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Mountable Printable Placard With Headband
A resilient headband in a shape for being mounted on the head of the user. The headband is equipped with a longitudinal slotted member for holding a placard.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5306090 | Sliding roller bearing having rolling members A plurality of retaining grooves for rolling members are arranged in the inner cylinder. The retaining grooves have semicircular bottom halves and top halves having sector-shaped sections diverging radially outwardly. The rolling members are accommodated ... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5211484 | Pressure regulated lubricating system for bearings A portable pressure regulated lubrication system for all bearings derived from using a specially designed thrust bearing. The thrust bearing carries a lubricant from a lubrication fitting on the outside of the thrust bearing to the outer race or races in ... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5205376 | Lubricating system for multi-spindle revolving head mechanism A multiple-spindle mechanism is lubricated, and is protected against the entry of foreign matter, by a mist of oil which is distributed under pressure between mutually contacting bearing surfaces, and is discharged outwardly thereof. The mechanism is espe... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5145266 | Bearing apparatus In a bearing apparatus having an oilless bearing, plural grooves are formed on an outer surface of the bearing or an inner surface of a bearing holder for holding lubricant oil which is overflowed from the bearing, thereby the lubricant is maintained in a... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5139349 | Bearing device for horizontal shaft type rotating machine A bearing device for a horizontal shaft type rotating machine includes an oil tank formed at the lower portion of the bearing box for storing lubricant oil for the bearing, the oil tank being divided by a bearing support plate between an oil feeding chamb... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5129738 | Bearing device Bearing devices which rotatably support a shaft in a bearing having a plurality of radial projections formed on either the inside peripheral surface of the bearing or the peripheral surface of the shaft are discolsed. The bearing has an oil film formed be... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5000584 | Bushing for oil film bearing A bushing for an oil film bearing assembly has a plurality of hydrostatic oil recesses in its internal bearing surface at the load zone. Each recess is defined by the intersection of a double curved surface of revolution with the bearing surface, the rece... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4993979 | Marine propulsion device A marine propulsion device comprising a gear housing adapted to be mounted on a transom of a boat, a first gear rotatably supported by the gear housing and adapted to be driven by an engine, a second gear which is rotatably supported by the gear housing, ... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4988218 | Thrust bearing for a pressurized lubricating system and an O-ring A thrust bearing or thrust bearings are adapted to be used in pressurized lubricating systems to maintain lubricant under pressure in these systems. The pressure assures improved lubrication and particularly with a grease lubricant improves lubrication an... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4898262 | Decive for lubricating hydrodynamic bearings A device for lubricating hydrodynamic bearings comprising an oil tank (2) and a pump (1) connected to the bearings (8) through a delivery line (5). The delivery line (5) has a value (9) placed below the oil level in the tank (2) . The valve has a casing w... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4892419 | Lubricated bearing apparatus for hydraulic machinery A lubricated bearing apparatus for a hydraulic machinery has rotary-side ceramic sliding plates disposed in contact with bearing-side ceramic sliding plates. The rotary-side ceramic sliding plates are disposed in receiving grooves of a main shaft sleeve m... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4890939 | Device for mounting the cam shaft for actuating the brake shoes of a drum brake for vehicles and the like A device for mounting a cam shaft for actuating the brake shoes of a drum brake for vehicles and the like, in which the cam shaft is mounted in a bearing eye of the brake bracket via a bearing section by a bushing, includes a tigthening disk and a guard r... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4878820 | Screw compressor A screw compressor comprises a casing and a pair of male and female rotors respectively having herical teeth and grooves formed in their outer peripheries. The rotors are arranged within the casing in meshing relation to each other through the teeth and g... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4846591 | Rotary bearing for a glass-raising arm of a motor vehicle The rotary bearing assembles a first arm with a second arm (14) provided with a cylindrical throughway opening (20) which receives a journal constituted by a first cylindrical shoulder (22) projecting from the lateral surface (24) of the first arm and a s... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4838389 | Protective device for drum-brake operating shaft The invention relates to a protective device of drum-brake operating shafts of trucks and touring trailers. This device is essentially constituted by a protective sleeve (4) mounted on the bushing (5) of the operating shaft (1) of the clearance cam (3) of... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4795273 | Propeller shaft bearing arrangement The invention relates to a method for preventing leaks in a propeller shaft bearing arrangement including a plain bearing (2), which is lubricated with oil or water and which supports the propeller shaft (1) extending through an opening in the body (4) of... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4780002 | Bearing for lawn trimmer cutter head A bearing assembly is disclosed which is useful in mounting the cutter head of a lawn trimming implement to the tubular casing extending forward and downward from the power head. A flexible shaft housed within the tubular casing conveys rotary motion from... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4778285 | External lubricant reservoir for joints and bearings An external lubricant reservoir of the type that is replenished by injection is provided in the form of a flexible membrane sealed to a lubricant distributor. The lubricant distributor consists of a membrane-mounting disk and a lubricant feed tube. The fe... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4764034 | Self-pumping hydrodynamic radial sliding bearing The self-pumping hydrodynamic radial sliding bearing (4) exhibits a pump block (11) arranged between two radial sliding bearing segments (13) beneath the lowest point of the generator shaft (1). The pump block (11) has, in its concave cylindrical surface ... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4733976 | Propeller shaft bearing arrangement The invention relates to a method for preventing leaks in a propeller shaft bearing arrangement including a plain bearing (2), which is lubricated with oil or water and which supports the propeller shaft (1) extending through an opening in the body (4) of... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4640473 | Magnetic tape cassette with improved guide roller means A magnetic tape cassette is provided with an improved guide roller means. The magnetic tape cassette is of a type having an upper and lower half case with two hubs around which a magnetic tape is wound. Two guide rollers are rotatably mounted on a support... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4580912 | Bearing oil supply filter-control apparatus for a rotating machine A retrofit bearing oil supply filter-control apparatus for a rotating machine is disclosed. The filter-control apparatus may be installed in existing or new bearing oil systems. The apparatus includes a hollow flow-control block having a central cavity th... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4576488 | Bearing bushing A bearing bushing for a journal bearing of a brake shaft of a drum brake. One end of the bearing bushing, on the outside, is provided with a circumferential, annular grease recess for the introduction of grease. Branching off in the axial direction from t... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4573810 | Self-pumping hydrodynamic bearing In hydrodynamic bearings it is necessary for the lubricant leaving the lubricant film to be cooled. The self-sufficient, reliable operation of the system is only ensured if the transport of lubricant can be generated and maintained by the bearing itself. ... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4358167 | Bearing element A rough and porous coating is applied by spraying and metallurgically bonding to a bearing member. The coating is preferably of a strong and thermally conductive material, such as aluminum-bronze, with the coating having interstices, such as cavities, und... | 11/09/1982 |
| 4332524 | Bearing and filter arrangement for submersible pumps A sleeve bearing and filter for reducing the wear on a submersible electric pump used to pump fluids containing abrasive materials such as sand. The sleeve bearing receives the upper end of the pump shaft and is equipped with a sintered bronze filter elem... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4308153 | Composite bearing material with metallic backing A composite bearing material has a porous metallic layer integrally formed on the surface of a metallic backing, the pores and surfaces of the porous metallic layer being impregnated with a mixed bearing material of 0.1-15% fibrous material having good af... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4285632 | Oiling system for rotor bearings An oiling system in turbo and like machinery providing cooling, lubricating and fluidized damping functions. A rotor shaft operates in connection with a reservoir of lubricating oil, and with a lubricant supply mechanism, to supply oil to the shaft bearin... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4258673 | Cam lubrication An improved oiling apparatus for the camshaft lobes of an engine. The bearing portion of the camshaft is supported within a bore between an upper bearing cap member and a lower cylinder head member. Oil passage means extend from a source of pressurized oi... | 03/31/1981 |
| 4227197 | Load moving devices A load moving device consists of a base member which supports the load to be moved and slides over a surface over which the load is to be moved. A lubricant such as grease is introduced between the base member and the surface and in order to prevent a tra... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4223960 | Automatic transmission Increased resistance to excessive wear rate is provided in certain automobile automatic transmissions by providing a combination thrust-washer/radial-bushing at a certain position on the oil pump stator where the customarily manufactured transmission is p... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4156342 | Cooling apparatus for a bearing in a gas turbine This invention relates to a method of thermally isolating a bearing located near the combustion region in a gas turbine. Air is bled from an intermediate stage of the compressor turbine and is arranged to be fed to the central pipe of a coaxial piping arr... | 05/29/1979 |
