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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4189787 | Highly stretchable glove and form for making same A highly stretchable latex rubber glove for use by physicians during surgery and the like. This glove has fingers, each of which have generally parallel sides, and are ovaled from front to back at a mid joint area of the fingers, and are ovaled from side ... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189788 | Headset A headset is provided wherein each ear piece is supported to the headband by means of a support member having a wedge shaped opening therein. A wedge is positioned within the support member opening and the headband is secured to the wedge. The wedge resil... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189789 | Urine collection container with coupling for suspension line A urine collection bag with a rigid handle connected to the bag, and this handle has a pair of spaced apart openings with lead-in slots oriented relative to the openings for easy nonthreading insertion of a flexible suspension line which is retained in th... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189790 | Shower shield An elongated channel member is provided including a first open longitudinal side outwardly of which said channel member opens and a second remote side defining a planar abutment surface disposed normal to the direction in which the first side of the chann... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189791 | Swimming pool heating and cooling system An apparatus is described for heating or cooling water in swimming pools. The apparatus takes ambient air and pumps it through a submerged, perforated manifold tube. Heat is exchanged between the air bubbles and water as the bubbles ascend to the pool sur... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189792 | Push button controlled water system Tempered water supply system for a domestic basin, such as a bathroom lavatory, tub or shower, or a kitchen sink, characterized by an adjustable temperature mixing valve for hot and cold water, a supply valve including a hydraulic motor for controlling fl... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189793 | Automatic liquid dispenser for an inverted bottle A liquid dispenser for dispensing liquid from an inverted bottle into a tank at times when water in the tank drops below a buoying level. A hollow annular stationary member closes off the bottle's neck and has an annular diaphragm leading to a tube with s... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189794 | Toilet seat A toilet seat incorporating two pairs of moldings of which: (a) the first pair consists of two ridges of reciprocally symmetric form, each of them taking an elongated configuration with slight curvature of internal concavity and of variable contour; (b) the se... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189795 | Toilet flush valve An improved ball valve for toilet flush tanks for regulating the quantity of water released from a tank in a flush includes a gauged or adjustable water inlet hole at the bottom of the ball valve and an air bleed hole at the top of the ball valve. The wat... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189796 | Adjustable mechanism for guard rail of a bunk bed An adjustable mechanism for a bed guard rail including generally planar male and female parts, the male part having a generally L-shaped tongue struck therefrom and the female part being elongated and equipped with a plurality of longitudinally aligned, s... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189797 | Mattress A firm, shape-retaining mattress made of layers of resilient material separated by a layer of nonwoven material such as jute, which are held in relation to one another by a strong, nonwoven fabric material intertwined among the layers and through slits in... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189798 | Foam mattress with floatation torso support A sleeping mattress consisting of multiple layers of foam material having different densities and structural characteristics with sealed chamber formed therein for receiving a flexible but inelastic liquid filled container. The sealed chamber is located i... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189799 | Cable stripping tool A tool is disclosed for stripping the insulation jacket from a cable, such as the electrical cable used in house wiring, and preparing the conductors for termination. The tool includes portions for slitting the cable, cutting off the slit jacket, strippin... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189800 | Self-contained breadboard wiring tool Apparatus for inserting thin insulated wire into narrow slots of solderless electrical contacts and subsequently cutting the length of wire needed. The cutting tool is a prolongation of the shaft supporting a supply spool of the requisite wire.... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189801 | Fluid product projection apparatus for maintenance and treatment of all surfaces as well as the body This invention relates to an apparatus for projecting a fluid product comprising a casing containing the fluid product, a working head rotatably mounted thereon, a hollow shaft jointly rotatable with the working head, an oscillating plate mounted in the c... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189802 | Bath sponge having incorporated therein a core of detergent substances, and method and apparatus for manufacturing same An apparatus for manufacturing a bath sponge having incorporated therein a core of detergent substances is disclosed, comprising a plurality of containers 2 for receiving a sponge, apertured at their bottom; means for advancing the containers while swingi... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189803 | Wet-processing apparatus for photographic emulsion carriers with novel disposal of drier-unit exhaust air The apparatus includes a washing unit at which film is washed with wash water, including a wash-water tank containing a body of wash water, and also a drier unit from which drying air is continually exhausted. Exhausted drying air from the drier unit is t... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189804 | Back plate and bail assembly This specification discloses a back and bail assembly adapted for ease of joining and separating the bail and back member. Each of the two legs of the bail or handle includes a pintle or projection extending laterally to one side to be engaged by a recess... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189805 | Adjustable hinge installation Door hinge arrangements for mounting large heavy doors on openings in irregular structures. The hinge arrangements comprise a pivot rod and an alignment member which extend parallel to each other with the pivot rod bolted to the door and mounted in bearin... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189806 | Removing back fat from loin Fat is trimmed from loin portions which have been previously separated from carcasses by placing the portions fat side downwardly upon a symmetrically arcuate conveying surface which carries the portion beneath an overhead gripping means which tends to co... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189807 | Clamp A clamp includes a cushion and a strap each made from a resilient material. The cushion has a body portion and a pair of lip portions extending toward each other in spaced relationship to the body portion to define a pocket. The strap is disposed in the p... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189808 | Retainer and closure for a garbage can liner bag A button-like body formed of a thin elastic material is provided with a plurality of slots which intersect with one another adjacent the center of the body to define a plurality of triangular resilient prongs having adjacently disposed pointed inner ends ... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189809 | Fastener device and method of manufacturing The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a fastener device by extrusion of a thermoplastic material through a shaped drawplate. The extruded strip includes a plurality of rows of longitudinal ribs connected at their bases by legs integral therew... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189810 | Assembly elements, inter alia for scaffolding An assembly element, inter alia for scaffolding, used (a) for clamping a cylindrical element after engaging axially or laterally on the cylindrical element and (b) for securing one or more transverse elements on to the cylindrical element, said assembly e... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189811 | Method for producing non-woven webs of cross-laid strands A restrained web of orthogonal strands is formed by first traversing the strands according to the disclosure of U.S. Pat. No. 4,016,631 in a diagonal pattern with V-shaped reversals between two rows of strand-restraining elements along the selvedge of the... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189812 | Jet for fluid texturing yarn A self-stringing jet device for fluid texturing of yarn has a yarn needle mounted in the jet body through which yarn passes to the outlet end of the jet. There is a high efficiency venturi located in the passage of the yarn needle to facilitate stringup.... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189813 | Method for manufacturing single stage geared turbines A series of standardized components from which can be assembled a single stage geared turbine having any one of a large number of combinations of output power and gear rotation rate, the components including a plurality of rotor wheels having respectively... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189814 | Apparatus and method for automatically aligning a multibeam electron gun assembly with a cathode-ray tube bulb An electrode of the electron gun assembly has two accurately positioned alignment apertures therein, a line connecting the centers of the alignment apertures being transverse to the central longitudinal axis of the gun assembly. The alignment method inclu... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189815 | Developer transport roll A roll for friction feeding copy paper in the developer section of diazo copying machines is constructed by roughening its surface to a degree which provides an RMS value of 150 to 350 microinches, and then subjecting the thus roughened surface to a hard ... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189816 | Composite bearing race and method for its fabrication A composite bearing race and method for fabrication of such race, the composite bearing race consisting of an assembly of two concentric rings in which the ball grooves are impressed by rolling and which is subjected to a heat treatment. The method of fab... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189817 | Hydraulic assembly tool for tube fittings An assembly tool for tube fittings having a fixed jaw and a coaxially movable jaw which receive a pair of fitting components, the movable jaw being moved axially by a hydraulic drive to and from the fixed jaw, the hydraulic drive being disposed in paralle... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189818 | Apparatus and method for the assembly of glass sheets An apparatus for assembly of transparent plate shaped objects to form a multiple, insulating window comprises individual support parts initially disposed at an angle of no more than 180° one relative to the other and each support part is adapted to recei... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189819 | Method of manufacturing metallic spirally wound gaskets For manufacturing a metallic spirally wound gasket having an outer centring ring it is proposed spirally to coil a corrugated strip of metallic material to form a sealing element of desired diameter and to surround the thus formed sealing element with a c... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189820 | Template pattern alignment A method for enabling simple, reverse-side alignment of a pair of templates for electrical circuit patterns which are to be placed on the opposite sides of a double-sided printed circuit board. The method proposes, first, placing the templates for such pa... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189821 | Method of manufacturing screw jack tubes A screw tube assembly is disclosed for use in a screw jack or the like. The screw tube assembly comprises a hollow tube member in one end of which is formed a recess so as to reduce the tube member wall thickness. Into this recess an annular bushing is in... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189822 | Method of fastening and unfastening snap fasteners A hand tool for fastening and unfastening snap fasteners includes a handle and a tool element fixedly secured thereto at one end thereof. The tool element has laterally spaced, co-planar prong members which are adapted to be disposed about the head of a f... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189823 | Method and apparatus for assembling reels A method and apparatus for assembling a reel having a pair of axially spaced circular flanges provided with facing annular grooves, a plurality of axially extending staves fitted into the grooves to form a cylindrical drum extending coaxially between the ... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189824 | Method and apparatus for making closure construction Disclosed are a closure construction for a container, such as a steel drum, embodying a flange member having an internally threaded opening adapted to be closed by an externally threaded cap, the flange member having an integral flange portion that is fir... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189825 | Integrated test and assembly device A semiconductor integrated circuit device of the beam lead type having a semiconductor interconnection substrate with apertures for integrated circuit chips therein and with metallization patterns having sharply pointed ends for penetrating oxide layers o... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4189826 | Silicon charge-handling device employing SiC electrodes A solid state imaging device is formed of a bulk of monocrystalline silicon which has been suitably doped. A transparent layer of SiO2 overlays the bulk silicon, and atop the SiO2 layer is at least one pattern of doped SiC electrodes... | 02/26/1980 |
