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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4392257 | Method of making dresses for dolls and the like and product obtained by this method A method of making dresses for dolls or the like, comprising: superposing to each other two strips of synthetic fabric of a kind capable of being welded; repeatedly performing thereafter, all along the development of said fabric strips, electronic welds o... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392258 | Shade shirt An article of clothing in the nature of a T-shirt having a semi-stiff bill at the rear of the neck opening. The clothing can be worn as an ordinary shirt with the bill depending from the back of the neck opening or it can be worn over the head with the bi... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392259 | Trouser construction The invention relates to an anatomic trouser construction which comprises five parts, in which the fifth part added is joined onto a new shape of the four conventional parts forming a structure which gives the crotch a shape apt to the anatomy both of men... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392260 | Flushing apparatus with selective quantity control A flush control apparatus includes a housing which replaces the usual tank top and has a chain extending down to the usual outlet valve member which is weighted to give it negative buoyancy. In the housing is a lever, motor, switch and timing circuit syst... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392261 | Baby cradle A baby cradle supported on a pair of longitudinal rockers providing for head to toe rocking of a baby. When the cradle is not being rocked, as in an equilibrium position, the rockers maintain the cradle in such a position that a baby lying in the cradle i... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392262 | Apparatus for breeding queen honeybees A breeding apparatus for queen honeybees comprises a breeding frame, a honeycomb cell plate affixed thereto and defining a multiplicity of open cells, a like multiplicity of sockets projecting from the rear face of the plate, the cells passing through the... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392263 | Portable rescue tool This rescue tool includes a body, providing a cylinder and a piston extending outwardly of the cylinder, and a pair of jaw members pivotally connected to the body by link members and the piston. The jaw members include cooperating outer prying portions, i... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392264 | Combination tool for removing and replacing a nut A combination tool comprises an elongated lever having a handle at one end, two divergent fingers at the other end, and an aperture between the two ends adapted for engagement with a nut. One of the fingers includes a distal end and claw in spaced relatio... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392265 | Method of modifying the dye affinity of cellulose fiber-containing structure with benzene sulfonyl chloride The method involves treating a cellulose fiber-containing structure with an alkaline agent, coating the structure with an acid chloride having the following formula: ##STR1## (wherein X is --H, --NO2, --CH3 or --SO2 C... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392266 | Molded shanks A spring-type shank for a shoe sole is formed on the bottom of a shoe assembly during manufacture of the shoe. The heel end of the shank is formed so that it is raised slightly from the heel seat region of the insole to provide a "spring shank". The shank... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392267 | Apparatus for continuously pickling the outer surfaces of tubular materials An apparatus for continuously pickling the outer surfaces of hermetically plugged tubular members is described. The apparatus includes a plurality of liquid tanks which separately contain different pickling liquids and define through-holes in their respec... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392268 | Chalkboard eraser cleaner system A chalkboard eraser cleaner including a completely closeable, box-like housing containing an electrically driven, rotatable beater. At the top of the container is a side, slot-like opening with a door for the insertion of the eraser to be cleaned. Right b... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392269 | Mop carrier A mop carrier is provided for mounting a mop and/or a brush to a mop handle. The mop carrier includes an elongated, continuous resilient blade having a first portion which extends downward at an acute angle, a second portion which curves around on itself ... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392270 | Surface cleaning apparatus An improved apparatus for cleaning roofs and other surfaces having both coarse and fine compacted particulate matter to be cleaned. A spray of water under pressure of 1,000 to 2,000 psi is applied from the inside of an open bottommed vacuum chamber toward... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392271 | Electric vacuum cleaner with window for viewing belt An electric vacuum cleaner has a generally opaque housing enclosing a bruch roller rotatable about a horizontal axis, a motor, and a belt or the like extending from the motor to a pulley on or affixed to the brush roller, for driving the brush roller. A t... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392272 | Track and panel guide for sliding shower doors or the like Guide means for sliding shower doors and the like includes a lower track member having a inclined upper face, an upstanding guide adjacent one edge thereof, and a guide track adjacent the other edge thereof. An outer door is guided by the upstanding guide... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392273 | Poultry processing apparatus As a series of birds are conveyed in a suspended, inverted attitude through a poultry processing plant the neck of each bird is received in a rotating helical rotor formed by a pair of helical bars arranged in overlapping, coaxial relationship and which f... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392274 | Apparatus for pulling-off the skin of sheep carcasses in slaughtering An apparatus for pulling-off the skin of sheep carcasses in connection with slaughtering comprises an essentially horizontal drum (8) for pulling-off the skin during winding thereof on the drum (8), the drum (8) being moved upwards along the dorsal side o... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392275 | Apparatus for supporting fiber bales A bale supporting apparatus for stabilizing fiber bales during opening of the fiber bales from the top includes a support element arranged to engage a vertical end face of a bale and further arranged for stepwise, vertically downwardly oriented motion as ... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392276 | Fiber separator for feeding a freed-fiber spinning unit The device for separating individual fibers of a fiber sliver comprises sliver feed rollers, sliver opening means comprising a press roller and a separating roller adapted to carry a stack of thin disks provided with combing elements which consist of teet... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392277 | Lock tongue for safety belts A lock tongue for safety belts with a belt strap of the safety belt being adapted to pass through the lock tongue and be firmly attached to the belt strap so as to be safe against displacement at a certain location of the belt strap due to a loop-around f... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392278 | Fastener This invention relates to a one-piece push-in type of fastener having side wings or fronds on a shank and adapted to prevent withdrawal of the fastener when inserted into a hole in which the shank is of H-shape in cross-section with wings or fronds on opp... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392279 | Self-locking two-part fastener A first fastener part (14) includes a flat disc (16) from which a spindle (18) extends for engagement by a hollow tubular member (24) extending from a base (22) provided with an aperture (54) through which the free end of spindle (18) is visible. A pair o... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392280 | Clevis safety belt buckle A high strength safety belt buckle characterized by a clevis attached to one belt end, a connector attached to another belt end releasably held within the clevis by a latch passing through the connector and engaging both sides of the clevis. A first embod... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392281 | Releasable fastener A releasable, hook-type fastener of the kind intended to secure pieces of equipment or structural members together, the fastener including a casing, a drive shaft turnable in the casing, an eccentric bushing carried by the casing and turnable with the sha... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392282 | Lock for safety belts Lock for a safety belt having a belt lock and a plug-in tongue which can be locked in position by a latch movable by a manual pressure element transversely to the plug-in tongue direction to the opening position. The latch is retained by a force, preferab... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392283 | Grommet clip A grommet clip, particularly useful for suspending air conditioning ducts, formed of a flat body having opposite portions snapped together along a fold line with means which penetrate a web on the duct and which define an eyelet to receive hangers for sup... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392284 | Watchband endpiece with capturing bead A resilient capturing bead of silicone rubber is deposited and cured inside a tubular watch band endpiece and functions to frictionally engage a spring bar connector inserted in the endpiece, retaining the spring bar connector in proper position during as... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392285 | Device having yarn passage of specified dimensions for interlacing filaments of multifilament yarn An apparatus for commingling yarn. The apparatus has an inner body having a yarn passageway with a diameter of about 1/4 inch to 5/16 inch. There are orifices through which a high pressure fluid such as air pass to the yarn passageway. The orifices have a... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392286 | Apparatus for taking up a bundle of filaments A method of taking up a bundle of filaments is disclosed wherein the bundle of filaments is ejected together with a compressed fluid toward a container and coils of the bundle of filaments are formed when the bundle of filaments is received in the contain... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392287 | Quartz resonator processing system Disclosed is a single chamber ultra-high vacuum processing system for the oduction of hermetically sealed quartz resonators wherein electrode metallization and sealing are carried out along with cleaning and bake-out without any air exposure between the p... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392288 | Device for action on webs of material with at least one cylinder In a device for acting on webs of material which includes at least one roll, which comprises a revolving hollow cylinder constituting the working roll circumference, a crosshead going through the cylinder with spacing on all sides, and against which the h... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392289 | Manufacture of jewelry by casting with preset gems Articles of jewelry with gems set in precious metal are cast by a modified lost wax method whereby each gem is retained in position in the investment mold after removal of the wax enabling the setting of the gem to be simultaneous with the casting of the ... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392290 | Apparatus separating hybrid substrate Stacked leaded hybrid substrates and associated carrier plates are exited from a reflow solder operation into a vibrating table. Vibration of the table sequentially advances each stacked carrier and substrate until components on the latter contact an arm ... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392291 | Method for assembling slide fastener stringers Disclosed herein is method for assembling a pair of slide fastener stringers each having spaced sections in continuous rows of scoops and an apparatus for the same. The leading edge of the scoop row in the leading stringer is detected by a probe inserted ... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392292 | Forming process A method and apparatus for production of couplings for joining together sections of metal tubing, the couplings being of the type comprising sockets having e.g. an annular recess carrying a filler metal, whereby the filler metal comprises a plastic compos... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392293 | Method of assembling combination shock absorber and air spring A method is provided for assembling a combination shock absorber and air spring including a tubular shock absorber having an outer tube and a piston rod reciprocably projecting from one end of the outer tube, and an air spring consisting of a resilient di... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392294 | Method for making polyolefin pipe connector sleeve A connector sleeve for polyolefin pipe ends for connecting butted pipe ends by a coupling. The connector sleeve is metallic and has a pair of internal circumferential ribs mated in external grooves of the pipe end which is press-fitted within the sleeve i... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392295 | Method and apparatus for forming drum seam A method and apparatus for forming a drum seam. A tray-like end plate having a cylindrical portion forming an indented shape and an outward extending end plate flange formed by the edge of the cylindrical portion is fitted into the end of a cylindrical dr... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4392296 | Method of joining two metal members In a method of joining two metal members by forming an annular groove at least on one of the two metal members to be joined and causing part of the material of the metal member to flow into the annular groove by plastic deformation to form a joint, at lea... | 07/12/1983 |
