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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7966697 | Hinges A hinge has two leaves (11″), (13″) connected by a hinge pin (42″) retained in alternate sleeves (17″), (19″) on the facing edges of the two leaves, with limited axial movement of the hinge leaves relative to one another ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7799102 | Fireplace fuel cartridge for rectangular, self regulating flame patterns In accordance with the present invention a disposable fuel cartridge for use in fireplaces that self regulates the shape, height, width, depth and burn time of the flames produced when the fuel inside the cartridge, such as alcohol gel, is exposed to ambient air and... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7736736 | Masking tape assembly A masking tape assembly has first and second tapes with sticky front faces secured, back-to-back, in overlying relation by a folded hinging tape adhered between them adjacent the first edges so that first edges of the tapes and the fold are aligned. A protective tap... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7633298 | Electrical continuity tester A continuity tester for a lamp, coaxial, plug connector has a receptacle connector with first and second coaxial, annular receptacle contacts at a same axial spacing apart as power and ground contacts of the lamp connector for electrical engagement when plugged ther... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7621847 | Exercise apparatus A doorway mounted body exercise apparatus has upper and lower horizontal bars bridging the doorway and carrying respective pulleys and, a rearwardly protruding weight set supporting arm which can be swung between either lateral side to the rear of the doorway to acc... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7588354 | Recessed lighting fixture having a locking assembly A recessed lighting fixture has a housing sidewall with a lip around a bottom aperture and a vertical T-slot receiving a locking assembly mounting the housing in an opening in a ceiling with the lip around a lower edge of the opening. The locking assembly has a supp... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7494125 | Sliding tile puzzle with tile rotating mechanism A sliding tile puzzle in which a series of rectangular tiles having exposed upper surfaces marked with indicia are packed together in a square planar array for lateral sliding movement in the planar array into a vacant space to change the relative positions of the t... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7431482 | Modular downlight assembly A modular downlight assembly having a channel shaped back housing for mounting in a ceiling cavity and formed with a series of identical apertures receiving, respectively, when mounted in the cavity, selected similar individual downlight modules. Each module has a m... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7360665 | Gift basket assemblies A basket assembly has an open top base container, a strap form handle having attachment clips at opposite ends snap-fitted into apertures on opposite wall portions of the base container adjacent the rim to upstand in bowed condition from the rim; a product/gift disp... | 04/22/2008 |
| D561031 | Bottle | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324166 | Live actor integration in pre-recorded well known video The apparatus inserts a participant realistically into familiar background media to provide similar results to a completely original movie with multi-camera studio production and editing. An automated and simplified studio has multiple cameras and traditional studio... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7318765 | Balloon inflating and illuminating device A balloon illumination and inflation device has a tubular housing assembly comprising a balloon neck attachment at one end, an inflation mouthpiece at an opposite end; an air valve adjacent the mouthpiece, a lamp mount adjacent the one end to direct light into the a... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7316346 | Decorative mailbox cover A seasonally decorative cover for a mailbox has a three dimensional one-piece arched cover body decorated with seasonal symbols and messages and an underside formed with an arcuate recess for snugly receiving the top and opposite sides of the mailbox, so that the co... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7267076 | Ant sculptures An ant sculpture is formed by removing a block of nutritious gel having with a network of ant tunnels from a formicarium container; placing the block in an p.v.c bag that serves as a release liner; and stuffing the bag containing the gel block back into the containe... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7255722 | Gas filter A filtration portion 11 constituting a filter element 3 is composed of a first filtration material 9 wound around the outer periphery of an inner tube 8 and a second filtration material 10 wound tightly around the outer peripheral ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7204109 | Universal portable gas pedal locking device for vehicles A portable, universal, anti-theft device having inner and outer tubular housings mounted together telescopically. Both housings have open front, axial ends and the rear end of the outer housing is closed. Opposite wall portions of inner and outer housings are formed... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7195241 | Combination game device and candy dispenser A combination game device and candy dispenser has a game board defined by an enclosing transparent plastic blister adhered to a support card; a spring powered launcher for candy projectiles; a projectile trap defined by a portion of the blister for receiving launche... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7147536 | Balloon inflating and illuminating device A balloon illumination and inflation device has a tubular housing assembly comprising a balloon neck attachment at one end, an inflation mouthpiece at an opposite end; an air valve adjacent the mouthpiece, a lamp mount adjacent the one end to direct light into the a... | 12/12/2006 |
| D527494 | Formicarium | 08/29/2006 |
