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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 3940801 | Pillion rider belt A belt for a pillion rider. The belt has a pair of straps along the longitudinal outside face of the belt. The ends of the straps are secured through a slit in the belt and fastened to the inside face of the belt. The belt is secured around the waist of a... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940802 | Medical appliance made of plastic A medical appliance suitable for use in direct or indirect contact with blood, such as an artificial valve, artificial blood vessel, blood transfusion set, solution infusion set, or blood bag characterized by being composed of 100 parts by weight of polyv... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940803 | Method and system for control of a powered prosthetic device The present invention is a concept to provide a means of movement control for a powered prosthetic device. An externally detectable article is implanted on a biological site where the exertion of muscle tension will impart a movement of the article. The m... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940804 | Ankle block An ankle block for joining a leg prosthesis to a foot prosthesis includes a generally cylindrical member formed of rigid foam material, and a metal or wood insert molded in place in the lower end of the cylindrical member. The insert includes flanges whic... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940805 | Selective volume flush valve A dual capacity flush valve comprises a rotatable valve plate arranged in a sealed housing through which water passes from a supply to the flush outlet. The valve plate has openings which are moved to register with the water outlet and an actuator is prov... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940806 | Free-standing shower stalls A free-standing shower stall including a base, wall panels joined to the base, a rail connected to the wall panels to impart rigidity to the stall, and a drain connection in the base which permits the shower stall to be placed in any desired location. A s... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940807 | Safety suction outlet for pools An outlet drain designed to provide a safety environment to the users of pools, especially therapeutic or spa type pools. A series of channels extend radially outward from the central drain aperture in the pool. The suction created in the pool system draw... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940808 | Patient transfer apparatus A patient transfer apparatus comprising a wheeled base having a vertically disposed post extending upwardly therefrom. A tubular support is vertically slidably movable on the post and has a pair of pivotal arms extending therefrom in a spaced apart relati... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940809 | Swimming pool cover A hollow air filled flexible horizontal endless plastic waterproof loop floats on top of the water in a swimming pool and is shaped to conform with and bear continuously against the inner periphery of the pool. The loop has an open central region. A thin ... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940810 | Box spring, box spring frame and making same The box spring and box spring structure include a versatile frame made at appreciably lesser expense than presently known frames of equal rigidity and light weight. End rails of rectangular cross section carry no springs and are arranged completely undern... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940811 | Lightweight construction materials and articles made thereof Lightweight construction materials having a low heat shrinking percentage and a high moisture permeability obtained by forming complementary concavoconvex patterns by means of press molding on both surfaces of a sheet of a foamed polyethylene type resin c... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940812 | Fitted sheet construction A fitted, adjustable bed sheet is provided which is adapted for use with either spring or water bed mattresses. A substantially rectangular fabric has a top sleeping panel, four depending side panels with substantially square apertures cut between adjacen... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940813 | Collapsible trailer boat A collapsible trailer boat comprising a fore part and an after part jointed together in such a manner that they can be folded to form a trailer by pivotally moving the fore part in the longitudinal centerplane until it rests, with its bottom up, on the af... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940814 | Portable salvage lift A portable salvage lift apparatus for use in an underwater environment coising a buoyancy system having a variable lift capability and a tethering system employing a brake comprising a pump. This pump has a rotor coupled to a reel in the tethering system... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940815 | Quick foot release for swim fin A swim fin including a quick-release mechanism associated with the heel strap. The quick-release mechanism includes a lever and a link which are secured together and to the strap in such a way as to define an over center, toggle, lever arrangement whereby... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940816 | Side lasting apparatus Side lasting apparatus comprising a support for supporting a last, bottom side up and lasting instrumentalities supported at opposite sides of the last support between which a last mounted on the support with the lasting margin of an upper thereon project... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940817 | Anti-clamping suction head for sweeping swimming pools A suction head for use in vacuum cleaning a swimming pool bottom intended to avoid clamping of the sweep to the pool bottom. A generally rectangular flexible platform is supported for forward and backward motion perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of t... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940818 | Air blowing machine A motor driven machine, such as a machine capable of holding and imparting movement to a tool, for example, which may be an eraser strip that is brought to bear upon a surface, such as a paper surface, for erasure of undesirable markings therefrom. The ma... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940819 | Hydraulic powered handwasher A liquid-powered device is provided for washing the terminal-end portion of an elongated member, such as a hand, extended therein. Liquid, under pressure, energizes a positive-displacement motor which powers a rotational laving element wetted by the liqui... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940820 | Device for cleaning shoe soles A device for cleaning shoe soles, which can be stepped over, includes a grid with cylindrical rings having engaged surfaces and forming circular passages through the grid. A frame encloses these rings and has vertical pins extending through the axes of th... