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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4380833 | Doll dress and crenelle A doll dress constructed by providing a strip of net material gathered on a cord and sewn to the inside of the dress circumferentially of the hem thereof. The strip has a width of approximately 1/3 the length of the skirt portion and is approximately 30 t... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380834 | Pop-up plunger A pop-up plunger for selectively closing a generally cylindrical waste drain pipe having a seat at one end and a closure actuator remote from the seat, the plunger comprises a head portion including sealing means for engaging the seat for closing the wast... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380835 | Electric flush tank This invention relates to an electric flush tank designed for replacing the conventional mechanical flush tank, wherein a button switch attached to the outer wall of the water tank controls a solenoid which drives a connecting rod that in turn controls th... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380836 | Collapsible toilet shelter A shelter specially adapted to function as a portable toilet is disclosed being collapsible for ease of shipment. Inefficiencies of shipping fully assembled portable toilet shelters are eliminated by a modular construction shelter having foldable walls, a... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380837 | Method and apparatus for controlling the flow in swimming pool gutters A method for establishing a flow gradient along the gutter of a swimming pool of the type that includes a recirculating system for the pool water with said gutter comprising a portion of such system. The method comprises providing a plurality of gutter fl... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380838 | Conformable support system for furniture An article of furniture, such as a bed or a chair, provides improved comfort by supporting a human body resting thereon and adaptively conforming to the body contours in contact with the support surface while providing a distribution of support forces tha... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380839 | Golf iron washer A golf iron washer including a housing that has a bottom wall, a pair of integral front and rear vertical walls, and a pair of integral side vertical walls, and which is open at the upper end thereof. The housing has cleaning member support means for supp... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380840 | Bottle cleaning device A unitary molded plastic bottle cleaning device, particularly adapted to cleaning catsup bottles but also usable for jelly jars and other small bottles, comprises an elongated shaft having a thin, relatively flat primary scraper blade of generally triangu... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380841 | Oil dip stick wiper unit An oil dip stick wiper has two hinged opposing wiping blocks with pads having opposing wiping faces biased apart by a leaf spring. The wiper has projecting grips on the outside of the wiping blocks. A walled storage container open at one end has slots in ... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380842 | Tool support apparatus Tool support apparatus having a frame mounted on wheels and motors for driving the wheels to move the frame. A ram tube carrying different tools at its lower end supported in a cylinder mounted on an oscillator bracket which cooperates with an oscillator ... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380843 | Droop correction structure and condensate control in sootblowers A long-stroke sootblower is mounted to extend over a fulcrum at the entrance to the furnace space. The track traversed by the end of the outer casing of the blower is sloped upward to the fulcrum in control of the vertical position of the nozzle-bearing e... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380844 | Automatic floor cleaning machine An automatic floor cleaning machine includes a unitary, self-contained and propelled, power driven body mounting from front to rear in a normal cleaning direction of travel: a propulsion mechanism including drive wheels and guide wheels for dry tracking o... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380845 | Nozzle for hand-held vacuum A portable vacuum cleaner having a nozzle extending from the housing and a dust bag supported within the nozzle. The nozzle consists of two longitudinal sections one of which is an extension of the housing and the other of which is removable, to permit in... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380846 | Idler pulley belt drive arrangement for suction cleaner A driven agitator is powered by a pulley-belt arrangement including an idler pulley. Upon agitator stall condition slippage occurs at the idler pulley, preventing rotor stall of the driving motor.... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380847 | Device for mounting gas spring for opening automobile hatch door A device for mounting a gas spring for opening the hatch door or the like of an automobile which is produced by helically winding one elastic wire is described. The gas spring mounting device includes a mounting end, which is helically wound with the same... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380848 | Stop device for a pivotal door, in particular for an automobile vehicle door Pivotally mounted on the door is an arm which has a stop recess in which there may be retained a fixed roller which is mounted in a bracket member fixed to the fixed post of the door. The arm is applied against the roller under the effect of a movable rol... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380849 | Apparatus for removing meat from poultry drumsticks An apparatus is provided for removing meat from poultry drumsticks by closing mechanical jaws onto the meat of a drumstick, mechanically grasping one end of the drumstick bone, and then removing the meat by driving the drumstick bone om a direction away f... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380850 | Hand operated steak tenderizer and cuber A portable and light-weight steak tenderizer for use in the home is provided with a rotatable cylinder along the curved surface of which are fixed a plurality of truncated triangular cutting blades arranged in rows normally oriented relative to the axis o... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380851 | Roller burnishing tool A roller burnishing tool for finishing the internal surface of a cylindrical hole is disclosed. The tool includes a roller race having a central axis and a frustoconical outer surface tapering radially outward and axially forward. A plurality of frustocon... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380852 | Mill roll A mill roll has a working layer comprising alternate portions of unequal wear resistance properties along both the circumference and the generating line of the roll barrel. Each portion of the working layer may have the form of a square, rhomb, circle and... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380853 | Tool mount assembly method A torsion bar disk gang mounting assembly includes a shaft pivotally suspended from a disk frame. A rectangular tube receives a portion of the shaft. A pair of disk gang support arms are pivotally coupled to the shaft and extend generally rearwardly there... