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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4108191 | Fan mesh disrupter An expandable-retractable fan mesh disrupter for camouflaging the shape of he item it is attached to. The disrupter is fabricated of materials and attachments to facilitate rapid emplacement and displacement. In their emplaced expanded condition they confu... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4099533 | Concave-convex structure with spaced fittings for intersecting flexible rods A concave-convex structure is composed of a plurality of pole or rod elements including at least two series of rows of such rods, the rods of each row being substantially parallel to one another. The rows are intersecting, but are uniform in respective or... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4098536 | Weathershield for golf carts A flexible sheet of at least partially transparent, water repellent material is constructed to fit over the roof or canopy and sides of a golf cart for enclosure during inclement weather. An access is provided through the side wall for getting in and out ... | 07/04/1978 |
| 4096669 | Membrane building segment connection A sealed connecting construction for membrane segments covering a building framework of rigid trusses. The side edges of adjoining segments have cables secured thereto and the cables are detachably connected by one or more chain links to clips overlying t... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4097169 | Clamp arrangement and system for sheet material A clamp arrangement particularly for plastic sheets and including a pair of jaw plates having opposed jaws with clamping means for drawing the plates towards each other to cause the jaws to grip a rod around which a portion of a sheet has been wrapped to ... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4093301 | Movable door for a vehicle A truck having a cab and a camper body installed on its horizontal bed includes aligned openings in the rear wall of the truck cab and the forward wall of the camper body in order to permit passengers to pass freely therebetween. The openings are closable... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4092809 | Domed roof structures for easy assembly and dismantling Domed roof structures comprising a frame and covering to provide easily assembled and dismantled enclosures for uses such as swimming pool covers, garages, greenhouses, patio covers, sheds, tents and the like wherein a skeletal framework mounted on the ou... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4093302 | Vehicle cover assembly A camper cover for mounting over the cargo area of a vehicle, for example a truck such as a pick-up truck. The camper cover includes a plurality of frame members adapted for mounting the frame members on a vehicle to form a camper frame over the cargo are... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4092992 | Laminated arch members and method of constructing them Large hollow curved beams and arches are inexpensively produced by curving individual shallow components, such as channels, that are then tiered to form a large laminated member. Smaller beams or arches can be made by tiering the components, curving them ... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4091625 | Method of inhibiting bird-nesting at an airport A method which contemplates the application of a porous, fabric-like cover over bird-nesting areas at airports, to serve as a physical barrier preventing the natural use by the birds of any nominal vegetation which might grow beneath same, so as to effect... | 05/30/1978 |
| 4084597 | Fish house A collapsible fish house that includes a base having a floor, interior walls inclined upwardly and outwardly of the floor, a perimetric top flange joined to the interior walls, exterior walls extending downwardly and outwardly of the top flange, and a hor... | 04/18/1978 |
| 4083601 | Foul weather outdoor chair A pair of support members are pivotally affixed to corresponding frames of a folding chair and are positionable adjacent the corresponding frames in rest position and upright in operative position. Each of a pair of arms is releasably affixed to a corresp... | 04/11/1978 |
| 4065166 | Demountable extension enclosure for motor vehicles A temporary extension enclosure for motor vehicles having enclosed bodies, includes a tent-like sheath erected atop a floorboard which extends horizontally from the doorway of the loading door of such vehicles. The floorboard is arranged to act as an exte... | 12/27/1977 |
| 4063566 | Tent with portable disassemblable modular elements This invention is related to a tent constituted by portable elements adapted to be manually assembled and disassembled, said tent comprising a plurality of modules having substantially identical respective volumes and shapes, each module being constituted... | 12/20/1977 |
| 4051638 | Removable enclosure for a swimming pool or the like An enclosure for a swimming pool or the like comprising a cover and a frame for supporting the cover. The frame has a plurality of longitudinally spaced laterally extending ribs which arch over the area to be enclosed and have their ends secured in the gr... | 10/04/1977 |
| 4041653 | Stress relieved air supported structure A stress relieved air supported structure having a wall portion including a plurality of relatively elongated panel members joined together by seam means and restrained by harness means; anchor means being provided along the base perimeter of the wall por... | 08/16/1977 |
