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Patents Published on 05/31/1977


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4025961Cape for dealing with the hair
A cape especially valuable for dealing with the hair made preferably of turkish toweling or in a particular case plastic, but suitably of various other materials, consisting of a shoulder-embracing portion, a slot for the head, two tongues surrounding the...
05/31/1977
4025962Pool glove
The invention is directed to a glove to be worn by pool players having a plurality of stalls which sheath the first and second fingers and the thumb of the user's hand to receive a pool cue when a shot is to be made. The third and fourth fingers are uncov...
05/31/1977
4025963Printed cloth
A plain fabric having separate areas printed with color and/or design and with the areas being formed to provide the component parts for assembly into a completed garment. The peripheral borders of the respective areas provide the standard line for cuttin...
05/31/1977
4025964Magnetic electrical connectors for biomedical percutaneous implants
A biomedical percutaneous connector for providing electrical connection between electrical conductors carried externally of a patient's body and electrical conductors implanted within the body of the patient. The connector includes a socket having an enla...
05/31/1977
4025965Intraocular lenses
Optical sections (lenses) of pseudophakoi having tangential holes are produced without drilling operations. A preform of lens material is drawn with embedded acid soluble rods and/or openings corresponding in diametral size and relative juxtaposition to t...
05/31/1977
4025966Portable and collapsible sitz bath receptacle
An envelope of water impervious sheet material is sized to rest on and overlap the open top edge of a toilet bowl beneath the seat. A relatively rigid ring is positioned within the envelope and is sized to extend across the toilet bowl top edge from rear ...
05/31/1977
4025967Toilet tank flushing apparatus
A toilet tank flush valve which can be operted to provide a full or partial flush of the fluid contents of the tank. An auxiliary operating arm is provided so as to cooperate with the conventional valve actuating mechanism and at the same time not interfe...
05/31/1977
4025968Water and energy saving closet tank flush valves
A water closet tank flush valve designed to provide a full or partial emptying of the associated water tank, as desired, when the flush valve is operated. A valve stem which is raised to unseat the flush valve is fitted externally along its length with a ...
05/31/1977
4025969Sanitary closet
The present invention relates to a sanitary closet of the kind in which a hose preferably made of plastic is fed downwards by a down-feeding mechanism. Two disc means are arranged for feeding down provided with closing elements arranged to close the hose ...
05/31/1977
4025970Splash guard for bathtubs
The invention provides a splash guard for a bathtub, the present splash guard fitting about the upper periphery of the bathtub walls and having sloping surfaces which flow water incident thereon back into the tub itself....
05/31/1977
4025971Convertible sofa bed
A frame including upright opposite side portions having front and rear ends and an upstanding backrest is supported above side frame portions. A pair of front and rear support arms are pivotally supported from lower forward and intermediate portions of th...
05/31/1977
4025972Elevating and Trendelenburg mechanism for an adjustable bed
An improved control and locking device for a hospital bed such as that disclosed in U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. 496,212, filed on Aug. 9, 1974. The locking device is utilized to provide a positive lock of the hospital bed in a Trendelenburg or revers...
05/31/1977
4025973Headboard sheet dispenser
A headboard sheet dispenser for beds. The dispenser includes means for dispensing top and bottom bed sheets from a roll of several sheets. The dispenser also serves as a padded backrest....
05/31/1977
4025974Air mattress and method of making the same
A self-inflating air mattress comprising an airtight flexible jacket enclosing a core of a resilient, open cell, lightweight foam material, substantially the entire upper and lower portions of which are bonded to the envelope. The process of making this m...
05/31/1977
4025975Water bed mattress
A water bed mattress comprised of upper and lower flexible foldable sheets which are essentially rectangular in shape. The upper sheet is essentially formed by folding up portions of the lower sheet upwardly and inwardly and transversely sealing end margi...
05/31/1977
4025976Submarine pivoting structure with ducting
A flexible, universal coupling structure for underwater oil lines including an anchored base 1 having upstanding bracket plates 2 defining a horizontal axis 4 between them. A pivot piece 5 in the shape of an open tetrahedron is journalled about the axis 4...
05/31/1977
4025977Angular foot fin
The following specification discloses a foot fin for propelling one through the water, having a blade surface that can be oriented within the same axis as the leg of a user. The foot fin enables one to propel oneself through the water and maintain a simil...
05/31/1977
4025978Feeding device for multi-headed radial type nut tappers
A feeding device for multi-headed radial type nut tappers. The device includes a drum having a plurality of sliding guides provided on the exterior walls thereof, and a rotary hopper provided around the upper periphery thereof, and coaxial therewith. The ...
05/31/1977
4025979Apparatus for cleaning the sealing surfaces of coke oven doors and door jambs
The apparatus for cleaning the horizontal sealing surface of the coke oven door includes a cleaning tool that is arranged to move horizontally on a tool support. The tool support is movably connected to the frame member and is arranged to be adjusted vert...
05/31/1977
4025980Sectional paint brush
A sectional paint brush in which the sections may be used separately or the brush combined to an assembled width, and the individual sections or assembled brush may be supported within a paint can....
05/31/1977
4025981Apparatus for, and method of, cleaning a selected surface portion of the interior liner of a tire
Apparatus for cleaning a selected surface portion of the interior liner of a tire includes a frame; three cooperative fingers adapted to be spread apart to engage the beads of a tire and to spread such beads proximate the portion of the liner to be cleane...
