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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4426739 | Baiting sleeves for ice fishing A pair of sleeve extenders for ice fishermen; each of which includes a length of transparent, flexible plastic material, having an elastic tape sewn around one end edge of the tubing.... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426740 | Water-proof garment horizontally foldable There is disclosed a water-proof garment which is horizontally foldable to form a belt-like member to be worn around the waist when not in use.... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426741 | Intraocular lens with rotatable appendage An intraocular lens having an optical portion with at least one appendage associated with the same. The appendage includes a first portion and a connected second portion. The first portion of the appendage rotates in relation to the optical portion upon t... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426742 | Breast prosthesis Breast prosthesis of an elastic plastic, in particular of silicone rubber composition, having a breast molding corresponding to the female breast and having a contact area adapted to the human body form, which carries an adhesive composition for attachmen... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426743 | Toilet seat lifting device An operator-controlled, toilet-seat lifting device applies a constant bias force, for example, by means of a helical spring, to the seat in a direction tending to raise the seat. The weight of the seat is sufficient to overcome the constant bias force so ... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426744 | Combination of an outdoor swimming pool and adjustable roof structure This invention relates to the combination of an outdoor swimming pool and adjustable roof structure mounted so as to extend over the pool and a patio adjacent to the pool. When the roof structure is in a raised position, the pool may be used by bathers, p... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426745 | Ablutionary shower systems An automatic drain-off valve for an ablutionary shower system is provided at the lowest point of the supply pipe at or from the shower control or mixing valve to the shower spray head. The drain valve (30) comprises a body (1) having a chamber (7) in whic... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426746 | Method and device for sealing a high pressure steamer A method of and device for sealing a high pressure steamer for the continuous wet heat treatment of a cloth utilizes a steamer body provided with a seal mechanism consisting of a pair of seal rubber rolls located at the cloth inlet and the cloth outlet th... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426747 | Wheel rim buffer A polishing machine for wheel rims including a power driven wire brush or buffer mounted so as to be slidably movable axially of the shaft driving the brush. The wheel and rim are separately driven and are mounted so that it can be swiveled so as to tilt ... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426748 | Motorcycle for cleaning the ground The motorcycle comprises a support rigid with the frame of the motorcycle and at least one cleaning device which is mounted on the support to move between a cleaning position in which it is in contact with the ground and withdrawn position. The cleaning d... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426749 | Torch tip bore cleaning tool A tool for cleaning the outlet ports of a welding torch tip having a cylindrical wire helix which can be extended from and retracted into a housing with the helix power driven in rotation about its longitudinal axis, the helix being compressible in diamet... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426750 | Combined rewind foot/tape cleaner Combined magnetic tape cleaner and rewind foot for cleaning foreign material from the oxide side of the tape during read/write operation and for lifting the tape away from the read/write head during rapid rewind. In the read/write mode, the cleaning scree... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426751 | Vacuum cleaner nozzle with double brush A vacuum cleaner nozzle having a front suction inlet and a suction passage. A first brush is rotatably mounted to the nozzle at the suction inlet, and a second brush is rotatably mounted to the nozzle adjacent the first brush at the suction inlet. A first... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426752 | Rotor movement damping device A rotary damping device has a shaft provided at one end with a rotor and the shaft also has a damping portion extending radially. The shaft is rotatably housed and accommodation spaces in the device are filled with oil. Located near to the opening of the ... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426753 | Apparatus for opening and cleaning cotton waste An apparatus for opening and cleaning fiber tufts, includes an opening roll, a feeding mechanism for advancing the fiber tufts to the opening roll; a screen disposed along one part of the circumferential surface of the opening roll and located downstream ... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426754 | Clamp for multiple electrical cables A clamp for multiple electrical cables has a band of a hard but resilient plastic material which encloses a number of electrical cables and the ends of the band are connected by a one-piece locking member. The ends of the band each have spaced lateral fla... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426755 | Quick release girth band A quick release mechanism for a girth band having a plurality of coupling portions with high lead angle threaded surfaces that engage and automatically unscrew when tension is applied to the girth band unless an arm disposed on one of the coupling portion... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426756 | Shoelace knot retainer An improved shoelace knot retainer has a protective shoulder surrounding a bell which prevents the bell from becoming detached by the application of an external force, such as that caused by a child's crawling on the floor, by a child's chewing on the bel... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426757 | Web guide roller for use at high speeds and process for producing the same The invention relates to a web guide roller for a web which is required to be moved at a high speed, having cavities arranged on its surface for receiving the air carried with the moving web, whereby a finely branched network of compression chambers is ar... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426758 | Seal puller A seal puller pulls an annular seal from the interior of a cylindrical housing. The seal puller includes a hollow elongated externally threaded support rod and an elongated externally threaded adjustment rod passing through the hollow interior of the supp... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426759 | Process for the repeated fabrication of a structure Wooden structures are assembled from a plurality of wooden elements with interposed metallic connectors, by assembling the wooden elements on a work table provided with a rectangular grid. The image of the structure to be assembled, with a superposed grid... