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Pillow with retractable umbrella
A pillow assembly having a supporting assembly and a retractable umbrella assembly that is easily transportable and allows a user to support his/her head while covering their face from sunlight.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4117752 | Emergency system for stopping a band blade of a cutting apparatus An emergency system for stopping the endless band blade reeved around a plurality of pulleys rotatably mounted on the base of a cutting apparatus. The system has a bearing rotatably mounted on the base and held in contact with the band blade at all times ... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117753 | Sheet cutting apparatus A sheet cutting apparatus is illustrated as including a free standing cutting blade movable across the sheet material. A base member has a longitudinal channel therein through which the knife extends into a complimentary channel carried by a pressure bar ... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117754 | Transverse cutter An apparatus for cutting a cellular plastic web emerging from a web forming machine into a plurality of predetermined lengths is described. A cutting device including a plurality of spaced filaments is provided on a movable carriage slidably supported on ... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117755 | Log transport and sawing system A log sawing and transport system for relatively small logs has an infeed and loading station where logs are positioned in a centering device for aligning the logs with respect to the saws. Once the log is properly aligned for axial movement, a set of end... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117756 | Vertical band saw and feed table A band saw having a generally vertically oriented saw blade carrying frame mounted to a movable carriage is disclosed. The carriage is mounted in a horizontally extending guideway in the saw base by an arm which is cantilevered from the back side of the v... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117757 | Rectangular waveform signal reproducing circuit for electronic musical instruments A rectangular waveform signal reproducing circuit for electronic musical instruments which is composed of a first charge-discharge circuit having a relatively small charge time constant and a relatively large discharge time constant for charging and disch... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117758 | Binary word debouncer A special circuit arrangement intended for use with electronic organs and the like, and particularly intended for use with electronic organs having playing key operated switches and in which at least a portion of the switches actuated by keys of a keyboar... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117759 | Apparatus for forming chord signal An arrangement for forming a musical chord signal in which there are provided a frequency divider for root, a frequency divider for minor third, a frequency divider for major third and a frequency divider for fifth or a frequency divider for seventh. Thes... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117760 | Feed pawl antibounce device A feed pawl antibounce device that prevents jamming of a round feed appars when the pawl clears the round and is moved into position to feed the round from its feed position to its chambering position in front of the open bolt.... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117761 | Fire control mechanism 1. In a firearm; an operating rod disposed for reciprocation between a breech closed position and a recoil position in response to the cyclic rate of the firearm; sear means spring biased into a holding position for retaining said operating rod in a cocke... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117762 | Machine tools with sliding tool-holding ram Machine tools with a horizontally sliding tool-holding ram in which a force is applied to the anterior end of the ram by a bar which moves with the ram, running on a first roller located on the front of the ram support, and under a second roller located o... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117763 | Key decoding and duplicating apparatus and method Method and apparatus for decoding and duplicating a key wherein the notches in the shank of the key are coded to a predetermined coded depth and spacing therebetween. An index card having a sequential index thereon corresponding to the predetermined coded... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117764 | Vibration attenuating device A vibration attenuating device to be used in conjunction with reciprocating-motion type impact mechanisms having working and stop members that are axially movable relative towards or away from one another. The members define a pressure chamber therebetwee... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117765 | Power servo control An electrohydraulic servo system to actuate the power shaft of a fuel control system from the cockpit throttle including electrical devices responsive to the position of the throttle that actuates a hydraulic piston for moving the power shaft together wit... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117766 | Hydraulic booster The invention relates to a hydraulic booster of the closed-center type and comprising a housing containing a working chamber, an actuating piston slidable in the working chamber, a set of a high-pressure valve and an exhaust valve of the ball valve type c... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117767 | Compressed air-operated fastener driver The invention pertains to a compressed air-operated fastener driver utilizing a piston reciprocally mounted within a cylinder wherein a control valve at one end of the cylinder selectively opens and closes cylinder ports communicating with a compressed ai... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117768 | Hydraulic rotary devices In a rotary device with a rotating cylinder barrel of the kind having a plurality of pistons partially engaged in cylinders formed in the cylinder barrel and the axes of which are spaced around the axis of the cylinder barrel, the pistons are displaced in... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117769 | Vacuum booster A servomotor for power actuation of a mechanical or hydraulic control, for example brake master cylinders for motor vehicles, is disclosed. The servomotor includes a housing in which a power piston separates a low pressure chamber from a high pressure cha... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117770 | Axial-piston hydraulic machine An axial-piston hydraulic machine with a rotating cylinder block. The axial bores of said cylinder block accommodate reciprocating pistons. Said pistons restrict the working chambers some of which communicate through a passage with a high-pressure zone wh... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117771 | Apparatus for forming bundles of flattened bags In an apparatus for forming bundles of flattened bags and successively transporting said bundles away, a rotary cylinder deposits successive bags edgewise on a depositing table disposed between the cylinder and a stationary support. The bags are accumulat... