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A self-righting hand-arm configuration which is adapted to pivot when struck by a user, thereby simulating a "high five."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4434511 | Hospital gown A gown for use by hospital patients and the like wherein the beginning and ending end edges are located at the front and side of the patient. A separable shoulder portion is provided for that side of the gown by upper edges adjacent both end edges overlap... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434512 | Stayless shirt collar A shirt collar is described which eliminates the need for stays, but yet lies flat and maintains a crisp and neat appearance with time. The disclosed collar includes a flexible lining material characterized in that it is relatively stiff in the transverse... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434513 | Infant head protector A roll extends around the upper end and along each side of an infant's back. The panel continues beyond the roll as a flap on which the infant sits. The roll is formed by an outer layer enclosing a resilient but compressible material and preferably has a ... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434514 | Bicyclists helmet with air flow and perspiration control A bicyclist's helmet comprises: (a) an outer shell containing distributed openings through which air streams may enter the helmet, (b) a liner in said outer shell and supporting same adjacent such openings, (c) the liner forming left and right air flow channels com... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434515 | Intraocular lens The invention contemplates haptic construction for support of a finished intraocular lens element, wherein the haptic has plural radially outward stabilizing-leg formations, which incorporate a feature of radial adaptability in terms of the anterior-chamb... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434516 | Wall sleeve and installation jig for multiple adjacent fixture mounting A wall sleeve and installation jig for the vandal-resistant mounting of multiple adjacent fixtures. The jig is positioned in a wall such as the wall of a prison cell and fixtures such as a lavatory, mirror, light or the like are securely mounted thereon.... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434517 | Invalid's bathtub A bathtub especially for use on a bed and comprising a flexible liner, one rigid support frame for each of two side walls, frame holding means for each side wall, and a support beam between each side wall to hold said frames upright and spaced apart such ... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434518 | Sport shoes A sport shoe in which the shoe sole is bonded to an insert layer during the formation of the shoe sole by injection-molding and the assembly of the shoe sole and the insert layer is secured to the shoe upper by an adhesive applied between the insert layer... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434519 | Apparatus for cleaning submerged surfaces This invention relates to apparatus for cleaning submerged surfaces and particularly the surface of swimming pool walls and floors. The apparatus has a cleaning head comprising a shaft carrying a rotateable turbine in a housing. The apparatus has means as... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434520 | Eyeglass wiping device An apparatus for wiping lenses or the like to clean them includes a wiping means for wiping a lens and a support means for supporting the wiping means in operative relation. Adhesive means may be used to attach the wiping means to the support means. Respe... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434521 | Applicator for applying a coating to a surface Coating compositions can be applied to substrates to produce a novelty finish by the use of a coating applicator having a mat of sized glass fibers and/or strands in contact with the coating. The novelty finish achieved with the glass fiber strand coating... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434522 | Knife scraper for drums, particularly the drums of a cylinder mill A knife scraper for rotating drums, particularly for the drums of a cylinder mill, which exhibits a knife beam (5) in which the knife (3) is mounted as well as a counterweight (12) for pressing the knife (3) on the associated drum (1, 1'). In order to mak... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434523 | Door hinge for furniture doors or the like A semi-concealed hinge has been provided for mounting a door in a relatively close adjustable operating relation with a furniture side rail or frame. A socket part is adapted to be substantially fully positioned within a backwardly and edgewise open slot ... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434524 | Magnetic door hardware Magnetic door hardware for closing swinging doors. Two magnets are axially aligned with the door post, and the magnetic fields of the magnets are aligned so as to produce a radial torque when the door is swung open. One magnet is attached to the door post... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434525 | Hinge having open curved portions A hinge having first and second elongated hinge members. The two hinge members rotate one within the other between open and closed positions. The hinge members are constructed to avoid any longitudinal gaps between the hinge members in either the open or ... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434526 | Device for separating and processing the gizzards of slaughtered poultry A device for separating the gizzard from the connected entrails of slaughtered poultry comprising an inlet, two oblong cylindrical parallel rotating transport elements and a gizzard separating device, the first element with a helical transport ribbon alon... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434527 | Sausage skin storage and feeder apparatus for a sausage stuffing machine A sausage skin storage and feeder apparatus comprises a storage container for storing a plurality of layers of shirred sausage casings, an upwardly sloping bottom wall in said container, a conveyor disposed along the bottom wall for transporting the botto... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434528 | Process and apparatus for making partially filled air-free sausage casings When sausage casings closed at one end are filled and closed on a combined filling and closing machine in the making of sausages which in their final shape have a non-circular cross-section, the sausage casings are filled to less than their entire volumet... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434529 | Sausage diameter monitoring apparatus and method A method and apparatus are disclosed for monitoring the diameter of sausages and providing a visual display of the diameters. A sausage contact means is mounted along a conveyor which carries the sausages from the stuffing apparatus. The sausage contact m... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434530 | Process for the production of highly shrinkable split tows of acrylonitrile polymers High-shrinkage stretch-broken tows of acrylonitrile polymers are obtained by fixing with saturated steam at maximum temperatures of 140° C. after drawing and before stretch breaking and stretch breaking at a draft of at least 30%.... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434531 | Apparatus for controlling the working conditions in a processing machine of the staple fiber spinning plant An apparatus for controlling the working conditions between two rotating cylinders equipped with a point clothing wherein complete elimination of the disturbing influences of the centrifugal force and the increase in temperature of the cylinders onto the ... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434532 | Apparatus and method for depositing textile fiber sliver The textile fiber sliver is deposited in cans in the form of cycloid-type loops. During deposition, the sliver is delivered via a rotating funnel gear wheel into a rotating can. In addition, the mutual distance between the axes of rotation of the gear whe... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434533 | High draft apparatus for worsted spinning process A high draft apparatus for use in the worsted spinning process. At the gilling or bobinoir step of the worsted spinning process, a porcupine roller and a middle roller are disposed between a front roller and a back roller to prevent an occurrence of uneve... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434534 | Holding-down and clamping device for shackle mechanisms A clamping device for shackle mechanisms which can also be used as a tear-open safeguard and as a sheet turner consists of a flat body (8) with two L-shaped apertures (9,9'), one leg (10,10') of each aperture (9,9') extending parallel to the plane of the ... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434535 | Clothes peg The invention provides a clothes peg, preferably a one-piece moulding of plastics material, comprising a pair of limbs extending from a shoulder region. The limbs converge but spread to parallel condition when pushed over the clothes line, and the resilie... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434536 | Locking snap hook A positively locking snap utilizing a conventionally shaped snap hook having a normally open hook end portion which is opened and closed to receive and discharge a line or other fixture by movement of a U-shaped spring biased closure pivotally connected t... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434537 | Integral latching mechanism for module front plate A latching mechanism for latching the front plate of a circuit board module to the circuit board module rack effected by merely inserting the module in the rack. The mechanism includes a resilient tab having a prong with a tapered head. The prong mates wi... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434538 | Bottom stop applying and gapping apparatus for a slide fastener chain An apparatus is disclosed for applying bottom end stops to a slide fastener chain and simultaneously gapping the chain at predetermined intervals. The apparatus includes a means for positioning and holding a group of fastener elements on the chain, said m... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434539 | Method of manufacturing a heat exchanger A heat exchanger including a first piece of heat conductive tubing wound in helical configuration defining a plurality of first helical flights having an outboard portion thereon and a second piece of heat conductive tubing wound in a helical configuratio... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434540 | Process for repairing or modifying refractory plates of ladle casting cassettes Techniques are disclosed for renovating sliding gate valve plates or for adapting conventional plates for use with problem-beset metals. Stationary plates (1) have their orifices (2) bored out to downwardly-tapering form and correspondingly tapered prefab... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434541 | Electromagnetic shielding Electromagnetic energy shielding material in forms such as form stable gaskets, caulking compounds, coatings, adhesives, etc., the material being composed of a plastic binder and electrically conductive particles having an aluminum core, a first metallic ... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434542 | Tool for electrically connecting insulated wires The invention relates to a tool for the wiring of terminal elements which permits a plurality of separate operations such as connecting and withdrawing of a wire to and from a terminal element, respectively, and severing of the wire, to be carried out, an... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434543 | Process for producing adjacent tubs implanted with dopant ions in the manufacture of LSI complementary MOS field effect transistors The invention provides a method for manufacturing adjacent tubs implanted with dopant material ions in the manufacture of LSI complementary MOS field effect transistor circuits (CMOS circuits), and also provides a method sequence for a CMOS process adapte... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434544 | Multilayer circuit and process for manufacturing the same A multilayer circuit construction includes a conductive layer formed of an alloy of a noble metal and a small amount of a base metal disposed on a heat resistant insulating substrate. The portion of the substrate not covered with the conductive alloy is c... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434545 | Method for assembling dynamoelectric machine end shield parts Methods, apparatus, and systems are provided for automatically assembling end shield assemblies of subassemblies for electric motors. In a preferred form, a system and methods are provided that utilize a non-palletized, non-synchronous concept to convey e... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434546 | Method of making a core A method of making a core adapted to be used in a dynamoelectric machine. The core has a plurality of slots extending therethrough defining a plurality of first pole sections interposed between adjacent ones of a plurality of integrally interconnected sec... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434547 | Process for the manufacture and adjustment of a Josephson effect magnetic flux pick-up The invention relates to a process for the manufacture and adjustment of a Josephson effect magnetic flux pick-up. This process comprises depositing a thin, uniform layer (1) of a superconducting material on a cylindrical insulating bar (2) having an axis... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434548 | Method of manufacturing plug-in electrical fuses A plug-in electrical fuse comprises a fusible wire (9) disposed within an insulating housing (1) and connected between the ends of two blade-like terminals (4) secured within and projecting from the housing. Fuses of this type are manufactured by forming ... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434549 | Method of making an improved pyroelectric sensor An improved, selective, radiation sensing device is provided which includes a thin strip of pyroelectric material. One side of the material is coated with a continuous layer of metallic material to form an electrode while the opposite side is coated with ... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4434550 | Method and apparatus for insertion of electrical components into a circuit board To increase the packing density of elements inserted into a printed circuit (PC) board 2, by placing such elements (3; 12, 13) close together without regard to the size or width of an insertion gripper (16) holding the element (3) to be inserted, a vertic... | 03/06/1984 |