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A pillow assembly having a supporting assembly and a retractable umbrella assembly that is easily transportable and allows a user to support his/her head while covering their face from sunlight.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4211052 | Packaging paper confirming device in a coin packaging machine A coin packaging machine in which different kinds of coins are packaged is provided. The coin packaging machine is provided with means for supplying coins, means for transporting the supplied coins while selecting the desired kind of coins during transpor... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211053 | Machines for applying bags or sacks to the discharge spouts of bag-filling machines A machine for applying a bag to the discharge spout of a bag-filling machine comprises a suction pick-up device for lifting the top bag from a stack of flat bags and turning the bag into a vertical position with its mouth disposed along one vertical edge ... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211054 | Cartoner for elongated articles and components thereof A cartoner for elongated articles including a source of a series of unshaped bundles thereof, a first conveyor having first article buckets thereon with a first reach adjacent to the source of articles so that each first article bucket receives an unshape... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211055 | Machine for feeding, cutting, spacing and accumulating articles Sausages or other articles having initial lengths several times longer than their final, packaged lengths are automatically severed to their proper dimensions, accumulated into multisausage clusters and then inserted into awaiting containers, all automati... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211056 | Case filling apparatus An apparatus of high capacity is provided for simultaneously filling a plurality of individual containers into a predetermined number of empty cases. The containers are conveyed to two staging areas disposed in adjacent relation to a first station and the... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211057 | Combine harvester automatic table height control An automatic table height control for a combine harvester including a height sensing assembly and a control system. The height sensing assembly includes a finger support shaft rotatably journaled on the bottom of the table. A spring is provided to rotate ... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211058 | Lawn mower including a carburetor enclosure Disclosed herein is a lawn mower including a blade housing, wheels supporting the blade housing for movement along the ground, a rotary cutting blade supported within the blade housing, and an engine supported by the blade housing and rotatably driving th... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211059 | Row crop attachment The invention provides a low profile, compact row crop attachment which eliminates the use of crop conveyors in the form of chains with crop-engaging extensions attached thereto, such conveyors being subject to fast wear and being relatively expensive to ... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211060 | Mowing rotor A flail-type mowing rotor, spinning about a horizontal axis transverse to its path of travel, has specially configured, swingable cutters that provide finish-cut quality notwithstanding design features that minimize the number of cutters required on the r... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211061 | Flexible disc crop pick-up device A harvester pick-up is disclosed for harvesting agricultural products which are located above, but in contact with, or very close, to the field surface. The agricultural products, such as tomatoes, are seized between two contra-rotating flexible discs whi... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211062 | Machine for harvesting agricultural produce In a machine for picking-up agricultural produce from the ground of the type including a carriage movable over the ground, an inclined endless conveyor having at any given time sections constituting a pick-up section and a returning section and further co... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211063 | Method and device for cleaning spinning rotors in open-end spinning mechanism A method and device for cleaning a rotor in an open-end spinning machine. While the rotor is running at a speed less than the normal r.p.m. a first flow of cleaning air is directed to a collecting groove of the rotor and a second flow of cleaning air is s... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211064 | Time signal timepiece A time signal timepiece has a timekeeping portion and an electronic sound generating portion. The electronic sound generating portion comprises two counters, two oscillator circuits and a coincidence circuit. The hour signal from the timekeeping portion m... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211065 | Automatic system for setting digital watches A system for automatically time setting and message setting or programming of a cased digital watch or a watch module and including both an external setting unit and a serial interface control circuit inside the cased digital watch. The system in accordan... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211066 | Stop watch A stop watch comprising a second hand and a subsecond hand includes manually actuatable switches for producing start, stop and reset instruction signals. A first stepping motor and a first drive controller for the stepping motor drives the second hand, wh... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211067 | Time adjusting device for electronic timepiece A time adjusting device for an electronic timepiece utilizes a manually rotatable mechanism which generates pulses corresponding in frequency and number with the speed and extent of rotation thereof. Each pulse which is generated is thereafter converted i... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211068 | Chain welding machine A chain welding machine has a first cam-operated linkage for rapidly moving psetting dies into and away from the ends of a link to be welded and a second hydromechanical linkage for applying upsetting force to the ends of the link. The upsetting force is c... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211069 | Combustion chamber for a gas turbine A combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine has a combustion cowl and transition piece with at least one air gap provided therebetween. The air gap opens into an intermediate chamber having two throttles which are arranged oppositely with respect to one ... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211070 | Start-up motor assembly for rotational machines The invention concerns a rotation apparatus for use with a rotating machine having a drive shaft. The rotation apparatus comprises an auxiliary shaft positioned in spaced relation relative to the drive shaft. Radial and axial bearings rotatably support th... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211071 | Vapor generators Disclosed is an improved vapor generator of the kind in which a fuel-air mixture is combusted in a chamber through which water is flowed. The water acts as a coolant for the unit and is vaporized or converted to steam in the chamber in the presence of the... