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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4428079 | Protective transparent face and neck shield A face and neck protective shield for protection against waving lotion, neutralizer or any other treatment used on the head with the shield generally put on the user's head after the hair is rolled for a permanent prior to application of waving lotion. Th... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428080 | Slacks The invention relates to a slacks comprising one or more pockets and a plurality of belt loops attached to the slacks at the height of the waist band. According to the invention the pocket opening of at least one pocket is arranged in the waist band in su... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428081 | Goggle with a renewable protective surface Apparatus for providing a removable surface for protecting the lens of a viewing device such as a goggle. The apparatus includes a supply magazine for holding a protective film and a take-up magazine for receiving and holding spent film. The magazines are... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428082 | Breast prosthesis with filling valve A newly developed breast prosthesis overcomes the tightness and contracture of the fibrous capsule which forms around the existing prostheses. This prosthesis is constructed with an outer temporary component and an inner permanent component. The inner com... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428083 | Automatic lavatory seat An automatic lavatory seat comprises a mounting seat secured to the lavatory pan, a lavatory seat connected with said mounting seat by means of a pivot pin, a coil spring around said pivot pin for raising said lavatory seat, a plunger secured at one of tw... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428084 | Water control device for flush toilet This invention relates to a "Water Control Device for Flush Toilet". The water may be flushed in several phases thru the control means, which comprises a hydraulic control assembly, the actuation between the main axle and the actuating axle, a lever, and ... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428085 | Self-cleaning building construction A self-cleaning building construction comprises apparatus for applying a fine spray or mist of water and/or water and detergent to wall, floor and ceiling surfaces, followed by warm air drying. Floors slope in a direction for removing excess moisture via ... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428086 | Bed support side rail member A knock-down side rail member for support of a box spring and mattress set. The side rail member includes a pair of side rail sections which are secured together by a connecting bracket. The horizontal surfaces of the side rail sections and the connecting... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428087 | Therapeutical air mattress A therapeutic air mattress for attending patients consists of an inflatable hollow body provided with a pair of symmetrically arranged longitudinal air tubes which form an inflatable single chamber system and which almost adjoin one another in a head regi... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428088 | Automatic liquid level control for automatic washers An automatic liquid level control is provided for an automatic washing machine which measures the volume of liquid required to be added to the tub to increase the liquid level in the tub by a predetermined increment. The measured amount is compared to a r... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428089 | Footwear and forming methods therefor A method of forming an article of footwear to fit a predetermined foot is provided by modifying the shape of such an article in which the foot is readily engageable by in-situ formation of a resilient foam moulding in the free space between the article an... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428090 | Pallet scraper A pallet cleaning device used to clean pallets moved from a pallet magazine or supply hopper to the molding section of a concrete block molding machine includes a frame for mounting the pallet cleaning device directly in front of the pallet magazine of th... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428091 | Toothbrush The disclosure is directed to a novel and improved toothbrush construction which provides not only effective brushing action on the teeth, but also imparts a gentle yet highly effective massaging action to the gums as well as the dental underpinnings. The... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428092 | Electrical terminal pin conditioning apparatus Apparatus (16) for cleaning or lubricating inaccessible pin arrays of an electrical interconnection backplane (10). A connector block (18) with contacts removed is mounted on the end of a dummy circuit board (17). The connector block (18) is slotted acros... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428093 | Spacer for pivotally connecting wiper blade parts A two part pivot connection is provided between the articulated members of an assembly, such as between two relatively movable members of a windshield wiper blade. One part of the connection is mounted on one member with the second part of the connection ... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428094 | Hinge elements for spectacles comprising a friction ring The invention relates to an improvement in hinge elements for spectacles, constituted by three elements, of which the first two elements, respectively fast with the front of the spectacle frame and with one of the sides thereof, comprise a male tenon elem... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428095 | Safety device of a hinge A safety device for a photocopy machine implemented by inserting a core bar rotatably into a fixed member, while the core bar rotatably supports a rotation member. A spiral spring is secured between the core bar and the rotation member, preventing the rot... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428096 | Hold-open mechanism for refrigerated display cabinet having cooperating spring and lobed plate A hold-open mechanism is disclosed which is particularly suitable for use on a self-closing door assembly for a refrigerated display cabinet. The hold-open mechanism includes a stop plate carried by the hinged door, and a hold-open spring mounted on the d... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428097 | Process and apparatus for stopping draw frames and the like Disclosed is a process and apparatus for stopping the drawing action of a draw frame whenever sliver breaks. The sliver is pneumatically conveyed into the field of influence of a sensor which generates a signal indicating the presence of the broken sliver... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428098 | Bag clamp A closure device adapted for clamping a flexible bag has a pair of hinged jaws including slideably mounted extension pieces adjustably retained in pre-selected positions of extension. The jaws are movable between a closed position to grip a bag and an ope... