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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 3955217 | Permanently knotted necktie and method of making same A permanently knotted necktie comprises an elongated necktie body having a front face and a rear face, a permanent necktie knot and an extensible strap for detachably fastening the necktie around a person's neck. The permanent necktie knot and the necktie... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955218 | Self-venting tank valve for toilet tanks Disclosed herein is a tank valve for tank-type toilets comprised of a closed upper portion adapted to extend across the opening of a valve seat, and a hollow lower portion extending downwardly from adjacent the upper portion and adapted to extend within t... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955219 | Elevated safety bathtub and shower An elevated safety bathtub for use both by invalids and by persons without physical handicaps. The tube has a floor supported approximately at normal chair height and a side opening serving as an entryway through one of the walls of the tub, the bottom of... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955220 | Swimming pool construction The disclosure relates to swimming pools having a sheet metal exterior wall of substantially continuous oval or circular shape having a liner attached thereto for retaining water for the pool. The liner is secured to the pool wall area by means of an S-sh... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955221 | Elevated safety bathtub An elevated safety bathtub for use both by invalids and by persons without physical handicaps. The tub has a floor supported approximately at normal chair height and a side opening serving as an entryway through one of the walls of the tub, the bottom of ... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955222 | Easy rise bed vibrator device A vibrator device intended to be mounted to the frame of a bed to provide a soothing vibratory action to the bed for slowly and gently nudging an individual sleeping in the bed from slumber to an awake condition, the vibrator having an electrically operat... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955223 | Furniture having a box spring or like structure and supporting leg members therefor In a piece of furniture, a box spring or like structure comprising a substantially rectangular frame including longitudinally-extending side frame members and transversely-extending end frame members, and a plurality of supporting leg members secured to t... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955224 | Seat construction A cushioned seat structure comprising a resiliently compressible foam cushion having a pair of channel formations opening through the bottom face of the cushion and extending upward for a distance into the cushion body but terminating short of the cushion... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955225 | Upholstered article and method An upholstered article and method in which a rigid pan to be upholstered is provided with a series of interior cutouts along an exterior edge, the cutouts defining an imitation interior edge to which is clipped, by metal clips, the upholstery material. Th... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955226 | Process for heat fixation of dyestuffs using polyester material as filter for circulating air stream Process for the heat fixation of dyestuffs on textile flat articles using a steamer with directional air or vapor stream wherein the circulating air or vapor stream is purified from dyestuff particles by intercalating a filter.... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955227 | Footlets, pantyhose and protective bag therefor Knitted articles, such as footlets, pantyhose and washing bags are provided, each includes a beaded portion forming the top thereof and a body portion connected to the beaded portion. The beaded portion is formed of a plurality of alternate and intermedia... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955228 | Boat shade The present invention relates to a boat shade comprising a cover and a frame for it formed of three inverted U-shaped components. Two of these inverted U-shaped components, carrying the cover, are arranged so as to flank the third inverted U-shaped compon... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955229 | Rubber boat End wall compartment closures for the stern parts of inflatable sponsons or pontoons for rubber boats are disclosed to enhance the gliding motion or planing action of the boat through the water and prevent distortion of the sponsons under variable inflati... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955230 | Recreational buoyancy device A portable, recreational, buoyancy device comprising an integral rigid, ring-like floating unit having a central opening designed to accommodate the user's body, straps supporting the user in said opening, shoulder straps associated with the unit to suspe... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955231 | Cup nut mass production process The present process is especially suitable for economically producing cup nuts in large quantities by conventionally manufacturing the nuts and by deep drawing the cups separately from sheet metal in a single step to provide the cup with an outwardly faci... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955232 | Coke oven cleaner The coke oven cleaner is capable of scraping particularly the entrance areas of a coke oven automatically to remove tar and the like adhered thereon completely, and comprises an upright stationary holding or support frame mounted on a door lifter, and a f... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955233 | Toilet utensil for applying toiletries A toilet utensil for applying viscous toiletries comprising a sealed pouch which is made of a flexible and thin film and is filled with air or an elastic material.... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955234 | Tool for dressing meat Tool comprises an elongated handle having a bifurcated extension projecting from one end and at least one elongated blade member affixed to and spanning said bifurcated extension substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis thereof. The blade memb... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955235 | Scavanging apparatus for an electrostatic copier Within a cleaning station for an electrostatic copier, a rotatable scavanging roll has a peripheral scavanging surface. Particulate matter, including toner entrained in an air stream, passes by the scavanger roll; the roll being electrically charged attra... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955236 | Collector system in a vacuum sweeper circuit An airtight container, having two separated compartments, including an inlet to the first compartment and a flexible, gravel pick-up tube attached to the inlet. A cyclone separator is mounted on the second compartment with its separated particle outlet di... