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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4466135 | Bulletproof dress shirt A bulletproof dress shirt is disclosed which incorporates the following features: ease of installation, adjustability and removability through the use of VELCRO fasteners; lightweight design and removable bulletproof pads for ease in laundering; optional ... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466136 | Composite T-shirt construction A T-shirt on which a graphical representation comprises a portion imprinted on the T-shirt is a design of an overall object to be displayed with a 3-dimension self-supporting structure temporarily connected to the T-shirt completing the design.... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466137 | Garment which can accommodate a large number of waist sizes and which is held by an automatically-adjustable-length drawstring A garment has an automatically-adjustable-length drawstring with readily-flexible ends that can be tied to enable the garment to accommodate a large number of waist sizes; and that drawstring will automatically expand as the circumference of the wearer's ... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466138 | Safety helmet with a shell injected from thermoplastics and method for the manufacture of said helmet The invention relates to a safety helmet having an injected thermoplastics shell, and the method for manufacturing the same. The helmet shell is of composite structure and includes a rigid insert of reinforced resin and an outer casing of injected thermop... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466139 | Vascular prostheses A vascular prosthesis is produced by subjecting a length of animal ureter to glutaraldehyde tanning. The lumen of the ureter is dilated and the ureter is set in the dilated configuration by the tanning process. The ureter may be strengthened by a surround... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466140 | Adjustable toilet bowl seat and footrest A cantilever mount is provided including an upper rear portion for removable engagement behind the upper forward lip of a toilet bowl and a lower portion having rearwardly facing surfaces for abutment against forwardingly facing surfaces of the front port... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466141 | Hydrothermal treatment facility A hydrothermal treatment facility is in the form of a vessel for containing heated water, the vessel sidewalls being contoured to receive and support arthritic users in a plurality of positions, at least one portion being configured to receive a user in a... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466142 | Pool cleaning head with rotary pop-up jet producing element A cleaning head for installation in the bottom surface of a swimming pool includes a rotary pop-up jet producing element having a hollow cylindrical lower section open at its bottom and an enlarged cylindrical hollow upper section closed at its top. An ou... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466143 | Swimming pool cover leading edge wheel assembly A wheel assembly for use with extendible and retractable swimming pool covers having a raised leading edge. The apparatus of the present invention preferably comprises two rigid arms which each have a wheel attached to one end thereof. The other end of th... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466144 | Pulley assembly for swimming pool cover The present invention is directed to a novel pulley assembly used in connection with conventional swimming pool cover systems of the type utilizing draw cords carried by a dual-channel track. The pulley assembly is comprised of a pulley housing and a pull... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466145 | Stretcher A compact and portable stretcher has a rigid body board long enough and wide enough to support a supine human body. It is overlaid with an inflatable mattress and may be flanked by inflatable buoyancy tubes. The body board is preferably made up from a number o... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466146 | Portable baby changer A portable baby changer is provided and consists of a frame that engages a front lip of a sink, an adjustable hook strap that engages the frame and one faucet of the sink, a container that is supported by the frame and a pad placed within the container so... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466147 | Bed unit A bed unit for saving space wherein a head end portion and a foot end portion of a frame are, respectively, movable along a wall and a floor by a driving mechanism. Thus, preparation for bed making or placing the frame back in the wall can be performed wi... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466148 | Handgun holster mounting device A pair of brackets positioned on opposite sides or opposite ends of a mattress and interconnected by a strap or the like which is disposed between the mattress and box spring or other mattress support; at least one of the opposing brackets being fitted wi... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466149 | Method and apparatus for rinsing textile material Rinsing of textile material is accomplished in a tank having a rinsing zone through which the material passes upwardly from a resting zone. Rinsing fluid is applied to the upwardly moving material exclusively in the rinsing zone and in a quantity greater ... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466150 | Toothbrush At the handle of a bristle carrier or support of a toothbrush there is rotatably mounted disk-shaped indicator element. This indicator element contains a scale-like indicia or markings composed of data symbols, especially date symbols, which are distribut... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466151 | Applicator for applying a coating to a surface Coating compositions can be applied to substrates to produce a smooth finish by the use of a coating applicator having a mat of sized glass fibers and/or strands having fibers and/or strands projecting from the surface of the mat. The coating applicator h... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466152 | Bowl mop A bowl mop for use in cleaning toilet bowls and the like including a disposable yarn head having a slide portion slidably received in a slot on a projecting end portion of a handle. The slide is releasably retained within the slot as by engagement of a ca... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466153 | Device for wiping a vehicle window A device for wiping a window of a vehicle, particularly a car, in which a pair of wipers are pivoted in the reciprocating pendulum motion between two holding positions, is provided with an arrangement for conveying the wipers from the reverse holding posi... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466154 | Tank cleaning system A tank cleaning system wherein a cleaning liquid is sprayed into a dirty tank and simultaneously sucked out of the tank. The cleaning liquid is stored in a pressure vessel and incompletely fills the vessel to leave a space above the liquid. A pump draws t... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466155 | Recycling cleaning apparatus An apparatus for cleaning hard surfaces and surface coverings such as rugs and upholstery material, consisting of a tank of cleaning fluid, an outlet line running to a cleaning head, a pump in connection with the outlet line, a vacuum motor with an inlet ... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466156 | Air velocity control mechanism for selective debris pickup An air flow control mechanism is provided in the debris pick-up head (10) of a sweeper to allow selective sweeping of debris. The pick-up head (10) is provided a center skirt (70) which partitions the head interior into two sweeping chambers, a rearward c... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466157 | Method of processing elongated tubular material and device for performing said method In a method and device for processing elongated tubular material, more particularly for everting a sausage or packing casing having been subjected to a surface treatment, tubular material is discharged from a package or supply reel and passed through a st... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466158 | Method and apparatus for separating viscera from and splitting gizzards The gizzard with crop and other viscera attached thereto are retrieved from a cavity of a bird on an overhead conveyor system, and with viscera hanging from the gizzard, the gizzard is moved over a cutter whose elements define an open ended cutting path w... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466159 | Adjustable tie strap An elongated plastic strap of uniform width and thickness of material having a series of evenly spaced longitudinally extending rectangular openings therein midway between the edges of the strap and the opposite edges of the portions of the strap between ... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466160 | Integral bag closure An integrally formed bag closure is described in which a band passed round the neck of a bag is drawn tight by a lever arrangement, the lever and band being secured by a resilient latch. Embodiments of the closure are described in which the latch is inacc... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466161 | Means and method for adjusting and connecting cords A bead for connecting cords. The bead includes holes therethrough through which the cords extend and adhesive in the holes for bonding the cords to the bead. A method is also described for adjusting the lengths of and connecting cords and includes the ste... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466162 | Jewelry clasp A jewelry clasp comprising a female member with a pull-up lever integrally formed on the surface of its top and a stop member integrally formed underneath its top, for receiving a male member having a planar shape and an opening therein for engagement wit... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466163 | Wide fabric manufacturing method and apparatus Wide woven fabric having dipped and treated cords is made by first connecting warp cords of relatively strong material in at least two narrow sheets. The narrow sheets are dipped and treated after which they are positioned in loom letoff rolls adjacent a ... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466164 | Supercalendering apparatus A supercalendering apparatus for smoothing the surface of a web by passing it through the nip between a metal roll and an elastic roll is disclosed. The elastic roll is composed of a core metal roll having a first coating made of a fibrous material wound ... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466165 | Method of forming a bearing A method of forming a bearing having a body of sintered powder metal. The bearing body includes a plurality of surfaces with interstices in the sintered powder metal defining a plurality of lubricant flow capillary paths through the bearing body communica... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466166 | Grip mounting assembly A Mandrel and method of using the same to form an elongate rigid guide that has a first elongate portion over which an elastomeric tube may be slid. A second elongate end portion of the guide when axially aligned with the handle of a tennis or racquet bal... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466167 | Method of removing stuck gaskets and pneumatic impact tool A pneumatic impact tool has a tubular housing with an impact head secured in and extending outwardly from one end of the housing and a valve secured within the housing but spaced from the impact head so that a piston chamber is formed within the housing. ... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466168 | Method and apparatus for feeding sliders to slider pocket for assembling sliders on an uncut fastener chain A method and apparatus for feeding sliders to a slider pocket are disclosed. Sliders taken from the pocket are assembled on the fastening element sections of an uncut fastener chain which is moved and stopped intermittently to allow the assembly of the sl... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466169 | Hinge pin removal method Method and apparatus for removing an automobile hinge pin by disabling a spring clip and thereafter driving the hinge pin outwardly of the automobile hinge assembly while supporting the hinge assembly against bending forces that would otherwise flex the h... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466170 | Adjustable circular insulation saw system A machine for cutting insulation material into semi-circular blocks. Circular cutting blades are mounted reciprocally on a support shaft. A router functions to cut a groove in the insulation material to provide clearance for the cutting blade support shaf... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466171 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device utilizing outdiffusion to convert an epitaxial layer A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having two juxtaposed regions (12, 16) of opposite conductivity types which adjoin a surface and which together constitute a p-n junction (9) which is preferably perpendicular to the surface and the doping ... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466172 | Method for fabricating MOS device with self-aligned contacts A method for fabricating an integrated circuit semiconductor device comprised of an array of MOSFET elements having self-aligned or self-registered connections with conductive interconnect lines. The method involves the formation on a substrate of a thick... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466173 | Methods for fabricating vertical channel buried grid field controlled devices including field effect transistors and field controlled thyristors utilizing etch and refill techniques Methods for fabricating vertical channel buried grid field controlled devices with improved performance characteristics include methods which avoid the problems caused by autodoping effects. In one form of the invention, one surface of a semiconductor sub... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4466174 | Method for fabricating MESFET device using a double LOCOS process MESFET devices are fabricated on a semiconductor substrate using a LOCOS (localized oxidation of silicon) process twice during the fabrication. The first LOCOS process provides device separation with a self-aligned thick-field oxide (SATO). The second LOC... | 08/21/1984 |
