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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4346481 | Baseball mitt A baseball mitt comprising front and back plies forming a mitt body having thumb portion, a finger portion and a portion connecting the thumb and finger portions, and a glove secured to the back of the body with the front of the glove facing the back ply.... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346482 | Living contact lens A contact lens (14) for insertion into the cornea (20) of a patient is provided. The contact lens (14) includes a circular portion of a donor cornea (10) anteriorly curved for correction of the patient's vision. The contact lens (14) is posteriorly ground... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346483 | Float controlled liquid dispenser This invention relates to a float controlled dispenser for automatically releasing predetermined amounts of a detergent or a bacteriostatic liquid into the flush tank of a toilet bowl whenever the bowl is flushed. The dispenser comprises a bottle necked c... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346484 | Swimming pool inlet location control A swimming pool inlet location control is presented. The control comprises a flexible tube which is coupled between the prior art swimming pool inlet and the location where it is desired to bring in the incoming water. The flexible tube includes coupled t... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346485 | Apparatus and method for bathing invalids An arrangement for bathing invalids, or others with impaired ambulatory ability, comprises an enclosure having a bathtub with upstanding walls which form a stall. The bathtub includes a seat having an anatomical contour and a lateral opening adjacent the ... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346486 | Tranquilizing bed A mattress, adapted to benefit an occupant in the prone position, having a convexity in the head and torso support area, means for producing a rising and falling motion of the convex support surface, and a sound projecting means located within the convexi... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346487 | Quick release manual type Fowler for hospital stretchers A quick release Fowler for hospital stretchers of the manual as opposed to the crank actuated type. A ratchet bar attached to the frame is provided with a sliding block and a pin that fits into slots in the ratchet bar. The pin is operated with respect to... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346488 | Adjustable upper body rest An adjustable upper body rest is disclosed which is intended primarily for supporting the upper body while lying face down with the head turned to the right or left side to any degree up to approximately forty five degrees. A forehead rest consists of one... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346489 | Foldable waterbed A flotation mattress comprising an outer jacket of supple flexible sheet plastic having normally flat vertically spaced top and bottom walls and vertical side and end walls and a plurality of elongate bladders of supple flexible sheet plastic with top, bo... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346490 | Method and apparatus for production of honey EtOH-H2 O binary mixtures to serve as raw feed liquids for distillation and vapor treatment systems intended for the production of substantially anhydrous ethyl alcohol are desirably derived from the fermentation or enzymatic conversion of suga... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346491 | Thread repair tool The invention, in its preferred form, involves a pair of complementary substantially half-nut sections adapted to be manually assembled about a stud having a damaged thread to be repaired, the side walls of the half-nut sections being substantially arcuat... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346492 | Mechanical toothbrush with individual tuft drive A power actuated toothbrush is provided wherein the brush consists of a plurality of tufts which are individually driven by means whereby the tufts are forced to move coaxially back and forth against the teeth to give a jackhammer-type action. The tufts m... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346493 | Dental-care device and brush body suitable therefor A dental care device which encourages more frequent tooth cleaning. The device comprises a brush body consisting of a brush core provided with bristle members, which brush body is surrounded in full or in part by a solid, palatable mass of physiologically... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346494 | Brush structure A brush structure is provided including a laminated core of plastic sheet and fiber sheet. A laminated tube of plastic sheet and fiber sheet is also provided in the present invention.... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346495 | Segmental brushing equipment A brush device comprising a plurality of tubular units arranged in alignment and a cap to construct a column externally sealed by a sealing coat. The front end of each unit is provided with a brush head, and the portion around the brush head and the rear ... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346496 | Foldable implement An implement includes first and second elongated legs that are joined by a first hinge between respective one ends thereof to permit those legs to be folded toward and away from one another. The legs are mutually shaped to define a cavity within a handle ... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346497 | Device for removing dust from a winding machine Device for removing dust from a winding machine, including an air suction channel disposed alongside and adjacent to a run-off coil, the air suction channel having at least one suction opening formed therein in longitudinal direction of the run-off coil.... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346498 | Shock resistant caster assembly A shock resistant caster assembly having a wheel positioned in a housing formed of at least two sections vertically displaceable with respect to each other, one of the housing sections being coupled to the wheel at its rotational axis. A shock pad of elas... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346499 | Device for skinning small animals A device for holding small animals in a position to be skinned including a backet having two legs extending outwardly therefrom, a slot located near the ends of each of the legs for receipt of an eyebolt, a U-shaped clamp which snaps onto the outside of t... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346500 | Spinning preparatory machine The converging space between the moving-in or inbound surface of a loosening roll and the surface of a feed roll contains a suction duct, which is brought into close vicinity of the fibre loosening zone located between the two rolls, and which is used for... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346501 | Headset cable strain relief clamp A strain relief clamp for supporting the signal cable dependent from a communications headset. A unitary, integrally molded plastic structure is provided having a pair of toothed jaws joined by a hingeless support member and lever actuated to effect a sec... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346502 | Tenter arm swinging apparatus The present application discloses a tenter arm swinging apparatus in which the swing of a tenter arm is performed by rotating a nut threadedly connected to a fixed screw shaft, and arm swinging means is housed in a case housing said nut. According to the ... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346503 | Process for de-twisting and craping a cloth composed of twisted yarns A method including transporting a cloth composed of twisted yarns continuously through a plurality of wet-heat treating chambers, which have a stepwise temperature gradient from 70° C. to 100° C. and are provided with an appropriate impact device to app... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346504 | Yarn forwarding and drawing apparatus An improved fluid operated forwarding and drawing apparatus for continuous filamentary materials including a jet nozzle structure defined by a fluid outlet port from a fluid plenum chamber and a filament guide tube where the nozzle has a converging accele... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346505 | Method of fabricating piezoelectric transducer with polymer element A piezoelectric transducer having at least one active element consisting of a film of polymer material is disclosed. Electrodes are formed on the two principal faces of the film after polarization of the film. The film is endowed with piezoelectric proper... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346506 | Pallet machine An apparatus for the disassembling and the repairing of nailed wooden pallets having upper and lower deckboards nailed to stringers. The apparatus has a carriage that is reciprocable across a support frame. The carriage has a pair of longitudinally extend... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346507 | Pin-back button machine A die assembly for making a pin-back button is taught. The die assembly comprises a base die part, a crimping die part, a ring die part and a top die part. Each die part is mountable on the next in the order given to form the die assembly. Cooperating mea... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346508 | Reboring fixture and method Pin bores of excavator forebooms are subjected to impact and side loading, causing wear which eventually leads to wobble of the foreboom. The close tolerance required in reboring such bores has previously necessitated transporting the foreboom to repair s... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346509 | Process for the introduction of a piece of foam plastic into a pocket fitted to it A piece of foam plastic is introduced into a pocket of a life jacket fitted to it and made of flexible material, through an opening formed at the edge of the pocket. The circumference of the opening is shorter than the circumference of the piece of foam p... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346510 | Pretensioning diagonals in lattice beam-columns A method is described of prestressing structural members wherein there are a pair of longitudinal elements, a plurality of strut elements and a plurality of diagonal members. A plurality of joint connector means enable the strut elements and diagonal memb... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346511 | Method for preparing dosimeter for measuring skin dose A personnel dosimeter includes a plurality of compartments containing thermoluminescent dosimeter phosphors for registering radiation dose absorbed in the wearer's sensitive skin layer and for registering more deeply penetrating radiation. Two of the phos... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346512 | Integrated circuit manufacturing method A method for forming bipolar semiconductor devices and compiementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) field effect devices on a single crystal substrate wherein source and drain contact regions of one of the CMOS devices is formed simultaneously with the ... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346513 | Method of fabricating semiconductor integrated circuit device utilizing selective etching and epitaxial refill A method of fabricating a semiconductor integrated circuit device wherein a substrate having a particular crystallographic orientation is selectively etched so as to form surface depressions of different depths. An epitaxial layer is grown from a Si--H--C... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346514 | Apparatus for mounting electronic components An apparatus for mounting electronic components on a printed board substrate comprises a component feeder for sequentially feeding the electronic components in an aligned row, a chuck which receives and rectifies by pinching the position of the electronic... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346515 | Telescopic mating apparatus Apparatus and process are described for telescopically mating top and bottom molded petri dish members wherein the top and bottom members positioned in spaced, substantially coaxial face-to-face relation are moved along a predetermined path, and during tr... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346516 | Method of forming a ceramic circuit substrate A method of forming a ceramic circuit substrate allowing mounting of high integration density semiconductor elements. The method provides a multilayered ceramic circuit substrate having via holes formed with high accuracy and high integration density wiri... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346517 | Mustache trimmer This invention pertains to a mustache trimmer have a 360° circular cutting edge. The trimmer comprises an annular holder and an annular razor blade telescoped into said holder with the cutting edge of the razor blade exposed.... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346518 | Shock absorber removing tool A pair of elongated levers are pivotally interconnected at a first pair of corresponding ends for relative oscillation and one of the first ends of the levers includes a lateral projection having a flattened terminus on its free end defining an abutment s... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346519 | Liquid level and liquid coring gauge The gauge includes a calibrated, elongated stick or rod to which is affixed an elongated, transparent sampler tube. A bottom valve is operable within the sampler tube and is capable of direct opening by contacting the bottom of the tank with the valve ste... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346520 | Alinement method A method and apparatus for aiding the alinement of an element, carried on supporting surface, requiring parallelism to a reference plane or axial orthogonality to that reference plane. A first and second ring are disposed between the element and surface a... | 08/31/1982 |
