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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4420843 | Cyclists' gloves The present invention relates to an improvement to cyclists' gloves, wherein a lining member is provided inside the glove, which lining member is placed between the cyclist's hand and the wall of the glove, the said lining member having a part which adopt... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420844 | Vandal resistant drain stopper An improved drain valve is disclosed for selectively sealing a conduit. The drain valve comprises a drain housing installed in a bathtub or the like, latching means threadedly coupled to the housing and a combination drain stopper and actuator coupled to ... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420845 | Float valve assembly with flow control and volume balancing means A valving system capable of maintaining a substantial flow rate to a low profile toilet bowl during bowl wash, bowl flush and refill, and storage tank refill. The system includes a tank refill tube and a bowl wash tube, with an adjustable restriction in o... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420846 | Spa system A spa system particularly adapted for installation as part of a bathtub within the home. The various jets are fed recirculated water from a pump by individual lines from a manifold to assure equal output regardless of its distance from the pump. The jets ... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420847 | Head warming pillow case A pillow case providing the usual slip-over cover for a conventional pillow has, over one of its rectangular areas a strip of fabric, generally a contrasting and warmer material that is stitched to one long edge of the pillow case but is of a width somewh... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420848 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing welded capped wheel nuts A method and apparatus for wheel nut cap welding in which two capped wheel nuts are axially aligned with their capped ends facing one another and spaced apart from one another by a cylindrical electrically conductive ring the opposite ends of which contac... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420849 | Ramp bridging device A ramp bridging device including a pivotable bridge plate and an extensible extension portion. Stop buffers, pivotable between a vertical operative position and an inoperative position beneath the bridge plate, are provided for protecting the plate and th... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420850 | Back washing device A device for back washing and the like including a guide assembly with a front panel having a zigzag slot therethrough comprising a plurality of interconnected, alternating, sloped runs. A traveler assembly is mounted on the guide assembly and is movable ... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420851 | Mechanized tooth brush having movement in two planes An elongated tooth brush handle houses a motor at the bottom of the handle. The motor output shaft is surrounded by an inner magnet which in turn is coupled to an outer magnet. When opposite poles face each other the inner magnet will turn the outer magne... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420852 | Drain cleaning machines An improvement in drain cleaning machines comprising a removable drum containing a length of coiled spring snake in which is inserted a flexible tube for carrying a flow of water to the free end of the snake. The hub of the drum is designed to mount upon ... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420853 | Scrub brush A scrub brush comprising, a housing having a base, a back side, a front side, a pair of opposed sides extending between the back side and front side, and a forward portion extending from the base on the front side at an acute angle relative to the base. T... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420854 | Apparatus for cleaning trays Apparatus for drying trays with side walls such as are used in the food industry comprises a conveyor for passing the trays along a path of travel disposed along which is a drying apparatus for directing jets of air, which may be at ambient temperature, o... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420855 | Set of electrodes for an apparatus for electrically stunning slaughter cattle The invention relates to a set of two electrodes for an apparatus for electrically stunning slaughter cattle, said electrodes extending downwardly and forwardly into the V-shaped passage between two endless conveyors, which electrodes (1) according to the... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420856 | Apparatus for processing stuffed sausage casing An apparatus for forming or separating sausage links is disclosed. The apparatus has a series of pairs of forming arms mounted on a circular plate. The arms are moved into contact with the sausage casing at sequentially spaced points along the length of t... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420857 | Bag fastener A fastener is provided which is useful with a flexible article having a plurality of orifices, such as a conventional laundry bag. The fastener is adapted to be held in one of the orifices and thus carried with the bag for immediate availability. The fast... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420858 | Device for adjusting the length of a band or the like A device for adjusting the length of a band or the like which comprises a first and a second component member. The first component member comprises an annular body having a passage of substantially rectangular cross section for a portion of the band to be... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420859 | Two-part panel fastener A two-part panel fastener comprises a socket member and a stud member. The socket member includes a base, an elongated retaining head supported above one side of the base, a receptacle defining a central bore extending from the opposite side of the base, ... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420860 | Quick disconnect pin assembly A quick disconnect pin assembly is provided with a bushing having an intel bore with an axially extending recess. The disconnect pin, insertable into the bore, has an annular groove in alignment with the recess when the pin is in an inserted position wit... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420861 | Warp beam loading and unloading apparatus for a warping machine In order to pivot lifting forks and press or contact roll arms, there is employed a single cylinder unit acting by means of a piston rod upon a crank arm of a shaft member. Rotation of this shaft member causes, by means of the press roll arms connected ri... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420862 | Apparatus for making slats for a slatted blind Apparatus for making slats for a slatted blind, in which the slat material is fed by a first drive to form a loop from which it is fed on to a discharge table at which the strip material is cut into slats and the holes are punched. The loop causes an adva... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420863 | Cane crushing apparatus A feed roller for a sugar crushing mill said roller having a central shaft from which radially extend a plurality of discs which are co-axially mounted on the shaft, a plurality of teeth formed on each disc, and a plurality of annular spacers co-axial wit... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420864 | Bolt type lock puller A bolt type lock puller for removing jammed bolt type locks from lock housings. This lock puller is necessary to correct situations in which a thief has tried to open a bolt type lock by driving a nail into the keyhole. The lock is usually distorted by th... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420865 | Method for rethreading tubular members The present invention discloses methods and apparatus for rethreading damaged or incorrectly threaded tubular members such as tool joints, casing, and tubing for oil wells, which methods and apparatus are particularly advantageous for use with NC and CNC ... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420866 | Apparatus and process for selectively expanding to join one tube into another tube An apparatus and process for expanding a tube at selective points about its circumference to join with another tube. After a segment of a first tube is inserted into a second tube having an end sleeve segment with a larger diameter and wall thickness than... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420867 | Method of pressure fitting a tube in a tube sheet A tube end received in a bore of a tube sheet is expanded by introducing a mandrel into the tube end and utilizing fluid pressure to bias a pair of sealing rings outwardly to engagement with a tube end, thereby sealing off the clearance between the mandre... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420868 | Trough manufacturing process The disclosure concerns a smooth continuous steel trough, free of longitudinal weld joints except for a flanged frame attached to its open top for supporting a cover grating. This trough is, for example, of the type embedded in the floor of a factory for ... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420869 | Method of manufacturing a thyrister housing A thyristor housing and method of its manufacture in which a gate tube passing through a radially directed bore in a tubular insulator is hermetically sealed by metal closures at each end to prevent accumulation of contaminants inside the gate tube during... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420870 | Method of controlling channel length by implanting through polycrystalline and single crystalline regions followed by diffusion anneal A method for manufacturing semiconductor devices containing at least one MOS field effect transistor (FET) so as to control the effective channel length thereof and prevent channel-shortening. A mask wider than the desired MOS FET channel is formed on the... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420871 | Method of producing a monolithically integrated two-transistor memory cell in accordance with MOS technology A method of producing a monolithically integrated two-transistor memory cell, including a silicon crystal for accommodating the memory cell, a first MOS field effect transistor having a current-carrying channel and both a control gate and a floating gate ... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420872 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit having at least an insulated gate field effect transistor (IGFET). Provided on the silicon surface are successively a gate oxide layer and a doped silicon layer which are patterned by etching by means of a s... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420873 | Optical guided wave devices employing semiconductor-insulator structures A method for fabricating three-dimensional optical waveguides is disclosed. In this method, a single crystal semiconductor layer is grown upon an insulator which has an index of refraction lower than the semiconductor. The semiconductor layer is deposited... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420874 | Method of producing an IIL semiconductor device utilizing self-aligned thickened oxide patterns An I2 L type semiconductor device having an elementary region which is isolated by V-shape grooves from the other portions of the device, said semiconductor device comprising an insulating layer coating covering the surface of the semiconductor... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420875 | Method of mounting and casting a flat rotor An electric motor rotor assembly and method of forming the flat rotor wherein an inner tubular casing and a commutator are molded in a first mold thereby forming between the casing and the commutator a molded resin intermediate section. After the so molde... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420876 | Method of coil assembly for hot melt induction heater apparatus An induction heating coil having fluoroplastic coated polyimide tape wrapped windings for providing a bonded, solid monolithic structure. The induction heating coil includes a cooling fin of predetermined length extending in interleaved relationship betwe... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420877 | Self-masking socket pin carrier for printed circuit boards A carrier supports electrically conductive hollow pins for insertion and soldering in terminal lead-holes passing through the non-conductive substrate of a printed circuit board and formation of an electrical socket in the non-conductive substrate. Each h... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420878 | Insertion head for dip and dip socket components An apparatus having primary and secondary camming surfaces for controlling the opening and closing of guide jaws of an insertion head, such that a greater population density of a circuit board with electronic components is achieved.... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420879 | Device for opening snap-locked housing sections of a cable connector A manually operated device (10) adapted to facilitate the removal of a solderless type flat cable connector (15) from the terminated end of a flat cable (19) and, more particularly, to effect the release and pivotal separation of a first connector housing... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420880 | Device for extracting an in-line array of socket-mounted circuit packages of the dual-in-line-type An extraction device (10) is adapted for removing a linear array of dual-in-line integrated circuit packages (12), referred to herein as DIPs, from a corresponding array of slotted receiving sockets (14), mounted on a test board (16), and for effecting th... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420881 | Method of manufacturing a preform for mineral-insulated electric cable The mineral substance is mixed (2) with an organic binder, a cylindrical structure is extruded (4), said cylindrical structure having at least one internal duct, and being cut (9) to portions of determined length before undergoing (10) heat treatment to c... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4420882 | Method of mounting tilt latch zero insertion force connector to a substrate A connector assembly is disclosed having both the capability of being mass terminated and for effecting zero insertion force mating with conductive holes of a printed circuit board or the like. The subject connector system includes a pair of identical hou... | 12/20/1983 |
