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Pillow with retractable umbrella
A pillow assembly having a supporting assembly and a retractable umbrella assembly that is easily transportable and allows a user to support his/her head while covering their face from sunlight.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7594640 | Multi-line, multi-function yacht winch A multi-function winch for handling multiple lines of the running rigging of a sailing yacht. The winch incorporates multiple winch drums capable of releasing, retrieving and storing working lines of the yacht. The multiple winch drums are mounted in an axially stac... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7556240 | Rig drawworks A drawworks for a rig is disclosed. This drawworks may be used by any appropriate type of rig, such as a drilling rig or a service/workover rig. The drawworks includes at least one drum (e.g., a main drum, a sand drum), and each such drum may incorporate a number of... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7503548 | Winch device The invention relates to a winch device with a first winch having a first winch drum and a second winch having a second winch drum. There is also a synchronizing device through which a rotation of the first winch drum can be synchronized with the rotation of the sec... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7222374 | Head gear fitting system According to one embodiment of the invention, a fitting system for a helmet is provided. The fitting system includes a belt having supported racks coupled to a belt adjustment device. The belt adjustment device is operable to allow a user to tighten the belt, and re... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7210670 | Drawworks apparatus A drawworks having a main drum spool, a main drum shaft which passes through and is rotatably and concentrically supported by the main drum spool, an auxiliary drum spool, respective drum shafts passing through and rotatably and concentrically supported by the drum ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7028811 | Vehicle lifting platform A lifting platform for vehicles having at least one column, at least one support arm shiftable on the column by vertical guides and having supports. The lifting platform also includes a prime mover having switching and control elements and a transmission disposed be... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6957804 | Blade installation tool An apparatus for lifting and aligning a blade to a support, such as a grader moldboard or a scraper bowl. In one aspect the invention is an apparatus with a frame, flexible hoisting means for holding the blade, a drum to which each flexible hoisting means is attache... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6390242 | Elevator traction sheave liner A tension member for an elevator system has an aspect ratio of greater than one, where aspect ratio is defined as the ratio of tension member width w to thickness t (w/t). The increase in aspect ratio results in a reduction in the maximum rope pressure an... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6386324 | Elevator traction sheave A tension member for an elevator system has an aspect ratio of greater than one, where aspect ratio is defined as the ratio of tension member width w to thickness t (w/t). The increase in aspect ratio results in a reduction in the maximum rope pressure an... | 05/14/2002 |
| 5836343 | Pumps and pump handling apparatus An electric pump 13 is mounted on a support 24 and can be raised and lowered using chains 25 driven by a motor. Supply cable 14 for the pump is stored on drum 15. Fluid is discharged by the pump through hose 17 stored on drum 18. A spray ring 20 attached to th... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5280880 | Unitary hoist drum for hoist ropes and an electric cable A hoisting system is disclosed which includes a hoisting drum around which two hoisting ropes are wound in respective hoist rope grooves. The hoisting ropes are secured to the hoisting drum at one end, and extend down to a suspended device, such as an ele... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5215272 | Winding device having a tilting table and method A method and apparatus for pulling cables has a subassembly including a cooperatively driven line pulling take-up spool and level winding device. The subassembly is utilized in combination with a capstan with the take-up spool, level winding device and ca... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5180541 | Handling flask comprising a device for displacement of a load along a vertical axis The device comprises two winches (12, 12') fastened to the outer surface of a hollow body (2) having a vertical channel (3) in which the load (4) is displaced. Each of the winches (12, 12') comprises two drums (13a, 13b) driven by a common motor (14). The... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5149057 | Tape drive with self-expanding coils for sludge collector Apparatus for taking up and paying out first and second ends of an endless loop of tape that has an intermediate section. A first reel connected to the first end carries a first coil of the tape. The first coil extends from the first reel and is normally ... | 09/22/1992 |
| 4651974 | Continuous winch A continuous winch with two, drums at least one of which is driven and is provided with a multiple groove configuration with one discharge groove for the non-loaded cable. The non-loaded, running-off, or discharging cable in the discharge groove is capabl... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4635875 | Cable pulling device An improved cable paying out and taking up device particularly for use in underground or overhead cable pulling environments which includes a novel winch assembly disposed on a vehicle, a swivel fairlead disposed on a trailing portion of the vehicle bed a... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4513952 | Drive mechanism for cable drums A drum hoist or winch in which at least one circular cam lobe mounted eccentrically on an axle overlapping the axle is interconnected with a like circular cam lobe mounted on a second axle by inboard linkage whereby rotation of one axle will rotate the ot... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4406420 | Sliding door actuating mechanism A winch for use with a van door opening system having separate opening and closing cables includes a two-section drum mounted on a common, motor-driven shaft. A helical spring is interposed between each drum section and the shaft, for compensating for dif... | 09/27/1983 |
| 4225119 | Continuous winch A continuous winch with two wheels of which at least one is driven and in case of a multi-groove design is provided with a run-off groove for the non-loaded cable section, while the unloaded run-off cable section in the run-off groove is adapted to be cla... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4070981 | Mooring system for floating drilling vessels A mooring system is disclosed for maintaining a ship shape drilling vessel within alignment limits and for warping it into the sea while drilling a well from the vessel in the sub-surface ground below it. The mooring system absorbs all of the forces on th... | 01/31/1978 |
| 4048547 | Torque responsive device The invention is a device for controlling and adjusting the tension in the cable of mooring winches or cranes by measuring the torque exerted on a speed reducer having at least one intermediate gear-train, constituted of a pinion and a larger toothed-whee... | 09/13/1977 |
| 4023775 | Apparatus for recovering rope and chain cable A rope connected to a chain cable by a connector is recovered using a chain cable lifter wheel. The connector is shaped to pass over the wheel, which has a groove for the rope. The wheel has pockets which can receive the connector and also receive chain c... | 05/17/1977 |
| 3934856 | Mine hoists A mine winder has two cable drums and a braking mechanism for each. Each braking mechanism includes means operable to sense if the cable is moving and in which direction and the length of cable paid out and to issue a control signal containing this inform... | 01/27/1976 |