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380854 | Assembly apparatus An apparatus for assembling cooling tubes and fin elements in the manufacture of heat exchangers, particularly radiators for motor vehicles, comprises stations for feeding the tubes and the fin elements to grooves in a rotatable drum. A tube and a fin ele... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380855 | Method for filling hollow shells with gas for use as laser fusion targets Hollow shell laser fusion targets, such as glass microballoons, are filled with gases of the type which do not permeate through the wall of the balloon. A hole is laser-drilled in the balloon, a plug is placed over the hole and gas is introduced into the ... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380856 | Segmented seal A sectional gasket 11 includes corner junction members 12, straight junction members 13, and extension members 14. The junction members 12 and 13 each include a recess 19, and the recesses 19 each include axially extending laterally inwardly facing sealin... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380857 | Process for manufacturing shutter screen blades A process for manufacturing blades of shutter screens wherein the blades are first formed by punching a metal plated thin plastic sheet material by a first press operation carried out thereon with end parts left connected with other portions of the plasti... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380858 | Method of making a composite profile A method and a device for making a composite profile comprising two metal members which are held apart from each other by means of at least two insulating bars whose edges are clamped in grooves formed between flanges on the metal members by deforming the... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380859 | Method for tightening fastener on axially connected rod-like members A method and apparatus for tightening fasteners adapted to combine two bars in a linear fashion. The apparatus includes a first spanner member for engaging a first fastener and a second spanner member for engaging a second fastener. A driving apparatus is... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380860 | Method of assembling bearing and lever A socket of yieldable semi-rigid plastic material is formed with an external circumferential groove for receiving the periphery of an opening in a linkage member. The periphery of the opening is deformed out of the plane of the surface of the linkage to p... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380861 | Method of making a semiconductor laser by liquid phase epitaxial growths In a semiconductor laser comprising an active layer epitaxially formed on a semiconductor substrate and at least a current limiting layer which defines a current injection region of a stripe shape, the improvement is that said substrate has a terrace part on i... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380862 | Method for supplying a low resistivity electrical contact to a semiconductor laser device The invention is an improved method of fabricating a semiconductor laser which comprises bonding an electrically conducting sheet to a metallized surface of a strip of semiconductor material prior to separating the strip into one or more laser chips. The ... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380863 | Method of making double level polysilicon series transistor devices A plurality of MOS transistors are formed as an integrated semiconductor device, adjacent transistors sharing a common source/drain region which is created by the edges of inverted regions beneath the gates of the transistors. These gates are first and se... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380864 | Method for providing in-situ non-destructive monitoring of semiconductors during laser annealing process In-situ, non-destructive monitoring of semiconductors during laser annealing process is realized by a method the steps of which include: positioning a surface acoustic wave device adjacent to the semiconductor being annealed and in intercepting relationsh... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380865 | Method of forming dielectrically isolated silicon semiconductor materials utilizing porous silicon formation Dielectrically isolated areas of single crystalline silicon suitable for use in device applications have been produced utilizing a particular processing sequence. This sequence first involves producing an area of porous silicon on a silicon substrate. A s... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380866 | Method of programming ROM by offset masking of selected gates A process is disclosed for fabricating a MOS ROM which allows programming of the ROM late in the process sequence. A conventional silicon gate process is used to fabricate the devices up through the step of patterning the polycrystalline silicon gate elec... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380867 | Method for making electrically conductive penetrations into thin films Disclosed herein is a method for making electrically conductive penetrations into thin films and equivalent. The penetrations reach from the outside surface of the thin films to be grown by means of depostion as layers at a temperature of 200° to 700° C... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380868 | Tube loading apparatus Apparatus in generally unitary machine form for the mechanical, automatic installation of tubes in an assembly of header plates and baffles to produce a tubular heat exchanger core or the like. Tubes are inserted one at a time in perforate parts held in a... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380869 | Electric shaver of reciprocating drive type having trimmer blade An electric shaver of a reciprocating drive type having a trimmer blade comprises a housing and an outer blade frame detachably mounted onto the upper portion of the housing. A trimmer blade assembly is mounted to the housing so as to be protrusile outwar... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380870 | Vacuum hair cutting device An improved hair cutting apparatus used in conjunction with a vacuum suction source comprising a hollow cylindrical main housing connected at its upper end to a vacuum hose, a scissor support extending outwardly from the main housing for securing a pair o... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380871 | Mechanical punch driver A mechanical knock-out punch driver has a torque housing that has a recirculating ball screw unit rotatably supported therein. A driver collar is connected to a rotatable handle to direct a rotary input force to a nut portion of the ball screw unit so as ... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4380872 | Pipe fitter's combination instrument An adjustable instrument, capable of several functions, is provided for use by a pipe fitter. The primary use of the instrument is for positioning pipe sections and pipe fittings for joining, and it may also be employed to locate certain points on the ext... | 04/26/1983 |
