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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4096669 | Membrane building segment connection A sealed connecting construction for membrane segments covering a building framework of rigid trusses. The side edges of adjoining segments have cables secured thereto and the cables are detachably connected by one or more chain links to clips overlying t... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096670 | Building structural system A new building structural system is described that employs unique elements to interconnect standard structural members in a simple, economical and effective manner. These unique interconnecting elements interconnct a girder and a span member of a building... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096671 | Roof eave assembly A roof eave assembly for tiled roofs includes a sarking support running beneath the tiles and over the upper edge of a fascia board to give a firm sloping support for sarking. The support includes a flange in front of the fascia board in spaced relationsh... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096672 | Anchoring arrangement for securing an object to a support structure having an internal cavity An anchoring arrangement for securing an object to a support structure having an internal cavity includes an anchoring element which extends through an anchoring hole into the internal cavity and includes a hollow anchoring member having a passage at its ... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096673 | Method of anchoring Cables are anchored in the ground by attaching one end of the cable to an intermediate portion of an elongated tubular member having a leading driving end with an internal abutment and a trailing end with an out turned lip on the side of the tubular membe... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096674 | False tenon structure A false tenon structure for use in "split log" structures of various cross-sectional configurations, the tenon being of the appropriate cross-section and having at an end a cradle shaped to accept an adjacent tenon in an end portion thereof and transverse... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096675 | Split-slab house construction A house includes a split-slab foundation having an upper portion constructed within an enclosed on-tract factory and a lower portion constructed on the lot. The superstructure of the house is erected upon the upper portion, and the super-structure and upp... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096676 | Wall member A "Wall Member" which comprises an elongated substantially rectangular extruded mono-shell defining an inner core, extruded in indefinite length, after which it is cut to the required dimension. The shell is made of low heat expandable material and contai... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096677 | Post base A post base connection device for attachment to concrete to provide resistance to lateral and vertical movement of the post in respect to the concrete. The device is in essence a continuous V-section member which is bent at its mid-point and configured so... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096678 | Insulated construction element Two elongated metallic profiles each formed with two pairs of flanges each of which forms a longitudinally extending groove are positioned with the two grooves of each profile parallel and opening toward the two grooves of another such profile. An elongat... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096679 | Self-compensating two-piece siding or roofing slat A two-piece interlocking siding or roofing slat assembly for covering a surface of a building. The slat assembly includes a central panel having a lower anchoring configuration and an upper hook-like slide configuration integral therewith. A separate atta... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096680 | Reinforcement grid for steel concrete construction The invention relates to reinforcement grids for steel concrete construct and consisting of longitudinal transverse rods crossing one another which, at some or all of their crossing points, are connected by pieces of binding wire looped around the rods a... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096681 | Fastener for retaining sheet cladding A fastener for retaining sheet cladding, such as roof or wall sheeting, with outstanding flange joints, comprising an anchoring portion intended for attachment to a substructure, either directly to it or via an anchoring plate, and a fastening portion lyi... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096682 | Bundling of cigarettes Nested three-row bundles of cigarettes are formed in rapid, simple and effective manner by forming a three-row group of cigarettes in which each row contains the same number of cigarettes, removing one cigarette from one end of the center row of cigarette... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096683 | Ampoule filling and sealing machine An ampoule filling and sealing machine with feeding, filling, sealing and loading stations. A horizontally oriented endless chain drive moves the ampoules through the filling and sealing stations. Belts or a reciprocating agitator are provided in the feed... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096684 | Automatic lens grinding machine An improved automatic lens grinding machine and process for shaping lenses to fit any particular glasses frame. The machine includes a recording assembly by which the pattern of a glasses frame which will hold a lens is recorded on a heat or photosensitive ... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096685 | Method and apparatus for producing slubby yarn A process is disclosed for preparing slubby strands in which a textile strand is passed either over a surface or through a slubbing tool. The surface, if employed, may include a plurality of fluid passages positioned therein. As the strand passes over the... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096686 | Feed device for open-end spinning assembly Feeding apparatus is provided for an open-end spinning assembly which includes a feeding table and feed roller facing one another to form a nip which offers sliver to an opening roll disposed downstream thereof. Upstream of the feed roll and feeding table... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096687 | Method for producing slubbed yarns A method and apparatus are disclosed for producing randomly slubbed textile yarns. The method involves passing the yarn through a zone of fluid turbulence having a pair of counterdirectional fluid streams maintained under different fluid pressures. The ya... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096688 | Expansible linkage for wrist watch bracelets, identification bracelets and the like This disclosure is directed to expansible linkages for expansible wrist watch bracelets, identification bracelets and similar articles which permit the retail jeweler to quickly and easily adjust the length of a bracelet to fit different size wrists of cu... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096689 | Heating chamber seal provided in a heating chamber combustion engine A heating chamber seal is provided for a heating chamber combustion engine. A piston is provided with an extension on the flat bottom of the piston which towers upwardly and during the upstroke reaches into a pocket of the cylinder head. The extension has... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096690 | Louvered exhaust port liner An internal combustion engine cast housing is provided with an exhaust port liner in the exhaust passage, the exhaust port liner having contact solely with the cast housing at a flange clamped about the outlet of said passage. The liner is formed of sheet... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096691 | Catalyst container for use in exhaust manifold A catalyst container for use in an exhaust manifold, which container includes perforated inner and outer cylinders and is positioned within the exhaust manifold, in the position of its exit, with catalysts filled in a cylindrical space defined between the... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096692 | Air-pump system for reciprocating engines A crank chamber in a multicylinder-engine is divided by division walls into a plurality of spaces each of which contains one set of cranks fixed to a crankshaft, and in which varying air pressure is developed. The air under such pressure flows into a pres... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096693 | Torque converter fluid control system for power transmission system In a power transmission system, a bearing is provided for carrying an output shaft of the torque converter unit. The bearing is lubricated by torque converter fluid delivered thereto through a lubrication circuit. The lubrication circuit includes a flow r... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096694 | Control system for a fluid drive A fluid drive assembly has a pump, a variable displacement motor, a fluid circuit connecting the pump to the motor, and an actuator device for controlling the displacement of the motor. The actuator device is movable between a first position at which the ... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096695 | Engine driven heating system components for Stirling engines A mechanical drive system permits a single electric motor to drive at least three rotary components necessary to the cold starting of a Stirling engine. These components comprise a rotary preheater, an air atominzng pump for facilitaing proper injection o... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096696 | Vehicle power brake system with master booster and slave booster The vacuum chamber of the master booster is connected to a slave booster having a chamber also normally below atmospheric pressure. The variable pressure chamber of the master booster is connected to the other chamber of the slave booster through a check ... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096697 | Method and means for conditioning the intake air of a supercharged, low-compression ratio diesel engine A method of and means for conditioning a substantially highly supercharged, low-compression ratio Diesel engine at start and low-load or idling speed operation wherein the improvement consists in the step of temporarily preheating the air supply before it... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096698 | Solar energy converting device In abstract a preferred embodiment of the present invention is an energy converting device adapted to be utilized for the generation of electricity. The energy converting device of the present invention comprises a solar heat collecting main structure pos... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096699 | Auxiliary manual turbine controller A steam turbine control system comprising a primary and an auxiliary manual turbine controller, each said turbine controller including a set of valve position setpoint controllers for close-loop control of the turbine steam admission valves, is disclosed.... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096700 | Oil boom for damming and collecting a floating oil slick An oil boom is disclosed which comprises two rows of upper and lower stream side; a flexible base sheet connected across base portions of the two rows of floats and hanging down therefrom into the water in a gently curved shape. A plurality of inlet openi... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096701 | Mattresses for subaqueous structures A mattress for civil engineering use, including use in subaqueous structures, comprising two plies of synthetic fabric, one of which is non-woven, the other being woven, said plies being joined through sewn threads along one length of the mattress in para... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096702 | Mine stopping device and method of constructing same A mine stopping device and method of constructing same utilizing a plurality of laterally spaced substantially vertically disposed support members extending from the floor to the ceiling of a mine tunnel with a wire mesh screening secured thereto and exte... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096703 | Concrete constructional members This invention relates to concrete constructional members for building walls and bulkheads and particularly moles, quay bulkheads, groins or like edifices. Such members hitherto comprised a concrete body having a vertically continuous opening in the centr... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096704 | Offshore product loading terminal An offshore product loading terminal has a support which is secured an an anchor and which carries a pipe swivel. A product pipe from a product source is intended to be connected to the pipe swivel, the input and output of which are capable of relative ro... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096705 | Laying of underwater pipelines For laying a pipeline on the bed of the sea, a plurality of pipeline sections are successively towed by a tug exerting a traction effort at a point spaced to the rear of the front end of a pipeline section being towed, while another tug exerts a holding e... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096706 | Free condensing liquid retro-pumping refrigerator system and method A compressor, condenser, pressure control valve, condensed liquid receiver, expansion valve and evaporator are arranged in circuit to provide a refrigeration system. The pressure control valve and condensed liquid receiver are bypassed by a pump tank and ... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096707 | Portable refrigeration machine A portable refrigeration machine includes a vertically oriented pressure vessel containing carbon dioxide in gaseous, liquid and/or solid states. A heat exchanger is secured to the lower external portion of the vessel and an outer housing surrounds the ve... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4096708 | Compressor refrigeration plant The present invention relates to a compressor refrigeration plant comprising a throttling device between the condenser and evaporator and, associated with the throttling device, an intermittently operable electric heating resistor, a chamber being dispose... | 06/27/1978 |
