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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4360930 | Flexible-headband attachment for a flashlight Flexible headband is connected to one side of a flashlight in a manner such that the headband may be wrapped around the body of the flashlight with the terminal wrap being secured to the flashlight when the headband is not in use.... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360931 | Prosthetic ankle A prosthetic ankle for use between the ankle block forming the bottom end of a prosthetic lower leg, and a prosthetic foot, comprising a securing bolt extending upwardly through a hole in the foot and screwed into a nut in the ankle block. Under the head ... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360932 | Urination disposal bag A disposable urination bag having a liquid impermeable exterior having a slit which is above the tangent line of two rolls of absorbant material, thus forming a cavity to accept the male genital organ.... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360933 | Urine suction and collection device for a vacuum suction type urinating aid A urine suction and collection device for a vacuum suction type urinating aid which contains a urine receiver provided with a urine suction opening to be applied to a urinating region includes, a urine transport tube connected, at one end, with the urine ... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360934 | Sanitary device A sanitary device of the type associated with a toilet bowl and having an extendable and retractable spray arm is provided with a hot water supply tank having a heating element therein. The pressure of the cold water supply forces the heated water through... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360935 | Deep bathtub with elevated seat and entrance door An upwardly opening receptacle is provided including a bottom and upstanding wall portions projecting upwardly from the bottom and extending peripherally thereabout. One of the wall portions has a door opening formed therein and a horizontally swingable a... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360936 | Pivoting bed A pivoting bed having at least one individual bed that is independently rotatable about a vertical support column. A support arm protrudes out from the vertical support column. At the end of this support arm, a single mounting point is provided to which a... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360937 | Method and apparatus for wet processing textile material For use in textile processing, equipment such as jet dyeing machines, a fixed cloth tube for transporting cloth from the jet to the cloth storage compartment, such cloth tube having an exit end portion which is substantially greater in cross-sectional are... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360938 | Machine for lasting heel seat portions of shoes In tack seat lasting machines, variation of the tack (nail) pattern is achieved by varying the wiper inwiping movement, itself dependent upon their lengthwise movement. Such variation also alters the "back tack" position (i.e. relationship between the hee... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360939 | Floor care device A floor care device has a rotary tool rotatable about an axis of rotation, a motor arranged to drive the rotary tool in rotation through a power transmission, and a supporting element formed as an angle lever which supports the tool, the motor and the pow... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360940 | Corner brush A corner brush assembly for cleaning corners including a flat brush head having a substantially rectangular body section integral with a horizontally tapered nose portion extending forwardly away from the body section. A handle is fastened in a predetermi... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360941 | Electrically heated windshield wiper assembly A windshield wiper assembly for preventing freezing of the wiper blades, and blade supporting frames, of a vehicle, during a sleet storm, the blade and frame being enclosed in a weather protective hood. A first pair of electric conductors are each affixed... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360942 | Windshield wiper blade A windshield wiper construction having an armature comprising a main support element adapted to be an actuator arm, the main support element carrying a pair of rocker elements which mount a lodging element for a flexible wiper blade, the principal feature... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360943 | Retention clip A retention clip to secure a windscreen wiper rubber and an associated backing strip to a windscreen wiper blade superstructure comprises spaced, substantially parallel first and second parts integral with an interconnecting third part. The first part has... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360944 | Toner transporting device for an electrostatic recording apparatus A toner transporting device for an electrophotographic copying apparatus includes a transporter for carrying toner to and into a chamber through a first opening therein, a second opening in the chamber through which toner in the chamber is moved out of th... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360945 | Roller supporting means for long retracting soot blowers Roller supporting means for the lance tube of a long travel retracting soot blower includes a pair of castering-type roller assemblies having their castering axes non-vertical. Each roller assembly is counterweighted to such extent as to substantially sta... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360946 | Apparatus for cleaning floors and floor coverings A floor cleaning apparatus, particularly adapted to clean carpet, is disclosed. A rotatably mounted brush extends in a transverse direction substantially parallel to the floor. The apparatus has front and back ends with a plurality of foam-producing nozzl... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360947 | Dust collector A bucket into which ashes and dust from a wood stove or fireplace is shoveled by a vacuum cleaner so as to prevent it blowing into the atmosphere, the bucket including a removable cover having a connection to a vacuum cleaner hose, for transferring the du... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360948 | Vacuum cleaner nozzle arrangement A vacuum cleaning nozzle consists of only two parts, i.e. a flat surface nozzle and a brush nozzle, which alternatively can be brought into contact with a work surface. The flat surface nozzle is provided with a casing for introducing of a pipe piece for ... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360949 | Portable pneumatic railroad switch cleaning device A portable pneumatic cleaning device for removing particulate material from crevices and channels particularly between component parts of railroad switch mechanisms, is provided which has a heavy duty nozzle including a central port and a pair of outwardl... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360950 | Cleaner motor with vibration isolation A floor care appliance or the like is provided with vibration isolating means for its motor-fan system which includes isolation at the agitator driving motor pulley which acts against belt tension.... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360951 | Caster with braking mechanism A wheel is rotatably journalled in a supporting fork which is swivable about a substantially vertical axis. A disc is freely mounted over the wheel in a manner to straddle the fork substantially concentric with the vertical axis. The disc is provided with... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360952 | Meat tenderizer A meat tenderizing machine formed of a pair of spaced parallel surfaces moving in the same direction but with one surface moving at a speed differing from the other with teeth extending from the surfaces for engagement with the meat during passage between... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360953 | Display and burial system A display and burial system wherein a base has a lid member associated therewith which is movable between closed and open viewing positions. A two-part link holds the lid member in open viewing position with one link part pivotally connected to the lid me... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360954 | Method of making cast-in-place sabots The invention deals with the manufacture of fully segmented sabots used in he launching of subcaliber projectiles. The prior method required the machining of individual sabot segments and fitting them on to the sub-projectile. The improvement involves the ... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360955 | Method of making a capacitive force transducer A capacitive force transducer, particularly suited for use as a microphone or as a phonograph needle pick-up cartridge, comprises a diaphragm electrode insulatively held to a lip portion of a recess in a second electrode, thereby forming a capacitive dete... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360956 | Piston having at least one piston ring groove A piston made of an aluminum alloy has at least one piston ring groove defined by two side walls and a bottom wall. At least one preferably both side walls of the piston ring groove(s) are formed or defined by a zone, which has been hardened by an energy ... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360957 | Method for fabricating an exhaust gas treating unit Method for fabricating a filter or catalytic reactor for hot exhaust gases, which includes a filter bed made from a frangible material such as steel wool or the like. The latter is confined and formed into a quasi-rigid body by application of an initial o... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360958 | Method of making heat exchangers Method of making multi-port heat exchangers wherein tubular members made of metal that does not well lend itself to being extruded into a plurality of passageways may be divided into multiple passageways by dividers inserted thereinto and adhered thereto.... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360959 | Method for manufacturing a drum brake shoe A method for manufacturing a drum brake shoe comprises the steps of providing a strip of material, forming a plurality of connected blanks with the strip, bending each blank to form an arcuate surface with adjoining sides, cutting one of the blanks by ser... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360960 | Method for separating hybrid substrate from carrier plate Stacked leaded hybrid substrates and associated carrier plates are exited from a reflow solder operation onto a vibrating table. Vibration of the table sequentially advances each stacked carrier and substrate until components on the latter contact an arm ... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360961 | Method of welding lined pipe The ends of two sections of lined pipe (e.g. polyurethane lined steel pipe), in which the lining terminates a definite distance from each pipe end, are butted together, with an internal concentric sleeve spanning the unlined pipe ends and defining an annu... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360962 | Wire harness A wire harness manufactured by a new method and a new apparatus is provided. A covered wire paid out from a selected one of reels is extended in a predetermined lay-out and fixed. The thus fixed wire is cut-off from the reel. Then, another wire is paid ou... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360963 | Method of making CCD imagers with reduced defects In a method of making a CCD imager on a semiconductor wafer, it is usual to have the imagers spaced from the outer periphery of the wafer. The method includes a sequence of steps including masking the appropriate surface of the wafer, defining openings in... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360964 | Nondestructive testing of semiconductor materials An n-type region of a semiconductor body, such as a surface region of a bulk wafer or an epitaxial layer region grown on a wafer (12), is successfully submitted to a capacitance-voltage test using a mercury probe (11) after being subjected to a pretreatme... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360965 | Method of mounting a semiconductor laser device A method of manufacturing a semiconductor laser device to be used for an optical communication system. A semiconductor laser device, with a heat sink comprising a diamond, is arranged on a heat radiation stud, which also serves as part of a vessel for her... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360967 | Assembly tool for electrical connectors A tool for use by an operator in the field in attaching and securing a bushing assembly within an electrical connector and subsequently connecting or disconnecting the electrical connector and a terminal of an electrical apparatus to establish a connectio... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360968 | Method for reducing solder sticking on a printed wiring board A method of inhibiting solder sticking between circuit elements of a partially uncured rubber-modified epoxy printed circuit board comprises exposing the board containing the circuit pattern thereon to UV radiation prior to the application of solder there... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360969 | Chain of electrical connector housings and a method of fitting a housing to an electrical contact A method of fitting an electrical connector housing to an electrical contact comprises feeding a chain of connector housings linked end to end in the direction of their length towards a fitting station and, at said fitting station, effecting relative leng... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4360970 | Device for opening sealed food bags A device for opening sealed bags containing foods of various types. A lever is pivoted to one end of a base plate and carries a serrated cutter wheel which is mounted for free rotation. The base plate has a recess which receives the cutting edge of the cu... | 11/30/1982 |
