Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4126902 | Belt type weapon A belt for normal wear about the girth of a wearer which may be removed and used as a weapon which includes a first and a second belt length the inner ends of which are connected by a chain and the outer ends of which are adapted for hooked-up engagement ... | 11/28/1978 |
| 4069548 | Hinge for use with window assembly A hinge for use in a horizontally pivoted window assembly comprises a pivot member cooperable with an eye member and means responsive to the weight of a window acting on either of said members to increase the friction therebetween after an initial opening... | 01/24/1978 |
| 4068349 | Hinge A hinge in which a base plate which is attachable to a piece of furniture cooperates with a hinge arm and an intermediate member between the base plate and the arm. The arm carries toggle joints and can be anchored in the base plate. The intermediate memb... | 01/17/1978 |
| 4068317 | Glove The invention relates to a novel glove of the type in which the glove material for covering the palm of the hand is integral with the material for covering the index and small fingers, the glove material for covering the second and third fingers being cut... | 01/17/1978 |
| 4068783 | Skirt marker and shaping device A pressure plate is mounted on a vertical support for holding material. A material deflector is pivotally mounted with respect to the support and is adapted to deflect the material against the pressure plate. The pressure plate and the material deflector ... | 01/17/1978 |
| 4068353 | Carton clip A clip for use with a carton having folding closure flaps wherein such clip may be selectively used to maintain such flaps in a closed position or to maintain adjacent flaps in an open position. The structure of the clip includes separate wing-like member... | 01/17/1978 |
| 4063312 | Button securing device A button-securing device comprises a spacing piece having flat opposite faces holding a button spaced apart from a fabric. An integral, flexible elongate attachment extends from the piece to a pointed end with fixing barbs. This attachment can be brought ... | 12/20/1977 |
| 4063376 | Clothing presser A clothing presser is provided with a stationary ironing buck, a movable ironing head, a rocking arm having the head mounted on its forward end and adapted to swing to bring the head onto the buck, and a toggle mechanism operated by a pneumatically operat... | 12/20/1977 |
| 4060855 | Pad for protective helmet A pad structure for a protective headgear comprising, a resilient foam inner pad, a thin flexible front cover sheet of a foam material being formed into a configuration defining a cavity of a shape to closely receive and cover inner and side surfaces of t... | 12/06/1977 |
| 4060877 | Fastener for conveyor belts or bands The belt-fastener is cut from sheet metal strip of substantially constant width and the U-shaped elbowed portion of the fastener which forms a hinge-knuckle is folded in two in the transverse direction. The two folded sides are applied against each other ... | 12/06/1977 |
| 4059853 | Tie clasp A tie clasp for supporting neckwear comprising a plate to be positioned on the front of a shirt collar and a hook mounted on the back of the plate for suspending the plate from the shirt collar. The hook defines an open-ended shirt collar receiving channe... | 11/29/1977 |
| 4058871 | Hinge assembly for knock down furniture An assembly of components into a knock-down furniture structure is effected by using a plurality of mechanical coupling means so that each pair of abutting components are connected together in a surface abutting relationship. Each coupling means has its o... | 11/22/1977 |
| 4059291 | Branch connection Branch connection for a pipe, which connection comprises a saddle-shaped part provided with an internally screw-threaded tubular member integral with said part, and a tee piece provided with a screw thread which engages with the first-mentioned screw thre... | 11/22/1977 |
| 4057873 | Door hinge coupling device Projections in door hinge plates penetrate and bear against cooperating slots in opposite plates of door hinges to prevent a locked door from being removed from a doorjamb by removing the hinge pintles.... | 11/15/1977 |
| 4057179 | Garment pressing machines A method for pressing and draping the sleeves of jackets by applying each sleeve to a sleeve form and positioning the sleeve thereon, expanding the form to expand the sleeve, bringing an internal pressing head into proximity with the junction of the sleev... | 11/08/1977 |
| 4057178 | Material pleater A material pleater embodying a plurality of parallel, longitudinally extending plate-like members carried by an elongated member with adjacent plate-like members spaced from each other to receive a pleat of material therebetween. An elongated pleat depres... | 11/08/1977 |
| 4056867 | Elevator belt splice A splicer element for a belt includes juxtaposed splice or clamp elements with a spacer element disposed between the clamp elements. The ends of the belt are disposed between the clamp elements and the spacer element. The surfaces of the clamp elements an... | 11/08/1977 |
| 4054952 | Belt assembly A belt assembly comprising, a housing having an elongated tunnel, and an elongated belt passing through the housing tunnel. The housing and belt have cooperating surface restraining means interengaging in the housing tunnel and providing substantial restr... | 10/25/1977 |
| 4051553 | Hand protector For football, a hard foam rubber pad is affixed to the back of a lightweight cotton glove. The pad extends over the knuckles, (metacarpo-phalangeal joint), of a hand inserted in the glove. The pad is molded so as to force the fingers to naturally curl wit... | 10/04/1977 |
| 4051611 | Boot buckle A buckle for securing a pair of opposed closure flaps of an athletic boot comprises a catch mounted to one of the flaps and a latch mounted adjacent to the catch on the opposite flap. A wireform is mounted to the latch by means of a shaft pivoted on the l... | 10/04/1977 |
