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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4461043 | Batting accessory A baseball batting accessory in the form of a cushioning pad having a flap portion to protect the batter's hands against bone bruises and to properly position the bat near the batter's fingertips.... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461044 | Bicycle helmet retention system with quick disconnect A helmet retention system for a forwardly facing helmet includes: (a) a clip having first, second and third attachment structures which are integrally interconnected, (b) the first attachment structure including generally forwardly extending parallel slots in ... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461045 | Artificial leg An improved artificial leg has a ball and socket ankle joint (3) connecting a foot (2) to a shin member (1). The ankle joint comprises a two-part socket (5A, 5B) enclosing a part-spherical ball member (4) with an elastic sleeve (6) sandwiched between the ... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461046 | Family toilet seat A multiple toilet seat assembly of the type that permit the selective use of an appropriate sized opening for use by a particular individual e.g. an adult or a child and which affords greater safety due to the elimination of side-to-side lateral movement ... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461047 | Ledge bed overlay A ledge bed overlay for use with conventional patient care beds whereby a ledge can be formed to facilitate placing a bedpan or a bathtub beneath a patient without having to physically lift the patient.... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461048 | Universal bed covering or bed sheet apparatus A bed covering or sheet is described which is made from an integral piece of material and which consists of a central rectangular area bounded on each side by a rectangular panel of a width equal to the thickness of the mattress. Further depending from th... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461049 | Fitted sheet with elastic restraints Disposable fitted sheets and method for making them. The sheets are formed without necessitating prior cutting by folding edges of the material and attaching the folded-over edges along diagonal lines associated with each corner. Elastic bands cooperate w... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461050 | Automatic beam cleaning machine An apparatus for cleaning spools having a support means and a first and second chuck rotatably mounted on the support means. The first and second chucks having coinciding axes of rotation with first chuck facing the second chuck. There is at least one cle... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461051 | Apparatus for cleaning stator windings During assembly of a motor, a stator winding is installed in a jig in preparation of cleaning. A brush is moved axially through the central space of the winding. The shaft of the brush is equipped with fluid jets which direct solvent against the winding a... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461052 | Scrubbing brush, rinse and sweeping equipment A hand operated combination handle and control valve assembly applicable to each of three related cleaning devices. The valve, when attached to a standard pressurized water hose, controls the pressure flow as desired; such as off, pressure to a first outl... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461053 | Multiple part toothbrush having an exchangeable brush head A multiple part toothbrush includes a handle stem having a connecting part projecting outwardly from one end thereof and extending in a direction which forms an angle of about 7° with respect to the handle stem. A brush head has a cavity therein, the con... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461054 | Cleaning device for cleaning the inner surface of a container To provide for fully or partly automatic cleaning and to avoid pollution of the air in the surrounding room, a cleaning device for cleaning the inner surface of containers (7, 8) is arranged so that an upwardly open jacket (1, 2) may be moved upwards to e... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461055 | Portable sweeping device A portable sweeping device which operates with an air-blast flow, and comprises a housing having a handle arranged at the upper end, and a fanwheel blower or impeller arranged in the housing and driven by an internal combustion engine arranged in the dire... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461056 | Shower and decorative curtain suspension for a bathroom stall A pair of horizontally extending curtain rods for bathroom stalls comprising a mechanism whereby the rods are each supported by end brackets which are adapted to be force-fitted against the walls of the stall to retain the pair of rods in tight engagement... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461057 | Handle bar formed as telescopic tube An extensible handle bar for cleaning and painting tools and the like comprises inner and outer tubes in slidable telescoping relationship, the outer tube having a pair of apertures therein containing inserts. A helically threaded nut extends over the ext... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461058 | Drawing frames A drawing frame with a drawing region or with two independent drawing regions includes, as a whole, four or more so-called drawing and control rollers. These latter all comprise pressure rollers with barrel rubbers. The control roller situated immediately... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461059 | Drop wire clamp A unitary, integrally formed wire clamp comprises an elongate, open-ended housing having a generally U-shaped cross-section for receiving a wire therein and a restraining web integrally formed in the housing for restraining axial movement of said wire in ... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461060 | Method and apparatus for removing yarn remnants from a bobbin Yarn remnants are automatically removed from a bobbin or the like by disposing the bobbin along a longitudinal axis substantially coinciding with its central axis and locating a cutter and at least two strippers about the longitudinal axis. The bobbin is ... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461061 | Apparatus for connecting wire to insulation displacement-type contacts A method and apparatus for connecting wire to insulation displacement-type, circuit board-mounted electrical contacts comprises automatic positioning and orienting of individual contacts relative to a wire insertion head. A portion of wire is fed from a s... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461062 | Method for adjusting the valve control of a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine, especially of a diesel engine A method and apparatus for the adjustment of the valve control of a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine with a cam shaft driven from the crankshaft by an endless, flexible transmission member, in which the cam shaft and a valve control adjustm... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461063 | Prevailing torque adjusting element and method and apparatus for the construction thereof A prevailing torque adjusting element, which in the described embodiment is in the form of a sleeve, for connecting motor vehicle tie rod or other turnbuckle assemblies, having a plurality of linearly extending substantially parallel deformations spaced a... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461064 | Method of providing a clutch between a motor drive means and a cam programming means A clutch particularly adaptable to a timing mechanism comprising a metal member with an aperture in it and an insert molded as a single unit a plastic shaft extending through the aperture and having two plastic clutch discs engaging opposed faces of the r... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461065 | Tube cover mounting method A fastening device by which a thermoplastic cover may be fixed to a tubular component. The cover fits tightly into the tubular component which is provided in the region of the cover with bores through which a lost pin is pressed after heating into the con... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461066 | Method of making ventilation apparatus A unitary, metal vent apparatus for securement to the roof of a building. The apparatus includes a one-piece hollow first member having a series of vent holes near its top portion. The apparatus also includes a one-piece second member which forms a concen... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461067 | Apparatus for making locking sealing rings Apparatus and system for making positive locking sealing rings having interengagable ring end notches with mating surfaces thereof at closely precise angles of intersection. In a preferred form, interal notch end faces, and ring terminal ends, are paralle... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461068 | Automatic slotting apparatus with tool changing device Automatic sliding apparatus is provided for automatically stamping stator and rotor laminations for electric motors from workpiece blanks. To accommodate utilization of a plurality of sets of tool dies on a single driveable press ram, a tool changing devi... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461069 | Device for introducing anti-microphony sponge into an air-cored coil A device for introducing an anti-microphony sponge into an air-cored coil for television channel selectors, comprising an axially displaceable hollow mandrel with an end portion which comprises two diametrically oppositely situated slots. Two blocking mem... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461070 | Method for making eutectic charge-coupled devices A method is described for the fabrication of charge-coupled devices by the formation of a thin film lamellar metallic eutectic and subsequent selective removal of one of the eutectic phases to form one of the spaced gate arrays of such devices.... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461071 | Photolithographic process for fabricating thin film transistors A photolithographic method for fabricating thin film transistors and thin film transistor arrays in which the contamination vulnerable semiconductor-insulator interfaces are formed in a single vacuum pump-down operation. To minimize step coverage problems... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461072 | Method for preparing an insulated gate field effect transistor Disclosed here is an IGFET formed on the single crystal silicon substrate where the major plane surface is deviated within the range from 22 degree to 34 degree toward the crystallographic surface {1,1,1} from {1,0,0} or on the silicon epitaxial layer for... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461073 | Device for inserting and extracting circuit modules with dual-in-line leads A hand-operated device 10 is disclosed for inserting or extracting the dual-in-line leads (14) of a circuit module (12), particularly of the type having a relatively fragile circuit-supporting substrate (18), into or out of respective lead-engaging throug... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461074 | Apparatus for assembling electrical cables to electrical connectors Energizing a solenoid causes mechanical means to close a pair of jaws and crimp a cable in a U-shaped cable clamp mounted to a multi-contact connector positioned for termination in an electrically powered termination tool. A movable carriage carries termi... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461075 | Method of making a stimulating electrode An electrode for tissue stimulating applications, such as pain control, includes a conductive flexible pad such as polymer gel, or karaya gum, interfacing with the patient. A backing layer is composed of conductive silicone rubber, has a multiplicity of p... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461076 | Method of shielding plural ribbon cables from radio frequency interference A method of protecting a plurality of ribbon cables from electrostatic and radio frequency interference utilizing inner and outer subassemblies each having flexible conductive shields secured together in electrical contact with one another and cooperating... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461077 | Method for preparing ceramic articles having raised, selectively metallized electrical contact points A method of manufacturing a ceramic article having raised electrical contacts. Selected surfaces of the contacts are metallized. The method provides articles suitable for use in packaging electronic components and permits selective and controlled flow of ... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461078 | Styling razor A razor assembly includes first and second handle portions, with first and second razor heads mounted at the ends of the handle portions. The first razor head is adapted to mount a conventional-width razor cartridge, while the second razor head is adapted... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461079 | Method and apparatus for changing the shaving attitude of a blade package A razor cartridge including a body portion, a guard bar fixed to the body portion, a blade seat and one or more blades defining a blade pack carried by the blade seat, where the blade seat is movably mounted or hinged to the body portion so that the blade... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461080 | Eviscerating and survival tool An eviscerating and survival tool having a shaft with a handle at one end, a claw-like hook at the other end, the hook being comprised of at least two arcuately shaped tines defining a slot, and as saw blade disposed longitudinally along the portion of th... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461081 | Knife-saw implement A knife including a blade and a handle has a hollow sleeve connector removably positioned over its blade in the area adjacent the handle and a saw blade extends outwardly from the connector at an acute angle relative to the blade and includes a saw-tooth ... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4461082 | Engraving machine The frame of an engraving machine supports a slide for movement in a first horizontal direction. A pantograph is pivoted to the slide for movement about a vertical axis. A tool holder is supported by the pantograph. The tool holder is prevented from pivot... | 07/24/1984 |
