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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 |
| 6591976 | Automatic building material transfer device A novel and advantageous carrier mechanism, primarily useful for raising roofing shingle bundles, automatically by control by the user to lift and carry one or more of the shingle bundles or other items. A frame carries a plurality of co-operating features, in... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6266927 | Fan dome and supportive means Dome-type apparatus formed largely of flexible sheeting, with a fan or blower means inflatable to provide a chamber large enough to accommodate one or more human beings. The apparatus is also provided to be usable by just the fan or blower means without t... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6044513 | Mop apparatus assembly A mop apparatus assembly having receptor teeth, and a handle member screwed into the socket. A sponge pick-up head member is carried by the base member by being gripped by the receptor teeth. Other details are shown and described.... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5984800 | Golf putter head and procedure A novel head for a golf putter. A block body has a sole and at least one side wall extending upwardly, with a supplemental body inlaid onto the block body. One edge of the supplemental body is positioned contiguously adjacent the block body's side wall. T... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5895862 | Manometer A dual-action disconnect valve mechanism for a double column manometer that simultaneously disconnects both tubes of the manometer from external pressure regions or sources, and a fluid displacement reservoir conveniently adjustable for varying the device... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5727621 | Geothermal energy means and procedure A geothermal energy installation and system, in which the field of potable water is utilized by a secondary conduit system to route potable water from an inlet in the user's line coming from the potable water field but upstream of the user's meter, throug... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5651251 | Geothermal energy means and procedure The water in a closed loop geothermal system is caused to flush the system by reverse flow of water in and through the system. This provides a "well-to-well" full reversal of the water flow, thus permitting the factor of a primary receiver well to not onl... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5603491 | Portable workstand module Tubular frame pieces, with generally a welded construction, provide a sturdy support for mounting a heavy duty vise or other heavy-duty tool. Convenient changeability is provided from an erect working condition to a compact condition for transport or stor... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5590794 | Sorting module installation Apparatus and procedure for sorting mail and the like rapidly and accurately. An array of sorting modules each contain a shelf or base and a series of vertical separator panels which divide the shelf area into a plurality of bins into which individual mai... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5524918 | Foot-rest device for a motorcycle or like device A foot-rest device for a motorcycle, the foot-rest having a telescopable assembly of at least two and preferably three cylindrical support bodies, whose telescoping nature provides that they may be easily adjusted to either an extended foot-rest position ... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5511249 | Cap with crown opening A head cap having an opening on its upper central or crown portion of the cap body, the opening being for receiving a "ponytail" hair style, with the walls around the opening providing lateral support to the ponytail. A neat and trim appearance of the pon... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5489855 | Apparatus and process providing controlled probing A probe apparatus especially useful in probing circuit boards used in electronic equipment. Two beam support members of unequal length and in a spaced relationship to a work object having the longer beam between the shorter beam and the work-object, the t... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5480154 | Golf ball including sound-emitting means A golf ball having internal parts which provide sound-emission upon the ball being struck, the sound continuing until the ball is found and the golfer releases the actuation switch, that action also cocking the device for the next golf shot which re-start... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5441128 | Reference bracket means for brake stroke length adjustment gauge A bracket body which is easily affixed to the brake rod and clevis member of conventional brake adjustment apparatus of air-actuated braking mechanism, provides indirect measurement of brake rod travel and adjustment, by the body showing the amount of ang... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5419091 | Positive-lock slab support A locking screw feature provides lockable adjustability for the slab-supporting ledge member which supports the heavy slabs used to form the face-wall of mausoleum crypts. The lockability permits the ledge member to be made to be freely slidable in its re... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5417364 | Ketchup pocket basket A double basket providing separate containers for a primary substance (e.g., French fries) and an associated condiment substance (e.g., catsup in a cup). The secondary basket has a small auxiliary wall supported by the principle basket's wall panel for ju... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5403047 | Door lock apparatus A locking apparatus, particularly desirable for modifying a "push/pull" latch apparatus for a hospital door, by which it may be released from a locked condition by manual effort applied from either side of the door, thus giving an unlocking effect to a do... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5372309 | Airless nozzle using ambient air for improved atomization An improvement in reduction of particle size of painting and coating particles is achieved by providing a tapered channel(s) in the cylindrical wall radially of the spray apparatus' nozzle head, which is a wall adjacent the nozzle outlet slit. Using the "... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5370583 | Thrill ride apparatus A thrill-ride apparatus having as a basic concept the revolving of a rider station, whose support provides that the path of the ride will be along an inclined plane. The rider station is fixed to a support arm; and there is no counterbalance as to the wei... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5320198 | Air brake stroke length adjustment gauge A gauge for indicating the setting and linear stroke movement of a brake rod of a brake assembly. Reference indicators are provided on both the brake-rod's yoke or clevis and on the arm of the brake's slack adjuster member; and the indicators cooperate, b... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5320342 | Basketball shooting training apparatus A basketball shooting training device, of both direct and an indirect training aid nature and benefit; i.e., it is direct in the sense that practice with it is practice for accuracy while being forced to shoot with a recommended shooting technique, and in... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5236237 | Dog feces collection device An open-ended container is carried on the end of a handle; and that connection is by a bail-wire, of a general U-shape, whose ends are rotatably mounted on the container side walls, the bail-wire's central or bight portion of the bail being rotatably conn... | 08/17/1993 |
