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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4347629 | Outerwear used both as jacket and bag Disclosed is new combination garment useful both as a jacket and a bag having a trunk portion for covering the upper half of a human body, and formed with an opening through which a human head passes, sleeve portions through which both arms extend sideway... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347630 | Fastener for helmet jaw band A fastener for a helmet jaw band comprising first and second rings provided at the end of one of two band sections of the jaw band coupled to the lower end of a helmet, said second ring being positioned on the outer side of said first ring whereby the rem... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347631 | Ear muff accessory for safety hard hat A device (10) is disclosed for mounting a hearing protector (90) on each side of a hard hat, pressing the hearing protectors at a substantially constant force about the ears and moving them in oppositely incline planes between an operative wearing positio... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347632 | Organic material recycling method and device A biological toilet and an organic material recycling method in which human liquid and solid waste (i.e., excrement) and cellulosic material and, optionally, kitchen waste (i.e., food and paper scraps and the like kitchen garbage) are deposited into a rec... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347633 | Patient treating mattress A disposable or resuable "crawl resistant" flexible mattress formed of panels sealed together to define alternately inflatable passages between the panels for sequentially altering supporting structure for a long term bed patient to reduce decubitus ulcer... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347634 | Precision pipe cutter and reamer combination A precision hand-held pipe cutting tool is provided utilizing an elongated body which is hand-gripped and contains an axially aligned motor, and a rotating saw blade parallel and adjacent to an angularly adjustable dial with a variety of depth limiting no... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347635 | Stretcher and litter combination A stretcher and litter combination, including a buoyant raft-like structure adapted for use as a rescue or recovery litter, and a buoyant stretcher. The litter has pontoons on either side of an elongated body section. The stretcher is in the form of an el... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347636 | Nut and method of forming the same A nut having a plurality of thread convolutions is formed with a plurality of punches from a metal blank to eliminate time consuming tapping operations. To make the nut, a pair of punches are used to form recesses in opposite sides of the blank and to for... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347637 | Manufacturing process of sandals and clogs with plastic soles and shoes manufactured through this process The process to manufacture sandals bases on the use of a mold made up by two parts: the first, the lower, containing the upside-down print of that part of the sole which has to be contacted by the foot; the second, that is the cover, containing the upside... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347638 | Retractable porch and stair apparatus for trailers A retractable porch and stair apparatus suitable for use with trailers and the like has a pair of parallel elongate channel members for attachment to the underside of a trailer. A floor member having preferably iron grating therein for strength and cleanl... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347639 | Deburring apparatus In a deburring apparatus having a housing with front and rear walls, a base and a power rotated deburring wheel within the housing and partly projecting through the front wall, a workpiece holder assembly is arranged forwardly of the front wall in registr... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347640 | Connector assemblies for connecting wiper blades to wiper arms A connector assembly, for use in connecting a wiper arm and a wiper blade for pivotal movement of the blade in relation to the arm about a common axis which in use is substantially perpendicular to the surface to be wiped, comprises two basic parts, namel... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347641 | Wiper arm A wiper arm includes a wiper rod which is directly formed from wire rod.... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347642 | Wiper arm A windshield wiper arm is described wherein a press fit connection is provided between the wiper rod and a link. The rod carries projections which bite into the softer material of the link.... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347643 | Power assist drive upright vacuum cleaner and power assist drive system therefor An upright suction carpet cleaner is provided with a solid rear axle having wheels mounted on either end thereof and a power assist transmission generally medially mounted therewith. The transmission comprises a housing carrying an input pinion gear drive... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347644 | Over-center self closing hinge Over-center hinge for cabinet doors, having a door-related part in the form of a recess-mounted cup in which the ends of inner and outer links are pivotingly mounted whose outer ends are pivoted on a supporting-wall-related part in the form of a supportin... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347645 | Self closing hinge A hinge comprises an L-shaped stationary flap having a pair of legs each having a rounded, tubular end, an L-shaped rotatable flap having a leg formed with a rounded, tubular end aligned with the tubular ends of the stationary flap, and disposed between t... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347646 | Method and apparatus for sequential portioning of a plastically deformable mass, in particular sausage stuffing A pickup 21 is connected with a portioning element that carries out individual portioning operations between two portioning pauses. By means of a sensor 22 and a counter 29 the actual values of the portioning operation steps are measured and are compared ... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347647 | Apparatus for making no-twist yarn An apparatus for drafting and parallelizing strands of fiber comprising three side-by-side rolls nested in three side-by-side troughs which conform to and are adjacent the bottoms of the three rolls. The rolls are rotated in the same direction at sequenti... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347648 | Ladder strap harnessing device with webbed tail A harnessing device formed by a locking head and an attached ladder strap. The head contains a locking tang and a guide channel that receives the strap after encirclement of items to be harnessed. The tang engages the rungs of the ladder strap for the adj... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347649 | Nozzle for texturing thread The present invention relates to a nozzle for texturing a thread by a gaseous fluid flow. The nozzle is provided with an angular channel for guiding a thread, a channel for feeding gaseous fluid thereto, opening obliquely into the angular channel, and at ... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347650 | Method of making marginless multi-layer ceramic capacitors The present disclosure relates to a method of making a multi-layer ceramic capacitor and, in its more particular phases, to a capacitor having closely predictable tolerances. The method comprises the steps of providing or fabricating green ceramic sheets ... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347651 | System for manufacturing connection wires A connection wire manufacturing system is provided in which a number of pairs of press-connecting terminals are formed in a hoop material, each being coupled at the heads with each other, and the hoop material with the pairs of press-connecting terminals ... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347652 | Method for servicing a steam generator A servicing machine for a steam generator is accurately set up in the generator channel head with a pivoted arm mounted for rotation in a plane parallel to the tubesheet. The angular position of the arm, the longitudinal position of a carriage mounted on ... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347653 | Method of preparing a section for an overhead door A novel overhead door section system and method, the section including a section facing fabricated from a high tensile steel and secured to a novel end stile and center stile. The end stile includes an angle support secured therein. The angle support clam... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347654 | Method of fabricating a high-frequency bipolar transistor structure utilizing permeation-etching A method of fabricating a high-frequency bipolar transistor structure wherein the emitter, higher impurity concentration base, and lower impurity concentration base regions are defined in a single masking operation. Permeation etching is used to etch regi... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347655 | Mounting arrangement for semiconductor optoelectronic devices A new package for semiconductor optoelectronic devices is disclosed, which comprises a novel geometrical configuration and provides plug-in capability. The package configuration provides a convenient means for supplying electrical signals to or from the d... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347656 | Method of fabricating polysilicon electrodes A Charge Coupled Device (CCD) structure employing two levels of electrode metallization. The field plate electrodes are arranged in pairs with the second one of each pair partially overlapping and insulated from the first one of its pair and the first one... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347657 | Method for the insertion of pre-wound coils into stator slots The invention relates to a method for the insertion of pre-wound coils into the slots of a stator of a rotary electric machine. The device comprises a cylindrical finger holder having on its periphery an annular series of longitudinal grooves, housing a s... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347658 | Method of making magnetic reed contact unit Reed switch contact unit is made in a sealed box and a pivotally-mounted guide member (7) with a V- or Y-shaped slot aligning the bottom reed during assembly.... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347659 | Method of making stick wound coils An arrangement whereby a plurality of coils may be simultaneously formed on a common coil form and thereafter that form sliced or sectioned to yield individual coils is disclosed employing an elongated hollow coil form of insulating material with a plural... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347660 | Quick change drill assembly machine A method and machine for making a quick change drill assembly that can be snapped into and out of a spring-loaded ball-locking chuck. The assemblies are comprised of standard sized adapters having various sized bores to receive drills having shanks of cor... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347661 | Process of making electric assemblies Metallic anode holders are suspended by a conveyor, and moved in succession above a table supporting induction-heating coils. The coils can be raised to surround lower depending parts of the holders which may be optionally previously coated with a separat... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347662 | Shaving apparatus There is provided a shaving apparatus having a shear plate formed with hair-entry apertures and a cutting unit associated with and drivable relative to the shear plate. The cutting unit comprises a cutting element having cutters, a hair-pulling blade bein... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347663 | Safety razor having movable head A safety razor having a movable head includes a handle to which a blade assembly carrier is secured. The blade assembly carrier is adapted to receive blade assemblies of different configurations as produced by different manufacturers; together, the blade ... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347664 | Soil pipe cutter A pipe cutter especially adapted to cut soil pipes and the like from the outside in a very narrowly confined space. The soil pipe of a bathroom commode projects outwardly from the wall and is capped a short distance from the wall. The present cutter is mounted... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347665 | Pocket knife A pocket knife is disclosed herein having a body including a pair of side portions separated by a spacer so as to define a storage cavity for a knife blade. The blade is pivotally carried by its end from a selected end of the body between a stored positio... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347666 | Apparatus for cutting vegetation An apparatus for cutting vegetation with a rotating head carrying a flexible, non-metallic cutting line extended radially into a cutting plane. An additional length of line is extended into the cutting plane automatically during rotation of the head as it... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347667 | Apparatus for the dimensional checking of a bearing ring Apparatus for checking linear geometric dimensions of the raceway of a ball bearing ring. A base supports a rotatable plate, which makes a ring rotate about its geometrical axis, and a mobile arm which applies to gauging heads a reciprocating motion along... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4347668 | Devices for use in aligning axles Compact and portable apparatus particularly useful in aligning the axles of trailers comprises an instrument case connected by an elongated spring-loaded cable to the trailer kingpin and connected by a pair of cables to clips releasably fastened at spaced... | 09/07/1982 |