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211072 | Device for the thermal decomposition of liquid fuels Device for the thermal decomposition of liquid fuel in which the fuel is roduced into a recess in a porous body of metallic foam material contained in a closed housing. The latter may be a combined reaction chamber and propulsive nozzle of a rocket propu... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211073 | Combustion chamber principally for a gas turbine This invention concerns an improved combustion chamber comprising two concentric sheet metal cases forming a space into which air is admitted. The air passes from the space to the interior of the chamber in primary, secondary, annular, and tertiary air fl... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211074 | Secondary air supply system for the exhaust system of an internal combustion engine A secondary air supply system for the exhaust system of an internal combustion engine having a catalytic converter with a three-way catalyst. The system has an air control valve which selectively supplies a part of compressed air to the exhaust system whi... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211075 | Diesel engine exhaust particulate filter with intake throttling incineration control Diesel exhaust filter and incineration control systems are disclosed which provide intake throttling of the diesel engine as a primary means of raising exhaust temperature in the filter for the periodic burn-off of collected particulates. Various embodime... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211076 | Energy convertion engine The present invention provides a new method of obtaining energy without using fuels. Basically the device consists of a conveyor belt that contains a continuous arrangement of cells or pockets that are open in the outward direction perpendicular to it's m... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211077 | Hybrid hydrostatic-pneumatic power generation system The apparatus of the present invention is comprised of transfer tanks which are located below the hydraulic head of a dam. Connected to the transfer tanks are air inlets extending from the transfer tanks to the atmosphere, and having check valves located ... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211078 | Dynamic power source A cylinder is arranged to pump hydraulic fluid into a pressure accumulator. The stored hydraulic fluid operates a hydraulic motor to drive an alternator to generate electric power. The cylinder may be a single acting cylinder having a piston rod depressed... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211079 | Positive neutral control for hydrostatic transmission A hydrostatic transmission includes a reversible, variable displacement pump having a swashplate actuator controlled by a pilot-operated displacement control valve. A manually operated displacement control lever is manipulated to opposite sides of a neutr... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211080 | Hydraulic power packs A hydraulic power pack having a prime mover, at least one hydraulic pump, a reservoir and associated valving and hydraulic circuitry, in which each of the components is mounted on one of two parts of a frame. The two parts of the frame are hinged together... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211081 | Exhaust bypassing system for a turbocharger In an exhaust bypassing system for a turbocharger for use with an internal combustion engine such as automobile engine, an opening is provided in the wall of an exhaust passage so as to introduce the exhaust pressure of the engine into the interior of a d... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211082 | Internal combustion engine with free floating auxiliary piston An internal combustion engine is disclosed. The engine includes a power cylinder, a power piston reciprocating therein and being connected to a rotating output crank. A free floating double acting auxiliary piston reciprocates within an auxiliary cylinder... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211083 | Method for driving a vehicle driven by an internal combustion engine A method for driving a vehicle driven by an internal combustion engine having a plurality of compression chambers divided into a first set and a second set, each of said sets being able to be separately operated and to be convertible in operation so as to... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211084 | Conversion of energy by means of tethered whirlwinds Various low grade forms of energy, particularly superadiabatic ground level air, are used to power a whirlwind. The whirlwind is tethered in a fixed place by confinement of the formative whirl from which the whirlwind arises, permitting the energy contain... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211085 | Systems for supplying tanks with cryogen A system for filling transportable tanks with a cryogen, such as low pressure liquid carbon dioxide. A holding chamber is supplied with liquid CO2 from a storage vessel system, and the pressure of liquid CO2 is reduced to the triple ... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211086 | Cryogenic breathing system A cryogenic breathing system comprises a storage container and a portable container. Both containers, include outer casings and inner containers having small connected openings at their top and providing an evacuable space between their outer casings and ... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211087 | Device for maintaining a vacuum in a compartment of a rotating member A device for maintaining a vacuum in a compartment of a rotating member includes a collector which is mounted over an orifice of the rotating member. The collector has an end wall with an annular aperture extending axially of the rotating member. The aper... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211088 | Internal cooling of heat exchanger tubes The present invention is an apparatus and method for cooling heat exchanger tubes at controlled conditions. The apparatus comprises a housing sealingly connected to each heat exchanger tube. There are water and air inlets to the housing. A means to genera... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211089 | Heat pump wrong operational mode detector and control system An improper or wrong operational mode fault detection and control system for a reverse cycle refrigeration system for detecting faulty operation, i.e., operation in the cooling mode when heating is desired or in the heating mode when cooling is requested,... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211090 | Household refrigerator with air circulation and cooling arrangement The present invention relates to an air circulating and cooling arrangement for a refrigerator cabinet including a fresh food and freezer storage compartment. A partition dividing the compartments includes a first wall defining the upper wall of fresh foo... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4211091 | Insulated lunch bag A flexible insulated lunch bag adapted for transportation and storage of food comprises a liner disposed in the interior thereof, means for opening and closing the bag attached near its top and a carrying means affixed to the upper portion of the bag. Whe... | 07/08/1980 |
