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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4370754 | Variable pressure pad The protective garment of the present invention primarily for use as protective athletic equipment includes protective gear for the shoulders, ribs, biceps, forearms, thighs, knees and shins. The protective garment is generally composed of variable pressu... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370755 | Combination poncho and cushion The disclosure is of a poncho for human use having an enclosed area at the center of the rear panel which may be inflated to form a cushion on which the wearer sits.... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370756 | Multiple ply garrison cap A garrison cap having a crown portion and an outer band portion attached together at the lower margin of the crown portion. Both the crown portion and the outer band portion are composed of a multiple ply laminated material including an outer ply of texti... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370757 | Garment with a modesty panel A garment including a modesty panel is described which is designed for patients of hospitals or nursing homes. The garment comprises first and second garment portions which have upper and lower ends and inner and outer side edges. The first and second gar... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370758 | Sound attenuator for use in conjunction with the motorcycle helmet or the like A motorcycle helmet having a modified exterior configuration to attenuate noise generated when passing through the air. The modified helmet begins flaring outwardly from the traditional helmet configuration at a point adjacent to the chin of the wearer, t... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370759 | Face guard mount for helmets Shock absorbing mounts for the face guard of a helmet having a substantially rigid shell and being connected to the shell allow substantial movements of the face guard relative to the helmet shell in response to forceful blows on the face guard. The mount... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370760 | Anterior chamber intraocular lens An intraocular lens for use as an artificial lens implant anteriorly of the iris which has at least a pair of position fixation elements providing a multi-point support for the lens. The position fixation elements are constructed and arranged for sufficie... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370761 | Articulated prosthesis for lower limb A prosthesis includes a knee joint having movable elements geared together and rotatable about axes located rearward of a vertical bearing axis of the prosthesis. A foot member is pivoted about a horizontal ankle joint and is urged by a first spring towar... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370762 | Portable attachment for sinks A portable sink attachment comprising a hollow elbow-shaped member having an opening at either end. The opening at the upper end is adapted to receive the hollow extension projecting from the bottom of a curved receptacle having a wide mouth and tapering ... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370763 | Automatic dosing dispenser Dispensing apparatus for dispensing bleach or detergent into a toilet tank or the like on a controlled basis. The dispensing apparatus comprises a dispenser immersed in the tank water, the dispenser being subdivided into two approximately equal volume cha... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370764 | Topical washing device A topical washing device is utilized to clean a predetermined body portion of a user. The device includes a washing nozzle for discharging washing water and a water feed line connecting the washing nozzle to a source of water. A heat exchanger, heater, te... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370765 | Envelope for a bed having side rails An envelope for a bed with side rails, comprised of an enveloping portion for enveloping the side rails, and a flap positionable between a mattress and mattress support and securable to the latter, to maintain the mattress in bed alignment and close off a... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370766 | Panel bed and counterbalancing mechanism for panel bed A bed which is movable between a horizontal open position and a vertical closed position wherein a counterbalancing mechanism comprising two levers and gas springs are placed at the foot of the bed in order to provide a lifting moment for help in closing ... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370767 | Beach mat The disclosure is of a beach mat for human use comprising a center section which may be adjusted to provide a surface on which the body may rest in a reclining or sitting position and which has bottom and head end parts. The bottom end part has side panel... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370768 | Damped fluid displacement support system A liquid-sealed envelope contains a core of resilient urethane foam saturated with water, all air having been expelled therefrom. This assembly is enclosed within an outer casing of a resilient material to which the envelope is glued.... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370769 | Cushion utilizing air and liquid A cushion having beneficial purposes for both persons having physical disabilities and persons who do not. It is an expandable cushion having a lower chamber for air and an upper chamber for liquid, preferably ordinary water. The water chamber or containe... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370770 | Cutting head for thread cutting machines A thread-cutting head for pipes, tubes, and the like, with cutting jaws arranged in a cutting-jaw holder. The cutting jaws are radially adjustable by a control disc which is displaceably supported on the cutting-jaw holder and is adjustable by a clamping ... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370771 | Water-driven brush The invention provides a water-driven brush in the form of a hand-held unit having a water inlet that can be connected to a sink faucet to provide a power source for a rotary brush that can be used for scrubbing plates or pots in the sink. A portion of th... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370772 | Device for gentle treatment of spherical balls Method and device for treatment of balls, in particular balls for rolling bearings, by gentle mechanical treatment in the presence of a cleaning fluid or the like. According to the invention, the treatment of the entire surface of each ball is accomplishe... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370773 | Toothbrush A toothbrush having a bristle supporting head pivotally mounted to a handle for pivotal movement of the head and bristles about a pivot axis substantially perpendicular to the axis of the handle to a plurality of positions to gain easy access to tooth sur... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370774 | Windshield wiper assembly Windshield wiper assemblies include apparatus to compensate for lifting forces exerted on a wiper arm and blade when a vehicle travels at high speeds. The wiper assemblies include a wiper arm spring connected to a wiper rod which carries the wiper blade. ... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370775 | Multi-purpose connector In a connector (14,15) for connecting a wiper arm to a wiper blade, a pair of spaced apart attaching means (16,17) are provided for alternately attaching the connector to the wiper blade. Appropriately dimensioned slots (22a,22b) and surfaces (31,32,33,34... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370776 | Vacuum cleaner for household and industrial application A vacuum cleaner, for household and industrial purposes, including a suction fan, driven by an electric motor, for generating a working air flow, and an electrical converter, in the form of a generator driven by the working air flow, for detecting the str... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370777 | Electric motor control for vacuum cleaner Disclosed is an improvement in a vacuum cleaner having a roller-shaped brush mounted in the vacuum nozzle thereof. A separate rotational speed control is provided for the electric motor which operates the roller-shaped brush and in preferred embodiments t... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370778 | Method, a binder, and an apparatus for binding sausage casings A novel sausage casing binder made of elements of plastic and a method by which the elements are mounted against the constricted portion of the casing so as to form a clamp ring thereabout, whereafter the elements are joined to stabilize the rigid and ent... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370779 | Method and apparatus for intermittently dispensing flowable foodstuff Disclosed is a method and apparatus for intermittently dispensing a flowable foodstuff such as a sausage material into a container, e.g. a sausage casing, in portions of a predetermined size. A conveyor dispenses the foodstuff into the container and is de... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370780 | Process and device for axial shirring of a tubular material using an air stream The axial shirring of thin walled inflated tubular material, especially for sausage manufacture, with a mandrel providing a radial bracing in its interior, occurs in combination with at least one air stream directed obliquely against the axis of the tubul... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370781 | Clearer device provided above draft rolls There is provided a clearer device located above a series of draft rolls with a predetermined number of plumbs and secured inside a cover plate rotatable and removable by means of a pivot formed in part of two side plates. This clearer device is character... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370782 | Belt retainer A belt retainer for securing the belt of a disposable sterile operating room gown comprises a generally rectangular strip of semi-rigid deformable material having a continuous belt retaining and locking cutout slot therein. The cutout slot defines a centr... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370783 | Yieldable load release connector Yieldable load release connector comprising a coil of resilient plastic rod extending for 400° to 800° and having two free ends, and fastening means attached to the coil at a point spaced substantially equidistant from each said end for fastening said c... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370784 | Belting fabric An improved woven fabric that is relatively stiff in the filling direction and relatively flexible in the warp direction by virtue of the filling yarns in the fabric being stiffer than the warp yarns in the fabric, wherein the improvement comprises the fi... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370785 | Method for making ultracoustic transducers of the line curtain or point matrix type Method for providing ultraacoustic transducers of the line curtain or point matrix type, and products obtained therefrom, comprising the steps of forming a bar of piezoelectric material having any length but width and thickness almost equal to each other,... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370786 | Wire lead forming machine In a wire lead forming machine whereby a European-type plug is attached to plug-end portions of two wires of a cable length, a wire bending device at each of a wire stripping and a plug attachment station has a pair of carriages mounted on parallelogram l... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370787 | Apparatus for securing to format cylinders format plates for the accurate transfer of applications of adhesive In a cylinder with replaceable shaped plates for applying a predetermined pattern of adhesive to webs of material, the cylindrical surface has at least two axially spaced recesses each containing a rocker arm pivoted about an axial shaft, one end of the a... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370788 | Method of lining cylindrical bores A method of lining a cylindrical bore for instance of an internal combustion engine with a thin-walled liner. Initially, a strip of material is cut to such a length that when formed into a cylindrical liner of external diameter equal to that of the unline... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370789 | Fabrication of gas turbine water-cooled composite nozzle and bucket hardware employing plasma spray process In the method for fabrication of water-cooled composite nozzle and bucket hardware for high temperature gas turbines, a high thermal conductivity copper alloy is applied, employing a high velocity/low pressure (HV/LP) plasma arc spraying process, to an as... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370790 | T-joint method and product The cross-piece portion of a tubular T-joint has a cross-section of constant inside diameter from one end of the cross-piece to the other and increasing outside diameter from one end towards it center, then decreasing from its center towards it opposite e... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370791 | Method of forming an adjustable prosthetic element A prosthetic device which is adjustable in the transverse plane includes a flanged element moldable in a plastic socket and an element having a toothed superior surface. The plastic socket is formed about the flanged element while using the toothed superi... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370792 | Method of covering surfaces with tensile sheet materials A device and method for holding tensile sheet materials to cover surfaces is disclosed. The device comprises a pair of parallel tracks adapted to be mounted on the surface to be covered with each track having at least one longitudinal slot. The slot has a... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4370793 | Method of coupling two metallic members A method and apparatus for coupling two metallic members such as a shaft and a disc. The method includes forming an annular groove on a joint face or outer circumference of the metallic member having greater deformation resistance of the two members, for ... | 02/01/1983 |
