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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4337539 | Necktie knot support assembly A support and fastening means for producing a pre-tied necktie, using a modified form of body member and spring clamp thereon, in which the spring clamp and body member eliminate costly and expensive labor while producing a superior product. This result i... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337540 | Portable bathing tub accessory for shower stall A portable, lightweight, free-standing tub accessory for use in conventional shower stalls has a generally planar bottom wall and a vertical side wall enclosure extending therefrom to define a container open at the upper end. A panel of the vertical side ... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337541 | Pollen trap for beehives A pollen trap for use on honey bee colonies in which a pollen collecting drawer may be removable from any side of the hive; provides a cluster space for the worker bees in the pollen trap; forms with the bottom board a hive entranceway for the worker bees... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337542 | Crimp tool with station for right angle terminal A terminal crimping tool including a pair of elongate members movable toward and away from each other and having longitudinal facing regions provided with a recessed configuration so as to be spaced apart when moved toward each other, and a pair of facing... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337543 | Collapsible trimaran boat A trimaran type boat having center, port, and starboard elongated floats which are hinged together at corresponding juxtaposed side edges to enable the port and starboard floats to be pivoted between an operatable position in which the floats are transver... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337544 | Sport fishing boat A sport fishing boat having a generally rectangular overall top view configuration and having a pair of fiber glass hulls, including an inner hull and an outer hull. The inner and outer hulls are spaced from each other at opposite sides of the boat to acc... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337545 | Bridges for providing access from a water-borne craft to the shore A ship to shore bridge is movable between a stowed position in which it is received in a recess formed in a quay face and effectively forms a continuation of the quay face along the length of the recess, so that the quay can be used in normal manner, and ... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337546 | Floor polisher support A vertical axis floor treating machine and support attachment are disclosed. The machine includes a housing to which the attachment is clamped. The attachment includes a frame having a slide thereon. The frame and slide define an aperture for receipt of t... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337547 | Screen wiper A screen wiper intended to be detachably fitted on the end of a wiper arm, comprises a harness having means for attachment of the harness to said arm, an elastically deformable elongated piece having means along a portion thereof towards one end for suppo... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337548 | Self-closing double hinge A self-closing double hinging apparatus includes an upper hinge, a lower hinge and a reinforcing bar welded to both the upper hinge and the lower hinge to maintain them in predetermined alignment. A gate is attached to the reinforcing bar. The upper hinge... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337549 | Carcass cleaning unit and containment chamber Animal carcasses are thoroughly cleaned by a single pass through a cleaning unit having a pair of oscillating spray bar assemblies, each equipped with a plurality of nozzles arranged to collectively contact all exposed surfaces of the carcass. The cleanin... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337550 | Hog splitter A mechanized hog carcass splitter having a power saw extensible into an inverted hog carcass, anchored at the shoulders and retained at an acute angle to vertical, the saw being mechanically advanceable vertically with simultaneous vertical advancement of... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337551 | Meat grain template This meat grain template is formed from a three-dimensional prism having a spaced upper end and lower faces. The lower face contacts the meat and inclined passages are provided lying on a common plane perpendicular to the lower face and extending through ... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337552 | Automatic crab leg shell cutting-in machine An automatic crab leg shell cutting-in machine for processing crabs' legs. In order to charge the cutting-in machine with crab legs at a predetermined processing rate, the upper and lower feed-belts are provided in the longitudinal direction of the machin... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337553 | Apparatus for guiding and clamping flexible ropes and the like Apparatus for guiding and clamping an elongated flexible rope comprises a body supporting a plurality of rotatively mounted guide rollers aligned for guiding said rope in a plane. One of said guide rollers is mounted on said body adjacent a tension end of... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337554 | Stamped yoke end and method of making same A stamped yoke end and a method of making the same where the yoke end has a flat stamped center piece. A tab is cut out of the center piece to form a slot and the tab is bent to one side of the slot to form a lever engaging surface having a section of con... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337555 | Wire gripping device A wire gripping device which comprises a body having an internal cavity. There is at least one opening into the cavity whereby a portion of a wire member can be located within the cavity. Inside the cavity there is at least one wire engaging member which ... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337556 | Burial casket assembly A burial casket assembly comprises a decorative casket, an insert casket, a base, and a vault cover. The decorative casket receives the insert casket and comprises a decorative container and a decorative cover. The insert casket comprises an insert casket... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337557 | Method and apparatus for texturizing thermoplastic yarn Thermoplastic yarn is texturized by the known method of forwarding it in a heated condition to a crimping zone at the entrance of a stuffer chamber (7) so as to form a plug (8) of crimped yarn within the chamber and withdrawing the yarn from the other end... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337558 | Tube end finishing device A device for production rate finishing and deburring of the ends of lengths of pipe with minimum loss of time, utilizing the finishing tool as a sensor to control the feed rate, whereby the end finishing and deburring is accomplished in a single pass and ... