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User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks
An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7036578 | Tubing guide and coiled tubing injector A coiled tubing injector assembly includes a coiled tubing injector and a tubing guide. The tubing guide has an automatic clamping mechanism that includes a pair of clamping slips. The clamping slip will automatically move from an open position in which coiled tubin... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6213369 | Material feeding apparatus A material feeding apparatus has gripper apparatuses which perform clamping and unclamping operations of a material by means of a stationary gripper and a movable gripper, and a sliding block which can support the first gripper apparatus and oscillate in ... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6179191 | Wire advancing apparatus and method An apparatus for advancing one or more lengths of wire in consistent successive increments includes a pair of cooperating gripper members. A first gripper and a second gripper are provided for advancing the length of wire, and are slideably located within... | 01/30/2001 |
| 5975395 | Feeding apparatus A cover-tape feeding apparatus for feeding a peeled portion of a cover tape of a carrier tape which includes an accommodating tape having, at a predetermined pocket pitch, pockets accommodating electric components, respectively, and the cover tape attache... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5379941 | Electromagnetic feed device for variable forward motion of solder wire or welding wire in a soldering iron or welding gun A feed device for a soldering iron possesses a coil through which current flows, located in the soldering iron itself, and an armature that is displaceably driven in the central bore of the coil. This armature cooperates with a clamping device connected t... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5123273 | Hog ring clamping device The present invention relates to a hog ring clamping device such as a C ring clamping device. In the hog ring clamping device of the invention, a knock pin is mounted to a movable member of a jaw driving unit, a pivotable member is mounted to a hog ring c... | 06/23/1992 |
| 4819850 | Material feeding apparatus A material feeding apparatus for intermittently feeding a sheet or rod material in a predetermined length has a first gripper device having a first fixed gripper and a first movable gripper for cooperation with each other in clamping and unclamping a mate... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4792074 | Arrangement and the stepwise advance of band material with two oppositely driven feed rollers An arrangement for the stepwise feed of band material which includes a first, locally fixed and driven feed roller and a second feed roller rotatably supported on a rocker; a lifting mechanism is provided, by which the second feed roller is movable at the... | 12/20/1988 |
| 4773775 | Tape-ribbon cartridge A tape-ribbon supply cartridge for supplying tape and ribbon to a lettering apparatus having a mechanism for creating a lettering force and a mechanism for positioning a character to be lettered into lettering position. The cartridge includes an improved ... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4700530 | Method and device for placing edge protecting means at pressure-sensitive edges on objects A method and a device for placing edge protecting means (7) at objects in connection with band strapping. The inventive method is distinguished in that blanks for edge protecting means (7) are fed as a continuous band (7a) which when advanced is prelimina... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4693297 | Installation for the step by step vertical extraction of a continuous cast product The present invention relates to an installation for the step by step extraction from an ingot-mould of an elongated solid product (1) obtained by continuous bottom casting, shaping, calibration and solidification in a suitable chamber (2), the installati... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4621748 | Thermoplastic block shape, feeding mechanism and manufacturing method A block of solid thermoplastic material comprising alternating sections of circular and rectangular cross section, a device for melting and dispensing thermoplastic material having a thumb operated drive assembly for driving the block into the device, and... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4557617 | Tape supply cartridge A tape supply cartridge for supplying tape and ribbon to a lettering apparatus having a mechanism for creating a lettering force and a mechanism for positioning a character to be lettered into lettering position. The cartridge includes an improved device ... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4552294 | Gripping feeder for strip or wire stock This invention relates to a gripping feeder for an intermittent feeding of strip or wire stock in presses, stamping machines or similar machines. It is an object of the invention to provide such gripping feeder which permits a change of the stroke length ... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4549347 | Contact insertion and wire lay robotic end effector apparatus Contact insertion and wire lay apparatus for manufacture of wire harnesses which provides for insertion of a contact affixed to the trailing end of a wire segment after wire lay. The invention provides for gripping a wire segment while the segment is caus... | 10/29/1985 |
