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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4313229 | Disposable rainwear The disclosure is of a raincoat, hood and leggings which are particularly constructed and related for separate or combined dispensing from a coin-operated machine or over the counter.... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313230 | Belt for a concealed quick-draw knife A small weapon, such as a short-bladed defensive knife can be innocently concealed in an article of ordinary apparel, such as a belt, according to the present invention in such a manner as to both be securely retained within the article of apparel and be ... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313231 | Vascular prosthesis A vascular prosthesis intended principally for use as an intraluminal graft has a flexible tubular main body, a cushioning tube of a flexible, compressible, and suturable Dacron felt secured coaxially to each end of the main body, and two reinforcing ring... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313232 | An elastomeric mesh hinge primarily for replacement of the finger joints A non-metallic joint prosthesis having a plurality of pores penetrating the thickness of the non-metallic material and primarily intended for use for replacing damaged joints in humans. The prosthetic blank is substantially elongate in configuration, and ... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313233 | Waterless flush toilet system A waterless flush toilet system comprising a toilet and a gravity fed waste holding tank. The system utilizes a recirculating nonaqueous flushing fluid which is stored within the holding tank. The fluid, which is lighter than the waste material and insolu... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313234 | Toilet The disclosure relates to toilets of the kind which incorporate a waste-receiving tank or chamber in which decomposition of waste material takes place. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the toilet includes an air-manifold assembly upon which was... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313235 | Method of treating cotton cloth of twisted yarn in loom state The invention relates to a method and unit for treating cotton cloth of twisted yarn in loom state. According to the disclosed method, the cloth is boiled with simultaneous mercerization by being alternatingly guided through a boiling solution of caustic ... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313236 | Safety equipment for boats The invention provides safety equipment to enable a person to work and move freely around on deck in all weathers while being securely attached to the boat and to enable recovery of a person overboard by other crew members. The equipment comprises a life-... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313237 | Driven rotary toothbrush An improved driven rotary toothbrush has an electric motor enclosed in a handle and driving a plurality of rotary brushes for simultaneously cleaning multiple tooth surfaces. The rotary brushes are mounted in a brush head adapted to be releasably supporte... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313238 | Shoe cleaning machine A shoe cleaning machine having a housing (10,11) and a grid frame (12) within the housing, transversely spaced longitudinal channels (47) presenting flat co-planar upper surfaces, longitudinal rows of brush bristles (B) having curved sections projecting t... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313239 | Hinge mounting plate A hinge mounting plate is used for pivotally securing the supporting arm of a door to a supporting arm for a furniture or the like. This hinge mounting plate incorporates a base plate, a control plate, and a hinge supporting arm. The base plate is secured... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313240 | Rotary feed pump for a continuous machine for filling skins with mincemeat The pump comprises an outer stator and an inner rotor provided with axially movable radial blades controlled by upper and lower annular cams. The upper cam and a dividing baffle disposed immediately downstream of a tangential delivery mouth are rigid with... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313241 | Method for opening shellfish Shellfish are placed into a chamber which is brought rapidly to a high pressure. A lid of the chamber is magnetically sealed. The magnets are quickly released to allow the chamber pressure to blow off the cover with large springs absorbing energy. The imm... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313242 | Auxilliary seed discharge for cotton gin roll box An auxilliary seed discharge means comprising a helicoid conveyor running axially with and laterally through the length of, the roll box of a saw type cotton gin and extending outwardly thereof through circular openings in the roll box heads to seed disch... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313243 | Sliding wedge cable clamp A bight of a cable is wrapped around a sliding wedge thimble which, when one or both of the cable parts is pulled, jams the cable parts between convergent sides of the wedge thimble and opposed convergent sides of a casing. A key, when engaged through reg... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313244 | Woven slide fastener stringer with molded reinforcing projections on upper connecting threads A woven stringer for a slide fastener has reinforcing projections integral with molded coupling elements. The reinforcing projections extend only along upper connecting threads of four spaced connecting threads upon which the coupling elements are molded ... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313245 | Stringer tape for slide fasteners A slide fastener stringer tape has a beaded longitudinal edge comprising a woven tube integral with a tape web and a reinforcing filler extending through the woven tube. The woven tube includes a plurality of threads of synthetic resin, such as textured y... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313246 | Belt buckle or lock for a safety belt Belt-lock and plug-in tongue for a safety belt having a locking mechanism with two locking latches for locking the tongue, tensioned against each other by a spring, and with one locking latch disposed on each side of the plug-in tongue. A hand-actuated me... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313247 | Apparatus for the manufacture of mineral insulated cables In apparatus for the manufacture of mineral insulated cable by a continuous process in which the tubular sheath is formed by bending and seam welding travelling metal strip, and insulating powder is fed through a powder delivery tube into the sheath while... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313248 | Method of producing heat transfer tube for use in boiling type heat exchangers The invention is concerned with a heat transfer tube for use in boiling type heat exchangers, having an excellent heat transfer performance. More specifically, the invention relates to a surface condition of the heat transfer tube for improving the heat t... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313249 | Method of manufacturing components adapted to be mounted on a shaft A method of manufacturing a steering wheel or other component adapted to be mounted on a steering wheel includes the steps of placing an insert on a tapered mandrel and deforming the insert by forcing it on the tapered mandrel and moulding the component a... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313250 | Tool for replacement of golf club grip A tool useful for the placement of a golf club grip. The tool includes a handle with an elongated notch and an elongated blade parallel with the notch and is tapered to a point. The blade also is provided with a convex arcuate surface on one side and a fl... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313251 | System for applying electronic components to a circuit board Method and a system for inserting electronic components. The system is composed of an electronic-component inserting machine for inserting electronic components to a printed circuit board and an electronic-component supplying machine, which comprises a pl... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313252 | Arrangement for automatically changing clamping jaws of the chuck of a machine tool An arrangement for automatically changing clamping jaws of the chuck of a machine tool having a turning carriage and a cross-slide rest. A clamping jaw magazine has guides for the clamping jaws stored therein which may be aligned with the clamping jaw gui... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313253 | Method of fabricating a charge transfer channel covered by a stepped insulating layer The disclosed memory cell is comprised of a charge storage region and an adjacent charge transfer channel. A deep dopant layer extends throughout the charge storage region, and a shallow dopant layer extends throughout the charge storage region plus part-... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313254 | Thin-film silicon solar cell with metal boride bottom electrode The invention relates to an improved thin film semiconductor p-n junction device and its method of fabrication, utilizing vacuum deposition techniques, whereby continuous/batch processing may be utilized, capable of mass producing p-n junction devices; e.... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313255 | Method for manufacturing integrated circuit device Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an integrated circuit device which comprises the steps of preparing a silicon substrate having an isolated first region of a first conductivity type, selectively forming on the first region a polycrystalline silicon... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313256 | Method of producing integrated MOS circuits via silicon gate technology A method of producing integrated MOS circuits via silicon gate technology with self-adjusting contacts by using silicon nitride masking. In accordance with this method, after etching contact holes for the formation of contacts between monocrystalline dope... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313257 | Annealing methods for improving performance of a radiation sensor A scintillation member, such as of thallium-doped cesium iodide and the like, is used with a photodetector to form a radiation-responsive sensor. The scintillation member is annealed, by heating followed by slow cooling, to decrease the hysteresis respons... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313258 | Methods and apparatus for use in making electrical interconnections Method involves programming crimp connection equipment to automatically and sequentially establish a plurality of desired different connection configurations. Information representing a series of desired connection configurations is transferred to a contr... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313259 | Method for manufacturing an electrochemical cell A secondary electrochemical cell is prepared by providing positive and negative electrodes having outer enclosures of rigid perforated electrically conductive material defining an internal compartment containing the electrode material in porous solid form... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313260 | Assembly machine An assembly machine which has a plurality of work stations for performing operations on articles is disclosed. The machines includes means for conveying articles between work stations, a tool plate adapted to support tooling to perform operations at a plu... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313261 | Nut installation apparatus An explosion relief for a nut installation head or apparatus, such as used to install pierce or pierce-clinch nuts having a rectangular piercing pilot and opposed elongated flange portions on opposite sides of the pilot. The flanges are separated from the... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313262 | Molybdenum substrate thick film circuit An improved multilayered circuit is disclosed comprising a molybdenum substrate with alternating layers of dielectric and conducting thick film materials deposited thereon. The molybdenum substrate has the advantages of being its own chassis, having a coe... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313263 | Method and apparatus for use in co-ordinate measuring machines In a co-ordinate measuring machine a probe is connected to the head of the machine by a pivotal arm, and the orientation of the probe is charged by moving the head so that the arm engages a fixed structure and a moment is applied to the arm which is there... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313264 | Alignment and coupling of vehicles Method and apparatus for the alignment and coupling of vehicles. Indicators which are viewable from an operating position in one of the vehicles are separately affixed to each of the vehicles. The vehicles are then maneuvered to bring the indicators into ... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313265 | Process for preparing microporous structured soluble coffee product A freeze-dried soluble coffee product in the form of particles or granules and having a microporous structure is prepared by prechilling a metal plate in a liquid refrigerant, immersing the plate in aqueous extract of coffee solids, reimmersing the plate ... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313266 | Method and apparatus for drying wafers A method and apparatus for drying a wafer at a drying station includes a wafer holder which grips the wafer on its edge so that there is no contact with a face of the wafer. This eliminates contact areas which could cause stains on the face. A carriage me... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313267 | Thermal insulation end panel assembly for a paper machine dryer cylinder and stud clamp therefor A paper machine dryer cylinder mounts a plurality of circumferentially spaced stud clamps which project from the inside face of the panel, each stud clamp constituting a slotted, arcuate body with a screw spanning the slot to reduce the diameter of a cent... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4313268 | Stretching and folding appliance A stretching and folding clamping assembly for retaining a workpiece in a predetermined position, wherein a lower clamp arm is pivotally and displaceably mounted on a support bracket. An upper clamp arm is pivotally attached to the lower clamp arm and a p... | 02/02/1982 |
