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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4478671 | Roller-type liquid-adhesive applicator A liquid-adhesive applicator has a hollow cylindrical reservoir formed of a somewhat flexible plastic material and closed at each end by rigid plastic end caps. A stiff but bendable rod axially rotatably supports the reservoir, and is bent to form the sha... | 10/23/1984 |
| 4426057 | Combined shelf-supporting bracket and clothes-rod support A combined shelf-support and easily detachable support for a clothes-hanger rod comprises a pair of angle-bar sections. The vertically depending wall-anchorable web of each angle-bar has a pair of struck-out tongues. A pair of flexible woven strips have t... | 01/17/1984 |
| 4425711 | Double-ended doubly-concaved baby spoon A metal or plastic spoon for babies has, at each end of a generally flat handle, a generally flat head having oppositely facing food-holding concavities. The handle margins and the rims of the heads are safely rounded to avoid sharp edges that could injur... | 01/17/1984 |
| 4405604 | Veterinarian salve A veterinarian salve has an oil base (lard, petrolatum, castor oil), kerosene and flowers of sulfur, and it has sufficient creolin to tastewise discourage dogs from licking-off an application of the salve. The salve is especially effective for treating cu... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4400889 | Quick-clamp gauge for monitoring pipe bending A dial-type clinometer is fixed to a vise-type pliers-like clamp to position its indicator for swinging in a vertical plane which is substantially perpendicular to the pivot of, and which substantially symmetrically bisects, the clamp. At least one of the... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4395174 | Self-penetrating fastener for fastening roofing panels to metal beams A fastener for anchoring a sheet-metal roofing panel to the top horizontal web of a roof-supporting sheet-metal beam, comprises a headed shank having an enlarged tip end constructed to penetrate said roofing panel and the underlying web of the panel's sup... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4394031 | Easily mountable swingable-arm draw-pin retainer To prevent personal injury and property damage by accidental displacement of a hitch tow-pin, an easily mountable unit has an arm horizontally swingable to and from a position above the upper end of the conventional tow-pin of a clevis-type hitch. The piv... | 07/19/1983 |
| 4389035 | Hanger-type ceiling-attachable support having self-dispensing cement A hanger-type ceiling-attachable support has a shallow pan engageable against a ceiling surface. A bellows or a piston-in-cylinder type of reservoir for liquid cement underlies the pan, and when it is compressed upwardly by a post depending from the reser... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4388939 | Land-use portable knock-down hunting-blind frame An on-land-type portable knock-down duck-blind comprises a frame formed of a plurality of arch-shaped metal or plastic tubes adapted to support a removable water-proof fabric cover. The tubes are held in parallelism by short spacing tubes, and are interco... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4385474 | Thermally and sonically insulating and weatherproofing cover for mobile homes A thermally and sonically insulating and weatherproofing cover for the roofs of mobile homes or like buildings comprises preformed or molded-in-situ slabs of expanded polystyrene bonded to the original roof surface, and a Neoprene-impregnated-fabric lamin... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4378926 | Article-hanger and illusion-amusement device For amusement, and for utility as an article hanger, a molded plastic body simulates the head end of a full-size railroad-rail-anchoring spike. The head end of a relatively small screw is embedded in the molded body to extend therefrom for perpendicular i... | 04/05/1983 |
| 4367397 | Electric work-in-circuit metal-bonding tongs An electric work-in-circuit tool has a pair of fiber-reinforced plastic arms connected in tong fashion and limitedly opened by a spring. The free end of each arm has an integral flange apertured to receive bolts for assembling with, and attaching to the a... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4365802 | Deformation-preventing swingable mount for basketball goals The mounting bracket for the ring of a basketball goal is yieldably swingably movable downwardly, or both downwardly and laterally, responsively to application of potentially deforming or damaging forces. Strong magnets or equivalent structure firmly hold... | 12/28/1982 |
| 4360216 | Universally-positionable bilaterally-symmetrical three-cylinder-operated hitch A hitch element is fixed to the end of the piston rod of a horizontally disposed double-acting hydraulic cylinder. The closed end of the cylinder is swivelly connected to the bight portion of a horizontally disposed rearwardly open A-shaped frame underlyi... | 11/23/1982 |
