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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4400829 | Protective football glove A protective football glove is formed of a tough pliable casing for fitting across the back of the hand and wrist of the user. A thick resilient hand pad is contained in the casing on the back of the hand portion of the glove and a thinner resilient wrist... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400830 | Shower cap A shower cap comprising a crown having a top section and a lateral section defining an opening that receives the wearer's head. The crown is reinforced with structural members that provide a shape to the crown intended to preserve the user's coiffure and ... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400831 | Glove arrangement for water skiing A glove arrangement for water skiing for enabling the water skier to establish through his grip on the tow rope crossbar handle a finger controlled structural purchase that couples, through the glove arrangment, the skeletal structure of his arms to the t... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400832 | Panty garments with redirected stress support structure Garments, including panty garments and hose. Each garment includes support structure comprising twin, diagonally inclined halves forming stress vectors directed between the hips and pelvic region of the wearer. The panty garment may include lower leg port... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400833 | Means and method of implanting bioprosthetics A means and method for implanting bioprosthetic material surgically, in humans or animals, is disclosed. The means comprise lengths of connective tissue such as cow tendons which are covered entirely or partially with a synthetic, looseweave mesh which is... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400834 | Swimming pool walls with gutter and conduit construction A method of making swimming pool walls with gutter and conduit constructions from sheet metal components that are fused together at welded junctions. The method is characterized by forming the individual components to specific configurations that are adap... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400835 | Bath support A bath support or bench includes a wall cabinet for mounting on the wall of a bathroom adjacent a tub or shower and includes a wall panel or bracket, a support bench pivotally mounted to the bracket and foldable upward against the bracket, and foldable do... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400836 | Method for fitting bed sheets A method for using a device for facilitating the covering of a furniture piece, which includes a flat plate which is sized and shaped to fit between the cushion and cushion supports of a chair or couch, or between a mattress and a mattress support of a be... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400837 | Queen bee mating nucleus A queen bee mating nucleus is provided which includes a housing and a removeable cover, with the cover having at least one bee ingress and egress opening therein. A removeable honeycomb rack is positioned lengthwise in the housing and carries a plurality ... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400838 | Method of determining the average nature of the materials of the laundry in a laundry washing machine and washing machine employing said method A method of determining the average nature of the materials of a laundry in a laundry washing machine including measuring the weight of the laundry loaded into the machine, detecting the volume and the level of water admitted to the tub of the machine, de... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400839 | Machine for lasting heel seat portions of shoes In tack seat lasting machines, operator skill is often required because of irregularities in last manufacture, especially in drilling the last pin hole. Thus, automatic presentation is difficult. In accordance with the invention the last pin (32') is moun... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400840 | Boot shaper A boot shaper for treating crease or stretch marks in legged boots, comprises an inflatable sock which is inflatable through an air inlet means and is deflatable through an air pressure relief means so that the sock can be pulled from a boot after use by ... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400841 | Apparatus and method for handling sheet material A sheet handling apparatus and method for transferring horizontally oriented sheet articles from one location to another in an automated production line facility. The apparatus includes a vertically reciprocal elevator mounted on a horizontally reciprocal... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400842 | Dusting brush assembly for venetian blinds and the like A preferably molded plastic brush frame extends transversely having an integral longitudinally extending, curvilinear handle and mounts a multiplicity of side by side, finger-like, preferably bristle brushes extending longitudinally therefrom. A preferabl... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400843 | Rotary floor cleaner This invention provides a rotary floor cleaner having means for detachably securing the drive mechanism to the base of the unit, said means including wedge blocks against which the drive mechanism may be wedged and a rotatable cam for incrementally forcin... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400844 | Wiper device A wiper device equipped with a rise up mechanism, including a motor, a blade, a wiper pivot, a motor arm which rotates in one direction during the starting and wiping operations of the blade and which rotates in a reverse direction during the parking and ... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400845 | Windshield wiper A windshield wiper for an automotive vehicle has a flat plate located in an inclined position in which an edge of the flat plate that is upstream with respect to the air flow above the surface of the windshield is disposed closer to the surface of the win... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400846 | Tape cleaning apparatus Apparatus for cleaning magnetic tape and like webs, comprising a series of sharp scraping edges for cleaning said web, said edges forming the periphery of a series of air ports through which a vacuum is drawn laterally across the bottom of the web. Thus t... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400847 | Self-clamping hinge for solar collector frames and the like A pair of male and female hinge halves fabricated of extruded metal sections having complemental cross-sectional shapes so as to slidingly interfit and interhookingly engage with one another define a longitudinally extending through opening at one transve... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400848 | Door hinge with a sliding catch A door hinge for furniture is made up of a box-like part designed to be set within or inset into a recess in a door from its back side, and has a spring-powered or pressed bolt for acting on a cam face at the end of an L-like support arm. The arm is fixed... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400849 | Shrimp peeling unit A pair of journaled generally horizontal and parallel side-by-side rollers are provided including at least closely adjacent sides defining an elongated upwardly opening "nip" area therebetween. Structure is provided for supplying successive shrimp to be p... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400850 | Foreign object detector for protection of carding machines A mechanical foreign object detector upstream from the feed roll of a carding machine faithfully detects minute hard objects in the lap which could damage the lickerin or other components of the card. Spring-loaded detector pins penetrate through the lap ... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400851 | Apparatus for training gin saws and ginning ribs for cotton gins An apparatus for training a gin saw assembly and a ginning rib assembly that have been removed from a cotton gin includes a telescoping stand on which the gin saw assembly, including its bearings is temporarily mounted. The apparatus includes an adjustabl... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400852 | Dirt separator with a web-carding plate The dirt separator for carding machines is located upstream of the doffer cylinder and comprises a knife blade (16) as well as a foot portion or base plate that is provided with a toothed wire clothing (19), which is arranged with a clearance of about 0.2... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400853 | Needle bar drawing device In an needle bar drawing device or gill box comprising needle bars carried by chains is arranged a bristle mat consisting of one or few layers of bristles extending along the whole needle field up to the proximity of a clamping gap formed between a pair o... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400854 | Method and device for depositing sliver in a rotating can Method for depositing sliver formed of textile fibers in cycloidal loops in a rotating can, which includes feeding the sliver through a rotating funnel wheel having a guide canal formed therein with an opening extending toward the can, and rotating the fu... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400855 | Strapping buckle construction A unitary clamp or buckle for use in conjunction with fabric or other types of strapping is fabricated from polyethylene plastic and includes a body having a pair of locking arms formed integrally therewith, the body having a centrally located strap-recei... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400856 | Cargo securing fitting An improved cargo securing fitting comprising a base coupling member adapted to be fixed to the floor of a carrier and a cap coupling member removably connected to the base member. The base coupling member includes a plurality of outer spaced coupling lug... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400857 | Seat belt buckle The specification describes a push-button type seat belt buckle whose tongue releasing push-button, when mounted on a vehicle, faces toward the passenger and is located in a somewhat sunken position, thereby to facilitate the release of the tongue while a... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400858 | Heat sink/retainer clip for a downhole electronics package of a measurements-while-drilling telemetry system A heat sink/retainer clip (54) capable of resiliently holding objects, such as printed circuit boards, in tubular members, such as telemetering tools. The heat sink/retainer clip comprises two portions (56, 60) which extend across the tube from opposite s... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400859 | Machining centers for machining tubular workpieces A machining center for machining the interior of an elongate tubular workpiece includes a bed on which a rotatably indexable member is slidably mounted for movement on the bed along a first axis. Removably fastened on the indexable member in spaced parall... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400860 | Method for producing a cartridge for purifying exhaust gas A cartridge for purifying exhaust gases from the internal combustion engine of an automotive vehicle or some other source comprising a catalyst support matrix wound of metal foil and a metal jacket housing said support matrix wherein a press fit exists be... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400861 | Fabrication of seismic springs from sheets In accordance with the method of this invention, at least one sheet containing the spider springs is positioned in a novel preform fixture having internal parts constructed to simultaneously permanently preform each spring after the fixture is heat treate... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400862 | Method of manufacturing packing containers The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a packing container from a seamless tubular blank of plastic material having a wall thickness greater than the wall thickness of the packing container to be produced therefrom. One end of the tubular bla... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400863 | Method of making a rigid fiberglass duct having an integral bendable elbow A rigid, molded fiberglass duct having an integral bendable elbow comprised of two sections of cured fiberglass securely bonded to a corrugated metal-foil sleeve. The method of manufacturing the rigid bendable duct is by sliding a corrugated metal-foil sl... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400864 | Fluid filter A fluid filter (10) of the spin-on automotive type has a housing with a unitary closure member (18). The unitary, or one-piece, closure member (18) includes provision for mounting of the filter and for fluid flow therethrough. Two opposed annular flanges ... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400865 | Self-aligned metal process for integrated circuit metallization A self-aligned metal process is decribed which achieves self-aligned metal to silicon contacts and sub-micron contact-to-contact and metal-to-metal spacing. The insulation between the contacts and the metal is a pattern of dielectric material having a thi... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400866 | Application of grown oxide bumper insulators to a high-speed VLSI SASMESFET A semiconductor structure and particularly a high-speed VLSI self-aligned Schottky Metal Semi-Conductor Field Effect Transistor having a relatively high operating frequency and low series resistance, predicated upon very controllable small structure geome... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400867 | High conductivity metallization for semiconductor integrated circuits A method for simultaneously patterning-over field oxide, gate oxide, and sidewall oxide--high conductivity metal-silicide electrode metallization for semiconductor integrated circuits involves (1) formation of an unpatterned polycrystalline silicon (polys... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4400868 | Method of making a transparent and electrically conductive bond Solar cells with different bandgaps are stacked to form a multijunction photovoltaic converter with a high conversion efficiency. By stacking the cells mechanically rather than by growing them all at one time, the most convenient combination of materials ... | 08/30/1983 |
