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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4221007 | Method for fitting a stabilized artificial limb A method for fitting and stabilizing an artificial limb is disclosed herewith which includes the use of an adjustable prosthetic device to obtain dynamic alignment. After dynamic alignment, the relative orientation of the elements making up the adjustable... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221008 | Swimming pool chair lift A device for transporting objects vertically and in a helical pattern into and out of a pool of water or similar liquid including carrier means, hydraulic cylinder means adapted to receive the carrier means and be activated by a selected fluid at a select... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221009 | Bathing or shower apparatus A bath or shower apparatus which has a platform and a flexible cover attached thereto. The cover extends beyond the periphery of the platform and is attached at its outer edge to a surround which extends about the platform. Means are provided whereby the ... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221010 | Flush tank metering device A metering device to provide just the amount of water necessary to insure proper filling of a flush toilet bowl and trap. The metering device operates by means of gravity feed rather than pressure that is presently used which may vary the amount of water ... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221011 | Apparatus and method for lifting the handicapped A sling for lifting a handicapped person and method utilizing the sling are provided. The sling is fabricated from a pair of tubular members which are retained in spaced relation by a channel member integral with the tubular members with which they are pi... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221012 | Bunk bed side rail hinge lock A guard rail attachment is provided which enables the guard rail for a bed to be moved from an upright position to a lower clearance position to provide access to the mattress. The guard rail attachment includes a plate which is secured to the guard rail.... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221013 | Fluid flotation sleep system The exterior of a fluid flotation sleep system such as a waterbed mattress is defined by a pair of registering frame or panel members having resilient borders of substantial height, the upper one of which includes a top pad and a resilient border of recta... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221014 | Post storage rack A storage rack is mounted on boats of the type having seats supported by pedestals in order to store the pedestal posts. The storage rack is adapted to be mounted angularly for holding a pair of pedestal posts and consists of a pair of elongated cylindric... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221015 | Tooth-cleaning device A tooth cleaning device comprises a biting bit of an elastically yieldable cellular material and has a slit or groove obtained by means of cutting tools, so that the opposing walls of the slit or groove will act as scrubbing means when a person is chewing... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221016 | Valve stem cleaner and positioner A valve stem cleaner and positioner for threaded valve stems. The cleaner and positioner is designed for use with threaded valve stems in which the portion of the valve stem to be cleaned is inaccessible from the ends of the stem as for example, in an ope... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221017 | Vacuum desoldering tool and tool cleaner system A vacuum desoldering tool and tool cleaner system is disclosed. The desoldering tool is connectable at will to a vacuum source and features a venturi exhaust and separate muffler or end cap for the tool. The venturi throat is relatively short and preferab... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221018 | Lawn sweeper An improved lawn sweeper for clearing a lawn of accumulated debris such as leaves, pine straw, and the like is disclosed. The novel sweeper comprises, in the embodiment shown, an open-bottomed housing holding a rotating cylinder having a number of very st... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221019 | Floorcare device A floorcare device has a round brush located in a housing and rotatable about a rigid axle. At least one axial end portion of the axle is supported in the housing by an eccentric, so that by turning the eccentric the height of the axle and thereby of the ... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221020 | Low-visibility lazy-tongs mechanism for conventional traverse rods for even folding and unfolding of drapery A lazy-tongs device is formed of length-adjustably snap-connected colorless transparent or translucent plastic elements sufficiently small so as not to interfere with the folding of the drapes and so as to be substantially concealed behind the traverse ro... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221021 | Method and apparatus for electrical stimulation of an animal carcass A method and apparatus for automatically electrically stimulating a series of carcasses in a production environment applies an electrical impulse to selective portions of an endless belt which are in contacting relationship with the carcass. The portions ... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221022 | Apparatus for stripping the carded web from the doffer cylinder of the textile carding machine An apparatus for stripping a carded web from a doffer cylinder of a textile carding machine comprises a roller arrangement which consists of a card clothed doffer cylinder, a stripping roller clothed with a scatteredly toothed metallic wire, a pair of top... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221023 | Carding flat structure A carding flat is illustrated wherein segments of metallic wire are retained upon a base strip by opposed brackets each of which is attached to the base strip and to the wire by an upper leg and an intermediate inwardly projecting element which carries fa... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221024 | Apparatus for suspending articles, such as skis, for convenient storage Skis or other articles having curved ends are suspended by means of an inter-looped strand which forms adjustable loops through which the curved ends extend. A slide is used to adjust the loops and lock the article in place.... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221025 | Anti-theft locking device A locking device which includes a housing, a spring biased insert, arcuately spaced retaining balls, and cup means which is securely mounted in the housing and retains the balls and the lower end of the insert. The tapered side walls of the cup means prov... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221026 | Separable end stop of a slide fastener An improved separable end stop of a slide fastener with which the slide fastener can be opened very smoothly without the necessity of forcible pulling of the end stop to decoupling. The separable end stop comprises an insert piece with a stud pin implante... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221027 | Lockable slider for slide fasteners Disclosed is a lockable slider for a slide fastener in which but a single spring is provided on the fore thereof that has double functions to urge a cylindrical member upwardly for enabling the rotation thereof by a separate key and to simultaneously bias... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221028 | Arrangement for mounting a flexible film or the like An arrangement for mounting a film to a substrate has an inner clamping member which is connected to the substrate and has an undercut portion, and an outer clamping member which surrounds the film placed on the inner member in the region of the undercut ... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221029 | Binding strap fastener An improved binding strap fastener for attaching crampons (mounting climbing spikes) to mountain climbing boots includes a lever assembly and a retaining clip for retaining the lever assembly in a fastened position. The lever assembly includes a rigid, cu... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221030 | Clamp ring This clamp ring comprises a strip provided at one end with a series of transversally extending ridges or like profiles and carry at its other end a housing for a rotatably mounted screw which engages said ridges for tightening the ring. The housing has a ... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221031 | Device for deposition of loops of yarn on a conveyor belt of a yarn processing chamber The invention pertains to a device for forming and depositing loops of yarn in such a manner on an endless belt conveyor which passes through a yarn processing chamber, that the loops partially overlap and lie sufficiently free to be able to undergo any s... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221032 | Method of forming expanded metal grids particularly lead grids for storage battery plates The invention provides a novel method of formation and structure of a slitted strip of metal, such a lead, which is to be expanded into a reticulated configuration. As applied to a battery plate, the invention contemplates the formation of a continuous st... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221033 | Method of making a tubular capacitor A tube of ceramic dielectric material having inner and outer electrodes formed thereon is immersed in an alcohol solution of rosin to form a rosin film over the entire exposed surfaces thereof. A pair of metal caps, each having a plurality of circumferent... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221034 | Method of fabricating a packaged electrical device A rolled metallized film capacitor is encased between a pair of box halves (13 and 13') each having a pair of dovetailed slots (36 and 37) formed in opposed walls so that when the box halves are assembled about a capacitor blank (10) the slots in the resp... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221035 | Apparatus for removal of plastic overwrap from reclaim tobacco The removal of so-called zip-tape from reclaim tobacco is achieved by use of an elongate vibratory conveyor having grooves extending longitudinally therewith and of longitudinal depth profile preselected from groove-containment of the reclaim tobacco, exc... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221036 | Method of securing a Moineau pump stator A method of assembling progressing cavity pump of the Moineau type having a helically externally threaded rotor coacting with an internally helically threaded stator. In a Moineau pump where the pump casing is a singular tubular unit, the stator is normal... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221037 | Method for manufacturing a fluid control device with disc-type flow restrictor The dislosure relates to fluid flow control devices, particularly for use in connection with valves used in the control of fluids under high pressure. In the new structure, the valve trim includes a novel and advantageous form of flow restrictor, which se... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221038 | Method for forming a frame A method for forming a frame from an elongate strip of formable material and products formed thereby are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of notching the side edges of an elongate strip and providing slots in one edge; thereafter deforming the st... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221039 | Gasket holder clip A gasket holder clip and method for using the clip to attach a gasket through holes in an underlying flange or the like to maintain alignment of the gasket holes and flange holes. The gasket holder clip is constructed of spring steel wire or other materia... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221040 | Method for making pellet for charging furnaces The specification discloses a compact, dense, economical, metal pellet for charging melting furnaces to recycle the metal and a method for making the pellet especially from scrap cans and pieces of scrap metal including borings, turnings, punchings, chips... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221041 | Semi-tubular rivets and method of using A rivet for joining fiber reinforced plastic laminates has an alloy of titanium columbium. The rivet is semi-tubular in shape. The tubular portion is shaped with an outwardly tapered inner wall to provide for expansion of the tubular section without expan... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221042 | Covered wire wrapping tool A covered wire wrapping tool comprising a covered wire-cutting and cover-stripping device for cutting an elongated continuous covered wire into covered wires of a predetermined length and for stripping covers from a leading and trailing end portions of a ... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221043 | Automatic tool changer for multiple spindle machine tool Two pairs of crossed tool change arms are mounted adjacent to four spindles which are rotatably mounted on a common spindlehead. Each pair of crossed tool change arms is mounted on a common shaft which is rotatable and is movable along its axis and is pos... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221044 | Self-alignment of gate contacts at local or remote sites A process for producing VLSI (very large scale integrated) circuits employs techniques of self-aligned gates and contacts for FET devices and for both diffused conducting lines in the substrate and polysilicon conducting lines situated on isolating field ... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221045 | Self-aligned contacts in an ion implanted VLSI circuit A process for producing VLSI (very large scale integrated) circuits employs techniques of self-aligned gates and contacts for FET devices and for both diffused conducting lines in the substrate and polysilicon conducting lines situated on isolating field ... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4221046 | Method for assembling a brush cage A brush cage for an electric motor wherein the brush sets are mounted on two assemblies. One assembly is mounted to the frame and the second assembly is mounted to a removable frame end plate, which when removed, provides access to the first assembly and ... | 09/09/1980 |