| 4359240 | Device for small cylindrical and for penetratable objects Paired adjustably closable arcuate jaws are relatively swingably mounted on an end of a stiff shaft of waist-height length (e.g. thirty to forty inches). The jaws are of a size, and are spring-biased, for gripping and lifting cans, bottles, ears of corn a... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4341920 | Camouflaged busbar-carrying cover for a wall-incased junction-box A wall-recessed electrical-outlet box is employed as a wiring junction-box, especially for burglar-alarm systems, and is camouflagingly concealed by a cover plate the face of which simulates an electrical device commonly found in such a location. The rear... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4339900 | Sky-light structure having a flexible-tube shaft Instead of enclosing the space between a sky-light dome and a ceiling window by the usual custom-built box or shaft, the space is easily, economically and effectively enclosed by a section of large-diameter flexible tubing stretched between the dome and t... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4337663 | Device for testing the suction strength of an upright vacuum sweeper An elongated thin flat hard-plastic plate has a face sized to overlie and seal the rug nozzle of an energized inverted upright vacuum sweeper for testing and demonstrating the suction strength of the sweeper. The sheet is desirably provided (1) with depen... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337003 | Lockable or free-wheeling device insertable between a driven vehicle-wheel and its axle connector A device provides free-wheeling four-wheel towing of an automotive vehicle without damage to its (especially automatic) transmission. It is easily insertable co-axially between the power-driven wheel-mounting structure and the removed and replaced wheel. ... | 06/29/1982 |
| 4329984 | Endotracheal-tube stabilizer To stabilize the inserted position of an endotracheal tube and to protect it against bite-damage, a bite-block of relatively rigid tough plastic has integrally connected front-edge flanges for overlying the upper and the lower lips of a patient for attach... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4308828 | Add-on heavy-duty valve-closing device for high-performance racing engines To greatly increase the size and thus the strength and life of the valve-closing spring of a high-performance (e.g. automobile-racing) engine, a rocker arm is employed to couple the much larger remotely located spring to the valve stem, from which was rem... | 01/05/1982 |
| 4306604 | Traction-increasing attachment for disk-type vehicle-wheels A traction-increasing attachment for driven vehicle-wheels has at least one L-shaped rigid member for extending diametrically over the face of a disk-type wheel and has a cleat-like extension extending transversely over the tire tread of the wheel. A quic... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4306336 | Immobilizing and head-gripping tool for holding fish or animals for scaling or skinning A pliers-like head-gripping tool for immobilizing and holding fish for skinning or scaling, or animals for skinning, has a flat-faced mouth-insertable lower jaw and an upper jaw provided with a skull-penetrating sharp-tipped conical point depending from a... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4301406 | Microwave warning device A device for warning a person carrying or wearing it of the presence of dangerous microwave radiation is fully powered by the radiations being detected. A very low-wattage gas-discharge lamp is energized by a broadly or a sharply tuned receiver circuit in... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4299522 | Tractor-mountable front and rear bale-impaling hay-carriers A commercially available farm tractor having a rear-mounted upwardly swingable power lift, is provided with a pair of hay-bale-penetrating tines rigidly parallelly connected at their base ends by a member that is easily and quickly detachably mountable on... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4298143 | Time-controlled device for preventing pouring of stale coffee from flasks A somewhat resilient stopper seals the throat of a conventional glass coffee-maker flask and is provided with a pouring passage. The passage is valved by a horizontally swingable blade spring-biased toward its passage-closing position but movable to its p... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4291823 | Track-mounted pull-down luggage-carrier for automobiles A track-mounted trunk-type luggage-carrier body is longitudinally movable from its transporting position on the top of a station wagon (or van, panel-truck or like vehicle) to its loading position when pulled-down at the back of the vehicle. The tracks ar... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4282506 | Device for sensing overheating of bearings A device for sensing overheating of bearings comprises a high-heat-conductivity metallic (copper) sheet adapted for shape-conforming fixed face-contact with an exposed surface of a bearing assemblage. A flat-bottomed brass cup is fixed to the upper surfac... | 08/04/1981 |
