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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4199822 | Blouse A unique female garment is provided which comprises a first and a second garment member. Each garment member is planar and substantially triangular in shape and is fashioned from stretchable material which is relatively non-stretchable along a front edge.... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199823 | Disengageable helmet visor clamp The mounting for a visor of a helmet comprises an arcuate track located at the side of the rigid headshell and centered on the visor axis, a shoe connected with the visor and movable along the track, a control element for moving the shoe and hence the vis... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199824 | Intramedullary stem The intramedullary stem is provided with a plurality of recesses in the wide sides which are disposed in herring bone fashion. These recesses communicate with a longitudinal groove so that bone tissue material may move into the recesses and grooves during... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199825 | Breast prosthesis A breast prosthesis is formed in a mold cavity from a soft silicone rubber cross-linked with hardeners. The prosthesis has a convex outwardly facing surface and a concave cup-shaped inwardly facing surface. The outer surface has a nipple and an areola wit... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199826 | Portable toilet combination A portable toilet combination, particularly suitable for children, but also useable by adults, comprising an openably closed carrying case with exteriorly accessible first, second, third and fourth compartments; the first compartment for containing a disp... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199827 | Drain traps with strainer means U-shaped drain traps are provided wherein strainer means are disposed within the trap for entrapping various size particles and valuable articles which have accidentally entered the drain. The trap is provided with access means for permitting the strainer... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199828 | Vacuum toilet apparatus for mobile units The disclosure relates to a vacuum toilet apparatus for mobile units, for example trains or buses, having at least one toilet stool from which faeces etc. are conveyed by means of a vacuum to a storage container by the intermediary of a conduit system. A ... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199829 | Nursing system A nursing system enables a bedridden patient or handicapped person to move unattended from his bed or wheelchair to a toilet, bathtub, or other nursing aid, and vice versa, with ease of shifting.... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199830 | Holding appliance for use in a blanket or a coverlet and the like A holding appliance for use in a blanket or a coverlet and the like according to the present invention includes a band for fixing the blanket or the coverlet to a bed in such a manner that the blanket or the coverlet can be freely movable to some extent r... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199831 | Mattress securing apparatus A mattress securing apparatus utilizes four right angle corner guards disposed at the corners of a mattress resting on a device having a mattress supporting surface therein such as a box spring to prevent lateral displacement of the mattress relative to t... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199832 | Molded polyurethane beehives The preparation of beehives from a synthetic resinous material which is acceptable to the bees, which is not attacked by vermin, and which exhibits the requisite physical properties to provide a desirable beehive is accomplished by assembling the hives fr... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199833 | Carton opening device A carton opening device is provided for opening diverse types of cartons, for example, cartons held together by retaining straps, retaining wires and/or nails. The device comprises an L-shaped handle having a first and second leg. A crowbar claw is formed... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199834 | Pig ball transfer unit Similar transfer units are disclosed for launching pig balls into a pipeline and for receiving the pig balls from a downstream portion of the pipeline, each of the transfer units including a hollow housing providing an axially aligned manually or hydrauli... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199835 | Scouring ball A scouring pad in the shape of a ball comprises a plurality of radially slit, regular-shaped, planar segments of conformable, lofty, low-density nonwoven abrasive product fastened together under compression at their centers with fastening means. The segme... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199836 | Paint pan A paint pan including a shallow pan portion terminating in a reservoir, the reservoir having a common wall with the pan portion, the common wall sloping such that the bottom of the reservoir is narrower than the top, and the sloping wall including a passa... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199837 | Apparatus for sewer cleaning and the like A sewer cleaning unit is disclosed which comprises a single tank assembly mounted on a wheeled vehicle. The single tank assembly has a substantially horizontal fixed divider forming a first tank portion adapted to carry and discharge a supply of water, an... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199838 | Indicating device for vacuum cleaners An indicating device for a vacuum cleaner having means which operates as a result of the pressure difference between the inside of a filter dust container and the outside thereof and is provided with means for communicating the degree of clogging of the d... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199839 | Suction cleaner power nozzle construction A suction cleaner power nozzle has auxiliary, main and bottom plate members releaseably assembled to form a nozzle housing having separated upper and lower compartments. The lower compartment includes a nozzle mouth in which a rotary brush is located. Sup... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199840 | Scraper blade structure for meat cleaning machine The section modulus of elasticity of the body portions of the scraper blades in a meat scraping machine decrease substantially uniformly outwardly along each blade. The blades have flat, transversely flexible scraping edges on the ends opposite a common s... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199841 | Hand meat tenderizer A hand meat tenderizer which allows a plurality of incisions to be made simultaneously in a meat cut and which comprises a plurality of penetrating or piercing elements held by a handle and a stripping plate tending to retract said elements.... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199842 | Feather removing apparatus and method A device for removing feathers from a fowl utilizing a rotating drum having radially extending flailing members, enclosed within a venturi-shaped housing having a fan for creating a flow of air to collect and exhaust the removed feathers out the smaller e... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199843 | Apparatus for producing a uniform continuous card sliver In the production of a card sliver in a textile fiber carding machine, the rate at which fibers are fed to the machine is continuously measured and deviations in the measured rate from a desired value are utilized to vary the rate at which fibers are bein... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199844 | Method and means for regulating sliver draft uniformity The draft imparted to sliver during regular operation of a sliver drafting apparatus is correctively varied in proportion to uniformity variations then detected in the sliver. During at least part of each period of start-up of the apparatus, the sliver is... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199845 | Slider for heavy duty flexible fastener tracks A flexible reopenable slide closure structure having first and second flexible plastic continuous fastener strips each having at least three continuous coactingly shaped interlocking releasable rib and groove elements extending along the strip with a clos... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199846 | End stopper for concealed fastener An end stopper for use with a concealed slide fastener in the fastened condition and devoid of the associated slider, is disclosed. The end stopper comprises a base portion and a pair of spaced clipping portions projected from the base portion. The plane ... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199847 | Well riser support having elastomeric bearings A well riser support for supporting and guiding an assembly of well riser pipe through a rotary table to facilitate coupling or uncoupling joints of riser pipe to the riser assembly. The support includes a spider assembly containing a plurality of hydraul... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199848 | Burial urn A burial urn for storing the cremated remains of a deceased person and for displaying a memorial. The urn is constructed in the general shape of a book preferably from cast metal parts. A cast main body has an interior chamber with a single inlet opening ... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199849 | Method of and machine for manufacturing support grids for storage battery electrode plates Method and machine for manufacturing grids from lead-based metal for use in storage batteries of the type wherein a casting is first performed of grid blanks the periphery of which is irregular and the size greater than that of the grid to be obtained, th... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199850 | Method of making a diaphragm valve The method of producing a cage unit for mounting a metal diaphragm in a hermetically sealed diaphragm globe valve having a valve body and bonnet of forged austenitic stainless steel in which the diaphragm unit consists of 8 to 12 very thin (0.006"-0.008")... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199851 | Apparatus for applying plastic sleeves to glass bottles The present invention relates to an apparatus for applying a plastic sleeve to a rigid base article, such as a glass bottle. A blank of plastic is wrapped around a mandrel and seamed to form a plastic sleeve. The bottle to which the sleeve is to be applie... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199852 | Windshield remover A semi-automatic windshield remover capable of removing automobile windshields is presented. The remover comprises an airtool and an attachment capable of being coupled to the airtool and powered by the airtool. The attachment comprises an longitudinal ba... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199853 | Method of protecting a pipe A C-shaped open base element of sheet metal is used to form a protective sleeve about a pipe mounted in a mounting. The element is bent about the pipe and welded together to form the sleeve. Wedges are used to secure the formed sleeve to the pipe. Shoulde... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199854 | Cable stripping method An apparatus for stripping a three-wire armor covered, lead jacketed, insulated flat electrical cable comprising a quide roll means for feeding the cable into a stripping means; a stripping means having adjustable cable cutting means for longitudinally cu... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199855 | Plastic dust tube for shock absorber and method of manufacture Telescopic shock absorber having a cup-like metallic cover plate with a cylindrical rim having a series of arcuately spaced and inwardly projecting dust tube retainer tabs. The dust tube is formed from a generally rectilinear blank of flexible plastic mat... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199856 | Method of providing lubricant volume displacement system for a rotary rock bit A rotary rock bit is provided having a lubrication system with an expansion space within the lubricant reservoir to accommodate changes in lubricant volume. A flexible diaphragm is located within the lubricant reservoir. The lubricant reservoir is filled ... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199857 | Tube bundle removal method and apparatus Method and apparatus for removing the tube bundle from a steam generator disposed in a nuclear steam power plant while preserving an environment seal between the inside of the generator and the containment vessel. The tube bundle severed from the tubeshee... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199858 | Method for automatically lubricating pipe joint In a well treating process in which fluid is or will be conveyed to or from a subterranean reservoir through a pipe string containing threaded pipe joints, the avoidance of reservoir permeability impairment is improved by lubricating the pipe joint thread... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199859 | Locking device for circumferentially oriented elements A method for mounting one element in surrounding relationship to another element is disclosed in which a groove is provided on the OD of the inner element and a complementary groove is provided on the ID of the outer element so that when the parts are ass... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199860 | Method of integrating semiconductor components A dielectric-isolated PNP transistor with Schottky protection, either alone or as one of an integrated pair of complementary bipolar transistors has complete dielectric isolation from neighboring devices and from the substrate by means of a topside anisot... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4199861 | Method of making an end play control assembly End play control construction to regulate the end play of a shaft of an electric motor between an end bearing and the rotor secured to said shaft, which comprises a bushing secured to the shaft adjacent the rotor and having an annular outwardly facing slo... | 04/29/1980 |
