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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4843925 | Nail holding hammer attachment A nail holding attachment for a hammer including a generally flat, relatively rigid back plate, a generally flat resiliently flexible holding sheet overlying the back plate, opposite side edge portions of the back plate being folded over into clamping eng... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4787735 | Night vision system and method A night vision system in which a lamp radiating toward the pupil of a user has its intensity controlled in response to the sensing of other illumination directed toward the user's pupil, so that pupil size is reduced in the anticipation of an increase in ... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4785143 | Safety edge for a door A safety door edge switch including a flexible sheath, an internal resiliently compressible foam formation in the sheath and providing fluid communication therealong, a relatively rigid transverse structure at one region in the sheath and containing a pre... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4774944 | Holder for an endotracheal tube The invention is concerned with an endotracheal tube holder formed of a generally rigid flat bar having a lateral cut-out leaving a reduced flexible neck connecting the remaining bar portions together for relative swinging about an axis through the neck g... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4773144 | Method of manufacture of scroll compressors and expanders The disclosure concerns a method of manufacturing scroll expander and a scroll compressor including winding together strips of different width so that the wider strip forms a scroll or spiral and the narrower strip partially occupies the inter-convolution... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4757611 | Coin roll cutter A coin roll cutter comprising a body to be clasped in a user's hand, an arcuate member adjacent to and normally spaced from the body and having one end connected to the body for swinging movement of the arcuate member toward and away from the body, and a ... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4706440 | Method and apparatus for packaging expansile articles A method and apparatus for packaging radially expansile articles by passing a succession of such articles in generally coaxially aligned engaging relation with each other through a tubular guide which retains the articles against expansion, sequentially d... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4677949 | Scroll type fluid displacement apparatus A scroll type fluid displacement apparatus wherein a pair of cooperating fluid compression scrolls discharge compressed air to a pair of cooperating fluid expansion scrolls which contain combustion of expanding fluid to drive the apparatus, the scrolls ha... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4660856 | Information folder construction A folder wherein a strip of paper is folded upon itself about a transverse crease line to form elongate overlying leaves of different lengths, the strip being wound with the longer leaf outward to form a spiral of numerous ovaloid convolutions each having... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4661049 | Metering pump A metering pump including adjacent valve and pump chambers, the valve chamber having inlet and outlet connections and a valve plug angularly shiftable in the valve chamber to communicate said connections with opposite sides of the plug upon angular shifti... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4661990 | Hooded type bag seal A bag having side edges meeting at a corner, a slide fastener along one side edge, a hood conformably covering the bag corner and mounted to the bag for movement into and out of its corner covering relation, the hood having an opening for exteriorly passi... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4661664 | High sensitivity mat switch A mat switch of high sensitivity including outer sheets which may be relatively stiff for wear resistance, an intermediate open work spacer sheet, conductive sheets interposed between the outer sheets on opposite sides of the spacer sheet for contacting o... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4660874 | Gusset type slide fastener seal A seal for use with a container having a flexible gusset sheet or the like including a pair of slide fastener runner tapes, releasably interengageable grippers on the tapes, a slider moveable along the tapes toward one end thereof for interengaging the gr... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4646966 | Personalized air conditioning An air conditioning system in a building space having side walls and a hollow horizontal partition or wall which provides a plenum for preconditioned air at substantially atmospheric pressure, a hollow column extending from the horizontal partition for re... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4633070 | Informational device adapted to convert binary to decimal numerals A stack of sheets, each sheet from the next to lowermost upwardly corresponding to a successive binary place, the lowermost sheet carrying array of decimal numerals, a pivot connecting the sheets for relative rotation, and a window in each sheet above the... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4620072 | Hollow non-occluding pressure sensor A pressure change sensor includes a flexible hollow body to receive pressure changes, an inner body in said flexible hollow body, the inner body being of a size less than and a shape different from the hollow of said hollow body to prevent total occlusion... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4606710 | Peristaltic pump A peristaltic pump including an outer casing rotatably receiving a cage carrying rollers for planetary movement, the rollers extending radially outwardly and inwardly beyond the cage, a flexible tube interposed between the casing and rollers for peristalt... | 08/19/1986 |
