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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 3992720 | Adjustable headband A headband for protective head gear is provided at opposite ends with overlapping members formed of a stiffer material than the band itself. These extension members are made adjustable longitudinally with respect to one another by means of a tensioning ar... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992721 | Safety helmet with individualized head-contoured inter-liner A substantially rigid dome-shaped shell encloses a deformable cap-like headpiece of uniform thickness. The headpiece conforms to the contour of the wearer's head and cooperates with the shell to define a dome-shaped cavity which is sealed around its botto... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992722 | Protective helmet Various embodiments of energy absorbing, protective helmets constructed of resilient foam means covered with a tough, pliable surface coating. The helmets are adapted to be worn on a person's head and have openings therein generally conforming to a perso'... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992723 | Hand pumped ventilating system for hand covering A hand covering, such as a glove, is provided having a ventilating system with an air chamber which is valve controlled to pump air in one direction past the fingertips of the user upon flexing of the hand.... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992724 | Novelty devices A folded structure having utility as the base structure for fanciful novelty structures. The structure is comprised of a base sheet and four outer sheets. The base sheet has eight alternate convex and concave folds. The four convex folds pass through the ... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992725 | Implantable material and appliances and method of stabilizing body implants A composition of material suitable for in vivo implantation to provide an environment in which normal tissue growth is fostered which composition is a porous fibrous structure in which the critical surface tension of the fibers is 35 dynes per centimeter ... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992726 | Endoprosthetic bone joint devices An endoprosthetic bone joint device, particularly suitable for a finger or toe joint, comprises two cups and a ball or other roller freely located in and between the cups in articulatory engagement. Normally the cups do not wholly encompass the ball, and ... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992727 | Portable toilet A portable urinal includes a base, a housing surrounding the base and a waste material receptacle in said housing. The housing is formed of a pair of molded one-piece portions, the forward of the two portions including a urine receiving basin which is con... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992728 | Water saving toilet device This device consists primarily of a U-shaped member which is secured to the lift lever and lift rod by bolt fastener means, the structure being such, that when the lift lever is actuated by the attached lever handle, the valve will open and a discharge of... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992729 | Carrier or support means for disposable bedpans This invention provides a non-expendable support or carrier for a disposable bedpan and broadly comprises a center portion shaped to receive the receptacle portion of a bedpan, a web adapted to fit below and support the conventional seat part of the bedpa... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992730 | Scrub sink An anti-splash, non-contaminating scrub sink is provided wherein a zone in the bottom of the sink including the drain is perforate and a reduced pressure is maintained below the perforate zone to draw the scrub fluid from the sink. In one embodiment the p... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992731 | Electric baby rocker This device consists primarily of a hollow and portable base in which is secured an electric motor and attached, speed reducer, which by articulating rod means will oscillate from front to rear, a carriage in which the baby is placed. The carriage of the ... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992732 | Box spring construction A novel box spring construction is disclosed wherein sway is eliminated. The construction includes wooden framing members efficiently connected together at corners and frustoconical springs extending between transverse lower frame members and upper wire r... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992733 | Furnishing article of foam material A furnishing article such as a seat, pouffe, sofa or cushion comprising at least one block of foam which reproduces the general shape of the article and a covering made of fabric which is elastic in at least one direction, the said covering being fitted w... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992734 | Boning meat A plant for boning the meat of the half-carcass of a skinned beast, comprising a plurality of successive working stations where the still warm meat is removed by means of semi-automatic and automatic mechanical devices and, more precisely, on a first trac... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992735 | Flotation ring for dredge pipe lines A hollow, flexible, two-sided, substantially C-shaped open ring which, when deflated, can readily be distorted for easy application in surrounding relation with respect to a length of dredge pipe, including strap means for temporarily securing the ring in... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992736 | Expandable element check valve A check valve is secured to the base of an air deployable ram-air inflata bag attached in the crown of a parachute or decelerator. Upon descent, air is forced through an orifice in the valve thereby opening a flapper and inflating the bag while decelerat... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992737 | Suspension system for underwater equipment A system for suspending underwater equipment at a predetermined depth below the surface; the system providing storage means for the equipment prior to deployment, protection for the equipment during deployment and stabilization of the equipment at a prede... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992738 | Water ski binding A water ski binding having a foot piece and a heel piece which is attached to a mounting plate slidable along the water ski, the mounting plate consisting of a support member for the heel piece and separate latch members connected to the support member an... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992739 | Water safety device An inflatable water flotation device for remote rescue of a victim in peril of drowning. The device comprises an elongate, closed tubular member constructed of a flexible, air impervious material permitting compact folding and storage of the device in a d... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992740 | Screw blank receiving and orienting collet A collet-type device for orienting a screw blank relative to wings previously formed on the shank of the blank so that subsequent operations, such as the formation of cutting edges and flutes, can be performed on the shank between the wings. Blank rotatin... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992741 | Fold bind machine A machine for making a thin booklet by binding loose sheets into an adhesive cover, the machine including a vertically disposed groove-shaped heater unit adapted to receive the folded edge of the adhesive cover and further including a roll pinching statio... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992742 | Gluing press for shoes or other similarly shaped workpieces A gluing press for shoes or other similarly shaped workpieces having a pressure-medium operated pressure cushion whose highly resilient diaphragm fixes the sole to be attached during the gluing operation on the shoe upper placed on a last and retained in ... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992743 | Roughing machine with damper mechanism A roughing machine for roughing the margin of an upper that is moved past a roughing tool of the roughing machine. The roughing tool is incorporated in a roughing tool assembly that is yieldably urged downwardly against the upper margin under relatively l... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992744 | Liquid actuated reciprocating shower brush An improved shower brush having a reciprocating head includes a housing, a liquid inlet to the housing, and a turbine member positioned to be rotated by liquid entering the housing through the inlet. A brush drive plate is slidably mounted on the housing ... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992745 | Cleaning unit for internal mechanical cleaning of containers such as moulds Cleaning the inside of a receptacle such as a chill mould by brushing the inside of the mold is effected by moving one or more brushes up and down within the mold. Each brush is generally disc-shaped and the periphery is shaped in conformity with the shap... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992746 | Apparatus for the treatment of textile fabrics Apparatus for extracting liquid or moisture from fabrics in continuous length in which air is drawn through a slot in a suction pipe arranged in proximity to the interior of a portion of the perforated body of a drum or through a slot formed by peripheral... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992747 | Cleaning tool An improved tool is disclosed for cleaning hard surface floors. The tool includes a scrubbing block which is pivotally mounted on the lower end of a handle that may be manipulated by a person standing by the tool. A housing is mounted about the scrubbing ... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992748 | Carpeting tool for a vacuum cleaner A carpeting tool for a broom-type vacuum cleaner comprising a hollow rake. The hollow rake includes a plurality of spaced hollow open-ended teeth and a plurality of spaced air passage openings interposed respectively between certain of the teeth. The holl... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992749 | Drapery slide and adjustable clip combination A carrier and clip combination slidably mounted in a traverse rod to support a drapery. The carrier and clip include cooperating projections and apertures permitting selective engagement of one to the other so as to correctly locate the drapery hem with r... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992750 | Hinged slide gate Combined pulley housing and end gate construction for a traverse rod. For application to a slotted traverse rod, there is provided a pulley housing receivable and fastenable within such traverse rod. Said pulley housing is arranged for the support of cord... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992751 | Spring sash counterbalance A counterbalance for a window sash which comprises a bracket for securement to the window frame and which bracket contains spaced-apart slide plates with at least a pair of vertically spaced-apart transverse elements extending therebetween; there being a ... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992752 | Vacuum eviscerator method A lung removal method for poultry in which an access opening to their body cavity has been formed at their vent including the steps of supporting poultry by its hocks and at an access opening at the vent so as to locate the access opening in a fixed plane... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992753 | Apparatus for defibering sheaths of fibrous material, particularly sheaths of abaca Apparatus for defibering sheaths of fibrous material, particularly sheaths of abaca, in which the sheaths are transported sideways along a predetermined path by being gripped at opposite ends between the lower run and the upper run of an upper and a lower... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992754 | Method for cleaning bagasse fiber using a U-shaped wash path Method for cleaning fibrous vegetable materials to remove trash components (such as coarse sand, stones, rocks, metallic particles, shives, dirt and the like).... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992755 | Apparatus for stripping fibrous web from a rotating cylinder in a textile machine In apparatus for stripping a fibrous web from the doffer of a carding machine, provision is made for pneumatically assisting the dragging rollers to remove web from the stripping roller. This is achieved by directing air impulses towards a dragging roller... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992756 | Separable fastener A separable fastener of the hook and eye type is designed to allow easy and rapid joining of the two fastener parts and to inhibit inadvertent separation of the parts after joining while nevertheless enabling the parts to be readily unfastened from one an... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992757 | Adjustable side opening watchband buckle An adjustable side opening buckle for securing the tongue end of a watchband or the like to the buckle end of the band in which a frame forms a generally rectangular passage for receiving the buckle end of the band with a spring plate biased between the t... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992758 | Clip A clip comprises a lower member including a base plate, at least one bridge and at least one pivot projection, an upper member including a base plate and at least one recessed bearing portion positioned to receive the pivot projection, thereby permitting ... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3992759 | Battery grid plate mold and method A bottom gating mold system which is particularly adapted for molding relatively flat and generally elongated and/or wide metal objects such as battery plates or grids.... | 11/23/1976 |
