serve as a fuel....
08/14/1984
4318760Solid propellant containing diferrocenyl ketone
A solid propellant composition comprising an organic polymer fuel binder, an inorganic perchlorate oxidizer salt, and 1,1"-carbonyl-bis-ferrocene which functions as a stable solid combustion modifier....
03/09/1982
4214875Coated coal piles
Coal pile coating compositions comprising a wax or wax and organic polymer binder and a major proportion of solid particulate organic filler. A process for coating the exposed surface(s) of coal piles with coating compositions comprising an organic binder...
07/29/1980
4170984Solar energy heat collector
A gravity-flow, sheet-flow solar heat collector wherein the heat-absorbent medium is a dark fluid having a minimum viscosity of about 10 centipoise at 120° F....
10/16/1979
4144152Dehalogenation of halogenated compounds
Process for degrading halogenated organic compound having C-halogen groups to remove halogen atoms from said compound by treating it with ultraviolet (UV) radiation and hydrogen. Process for degrading such compound by treating it in aqueous alkaline solut...
03/13/1979
4030830Process and apparatus for sensing defects on a smooth surface
Method and apparatus for sensing the effective magnitude and/or number and/or position of individual depression and/or protrusion defects on a high-precision smooth surface of an article which may have said defects randomly distributed and relatively spat...
06/21/1977
4029844Rocket nozzle comprising pyrolytic graphite-silicon carbide inserts
A method for making said rigid pyrolytic graphite article comprising winding a continuous, individual, refractory filament or strand around a shaped form and simultaneously pyrolyzing a mixture of methyl trichlorosilane and a hydrocarbon gas onto the fila...
06/14/1977
3986909Boron-fuel-rich propellant compositions
Fuel-rich propellant compositions, for use in air-augmented rocket propulsion, containing a high-energy fuel component in the form of finely-divided boron, wherein the boron is present in large excess of the amount oxidizable during combustion of the prop...
10/19/1976
3957883Process for oxidizing organic compounds to peroxides
Process for producing oxygenated organic compound comprising continuously flowing into and admixing in a reaction chamber at least two separate streams comprising reactive fluorine in the form of fluorine or a fluorine compound readily decomposable into f...
05/18/1976
3953128Process and apparatus for filament or slit size monitoring
Method and apparatus for determining the width of an elongated element, such as a filament or slit which comprise producing a moving interference fringe zone by converging two beams of coherent light of the same intensity but slightly different frequency;...
04/27/1976
3946555Process for simulating turbojet engine plumes
A process for simulating the infrared radiation in wave length and intensity and the spatially extended characteristics of the plumes of turbojet engines comprising burning fuel-rich solid gas generator compositions, comprising an organic binder, an oxidi...
03/30/1976
3933543Propellant compositions containing a staple metal fuel
A gas-generating composition comprising an oxidizer, a non-metal, preferably organic, fuel component, and a metal fuel staple component of a particular size....
01/20/1976
3930732Device and process for testing a lens system
Device and process for testing the optical transfer function of a lens system which comprise employing as the object or target the laterally moving-fringe pattern produced by convergence of two monochromatic coherent-radiation beams of equal size and inte...
01/06/1976
3930733Process and apparatus for monitoring angular orientation
Process and apparatus for sensing the angular orientation of a line or slit element, which comprise producing a laterally moving interference fringe zone wherein the fringe period is substantially wider than the element or the positive difference between ...
01/06/1976
3930734Process and apparatus for sensing magnitude and direction of lateral displacement
Process and apparatus therefor for sensing the magnitude and direction of lateral displacement of at least one line or slit element of an article which comprises producing two coherent light beams of the same intensity, one of the beams having a different...
01/06/1976
 
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