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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4424595 | Boxing glove A thumbless boxing glove is disclosed with a mitt section defined by a soft padded back portion and a palm portion. The back portion and palm portion define an inner cavity for receiving the entire hand of a boxer. A flexible strap is secured within the i... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424596 | Therapeutic stocking structure A therapeutic stocking structure comprising, an elongated belt having a sufficient length to encircle the waist of a wearer, with the belt having a pair of opposed sides for placement over the sides of a wearer's waist. The stocking structure has a stocki... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424597 | Posterior chamber implant lens A posterior chamber implant lens as a replacement for the natural lens surgically removed, in particular extracapsularly, from the eye of a living being of a higher order, with a central lens body and holding means arranged on the lens body, extending rad... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424598 | Multi-mode bath module Bath module includes a shell-like housing defining interiorly a tub/shower facility wherein whirlpool, steam, tanning and mist functions or modes of operation are selectable through actuation of pneumatic controls located therein. The preferred embodiment... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424599 | Cervical pillow A cervical pillow having a shoulder engaging portion, an occiput engaging portion, and a neck engaging portion therebetween. The cervical pillow provides continuous support from the shoulder portion to the occiputal portion of the user.... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424600 | Adjustable firmness mattress pillow top A mattress construction in which the firmness of the top surface is selectively adjustable. A mattress body provides the primary support for a person lying on top thereof. A removable pillow top covers the mattress body, and is removably fastened thereto ... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424601 | Forming and embossing template A forming and embossing template, especially for food products such as cookies, including a forming means having a body portion and peripheral cutting means having a desired configuration extending laterally therefrom, and an embossing means having a desi... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424602 | Car washing apparatus As a car moves along a path through a wash area, it engages a pair of rotating cloth scrubbing wheels. Each wheel depends from a carriage movable along a horizontal boom pivotally mounted at one end upon a standard located at each side of the wash area. E... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424603 | Edging device for a paint tool A paint tool includes a base with at least two sides and a handle secured thereto. An edging device is pivotally and removably mounted on the tool and includes a plate with a slot. At least one position is defined in the slot by an enlargement of the widt... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424604 | Wheel kit for an item of furniture A wheel kit for mobilizing a picnic table and the like, comprising a handle assembly adapted to be attached to a horizontal member for lifting one end of the table and one or two wheel assemblies adapted to be attached to a leg or leg members at the oppos... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424605 | Sliding door track assembly including a track cover and mounting supports A sliding door support assembly having a preassembled track assembly including a split cylindrical elongate track having a flat surface on the top and a number of mounting brackets secured to the flat surface at spaced intervals and a number of support me... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424606 | Hinge for opening and closing a dust cover This invention deals with a hinge for opening or closing a dust cover of record players, which, in order to keep the hinge body from being exposed, to prevent the opened dust cover from excessively projecting rearwardly and to stably sustain the dust cove... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424607 | Symmetrical door hinge A hinge for a door comprises a pair of hinge members, one of which is affd to the door frame while the other is attached to the door panel. The hinge elements are each formed with an attachment flange provided along an edge with a pivot sleeve which is i... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424608 | Automatic poultry breast processing machine and method A poultry processing machine for cutting up poultry carcass sections comprising a breast with back and wings attached wherein the sections are manually positioned onto a conveyor spike and transported past various severing stations the spike being angular... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424609 | Lock for gripping cords or the like A device for retaining a cord or other elongated flexible element against relative longitudinal movement including a first member to which an actuating member is mounted for relative pivotal movement between locking and released positions, and a locking m... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424610 | Object-simulating belt buckle A belt buckle comprising a body adapted to be connected to a belt for wearing on a user and having a structure which simulates a known object having a movable component, for example an automobile, bell or animal such as a bird. An element is movably conne... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424611 | Buckle for watch bands A buckle for watch bands comprising three folding members. The members are a clasping member connected to an end of one of the watch bands, a middle plate rotatably connected to the clasping member at one end thereof, and a bottom plate rotatably connecte... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424612 | Fastening plate for securing a snap pin to an automobile door panel A fastening plate for securing door-panel snap pins to an automobile's body to fix the interior panel to the automobile door. The fastening plate includes an aperture for slideably receiving a snap pin and a resilient rest plate positioned under the apert... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424613 | Apparatus for brushing pile fabric Method and apparatus for brushing the pile of a pile fabric and removing wrinkles in a running web of the material by the use of rotating members on the selvedges of the fabric in conjunction with vacuum pressure to urge the selvedges outward and to sligh... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424614 | Apparatus for threading up a rapidly travelling thread in a texturizing nozzle A process for introducing one or more threads into a texturizing nozzle, in which the texturizing nozzle, together with the inlet member, is first brought into a position in which the thread is led transversely past and in the immediate vicinity of the te... