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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6581765 | Hanger display package A hanger supports the weight of merchandise on a merchandise support arm. The hanger proceeds through an opening in a sleeve into a cavity where the merchandise is supported by a merchandise support arm. The hanger arm includes a fixture attachment, such ... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6558539 | Slurry fill method and valve A chromatography column has valve and method for filling it with a slurry of media, the valve utilizing a piston to compact the slurry in the column. The piston moves through a cavity in communication with both a slurry inlet and slurry ports which are in... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6553575 | Golf glove with golf ball marker A golf glove including a tab which spans a slit on a back portion of the glove has a removable ball marker connected to the tab. A top surface of a ball marker is substantially flush with a ridge on the tab. A rubber insert having a hole therein receives ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6519776 | Golf ball marker for use with golf glove A golf ball marker for use with a golf glove including a tab which spans a slit on a back portion of the glove. A top surface of a ball marker is substantially flush with a ridge on the tab. A rubber insert having a hole therein receives a back surface of... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6513254 | Gutta percha cone gauge A gauge for use in measuring, or evaluating, conical root canal gutta percha inserts has a body and a plurality of measuring locations. The measuring locations include a chute having first and second ends bounded by first and second walls and a floor. The... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6462651 | Gear indicator A gear indicator provides a display to a motorcycle driver of which gear the motorcycle is currently operating in. The gear indicator is used with a gear position switch providing ground signal indication to a motorcycle CPU at a connection with a plurali... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6446566 | Yarn feed for assembly for a tufting machine A tufting machine has a yarn feed roller assembly with a plurality of rotatable driver rollers driven at different speeds and a plurality of actuators in the form of a pivotable arm having in one embodiment a pair of yarn feed reels one of which is arrang... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6428313 | Side shot burner A burner having an elongated cylindrical body closed at one end with a plurality of ports spaced apart in two rows along the upper segment of the body, said ports formed by punching. The ports have an upper edge and a lower edge wherein the lower edge is ... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6428432 | Lighted ball toy A ball toy has an inner spherical shell within an outer spherical shell, a light source being mounted within the inner shell adjacent to a first end of a plurality of etched optical fibers having the other ends arrayed between the inner and outer shells. ... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6364340 | Wheel lifting method and apparatus A truck trailer having a pair of tandem spaced apart rear axles and a suspension system for supporting the axles from the chassis of the trailer having a pivot member intermediate the axles about which the axles may pivot relatively to one another, the ax... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6339995 | Needle for a tufting machine A needle, which may be one of a plurality of needles in a needle module, has a rod attached to the shank adjacent the yarn guide groove or to the blade in the guide groove and extending laterally or transverse to the axis of the needle committing yarn to ... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6283052 | Tufting machine with needle bar motor A tufting machine has a reciprocating needle bar which may be shifted laterally by a drive which includes at least one linear motor. Each linear motor has two major elements which may be coupled together electromagnetically. One of the elements is connect... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6263811 | Tufting machine for overtufting patterns A tufting machine with a pair of closely spaced apart needle bars which reciprocate together but the needles carried by one bar may be controlled selectively to be either in a position to form pile or be retracted to a position where they do not form pile... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6260493 | Two pile height mending gun A hand-held mending gun for tufting stitches into a backing material has a hollow needle reciprocally driven axially to form stitches in a backing material. A drive mechanism couples a rotary motor to a needle carrier for reciprocation along the axis of t... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6213036 | Tufting machine yarn feed pattern control A tufting machine has a yarn feed pattern assembly including a housing having a mounting plate for mounting a multiplicity of yarn feed rollers from the exterior of said mounting plate and a multiplicity of servo motors connected to said mounting plate on... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6196353 | Ladder leveling accessory A ladder leveling accessory which may be attached to the legs of a ladder has a configuration which forms an apex remote from leg attachment arms positioned and carries an elongated peg which extends downwardly away from the arms at an angle to the plane ... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6192814 | Cut pile tufting machine cutting elements The hooks of a cut pile tufting machine have a cam or chamfer surface in the form of an inclined ramp in the shank of the hook adjacent the throat extending to the cutting edge, the hooks being positioned in a hook module with a dual or compound angle rel... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6190560 | Slurry fill method and valve A chromatography column has valve and method for filling it with a slurry of media, the valve utilizing a piston to compact the slurry in the column. The piston moves through a cavity in communication with both a slurry inlet and slurry ports which are in... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6185922 | Air entanglement yarn splicer A hand-held pneumatic yarn splicing device has a splicing chamber into which a pair of yarn ends to be spliced together may be placed, the chamber having at least one air inlet extending into the chamber for directing air from a high pressure source exter... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6155187 | Tufting of level cut pile and loop pile in the same row of stitching A multi-cylinder module has a common block within which the cylinders are formed and having a piston disposed within each cylinder and an output rod connected to each piston. Pressurized air acts on the piston against the bias of a corresponding spring to... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6152055 | Tufting machine needle A tufting needle construction in which the mounting shank is offset from the axis of the blade and the yarn guide groove which extends to the eye and point portion of the needle. The yarn guide groove extends from a yarn entry mouth spaced from the shank ... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6138667 | Direct vent fireplace construction A gas fueled direct vent fireplace has a firebox within an outer casing, the firebox having a mounting plate above the floor of the casing for mounting burner support brackets, a pilot light assembly, a gas valve and control assembly, and other convention... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6139726 | Treated water dispensing system A water treatment tank for use with water purification apparatus including an ultra-violet lamp within a bulb onto which incoming water is directed to provide a 360 degree thin laminar flow about the bulb so that all of the incoming water receives the ult... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6112681 | Tufting machine having a push rod seal system A tufting machine has a head, including a plurality of push rods reciprocably driven through push rod seals having a housing connected to the head of the tufting machine. The push rod seals include a driver connected to and moveable relative to the housin... | 09/05/2000 |
| 5974991 | Controlled needle tofting machine An individually controlled needle tufting machine has a reciprocable latch bar for latching and unlatching selective needle holders, each needle holder being guided between a pair of guide plates and carrying a respective needle so that each needle select... | 11/02/1999 |