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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4188672 | Mini-support belt for garments A mini-support belt for a garment includes first and second sections of non-elastic flexible material. The belt sections are adapted adjacent one end of each for cooperable releasable interconnection. The first and second belt sections, when interconnecte... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188673 | Rotatable pop-up water delivery head for pool cleaning systems A swimming pool mounted rotatable head for a water jet pool cleaning system adapted to rotate in a non-uniform sequential manner during a pool cleaning operation to maintain deleterious matter in suspension in the water so that it may be removed by the ma... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188674 | Contact lens saving devices This invention relates in general to a contact lens saving device fabricated of plastic or a suitable material. Said device being composed of a locating ring which fits over the metal closure stopper of a sink or basin, and having an upper structure being... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188675 | Conduit plug An improved lavatory drain plug includes a split hub structure, normally separated axially, upon which a cylindrical sealing member is mounted. Bringing the hub together exerts an outward radial force on the sealing member while the rim adjacent the hub e... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188676 | Push-push drain closure assembly A drain closure includes a flexible seal member formed as a segment of a sphere and centrally mounted on a post located at the center of the drain. The seal member is bistable between opposite involuted positions. In one position its free edges snap downw... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188677 | Lounger bed and adjustable body supporting assembly An adjustable body supporting assembly composed of a foundation and panel on which an assembly of pivotally connected plates rests, being mounted on said foundation with its centrally positioned part and provided with the means to adjust each plate in rel... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188678 | Nursery equipment An attachment for a bouncing cradle of a type described including a wire frame having a baby support U-shaped portion with a mesh across the baby support portion, and a base U-shaped portion the legs of the base shaped portion acting with the legs of the ... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188679 | Annular shaped buoyancy element for transport hoses An annular-shaped buoyancy element for transport hoses which are used on water includes two generally semicircular-shaped buoyancy members, each of which includes a core made of foam plastic material completely encased in a sheath made of polymer material... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188680 | Method for manufacturing waterproof boots A method for manufacturing boots of rubber or the like wherein the successive boot building operations are carried out on lasts carried by a movable conveyor indexed to and through stations spaced along a line. An elastic sock is mounted on each last at t... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188681 | Support structure A support structure comprising a pair of support units each including a housing and a ball stud having a ball portion placed in the housing and a shank portion formed integrally with the ball portion, the upper support unit having its ball stud shank port... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188682 | Automobile cleaning and waxing tool An automobile cleaning and waxing tool that provides orbital motion of the polishing pad is formed of a two-part plastic shell and a two-part hollow handle having respective handle parts formed integrally with the shell parts. The handle completely circum... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188683 | Drive unit for a sewer augering machine A drive unit for a pipe cleaning or sewer augering machine includes a chuck for the flexible shaft or plumber's snake of the pipe cleaning machine, the chuck having jaws for detachably clamping the flexible shaft to the chuck which, in turn, also transmit... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188684 | Apparatus for articulation of movable panels An improved apparatus for the articulation of automobile trunk lids. The apparatus consists of a first link attached to the lid having a gooseneck shape and an elongate slot, a second link pivotable between one end of the first link and the trunk body, a ... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188685 | Mounting plate for hinges or the like Dowels holding a mounting plate, e.g. for furniture hinges, include relatively soft dowel parts and a hard expansion member.... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188686 | Apparatus for cold sealing the gathered end of a plastic bag This invention relates to a clamping mechanism which is effective to produce a high compressive force on the gathered open end of a thermoplastic bag containing an appropriate product, such as food items for freezing, characterized by the fact that a high... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188687 | Stopper components for use in fishing trawls A stopper component for use in a fishing trawl which is made of metal and which includes first and second closed loops each defining an aperture, said closed loops merging to form a central portion from which outwardly projecting shoulders emerge. The out... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188688 | Fastener Apparatus for fastening spaced ends of a necklace and the like or for locking a safety pin of a badge, brooch, or the like, the invention comprises a rotatable locking member having spaced opposing bayonet slots formed in arcuate wall portions of the lock... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188689 | Tie binder A tie binder with a rotatable head is attached by a shank to a spiral edge wedge which may have a frustrum conical roller mounted in an upper edge of the wedge to secure the tie binder to a work piece, a lock washer is secured permanently around the shank... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188690 | Nonwoven fabric and manufacturing method thereof A nonwoven fabric having no pattern and composed of 100% synthetic fibers, wherein individual fibers are held together by three-dimensional entanglement into a stabilized sheet form without being subjected to any bonding treatment, which nonwoven fabric h... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188691 | Process and apparatus for crimping filament yarn Process and apparatus for crimping a filament yarn, the process employed comprising forcing a hot fluid entrained filament yarn into a stuffing chamber in one direction, forcing a cold fluid from an opposite direction into a staying control chamber locate... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188692 | Air jet for yarn entanglement Yarn is treated in air entangelemnt jet having a main passageway in which one or more multifilament yarns are entangled, a second passageway which intercepts the bottom of the main passageway at an acute angle and slants downward therefrom in the upstream... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188693 | Method and apparatus for assembling slatted blinds A method and apparatus are disclosed for assembling the slats of a blind to the supporting ladders which ladders have pairs of closely spaced cross bars or rung pairs between which pairs of rungs slats are to be inserted. The assembly is accomplished by i... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188694 | Corona grid wire assembly and mounting A method and apparatus for providing die cast end portions on corona grid wires and the use of a common runner to interconnect a sequence of grid wire assemblies to facilitate simultaneous connection and or assembly of a plurality of grid wires to individ... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188695 | Panel processing apparatus Apparatus for processing a panel for use with color television picture tubes including shadow mask mounting means for mounting a shadow mask on the panel, a processing station where various coatings are formed on the inner surface of the panel, shadow mas... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188696 | Abrading tool In an abrading tool having a cup-shaped outer housing with a shank for attachment to a power-driven chuck and rotatable abrading discs on radial axles inside this housing, a plurality of knocker bars are attached to the outside of this housing. As the rot... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188697 | Method of making motorcycle seat frame A motorcycle seat is assembled from a metallic base, a separately formed back rest member of generally L-shaped configuration and a pair of generally L-shaped support rods. These are assembled with the support rods and horizontal portion of the back rest ... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188698 | Sealing arrangement at a roll A sealing arrangement for a roll consisting of a stationary core and a hollow cylinder surrounding the core with a spacing and rotatable thereabout, which includes a longitudinal seal made up of a seal carrier disposed in a slot in the core, the seal carr... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188699 | Methods of making sealing members A method of making a sealing member for association with a bore in a barrel member comprises cutting into and rolling a thin layer from a rod of circular cross-section, preferably made of P.T.F.E., leaving the rolled layer integral with the support, formi... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188700 | Method of constructing an attrition mill grate The cylindrical rotating grate of an attrition mill is constructed by welding a group of bars in close spaced parallel relationship, and then rolling this assembly into a cylindrical configuration. The meeting ends of this configuration are then welded, a... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188701 | Hinge pin remover For removing a hinge pin, a tool having a wedge-shaped head mounted on a shank equipped with a support projection to receive the hinge. The head includes an impact surface for hammering the wedge portion between the hinge and the head of the hinge pin. A ... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188702 | Method and apparatus for orienting and stripping an end portion of a bundle of wires A method and apparatus is disclosed for orienting and stripping an end portion of a bundle of wires. The apparatus comprises a wire insulation stripper having a pair of blades with elongated, mutually parallel, planar cutting edges and means for moving th... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188703 | Impact tool, handle assembly therefor, and method of attaching handle to head An impact tool, such as a hammer, having a head with a tapered eye therethrough, is attached to a handle by means of longitudinal notches extending from the end of the handle inserted into the eye, the notches having longitudinal surfaces which diverge to... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188704 | Hand tool and loader Apparatus for severing electrical contacts from a carrier strip and loading the severed contacts into a hand tool which can then be used to insert the contacts individually into an apertured circuit element such as a printed circuit board.... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188705 | Thermal barrier stitching apparatus An apparatus or complete machinery line assembly is provided for stitching or crimping an insulating or thermal barrier member in a metal member or members. The assembly comprises a reel or unwind stand for holding and supplying insulating or thermal barr... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188706 | Method for making a plurality of solid electrolyte capacitors and capacitors made thereby An array of porous oxide-filmed tantalum pads that are sintered to a tantalum foil, each have a composite MnO2 layer formed thereover by the steps of filling the pad pores with a manganous nitrate solution by capillarity from a sponge-like rese... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188707 | Semiconductor devices and method of manufacturing the same The semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor substrate, a polycrystalline silicon semiconductor body extending upwardly from a portion of the surface of the semiconductor substrate and containing an impurity at a substantially uniform concentration,... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188708 | Integrated circuit package with optical input coupler A plastic encapsulated integrated circuit (IC) package is disclosed which includes a conical depression or dimple precisely located over a photo-responsive semiconductor element incorporated within said integrated circuit for performing a predetermined fu... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188709 | Double sided hybrid mosaic focal plane A double-sided mosaic focal plane for infrared detection includes a semiconductor substrate having first and second opposing surfaces. Infrared detectors are mounted on the first surface and solid state signal processing circuitry is formed in the semicon... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188710 | Ohmic contacts for group III-V n-type semiconductors using epitaxial germanium films A solid-state diffusion method for providing ohmic contacts to n-type Group II-V semiconductor materials, such as gallium arsenide (GaAs). The material is successively cleaned, etched, rinsed, re-etched, rinsed and placed in an oil-free vacuum. The substra... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188711 | Method of making broad band dynamic loudspeaker A dynamic loudspeaker which operates over a wide band of audio frequencies is disclosed. The speaker includes a speaker cone and voice coil structure of very low mass. A configuration of ribs on the cone and dust cap is important to both high and low freq... | 02/19/1980 |