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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4121302 | Articles of clothing An article of clothing for enveloping the upper part of the body, particularly garments and undergarments of this type manufactured for men, women and children, having an extension to its back-piece in the form of a shaped flap of curved lower contour, pr... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121303 | Lightshielding hood for an electrical instrument A light shield for use with video display units, such as video monitors, television monitors, oscilloscopes or the like to block out ambient light. The light shield is made of a sleeve or hood having one end adapted to fit over video display units and a s... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121304 | Articulated mask An ornamental face mask has an upper face portion and a lower jaw portion hinged together solely by elastic bands. The bands are located at the outer edges of the mask and bridge the upper face portion and the lower portion. The lower jaw portion is also ... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121305 | Panties Panties include a semi-triangular crotch-piece which is supported on the wearer by elastic strings which fit over the pelvis. The panties are designed so as not to be visible through clothing.... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121306 | Urinal A urinal comprising a conical shaped body portion having an opening at its terminal apex, a conduit connected at one end at the apex and having a distally disposed three way valve and a remote reservoir. Also included is a flexible, conical shaped liner h... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121307 | Positive flow swimming pool gutter A pool having an open gutter around its perimeter including a back wall, a bottom and an inner wall. A suction pipe extending around the perimeter of the pool at the bottom of the gutter connected to the suction side of a pump provides for positive withdr... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121308 | Water closet water saving device There is disclosed a water closet water saving device comprising a container consisting of flexible material and having one or more accordion-like pleats formed in the wall of the container. The pleats enable recoverable compression of the container along... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121309 | Furniture spring support A furniture assembly, such as a metal box spring assembly, including slats defining support members for a plurality of coil springs. An aperture is formed in the metal support slat with an upset portion disposed about the periphery of the aperture and out... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121310 | Flotation support system with fluid accumulation means A flotation support system is disclosed, which includes a generally rectangular air frame, defined by a tubular air-filled member, which member surrounds an open region. A base sheet extends beneath the open region to define with the air-filled member a n... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121311 | Process and apparatus for the treatment of lengths of textile material Process and apparatus for the continuous, tensionless treatment of textile material lengths and similar web-shaped flat materials wherein the material is conveyed in gathered form to at least one treatment zone of a material treating unit. A fluid stream ... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121312 | Swim glove A glove to be worn by a swimmer for use in aiding the swimming stroke; the glove includes webbed finger stalls, an embossed surface and an air floatation collar about the wrist area for buoyancy.... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121313 | Cleaning tool for polishing pads A cleaning tool for polishing pads, the tool divided at the front end to journal a transverse roller whose periphery has a plurality of headed studs. The tool is tubular with said end directing a nozzle toward the roller; and the rear end has a valve for ... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121314 | Collapsible brush A collapsible brush is provided with bristle members having bristles of varying length so that a curved top surface is provided to aid in the brushing of a woman's hair. Also provided is an extension which receives in sliding relationship a sliding handle... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121315 | Bowling lane duster A bowling alley lane cleaner having a frame with paralleled end pieces spaced wider than the width of a bowling alley lane, a supply reel having a roll of cleaning paper thereon rotatably mounted between the frame end pieces, an elongated pad of resilient... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121316 | Hand held scraper A device for scraping ice or frost from vehicle windows and windshields. A substantially flat flexible member, an edge of which follows the contour of a to be cleared surface has a series of recesses on one side of the member to break up the frozen surfac... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121317 | Mobile pneumatic apparatus for sucking and blowing fiber dust from textile machines A mobile pneumatic apparatus for removing lint, dust, dirt and debris from textile machinery and the locus thereof, having a fan which on one side thereof has a pair of suction conduits generally opposed to one another and has on the other side a blower m... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121318 | Textile machine cleaning system A textile-machine cleaning device, having a cleaning hose and adapted to generally move overhead of a textile machine, is provided with means whereby the hose can be moved automatically from a first position in which it is operative to clean said machine,... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121319 | Releasable retaining means Means are provided for retaining fire doors in the open position against the action of the spring or other automatic door closers, with remote control release which can be actuated if a fire is detected. In use, one part thereof is mounted on the wall and... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121320 | Air controlled gutter cleaner An air controlled overhead gutter cleaner is disclosed having a head portion and a hollow supporting arm portion. The head is adapted for movement along the gutter under control of a person walking along the ground. The head is shaped such that as air, wh... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121321 | Device for modelling poultry A poultry modelling machine having pivotably mounted shell members for positioning the portions of a fowl, such as a chicken such that specially the wings are correctly positioned against the fowl's body for packing purposes, in which flaps are present fo... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121322 | Crustacean meat extraction means An apparatus for extracting the edible meat from crayfish, shrimp, crabs and other like crustaceans is provided comprising a pair of rollers positioned adjacent to one another to form a nip for receiving the crustacean wherein the lower nip is provided wi... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121323 | Pocket object protecting device A device for securing an object such as a wallet in a pocket of a pair of pants has a body member and a clip attached to an upper portion of the body member. A wedge extends from a side of the body member. The wedge abuts the object in the pocket when the... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121324 | Fastening device A magnetic fastening device comprises a fixed fastening component having a cam and a recess therein which is at least partially bounded by magnetic material, and a movable fastening component provided with a magnet dimensioned to fit into said recess. The... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121325 | Cable anchoring and coupling equipment The invention is concerned with an anchor and coupler unit for use with stressing cables in reinforced concrete structures. The unit comprises a base plate having an aperture therethrough and supporting a cable anchor the body of which includes an externa... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121326 | Slider for use in slide fastener A slider for use in a slide fastener prevents jamming of a foreign matter within the slider between fastener elements and inner element-guide portions of the slider. The slider has a diverging end and a contracted end, and the diverging end has two openin... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121327 | Clip ejector for safety seat belt buckle A clip ejector rides along a track in a belt buckle. The track is molded onto the inner surface of the cover. The ejector is spring biased into a protracted position. A clip when inserted, contacts two shoulders on the ejector, forcing the ejector back un... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121328 | Method of manufacturing a nebulization-humidification nozzle A nozzle formed by the mating of two separable parts, a housing and a plug insert, having smaller diameter orifice formed at a first mating interface of these two parts, a Venturi chamber connected to the smaller orifice, being formed at a second mating i... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121329 | Implement for attaching and detaching blades from a bladed tool An implement for attaching a blade such as a surgical knife blade to the handle of a bladed tool such as a surgical knife. The implement has a series of projections projecting outwardly from an operating edge which engage under the tip of the blade, over ... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121330 | Method of making ink roll with fabric cover retention and protection device Disclosed is a fabric covered ink roll and method of making same. The ink roll has side washers with peripheral lips clinching the fabric cover into the roll. The method disclosed can be performed semi-automatically using a collapsible mandrel which permi... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121331 | Method for manufacturing a friction speed change gearing A method of manufacturing a friction speed change gearing of the type which comprises a housing, inner and outer races, a plurality of cylindrical planetary rollers mounted between the inner and outer races subject to elastic deformation, and a spider mem... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121332 | Machine tool comprising a single spindle, adapted to automatically take up both the horizontal and the vertical position, and a single device for the automatic change of the tools A machine tool, designed for volume production, comprises a head with a single spindle, rotatably mounted about an axis, inclined by 45° in respect of the horizontal working plane of the machine. Automatic control means allow said head to take up at leas... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121333 | Method of manufacturing a two-phase charge-transfer semiconductor device and a device obtained by said method A new method of manufacturing a two-phase charge-transfer device operating by the charge-coupled technique, in which the asymmetry means associated with each group of electrodes are constituted by impurity barriers implanted in the semiconductor substrate... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121334 | Application of field-assisted bonding to the mass production of silicon type pressure transducers A method for mass producing silicon type pressure transducers and transducers resultant therefrom are disclosed. In the method, the major components of a plurality of transducers are simultaneously joined together by a field-assisted bonding technique whi... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121335 | Method of manufacturing bimetallic strip A method of manufacturing a bimetallic strip for commutators of electric machines, consisting in the use of a casting mould having a shape defined by a rectangle and a semicircle, the larger side of the rectangle being the diameter of the semicircle. A st... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121336 | Combination power saw and chain saw and adapter The present invention relates to a combination hand held circular saw and chain saw and an adapter to convert a conventional hand held circular saw to a chain saw comprising a hand held power means which includes housing means provided with handle means, ... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121337 | Ceiling patch apparatus and method The problem of defaced acoustical ceilings in homes, apartments, offices, etc., is eliminated in a highly simple and economical manner. The ceilings are defaced as the result of the removal of decorative hooks which suspend plants, etc. In accordance with... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121338 | Non-shorting wire cutter A wire cutting device having a blade angle of about 0° - 8° preferably in the range of 4° - 6° and whose blades exhibit a bulk resistivity of at least about 1.0 ohm-cm can be used to safely sever plural conductors while inservice without causing a sho... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121339 | Safety brake mechanism for chain saws A guard member is mounted on the chain saw for swinging movement between an actuate position and a reset position. The guard member occupies a normal position between the actuate and reset positions. A brake band is integral with a bowed column spring whi... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121340 | Oral implantology A combination bladevent subperiosteal implant in which the abutment post which bears an artificial tooth or a tooth in a full arch splint is isolated from and only indirectly attached to the bladevent body through a subperiosteal portion of the implant. T... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4121341 | Orthodontic traction apparatus Orthodontic traction apparatus for applying traction to the teeth of a patient comprising headgear to be worn by the patient including a pair of side members adapted to be positioned on opposite sides of the patient's head adjacent the ears, and a tension... | 10/24/1978 |