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337559 | Rod end and a method and apparatus for the manufacture thereof A rod end bearing is disclosed which comprises a spherical ball, a raceway and a supporting body. The raceway and the body are joined by body material being upset to engage chamfered surfaces at the outer extremities of the raceway. The method includes th... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337560 | Method for assembling large space structures An automated assembly, maintenance, and repair system for the construction of a large space structure. The space structure comprises a plurality of trusses and truss junctions that in turn are made up of a plurality of individual struts and nodes. The tru... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337561 | Plate separator construction method A method of inserting a stack of interconnected corrugated plates, into a housing having spaced side walls is disclosed which utilizes the distortability of resilient material making up the corrugated plates to change at least one dimension of the stack a... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337562 | Method of restoring an indexable cutting insert for reuse A worn indexable cutting insert having a centrally located hole is reground to a smaller standard size. A tubular bushing is pressed into the hole to reduce the effective diameter thereof and enable a smaller locking pin to be used with the insert.... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337563 | Method of assembling multiple wall drill pipe Multiple wall drill pipe adapted for use in a drill pipe string comprising an outer pipe member; an inner pipe member disposed within the outer pipe member; and means for releasably connecting the inner pipe member and the outer pipe member in fixed axial... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337564 | Machine and method for forming tubes from a strip The method of forming tubes from strip in which a complementary rib and groove are spaced apart to each extend longitudinally on the strip and oppositely facing on the said strip characterized by guiding the strip into a helical configuration to overlap t... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337565 | Disposable cooking utensils A method for hand forming cooking utensils, a portion of the formed utensil being disposable. A wire frame is bent to define the shape, in plan view, of the desired cooking utensil. To form a two-dimensional cooking utensil, a foil means is wrappingly sec... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337566 | Gauging system for machining surfaces An arrangement for removing excess material from an object surface, to provide a desired finished surface. Holes are drilled into the object so that the bottoms of the holes lie on the desired finished surface. The holes have a shape so that the observed ... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337567 | Method of making a conductor bar for dynamoelectric machines A high efficiency conductor bar is provided for use in a high flux density environment. The bar is made up of a number of subconductors, each of which consists of strands of small size, insulated copper wire wound into twisted bundles and cables so as to ... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337568 | Process for fabricating cup-shaped coreless armature A process for fabricating a cup-shaped coreless armature by placing a cup-shaped armature winding and a component including a commutator for constituting the armature into a heating die assembly along with a molding resin member in the form of a solid at ... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337569 | Method of making integrally formed transformer cooling ducts A vaporization cooled transformer is provided with rectangular windings in which the cooling ducts are integrally formed by pressing the coils with a hydraulic press. The coils are smaller than windings in which cooling channels are formed by insulating s... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337570 | Electrical fuselinks A fuse element for an electrical cartridge fuse comprises a fusible wire secured to opposite end zones of an insulating strip by metallic layers sprayed onto the end zones. The insulating strip has a slot therein between the end zones to prevent the fusib... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337571 | Method for producing a fuel cell manifold seal A manifold-to-stack seal and sealing method for fuel cell stacks. This seal system solves the problem of maintaining a low leak rate manifold seal as the fuel cell stack undergoes compressive creep. The seal system eliminates the problem of the manifold-t... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337572 | Device for manufacture of assembled cam shaft Process and device for manufacturing cam shaft characterized in that axial grooves are cut on a cam shaft, while projections with a profile matching said axial grooves and slightly larger than said axial grooves are provided on the fitting surface of piec... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337573 | Method for constructing an electrical interconnection circuit and apparatus for realizing the method Method and apparatus for producing an electrical interconnection circuit for electronic components in which an insulating base support incorporating conductive zones is used, the different conductive zones to be interconnected are joined by an insulating ... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337574 | Method of manufacturing electrical connector receptacles A method of manufacturing an electrical connector of the telephone jack type by insert molding, is disclosed. The conductors for the connector jack are first stamped and formed in continuous strip form from conductive sheet metal with the continuous strip... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337575 | Razor blade assembly A razor blade assembly comprising a cap portion and a base portion, a first arm extending from the base portion and joining a guard portion extending generally parallel to the base portion, a second arm extending from the base portion toward the guard por... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337576 | Knife with retractable blade A knife of a pencil type includes a barrel or outer member in which a slidably carried support or inner member is connected in an end-to-end relation with a blade assembly for movement of the blade assembly to extended and retracted positions relative to ... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337577 | Declination transposer A direct reading map plotter for converting grid values to magnetic values and vice versa without having to perform arithmetic calculations. The plotter includes a transparent base having a recess formed therein in which is rotatably supported a transpare... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4337578 | Measuring device A device for measuring lengths of yarn and the like has an elongated base member with a first fixed position post and a second movable post. The second post is moved toward and away from the first post to a preselected position for measuring lengths of ya... | 07/06/1982 |