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955237 | Combination conversion and storage kit for upright vacuum cleaners A kit for converting an upright vacuum cleaner for use as an above-the-floor cleaner. The kit includes a housing which is removably fitted over the front of the cleaner chassis and includes an air chamber communicating the cleaner nozzle opening with one ... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955238 | Dog brush A dog brush is provided for attachment to a conventional vacuum cleaner. Semi-flexible plastic bristles are curved in the direction in which the brush is drawn across a dog, whereby to cradle loose hairs transversely of the air flow into the vacuum cleane... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955239 | Bathtub closure means having vertically slidable panels A bathtub closure means comprising horizontally extending panel means arranged to close about two-thirds of the distance between the top of a tub wall and a ceiling of normal height and arranged in open position to provide access and entry to the tub alon... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955240 | Multi-position safety lock joint, particularly for folding ladders A freely rotatable disk formed with projections is held in a given position by a spring. The projections and the notches between the projections are selectively engageable by a handle element to deflect the disk, upon operation of the handle element, from... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955241 | Cam operated spring biased counterbalance hinge mechanism for cabinet lid or the like A counterbalance hinge mechanism for a cabinet lid includes a stationary cabinet affixed hinge rod serving to rotatably support a pair of axially stationary lid mounting cam members and to slidably support a pair of non-rotatable cam followers. An adjusta... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955242 | Process and apparatus for filleting fish A method and apparatus for filleting fishes is disclosed. The fish are cut on their underside by pairs of belly knives and pairs of rib knives, and by pairs of back knives on their dorsal sides. Between the belly knives and the rib knives are pairs of gui... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955243 | Apparatus for receiving a silver can and for controlling the quantity of material deposited therein The turntable on which the silver can is mounted is connected to a piston of a compressed air cylinder and air pressure is used to maintain the piston and table in preset positions. When the silver can is filled to the preset weight, the table and piston ... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955244 | Fiber retriever A fiber retrieving apparatus is incorporated into the upper wall of an enclosure mounted beneath the lickerin. A suction outlet in the lower wall of the housing is connected to a source of suction for continuously removing trash, motes, fly, short fibers ... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955245 | Separable interlocking fasteners An elongated separable fastener includes two similar sections formed of a resilient resin, each section including a longitudinally extending socket with a restricted throat and an elongated plug with an enlarged head which releasably engages the socket of... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955246 | Separable fastener A separable fastener is disclosed which has the form of a tape having a plurality of laterally adjacent uniformly corrugated strips. Adjoining strips are staggered relative to one another so that the ridges of one strip are laterally aligned with the depr... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955247 | Slide fastener element construction A slide fastener element construction having a ladder-like structure of the type which is longitudinally folded on itself to form a finished row of coupling elements. The ladder-like structure basically includes longitudinally parallel spaced-apart base p... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955248 | Slide fastener slider A slide fastener slider having on its upper wing a hook-shaped lug to which a pull tab is pivotally connected by snap fitting operation. There is also provided on the upper wing a projection spaced apart from the lug and adapted to fit in an opening forme... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955249 | Clamping device A clamping device especially adapted for use with an automotive body or frame straightening device is disclosed wherein at least two clamping members each having a clamping jaw section at one end thereof and a clamping guide section at the other end there... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955250 | U-bolt clamp saddle A saddle for a U-bolt clamp is constituted of a pair of tubular housings arranged to receive and slide axially upon the legs of a U-bolt having a semicircular bight, with the housings connected by a web portion consisting of a pair of parallel planar sect... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955251 | Fabric spreading and stretching apparatus A spreading and stretching apparatus for textile calender machines especially adapted for use with knitted and other tubular fabrics to prevent the pinching and tearing of the fabric as it is drawn into the calender rolls of the machine. Magnetic repulsio... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955252 | Collapsible corpse positioner and restrainer A corpse positioner and restrainer comprising a substantially rigid member having weakened diagonal portions terminating in a cradling portion is disclosed. The corpse positioner and restrainer further includes cutout portions disposed on opposite sides o... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955253 | Strand treatment apparatus Textile strands are crimped by feeding them into and forwarding them within a laterally confining region that terminates in a laterally surrounding fine screen with a flared outlet end. The resulting strand-crimping apparatus or stuffer-crimper type utili... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955254 | Apparatus for treating yarn with fluid material Methods of and apparatus for treating yarn with a fluid material include a chamber through which the yarn is advanced and an injection nozzle for impinging fluid on the yarn as it advances through the chamber. The injection nozzle is registered with a flu... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955255 | Textile crimping apparatus Textile stock, natural or synthetic, is taken from a carding machine or garnett and delivered to a sloping web infeed pan. Jets of air from air nozzles direct and boost the textile web into a trumpet immediately in advance of pressurized web compressing a... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3955256 | Process for the production of a carbon tape The efficient production of pervious low density carbon fiber reinforced composite articles is made possible through the use of the present invention. A fibrous open weave tape (as described) which is capable of undergoing conversion to a carbonaceous fib... | 05/11/1976 |