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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4112521 | Quick adjust strap for diver's face mask A quick adjust strap for ready connection and release of a diver's face mask. A headband is connected to brackets on the sides of the face mask. One end of the headband is received in a ring of one bracket and nipples thereon lock with a slider member the... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112522 | Knee-joint prosthesis A knee joint prosthesis has a femur part and a tibia part which are pivotable relative to one another about a joint-flexing axis. One of the parts is rotatable about an axis perpendicular to the flexing axis. An eccentric member, the angular position of w... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112523 | Sanitary disposal unit A sanitary disposal unit having a waste receptacle located intermediate on apertured seat and a combustion chamber, the waste receptacle being adapted to rotate about a horizontal axis and having at least one waste receiving compartment thereby enabling w... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112524 | Shower-bath tub A shower bath tub has a bottom portion with a water outlet, and an upright portion on this bottom portion provided with a top which has a funnel shaped collecting bowl extending down into a space where it is connected to a discharge conduit. A toilet seat... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112525 | Drying rack assembly for bathing compartments A shower door or enclosure for a shower stall, bathtub or the like comprises an extrusion frame rigidly positioned between opposing walls of the bathing compartment. A foldable door is suspended from the extrusion and is adapted to be drawn between the op... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112526 | Water level controller for swimming pool gutter A pool having a gutter around its perimeter, the gutter being formed in part by an inner lip. Openings spaced around the perimeter of the pool are formed in the inner lip, and means are provided to close the openings when the water level in the gutter rea... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112527 | Temporary stopper for outlets of toilet bowls The present invention pertains to a temporary stopper for the outlets of toilet bowls. In particular, this stopper is adapted for installation into and removal from the open top of a toilet bowl and when installed is adapted to stop any and all back flow ... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112528 | Box spring assembly and small diameter single cone coil spring for use in that assembly An improved single cone coil spring and an improved box spring assembly made from the improved single cone coil springs. The box spring assembly comprises a base frame, a series of the improved small diameter single cone coil springs and a welded wire gri... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112529 | Foundation unit for bedding A foam foundation unit for bedding in which a foam layer is supported on a wire grid that is fixed to the top side of the wooden base frame.... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112530 | Camping tool, in particular for driving and extracting from the ground anchorage pegs of camping tents A camping tool in which an elongated metallic body carries, at one end, a curved portion having a V-shaped gap. A handle is attached to the other end of the base body. A mass metallic portion is supported by the base body in proximity where the curved por... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112531 | Method of printing webs Printing medium is supplied to a plurality of individual dot-printing elements, and these elements are used for printing a pattern on a web by applying dots of printing medium from respective ones of the elements to the web, either to the surface thereof ... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112532 | Method of padding and extracting a continuously advancing circular knit fabric tube The disclosure is that of an invention directed to a horizontal padder and extractor for circular knit fabric tubes and includes a pair of squeeze rolls disposed with their axes in the same horizontal plane, thus defining an upwardly open nip for retainin... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112533 | Interior-exterior truck body wash A more or less conventional back and forth shiftable spray and rotary brush assembly is provided for movement back and forth along the external surfaces of a trailer body to be washed and includes opposite side portions from which inwardly projectable and... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112534 | Washer for nyloprint printing blocks or the like An apparatus for washing out of printing blocks of the "Nyloprint" type or the like is provided, comprising a brush device which is coupled to a driving means and adapted to be moved across a printing block which, during the washing, is fixedly disposed i... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112535 | High pressure jet wall cleaner apparatus (1) A wall cleaning unit including a housing with an open side for placement in contiguous relationship to a wall, upper and lower spray bars in the housing for directing high pressure water against the wall, sealing members on the housing around the open... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112536 | Applicator Apparatus for dispensing a fluent composition comprising a casing having a top opening with a stationary or rotatable arcuately surfaced web backing member projecting through the opening and a carrier web bearing the composition passes out of the casing t... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112537 | Grill scraper A tool for scraping the wires or rods constituting a barbeque grill or the like. The tool has a handle terminating in a stiff extension having a U-shaped distal end. A wheel is pivotably secured at its center to said extension and has a plurality of U-sha... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112538 | Carpet cleaning machine A carpet cleaning machine of the portable type that is characterized by a compact frame arrangement for supporting dispensing and pick-up systems for liquid type carpet cleaners. The cleaning liquid and dirty liquid are simultaneously applied to and picke... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112539 | Structural-reinforcement means for precision, telescoping, linear slide mechanisms A structural-reinforcement means for a precision, telescoping, bearing, slide mechanism having inner and outer slide members held together by ball bearings, or other well known means, such as frictional or roller bearings, the balls being operably dispose... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112540 | Elevating and shifting railway car sliding door mechanism A mechanism for moving a sliding door of a railway car is capable of moving the sliding door between a first position in which the sliding door is supported on the body of the railway car and closes an opening in the railway car body and a second position... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112541 | Handle for bags particularly of net or plastic material A handle for bags particularly of a net or plastic material has a closed loop carrying member to the bottom portion of which is connected a bendable strip substantially parallel to the carrying member. The strip is foldable back upon itself to form two st... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112542 | Auxiliary handle for plurality of carrying handles An auxiliary handle for a plurality of carrying handles which has a carrying handle in the main body portion and a plurality of wing-like, foldable auxiliary handle holding or carrying elements which are foldable toward the auxiliary carrying handle and f... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112543 | Furniture hinge A furniture hinge comprises a hinge casing and a hinge arm, each adapted to be mounted on different furniture parts and connected by means of hinge links, a pressure spring acting on one hinge link, and a guiding lever interpositioned between the spring a... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112544 | Tenderizer for butcher's meat This invention concerns a tenderizer to tenderize butcher's meat before consumption, comprising a base, the underside of which comes into contact with the meat, and contains parallel slots, the tenderizer having tenderizing blades which are partly embedde... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112545 | Method and apparatus for forming torn, random size pieces of sausage meat Chopped or ground sausage meat or like material is extruded as a continuous column into the path of action of a set of wipers which individually sweep across different fractional portions of the extrusion opening, thereby tearing respective random size ch... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112546 | Method of and apparatus for making link sausages A strand of sausage filling is pushed stepwise through a tube over which is fitted an empty sausage casing such that as the strand emerges stepwise from the downstream end of the tube it fills the casing. The filled casing is gripped between a pair of con... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112547 | Automatically adjustable cutting apparatus for purposes such as filleting fish The apparatus disclosed relates to the fishing industry and incorporates a means of aligning the fish and a pair of circular knives mounted in hubs on a shaft with provision for their displacement along said shaft. According to the invention, the possibil... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112548 | Drafting machine A machine for blending, matting, shortening or sizing natural or artificial fibers, in which the work is performed by groups or trains of three rollers. A first working stage has a single head delivering two slivers and in which the twin bearing rollers a... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112549 | Apparatus for deflocculating fibrous wad and uniformly distributing the disintegrated fibrous material on a dry fiber layer forming surface A method and apparatus for deflocculating a dry suspension of fibers wherein the fibers are introduced into a housing in suspension in air, and are allowed to commence settling by free fall through the housing. An impeller is positioned below the inlet an... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112550 | Suspended ceiling hook A one piece suspended ceiling hook comprising an upper rail gripping portion and a downwardly extending hook portion. The upper portion includes two inwardly extending and opposing flanges having inner edges spaced apart from each other. A recess is forme... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112551 | Draw strings puller and fastener For a draw string in which the looped mid portion operatively associated with a closable member has its ends slidably passing into one closed end and out of an open end of a thimble-like slide fastener, the closed end of which is adapted to abut the closa... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112552 | Three-way slide fastener Disclosed is an embodiment of a conventional zipper in which a single slide fastener joins teeth mounted on three surfaces allowing closure of two separate compartments with one movement. Further disclosed is a slide fastener in which two surfaces are ind... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112553 | Slide fastener bottom ends A bottom stop member for slide fasteners in which the bottom ends of the chains of interlocking elements are detachable, the stop member having two lateral grooves into which the end members of both chains are seated. One of the chains are fastened to the... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112554 | Separable slide fastener with an automatically locking slider A slide fastener comprising a box-and-pin separable coupling and an automatically locking slider. The slider has a locking member pivoted at one end on the slider body and having first and second legs formed adjacent its other end in side-by-side disposit... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112555 | Slide fastener Coupling elements of slide fastener stringers are deformed by transverse forces of mating elements. The longitudinal spacing of coupling elements is modified by stretching or shrinking tape portions supporting the elements.... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112556 | Zipper construction A dual zipper construction provides a double closure to discourage opening of the zippered enclosure. The zippers co-extend, one above the other, with the upper zipper closing in a direction opposite that of the lower zipper. Each zipper has its engaging ... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112557 | Devices for fastening ski boots A device for fastening a ski boot is characterized in that it comprises a second unlocking lever having a positive action, pivoted to the rack or clamping lever and whose pivotal movement causes the disengagement of the engagement pin of the clamping leve... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112558 | Fabric bulking process The process of the present invention comprises feeding a fabric along a loop of predetermined length, controlling the length of the loop and impinging high velocity gas of a predetermined temperature and velocity against the fabric in the loop so as to tr... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112559 | Apparatus for compressively shrinking textile fabrics at high speed This disclosure teaches an apparatus for longitudinally compressively shrinking a textile fabric web by continuously feeding the web between a thick elastomeric belt and a heated polished cylinder having a low frictional resistance. The apparatus of this ... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4112560 | Method for sculpturing pile fabrics The pile is trimmed from selected regions of pile fabrics by applying stiffening agent to the regions from which the pile is to be trimmed, this stiffening agent is then hardened and the fibers thereof are then severed from the regions to which stiffening... | 09/12/1978 |
