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Combination Beverage Container and Spittoon
A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4333179 | Protective guard for the throat area A neck collar having a guard at its front for shielding the throat area from any violent striking force thereagainst; the guard including an air-inflated padding which upon its front side is shielded by a metal grill.... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333180 | Helmet visor A visor apparatus for attachment to a helmet having snap portions thereon. The visor has a visor support portion and a visor bill portions integral therewith and protruding from the support portion. The visor support portion is curved to fit adjacent the ... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333181 | Protective structures for joints A protective structure for a joint of a body limb comprising an outer shield supported by internal bracing and cushioning devices so arranged that the shock of any blow upon said shield is fully distributed over the area surrounding the protected joint.... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333182 | Button anchor method and apparatus A button anchor apparatus has an elongated elastic thread having an elongated needle portion formed on one end thereof and an elongated ferrule formed on the other end of said elongated elastic thread and having a bore formed in one end thereof. The ferru... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333183 | Deodorizing methods and articles using ion exchange manufacture Deodorizing is accomplished by contacting odorant, such as that exuded by humans, with solid, essentially non-fluid anion exchanger material in substantially extended form. Articles used in the method are typically those worn on the body, such as hose, or... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333184 | Multi-function closet stool This invention, is a multi-function closet stool, which can really serve the purpose of automatic timing, measuring pressure, flushing and saving water. When one sits on the seat of closet stool, the driving piece pulls the driving steel cable to make tim... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333185 | Water saving toilet system A toilet system comprising a bowl, a valve for supplying flush water to the bowl, an attrition chamber to which the effluent in the bowl is transferred by a motor-driven discharge pump connected to the attrition chamber for inducting the effluent from the... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333186 | Swimming pool construction The specification discloses a removable swimming pool construction having a plurality of prefabricated side and deck panels which are supported on adjustable frame members, and are installed in a manner which imparts to the pool the appearance of a perman... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333187 | Shower curtain An integrated plastic shower curtain assembly including a pair of rectangular curtain panels secured together in overlapping relationship along inside vertical edge portions by a securing strip folded over and heat sealed with horizontal top edge portions... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333188 | Convertible sink A sink is designed which can be converted into one, two or more separate basins. The sink has at least one rib protruding up along its inner surface. A removable dividing wall is provided with a plate portion and an elastic flange extending around the bot... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333189 | Automatic bee feeder A bulk feeding system for bees which feeds multiple hives from a single reservoir through a piped distribution system. Each hive is fed from a single enclosed box-like feeder which replaces part of the comb foundation and is float controlled. A valve oper... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333190 | Process for extracting water from desizing liquors A process for desizing a fabric web comprising the steps of: first wetting the dry size-loaded fabric with the desizing liquor separated from a previous batch of fabric after desizing, so that the fabric, and the size adhering thereto, take up water from ... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333191 | Combination motor home and house boat Disclosed herein is a combination motor home and houseboat in one mobile unit, said unit including a lower portion that is a partial motor home, and an invertable upper unit that is a complete houseboat. The float portion of the houseboat forms the entire... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333192 | Method of making boots for aquatic activities This invention relates to a method of making boots for aquatic activities, more particularly for underwater diving. The method consists in the steps of forming a sock from a sheet of cellular elastomeric material and adhering an outsole assembly, includin... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333193 | Shoe molding process A shoe upper is directly joined to a shoe sole and contoured to a last by stitching a socklining to an upper and providing a mold engaging lip between the lower periphery of the upper and the stitched seam. The stitched socklining and upper are then mount... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333194 | Aircraft loader with revolving cab A passenger conveyance vehicle loading and unloading ramp has one end pivotally supported adjacent a terminal building and the other end supported for movement into and away from a loading position at a vehicle door includes an enlarged generally cylindri... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333195 | Fire protective walkway apparatus There is disclosed an airplane passenger loading ramp defining a walkway having a cab at the free extremity thereof which includes a weather protective mating device for mating with the contour of an airplane around the entry door thereof. A generally tub... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333196 | Device and method of trans-shipment between a ship and a fixed structure situated at sea The invention relates to devices of trans-shipment between a ship and a fixed structure situated at sea, which devices comprise a directable gangway, one end of which is mounted to pivot about a vertical axle fixed to the fixed structure, the second end c... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333197 | Ultrasonic toothbrush An ultrasonic toothbrush for use in personal dental hygiene care includes an elongated handle member in the form of a hollow housing having disposed therein a low voltage coil and cooperating ferrite core which is driven at ultrasonic frequencies. Affixed... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333198 | Sponge mop The sponge mop includes a hollow cylindrical body which terminates at its lower end in a bridge which supports rollers in spaced alignment a predetermined distance on each side of the axis of the body for sponge squeezing purposes. An operating handle is ... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333199 | Toothbrush An improved toothbrush which includes an elongate handle and a brush with a base and a mounting in the form of a coil spring interconnecting the brush base to the distal end of the toothbrush for swinging, rotatable, tilting movement of the brush relative... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333200 | Chimney cleaner A chimney cleaner device cleans the inside surfaces of a chimney in both an upward and downward direction. The device includes a pair of diverging cleaning arms made of heavy metal, each arm having an integral shank portion and blade portion. The blade po... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333201 | Device for preventing the discharge of dust and fiber particles from the work zones of a textile machine Device for preventing the discharge of dust and fiber particles from textile machine work zones having running threads disposed therein, including an air screen system disposed between the work zones and the ambient air in the vicinity of the machine, the... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333202 | Floor scrubber with combined solution and recovery tank A floor scrubbing apparatus including a combined solution and recovery tank is disclosed. The floor scrubber is of the type including a brush head, a squeegee and a vacuum system. A combined solution and recovery tank is operably connected to the vacuum s... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333203 | Conversion attachment for a wet-dry vacuum cleaner A conversion attachment for a wet-dry vacuum cleaner provides for the application of a mixture of water and detergent through a spray assembly mounted adjacent to a vacuum nozzle on a cleaning head. The attachment includes a spray nozzle and associated li... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333204 | Rotary flooring surface treating device A flooring surface treating device which can be used to spray a liquid cleaning solution onto a rug and then vacuum remove it, or else spray a wax-removing solution onto a wooden or tile floor surface and then vacuum remove it, etc., includes a lower carr... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333205 | Vacuum cleaner with soil agitator and compressed air means A vacuum cleaning machine using a floor-mounted vacuum hood forming a travelling vacuum chamber with an optimum combination of suction nozzle intake means, jet stream manifold means and a mechanical soil agitator means in the form of a carpet rake, where ... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333206 | Nested hinge members with spring arm catch Apparatus for mounting a door for pivotal movement in an air conditioning unit. This door has as a portion thereof a pivot assembly having a series of contact surfaces which engage a series of surfaces of a top support so that the door may be rotated rela... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333207 | Twin wheel caster brake A twin wheel caster brake device for casters of the type having two wheels mounted on a common axle, with each wheel having a series of inwardly directed circumferential teeth, or wedge-shaped ribs, disposed at the inner side of each wheel forming a serie... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333208 | Gutter guard clip and method of manufacture An improved gutter guard clip comprises a strip having at one end at least one tab or tine which can be bent through and under an opening of a screen member of a gutter and the opposite end can be bent over the outer flange of the gutter to hold the scree... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333209 | Rotary power slips Improved rotary power slips having a housing for mounting in a rotary table of an earth drilling rig. Air is transferred from a stationary fluid source on the drilling rig to pneumatic cylinders carried by the housing when said housing is static to operat... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333210 | Sealing device The invention is an improvement over my copending application Ser. No. 951,569 filed Oct. 15, 1978 now U.S. Pat. No. 4,223,423, granted Sept. 23, 1980, and relates to a sealing device, which is particularly useful with a receptacle, such as a cloth bank b... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333211 | Slip-on receptacle A slip-on receptacle adapted to be inserted on one of two members to be fastened in alignment with a hole therein and to receive and engage with a stud coupled with the other of the two members so as to fasten the two members together. The receptacle incl... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333212 | Snap-hook, particularly for mountaineering A snap-hook is provided which consists of an open ring and of a tilting finger whose one end pivots upon the corresponding end of the body of the ring and is drawn back by means of a spring. The axis around which the said finger tilts is inclined with res... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333213 | Apparatus for bonding leads to capacitor blanks A boxed and encapsulated rolled metallized film capacitor susceptible to facile machine insertion is fabricated by cyclically advancing a lead frame 32 through a number of stations (36,37) whereat pairs of leads (24,26) of the lead frame are bent downward... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333214 | Wire weldment deflashing tool A weldment bulge (12) joining together two small diameter wire sections (10 and 11) is removed by a hand-held tool (16) having two facing file sections (24 and 34) which are moved back and forth along and about the weldment to abrade away the bulge portio... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333215 | Bearing material and method of making A process for making a multilayer bearing material is provided which comprises a backing layer, an intermediate layer of aluminum and an outer overlay layer. The backing layer and aluminum layer are roll bonded together to form a composite strip which is ... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333216 | Method for manufacturing a sandwich panel structure A method for manufacturing sandwich panels of the type in which a pair of facing sheets 12 are separated by a multiplicity of pins 14 is disclosed. Concepts and techniques for fabricating the structure in a leachable matrix are discussed. Selective roll b... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333217 | Apparatus for stapling belt An applicator unit is provided for fastening a plurality of sizes of belt fasteners to a belt by staples being guided and clinched by the apparatus. A staple guide block means is provided with fastener engaging and positioning portions which are shiftable... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4333218 | Method of repairing a box beam A method of repairing a box beam is disclosed in which a cracked or broken portion of a box beam may be repaired and the strength returned to normal by forming a pair of plates that fit snugly about at least one half of the box beam, the plates being weld... | 06/08/1982 |