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428099 | Tensioning apparatus The invention relates to a tensioning apparatus for tensioning a flexible member, such as a strap (11, 62) or a panel (P) and wherein the flexible member (11, 62, P) presents a rigid element (13) at or near its free end or edge, the rigid insert (13) is l... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428100 | Flip top automatic deadend An anchoring device for a conductor including an elongated main body which has a recess that has a gripping jaw slideably supported therein. A cover having a corresponding recess and a corresponding jaw in the recess. The cover is pivotally supported on t... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428101 | Fastening device A fastener incorporating a lace and a gripper. The gripper has a patch of a fastener material such as Velcro.RTM.. Areas of complementary fastener material are provided on the lace adjacent the ends thereof. When the lace is engaged with a lace-up article... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428102 | Quick release device A quick release device comprising two members which may be releasably engaged to transmit a tensile force. Each of the members has a load-connection end and an engagement end. The engagement end of the members comprises two flat, elongate branches, with e... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428103 | Lock for a safety belt Lock for a safety belt, with a belt lock into which an insertion tab can be inserted and latched by a latching bolt and where the latching bolt can be moved from the locking position into the opening position transversely to the insertion path against the... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428104 | Ground clamp A ground clamp for making an electrical connection between a wire and a metal pipe. A metal saddle having a central plate, opposed down turned sides defining a pipe engaging channel, and opposed up turned ends with openings for receiving a wire, with the ... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428105 | Bearing staking tool and method A C-shaped member having a threaded aperture formed through one end and a smooth surface aperture formed through the other end. A threaded rod extends through the threaded aperture with the threads of the rod mating relationship with the threads in the th... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428106 | Method of making double wall tubing assembly Improved double wall tubing assembly which is especially useful in heat exchangers of the "coil-in-can" type for solar applications has a double wall construction which insures that a leak developing from a failure in either of the walls will not result i... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428107 | Process for filling with a hardenable filler gaps where corrosive attack can occur in tube and fin heat exchangers To fill up the ring-shaped gaps between the tubes and fins of a tube and fin type heat exchanger with a corrosion protective hardenable filler, a unit made up of two closing pieces with filler material between them is pushed by means of the tube to be ins... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428108 | Method of forming encapsulated depleted uranium oil field tubular member The present invention describes an encapsulated depleted uranium metal oil field tubular member. The member includes a tubular shell containing bodies of a depleted uranium metal. Substantially all of the volume within the shell not occupied by the bodies... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428109 | Lathe A lathe having a longitudinal slide, a longitudinal guide for said slide, a tool magazine and an automatic tool changer, the tool changer being arranged on the slide and the tool magazine having a number of tool storage holders arranged in rows along the ... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428110 | Method of making an array of series connected solar cells on a single substrate A method of making a series connected array of amorphous silicon solar cells on a single substrate includes forming a plurality of spaced conductive lower electrodes on the substrate. Metal electrode stripes are applied on each of the lower electrodes. A ... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428111 | Microwave transistor A process for fabricating a high speed bipolar transistor is described wherein the collector, base and emitter layers are first grown using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). A mesa etch is performed to isolate a base-emitter region, and a contact layer is gro... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428112 | Coil inserter A coil inserter including a plurality of tooling devices for inserting a coil and a plurality of wedges into each slot of an iron core, an actuator for driving the tooling devices and which is detachably connected to said tooling device, a tool stocker fo... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428113 | Apparatus for connecting the ends of stator windings to the stator supply terminals Apparatus for connecting the ends of stator windings to stator supply terminals comprises a stator holding device which holds a wound stator with each winding end held by a holding element and an insertion and clamping device which is displaceable toward ... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428114 | Modular harness making method and apparatus A method and apparatus for making modular electrical harnesses in which, in a first operating zone, a leading end of a wire extending from a wire supply is terminated in a preselected terminal of a row of terminals in a first connector part further wire i... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428115 | Cable preconnectorization method An apparatus and method are described for preconnectorization of the ends of a cable for pulling through a standard diameter duct. The apparatus utilizes a connector consisting of three major parts: first and second wire organizers and a contact element m... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428116 | Support for releasably retaining a blade cartridge A shaving instrument including an elongated support terminating in a yoke with an attached slide cooperating with the support to facilitate receiving and retaining a blade cartridge in pivotal and releasable fashion in the yoke.... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428117 | Reciprocating type electric shaver A reciprocating type electric shaver comprises an inner-blade mount holding many inner blades and connected to a first driver-element converting rotary motion of a motor into reciprocating motions and an outer blade connected to a second driver-element re... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4428118 | Pipe parting apparatus An apparatus for parting pipe has two shearing members bearing against each other and mutually movable along a cutting plane and with holes for the pipe which form exterior shearing edges. The pipe bore is supported by a mandrel divided into two sections ... | 01/31/1984 |
