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User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks
An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4162782 | Seal assembly for butterfly valve A butterfly valve has a valve body with an improved seal assembly mounted in the groove about a flow passage in the valve body. The seal assembly has an outer metal body including a pair of spaced inner legs having outer ends thereof in sealing contact wi... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162783 | Electric fence cable assembly An improvement in electrified cable assemblies for use with electrically charged fences is disclosed. The improvement provides for a dual conductor insulated cable having a plurality of longitudinally spaced contacts mounted thereon with alternate contact... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162784 | Pressure equalization apparatus and method The pressurization and depressurization of a container, and specifically a feed hopper for materials to be delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, is accomplished with the aid of pressure equalization devices which each include a valve and a wear an... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162785 | Miter clamp A clamp for exerting joining force perpendicular to the joint line of a miter joint includes first and second sets of parallel pins defining first and second planes respectively, each set comprising at least two pins, all the pins being substantially equa... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162786 | Job separation by a skewed trough in the paper path The method and apparatus for offsetting sheets laterally with respect to their travel in a predetermined direction along a path. The method includes directing the sheets away from the path and through a second curved path aligned in skewed relation to the... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162787 | Sheet sorting device A sheet sorting device for use with a copying machine, a simple printing machine, etc., which comprises a tray housing having a plurality of oscillatable trays, support means for the tray housing, moving means for displacing the support means so as to cau... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162788 | Swimming and exercising apparatus Swimming and exercising apparatus is disclosed comprising a body supporting section having wheels with cog-like driving members thereon secured to the body supporting section at either end through wheel supporting frames. The wheels are positioned on eith... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162789 | Baseball base and installation apparatus A baseball base and installation apparatus whereby the base has attached to the bottom surface thereof a post having a non-circular cross-section. The installation apparatus includes a brace member, an anchor member having a top socket portion and a botto... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162790 | Connector assembly for a ball and cord Apparatus for attaching the end of a length of string or cord to a hollow ball which includes a tubular member having two flanges intended to be positioned one inside the ball and the other outside or towards the outside of the ball, a washer intended to ... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162791 | Tennis racquet having radially arrayed strings A novel tennis racquet wherein the frame of the racquet is strung with radially arrayed strings, with the inner end of each of such strings passing through and around a comparatively small ring forming the central terminus for the radially-arrayed strings... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162792 | Obstacle game A novel game is disclosed featuring a playing field having at least three lanes and divided into at least six rungs. A gamepiece representing the player may be positioned in any one of the three lanes and is free to move in a first direction from one rung... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162793 | Game scoring system A scoring system for an electromechanical game aparatus such as pinball or the like, the game including an operator selectable score altering mode on a given ball, for example, a "double or nothing" scoring feature, the selection being possible only once ... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162794 | Golf club head sole plate with studs interlocking to head laminations A golf club head includes wooden laminations to which a metallic sole plate is attached. The plate defines one or more integral studs which project upwardly into recesses formed in the laminations. Stud penetration of and attachment to multiple lamination... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162795 | Sealing device for openings of a container which can be loaded with and emptied of batches of fluid loose material, viscous deposits, sludges or the like A sealing device for an opening in the wall of a container which is loaded with or emptied of fluid loose material, viscous deposits, sludges or the like and which after the loading or the emptying is sealed tightly and has a sealing element which is brou... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162796 | Tank mounting apparatus for tractors Apparatus for mounting a spray tank or other container upon a four-wheel drive tractor having a three-point lifting hitch at the rear. The apparatus includes an upright frame adapted for attachment to said hitch when lowered and a horizontal second frame ... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162797 | Exercise tricycle An exercise tricycle may have either one or all of a number of exercise features in addition to the exercise to be derived from pedaling the tricycle. One such additional feature comprises a steering wheel and fork assembly adapted to be maneuvered in a f... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162798 | Hitching apparatus Apparatus for hitching mobile equipment, such as a towing vehicle and a towed vehicle, comprising a U-shaped locking member slidably mounted for lateral movement on the rearwardly extending draw bar of the towing vehicle. The draw bar is provided with a r... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162799 | Truck suspension system The present invention discloses a multiple axle truck suspension structure and system for vehicles wherein road and tire excitations of each axle are isolated from their opposing axle, as well as from the sprung mass. This is accomplished via deflections ... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162800 | Combination bookmark and writing instrument holder A combination elastic bookmark and holder for writing instruments is provided which functions to mark a location in a book and also releasably to secure a pen, pencil or other writing instrument or plurality thereof in a receiving holding means constituti... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162801 | Gas line lead-in assembly A conduit assembly for natural gas lines utilized at transition locations wherein a synthetic plastic gas supply tube connects to a meter or other fitting located above the ground level. The lead-in assembly utilizes a fitting having a rigid elongated nip... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162802 | Permanent flareless tube connector A flareless connector for soft metal tubes connecting a tube to a connector body having a nipple received within the tube end. A compression nut threaded upon the connector body radially inwardly deforms a soft mallable compression sleeve into engagement ... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162803 | Latch release device A latch release device operated by a mechanical impulse and constructed so as to sequentially release a plurality of latches in response to a corresponding plurality of mechanical forces. Operation of the latch release device is accomplished by a single o... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162804 | Lifting clamp A lifting clamp for articles such as steel plates has a movable arcuate gripping jaw, a pivotally mounted arcuate cam jaw, an enlarged recessed opening to receive the article to be lifted, a shackle, a linkage connecting the shackle to the gripping jaw an... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162805 | Drive arrangement for a movable vehicle panel A drive arrangement for a movable panel member of a vehicle includes a rotatable driving member such as a drive pinion, which member is supported upon a shaft that is drivingly connected to a crank member so as to enable rotational movement of the crank t... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162806 | Safety folding chair A safety folding chair utilizes an elongated metallic plate secured at selected positions along the length of the rearmost legs having an inclined elongated slot therein with a down turned hook like end. A pin is secured extending outwardly from the rearm... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162807 | Lumbar support regulating apparatus A vehicle seat of the type having a seat back with a plurality of transverse serpentine springs therein is provided with a regulating apparatus for adjusting the firmness of the lower most springs to adjust the firmness of the seat back in the lumbar regi... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162808 | In-situ retorting of carbonaceous deposits A method of producing fluid fuels from carbonaceous deposits such as oil shale, heavy oils and coal by in-situ retorting of the carbonaceous deposit in rubblized in-situ retorts utilizes a plurality of such retorts. The retorts are subjected to a sequence... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162809 | Oscillating carpet and tile stripper This invention relates to an oscillating carpet and tile stripper in which the cutting blade is mounted on a mounting and drive assembly which is connected to an eccentric driven by an electric motor to impart an orbital motion to the cutting blade. The e... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162810 | Rack apparatus on a face conveyor for a mining machine A drive gear of a drum-cutter mining machine engages a rack device extending along the working side of a face conveyor to propel the mining machine along a mine face. Spanning each joint between conveyor tray sections is a bridging rack segment with leg e... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162811 | Pneumatic conveyor A conveyor for peanuts or other particulate solid has an elongated duct or conduit, an opening for charging the particles into the duct, a fan for moving air at a high velocity through the duct from upstream of the opening, a partition in the duct for cre... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162812 | Rotary bearing assembly A rotary bearing assembly which comprises a cup-like cylindrical cell member A, a shaft member G having an end adapted to engage with the bottom of the cylindrical cell member to support thrust loads applied from the outside and a groove for receiving a r... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162813 | Bearing assembly and the like for use in corrosive and non-corrosive atmospheres This invention relates to a novel machine element characterized by mutually rubbing surfaces which are composed of dissimilar materials having high hardness, a low coefficient of friction, and resistance to corrosion by halogen-containing atmospheres. As ... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162814 | Lighted display chamber This application relates to a lighted display chamber for momentos, gimcracks, trophies and the like, and preferably translucent or transparent ones since the device of this invention includes a blinking light means to transmit light from the base through... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162815 | Means for cable section and equipment transfer without service interruption Stackable connectors joining successive lengths of multiwire cable allow versatility in connecting various sections of cable together, and entering the cable to make modifications and equipment substitutions.... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162816 | Multi-channel self-correcting connector Connector of the multi-channel type, comprising two ferrules, the angular orientation by which the conductive contacts are positioned opposite one another, provided by end surfaces, at which said contacts open, shaped in the form of a plane inclined at th... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162817 | Electrical connector A low cost flexible connector for connecting multiple electrical conductors of an electrical component such as, for example, a gas discharge panel or flat flexible printed circuit harnesses, to associated conductors in a printed circuit board is disclosed... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162818 | Interconnection for planar electronic circuits A circuit board with connectors along more than one side designed to be stacked with similar boards, having a plurality of electrical contacts to connect to a connector header with resilient contacts, applying a force to the circuit board which is incline... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162819 | Electrical terminal A terminal device for connecting an electrical conductor to another unit, e.g. in the form of a terminal strip, comprises a passage for inserting the insulation-stripped end of the conductor which is inclined to another passage in which a clamping screw i... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162820 | Binocular telescope A binocular telescope has a pair of eye-pieces set in threaded mounts and includes a mutual drive for the simultaneous focusing of both eye-pieces, whereby both eye-pieces are connected non-positively with each other via a frictional clutch which slides t... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4162821 | Means for in-line connection of optical fiber pairs A connector means for connecting together two optical fibers whose ends have been stripped of optical cladding to expose the cores. The connector comprises means for gripping the fibers at unstripped sections thereof with a predetermined length of fiber e... | 07/31/1979 |