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117772 | Vented window assembly for automotive vehicles A vented window assembly which is particularly suitable for use in rear-seat position, quarter window panels of compact automobiles. The assembly preferably includes a frame having an outline or perimeter which is compatible with the outline of the normal... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117773 | Ventilation system for the supply of air or exhaustion of fumes An improved trunking system is provided for ventilation systems in which air or fumes are to be supplied to or exhausted in adverse environments from travelling equipment such as crane cabs and fume hoods in steel works and coke ovens. The trunking is of ... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117774 | Egg sheller An apparatus for removing the shell of a hard boiled egg having a main body portion in the general configuration of an egg and having a thin wedge gently shaped leading edge for insertion between the cooked egg white and the surrounding membrane and shell... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117775 | Tying needle safety control for crop balers In the event that tying needles should be left in the path of travel of the baling plunger as a result of a malfunction in the drive for the needles, a safety control linkage will take over to withdraw the needles from the path of travel as the plunger co... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117776 | Screw press apparatus A screw press for extracting liquid from materials, such as juice from fruits and vegetables, has a compressing section for expressing the liquid from the liquid containing material with a screw member and a holding section receiving the compressed pulp. ... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117777 | Refuse container, and refuse compacting and discharging device therefor A bottomless container for household dry refuse such as garbage and rubbish is positioned within a bag having its upper edge folded firstly inwardly and then outwardly of the container edge, so that the refuse can be compacted and the bag removed when the... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117778 | High speed printer with arc preventing fluorocarbon gas A high speed printer in which ions produced between the high voltage impressed electrodes are modulated and then passed through an ink mist to electrically charge the ink particles to thereby print desired letters, figures, signs, etc., on a printing pape... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117779 | Means to provide uniform lengthwise squeegee angle of attack A rotary screen printing machine comprising a plurality of rotatably mounted cylindrical screen stencils each having an internal squeegee blade supported in a holder, means being provided either in the mounting of the stencil or in the support of the sque... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117780 | Linear ejection underwater charge launcher The underwater charge launcher linearly ejects a small, water-propelled explosive charge into the water from the open end of an ejection barrel trailed in the water behind a seismic exploration vessel. The charge is detonated, after a one to two-second de... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117781 | Utility desk A portable utility desk for bed-patient and other uses including a flat, rectangular surface having a semicircular notch on one side thereof for adapting to the body of the user and providing for attachment of legs to the surface to be usable in a multipl... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117782 | Guard for preventing human injuries on impact with furnishings A removable impact guard for preventing injury to humans such as children and the infirm on striking edges of furnishings and the like comprises a self-holding elongate member for wrapping around furnishings and a securance along the elongate member for a... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117783 | Modular storage unit The present invention pertains to storage units for use in the home, factory, office or the like, and, more particularly, to such storage units constructed of module units which can be assembled together into a variety of forms or shapes, for accommodatin... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117784 | Disassemblable table A disassemblable table comprising at least a vertical column carrying the table-top and connected thereto in any detachable manner and provided at its lower end with a number of foot members extending radially outwardly from the base of said column, chara... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117785 | Safe with recessed dial A safe with a safe door and a recessed dial which is constructed to actuate the safe lock and to release the blocking of the bolt system. The recessed dial can be pulled forward from the safe door in its axial direction. A bolt actuated by the dial is pro... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117786 | Inlet air preheating for pyrolysis system The air entering the reactor in a pyrolysis system is preheated by burning a part of the process gas from the reactor in the entering air, thereby maintaining an inlet temperature to prevent solidifying of the slag in the furnace, to maintain the pyrolyti... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117787 | Machine for performing cultivation under plastics The invention provides a machine for performing cultivation under plastics, wherein there is a framework, a ploughshare to make a furrow in the ground, a support bearing a roll of plastic sheet and arranged in such a way that the sheet is positioned on th... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117788 | Seed drill including discs driven by ground wheel drive Seed sowing apparatus comprising a plurality of ground-engaging discs arranged in staggered relationship in two or more rows and driven from ground-engaging wheels, with individual seed metering devices carried by and driven by each disc to deposit seeds ... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117789 | Automatic, in situ bobbin spool loading The disclosure relates to the automatic refilling of a bobbin spool, in a lock stitch type sewing machine, in the interval between the loading of work units. After sewing of a predetermined work unit, consisting of a single workpiece, or several workpiece... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117790 | Automatic sewing machine An automatic sewing machine includes means for advancing a work piece having a plurality of contiguous edges connected together in angular relationship to each other to sew such edges in succession, a table supporting the workpiece and having an arcuate s... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4117791 | Dual color coded sewing machine needles A dual color coding system is disclosed for sewing machine needles in which the color appearing on one area of the needle denotes the needle type, whereas that appearing on another area denotes the needle size. A dye which leaves no discernable surface co... | 10/03/1978 |