| 4601075 | Emergency stretcher A stretcher including an elongate pocket of flexible sheet material adapted to removably receive and retain an elongate stiffener of a width up to that of the pocket, an elongate torso girding part extending transversely across and secured to the pocket a... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4598739 | Strip-wound hose For joining together the turns of strip-wound hose and edges of the strip forming the turns are overlapped and folded connection band is placed along such folds. The connection band is then squeezed forming a fold neck in which the edges of the strip or s... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4595321 | Plug cutter A woodworking tool for cutting plugs including a generally cylindrical, hollow bit having its working end open and of a wall thickness tapering from the working end, the wall having a through opening on one side spaced from the working end and a longitudi... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4593912 | Quoit throwing game A quoit throwing game including three posts impaled at each end of a quoit pitching area or range; the posts being arrayed in a row longitudinally of the range with the intermediate post highest, so that the intermediate post most easily receives thereove... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4584889 | Drive mechanism for occupant propelled vehicle and the like A drive mechanism for bicycles and other devices, comprising a rotary crank shaft having radial crank arms, oscillatory guides or ways spaced from the axis of the crank shaft, crossheads shiftable in the guides, and connecting rods connected between respe... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4584179 | Apparatus for treating cement kiln dust A cement kiln dust treating apparatus including a reaction chamber for receiving kiln dust, nozzles in an upper region of the reaction chamber for atomizing and discharging spray to the kiln dust, mixing blades for mixing the dust in contact with the spra... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583763 | Information folder construction An information folder wherein a strip of paper or like sheet material is subdivided by a plurality of generally equally spaced parallel scores into a plurality of generally rectangular panels having informative indicia marked thereon, and folds are provid... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4580437 | Press construction A press wherein a pair of press members are connected together by a generally parallel linkage and a hydraulic or other fluid pressure mechanism is connected between the press members to forcibly move the latter together for forming a workpiece therebetwe... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4572267 | Venetian blind with selective tilt limiting A venetian blind which may have a conventional head rail, tilt rod, ladder tapes and slats, wherein a framework is mounted in the head rail and rotatably passes the tilt rod, an arm extends generally radially from the tilt rod for rotation with the latter... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4565376 | Animal simulating three dimensional archery target and method of manufacture An archery target wherein transversely gathered thermoplastic film is wrapped into the shape of an animal to be simulated, the wrapped shape is covered with thermoplastic sheeting heat sealed to the wrapped film, and the shape is filled with additional tr... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4556095 | Arcuate blind A venetian blind including end rails and slats all extending in parallelism with each other and lying in a cylindrical or arcuate surface, and a stay extending through the slats and between the end rails to maintain the venetian blind in its arcuate confi... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4548420 | Reciprocating and oscillating drive mechanism A manual drive for a bicycle, or other usage, wherein a rotary crank is connected in driving relation with a bicycle wheel or other driven device, and a slotted block or yoke rides on a guide or pin by manual actuation, a connecting rod being connected be... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4545379 | Body cooling device A device for cooling the human body including a console having its interior communicating with a source of cooled and otherwise conditioned air, a seat adjacent to the console for supporting a user in sitting position with legs astride the console, the co... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4538375 | Animal trap for ground moles and the like An elongate hollow body of frusto conical tubular formation having a plurality of internal prongs resiliently projecting obliquely into the hollow of the body obliquely away from the larger body end, and a closure on the smaller body end, the body being c... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4536147 | Food processing apparatus A food processing apparatus having an extrudate outlet nozzle, an extrudate receiver, the nozzle and receiver being movable to discharge extrudate in a preselected two dimensional line configuration on the receiver, and a programmable controller for contr... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4530240 | Method and apparatus for diagnosing machine condition For use in predicting machine failure a transducer sensor, such as piezoelectric crystal, is applied to a machine for sensing machine motion and structure borne sound, including vibration friction, and shock waves. The structure borne sound and motion sen... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4527923 | Looseleaf binder for computer paper A looseleaf ring binder for computer paper having perforate longitudinal margins, the binder rings and paper perforations being arranged for passage of the rings selectively through perforations of opposite margins, or perforations of the same margin.... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4520907 | Mechanical-emergency system between vehicle service brake foot pedal and parking brake An emergency brake system for a vehicle, the system including an actuator rotatable upon operation of the service brake, a follower rotatable coaxially with the actuator and normally maintained out of the path of actuator movement, and a sensor sensing ma... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4520896 | Foldable ladder A ladder including a lower step section and a strut pivotally connected together at their upper ends for swinging movement between a collapsed position toward each other and a downwardly divergent erected position, an upper step section pivoted to the upp... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4518102 | Metering device for fluids A metering device wherein a cylinder is provided with opposite end closures, a piston is shiftable in the cylinder between the end closures, a conduit extends centrally within the cylinder into a valve plug angularly shiftable within the cylinder and loca... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4512483 | Model train coupler A model train coupler for a truck having a pocket with an upright pivot pin, the coupler including a stem inserted endwise into the pocket and swingable on the pin, a laterally opening hook extending outwardly from the stem, an actuator depending from the... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4507831 | Spring clip for tilter worm shaft A spring clip shaft connection wherein a shaft includes a transverse hole spaced inwardly from one end of the shaft, a generally U-shaped body having a leg formed with longitudinally extending proximate and distal leg portions laterally offset from each o... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4508274 | Adjustable flow coolant nozzle A coolant nozzle of adjustably variable width stream for a grinding wheel or the like, the nozzle including a hollow housing extending laterally across the working face of the grinding wheel having a coolant inlet in an upper region and a coolant outlet e... | 04/02/1985 |