| 7066820 | Illusion toy An illusion toy has a housing in which a blade is rotated in one direction too rapidly to be seen through 270 degrees between rest positions on respective opposite sides of an article receiving through hole, providing the illusion that the blade has rotated in an op... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7058969 | Recognition system A first unit collects and stores data (bar codes 12) and reports to a second unit. The first unit keeps and communicates a first unit current record, for storage, of its (random and unpredictable) activities since last connection and a first unit past record ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7021859 | Method for slowing the progress of a vehicle A safety apparatus for stopping vehicles which depart from the side of a track, has a pool of liquid which extends along and to the side of the track. The pool increases in depth with increasing distance from the track up to a predetermined maximum depth. A crash ba... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7018128 | Vehicle arrest apparatus A safety apparatus for stopping vehicles which depart from the side of a track, has a pool of liquid which extends along and to the side of the track. The pool increases in depth with increasing distance from the track up to a predetermined maximum depth. A crash ba... | 03/28/2006 |
| D515527 | Personal electronic communications device | 02/21/2006 |
| 6976678 | Amusement device completing composite image by reflection An amusement device has an image carrying substrate with a corrugated surface with a transverse mirror at a rear end and is marked with first and second sets of strip-like image fragments forming, respectively, first and second composite image components. Image frag... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6971880 | Deformable drawing tablet A deformable drawing tablet in which contiguous longitudinal edge portions of a stack of individual elongate strips which are confined for relative sliding movement to form a drawing surface. A user can shift individual strips longitudinally to deform the drawing su... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6969920 | Low current shape memory alloy devices An SMA device in which an SMA wire actuating element is operated periodically at a low voltage by power derived from a current source current which is too low to heat the wire directly sufficiently for effective actuation. The low current source is connected to a ca... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6964130 | Combination planter and step-light A combination planter and step-light has a portable, open topped receptacle having a base and a plurality of sidewalls upstanding therefrom. The sidewalls are a minor rear end wall and major outer wall forming a corner seating adjacent a corner of a step and an oute... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6962284 | Decorative mailbox cover A seasonally decorative cover for a mailbox has a three dimensional one-piece arched cover body decorated with seasonal symbols and messages and an underside formed with an arcuate recess for snugly receiving the top and opposite sides of the mailbox, so that the co... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6934002 | System for interactive display of a magic show An interactive system for motion picture display of a magic show has a remote information site, such as a television station or internet web site having one of a series of cameras for recording simultaneously different views of a same motion element of a live magic ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6932902 | Hydraulic oil filtration apparatus A hydraulic oil filtration apparatus 40 comprises an actuation control valve V, a pump-pressure oil passage 41, a connection oil passage 43, a tank oil passage 51, a return filter 60, a drain oil passage 53, a drain filter | 08/23/2005 |
| D505787 | Bandolier | 06/07/2005 |
| 6884095 | Adaptor box for mounting fixture to low voltage track An adaptor box for mounting a fixture to a low voltage track having a housing containing contacts with one of their ends formed with female contact portions which are arranged on above the other in the housing to provide a common mating axis in the housing connectio... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6883262 | Locking device for lever action firearms A locking device clamps an abutment on the lever of a lever action firearm to engage the small of the stock preventing the lever being closed into depressing engagement with a pin on the stock which, if depressed, would disengage an internal safety device disconnect... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6876976 | Merchandising magic tricks, mechanical or action/motion puzzles When merchandising magic tricks, a web site has a first information set with a motion picture of expert performance of each trick type and a second information set with graphical instructions for perfecting performance of each trick type. Tricks are supplied in a st... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6802760 | Disk restoration service vending machine Vending apparatus for optical disk restoration has a housing for receiving the disk form a customer; a disk inspection device to determine whether the disk is correctly positioned for polishing and providing a signal indicative of disk position, a disk perforation d... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6792371 | Device and method for calibrating a weighing apparatus A system for calibrating a plurality of weighing installations of the kind having a working configuration of at least one working load cell (14) with a fixed side and a load-bearing sides, a support (16) for the fixed side, and a load (12) opera... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6769805 | Method of using a heater with a fiber optic string in a wellbore A heater cable is deployed in a well bore to elevate the temperature of the wellbore above the temperature of the surrounding fluid and the formation. One or more fiber optic strings are included in or carried by the heater cable which is placed along a desired leng... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6766902 | Premium container on beverage cup A container assembly for three dimensional premium item mounted removably to a beverage cup for handling as a single unit has a clear, plastic cover member, and first and second base members. The first base member is formed with a gift containing well which is close... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6746131 | Sound activated liquid display device A transparent container has two immiscible liquids of different densities, colors and viscosities. A pump with a magnetic coupling injects the denser liquid upwardly into the less dense liquid in response to changes in sound volume or frequency of the vicinity of th... | 06/08/2004 |
