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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6866329 | Cargo vehicle wall A cargo vehicle has lightweight rigid panels formed of metal skins and intervening paper layer. Laminate panels are formed using a heated press. ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 5892992 | Photoflash unit A photoflash unit includes a housing with an internal chamber containing a charge material. The housing's base has an opening. A primer is placed over or proximate to this opening. An anvil is placed over the material and a burn-away sheet is placed over ... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5871346 | Flashlamp array venting structure A compact flash lamp array includes a housing defining a plurality of cavities, each cavity having a light emitting opening and an exhaust vent and containing a combustible mass. A transparent cover is fixed over the light emitting opening and means are p... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5871344 | Flash lamp array with porous vent A compact flash lamp array includes a housing defining a plurality of cavities, with each cavity having a light emitting opening and a combustible mass deposited in each cavity. A firing means such as an electrically heated filament or percussive primer i... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5871345 | Percussively fired flash lamp array A compact flash lamp array includes a housing defining a plurality of cavities. Each cavity has a light emitting opening and a primer vent opposite the light emitting opening. A combustible mass is deposited in each cavity over the primer vent and a prime... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5761551 | Compact camera with multi-lamp flash wheel rotatable about film chamber A camera comprising a main body part having a film chamber, and a multi-lamp flash wheel supported for rotation to move successive flash lamps from a storage to a use position for illuminating a subject to be photographed. The multi-lamp flash wheel is ro... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5752104 | Multi-lamp flash wheel and camera A camera is intended to be used with a multi-lamp flash wheel having flash lamps that are tilted from storage orientations to ignition orientations as the respective lamps are moved to behind a flash emission window. Tilting the flash lamp to its ignition... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5697003 | Camera with combination multi-lamp flash source and exposure counter A camera comprising a light sensitive film on which a certain number of exposures can be made, and a multi-lamp flash source having a plurality of one-time-use flash lamps equal in number to the total number of exposures to be made on the film, is charact... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5649242 | Multi-lamp flash wheel and camera In a camera, a circular array of flash lamps is arranged radially with respective ignition ends of the lamps closer to one another than respective opposite ends of the lamps. Each one of the lamps has respective ignition stems projecting from the ignition... | 07/15/1997 |
| 4192596 | Camera with improved shutter arrangement A simple camera adapted for taking pictures with percussion-ignitable flashlamps. A striker element is cocked by movement against a spring and is retained in this position by spring-loaded sear lock. When the trigger is pivoted downward, the withdrawal of... | 03/11/1980 |
| 4057813 | Pocket sized camera In a pocket sized camera wherein the top and bottom walls of the housing are closely spaced relative to the front to back dimensions thereof and to the spacing between the housing end walls there is provided a multilamp flash unit-receiving socket mounted... | 11/08/1977 |
| 4055759 | Signal device using percussive flashlamps A signal device comprising a partially transparent package containing a plurality of percussively-ignitable flashlamps arranged in an array with respectively associated preenergized striker springs, and a movable member for sequentially releasing the stri... | 10/25/1977 |
| 4016581 | Shutter drive synchronously set with film frame and flash cube set A shutter type flash camera is provided with novel means for synchronously setting the shutter drive thereof as the camera film transport mechanism is set to a next unexposed frame, while a flash cube mounting is simultaneously rotated to a next sequentia... | 04/05/1977 |
| 4014033 | Percussive flash unit operating mechanism A unique percussive flash unit includes an initially cocked striker and flash unit rotating assembly, which includes a main member with an inclined laterally projecting cam-forming wall having an inclined cam face which engages and cams outwardly a latera... | 03/22/1977 |
| 3988753 | Strobe adapter for use with percussive camera A strobe adapter for adapting an electrically operated strobe for use with a camera having a percussive striker comprising a lever, and a spring connected to said lever whereby said lever has a dead center position. On one side of the dead center position... | 10/26/1976 |
| 3958115 | Multiple flashlamp unit with indexing means A flashlamp unit which comprises at least one row of percussion flashlamps disposed on an elongate base plate with striker springs which are locked in the prestressed condition. The unit also includes at least one elongate body extending and movable in th... | 05/18/1976 |
| 3955205 | Film advance-flash interlock mechanism A mechanism for energizing a piezoelectric firing spring, cocking a camera shutter drive mechanism and advancing film within the camera is adapted to prevent short-stroke operation of the camera during movement of the piezoelectric firing spring to its fu... | 05/04/1976 |
