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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4348774 | Weight lifter's belt A weight lifter's belt fabricated from leather which is lined with a thin layer of foamed flexible plastic having a Shore A Durometer hardness of between about 10 and 25, the liner being attached to the inner surface of the belt by a flexible adhesive. Th... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348775 | Eye protector An eye protector to be secured over at least one eye and a head strap to attach the eye protector to the head of a wearer. There is an inner slot and an outer slot at one edge of the protector through which slots the head strap is positioned. There is a f... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348776 | Collapsible splash shield for toilet A collapsible splash guard is provided which is adapted to be mounted in a toilet, and which is constructed for movement between an extended operative position when the toilet seat is in a raised position and a collapsed storage position when the seat is ... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348777 | Portable shower This disclosure relates to a portable shower particularly adapted for use at construction sites, campgrounds, industrial plants, truck and auto service stations and the like in which persons can conveniently and efficiently shower, the module including fi... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348778 | Emergency toilet water protection unit An apparatus combining a flush toilet including a toilet bowl and water supply tank and a device for preventing the flow of water into and out of the supply tank. The supply tank includes a ball float and an outlet water control plunger which is located a... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348779 | Inflatable boat with additional inflatable elements compensating for loss in buoyancy This inflatable boat comprising at least one hull consisting of at least first and second elements disposed side by side, inflatable separately, and one or a plurality of additional elements inflatable separately and adapted to support one or a plurality ... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348780 | Apparatus for elevating a mobile rig This invention relates to apparatus for elevating a mobile workover rig to an elevated operating position proximate wellhead. It includes a portable platform arranged for positioning proximate the wellhead with the platform having a fixed generally horizo... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348781 | Hose cleaning plant A hose cleaning plant comprises an elongated horizontal receptacle (10) in which a number of hoses (16) may be placed side by side in extended positions, washing equipment (13) provided at one end of the receptacle (10), and a transport device (18) which ... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348782 | Windscreen wiper comprising an arm with an attached end fitting, in particular for motor vehicles The invention provides a wiper arm end fitting for a vehicle windscreen wiper, formed of two moulded plastic halves which each include a recess portion to define a recess to receive and hold the end of a wiper arm, and also define an articulation connecti... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348783 | Scrubbing machine with selective recycle A scrubbing machine is described which may be operated either in a single cycle scrubbing mode or in a recirculating scrubbing mode. The scrubbing machine includes a body structure which is supported on a plurality of wheels. The scrubber has a pair of ta... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348784 | Swivel type caster with seal and lubrication ring A swivel caster of the type having an inverted U-shaped horn member with a cup-shaped upper portion that rotatably receives a swivel plate adapted for connection to the underside of the supported article. A thrust bearing is provided including an annular ... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348785 | Wheel assembly A wheel assembly including an annular rim with an outer bearing race formed on the inner periphery thereof. Cylindrical rollers are in rolling engagement with the outer bearing race and with an inner bearing race formed on a central sleevelike shaft which... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348786 | Opening and closing apparatus An opening and closing apparatus comprises a swingable member, spring means and resilient restoring force transmission means for transmitting the resilient restoring force of the spring. The swingable member is supported pivotally by the support means so as to... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348787 | Apparatus for treating meat products prior to packaging This apparatus is used to compress previously treated meat products prior to packaging. The compression is accomplished by passing square or rectangular portions of meat such as hams along a continuous conveyor and compressing the portions between a pair ... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348788 | Oyster opener A base is provided including a centrally upwardly facing roughened surface portion and the base includes a raised mounting point horizontally spaced to one side of the roughened surface portion. An elongated lever has one end pivotally anchored to the mou... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348789 | Slide fastener with improved clamps and method of manufacture In a slide fastener employing coupling elements secured within folds of supporting tapes by clamps secured over the folds, clamp legs are formed with raised land areas and lips for cooperating with flange edges and upper surfaces of bases of the elements,... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348790 | Locking device A locking device is disclosed for locking a brace having an opening therethrough, which comprises a bar member adapted to extend through the opening having a groove defined therein at a spaced location from a front end of the bar member which is insertabl... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348791 | Apparatus and methods for assembling end shield assemblies for dynamoelectric machines Methods, apparatus, and systems are provided for automatically assembling end shield assemblies of sub-assemblies for electric motors. In a preferred form, a system and methods are provided that utilize a non-palletized, non-synchronous concept to convey ... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348792 | Method of making low cost accumulator The present invention is directed to a low cost accumulator device and the method of making the same. The device is fabricated by utilizing the shell or pressure vessel as a mold component wherein a bladder is molded in situ, the bladder being bonded in t... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348793 | Method of connecting a plate-shaped absorber for solar heat to a tubular heat transport system A solar collector is made from a straight tubular metal heat pipe having an evaporator section and a condenser section and two elongate flat solar-heat metal absorber plates. A plurality of equally spaced parallel cuts is formed in each plate, with the cu... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348794 | Double-walled finned heat transfer tube A double-walled finned heat transfer tube is provided for use in heat exchangers. The heat transfer tube includes an inner tube inserted within an externally finned outer tube. The assembly is subjected to a crimping operation which produces radial convex... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348795 | Method of manufacturing cooling blocks for semiconductor lasers A method of manufacturing cooling blocks for semiconductor lasers, in which the rounding-off radius of the line of intersection between two surfaces of the cooling blocks must have a very small value. In the method, two bodies to be formed into cooling bl... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348796 | Nut installation apparatus and method A nut installation apparatus or head for installing self-attaching nuts, such as pierce nuts, in a panel, without the requirement of a large forming die press assembly. The apparatus includes a nut anchor, which holds the first or end nut stationary, a re... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348797 | Method of installing a solar collector An extended width parabolic trough solar collector (12) is supported from pylons (14). Collector (12) is formed from a center module (30) and two wing modules (32) joined together along abutting edges by connecting means. A stressed skin monocoque constru... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348798 | Method of manufacturing solar collector module An extended width parabolic trough solar collector (12) is supported from pylons (14). Collector (12) is formed from a center module (30) and two wing modules (32) joined together along abutting edges by connecting means. A stressed skin monocoque constru... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348799 | Apparatus for installing rolls on a conveyor shaft A carriage for moving urethane rings along a shaft is driven by an air motor powering a rack and pinion arrangement.... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348800 | Production of steel products with medium to high contents of carbon and manganese and superior surface quality Steel products having high strength or good drawing or magnetic or electrical properties, requiring levels of carbon or manganese, or both, that are too high to allow rimming action are produced to have the desired properties, in effect, but with a surfac... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348801 | Bale untying machine A machine for untying bales, such as bales of paper in a papermill, and characterized by being adapted to hold the ties, such as wires or metal bands, until after cutting and disposal of the bundle of material from the ties such as to separately dispose o... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348802 | Process for producing a semiconductor device In a process for producing a semiconductor device, particularly an MIS structure semiconductor device, an electrode, which is in ohmic contact with the semiconductor substrate, is usually formed on the surface which is opposite to the surface having MIS F... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348803 | Process for producing a semiconductor device having an identification mark in an insulating substrate In a process for producing a semiconductor device using an insulating substrate, a so called SOS device, a semiconductor layer is formed on the insulating film and semiconductor elements are formed in the semiconductor layer, material, which develops colo... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348804 | Method of fabricating an integrated circuit device utilizing electron beam irradiation and selective oxidation Dielectric isolation through electron beam irradiation is applied to a method of fabricating a semiconductor device. Upon forming an insulated gate field effect semiconductor device (FET) in a semiconductor layer on an insulation substrate, the insulated ... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348805 | Method for the production of wiring looms In the method, lengths of wire are drawn from wire supplies and cut, each end of each cut wire being stripped of insulation and terminated, and the cut wire then being laid along a predetermined path defined by guide pins on a loom board. The wire lengths... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348806 | Selective contact crimper A pair of feeder bowls are placed one above the other to simultaneously feed two different types of wire contacts onto two different tracks, and into separate alignment openings in a guide block. A pivotally mounted crimper is selectively moved to positio... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348807 | Peeling device A vegetable peeler, particularly for pumpkins, has a pair of arms made for engagement with the blade holders of the handle and motor housing of a conventional electric carving knife in place of the usual carving blades and, like the blades, releasably int... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348808 | Harvesting tool A harvesting tool to be used, principally, for the harvesting of grapes comprising a scissors device wherein the operating head of the scissors device includes a cutting blade. The operating head of the scissors device is to include structure to facilitat... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348809 | Combination sharpener device and scissors An apparatus for sharpening scissors and similar two bladed cutting implements in which both blades are sharpened simultaneously with the scissors kept in the closed condition. The apparatus includes a hollow housing containing a pair of blade sharpeners,... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348810 | Blade part assembling structure for electric shaver The blade part assembling structure for electric shaver of this invention comprises fitting pins which are rotatably fitted to a blade mounting base, a movable blade mounted on the base in the first rotating positions of the fitting pins, and a stationary... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348811 | Vee belt measuring apparatus Apparatus for measuring the length of vee belts, particularly so that vee belts of closely similar length can be identified and thereby used together in multi-belt drives, comprises a fixed drivably rotatable pulley, a further pulley on a tensioning carri... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348812 | Gun barrel internal diameter indicator A gun barrel internal diameter indicator for checking a barrel bore includes an elongated, narrow holder defining a passage within which an elongated, flat bar is disposed. The bar includes a forward, inwardly tapered portion having lateral edges. A pair ... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4348813 | Elevation measuring instrument with selectable measurement scales A microcomparator for elevation measurements having an amplification mechanism (3) which consists of a lever (31), the lever transforming the linear movement of a feeler (5) into a circular movement, and a lever arm (32) formed at least partly by calibrat... | 09/14/1982 |