| 4050117 | Easel hinge construction An easel hinge for supporting picture frames and the like comprising an outer hinge plate and an inner hinge plate, both having curled barrels, the inner barrel being positioned within the outer barrel for relative rotational movement therewith without th... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4050120 | Fastener A fastener is made of a flexible material for use, for example, in a vehicle to hold a leg member on a plate inserted in an opening in a panel. The fastener comprises a tubular base, a tubular inner portion formed within the base, and a connecting portion... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4050121 | Single substrate tab fastener A linerless diaper tab is formed of a single substrate which can be folded and refolded on itself in such a way as to (1) grip both sides of one part of a diaper adjacent an edge thereof and (2) provide linerless protected storage of an adhesive surface w... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4050173 | Laundry feeding apparatus A loading station located at one side of a feeding conveyor, into which the corners of a sheet can be loaded. The station comprises two movable clamping devices supported on a track which runs across the rear of the feeding conveyor. Each clamping device ... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4048674 | Arm guard for archers A protective guard for archers is adapted to be releasably and conformably fastened around the archer's forearm directly behind the hand which holds the bow with a protective strip of material extending upwardly along the forearm and having an upper free ... | 09/20/1977 |
| 4047250 | Contoured wrist support This invention provides a contoured wrist support that includes a sheet portion adapted to be wrapped around the wrist, the sheet portion being made up of more than one element having contoured edges stitched together so as to provide it with a three-dime... | 09/13/1977 |
| 4047251 | Glove and form and method for making same A uniquely contoured glove adapted to tightly conform to a wearer's hand is made by depositing an elastomeric material on a relatively flat glove form having recessed areas covering substantially the entire surface of the hand-forming and finger-forming p... | 09/13/1977 |
| 4047649 | Apparatus for handling hosiery In a hosiery handling apparatus wherein a string of hosiery is placed on a movable hollow tubular form, and everted through the open end of the form, a reciprocating arm grasps the first in-line hose and breaks it away from the string. The arm then pulls ... | 09/13/1977 |
| 4045841 | Hinge A hinge arrangement in which a base plate attachable to a part of furniture, provides an anchor for a hinge arm carrying toggle joints. The hinge arm has an end remote from mounting points of spindles of the toggle joints, which is provided with a longitu... | 09/06/1977 |
| 4045843 | Bundle tie devices and material A continuous strip of bundle tie material comprises a flat strip of thermoplastic having a generally channel shaped cross section. The upper surfaces of the sidewalls are provided with relatively fine ratchet teeth and the web of the strip has openings th... | 09/06/1977 |
| 4045824 | Glove for ring display A glove that is especially constructed for displaying the ring worn on the ring finger by providing for a portion of the ring finger stall tube removable from the remainder of the glove and when attached thereto provides for an open area displaying the ri... | 09/06/1977 |
| 4046088 | Apparatus for sewing rings, buckles and the like elements onto tape Apparatus for forming components of shoulder straps for ladies garments including tapes with either a buckle or a ring sewn onto one end. The apparatus allows the sewing to be performed with a non-linear seam, by means of a sewing machine of the type whic... | 09/06/1977 |
| 4046089 | Machine for making shoulder straps A machine for forming shoulder straps for ladies garments, of the type having a first tape with a buckle secured to one end and a second (elastic) tape having a ring secured to its end, the two tapes being united by passing the free end of the first tape ... | 09/06/1977 |
| 4044429 | Locking safety pin and key carrier An improved self-locking safety pin unit or device has been devised in which a thumb and finger rotatable sleeve is adapted, when turned in one direction, to raise and then turn or swing, an upper, loop-like, latching or nose part under resilient spring p... | 08/30/1977 |
| 4043001 | Adjustable spring hinge An improved spring hinge includes a capstan for securing one end of a torsion spring in a knuckle of the hinge. To prevent axial movement of the capstan out of the hinge knuckle and permit axial alignment of a radial cavity in the capstan with an aperture... | 08/23/1977 |
| 4043270 | Needlework frame An assembly for supporting needlework that is readily convertible from a lap position to a floor position. A needlework frame comprising a pair of side rails and a pair of dowels extending between the side rails and parallel to and spaced from each other,... | 08/23/1977 |
| 4043283 | Sewing apparatus employing twin needles A sewing head employing twin needles for use with a material feed assembly at a sewing station, employing a linkage drive configuration enabling original rotary motion to be converted into linear rather than arcuate during formation of tacks. The same dri... | 08/23/1977 |
| 4043492 | Drapery pressing apparatus An apparatus having cooperating upright structures each having a series of air carrying tubes acting on opposite sides of a drapery to press same into desired folds. The two series of tubes and upright structures are adapted for opening and closing moveme... | 08/23/1977 |
| 4042975 | Means for protecting batters from hand injuries A pair of protective plates are releasably secured to the back side of a glove. One plate covers the back of the hand and the other plate covers the lower portions of the fingers. The two plates are spaced apart to allow freedom of movement of the knuckle... | 08/23/1977 |
| 4043000 | Knee joint coupling A knee joint coupling comprises a pair of similar U-shaped links each having a base and two parallel legs extending perpendicularly from the base. One of the legs of each link has a hole through it and the other leg has a pin extending from it in the dire... | 08/23/1977 |
