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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 |
| 7171852 | Gas meter operation tracking assembly A tracking assembly and method for tracking the operation of a rotary gas meter that has a driven member includes a connecting member, a gear assembly and a mechanical counter. The connecting member is adapted to be coupled to the driven member. The gear assembly is... | 02/06/2007 |
| 6378366 | Cam drive for a temperature sensitive device The cam drive exhibits a part rotable about an axis. The part is unrotatably connected to a cam element. A swivel arm for a sensing element is pivot-mounted on the cam element. A temperature-dependent compensation element is provided which is supported on... | 04/30/2002 |
| 5317927 | Measuring device A measuring device includes a measuring mechanism, a counting mechanism, a variable transmission gear assembly disposed between the measuring mechanism and the counting mechanism, and an adjustment member that engages at the gear assembly for changing the... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5305647 | Counter assembly for gas meter A fluid meter counter assembly includes a one-way clutch with an input hub drivingly releasable and connectable to a clutch shaft for unidirectional rotation of the clutch shaft and, in turn, a register in response to a reciprocating force coupled eccentr... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5291790 | Counter assembly for gas meter A mechanical computer for a compensated meter counter assembly for a gas meter includes a one-way clutch with an input hub drivingly releasable and connectable to an output shaft for driving a register. A computer arm carried by the input hub oscillates a... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5287751 | Drive link for gas meter counter assembly The drive train of a computer mechanism of a counter assembly for a fluid meter includes a linkage assembly with a telescoping rod and sleeve connected between a crank and an input hub.... | 02/22/1994 |
| 4747306 | Temperature compensating tangent assembly for a diaphragm gas meter A temperature compensating tangent assembly for a diaphragm gas meter wherein the movement of the tangent wrist is controlled to be other than linearly radial in order to maintain the timing of the valves.... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4674316 | Calibration system for mechanical gas volume corrector A calibration system for a mechanical gas volume corrector which has a first shaft turned at a rate corresponding to the otherwise uncorrected volumetric flow rate through the meter, a second shaft, a variable ratio transmission coupled between the first ... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4538458 | Temperature compensated gas meters A temperature compensator for gas meters is comprised of two serially connected bi-metallic elements extending between the tangent post and the drive shaft from the flow responsive element. The bimetallic elements are reversely oriented whereby each eleme... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4498346 | Metered gas volume correcting arrangement Variable ratio transmission mechanism and associated gearing correct volumetric flow indications of a gas meter as a function of temperature and/or pressure variations in gas flowing through the meter, or by a manually selectable fixed factor adjustment.... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4231826 | Process for forming V-belts and belt sleeves A cured and inverted V-belt sleeve having a plurality of spaced circumferential V-grooves that bound oversized V-belt side portions of inverted V-belts is provided by fabricating a belt sleeve with a tensile member interpositioned between inner and outer ... | 11/04/1980 |
| 4166386 | Wheel and disc continuous integrator A variable ratio drive transmission driven by a fluid meter has means to vary the output to a counter in accordance with variations in both the pressure and temperature of the fluid and is comprised of a rotatable disc the drive surface of which is in dri... | 09/04/1979 |
| 4157662 | Liquid meter with compensated dual outputs By employing several independent variable compensating mechanisms between a positive displacement liquid meter unit and two output registers, which mechanisms are responsive to physical changes in the liquid passing through the meter unit, accurate readin... | 06/12/1979 |
| 4154102 | Continuous integrator control linkage A variable ratio drive transmission driven by a fluid meter has means to vary the output to a counter in accordance with variations in both the pressure and temperature of the fluid and is comprised of a rotatable disc the drive surface of which is in dri... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4002067 | Low friction absolute pressure continuous integrator A low friction absolute pressure continuous integrator having a vacuum pressure chamber carried by a frame and in which a pressure sensing means is mounted. The pressure sensing means is adapted to expand or contract in a straight line responsive to chang... | 01/11/1977 |
| 3982436 | Fluid-volume measuring apparatus The invention relates to a fluid-volume measuring apparatus with a device for temperature-dependent volume conversion. The device contains a temperature sensor with a plunger attached to the fluid-volume measuring apparatus, a motion-transmitting device a... | 09/28/1976 |
| 3969939 | Temperature compensator for gas flow meter A temperature compensator for a fluid flow meter, e.g. an industrial gas meter, has a temperature sensing element which contacts the flow of fluid being metered. The temperature sensing element adjusts the position of a cam surface so as to limit the arc ... | 07/20/1976 |
| 3950990 | Bulk flow meter A liquid flow meter of a rotary positive-displacement kind comprising a rotor and an idler mounted in a housing having an inlet and an outlet port. The rotor has blades which are swept around the housing by the fluid and the idler has pockets within which... | 04/20/1976 |
| 3946609 | Barometrically compensated pressure index continuous integrator for measuring throughput fluid flow of meters A barometrically compensated pressure index continuous integrator assembly for measuring the throughput fluid flow of a meter comprising a pressure sensing means mounted within a chamber and adapted to expand or contract in a straight line responsive to c... | 03/30/1976 |