| 4036244 | Vertical arch shelter A vaulted membrane structure that has a series of substantially curved vertical arches that can be arranged in a modular construction to support a flexible membrane that is attached to the arches and tensioned between them in a formed inward depression to... | 07/19/1977 |
| 4034772 | Vaulted membrane shelter A vaulted membrane shelter comprising a multiplicity of vertical arches with curved bights, spaced apart, mounted on a base forming a frame that supports a flexible highly tensioned roof membrane operatively attached to the arches and curved concavely inw... | 07/12/1977 |
| 4028861 | Erection method for a vaulted membrane structure A highly tensioned membrane structure supported by vertical curved arches that are semi-rigid or flexible in that they may sway in high winds. The tensioned membrane has sufficient inward curvature between arches to oppose arch deflection which greatly re... | 06/14/1977 |
| 4029117 | Shelter structure A collapsible, readily erectable shelter structure in the form of a pyramid having a plurality of fabric panels draped over and connected to a plurality of rigid columns. Each column is hinged at its top to a top plate and extends downwardly and outwardly... | 06/14/1977 |
| 4022232 | Inverted cargo hatch tent For protecting cargo in a ship's hold an inverted hatch tent is mounted between a cargo hatch cover and the hatch coaming to thereby define a concave liner below the hatch cover. The inverted hatch tent accoding to the instant invention therefore protects... | 05/10/1977 |
| 4008730 | Aircraft shelter and rigging A lightweight economical and portable structure for small aircraft includes fixed upright tail and wing tip posts and a lightweight generally horizontal boom extending forwardly from the tail post bisecting a line between the two wing tip posts. Cross arm... | 02/22/1977 |
| 3997945 | Apparatus for exerting a compressive force including friction gripping device therefore The illustrated embodiment discloses a compressive force application device, which might be used on a gate to prevent sagging thereof, including a plate having eyelets therein through which the tensioning cord or cable may be threaded so that it adjoins i... | 12/21/1976 |
| 3992053 | Sun shield for automobiles The sun shield comprises a strip of screening material which is stored on a roller within a cylindrical container attached to the automobile. When in use, the material is drawn out of the container through a slit therein, and is pulled over the automobile... | 11/16/1976 |
| 3986519 | External flexed structure with pivotable fitting for an internal membrane A flexible structure is composed of a plurality of pole or rod elements including at least two series of rows of such rods, the rods of each row being substantially parallel to one another. The rows are intersecting, but are uniform in respective orientat... | 10/19/1976 |
| 3973364 | Reinforced sealed joint for membrane segments A sealed joint construction for connecting membrane segments covering a domed framework of rigid trusses. The side edges of adjoining segments are connected to brackets overlying the outer chord of the truss and the segments are tensioned by cables extend... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3968808 | Collapsible self-supporting structure A collapsible, self-supporting structure is disclosed wherein the structure is made up of a network of rod elements pivotally joined at their ends and forming scissors-like pairs in which rod element crossing points are pivotally joined. The network consi... | 07/13/1976 |
| 3965915 | Tent structure A modular tent shelter including basic tent modules having a fully enclosable low profile sleeping area and a sheltered standing area. The sheltered portions of two of the modular units can be interconnected to form a fully enclosable, standing or storage... | 06/29/1976 |
| 3959857 | Quick opening device for a slide fastener A slide fastener installation is disclosed as including conventional slide fastener components such as interlocking elements which are engaged and disengaged by a movable slider element permitting the slide fastener intallation to be actuated between clos... | 06/01/1976 |
| 3957068 | Quick detachable escape fastener The fabric end wall of a camper is fastened to the outer side of a frame member by a fastener detachable from inside the camper, to provide an escape opening in an emergency. The fastener comprises a pair of slotted tubular fastener elements on the outer ... | 05/18/1976 |
| 3953955 | Erection method for a vaulted membrane structure A tent-like structure, hereinafter called a vaulted membrane structure that has a series of curved arches and a panel of flexible covering material attached to and tensioned between each pair of arches. In one embodiment, the arches on each side of an int... | 05/04/1976 |
| 3949962 | Collapsible umbrella concrete form A collapsible and reusable umbrella concrete form for casting a concrete shell roof in the form of a dome, the collapsible umbrella form comprising a central stem or column equipped with a base, a jack abutment plate for vertically adjusting the stem in r... | 04/13/1976 |
| 3936912 | Device and system for tie-down A system and a device for use in that system is provided for maintaining or tying down a flexible sheet material in a desired position. The device comprises a tie-down having two end portions connected by an elongate flexible link such that the end portio... | 02/10/1976 |
| 3930514 | Wind resistant umbrella A conventional umbrella has three hooks mounted upon each of its downwardly extending ribs. The first hook is located at the bottom of the rib. The second hook is located at the connection point of the rib and one of the elongated struts used to open and ... | 01/06/1976 |
