"The abolishment of pain in surgery is a chimera. It is absurd to go on seeking it...knife and pain are two words in surgery that must forever be associated in the consciousness of the patient."
Dr. Alfred Velpeau, French surgeon ; 1839
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4354279 | Welding mask corona barrier A corona barrier insert for a welding mask having a shield section and a main frame defining a viewing port in the shield section and a lens assembly including an outer pane made of glass and an inner pane of tinted glass to block out harmful rays. The co... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354280 | Joint protector A contact sport joint protector for protecting the knee or elbow limb joint comprising a unitary, relatively thick, foam-filled, semi-rigid, resilient, molded plastic pad of generally rectangular compound-curved configuration to conform with the shape of ... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354281 | Structural member for sleeping bag A structural component for forming sleeping bags or insulated items of wearing apparel is formed of an outer layer of waterproof or the like material and a laterally spaced inner lining material. Attached to the inner surface of the outer material is a la... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354282 | Garment with score indicia and attachable score recording markers A garment to be worn on a body torso while playing an active sports game. The garment includes a front panel for support from and positioning in overlying relation to the chest area of a person wearing the garment and further includes indicia associated w... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354283 | Headband assembly for protective headgear An energy-absorbing headband assembly to be worn with protective headgear. The headband assembly comprises a headband, a vertex pad, and a nape pad which coact to apply clamping pressure between the crown of the wearer's head and the back of the wearer's ... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354284 | Protective liner for outdoor headgear An energy-absorbing liner for use in conventional outdoor headgear to provide protection in the event of an impact directed against the wearer's head. A plurality of fluid-filled cushions having walls of resilient material are joined together into a regul... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354285 | Face shield and helmet A face shield for a helmet comprising a curved panel, at least a portion of which is transparent, for use in an overlying relationship to the face of the user and a V-shaped groove extending upwardly and rearwardly about the face shield from a point near ... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354286 | Artificial eye lens According to the present invention the artificial eye lens disclosed herein comprises the supporting element made up of two components, one of which is essentially an arc-shaped loop fixed with its ends in the lens lateral surface. Said loop is situated o... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354287 | Bed frame with adjustable headboard engager or engager-extender A bed frame having generally parallel side rails which can be laterally adjusted to fit standardized twin, full and queen size beds with each side rail including an inwardly extending end plate with each end plate being provided with an engager in the for... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354288 | Bed frame with pyramid shaped platform supports A bed or bed frame is disclosed including a base plate on which is mounted a plurality of pyramids which have their bases arranged in a contiguous side-by-side manner with truncated apices in a common plane, and a bedding support or platform is mounted an... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354289 | Waterbed A waterbed which is preferably substantially rectangular and has a substantially rigid base structure supporting a substantially rigid, but somewhat flexible, wall structure in which bladder means full of water is located so that the upper surface of the ... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354290 | Convertible house trailer A convertible house trailer comprises a cabin portion containing the living quarters, a road wheel assembly, by which the cabin is supported on land, and having a movable linkage connecting the road wheels to the cabin. The road wheels may be retracted up... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354291 | Spring coupled brush assembly for vehicle washing apparatus A rotating brush assembly is disclosed for a vehicle washing apparatus which is mounted by a single support arm on either or both sides of a vehicle washing apparatus. The brush assembly, which includes a brush, a brush shaft supporting the brush, a brush... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354292 | Arrangement for cleaning circuit cards particularly for removing soldering and resin remnants Arrangement for cleaning circuit cards particularly for removing soldering and resin remnants arising when soldering components on the card. The arrangement comprises a frame (FR) arranged in a container for a liquid cleaner. The frame carrying steering a... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354293 | Arm to blade connector A connecting device for attaching a windshield wiper blade to at least two different types of wiper arms is provided. The connecting device seats on a cross pin of the wiper blade and has a unique opening therein for receiving one of several different sty... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354294 | Rotary wall deslagger The disclosure is directed to a rotary wall deslagger for cleaning boilers. In accordance with the invention, an extensible rack element is selectively, mechanically coupled to a rotatable lance tube of the rotary wall deslagger to move the lance tube bet... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354295 | Device for axial shirring of synthetic tubular material for further processing, especially on automated sausage stuffers A device for axial shirring of synthetic tubular material by forming a continuous helical fold. As the unshirred tubular material moves along a mandrel, it is engaged by the vanes of at least three shirring tolls having their axes located in a plane trans... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354296 | Method and apparatus for killing poultry The jugular veins of chickens and other poultry are rapidly cut with precision and uniformity as birds are conveyed in succession past a rotary cutting knife. The necks of the birds are stretched at the cutting station by the coordinated action of upper c... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354297 | Machine for processing fish A fluid power operated fish skinning machine that severs the tail and impales the fish on a wheel. The fish is then rotated past cutting stations where the dorsal fins are removed and the belly flap is cut. The wheel is then stopped opposite a cutting whe... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354298 | Pedal coupling pin A pedal coupling pin for rotatably coupling a coupling member to a pedal including a cylindrical portion, a flange whose diameter is greater than the diameter of a coupling pin insertion holes formed in the coupling part, said flange being provided on one... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354299 | Clamp for fastening grapevines and other fruit-bearing shrubs on bracing wires Clamp for fastening grapevines and other fruit-bearing shrubs on bracing wires comprising a detent at one end of the clamp to engage the bracing wire, a hook at the other end of the clamp to engage the bracing wire and an intermediate piece between the de... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354300 | Holder for supporting a valance at a Venetian blind head A holder or clip for supporting a valance in front or around a venetian blind head, with a flat sheet metal body having prongs for holding the valance and having tabs or an especially shaped body portion for connection to the blind head.... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354301 | Method for manufacturing stripe-patterned metal plate There is disclosed a method for manufacturing a stripe-patterned metal plate or composite material. Plural kinds of metal sheet blanks having different colors are placed one upon another to provide a layer structure. The metal sheets of the layer structur... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354302 | Jacking tool for installing and removing draft gears on railway cars A fluid pressure operable jacking tool having oppositely disposed locking arms. With the draft key and coupler removed, the locking arms of the jacking tool, when installed, biasingly engage the coupler cross key slots formed in the draft gear yoke, so th... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354303 | Method of disc brake repair A method of repairing disc brake calipers is disclosed which avoids the necessity and relatively high costs associated with replacement of the caliper housing. The method is particularly adapted for use in repairing calipers in which the piston carries a ... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354304 | Method of making intumescent seals A method of making an intumescent seal comprises: providing a tubular holder having a longitudinal bore or interior chamber defined by a thickened longitudinally extending portion of the holder contiguous with a relatively thin wall of the holder; filling... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354305 | Contouring and threading attachment for multi-function machine tools A contouring and threading attachment for use with numerically controlled multi-function machine tools having automatic tool changing capability. The attachment has a spindle-actuated body adapted to detachably engage an adapter collar rigidly fixed to th... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354306 | Machine tool having replaceable gang heads A replaceable gang head machine tool comprising a working unit having a driving motor mounted on a slide table adapted to be driven forwardly and rearwardly and an annular rail disposed on the machine base and carrying a plurality of gang heads adapted fo... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354307 | Method for mass producing miniature field effect transistors in high density LSI/VLSI chips In the disclosed method, dopant atoms of a first conductivity type are implanted into the surface of a semiconductor substrate to form a channel region of each transistor having a relatively high dopant density at a predetermined depth below the surface a... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354308 | Method for manufacture of a selective chemical sensitive FET transducer A selective chemical sensitive field-effect transistor device for use in detection and measurement of chemical properties of substances to which the device is exposed is disclosed. The chemical sensitive FET device comprises a semiconductor substrate, at ... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354309 | Method of manufacturing a metal-insulator-semiconductor device utilizing a graded deposition of polycrystalline silicon A method of making a metal-oxide-semiconductor device is disclosed. A thin silicon dioxide insulating layer is formed on the surface of a planar silicon wafer. A first layer of intrinsic polycrystalline silicon is deposited over the dioxide layer, and a s... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354310 | Method of making inductance A method for making an inductance which includes the steps of providing a coil form constructed of insulating material and having at least one opening extending there through for the receipt of a wire terminal, supporting a wire terminal in a cut-off mech... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354311 | Solderable conductor composition and a method of soldering a lead to a lead pad A solderable gold conductor composition is formed by dispersing gold and certain inorganic binders in an inert liquid vehicle composition which can be used to produce conductor patterns which patterns adhere to fired ceramic substrates and to which can be... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354312 | Shaving implement, housing therefor, and razor A shaving implement housing including a platform portion, and a cap portion overlying the platform portion, the platform portion having a series of aligned recesses therein, the cap portion comprising a series of spaced, aligned fingers, each of the finge... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354313 | Slide lock folding blade knife A slide lock folding blade knife comprising a blade pivotally carried between spaced handle plates, a sleeve member slidably carried by the handle plates, the sleeve member having a first position adjacent to the blade pivot point and engageable with the ... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354314 | Hand-held cutter and blade holder for cutting mounting board and the like A cutter employing flat replaceable blades in a support member that is shaped as a cube having indentations in its sides to facilitate grasping. The cube is divided into two sides which are held together by adjustable securing means. The blade is inserted... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354315 | Measuring arrangement provided at a roller way formed by rotatably mounted rollers as well as a method of evaluating the measured values A measuring arrangement at a roller way formed by rotatably mounted rollers includes a supporting body movable along the roller way and thus setting the rollers in rotation. At the supporting body, sensors are arranged which coact with the surface areas o... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354316 | Method of beneficiating wood Wood is beneficiated by treating the wood with an agent capable of forming a borate ester linkage between hydroxyl groups of the cell wall constituents of the wood, and thereafter treating the wood with an aldehyde to effect aldehyde cross-linking of cell... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354317 | Process of pourable materials Moist pourable material which is required to be in dry condition, is dried by heating and drying a portion of the material and then mixing this portion with the remaining moist portion, so that the heat of the heated dry portion will heat and dry the rema... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4354318 | Athletic shoe with heel stabilizer An athletic shoe (10) having an upper (12) and a sole (14) is disclosed. The sole (14) includes an intermediate sole layer (16) of a resilient cushioning material. A bead (46) is disposed about the perimeter of the shoe in the heel spring section to enhan... | 10/19/1982 |