05/31/1977
4025982Cleaning device
A flexible cleaning device capable of reaching into and past drains and traps of common plumbing fixtures and being manipulated in a back and forth scrubbing action while so placed, comprising an integrally formed, elongated stem made of a flexible plasti...
05/31/1977
4025983Windshield wiper squeegee
A squeegee for use in a windshield wiper apparatus includes a wiping portion which has a smoothly tapered shank, tapering from a first thickness to a reduced second thickness, the quotient defined by the difference of the first thickness minus the second ...
05/31/1977
4025984Window wall washing device for high rise buildings
A wall washing device is provided with self contained liquid spray means, wall and window surface scrubbing means such as brushes or sponges and means for providing a curtain of high velocity, in-rushing air around a wall washing sight. This air serves to...
05/31/1977
4025985Apparatus for removing meat from trimmed bone fragments
Apparatus for removing and recovering meat from trimmed and untrimmed bone fragments comprises a hollow sleeve open at one end for receiving a quantity of bone fragments to be processed. Hydraulic cylinders raise the sleeve to bring one end into engagemen...
05/31/1977
4025986Apparatus and method for skinning animal carcasses
A machine for removing skin from animal carcasses, and particularly hog carcasses, which includes an upstanding inclined from the vertical rotatable cylinder having an axially extending slot, a skin clamp at the slot for clamping a portion of the skin to ...
05/31/1977
4025987Apparatus for recovering bile from gall bladders of slaughtered beasts
The apparatus is intended for use in the meat industry. It incorporates a chamber containing gall bladders. The chamber has a loading port for feeding the gall bladders thereinto and an unloading port through which the gall bladders are discharged after p...
05/31/1977
4025988Method and apparatus for controlling the tools and guides of a fish dressing machine
A method and apparatus for controlling the tools and machine is disclosed. A first selected location on the body of a fish conveyed in the direction of its longitudinal axis engages with a first feeler and effects an impulse counter to start to count puls...
05/31/1977
4025989Opening and cleaning machine for fibrous material, especially cotton
This disclosure relates to an opening and cleaning machine for fibrous material, including a plurality of rotatable beaters disposed within a housing, grating means adjacent to and beneath the beater units, guide plate meansgenerally adjacent to and above...
05/31/1977
4025990Process for reclaiming rubber, metal and fabric from whole tires
Scrap tires containing magnetic components and non-magnetic rubber and cord components are cooled in a cryogenic freezer to the embrittlement temperature, comminuted in a comminution device and passed through a series of screening and density classificati...
05/31/1977
4025991Belt buckle
A belt buckle comprising a channel-like shell inclusive of a web joining a pair of flanges. A slide adapted to be secured to one end of a belt is slidably mounted in the shell in spaced relation to the web for receiving the other end of the belt therebetw...
05/31/1977
4025992Device for safety belts for vehicles
A receiving part for the coupling tongue of a vehicle safety belt with two spaced guides plates, a locking body for locking the tongue within the guide plate and being movable in a direction transverse to the guide plate, a lever-shaped lifting element lo...
05/31/1977
4025993Method of, and apparatus for sizing and drying warps
A method of sizing and drying spun yarns intended for use as warps is disclosed. A large number of spun yarns withdrawn from at least one warp beam supported on a beam stand, in spaced relationship in the form of a sheet, are advanced through a solution o...
05/31/1977
4025994Differentially drafted lofted continuous filament yarn and process for making same
Process and product obtained by the process by which an undrawn or partially drawn continuous filament yarn is heated above glass transition temperature and is differentially drafted by co-current and countercurrent heated gaseous flows to form in the fil...
05/31/1977
4025995Linear motion ball bearing assembly and ball conforming shaft
A linear motion ball bearing assembly and shaft having ball conforming portions are combined to support heavier-than-normal loads and provide torque resistance. The bearing shaft is provided with one or more ball conforming grooves. The bearing assembly i...
05/31/1977
4025996Sinusoidal structural element
Described herein are self-supporting structural elements formed of an integral sheet characterized by alternating elevations and depressions which sinusoidally vary about a flat or curved surface of neutrality, the element being suitable for use as a core...
05/31/1977
4025997Ceramic mounting and heat sink device
This relates to a multi-layer composite metallic sheet having a predetermined coefficient of thermal expansion for use as a heat sink and mounting arrangement when bonded to a ceramic substrate. Since copper has a coefficient of thermal expansion greater ...
05/31/1977
4025998Wire slitting and installing apparatus
Apparatus for slitting a sheathed three-conductor cable having two outer conductors and a central ground conductor preparatory to installing the slit segment into a specially prepared electrical fixture comprises a slitting assembly reciprocatingly slidab...
05/31/1977
4025999Adjustable crimp die assembly
An adjustable crimp die assembly adapted to be mounted in a press for crimping a plurality of terminals onto stripped insulated wire leads. The crimp die assembly includes a base with a terminal supporting structure having a crimp station whereat a termin...
05/31/1977
4026000Apparatus for producing enveloped battery plates
Apparatus for enveloping battery plates within porous separators and for feeding a separator sheet to form a fold at the approximate midpoint of the separator, simultaneously positioning a battery plate with an edge adjacent to the fold line, passing the ...
05/31/1977
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