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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4124902 | Mounting assembly connecting a face shield to a safety hat A mounting assembly for supporting a face shield from a safety hat includes a pair of brackets for attachment to the opposite sides of the hat, each of the brackets having between its inner and outer sides a downwardly extending recess therein, in which t... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124903 | Safety garment for automobile repairs A one-peice garment adapted to cover the clothing of a wearer during emergency automobile repairs on the highway, and in other situations where a high degree of wearer visibility is desirable. The fabric of the garment is impregnated with a luminescent or... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124904 | Protective head gear A helmet or the like which has a rigid central shell and inner and outer inflatable impact absorbing liners with one-way valve means for inflating same. A plurality of inserts of foam or spongy material is secured to the inner shell and adapted to contact... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124905 | Artificial intraocular lens system An artificial intraocular lens system is provided with posterior and anterior tabs adapted to receive and hold a pin substantially perpendicularly therebetween. Said lens system allows for the insertion and affixing of the lens in the eye without the use ... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124906 | Child's crib for use in a pool A set of round support weights connected by a hollow horizontal bottom support having perforations so that the bottom support can fill with water and not be buoyant can be connected to a crib by vertical supports engaging corner vertical rails of the crib... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124907 | Swimming pool, and components thereof A swimming pool having a panel composed in its entirety of a single unit of plastic and having an upright relatively thin wall an inner surface of which is directed toward the interior of the pool and an outer surface of which is directed away from the in... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124908 | Rescue and transportation device A rescue and transportation device constructed of flexible cloth-like material and including a bottom portion for receiving a victim, the bottom portion having a head end and a foot end with longitudinally extending first and second side flaps, the foot e... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124909 | Babies bed A collapsible stand supports a collapsible bed by coupling mechanisms which permit the bed to be quickly erected and stowed for ease in movement from place to place. Each coupling mechanism includes a hub and radially extending members which are easily as... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124910 | Foldable dinghies A foldable dinghy comprises a frame and a covering of flexible waterproof material. To fold up the dinghy the frame is foldable transversely and then longitudinally for the purpose of storing and transporting the dinghy.... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124911 | Release device for emergency sea rescue apparatus A release device for an emergency sea rescue apparatus includes a water pressure release mechanism whereby a lifecraft can be automatically released if its parent ship sinks, the device being designed to accommodate forces at any angle between the normal ... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124912 | Apparatus for automatic adjustment of the position of working mechanisms of shoe working devices Working devices of shoe manufacturing machines are adjusted according to the size of the shoe and also whether a right or left shoe is concerned by first identifying these items and by transmitting this information to a device which automatically adjusts ... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124913 | Floor sweeper with unitary frame A unitary top-less peripheral frame is provided which holds substantially all the functional parts of the sweeper. The frame includes end walls carrying bearings which receive the ends of the brush roller shaft, with the said end walls being spring-like a... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124914 | Working tool of a machine for cleaning the outer surface of pipes Apparatus mountable on a pipeline of pipes welded end-to-end and having a self-propelled carriage mountable on the pipeline for travelling thereon. The carriage carries annular casings made to open up and receive the pipeline when mounting the carriage th... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124915 | Combination scraper and squeegee A hand tool especially adapted for cleaning automotive windows and windshields has a plate set in the head of a handle and provided with an ice-scraping edge. A squeegee, also set in the head, has a blade for wiping away slush and fog as well as ice broke... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124916 | Vacuum cleaner condition indicator and safety device A vacuum cleaner detector that indicates when the hose is clogged and bleeds in cooling air to the vacuum chamber so as to prevent overheating of the motor blower. The indicator comprises an actuator valve and a relief valve. The actuator valve includes a... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124917 | Lubricatable floor glide for heavy appliances A glide shoe of molded plastic to be employed with major appliances is constructed to be able to provide a liquid bearing of a lubricating liquid beneath the shoe to minimize the danger of damage to irregular floor surfaces, such as sculptured vinyl mater... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124918 | Rail and glide assembly A one-piece, rail glide system which includes a rail glide which can be assembled from the end or the side of a rail or other support structure with equal ease, said glide being resistent to disassembly from the rail throughout a wide arc of applied loose... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124919 | Casing transport apparatus An apparatus for use in transporting peeled frankfurter casings or the like from a typical frankfurter peeling device or the like to a station such as a garbage dump or the like where the casings are to be finally deposited. A vacuum source creates a vacu... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124920 | Method for separating edible crab meat from non-edible portions of cooked crabs Apparatus and method for vibrating edible crab meat from the core portion of a crab body that has been de-shelled, de-legged and de-fingered and the central core portion of which has been cleaned. The crab body is supported in a core box with the body cav... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124921 | Apparatus for consolidating textile fibrous webs by rubbing in a condenser In an apparatus for consolidating textile fibrous webs by rubbing in a condenser, the fibres are first conveyed through a first condenser in a first direction, further conveyed through a second condenser in a direction parallel to the first direction but ... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124922 | Retaining means A retaining means, for use in securing a cover to a body, such as with swimming pools and trailers, including a housing member for receiving a shock cord or rope and an insert member for insertion into the housing member to retain the shock cord or rope a... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124923 | Apparatus for texturing yarn and textile fabric containing synthetic fibers An apparatus for texturizing yarn or woven fabric while recovering partially the heat energy employed in the process. It consists of a texturizing chamber, a plurality of containers for liquid vehicles at different temperatures, means for introducing, con... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124924 | Process for making slub yarn from continuous filament yarn Method by which slubs are formed from random individual filaments in a continuous filament yarn bundle. A yarn bundle is fed under drafting tension to and through a first fluid jet device in which cocurrent and countercurrent fluid flows therethrough and ... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124925 | Expanded metal A reciprocating knife expanded metal machine has a knife for producing parallel strand expanded metal mesh. The knife has cutting teeth with the effective cutting edges of adjacent teeth spaced by a distance almost as great as the length of an effective c... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124926 | Edge terminations for gas discharge display panel device and method of manufacturing same There is disclosed an improved gas discharge display panel device and process of manufacturing same of the type wherein non-conductive thin glass support substrates for anode and cathode electrodes are joined together by a sealant in a spaced-apart assemb... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124927 | Automatic lathe with rotary cutter A sliding headstock automatic lathe includes a cutting tool which rotates in the same direction as the workpiece and at a speed precisely twice that of the workpiece, resulting in two or more flat cuts on the workpiece. The cutting tool is rotated by a co... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124928 | Propeller shaft liner and inserting apparatus An improved propeller shaft liner of the type employed to damp propeller shaft vibrations and apparatus for inserting such liner into the propeller shaft. A tubular liner of paper is formed with a symmetrically disposed series of axially or helically exte... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124929 | Extractor for watch push buttons An extractor for the push button members of wrist watches is disclosed which is in the form of expanding pliers having one of its jaws carrying a pressing stud generally at right angles to the jaw for engaging the sleeve of the push button, while the othe... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124930 | Method for manufacturing a characters carrying aggregate for printing machine A characters carrying aggregate or assembly for a printing machine includes a characters carrying disk carrying the characters on the outer ends of radial arms extending from the disk. The disk is mounted on a hub and may include a crown mounted opposite ... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124931 | Method of assemblying a pressure gauge A method for assembling a pressure gauge which employs a removable metal safety plate. The gauge movement, comprising a Bourdon tube, pointer, gauge dial and gear mechanism is mounted on both sides of a metal safety plate and the entire assembly is then i... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124932 | Prequench cooling for galvanized tubing Steel strip is continuously roll-formed into tubular shape, seam-welded and coated with zinc in a galvanizing bath. The coated tubing is promptly cooled by a prequench flow of cooling water flowing in the direction of movement of the tubing, thus superfic... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124933 | Methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device in which a masking layer is formed on part of the surface of a deposited layer of relatively high resistivity polycrystalline semiconductor material present on an insulating layer provided at a surface of a... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124934 | Manufacture of semiconductor devices in which a doping impurity is diffused from a polycrystalline semiconductor layer into an underlying monocrystalline semiconductor material, and semiconductor devices thus manufactured A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device in which a layer of polycrystalline material having a high impurity concentration is used prior to the diffusion of a thin region having strong surface concentration and prior to providing a contact to the ... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124935 | Method for manufacturing a base of a pressure mount type semiconductor device A method for manufacturing a base of a pressure mount type semiconductor device which has a base body of electrically and thermally conductive metal material and a cylindrical wall integrally and vertically provided on the top of the base body and adapted... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124936 | Hall effect ignition system housing and method A housing contains a circuit board having a Hall effect sensor attached thereupon and a magnetic circuit positioned to provide magnetic flux through the Hall effect sensor. The magnetic flux through the Hall effect sensor is interruptable by a high permea... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124937 | Improved notching shear for notching woven textile fabric or other flexible or pliable sheet material My invention relates to a hand operated notch cutting tool that will notch woven fabric, pliable or other thin material.... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124938 | Flexible string cutting device Apparatus for cutting, trimming and edging vegetation, and the like, is provided with a rotatable disc-like head having at least one string-like cutting member removably attached thereto and replaceably extending from its periphery for cutting adjacent ve... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124939 | Folding knives In a folding knife, a blade outfolded from the handle is reliably fixed with respect to the handle during use but is infolded by turning a releasing lever after use. The knife comprises a blade which is foldably mounted on a handle, a resilient lock bar w... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124940 | Level and method of assembling same A method is provided for assembling a level of improved construction. The level comprises a frame, including a planar web section having a circular opening formed therein for receiving a level vial, with a pair of diametrically-opposed notches being forme... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4124941 | Process and additional devices of cylinder drying machines for the uniform drying of textiles Process for promoting uniform and low levels of migration in drying of moist textile webs impregnated with treating agents using cylinder drying machines, by removing the vapor layer formed on the reverse surface of the textile web not contacting the heat... | 11/14/1978 |