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940821 | Car dryer A cylindrical drum is rotatably mounted to a frame above the path of a car in an automatic car wash system. A plurality of towels are connected to the peripheral surface of the drum at spaced circumferential points to depend downwardly from the drum. A ca... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940822 | Rear view safety mirror A rear view safety mirror is provided with an aperture through the mirror element through which extends a drive shaft for a wiper blade; the drive shaft is connected to the rotary armature of an electric motor which is mounted on the support bracket of th... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940823 | End clip for blade refills An end clip positively secured to the end of a backing strip of a windshield wiper blade refill unit by means of a projection at the end of the backing strip extending from one side thereof through a slot in the end clip to prevent relative longitudinal m... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940824 | Paint tray and container apparatus A combination paint tray and container therefore, wherein the tray is attached to the upper edge of one side of the container with the tray and the open end of the container forming an incline with respect to the upstanding sides of the container. The bot... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940825 | Cleaning machine for bobbins with waste slivers A machine for automatically removing waste slivers from bobbins includes means for supplying bobbins with waste slivers or fibers to a moving endless belt which causes the bobbins to rotate, suction means for removing the slivers that were loosened by the... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940826 | Portable surface cleaner The specification discloses a surface cleaning apparatus having a molded plastic housing and an upwardly and rearwardly projecting casing terminating at a handle, the lower portion of the housing including a forward suction nozzle, opening into a recovery... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940827 | Leaf vacuuming attachment for rotary lawn mowers Conventional rotary lawn mowers have a rotating cutter blade traveling at high velocity. This invention relates to an attachment for forming an enclosed housing containing the conventional mower components to create a vacuum chamber with a single input po... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940828 | Snap hinge A snap hinge for use in connecting furniture doors, for example, to a furniture wall utilizing a pair of pivotally mounted link members and including a spring biased mechanism and a cam control unit associated with said link members for assuring positive ... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940829 | Parallel rod furniture hinge This disclosure relates to a hinge for abutting door sashes and particula a furniture hinge in which a linkage is provided in the form of a pair of rods pivotally mounted between mounting parts of an associated frame and sash, each radius rod having an e... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940830 | Apparatus for breaking animal carcasses and handling meat products An integrated facility for breaking dressed animal carcassas includes a continuous flow of the carcasses and their subdivisions through a series of processing areas where the carcasses are broken into primal cuts, the primal cuts are further divided, bone... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940831 | Attrition mill and method of fibrous web formation Apparatus and method for forming a fibrous batt of controlled thickness and uniformity with fibers flowing from the discs of an attrition mill. The fibers are directed from the outlet of the mill in an air stream in a path of decreasing radius of curvatur... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940832 | Strapping for fastening production tubing to electrical cable A corrugated banding strap for securing an electrical cable to a tubing string for lowering into a well.... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940833 | Method for compressively shrinking textile fabrics at high speed This disclosure teaches a method of longitudinally compressively shrinking a textile fabric web with the method comprising known steps of preconditioning the web, continuously feeding the web between a thick elastomeric belt and a heated polished cylinder... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940834 | Apparatus for severing and feeding lightweight tubular plastic elements Apparatus for applying cover elements of heat shrinkable plastics material upon the externally screw threaded metal necks of dispensing containers such as toothpaste tubes comprises a floating mandrel rod assembly adapted to be disposed within the leading... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940835 | Slotting cutter and cutting insert therefor A slotting cutter in which a disc is provided with insert pockets on opposite sides thereof with replaceable cutting inserts of hard wear resistant material mounted in the pockets. The inserts are clamped in the pockets by a wedge which forces the inserts... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940836 | Method of manufacturing a spherical bearing A method of manufacturing a spherical bearing having an outer member, an inner spherical member bearing inserts interposed between the inner and outer members and a key disposed in a keyway in the outer member to enable the assembly and disassembly of the... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940837 | Hot air furnace with improved heat exchanger construction A hot air furnace which includes at least one heat exchange unit having at least one mounting flange section defining an opening therein and a plate member having an aperture therein corresponding to at least one of the openings in said heat exchange unit... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940838 | Crimping tool for cable connector A crimping tool for use with a stranded cable connector having co-aligned sleeve openings, including a first member with a crimping portion; a piercing portion extended from the first crimping portion; a second member with a crimping portion and a recess ... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940839 | High accuracy positive positioning mechanism for an assembly machine An assembly machine having a high accuracy positive positioning mechanism, which engages the assembly table when the indexing system is in a dwell portion of the cycle, not moving the assembly table. A positioning pin, which is mechanically connected to o... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3940840 | Tool for extraction of a preformed fitting from a peripheral groove A tool is provided for the extraction of preformed fittings placed in a peripheral groove hollowed into the wall of a bore. A pincer device is formed by two tapered noses, one fixedly attached to a hollow body and the second attached to a piston capable o... | 03/02/1976 |