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424615 | Capacitor and method of manufacturing the same An improved capacitor and a method of manufacturing the same, aimed at implementation in small size and/or with large capacitance, are disclosed. A pair of composite structures are formed. Each composite structure includes insulating layers of ceramic mat... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424616 | Conditioning line for steel pipes A conditioning line for steel pipes in which steel pipes are transversely transferred to effect the end processing thread cutting, thread inspection, hydrostatic testing, etc., on the steel pipes. With a view to increasing the efficiency of the conditioni... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424617 | Method and apparatus for boxing and encapsulating electrical devices Plate-like carriers (51) having box-receiving slots (54) formed along one edge and rack teeth (58) formed along an opposite edge are fed from a stack (52) and along a trackway (53) where a pair of cog devices (59 and 61) are cyclically operated on fast an... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424618 | Assembly of straight duct and transitions A method for formation of duct from preformed pieces. A number of ductwork pieces are formed out of sheet material, the pieces having edge configurations adapted to interlock with each other to form a seam of a completed duct. The individual pieces are fe... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424619 | Positive drive system A positive drive system including a coined drive cable (26) having a plurality of regularly spaced nodules (29) rigidly attached along at least a portion of its length, and one or more positive drive sheaves (20, 22, 23, 24) configured to receive the cabl... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424620 | Method of machining a knuckle casting A knuckle casting for a railroad coupler is carried by a conveyor to successively-disposed stations. At a first station, the knuckle casting is positioned relative to reaming tools at opposite sides of the conveyor. Position control arms carry conical mem... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424621 | Method to fabricate stud structure for self-aligned metallization A self-aligned metal process is described which achieves self-aligned metal silicon contacts and micron-to-submicron contact-to-contact and metal-to-metal spacing by use of the pattern of dielectric material having a thickness in the order of a micron or ... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424622 | Method of making integral corrosion resistant manifold This invention relates to an improved integral manifold for a sprue gated multi-cavity injection molding system and a method of manufacturing the same. The manifold has an inner body portion which fits into a hollow retaining ring portion to define a circ... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424623 | Apparatus for ladder constructions This invention relates to a method of forming a step to stile joint in a ladder which does not utilize mechanical fastenings such as rivets and the like. According to this invention, the step is provided with integral hollow sections extending therealong ... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424624 | Multiple coil heat exchanger A compact multiple coil heat exchanger having a high heat transfer density is provided to include at least an inner coil formed from a continuous tube into a plurality of contiguous turns about a common axis in a spiral arrangement and having a pitch in o... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424625 | Connector removal tool A removal tool for removing strip electrical connectors held in place by friction contact with electrical interconnection ends associated therewith is described. A pair of spaced apart wall members have inclined plane members associated therewith for enga... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424626 | Anchoring device and method for securing a capacitor to a printed circuit board An anchoring device for securing a capacitor body to a printed circuit board provides a circumferential band for encircling the capacitor body, the band including a crimpable section for reducing the circumference of the band and for applying compression ... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424627 | Wiring harness construction means and method Means and method are provided for conveniently breaking out wires from a wire bundle in a wiring harness during the fabrication or layout stage, there being a wrapper having two parallel rows of holes punched therein and a specially designed comb having t... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424628 | Shaving apparatus A shaving apparatus comprising a shear plate and an associated reciprocatory cutting member is provided with cutting elements each of which is constituted by a filamentary cutter positioned along the outer edge of a lamelliform support.... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424629 | Apparatus for cutting tubes and the like An apparatus for cutting a pipe includes a housing member comprising a cutter body member having a collar. The cutter body member is configured at one end for insertion into a portion of the pipe to be cut. A piston chamber within the cutter body member i... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424630 | Apparatus for measuring the dimensions of delicate parts A measuring gauge, suitable for measuring the plastic record caddy for a video disc, uses a transducer and a driver assembly. The transducer includes a plunger which will trigger a detector if a force of less than one gram is applied thereto. The transduc... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424631 | Electrical compass A magnetic field detecting system for use with a flux-gate sensor includes an oscillator, the output of which is applied to a digital bandpass filter and frequency divided and also applied to the sensor, and phase detectors such that the frequency and pha... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424632 | Synthetic resin pellet dehydrating apparatus An apparatus for dehydrating synthetic resin pellets comprising a plurality of interconnected truncated conically shaped dehydrating screens disposed vertically with their smaller diameters being uppermost, whereat wet pellets are forcibly directed so tha... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424633 | Apparatus for heating and drying articles Apparatus for heating and drying articles including an evacuable drying chamber for heating therein articles by condensation heat of the vapor of a first liquid supplied to the drying chamber, a vacuum pump for evacuating the boiler, a first vapor condens... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4424634 | Modular column dryer for particulate material A modular column dryer for particulate material including a housing with a removable module supported in the housing. The removable module includes at least one support member and a first pair of generally vertical side panels having perforations therein.... | 01/10/1984 |
