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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4445231 | Bib having gravitationally openable pocket A bib, preferably disposable, having a top panel, a full-width pocket having side seams, and an apron panel which pendulously depends from the transverse upper edge of the front wall of the pocket (i.e., a pocket panel) so that the weight of the apron pan... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445232 | Welders glove A welders glove is constructed of deer skin with the stretch axis of the skin forming the palm and back of the hand and fingers oriented to extend transverse to the axis of the hand and with the cuff portion of the glove oriented to extend longitudinally ... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445233 | Hosiery with included pocket A sock having a pocket supported inside its leg portion. A first vertical slit opening in the sock provides access to the pocket within the sock and that opening is closed by a zipper. The pocket has a corresponding slit opening in one wall and the margin... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445234 | Prosthetic nail for surgical attachment to a finger or toe A prosthetic nail that is intended as a replacement or substitute for an injured or diseased nail for the digits on a hand or foot. Each embodiment of the invention generally consists of three main components: (1) a generally smooth and slightly curved pl... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445235 | Stool specimen collector A stool specimen collector for collecting a medical patient's feces for laboratory examination and test, the collector having a subtantially impervious receptacle with a pair of side straps having an adhesive surface portion for contact adhesion to the to... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445236 | Push-through pump This invention appertains to plumber's tools for unplugging stoppages in pipes or stacks and comprises a vacuum cup at one end of a handle and a reversible selectively operable pump which is mounted to operate through the cup. The parts of the mechanism a... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445237 | Close coupled water-closet combination and adapter This invention relates to an adapter for coupling a toilet bowl, such as residential toilet bowl, to a flush device that is generally utilized in a commercial close coupled water-closet combination. The adapter includes a substrate having a hole therethro... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445238 | Swimming pool water level control apparatus Swimming pool water level control apparatus includes a remote indicator for sensing the water level in a swimming pool and for turning on and off a water flow control valve to provide water for the swimming pool.... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445239 | Suspended shower-tub doors with upper stabilizing means An upper horizontal rail structure is stationarily supported in elevated position above the upper marginal edge of the outer wall of the lower tub portion of a shower-tub area and defines three laterally spaced depending inner, outer and intermediate flan... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445240 | Liquid filled compartmented cushion There is disclosed a cushion of flexible plastic sheet material adapted to be filled with water or other liquid wherein the interior space is divided into at least two compartments, one of which is annular, the shape being particularly adapted to provide ... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445241 | Cover for pillows, mattresses and the like An air tight and fluid tight cover for padded bodies, mattresses and the like. The cover has a top, a bottom and a plurality of side parts. At least one opening provides ventilation between the interior of the cover and the ambient atmosphere. At least tw... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445242 | Absorbent pad holder A holder for an absorbent pad used to protect seat cushions or the like from body fluids. The holder includes a cover having a length sufficient to wrap around the cushion, and a panel sewn to the inner surface of the cover to provide a pocket for receivi... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445243 | Particle ink application Dye for coloring a carpet is applied to a manifold and then passed through a plurality of nozzles to a plate. The dye floods across the plate and then falls off the edge of the plate in a waterfall-like pattern to a carpet being carried below the plate. T... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445244 | Sectional boat joint construction A joint construction for a sectional boat arranged to be assembled from a plurality of hull sections, each of the hull sections having a transversely extending edge portion for abutting engagement with the edge portion of an adjacent hull section with fla... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445245 | Surface sweeper A miniature electrically powered surface sweeper having a rotary brush element which is adapted to come in direct contact with a surface to be cleaned. The brush element is disposed within a housing having a curved inner wall surface which contacts the br... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445246 | Tensioning device for wraparound brushing mechanism An adjustable tensioning device mounted to a wraparound brushing mechanism in a car washing installation varies the influence of the biasing mechanism thereof. The adjustable tensioning device is capable of changing the leverage applied to the brushing me... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445247 | Water collecting device An apparatus for removing water from a substantially flat ground surface is comprised of a rolling carriage carrying a horizontally disposed collecting vessel enveloped by a perforated rigid cylindrical drum that supports a resilient absorbent material. T... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445248 | Rotary stripper This rotary stripper is provided with a cylindrical housing rotatable in one direction. The housing has a plurality of peripheral wall openings through which project arms of flexible blades. Each blade has a longer work engaging flexing arm, and a shorter... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445249 | Rock-to-lock connection arm-to-blade Connector apparatus is provided for permitting rapid connection and disconnection of a wiper blade from a wiper arm. The blade portion of the connector includes a pair of spaced apart parallel slots. To accommodate different styles of wiper arm ends, two ... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445250 | Paint case The invention is a paint case.... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445251 | Adjustable clamp for fluid stripping bag An apparatus 10 for stripping fluid from the surface of a vehicle including a flexible inflatable bag 12 including an elongated bag inlet 14 having a predetermined cross-sectional area and an elongated opening at one end thereof defining a nozzle 16 and a... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445252 | Drafting apparatus in spinning machine A drafting device in a spinning machine including a cylindrical sliver guide and an adjusting guide for reshaping and controlling the sliver, and a traverse mechanism for an apron supported on the middle roller. The sliver guide is disposed in front of th... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445253 | Quick release helmet and strap assembly In order to permit the quick release of a motorcycle rider's helmet when a bee or wasp is trapped inside the visor, a quick release arrangement for operation with only one hand is provided. The normal strap arrangements for a helmet include a first strap ... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445254 | Hose band clip Hose band clip with a tightening strap and a turnbuckle which is secured to one end of the tightening strap and to which a turnbuckle worm, that cooperates with gearing of the tightening strap in order to adjust the strap, is pivoted. Narrow openings are ... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445255 | Hose clamp for supporting a vertically extending control line A hose clamp for supporting a vertically extending control line or hose from a position above water to subsea equipment below the water from a vertically extending vertical support such as a wire cable. The clamp includes a circular body with semi-circula... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445256 | Method of manufacturing piezoelectric resonator components An electronic component comprising at least one piezoelectric resonator and a process for mass production thereof include the superpositioning of n (nࣙ1) layers having one or several cut outs defining m (mࣙ1) resonating elements. Such layers are separ... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445257 | Conveyor shaft provided with rubber rollers, and method and apparatus for making same A shaft with rubber rollers designed to be made in a simple and inexpensive manner. The rollers are made separately with a helical spring or split clamping sleeve vulcanized in them during manufacture. The required number of rollers are ground to size and... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445258 | Method of sealing interfaces of bearing surfaces to steel barrels of piston pumps The method of contemporaneously sealing interfaces of bearing surfaces for valve faces and cylinder linings in a steel rotary cylindrical barrel having a plurality of longitudinal bores extending through the barrel longitudinally from one end to the other... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445259 | Method of manufacturing bladed elements for rotary fluid machines A method of manufacturing a bladed element of a rotary fluid machine, for example a turbine or compressor, includes the steps of securing a plurality of blades in a gas-tight manner in respective openings in a wall of a hollow casing with one end of each ... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445260 | Method of manufacture for metal trough A flanged trough is provided having flanges along each side of the trough with a smooth continuous curve between the flanges and the body of the trough and a bar of metal welded along the underside of each longitudinal edge of the metal sheet before the f... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445261 | Method for installing tubes in a tube sheet A tube is inserted in a bore in a tube sheet, the tube having an outside diameter slightly smaller than the bore. Hydraulic pressure is applied to the tube internally to expand it radially throughout a pressure zone that extends at least up to one end of ... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445262 | Procedure for rebuilding the movable plate in the pouring valve of a ladle Procedure for rebuilding a movable plate in the pouring valve of a ladle, involving the complete reconstruction of the original nozzle, which has been removed, and of a flat portion, also removed, around the pouring hole, in a circular or rectangular area... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445263 | Method of preforming a booster casing element with its reinforcement A method of forming a casing for a booster wherein the casing is preliminarily preformed with a peripheral sleeve portion and a flat base portion connected by a web. The preformed casing is placed in a frame and the peripheral sleeve portion held in subst... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445264 | Tool for a method of forming dimples in sheet metal for recessing rivet heads This invention relates to the joining of two metal sheets such as in the repair of automobile body components. There is provided a tool which may be utilized to first form a dimple in one or more sheets, and then form a bore through the one or more sheets... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445265 | Shrink grip drill pipe fabrication method A drill pipe is fabricated by forming a tubular tool joint with a pipe connection formation at one end. The other end of the tool joint is connected to one end of a tubular adapter by a threaded shrink grip connection. The other end of the adapter is conn... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445266 | MOSFET Fabrication process for reducing overlap capacitance and lowering interconnect impedance A method of forming a plurality of interconnected metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors on P-type semiconductor substrate (10). A layer of oxide (14) is formed on the substrate (10) and then a polysilicon layer (16) is formed on top of the ox... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445267 | MOSFET Structure and process to form micrometer long source/drain spacing A method for fabricating a semiconductor integrated circuit structure having sub-micrometer gate length field effect transistor devices is described wherein a surface isolation pattern is formed in a semiconductor substrate which isolates regions of the s... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445268 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit BI-MOS device A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit of the BI-MOS type on a common semiconductor substrate comprising forming an oxide film by thermal oxidation to isolate the elements and a base layer of one conductivity type by a surrounding di... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445269 | Methods of making infrared photoconductors with passivation control An array of semiconductive photoconductor detectors is formed on a substr with which the array forms a heterojunction. The array has a whole or partial overlayer of the same material as the substrate. Ohmic connections are made on the detectors and condu... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4445270 | Low resistance contact for high density integrated circuit A novel process for fabricating low resistance contacts for high density integrated circuits is described wherein during the initial processing of the device, after a scaled MOSFET is formed, contact openings, having vertical walls with respect to the und... | 05/01/1984 |
