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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4340976 | Filigreed belt and process A filigreed effect name plate is formed on a belt or other leather product. The belt comprises an outer layer attached to one or more other layers. The name plate area is removed from the outer layer prior to attachment to the other layer or layers leavin... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340977 | Catenary mitral valve replacement Mitral heart valve comprising a stent including a circular base and a pair of upstanding diametrically opposed struts, separating a pair of diametrically opposed arcuately shapes depressed reliefs, each such relief being bounded by a smooth curve intercon... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340978 | New Jersey meniscal bearing knee replacement A prosthesis for the surgical replacement of a dysfunctional knee joint is disclosed. The prosthesis includes a tibial platform, one or two tibial bearing inserts, and a femoral component. In a unicompartmental embodiment of the invention, the tibial platform ... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340979 | Intraocular lens An intraocular lens structure utilizing a lens which may be placed against the posterior side of the iris and adapted for covering at least a portion of the pupil. The structure includes a first position fixation element connected to the lens which extend... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340980 | Water closet with topical body washer A water closet with a topical body washing mechanism including a water warmer mounted on the water closet and a spout pipe having a nozzle at the distal end therof for spouting warm water from the water warmer. The spout pipe is movable to and from an ino... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340981 | Bathing device A bathing device (10) comprises a cabinet having an upper part (11) with an access opening (56) and a seat within the cabinet on which a person can sit, means (59) at least substantially to close the opening (56), means providing an aperture through which... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340982 | Hydrotherapy bath or spa A therapeutic bath or spa that includes providing aerated streams of water that are injected under pressure into desired areas of the bath receptacle, and a variably positionable occupant support device that can be moved to any desired position relative t... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340983 | Crib flotation bed A water bed crib comprising a water bed structure including a flat horizontal rectangular platform with an upwardly projecting weir about its perimeter, a water filled flexible mattress bladder supported atop the platform within the confines of the weir, ... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340984 | Headboard coupling for knock-down bed A knock-down invalid bed having a main frame supported at its ends by head boards and separable into two halves at its mid-length. Attached to each half are pivoting sections of a pair of tubular mattress-supporting subframes adjustable to support a patie... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340985 | Mechanic's tool box and head rest A tool box having a built-in head rest for use by a mechanic when working under low machinery. The article itself comprises a container for tools having a head rest mounted on the top surface of the container.... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340986 | Method for wet processing of textile material in endless rope form An improved method and apparatus for wet processing an endless rope of material wherein a modified J-box arrangement is provided for storing an accumulation of rope in a treating bath and a combined overflow chamber and liquid jet assembly is provided for... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340987 | Element for cleaning coking-oven doors and doorjamb An apparatus having an element for cleaning deposits from the edge of a doorjamb or door of a coking oven is provided with a heater for maintaining this element at a temperature above the softening point of the deposits, normally around 150° C. The eleme... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340988 | Canister auger A canister auger of inexpensive construction is provided by forming the handle and canister of molded plastic parts, so that only minimal portions of the assembly require metal parts. The construction and design provide effective bearings between the cani... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340989 | Cleaning system for chimneys A readily removable cleaning system for a chimney comprising in combination adjacent the top of a chimney a pair of bracket members each having a generally horizontally extending center portion disposed on an upper edge surface of the chimney oppositely f... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340990 | Object intended to be held in the hand, in particular a suitcase handle, and a process for manufacturing same The present invention proposes a process for manufacturing an object intended to be held in the hand and which comprises a body made from a plastic material reinforced inside by means of a frame and comprising at least one grasping zone having a hardness ... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340991 | Demountable hinge A demountable hinge is disclosed for mounting a door to a frame. The hinge is particularly suitable for cabinets such as kitchen cabinets and includes a first section, and a second section pivotally attached to the first section to provide rotative hinge ... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340992 | Hinge catch A lockable door hinge is described which is of the usual butt hinge type with a pair of pivoting butt plates. One of these plates contains a vertically slidable bolt which moves into and out of engagement with at least one projecting abutment flange on th... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340993 | Electrical stimulation bar for an animal carcass An apparatus for applying an electrical stimulation to an animal carcass using an elongated bar which is movable between a first position in which the bar is in contacting relationship to the carcass and a second position in which the bar is disposed with... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340994 | Apparatus and method for producing simulated cuts of meat A coextrusion apparatus and method for producing simulated cuts of meat from fat and lean meat is improved by providing in the apparatus, means for the controlled heating of parts of the discharge structure leading from the coextrusion die or of the die s... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340995 | Apparatus for skinning fish An apparatus is disclosed for skinning fish having a skinning roller with which a fixed knife cooperates whose lower surface directed towards the skinning roller is constructed as a presser surface which together with the skinning roller defines a narrow ... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340996 | Adjustable cable clamp An adjustable clamp (10) comprising a pair of substantially identical clips (15) is employed to align and retain a plurality of members, typically cables, in a stiff, planar arrangement to facilitate manipulation. Each clip comprises a ratcheting detail (... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340997 | Rope clamping device comprising two toothed clamping elements adapted to be pressed against the rope A rope clamping device having two opposing clamping elements with teeth which are mounted above a bearing surface for varying the distance therebetween to allow a rope to be inserted and removed it is configured so that the distance therebetween is reduci... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340998 | Hook for elastic cable Disclosed is a sandow device having an elastic cable with a monoblock mechanism including a hook integrally connected with a joint base plate having two parallel longitudinal canals holding the ends of the cable. The canal located closest to the hook hold... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340999 | Metal clasp A metal clasp includes an outer housing made of a sheet of metal foil folded about its notched center portion so as to define a generally U-shaped housing having two opposed surface portions defining lateral openings therebetween. The clasp additionally i... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341000 | Method of charging heat pipe The method of effecting an evacuated space above a quantity of vaporizable fluid contained in a conventional heat pipe. A quantity of vaporizable fluid 10 is admitted into the heat pipe 12 through an inlet assembly to displace residual air in the heat pip... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341001 | Hub for use in flywheels for kinetic energy storage A unitary hub and method of fabricating such a hub for use in conjunction with flywheels for inertial energy storage apparatus, the hub having a double convex domed configuration cut into double spider leg shape upon which a flywheel rim, such as one comp... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341002 | Tool for flexible tube installation A hand tool for radial installation in openings through the wall of a larger rigid tube of flexible tubes having rigid inner liners in a portion of their length adjacent to the end to be so installed. The tool includes a generally cylindrical elongated ha... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341003 | Method and apparatus for separating rolls of web material A method and apparatus for separating rolls of web material of the type where two or more rolls are attached at the side edges thereof comprising passing the first roll between an upper and lower conveyor defining a first path of travel, and simultaneousl... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341004 | Tool for installing freeze plugs A centrally oriented circular land for engaging the cylindrical shroud of a freeze plug is disposed on one side of a disc. A partial spherical depression in the other side of the disc interconnects with a spherical member at one end of a driver which inte... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341005 | Manufacture of hollow fiber fluid fractionating cells Hollow fiber fluid fractionation cells such as used in artificial kidney machines are manufactured by placing a series of half sections of the longitudinal walls of the cell on the periphery of a winding wheel; winding fluid-filled permeable hollow fibers... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341006 | Chuck assembly and collet The chuck assembly and the collet for retaining an end mill tool against axial pullout. The collet includes a radially compressible body having a tapered outer surface, a central bore and a drilled radial aperture extending from the outer surface into the... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341007 | Method of roller inserting filler material in crevices There is provided a roller for inserting filler material to the proper depth in crevices comprising a circular structure having a central circular section of at least 1/16" of an inch thick but less than 1/4 of an inch thick, a first and second truncated ... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341008 | Method of registering a steel rule die and counterplate A method for registering and aligning a steel rule die and counterplate. The die and counterplate each have registration holes into which a semi-permanent pin is inserted to hold the die and counterplate in alignment during positioning within a reciprocat... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341009 | Method for making an electrical contact to a silicon substrate through a relatively thin layer of silicon dioxide on the surface of the substrate A buried electrical contact is made to a substrate of monocrystalline silicon through a relatively thin layer of silicon dioxide without causing damage to the relatively thin layer of silicon dioxide. This is accomplished through depositing a thin layer o... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341010 | Fabrication of electroluminescent semiconductor device utilizing selective etching and epitaxial deposition An electroluminescent semiconductor device such as a semiconductor laser has epitaxial monocrystalline layers (3 to 6), including an active layer (4), grown on a substrate (2). The epitaxial layers are etched in the presence of an etching mask (8) to form... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341011 | Method of manufacturing semiconductor device A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising preparing a semiconductor substrate which includes at least three semiconductor layers of alternately different conductivity types and in which one of the semiconductor layers is divided into a p... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341012 | Pyroelectric detector arrays A pyroelectric detector array and the method for making it. A series of holes 13 formed through a silicon dioxide layer 12 on the surface of a silicon substrate 11 forms the mounting fixture for the pyroelectric detector array. A series of nontouching str... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341013 | Method for attaching and securing power supply wires to electrical components A method is disclosed for attaching and securing power supply leads to electrical components including ceramic multi-layer capacitors. A tape-shaped transport carrier is continuously provided with power supply leads having a U-shaped portion projecting ov... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341014 | Method and apparatus for interconnecting pairs of terminals with a pretwisted pair of insulated wires A method and apparatus for interconnecting pairs of terminals with a pretwisted pair of insulated wires routes, cuts, strips, identifies, and secures such identified ends of the pretwisted wire pair to appropriate terminals. Routing operations are perform... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4341015 | Nail clipper assembly A clipper assembly for clipping nails, including a nail clipper with a flexible housing attached to the nail clipper for collecting nail clippings during and after operation.... | 07/27/1982 |
