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Behavior Modification Wristwatch
A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8066268 | Power tool driver holder The present invention can be used to hold one's screw driving bits directly on the tool so a specific bit can easily be found and employed as needed. Each holder may be produced from a heavy duty plastic or rubber. There may be approximately 8-10 openings for assort... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7441760 | Work table The present invention discloses a work table mainly for supporting a cutting tool or a workpiece. The work table includes a support leg arrangement formed from a plurality of telescoping legs. A tool or workpiece bearing portion is mounted on the support leg arrange... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7290739 | Clamp support A clamp support for holding and guiding a cable loom has a basic element and a wedge, which can be shifted relative to the basic unit to clamp the basic unit to a structural component. While clamping the basic unit with the structural component, the wedge is arrange... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7226036 | Frame moving apparatus and method A frame moving apparatus includes a first plate having a top side and a bottom side. A second plate has a top side and a bottom side. A plurality of gripping members is attached to and extends downwardly from the bottom sides of the first and second plates. A post e... | 06/05/2007 |
| 6959952 | Object gripping device and opener A gripper device for loosening, tightening or gripping objects. The gripper device has a support structure with a fixed, object contact surface, that preferably has a high friction surface. One end of a pivot arm is pivotally attached to the support structure. The p... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6705596 | Lifting apparatus and fastener for motorcycle A lifting apparatus for a motorcycle and a fastener. The lifting apparatus comprises a lifter and a fastener arranged in the lifter. The fastener comprises two supports located at a distance from each other whose upper end is provided with fastening elements for sei... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6450491 | Clamp for multi-cornered structures A framing clamp for the assembly and construction of multiple sided and multiple-cornered structures employing a ratchet assembly with a multitude of clamp braces to provide constant tension on a object and to also provide a easy mode of adjusting the cla... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6382610 | Chain slip tool for chain vise A tool to reduce the rotational force on a pipe to be held in a chain vise includes a curvilinear or inverted V-shaped base which saddles the pipe to be held. A U-shaped frame is mounted to the base such that one or more roller bearings may be mounted bet... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6328295 | Alignment tool First and second handles of a tool are spring biased to pivot into a closed position in which mounting end portions of the handles abut each other. A band has a first end attached to the mounting end portion of the first handle and extends therefrom to fo... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6244313 | Method and devices for splitting wood The invention concerns a method and accessory for splitting wood. The logs are loaded into a ring (2) to essentially fill it and, if desired, are compressed into a tightly packed bundle, splitting taking place using an impact-bar type device.... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6089554 | Portable work platform A portable work platform is provided for attachment to a stationary object such as a ladder. The platform includes a frame, a clamp to retain the frame to a stationary object, a vise for retaining a work piece and a guide for retaining the free end of an ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 5918866 | Strap clamping device To improve a strap clamping device comprising a clamping strap forming an outer loop to wrap around one or several workpieces, and a tightening device for tightening the outer loop to clamp the workpiece or workpieces, such that it is operable in as conve... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5833224 | Jar clamp A jar clamp for stabilizing a jar so as to prevent slipping and twisting of the jar during opening of the jar, for freeing both hands so that they may be free to work at opening the jar lid, and for accommodating a wide array of jar diameters. The jar cla... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5605321 | Apparatus for holding snowboards, skis, kneeboards, surfboards and bicycles The invention relates to a support apparatus for holding an object such as a ski, snowboard, bicycle surfboard or the like. A support base is attached to a work surface. The support base supports the object. In one embodiment, a base supports a ski or sno... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5603474 | Adjustable support for hobbyist An adjustable support for holding models in a working position for a hobbyist includes a quadrilateral frame having opposed side walls and opposing end walls which are each adjustable. The end walls and the side walls have overlapping portions having alig... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5494268 | Combination chain wrench and vise A combination chain wrench and vise for holding a workpiece, such as a pipe and like object, in place and for engagement around a circumference of the workpiece and performing work thereon. A first chain wrench is disposed at a right angle to the length o... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5411244 | Clamp using elastic tension member A free clamp for holding the sides of a closed frame, box, chair legs, etc. during gluing or the like wherein the workpiece is engaged by clamp corner elements biased inwardly by an elastic tension cord. All of the corner elements, except one, include ant... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5357833 | Device (clamp) for retaining rolls or logs by pressure in cutters for the production of toilet paper and other items The pressure-retaining device or clamp acts on the roll or log adjacently to the cutting plane and may be adapted to various diameters of the material being processed; for each path of advance of the rolls or logs (B) and on each side of the cutting plane... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5265789 | Pipe welding counterweight support apparatus An assembly arranged for mounting to a pipe to be welded is provided, wherein the assembly includes a support pipe having a counterweight slidably mounted therealong. The support pipe includes a V-shaped lock receiving the pipe to be welded, with a clamp ... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5203120 | Metal skin buffing fixture and structure A buffing fixture and structure for supporting large and thin metal skins during a finishing operation. The structure includes a plurality of individual form fixtures, at least one trunnion table mounted for rotation along a horizontally disposed axis, an... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5135208 | Chain guide apparatus for a pipe vise An improved chain-type pipe vise system. The vise includes a base member, at least two V-shaped vise members, and a chain having one end attached to the base member. The other end is designed to wrap around a pipe, and extends downwardly beneath the base ... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5000465 | Work-holding apparatus Apparatus is disclosed for holding a generally cylindrical workpiece for honing or otherwise machining an internal bore. The workpiece is held by a gripping surface over most of the innermost turn of a spirally wound torsion band coil. The workpiece is gr... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4982969 | Device for fixing a donor's eyeball The device for fixing a donor's eyeball comprises a body and retainers for holding the donor's eyeball to a support. The body is built up of an inner and an outer portions coaxially fitted one in the other with a possibility of rotating with respect to ea... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4953837 | Method and apparatus for installation and alignment of a series of posts An apparatus for plumbing a series of posts includes a generally vertical frame supported on three operable jacks mounted to form a three-point support for the frame. Each jack is operable to raise or lower that support and thereby align and plumb the fra... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4950346 | Method of forming an adaptor fitting around a workpiece An apparatus and method are disclosed for holding a generally cylindrical workpiece for honing or otherwise machining an internal bore. The workpiece is held by a gripping surface over most of the innermost turn of a spirally wound spring and coil. The wo... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4934673 | V-clamp installation tool An apparatus for seating and tightening clamps around joints between tubular sections comprises an elongate flexible member such as a chain for extending around a clamp positioned over a joint, the member having rollers spaced along its length, and a tigh... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4934675 | Apparatus for temporarily repairing utility poles or the like A utility pole repairing apparatus having a first and second rigid elongated member with an adjusting mechanism attached therebetween for selectively adjusting the distance between the first and second rigid elongated members. A holding structure is opera... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4909110 | Tube clamping apparatus A tube cutting apparatus of the type in which jaws carried by relatively reciprocal slides move into and out of clamping engagement with tubing to facilitate severing of lengths of tubing as the tubing is moving rapidly along its lengthwise axis. Each of ... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4872655 | Work-holding apparatus and method An apparatus and method are disclosed for holding a generally cylindrical workpiece for honing or otherwise machining an internal bore. The workpiece is held by a gripping surface over most of the innermost turn of a spirally wound spring and coil. The wo... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4872654 | Work-holding implement and bench-mounted loading fixture therefor A work-holding implement for use in honing or otherwise machining the inner surface of a bore in a workpiece comprises a torsion-carrying spring band coil mounted at one end of a handle. Most of the inwardly exposed surface of the innermost turn of the co... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4815719 | Chain clamping device A clamping device with a support having a seat for receiving an object to be clamped and at least one clamping chain for abutment with the object to hold the object on the support. The chain is received in a pocket on the support and releasably secured th... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4756351 | Apparatus and method for sawing limbs and the like A plurality of limbs or the like are secured together, to form a limb bundle (B). The limbs are positioned in a space defined laterally between a pair of posts (34, 38 or 80, 82) on one side (14) of a frame (12, 78) and a second pair of posts (36, 40 or 3... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4712295 | Clamp apparatus A process and an apparatus for forming an air gap pipe are provided. Inner and outer pipes are bent or deformed into comparable configurations such that the inner pipe can be mounted within the outer pipe. The outer pipe then is split longitudinally by a ... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4685418 | Powder reinforcing machine A machine is disclosed for depositing powder in a selected configuration, fusing the configured powder into a laminate and adhering the fused laminate to a shoe substrate. The machine includes a mounting plate on which the shoe substrate is to be releasab... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4667714 | Apparatus and method for sawing limbs and the like A plurality of limbs or the like are secured together, to form a limb bundle (B). The limbs are positioned in a space defined laterally between a pair of posts (20, 24) on one side of a frame (12) and a second pair of posts (22, 26) on the opposite side o... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4648582 | Portable clamping device for a wheel jack A portable clamping device is provided which is quickly and easily attachable to the axle of a vehicle. The clamping devices provides a base upon which a lifting device can be positioned for lifting a wheel to be installed or removed from a vehicle relati... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4527784 | Assembly apparatus for making frames or panels The elements of the frame, such as A, B, C, and D are held in place by the four angles (1) disposed at the corners of the frame and by the cramps (5, 6, 7, 8) mounted on each angle. On the other hand, each angle comprises a semi-circular flat sheave (1e) ... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4515233 | Universal automotive battery holddown system A universal automotive battery holddown system employing a chain or a cable stretched over a bracket placed on one edge of the battery. The bracket carries a bolt with a nut over which the chain or cable is placed. When the ends of the chain or cable are ... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4505465 | Wood splitter's aid tool A wood splitter's aid tool comprising an elongated, elastically stretchable, flexible member comprising a length of metal chain in series with a length of elastic cord, with the cord and a portion of the length of chain protectively surrounded by a prefer... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4339116 | Apparatus for centering and clamping circular workpieces A clamping apparatus includes jaws carried by a frame and movable toward each other to center and engage a workpiece by a lever and linkage arrangement which operates quickly. The workpiece is then firmly clamped by a rope which extends from the frame aro... | 07/13/1982 |
