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Pizza Pie With Concentric Rings of Crust
A pizza mold for forming a plurality of concentric raised ridges of dough (i.e., crust) on the surface of a pizza pie.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4247957 | Adjustable sun visor A unitary, adjustable sun visor comprising a sunshade panel having an inner arcuate surface, at least two arms extending rearwardly from said panel, and adjustable clasping means integrally formed with the outer portions of said arms.... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247958 | Uniform cap with changeable cover In a cap of the type having a cap frame including a head band and a visor and a vertical stay and a grommet for supporting the top of the cap and a separable changeable cap cover covering the stay and the grommet and surrounding and covering the head band... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247959 | Antichafe lower undergarment for women In a preferred embodiment, a novel undergarment combining advantages of panties and a half-slip, constructed with a narrow crotch width between inner panel sections that become positioned between the legs, formed by seaming-together of precut panels of un... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247960 | Actuating device for the vizors of helmets or similar headgears A vizor is retained to a helmet A by means of hinging members 22, 24, one member being associated with sliding organs 10, 12 connected with actuating means 26 and 28 by means of which the pivots 20 of the hinges are displaced with respect to the helmet, f... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247961 | Pillow-first aid kit with ejector A pillow, which may take the form of an automobile headrest, has a fastener that controls communication to an interior compartment of the pillow. A removable shock absorber liner fits into the interior compartment and defines a pocket which is adapted to ... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247962 | Waveless waterbed mattress Waterbed mattress having an internal floating pad for reducing wavelike motion of the water in the mattress. The pad is fabricated of a buoyant material and is anchored to the bottom wall of the mattress, with no connection between the pad and the top wal... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247963 | Liquid support construction A support construction includes two different-size sheets, the smaller one being sealed along all of its margins to the larger one, and the assembly is folded over, the smaller sheet being on the inside while overlapping margins of the larger sheet are se... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247964 | Chimney sweeping brush There is disclosed a chimney cleaning brush which comprises a large number of bristles extending outwardly and upwardly from a center hub. The bristles are distributed symmetrically around the periphery of the hub. Each bristle comprises a pre-formed leng... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247965 | Over-center hinge Over-center hinge for furniture doors, in which one of the hinge parts has a mortise cup manufactured of plastic, from whose circumferential wall a diagonally disposed tongue which is integral with the mortise cup and can be flexed against spring bias, pr... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247966 | Vehicle frame straightener An apparatus for straightening damaged automobile frames or bodies utilizing a rigid structural ramp capable of supporting a vehicle. A preferably hydraulic power source capable of imparting alternatively a compressive or a tensile force to the damaged fr... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247967 | Slip-resistant binding A slip-resistant binding is formed by attaching male and female-type Velcro strips along opposite ends of a shoelace or other binding material. The two types of Velcro fasteners are arranged such that fasteners of opposite type automatically engage one an... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247968 | Fastener stringer with tubular filament element A slide fastener has coupling elements secured to adjacent edges of a pair of carrier tapes wherein each of the elements is formed from a tubular filament by plastic deformation of selected portions, thus defining head portions, leg portions and connectin... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247969 | Method for moisture conditioning of compressively treated fabric The disclosure relates to a finishing treatment for fabrics, either tubular or knitted, having at least some natural fiber content, where the fabrics have been given a compressive shrinkage treatment by an asymmetrical process, sometimes referred to herei... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247970 | Apparatus for forming expanded metal such as battery grids Rotary apparatus comprising a die cutting station followed by a series of segment forming stations, a levelling station and a winding station continuously works a strip of lead into a configuration suitable for battery grid plates having expanded segments... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247971 | Process for sticking chemical to fibrous article Chemicals, such as soap, are stuck to fibrous articles, such as metallic wire, by injecting a high-temperature and high-pressure chemical solution into the fibrous article whereby flash evaporation of the solution's solvent effects a uniform distribution ... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247972 | Method of manufacturing a piston ring A parted annular piston sealing ring and a method for manufacture thereof wherein an inwardly facing ring surface adapted to be engaged by an expander-spring for expanding the ring into sealing engagement with a cylinder wall is hardened in a zone immedia... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247973 | Method and apparatus for repairing cracked metal parts Metal parts on opposite sides of a crack or the like are joined together by drilling holes in the metal and then inserting a fastener. A tool is provided which assures uniformity in the location of contiguous holes into which the fastener is inserted.... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247974 | Set-up method for steam generator tube installation apparatus Method and apparatus for expeditious installation of bottom-supporting and side-anchoring blocks for a tube and tube sheet bottom repair apparatus in the interior of the channel head of a steam generator at one side of the divider plate in a nuclear power... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247975 | String attaching to game racket handle A pin is connected between the two legs of the game racket frame in the handle portion near the end. This assembly is placed in a mold with an insert between the legs abutting the pin and initially effectively blocking any string from being looped around ... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247976 | Method for production of a turntable with stroboscope marks A method for production of a turntable which carries stroboscope marks with a metallic surface on the face side of its rim, the metallic surface relative to its dark colored intermediate spaces being elevated. In the edge vicinity of a disc which is made ... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247977 | Automatic tape engaging and securing device In an automatic tape engaging and securing device a support mounts a reel having a recessed portion. The interior of the recessed portion is enlarged relative to the opening into the recessed portion. An engaging and securing element supply mechanism supp... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247978 | Methods of making slot liners and stator assemblies including same Methods are disclosed for making a slot liner for electrically insulating electric coils from a magnetic core. The slot liner comprises a piece of insulating sheet material having first and second sides and first and second ends. The sheet material is fol... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247979 | Radiant heater and method of making same There is disclosed a radiant heater having high efficiency, reduced cost, and longer life, and which allows rapid heat-up and cool-down. As in the prior art, a heating coil is placed in grooves formed in an insulating board; the radiating surface is a fib... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247980 | Wire feed and contact insertion apparatus A wire stuffer mechanism removes wire successively from a jig at a first operating station (e.g. terminating) and then transfers them to a second station (e.g. contact inserting) spaced from the first station. The jig is annular and has closely spaced wir... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247981 | Methods of assembling interconnect members with printed circuit boards Interconnect sockets (10) are assembled with substrates, such as printed circuit cards (12), to connect the leads (17) of electrical components (18) to conductive pads (14) deposited on the substrate. Each socket has an end section (19)inserted into a mou... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247982 | Skin-flow control razor A shaving assembly is provided with skin-flow control means positioned in advance of the blade edge to control the effective exposure and blade-to-skin angle of the blade edge so as to greatly minimize or eliminate nicking. The skin-flow control means ser... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247983 | Wire retainer and diagonal cutting nipper with wire retainer A wire retainer, as well as a side nipper provided with such wire retainer, which is made from sheet metal and fittable to a side nipper of the kind consisting of two members crossing each other at a joint portion, which are pivotably kept together by a h... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247984 | Knife and chopper board combination A knife and chopper board combination is provided in which the knife is pivotally coupled to the board at its forward end to permit it to be turned about a vertical axis to various angular positions with respect to the top of the board and then turned abo... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247985 | TFL Caliper A "feeler" type caliper for through the flow line (TFL) use in wells for indicating and recording maximum radius within the well flow conductor. The caliper has an improved arrangement of feelers and springs for centering the caliper within the well flow ... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247986 | Projection measuring scale This invention, a measuring device, utilizes a projection of filtering method to facilitate reading of very fine lineal graduations such as 64ths, half millimeters and decimal hundredths of an inch whereby two series of lineal graduations perform two sepa... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247987 | Continuous countercurrent fluid-solids contacting process stabilized by a magnetic field The present invention relates to a process for continuous countercurrent contacting with magnetically stabilized fluidized beds. More particularly, the invention relates to the operation of a magnetically stabilized bed with continuous solid addition and ... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247988 | Process for removing excess water from active chlorine compounds Excess water, both crystalline and non-crystalline, is removed safely and rapidly from active chlorine compounds by applying electromagnetic energy with frequencies lower than infrared to vaporize the excess water.... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247989 | Method for identifying and maintaining a dormancy index in stored grain The field of the instant invention pertains to identifying levels of vital activity in stored seeds. The instant invention teaches a method employing infrared sensors for determining the level of stability of stored grains, for detecting instability in gr... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247990 | Method for controlling the moisture content of a web of sheet material A method for providing in a web of sheet material, particularly a paper web, a predetermined moisture content which is uniform throughout the web. The web which has been dried so as to be within the hygroscopic range is directed through an enclosure which... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247991 | Industrial drying A gas drying system where the heat energy in the exhaust gas and the dried product is recovered to reduce the energy required to dry additional products.... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247992 | Grain-tobacco curing barn A convertible barn for grain or tobacco curing formed from a structural rail-like frame supporting metallic walls and roof made of corrugated sheets and the like and providing a floorless base frame arrangement that includes a longitudinally extending cen... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247993 | Nozzle apparatus for airborne paper web dryers Nozzle apparatus for airborne paper web dryers of the non-impingement or underpressure type including a blow box member defined by top web supporting and bottom wall portions and back and front wall portions. The front and top supporting wall portions are... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247994 | Tee located device for indicating the position of a cup in a golf course green A device for indicating to a golfer the location of the cup in the green of a hole on a golf course is composed of a plate that is either itself bodily shaped and formed to correspond on a relative basis to the shape and size of the green or is of a subst... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247995 | Language teaching method and apparatus A method and apparatus of language communication instruction is disclosed which involves rotated peer dyads wherein instruction is carried out by pair discrimination and the students rotate momentarily and continuously among the three communication roles ... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4247996 | Walking aid device A walking aid device is disclosed which permits a user to increase his stride without requiring auxiliary elements that slide or roll, and makes use only of the muscles normally used in walking. The device has a lower part-circular base made of non-skid m... | 02/03/1981 |