| 4523705 | Mechanism for glue gun A mechanism is described which employs a safety element for preventing the application of excessive force to a linkage. In several embodiments the safety device comprises a spring which allows relative movement between a trigger and the linkage. The safet... | 06/18/1985 |
| 4489873 | Intermittent feed mechanism A mechanism, for intermittently feeding a tape-like article along a longitudinal path, comprises a slide having a first clamping jaw and reciprocably movable parallel to the longitudinal path, and a second clamping jaw carried by the slide and movable rel... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4465216 | Thermoplastic rod advance mechanism In a rod cement feeding apparatus, the rod passes between two plates, pivoted to one another, each plate having a semi-cylindrical groove, so that the two grooves for a substantially cylindrical passageway for the rod. The surfaces of the plates in which ... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4399842 | Wire-laying tool A wire-laying tool has a central passageway terminating in a probe which can be retracted relative to a stem against the force of a spring by means of a piston movable in a chamber. A spring-loaded pawl is actuated by another piston movable in a chamber. ... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4336947 | Workpiece feed devices A feed device in the form of a feed finger for advancing a workpiece bar through a collet. The feed finger comprises a gripping sleeve with an internal bore in which the workpiece can be frictionally gripped. The sleeve is split into several segments each... | 06/29/1982 |
| 4306477 | Ticket dispenser The ticket dispenser includes lower and upper overlying support plates which define a ticket material passageway therebetween. A reel support is mounted on one end and cutting apparatus are mounted on the other end of the support plates. A feed slot is fo... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4284252 | Cartridge for strip chart recorders and method of using same A cartridge for supplying a record medium to a strip chart recorder and method of using the same therewith. A pivoting member of the cartridge is engaged with a support member of the mechanism; the cartridge is pivoted about the support member into an ope... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4199096 | Solder device having cartridge feed of solder An improved soldering device is provided, one that is structured for the reception of and use with a new cartridge that is a self-contained supply of solder. When the cartridge is inserted within the soldering device, an operator, using only one hand, is ... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4165829 | Method of feeding electrode wire and apparatus for performing same The disclosed method consists in that the electrode wire has the portion thereof intermediate the supply coil and the welding arc alternatingly retained at one of two points, with an effort applied to the wire in the respective retaining point, causing tr... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4157777 | Apparatus for advancing an elongate element For the purpose of advancing a rod, wire or the like, particularly a welding filler wire from a magazine to a welding site, the apparatus of the invention comprises at least two tappets, reciprocated by a rotary swash plate, the tappets being arranged wit... | 06/12/1979 |
| 4151771 | Stock feed for light gauge, soft tempered metal This relates to the handling of thin soft temper material during the feeding thereof and in formation of such material into individual components in a punch press. Most particularly, a pull tab formed of a plastics material-aluminum foil laminate is being... | 05/01/1979 |
| 4139135 | Continuous casting withdrawal apparatus The withdrawal apparatus comprises a housing through which a cast ingot passes, said housing being mounted for reciprocating movement and for travelling in the direction along which the cast ingot is withdrawn and then back to its initial position. Mounte... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4090643 | Hot melt applicator A hot melt applicator of the type in which a preformed rod of thermoplastic composition is pressed against a heated body which transforms the composition in contact therewith into a molten state and in which pressure applied upon the pre-formed rod forces... | 05/23/1978 |
| 4059213 | Clutchless paper advance mechanism The paper advance mechanism disclosed herein comprises two essentially identical paper-engaging devices, one fixed, one driven, which cooperate to incrementally advance the paper in a hand-held printing calculator. Each device includes a tapered cavity en... | 11/22/1977 |
| 4059212 | Stock feeder for punched stock A stock feeder particularly adopted for feeding narrow, prepunched strip, and featuring a positive locator/stock holder assembly. The stock feeder positively pilots and feeds the stock with more force, and is more compact and less expensive to build, than... | 11/22/1977 |
| 4019362 | Terminal crimping machine A machine for attaching terminals to electrical conductors is disclosed wherein the bed and ram of an applicator are relatively movable together and apart and each carries a cooperating one of a pair of crimping dies to crimp a terminal onto a conductor w... | 04/26/1977 |
