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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4040123 | Detachable connection for pivotally mounting a face shield to a head protector The combination of a protective helmet of rigid material, a face shield, and a connector means for pivotally connecting, supporting and orienting a face shield on the head protective helmet, and which includes resilient means supporting the connector mean... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040124 | Hospital gown having fitting means A hospital gown has portions thereof encircling a wearer's body which bear a cohesive-adhesive material to enable an adjustably snug fit.... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040125 | Convertible shirt collar A collar attached to an outer shirt folds neatly along one curved line when the shirt is worn with the neckband closed or the ends thereof overlapped, and to fold easily along a second curved line, spaced below the first line, when the shirt is worn with ... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040126 | Golf glove A golf glove having an improved fastener element extending transversely across the back portion thereof which includes a notch or slit type opening extending from the rear edge of the glove a predetermined distance toward the finger portion. The improveme... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040127 | Lip protector A device to cover the lips of the user to protect the lips from the effect of prolonged sun and wind including a one-piece flexible blank folded into a substantially V-shaped configuration. The legs of the V are inserted in the mouth of the user and the f... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040128 | One-piece pantyhose construction A one-piece construction for pantyhose or the like that has sufficient crotch rise and contains no excess material in the longitudinal dimension. An integral elongated tube of knit fabric has a waist slit formed in the middle portion thereof extending in ... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040129 | Surgical implant and alloy for use in making an implant Implant for bone surgery and for dental therapeutics, comprising an alloy containing defined critical amounts of titanium and/or zirconium, and other selected elements including niobium, tantalum, chromium, molybdenum and aluminum. Dissolved gases may als... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040130 | Wrist joint prosthesis Wrist joint prosthesis. As a replacement for the joint in a human wrist, there is provided a prosthesis permitting both vertical motion, sidewise motion and rotary motion but preventing twisting motion around an axis projecting from and parallel with the ... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040131 | Trispherical prosthetic shoulder device Biocompatible metal balls are secured by affixation stems to the humerus and the scapular region of the shoulder. The balls are rotatably captured between a pair of cutout plastic hemispheres, which are secured to each other to form a spheroid by a metal ... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040132 | Backscrubber A casing having a side open inwardly of a shower enclosure, and a plurality of cylindrical scrubbers rotatable in the casing and projecting out of said casing for contact with the back of a person; a transmission in a closed compartment adjacent to the ca... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040133 | Bedding attachment system A section of Velcro material is positioned on the edge of waterbed mattress adjacent each corner. The material is either connected directly to the mattress or attached to a strip of material that extends beneath the mattress and is secured there by the we... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040134 | Pontoon boat This invention consists primarily of a catamaran type of boat, which includes a main frame upon which is a deck and two standard canoes for use as pontoons. The canoes are converted into pontoons by the addition of light weight cellular floatation materia... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040135 | Emergency locator system for locating and retrieving sunken vessels An emergency locator system for locating and retrieving sunken vessels and vessels in distress comprising in combination a base, a buoyant float releasably mounted thereon and a long line connecting the base and float. The base is adapted to be mounted on... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040136 | Wing to swim A wing to swim which includes a sleeve to attach to a member to be manipulated under water in generally fore to aft cycles of movement and an umbrella type collapsible canopy carried by the sleeve and moveable in response to water forces caused by the man... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040137 | Binding for water ski A water ski binding having a heel piece binding with a flexible heel boot held in place with an adjustable heel member. The heel member is U-shaped and has an elongated slot in each leg. The upper part of the slot extends outward to form a shoulder and an... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040138 | Drive for use in a sweeping device A drive for rotating a corner-sweeping brush of a sweeping device includes a gear on the brush, and a translation member provided with teeth engaging the gear and rotating the same about its axis with attendant rotation of the brush when the housing of th... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040139 | Scouring pad or the like A scouring-pad construction wherein an outer tubular envelope is inside-out loosely knitted around a loosely fabricated pliant stuffer material, given lengths of such materials being secured to establish end closure along generally transverse alignments. ... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040140 | Ice scraper An ice and snow scraper adapted to be held in the hand of a user is disclosed. The scraper comprises a one-piece body having a hand-fitting handle section, a blade section, and an intermediate section. The blade section comprises a scraping surface and an... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040141 | Windshield wiper installation An improved windshield wiper installation in which the windshield wiper blade is held free and clear of abutting surfaces when in a good weather position by dual cam means operatively urging the spring holding means away from abutting surfaces and maintai... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040142 | Safety device more particularly for rabbet of door A safety device for covering the groove of an opening between doors, windows and the like, and its surrounding casing. The device comprises a bellows mounted opposite to the hinge axis whose opened out folds cover the groove when the door is open and whic... