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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8099815 | Gymnasium floor covering storage and cleaning rack The present invention relates to a floor covering storage and dispensing rack including a frame equipped with extendable members having castors. Floor lock anchors are also provided on the frame. Upper frame members of the rack support rollers in spaced relation and... | 01/24/2012 |
| 7496983 | Gymnasium floor covering storage and cleaning roller The present invention relates to a floor covering storage and dispensing rack including a frame equipped with castors. Floor lock anchors are also provided on the frame. Upper frame members of the rack are in spaced parallel relation and support a roller. A motor is... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7448110 | Fire hose retrieval winch The fire hose retrieval winch includes an elongated, rigid hose processing channel having a generally C-shaped cross section and open inlet and outlet ends, with the open side forming a lateral hose insertion and removal slot. An electrically powered drive roller dr... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7240068 | Service logic execution environment (SLEE) that is running on a device, supporting a plurality of services and that is compliant with a telecommunications computing standard for SLEES The present invention relates to the field of software-based services in communication networks. More particularly, it includes systems and methods for maintaining and utilizing routing data to handle event notifications generated by call handling in a service logic... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7114211 | Cleaning brush for sanitary appliance A cleaning brush including a housing including a reservoir for storing therein cleaning fluid, the reservoir in fluid communication with a pump, a hollow spindle rotatably mounted in the housing, connected to and powered by a motor, the hollow spindle being in fluid... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7087121 | Device and method for cleaning a surface of a member for storing and transporting goods A method and device for removing sawdust from a deck surface (24) of a wooden pallet (10) is provided. The device comprises a rotary brush (124) having a working length (WL) defined by a plurality of bristles (130). The working length (WL... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7040331 | High pressure tube cleaning apparatus An assembly for rotating and axially directing a high pressure spray hose and spray head to clean residue from the bores of thermal transfer tubes. The assembly includes a number of subassemblies that are concentrically aligned and mounted to rotate in synchrony and... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039637 | System and method for evaluating characters in an inputted search string against a character table bank comprising a predetermined number of columns that correspond to a plurality of pre-determined candidate character sets in order to provide enhanced full text search An evaluator system accepts input textual messages in unknown languages and assesses which character sets, corresponding to languages, matches that message. Textual messages whose individual characters are encoded in 16 bit Unicode or other universal format are pars... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6950819 | Simplified LDAP access control language system A simplified LDAP access language system provides user-defined attributes that tell the directory system who the user wants to give read or write access to a specific set of his attributes. The read and write attributes are separate lists and may, in fact, differ, t... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6832404 | Cleaning machine for shirt collar A collar cleaning system for dress shirts comprising a slide plate, a guiding plate, a pressured soap-water spraying subsystem and a rotating brush is presented. The shirt collar is loaded onto the sliding plate and moved under the rotating brush while being sprayed... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6310637 | Method of printing test pattern and printing apparatus for the same In a printer that allows dual-way printing, a test pattern is formed to adjust the print timing with a high accuracy, or more concretely to eliminate a deviation of dots created in the course of a main scan in a backward direction from dots created in the... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6018842 | Glass washing machine A glass washing machine for washing and drying glass workpieces incorporates a variety of noise reduction features. These noise reduction features include the use of tight-fitting, sound-reducing panels, a separate blower in a substantially enclosed space... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5881419 | Hose cleaner and holder A hose cleaner comprises a resilient portion supported by a support portion and having an opening extending therethrough. A dirty hose having a size larger than the opening is inserted through the opening and pulled therethrough. The opening of the resili... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5647084 | Apparatus for cleaning exterior or hoses, pipes, etc. A device having walls encloses a space. The walls provide an inlet aperture in opposition to an outlet aperture for admitting and withdrawing items, such as garden apparatus and tools, which are to be cleaned in the device. The interior space provides bru... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5590435 | Floor covering storage rack with cleaning device The present invention relates to a floor covering storage and dispensing rack including a frame equipped with castors. Upper frame members of the rack support rollers in parallel spaced relation, and a crank or motor is provided to rotate the rollers to w... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5395281 | Method and apparatus for treating fabric The invention discloses a working method for giving a localized worn-out aspect to articles of clothing made of denim materials, which consists in treating the article of clothing (6, 70) fitted on a supporting manikin (2, 3) by means of the abrasive acti... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5384933 | Pants cleaning and sterilizing apparatus A pants cleaning and sterilizing apparatus, which includes a housing for receiving the user's leg, two rotary brushes turned in reversed directions by a motor drive to remove dust from the bottom of the pants upon the insertion of the user's foot, a steri... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5259560 | Apparatus for cleaning fibrous mats Apparatus for cleaning chicken droppings from one or more mats used as nesting material in chicken nests in a chicken house. The invention includes a housing having a plurality of rollers therein for conveying a mat and pulverizing the chicken droppings a... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5253383 | Scratch surface remover A mechanical device for scraping cover material from underlying information on cards such as lottery tickets. The device uses a power driven wire brush and includes a collector for the material scraped from the cards.... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5040259 | Fire hose washing apparatus Disclosed is a fire hose washing apparatus which comprises: a casing; a fire hose washing portion having rotary brushes and provided in the casing and along a path for feeding a fire hose; nozzles for supplying washing water to the washing portion; and fi... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5013367 | Rug cleaning apparatus A rug cleaning apparatus comprises a housing having a front wall, a back wall, a top, and a pair of opposite end walls. An opening is formed in the top for allowing insertion of a rug into the apparatus, and a driven roller brush is mounted in the apparat... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4931063 | Process for the pretreatment of soiled fabrics Heavily soiled fabrics are pretreated before the actual washing process by applying a paste containing a mixture of a nonionic surfactant, at least one nitrogen containing compound selected from certain quaternary ammonium compounds, fatty amine ethoxylat... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4503577 | Pipe and hose decontamination apparatus A pipe and hose decontamination apparatus is disclosed using freshly filtered high pressure Freon solvent in an integrated closed loop to remove radioactive particles or other contaminants from items having a long cylindrical geometry such as hoses, pipes... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4502175 | Portable fire hose cleaning apparatus A manually portable fire hose cleaning apparatus adapted for conventional connection to a fire hydrant. A frame consisting of an upper and lower platform having an open front portion supports at least two sets of opposing pairs of vertically disposed brus... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4348781 | Hose cleaning plant A hose cleaning plant comprises an elongated horizontal receptacle (10) in which a number of hoses (16) may be placed side by side in extended positions, washing equipment (13) provided at one end of the receptacle (10), and a transport device (18) which ... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4293970 | Belt cleaning apparatus Disclosed is a cleaning apparatus for continuous, abrasive belts of essentially any dimension, which apparatus has a base having elongated belt supporting mandrel means mounted thereon, and belt drive roll means rotatably mounted on the base and having it... | 10/13/1981 |
| 4280672 | Compact fire hose washer and winder A fire hose washer and winder having two reels on opposite sides of a frame. On one side, a hose path is defined along hose guides from one end of the machine to a reel and on the other side of the machine a similar hose path over hose guides is establish... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4280244 | Dirt collecting floor mat apparatus A floor mat apparatus comprises a length of synthetic plastic material having a high plasticizer content, and therefore having a tacky surface to collect dirt and bacteria, trained about rollers one of which is driven by a motor to bring fresh portions of... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4226641 | Mat or rug cleaning process using roller brush A rug or mat cleaning system is disclosed which is comprised of first a dry lint and dust removing section, then a water or like liquid containing vessel having an initial wash section and then a rinse section and then finally a wringer section. A mat to ... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4206526 | Hose washing machine A hose washing machine is provided including a frame and a pair of brushes supported by the frame in opposed relationship and for receiving a hose therebetween. Each of the brushes has a planar brush face engageable with the hose, and the brushes are supp... | 06/10/1980 |
| 4195875 | Portable entranceway carpet for a recreational vehicle A portable entranceway carpet for a recreational vehicle comprises a carpet for the entranceway or doorway of a recreational vehicle and a storage container for the carpet mounted at a convenient location on the exterior of the vehicle, such that the carp... | 04/01/1980 |
| 4151625 | Hose brushing machine An apparatus for brushing hose, having a cleaning head with a plurality of circumferentially spaced brushes adjustable about the pass line of a hose that is guided through the cleaning head. The brushes are rotated while the hose is moved linearly through... | 05/01/1979 |
| 4104755 | Vehicle floor mat washer The disclosed mat washer includes a stand with a slot in the top for admission of a floor mat held by an operator who applies a spray of cleaning fluid to the mat from nozzles inside the unit controlled by a foot pedal. The clean mat can be pulled off the... | 08/08/1978 |