| 5152398 | Convenience tray A snack tray providing easy one-hand carry by the provision of a special thumb-hole, by which the outer end of the user's thumb provides a support-stability of a fulcrum located generally centrally not only of the upward forces from the user's fingers and... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5148657 | Dog boot A dog boot having as particular portions a foot, ankle and calf, the calf and ankle being large enough to accommodate the dog's paw passing through. The front of the boot calf has a vertical opening, and there is provided a vertical panel, free at the top... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5147375 | Safety finger prick instrument An extremely safe skin-pricker device in the form of an open-ended tubular shell which carries an open-coil actuator spring which when released by a latchable trigger pushes an actuator shaft to move and cause the pricker needle to travel not only to an i... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5112055 | Golf ball including sound emitting means A signal-emitting golf ball, having a chamber formed into its outer surface as a manufacturing step after the ball has been formed into its generally spherical shape. The chamber is of a form providing a reception chamber for the signal-emitting means bei... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5096163 | Wire guide apparatus A guide facilitating the guiding of wire or cable into or out of conduit already attached to the structure being provided with a conduit installation. The guide device, adjustable in several respects, avoids the damage to wire installation as the wire is ... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5069357 | Panel for animal truck ventilation ports Panel members for plugging the ventilation ports of animal-carrying vehicles. Locking tabs on the panel-periphery are sufficiently resiliently flexible as to be easily pushed across the edge of the truck's ventilation port, making installation easy for wi... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5035273 | Vehicle wheel rim device for mounting a first tire casing inwardly of a second tire casing, providing a safety emergency wheel device A vehicle wheel rim device of a type in which a first wheel rim carries a first tire casing, and having a second tire casing inwardly of the first tire casing, characterized by the provision of a second rim inwardly of the first rim, the generally circula... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5022876 | Transmission means Torque-transmitting accommodation of substantial non-alignment of rotational shaft mechanism, particularly for interconnecting a boat motor's output means (generally vertical) and the boat's submerged propeller shaft (generally horizontal). The accommodat... | 06/11/1991 |
| 5020553 | Lipstick applicator A lipstick applicator composed of a sheet of paper having a rounded lower edge, an upper edge to be grasped and pair of side edges extending between the upper and lower edges and wherein a lower zone of the sheet on the opposite main faces is coated with ... | 06/04/1991 |
| 5016673 | Flow selector device A flow selector device whose fluid flow is regulated by the rotational setting of a rotor body in a housing; and although the metering passageways have outlets spaced from the axis of the rotor and its manipulating shank, other passageways are provided in... | 05/21/1991 |
| 5004189 | Reconfigurable airfoil An airfoil having a device for changing the spacing between the airfoil's surface panels, thus to change the aerodynamic property of the airfoil. Considering the airfoil as in the case of the airfoil being a part of an airplane wing, the airfoil carries a... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4989599 | Dual lumen cannula Cannula apparatus for respiration therapy, having a pair of body members, each having a pair of cannulae for providing a cannula nipple outlet for each of a person's nostrils, the two body members respectively delivering gas to each of the person's nostri... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4988338 | Identification accessory device A body member provides a mounting panel for attachment pieces which provide an identification tag for respective ones of a plurality of service tubes or lines, and which, instead of merely identifying the tube by attaching to it, provide the double functi... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4953728 | Tamper proof bottle A tamper-proof bottle for assuring a legal "chain of custody" of its contents. The bottle has adjacent its open end a circumferential series of abutment bodies, each of which co-operates with one of a series of abutment bodies carried on the inner wall of... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4938623 | Locking device A locking bar for blocking relative movement of movable parts of a device, particularly providing anti-theft nature to devices such as wheelchairs which would probably be manipulated to a collapsed condition as an incident to a theft of the device; and an... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4932505 | Roller body for brake shoe actuator cam A roller body for providing a brake shoe actuator, in a heavy-duty air brake assembly in which the braking effect is achieved by the movement of a cam which pushes on a brake shoe by rolling forcefully against the roller body which is revolvably carried b... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4932391 | Grill device A grill device or grill kit, having a base, support post, and a cantilevered support arm, adjustably interconnected for wide accommodation of cooking or grilling situations, outdoors or even indoors in a front-loading stove or fireplace. The support arm, ... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4924904 | Adjustable pressure regulator device A pressure regulator, of a type having a spring whose compressive force is a factor of the differential of pressure achieved as to the outlet pressure in comparison to the inlet pressure, and whose adjustment of spring pressure achieves a variation of the... | 05/15/1990 |
