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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4202412 | Thermally metamorphosing oil shale to inhibit leaching When processing a fragmented permeable mass of particles containing oil shale for recovering liquid and gaseous values, a portion of the oil shale is thermally metamorphosed. However, a zone of non-thermally metamorphosed particles can be left in the frag... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202413 | Well cementing process using presheared water swellable clays A method of preparing and using a cement slurry having water swellable clays therein as extenders for the cement is described, which method enhances the effectiveness of the water swellable clays by preshearing aqueous suspensions thereof prior to mixing ... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202414 | Lawn cultivating machine A lawn cultivating machine comprising two parallel cutter shafts which are onnected together by a transmission gear and are rotatable about their axes, and on each of which shafts a plurality of cutters are arranged at spaced intervals from each other, the... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202415 | Soil cultivating machine A machine for cultivating the soil has a main transverse beam carrying a transverse tool shaft, and a gear box for driving the tool shaft. The beam has a frame for attaching the machine to the conventional three-point hydraulic system of a tractor, the tr... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202416 | Method and apparatus for sinking a cased borehole for producing cased pile foundations Method for sinking a cased borehole for producing cased pile foundations. The method uses an apparatus comprising a crane, a drilling appliance capable of being lowered into the borehole and a tube extraction machine with double-acting lifting cylinders f... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202417 | Raise drill with elastomeric load absorbing means A raise bit is disclosed for enlarging a pilot hole into a larger diameter hole by disintegrating the earth formations surrounding the pilot hole. The raise bit includes a removable drive stem for enabling the raise bit to be transported through small dri... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202418 | Roller cutter mounts Roller cutters are mounted onto a cutterhead from the rear side of the cutterhead. A load transfer block is insertable between a stator portion of each cutter and a generally forwardly directed load-carrying surface on the cutter-head frame. Loads imposed... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202419 | Roller cutter with major and minor insert rows An earth boring system is provided with universal cutter means for boring in all types of formations. The cutter means is mounted on a drill bit body or cutterhead with said bit or cutterhead functioning to form a hole in the earth formations. At least tw... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202420 | Rock drill with hard metal drilling head A rock drill for rotary blow drilling with a drilling head arranged at the free end of the drill shaft, which at least partially consists of hard metal. The drilling head the end face of which is circular disc shaped or circular ring shaped includes a for... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202421 | Impact bit having circumferential inserts of differing combination A hammer drill bit has an axis, a shaft and a crown and a plurality of hard metal circumferential studs carried by the crown and distributed along a circumference thereof. Each circumferential stud has an axis inclined at an acute angle with respect to th... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202422 | Safety lock for agricultural windrower or the like A safety lock for an agricultural windrower and/or conditioner comprising a self-propelled machine having a pair of drive wheels respectively powered by individual hydraulic motors each powered by separate hydraulic pumps driven by a fuel powered motor, t... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202423 | Land vehicle with articulated legs A vehicle with articulated legs is provided for movement across a surface or through water. Each of the legs is adapted to move in at least two planes with reference to vehicle balance. The movement of the legs is controlled sequentially to effect movemen... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202424 | Automobile speed control system Automobile speed control system to maintain actual automobile speed to desired automobile speed, in which a first electrical signal indicating the actual automobile speed is compared with a second electrical signal indicating the desired automobile speed ... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202425 | Acoustic impulse generator An acoustic impulse generator is disclosed for use in a fluid media for oceanographic, seismographic and related applications. The generator includes a housing with a piston slidably disposed therein and a passageway through which a rod attached to the pi... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202426 | Exhaust gas splitter construction Splitter type exhaust silencers are improved by providing means for preventing dust particles from depositing upon sound deadening fibers exposed to the dust carrying exhaust gas stream by providing a dust-free boundary layer gas stream to flow protective... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202427 | Derrick escape system An escape system for delivering personnel on a drilling rig to a safe location in the event of a blow out or other dangerous situation. More specifically, a personnel capsule is releasably maintained in an unbalanced disposition by an A-frame structure ad... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202428 | Ladder A foldable ladder is disclosed having a central and two outer parallel support members or "stiles" and a plurality of steps connected between the central and the outer stiles. Each step is arranged to fold between an erected position, in which it extends ... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202429 | Mounting for a stationary pad of a disc brake structure A snowmobile drive train includes a chain case which supports one end of a drive shaft and includes a flange which surrounds a brake disc carried by the drive shaft. The chain case is provided with a three-sided pocket which extends radially inwardly towa... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202430 | Brake actuating mechanisms The disclosure relates to a brake actuating mechanism in which a brake applying member is urged to apply a brake by a heavy coil spring. To release the brake a pivoted lever acts on the brake applying member and is moved in a brake releasing direction by ... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202431 | Passage structure of lock-up torque converter Simple passage structure of a lock-up torque converter is disclosed. With this passage structure an output shaft without any circumferential groove can be used. The output shaft has an axial passage and a radial passage communicating with the axial passag... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202432 | Clutch disk for use in automobile In a clutch disk for use in an automobile, the improvement wherein a plurality of supporting plates are separately fastened to the periphery of a plate, and masses of organic friction material and masses of sintered metal friction material are alternately... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202433 | Tool protection arrangement for hydraulic presses An arrangement for protecting tools in a hydraulic press against overloading if a foreign object or body is present in a tool space of the hydraulic press. A displacement or travel switch monitors at least a portion of a path of movement of a press ram wi... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202434 | Stabilizer assembly for a mining machine conveyor A conveyor assembly extends longitudinally on the body portion of a mining machine. A forward end portion of the conveyor assembly is pivotally connected to the body portion so that a rearward end portion is movable through a vertical arc to facilitate di... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202435 | Automatic reciprocating, indexing and picking assembly apparatus An automatic, multiple station, reciprocating, indexing and picking assembly apparatus wherein a motor-driven reducer mechanism is drivably connected to an indexer mechanism for providing indexed rotation of an assembly dial plate, and to a first cam-actu... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202436 | Apparatus for handling a plurality of articles An apparatus is provided for use in combination with a supporting surface for handling a plurality of articles segregated into separate groups with each group having the articles thereof arranged in a predetermined pattern. The apparatus includes an uprig... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202437 | Scraper assembly for a conveyor belt A conveyor belt scraper assembly having a scraper core attached to a shaft which holds the scraper core in adjustable spatial relationship with the conveyor belt, the scraper core having slide-in mounting channels which hold resilient scraper blades in co... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202438 | Flexible conveyor system This discloses a system for lifting or conveying granular, pulverized or fluid material from a first location to a second location. A long flexible tube, open at the ends, encloses a highly flexible rotary driven helical coil spring equipped at parallel, ... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202439 | Thrower of transported materials A thrower constructed for the mining industry and comprises a rotatable rotor pivotally connected by means of at least one connecting rod with a bucket adapted to receive and unload material. The spacing of the axis of rotation of the rotor from the axis ... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202440 | Apparatus for accumulating materials on a shuttle conveyor An apparatus for accumulating materials on a shuttle conveyer has a plurality of longitudinally spaced apart dogs vertically rotatably supported on a longitudinally moving body on a shuttle conveyer frame. Each of the dogs is rotatable between a lowered p... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202441 | Modular compartmentalized conveyor belt system A modular compartmentalized conveyor belt system including a plurality of spaced roller bearing pins; a plurality of rollers mounted on the pins; first and second spaced sets of raised link members, each set arranged in first and second rows for coupling ... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202442 | Conveyor A conveying device including an endless, side discharging conveying element with improved supporting and discharge actuating means therefor.... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202443 | Conveyor belt curve A conveyor belt curve comprising two rows of rollers for deflecting or turning an endless conveyor belt. The roller rows each consist of a number of cylindrical rolls. The conveyor belt is driven by means of a driven chain through the agency of chain fixe... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202445 | Security wallet or container A security wallet or container for carrying credit cards is in the form of a rectangular hollow body containing a drawer to hold a stack of the cards. A combination lock is operative to block movement of a release pushbutton depression of which causes the... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202446 | Bottle package A wraparound type carrier package for a group of bottles which are arranged in a double row and in transversely aligned pairs, which package is formed by wrapping about the top, sides, ends and bottom of the bottles, a cut and scored blank of paperboard, ... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202447 | Collating and bundling belt loops Belt loop plies cut from the same area of a fabric lay are stacked in individual stacks in the order which they are cut and each stack is formed into a chain of belt loops. Each chain is separated into individual loops while collating the individual loops... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202448 | Equipment for transporting and/or storing textile bobbins Carriers adapted to support strand spools in wire type pallets are disclosed. Each carrier comprises a tray having gripping devices or claws for centering the carrier at the intersection of the crossed support wires which comprise the pallet. Tubular supp... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202449 | Protecting device for edges Disclosed is a protecting device for use on the edges of boxes, cartons or like objects, especially, but not exclusively, on edge areas where ropes or lashings are tied around the objects. The protecting device is generally formed from a rod from which pi... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202450 | Flexible wall pouch with label A flexible transparent pouch having a double wall, a heat sealed bond at the extremities thereof, a strip of flexible material having a label extending between the bonds and located between a pair of films making up the double wall, the strip being connec... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202451 | Hanger for hanging fabric A hanger for hanging fabric in pendant, vertical form is disclosed. More specifically, the hanger comprises a longitudinally extending main member which is supported by an attachment means and which has similarly configured securing units at its opposite ... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4202452 | Supporting rack for breakable articles A rack for supporting curved or flat glass, such as multi-curved automobile windshields, utilizes upstanding support members in combination with pneumatically inflatable hose to support the windshields in a vertical position. The hose is arranged in a ser... | 05/13/1980 |
