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A self-righting hand-arm configuration which is adapted to pivot when struck by a user, thereby simulating a "high five."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4369526 | Utility vest A utility vest for worker's tools and supplies includes a canvas utility apron detachably secured by a heavy-duty zipper around the bottom of a sleeveless nylon vest. The utility apron has leather pouches detachably secured to it by zippers at desired loc... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369527 | Disposable garment with card loop A disposable garment comprising, a gown having a pair of sleeves, a front, and a pair of side margins defining an open back for the gown. The garment has a first belt having one end secured to the gown and the other end being free. The garment has a secon... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369528 | Garment for maintaining body temperature and method of making same A method and garment is provided for maintaining the body temperature of a patient undergoing surgery in an operating room where the ambient temperature is normally below the normal body temperature. The garment is constructed of cut segments of stretchab... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369529 | Belt with buckle A belt with a buckle, which comprises a belt having a plurality of holes provided at proper intervals on its back side at its free end, each of the holes having an opening only on the back side of the belt, a base having a projection provided on its upper... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369530 | Hydraulically actuated cardiac prosthesis and method of actuation A cardiac prosthesis having a hydraulically actuated compressible blood pump. An actuation chamber adjacent the blood pump receives pulses of hydraulic actuation fluid from an actuator pump through a fluid inlet path to compress the blood pump during syst... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369531 | Liquid flow control strainer A strainer for a tub drain has a spring-biased plunger for moving the stopper from its closed position to an open, liquid flow position. The plunger has a stem that extends into the passageway of the body of the strainer, and is mounted thereon for axial ... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369532 | Sink assembly A sink assembly of a type including an enclosing cabinet (14) for supporting a sink bowl (16) from a floor (24) includes a liquid-impervious cabinet liner (22) supported by the cabinet (14) within an enclosed space (32) below the sink bowl (16) and its dr... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369533 | Bed for sick person A hospital bed in which the mattress is composed of an endless belt placed over several rows of rollers that are disposed in a transverse direction of the bed. The outer edges of the mattress can be raised by displacing a column of rollers upwardly by mea... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369534 | Center reinforced mattress A mattress spring assembly is disclosed having increased firmness in a preselected center area of the mattress. This increased firmness is achieved through use of a grid structure attached to the opposite sides of the mattress. This grid structure compris... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369535 | Mattress assembly The invention relates to a mattress assembly comprising an elongated framework, a plurality of parallel laths fastened therein in the direction of width and a mattress consisting at least partly of foam material said mattress assembly being characterized ... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369536 | Apparatus for use in heat setting a lasted shoe upper The machine comprises a plurality of substantially enclosed channels in which a lasted shoe upper is subjected to hot air blown from both sides of the channel. Conveyors carry the uppers along the channels past inlets located at a distance of from 6 to 20... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369537 | Method of forming a footwear component The invention relates to a method of footwear manufacture in which a footwear component for incorporation into an article of footwear is made. The footwear component is made by simultaneously forming from a piece of sheet material a rand extending at leas... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369538 | Apparatus for transfer of persons and goods between structures offshore System for offshore transfer of persons and goods, preferably between a supply vessel and a stationary platform or a moored drilling/production platform or vessel, comprising a rigid gangway of which one end is pivotable on a vertical and a horizontal axi... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369539 | Powered floor sweeper A powered floor sweeper having a nozzle housing formed of a plurality of segments and tie elements extending through the segments for retaining the segments in assembled side-by-side relationship. The assembled segments define open ends closed by end caps... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369540 | Floor cleaning machine A machine for cleaning floors is provided and more particularly a riding machine which both sweeps and scrubs the floors. The machine has a rotary drum broom near the front and three staggered disc brushes at an intermediate portion. The drum broom is rot... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369541 | Retractable wax, buff and polish apparatus for cars A retractable wax, buff and polish apparatus for cars includes an open framework upon a floor through which a vehicle is adapted to pass. A vertically adjustable carriage is guidably mounted upon the framework and suspends therefrom a pair of coplanar hor... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369542 | Mirror apparatus having wiper means A mirror apparatus having a wiper means intended to wipe a surface of a mirror supported on a mirror holder, wherein the wiper means comprises: a rubber ribbon for wiping the mirror surface; a pair of holders for supporting the rubber ribbon; and a pair o... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369543 | Remote-control radio vacuum cleaner A remote-control radio vacuum cleaner comprises a remote control device having radio transmitting circuits matched with a control mechanism for generating various control signals, and a separate vacuum cleaner structure disposed with vacuum cleaning fitti... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369544 | Machine to wash surfaces The invention embodies a machine to wash surfaces which comprises: a suction element positioned at least at its front, a front humidifier element which can possibly be shut off and which cooperates with an absorbing sheet, a sprayer which can possibly be shut off, ... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369545 | Double action door closure mechanism A pinion 9 attached to a door meshes with two parallel racks 10, 11 which face each other. A piston 14, connected by rods 29 to a rotatable lever 25 of a restoration assembly 4 which has a return spring 26 and a shock absorber 27, has an L-shaped pivotabl... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369546 | Hand held tools and utensils stabilizer bar, adjustable and non-adjustable A stabilizer bar for a hand held tool which extends laterally from the handle of the tool to receive and mate with the thumb to stabilize the hand grip of the tool. The stabilizer bar may be cylindrical and eccentrically adjustable to adjust to the comfor... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369547 | Animal skinning machine An animal skinning machine. Upper and lower clamp guide trackways guide clamp carriages between which a clamp body is mounted. A first clamp and a clamp frame are carried by the clamp body. Clamp actuators carried by the clamp frame support a second clamp... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369548 | Depither A fiber conditioner comprises an outer casing or enclosure and a perforated screen positioned within the casing. The screen is formed by a plurality of attached invertible and sexless sections. A plurality of hammer assemblies are rotatably positioned wit... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369549 | Blending method using a roving disintegrator-dispenser A method and apparatus for blending a "primary staple" with a "secondary staple" wherein the weight ratio of the primary staple to the secondary staple is between 10,000:1 and 10:1 is disclosed. The secondary staple is continuously supplied to a blending ... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369550 | Method of levelling out variations of a fibre sliver and apparatus for implementing the method An autolevelling drawframe for levelling out staple fibre slivers in the spinning mill operation, in which deviations of the sliver weight (linear density) from the preset desired value detected are processed into correcting signals and are transmitted to... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369551 | Quick release device for fishing leader lines A quick release device for fishing leader lines comprising a slotted swivel body member that is tied to the fishing line and a T-shape pin, receivable in one end of said slotted swivel member tied to said leader line which usually carries a hook, bait, et... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369552 | Locking assembly A clasp device with a female member defined by an annular body and a male member adapted to be received into said female member. The female member is of unitary construction with a first opening and a second opening. These openings are spaced apart from o... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369553 | Buckle A buckle comprises a receptacle member and an insertion member which are easily united and disunited. The receptacle member includes an engaging portion and a socket of a construction capable of admitting the insertion member. The insertion member include... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369554 | Method for the manufacture of non-woven textile fabrics A method for forming a web of weft yarns, which run transversely relative to the length of the web, and which may be incorporated in a non-woven fabric, wherein a pair of laterally spaced substantially parallel helical yarn guide members are each rotated ... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369555 | Yarn processing apparatus The temperature of a heating fluid used in a yarn crimping zone is controlled in response to whether a yarn plug is detected at a predetermined point, and in another embodiment a fluid is heated, passed to a yarn heating zone and a yarn is heated in the z... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369556 | Method of making a photoflash lamp having new lead seal structure A method of making an electrically-activated photoflash lamp which includes a lead glass envelope, a quantity of shredded zirconium or hafnium combustible material and an ignition structure disposed within the envelope for igniting the combustible materia... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369557 | Process for fabricating resonant tag circuit constructions An insulative substrate web having a conductive surface on a first face is printed and etched to provide a repetitive conductive circuit pattern. In one form of the invention, the pattern defines a first conductive area serving as a first capacitor plate,... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369558 | Outer race working method and apparatus therefor Herein disclosed are outer race working method and apparatus of the type, in which such a roughly shaped outer race workpiece of a Birfield type constant-velocity ball joint as is formed with a groove made axially straight at its portion above the joint c... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369559 | Method of converting a sports car to a reproduction of a vintage motor car A conventional production car is converted to a reproduction of asa vintage car by severing the frame of the production car near the firewall. Longitudinal extension segments are welded to each end of the severed frame to lengthen the wheelbase and the en... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369560 | Method of manufacturing slide fasteners A pair of continuous slide fastener stringers are longitudinally fed by longitudinally reciprocable grip assemblies and driving rollers that is selectively actuatable. As the slide fastener stringers are advanced, one of the stringers is threaded through ... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369561 | Process for aligning diffusion masks with respect to isolating walls of coffers in integrated circuits A process in which P+ impurities are implanted in a P silicon substrate at the periphery of N+ buried layers, prior to growing an N epitaxial layer. Then an upward diffusion of the P+ impurities is caused up to the surface... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369562 | Process for the manufacture of a profile for metal joinery having a thermal gap A method that relates to the manufacture of composite profiles made of metal and plastic, in which suitably shaped thin metal profiles are applied against the internal surface of a rigid mold and injecting a foamed plastic between the two profiles, the ti... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369563 | Automated machine tool installation with storage means A system comprising a plurality of complementary numerically controlled machine tools in which different workpieces are each subjected to appropriate selected machining operations on selected machine tools in a selected order by appropriate delivery of co... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369564 | VMOS Memory cell and method for making same A semiconductor memory device is provided comprised of an integrated array of cells formed on a substrate in conjunction with parallel spaced-apart bit lines and conductive word lines that are perpendicular to the bit lines. A plurality of V-shaped recess... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4369565 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device utilizing etch and refill to form isolation regions A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device characterized in that after a fine groove has been formed in the surface of a semiconductor layer by dry etching, an insulating region is formed so as to fill up the fine groove.... | 01/25/1983 |