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426760 | Method of covering surfaces with tensile sheet materials A device and method for holding tensile sheet materials to cover surfaces is disclosed. The device comprises a pair of parallel tracks adapted to be mounted on the surface to be covered with each track having at least one longitudinal slot. The slot has a... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426761 | Pipe clamp and method of clamping A pipe clamp for securing together the annular overlap of a pair of assembled and engaging pipes comprises a ring body snugly and concentrically overlying said pipes and contracted or swaged thereon. The ring body is mechanically interlocked with the oute... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426762 | Method for selectively obturating at least one end of a structural module A method for selectively obturating at least one end of a structural module provided with rows of parallel ducts for the passage of at least two different fluids, said method comprising the steps of forming notches in those portions of the module end corr... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426763 | Tool changer A tool changer for a milling machine comprising a tool store, twin claw tool changer and microprocessor controller. Tool hangers in the tool store are mounted to an orbiting chain. The chain is driven by a servomotor to advance a tool hanger to the ready ... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426764 | Semiconductor memory device with peripheral circuits A semiconductor memory device and a method of manufacturing the device wherein a field insulation is formed in a surface of a semiconductor body except for the source, drain and channel regions, a first floating gate is self-aligned to the channel region,... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426765 | Process for fabrication of ohmic contacts in compound semiconductor devices A process and related product in which ohmic contacts are formed in semiconductor devices employing compound substrates such as gallium arsenide. In the disclosed embodiment, a germanium layer (18) is deposited in those areas (14) in which ohmic contact i... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426766 | Method of fabricating high density high breakdown voltage CMOS devices A process of fabricating high density CMOS integrated circuits having conductively interconnected wells. The conductive interconnection is provided by a buried conductor formed in combination with channel stops encircling each of the wells and prior to th... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426767 | Selective epitaxial etch planar processing for gallium arsenide semiconductors A method of fabricating gallium arsenide circuits or devices in which source and drain contact areas are deposited using vapor phase epitaxy techniques through holes in a refractory mask. Selected areas of a refractory mask are etched away to expose a reg... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426768 | Ultra-thin microelectronic pressure sensors A plurality of thin pressure sensors are made by processing a first large wafer (20, 110) to provide a plurality of electronic devices (28, 122, 124, 125) having a characteristic which varies inversely with strain, and processing a second wafer (40) to pr... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426769 | Moisture getter for integrated circuit packages A moisture getter, which is a material capable of absorbing moisture, is painted within the cap of an integrated circuit package prior to sealing. The package is then heated to the high sealing temperature necessary to provide sealing without affecting th... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426770 | Method of assembling a switch and terminal assembly and mounting it to a dynamoelectric machine A method of assembling a switch and terminal assembly and mounting it to a dynamoelectric machine. In this method, a grounding device is associated with an enclosed casing from exteriorly thereof so as to expose a ground connection section of the groundin... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426771 | Method of fabricating a stator for a multiple-pole dynamoelectric machine A stator assembly for a multiple-pole (e.g., an 18 pole) induction motor is disclosed having a main winding and an auxiliary winding with the main and auxiliary windings each having a first and a second coil set, each of these coil sets having multiple co... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426772 | Apparatus for installing terminals on wires and insulation pods on terminals Apparatus to automatically attach a terminal to electrical wire and thereafter to install insulating pods on the terminal. The apparatus includes a press which attaches the terminal to form a terminated wire and a transfer block which moves the terminated... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426773 | Array of electronic packaging substrates An array of electronic packaging substrates in horizontal and vertical rows in which each substrate has a plurality of internal and external terminals that are electrically interconnected is described. The array has (a) lines of separation along which the... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426774 | Process for producing a circuit module Circuit module (10) having a row of connector pins (21) and being approximately 4 mm. thick or less, and including an electrical circuit (22) connected to the connector pins (21). In prior art designs, it has not been possible to utilize a large substrate... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426775 | Method for the production of conductor tracks applied to a support A method of producing conductor tracks applied to a support, particularly conductor tracks applied on an electrode support of a liquid-crystal display, in which a mask having cutouts corresponding to the conductor tracks is placed on the support and a con... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426776 | Electric shaver An electric shaver with a trimmer is disclosed in which a single flexible seal is used to protect the motor and electric parts from water and other material entering through the perforated comb or the trimmer.... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426777 | Electric dry shaver An electric dry shaver having a movable long hair clipper which is slidable from a retracted position within the shaver housing to an extended position in which the clipping teeth of the clipper are exposed. The clipper includes a relatively fixed blade o... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4426778 | Device for stripping wire and cable A device is provided which is useful in stripping wires and cables having a non-uniform outer contour. A single point knife blade is mounted on a lever arm adjacent an adjustable cam. The knife assembly is mounted on an elongated tool body having an axial... | 01/24/1984 |
