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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4238857 | Self-contained air conditioning unit for persons A self-contained air conditioning unit for headwear of substantially any type comprising an electric motor and fan removably secured within a lightweight housing, said motor being secured to an air inlet screen removably securable to the headwear, a power... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238858 | Ablution or toilet compartment An ablution compartment includes a base tray and a plurality of booth elements supported on the base tray. The booth elements comprise a plurality of first wall elements and a plurality of second wall elements. Each first wall element is of an angled conf... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238859 | Spill-over spa A spill-over type spa is disclosed for use with an existing swimming pool. Water enters the spill-over type spa in the usual manner, but is thereafter permitted to spill-over into the adjacent swimming pool via a transition section integrity formed with t... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238860 | Water-pressure, drain-cleaning device A drain-cleaning device adapted to unclog drains and pipes having various sized openings and toilet bowls having various outlet configurations, the device comprising an inverted flexible and resilient cup defined by a dome-shaped inner wall surface and an... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238861 | Box spring assembly with limited deflection formed wire springs A box spring assembly which includes a generally rectangular frame and a plurality of wire springs mounted on the frame and connected to each other so as to yieldably resist downwardly directed bedding loads. Each of the springs has an elongated body port... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238862 | Pocket multiple tool Channel shaped handles are foldable over plier jaws for compact carrying and storage. Auxiliary parallel jaws are operable by the main jaws when desired. Locking means are provided, operable with both sets of jaws to maintain a strong grip on an object wh... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238863 | Method of washing articles of clothing A device for washing clothes is formed as a large diameter tube closed at each end. It has a watertight disengageable closure between the ends, usually formed either as a cap or by unscrewing two parts of the tube and one or more intrusive portions of its... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238864 | Diver's floater A diver's floater is disclosed having a spherical float body with a circumferential groove thereabout in which a line may be stored, which line connects the float body to the diver. A clip, attached to the float body, under which preselected turns of the ... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238865 | Boot support device A boot support device including a pair of shanks which engage each other intermediate their ends but closest to the upper end of the device. The inter-engagement of the shanks effects a rocking movement between the shanks to cause the lower ends of the sh... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238866 | Rain gutter cleaning device A portable, motor-operated cleaning device for removing leaves and other debris from rain gutters on buildings. An electric motor is pivotally mounted on the end of a telescoping rigid tubular handle with the electric cord for the motor extending along th... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238867 | Tube abrading tool A tube abrading tool for cleaning outer and inner surfaces of ends of pieces of copper tubing such as that employed in domestic water supply systems. The tool includes an electric motor supported in a housing. A longitudinal shaft is rotatably mounted to ... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238868 | Refuse bag holder A device for holding a flexible plastic refuse bag comprises a continuous rectangular bag-supporting loop and a coextensive annular clamping frame which snaps in place over the loop, gripping the bag in place. A flat scoop is attached to the clamping fram... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238869 | Liquid aspirator The use of liquid aspirators which are connected to conventional vacuum cleaners is known. In this invention a reservoir-body of an elongated form extends at its lower part to a nozzle, and at its upper part to a lid which is provided with an end-piece fo... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238870 | Brush-beater roller for a vacuum cleaner A brush-beater roller for a vacuum cleaner in which the roller is elongated and is helically twisted about its longitudinal axis, said roller having elongated dovetail slots for accommodating a brush bristle holder, and a beater bar. The dovetail slots ar... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238871 | Slide fastener installation A slide fastener installation is disclosed for use in a sleeping bag, jacket or other article. The slide fastener installation is formed from one continuous slide fastener stringer and one end of the installation is formed by that stringer being looped ba... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238872 | Separable slide fastener chain and a method of producing the same A separable slide fastener chain comprises a pair of oppositely disposed stringers of continuous length each having a support tape and a fastener element formed from a plastic monofilament into a continuous structure secured by sewn seams to a longitudina... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238873 | Apparatus for collecting and transporting heat energy The invention is an apparatus for collecting and transporting thermal energy as vaporized fluid. The vapor will flow from a heat absorption chamber and through a conduit to a point of use where it is condensed. The heat absorption chamber includes a sump ... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238874 | Tooling with stepping motor drive Apparatus is disclosed which includes a carriage having mounted thereon tooling for trimming wires and inserting trimmed wires into electrical contacts successively along an electrical connector mounted on an anvil. A stepping motor drive transports and r... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238875 | Method of and apparatus for performing work functions on articles from opposite ends of the articles A method of and apparatus for performing work functions on articles from opposite ends of the articles with the aid of twin turrets which present top and bottom datum surfaces. Articles to be work processed are fed to a fixed surface beneath the bottom da... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238876 | Method for converting hard top vehicles to removable top vehicles A procedure is disclosed whereby a vehicle which has been manufactured with a top which is of unitary construction with the body of the vehicle may be converted to a vehicle having a removable top. Also disclosed are sealing and mounting devices for secur... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238877 | Fabrication of screen devices Screen devices for use with an automatic screen changer (10) of an extruder (11) are fabricated from a screen preform (32) including an elongated carrier strip (36) having a plurality of screen elements (33--33) connected thereto. The screen changer (10) ... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238878 | Method and apparatus for forming shroud A method and apparatus for assembling together a rectangular outer tube, a rectangular inner tube and thin flat elongated panels having their side surfaces solidly abutted between the inner wall of the outer tube and the outer wall of the inner tube. The ... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238879 | Laminated inductor stacking and calibrating apparatus A method for manually assembling an inductor and calibrating it, and apparatus to facilitate practice of the method. Laminations are manually inserted into the ends of a hollow core of a wire-wound bobbin to build up a right hand stack of laminations and ... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238880 | Assembling apparatus for slide fastener stringers In an assembling apparatus for slide fastener stringers with spaced sections, the leading element of the element row in the leading stringer is detected by a probe inserted into the guide groove of the binder member for the elements and the engagement of ... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238881 | Apparatus for assembling elongated pieces into bundles An assembling apparatus is disclosed for straight, directed and cut-to-length wire pieces. A support frame is mounted elastically to a base frame and the support frame is jolted by jolting means. A guiding sheet is at least in part attached to the support... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238882 | Reservoir safety razor A reservoir safety razor including a handle attached to a body portion which includes a large transparent reservoir opening away from the handle and closed by a head which supports a razor blade held in place by a cap member, the reservoir being filled th... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238883 | Scraper assembly with blade lock means A scraper assembly comprising a housing having a chamber therein adapted to receive and releasably retain blade units, the housing having a head portion adapted to receive and retain a first of the blade units, and a cover member adapted to cover the firs... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238884 | Orbital jig saw A portable electric orbital jig saw of the adjustable orbit type incorporating an improved manually adjustable orbit drive mechanism which transmits smooth, continuous orbital motion to a reciprocating saw blade with no lost motion, from a full orbit mode... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238885 | Instrument for measurement and verification of linear dimensions An instrument for the measurement and verification of linear dimensions includes a body equipped with external and internal feelers, a perch mounted in a slideway in the body and equipped with external and internal feelers cooperating with those of the bo... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238886 | Method and apparatus for controlling the grinding of workpieces An automatic control for a grinding system is disclosed for controlling the advancement of a grinding wheel into a workpiece to provide a substantially constant time span between the termination of the operation of the feed means which advances the grindi... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238887 | Quick release ball bearing height gauge A precision quick release height gauge having ball bearing contact with a fixed screw wherein the nut element can be released and will disengage the screw, slide freely thereover, and re-engage at will with precise tolerances permitting fabricators to use... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238888 | Direct reading micrometer for sine-bar elevation The combination of a sine-bar and micrometer for directly reading angular displacement of the sine-bar, the micrometer being comprised of a barrel having a curvilinear index line with axial calibration in degrees and displaced from rotation of an extensio... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238889 | Devices for the azimuth and slope scanning of a drilling line A device for continuously measuring the azimuth and slope of a drilling l includes a gyroscope and an accelerometer station disposed in a container suspended from a cable. The gyroscope and the accelerometer station are mounted on an inner frame pivotall... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238890 | Method and apparatus for field-drying harvested crops Apparatus for field drying harvested crops, particularly peanuts, in the form of an open-topped container having sides, ends and a bottom of wire mesh fine enough to retain the crops. Tubular wire mesh conduits extend inwardly from opposite side walls and... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238891 | Arrangement for drying and preheating of coking coal An arrangement for drying and preheating coking gas has a transport tube for transporting coal in a stream of a carrier gas, and a feed conduit for feeding hot gas into the transport tube. The feed conduit is movable relative to the tube so as to vary the... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238892 | Apparatus for cleaning containers An apparatus for cleaning containers which comprises a head assembly securable to an opening in the container. The head assembly has means for introducing cleaning vapor into the container, means for removing condensate from adjacent the bottom of the con... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238893 | Signal transmission in teaching system In a teaching system having a central or master station and one or more student stations remote from the master station, there are provided, at the master station, at least one source of main signals in a first frequency band, which source may be constitu... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238894 | Article of footwear with a backward extension to the sole An article of footwear is disclosed for enabling a sufferer or potential sufferer of postural low back pain to lean backwards. An integral portion of a ground - engaging sole of the article is a projection which extends backwards at least one inch behind ... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238895 | Lift arm with improved chain connector An improved lift arm is pivoted upward by a hydraulic cylinder to lift a plow blade by a chain connected between the lift arm and blade. The lift arm includes an elongated body with a chain receiving member permanently fixed to an end thereof. Engaging a ... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4238896 | Cutting edge assembly for a loader bucket A loader bucket for an earthmoving machine including a bucket base having a forward end, a plurality of tooth adapters connected to and spaced along the forward end and each supporting a tooth, and a plurality of cutting edges, each extending forwardly of... | 12/16/1980 |