| 4280337 | Low-side oil-separation and re-use system for ammonia-refrigeration apparatus A conventional ammonia refrigeration system is modified by adding thereto an automatic oil-separation and re-use system, which comprises a gravity-type separation tank installed between the bottom of a surge drum and the compressor and an intermittently o... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4271611 | Tractor-mounted laterally undercutting transplant digging machine A commercially available four-wheel-drive loader has a conventional "quick-attachment" front plate liftable by operator-controllable hydraulic-cylinder means; and it has the transplant digging machine easily detachably mounted on said front plate for move... | 06/09/1981 |
| 4268812 | Miniature device for sensing overheating of bearings A miniature device for sensing overheating of bearings has a small flat-bottomed circular cup (e.g. fifteen millimeters in diameter) and has an integrally connected co-axial heat-conducting rod extending downwardly from its lower surface for good heat-exc... | 05/19/1981 |
| 4255845 | Process for repairing small leaks in metallic vessels Porosity or other types of small leaks in metallic vessels designed to hold fluids under pressure or partial vacuum are repaired by: (1) sealing the chamber of the vessel, (2) introducing (preferably inert) gas at high pressure into the chamber, (3) immer... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4255665 | Wearable device for monitoring momentary presence of intense X-ray and/or ultra-violet radiations A credit-card-size clear-plastic-encased device which can be worn or carried by a person to warn him of the momentary presence of dangerous intensitives of ultra-violet and/or X-ray radiations. A base lamina (e.g. of cardboard) is coated with a material (... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4249578 | Length-adjustable stiffener for fiberboard ducts Two telescopically mated tubes carry on their opposite ends laterally extending flanges for engaging the inner faces of opposite panels of rectangular fiberboard ducts to brace them against sagging and/or buldging caused by air-pressure-difference and/or ... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4248358 | Quality-preserving hot-food dispenser A coin-controlled dispenser for heated cans of food or beverage has separate heat-insulated chutes for holding cans of different commodities. Each chute is divided by a heat-barrier into an upper unheated storage section and a lower can-heating section. C... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4245545 | Blind-end connector for fastening sheet metal to fiber-board ducts A toggle-bolt-like blind-end connector fastens sheet-metal panels to fiber-board ducts by passing through pre-bored holes in the metal panel and punching its own hole in the fiber-board by a sharply pointed conical head mounted on a barbed-ring shaft. An ... | 01/20/1981 |
| 4221020 | Low-visibility lazy-tongs mechanism for conventional traverse rods for even folding and unfolding of drapery A lazy-tongs device is formed of length-adjustably snap-connected colorless transparent or translucent plastic elements sufficiently small so as not to interfere with the folding of the drapes and so as to be substantially concealed behind the traverse ro... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4215963 | Self-loading hay-bale-carrying trailer A two-wheeled trailer has a V-shaped hay-bale-holding cradle pivoted about an axis closely above and parallel to the wheel axle. In its bale-loading position, parallel arms of the cradle extend rearwardly from the trailer and close to the ground for slidi... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4208124 | Apparatus for making color slides from black-and-white art using regular and color film rolls A platform-shaped device is designed to be placed over the illuminating aperture of a color-controllable light-box of known construction, and under a camera which is loaded with a roll of color film of slide-forming size and character, and which is focuse... | 06/17/1980 |
| 4206942 | Cargo-protecting drag-reducing adjustable wind-deflector for vehicles A light-weight cargo-protecting and air-flow-drag-reducing wind-deflector is made quickly and easily attachable to the roofs of automobiles or truck cabs by suction cups and conventional gutter-anchorable straps. The wind-deflector is formed of a curved f... | 06/10/1980 |