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040143 | Releasable door hold-open device A releasable door hold-open device or assembly is mounted on the header over a door panel. The assembly has a track channel with a top web and depending flanges. A door panel connector arm has a traveller movable in the track channel. A solenoid operates ... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040144 | Door assister A typical door closer has a cylinder in which a piston reciprocates to compress a spring. An assistor for such a closer has a cylindrical shell fastened to one end of and continuing the cylinder. The shell has a barrier wall at one end adjacent the cylind... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040145 | Machine for loosening and removing textile fibers from fiber bales A machine for loosening and withdrawing fibers from a fiber bale, wherein bars are provided for engaging the top surface of the bale and, when depressed along a certain preselected distance, act in such a way that the carding cloth is active upon a limite... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040146 | Device for distributing textile fiber slivers inside collection boxes in spinning preparation machines This invention relates to a device for distributing textile fiber slivers inside collection boxes in spinning preparation machines, in particular in drawing frames. The device according to the invention comprises a plate rotating above the collection box ... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040147 | Shoulder strap retainer A shoulder strap retainer having a base to be positioned on the exterior shoulder portion of a garment with securing means attached to the undersurface of the base for removably securing the base to the exterior shoulder portion of the garment. A flexible... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040148 | Button for clothes A button for clothes is composed of a button body and a reverse button having a needle member as a set. The button body is formed on its base plate center with an axial hole for insertion of the needle member of the reverse button. The inside of the butto... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040149 | Mounting eye A base member of a push pin is formed by casting or molding, and a pin is inserted pointed end first into a hole in the base member and forced through the base member until the end opposite thereof lies below the surface of the base member. The material o... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040150 | Slide fastener having discrete coupling elements A slide fastener is provided which comprises a pair of oppositely disposed stringer tapes each carrying along its longitudinal edge a series of uniformly spaced fastener elements. Each of the fastener elements has a pair of openings in the rounded front e... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040151 | Partial turn panel fastener Improved partial turn fastener designed to hold a pair of superimposed panels in fixed registration with each other and allowing release of one panel from the other by merely a partial turn of the knob or screw of the fastener. Featured is the arrangement... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040152 | Saddle for U-bolt clamp A saddle for a U-bolt clamp formed with two similar sheet metal half sections spot welded together in face-to-face relation. The upper central portion of the web of the clamp is formed with a semicircular recess to accommodate one-half of the periphery of... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040153 | Method and apparatus for restraining a yarn wad Yarn in the form of a yarn wad is passed to a cooling and restraining zone wherein the surfaces of a plurality of balls are pressed directly against the surface of the yarn wad and simultaneously the movement of the balls relative to the yarn wad is restr... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040154 | Jet texturing process and apparatus Thermoplastic yarn is textured while at a temperature at or above its plasticizing temperature by impingement thereon of a converging stream of compressible fluid. Prior to impingement, the fluid stream is passed through a convergent/divergent flow path t... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040155 | Apparatus for crimping synthetic thermoplastic fibers Synthetic thermoplastic fibers are crimped in the presence of steam in a crimping zone wherein there are present a defined first region of low but increasing steam pressure, a defined second region of substantially constant, relatively high steam pressure... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040156 | Adjusting device for milling cutters A blade holder component secured to a revolving milling cutter body includes walls which define a recess for receiving a cutting blade, and which support the cutting blade inserted in the recess. The blade holder component incorporates an adjusting device... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040157 | Drum support apparatus A drum support apparatus including outboard and inboard hubs having outer surfaces adapted for interface fitting with the inside surface of a drum. The hubs while being supported on a shaft that is cantilevered from a frame, provide support for the drum i... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040158 | Steel mill rolls A laminated steel mill roll consists of a core member, a reversible replaceable shell member and a retaining member. The core member has a radially-outwardly extending shoulder, while the shell member has two symmetrically-disposed radially-inwardly exten... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040159 | Method of manufacture of cooled airfoil-shaped bucket A method of forming an airfoil-shaped body is described which includes providing a core with cooling channels recessed into the surface thereof, affixing a calendered multilayer flexible mesh screen substrate to the surface of the core, applying braze all... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040160 | Method of manufacturing symbol indication drum A drum formed on its outer peripheral surface with symbols and symbol position ascertaining marks. The symbols which, include characters, numerals, code marks and the like are superposed on the drum indirectly by affixing to the drum body a belt on which ... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040161 | Apparatus and method for removing a plurality of blade dies A method is disclosed of removing a plurality of rim blade dies around the circumference of a disc while the disc, blades and blade dies are at a temperature approximating those during the forging operation. The upper disc forming die is removed along wit... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4040162 | Method of producing composite extruded aluminum products from aluminum swarf Particulate aluminum or aluminum alloy swarf or waste is compressed under heat and pressure to form a billet. After subjecting the billet to a subsequent heat treatment at a higher temperature the billets are capable of being extruded by conventional extr... | 08/09/1977 |
