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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4498199 | Multiple headed costume A comic costume which includes at least a partial poncho-type element for covering at least selected postions of the person wearing the costume, with the poncho extending at least over the shoulders of the person, and a pair of inflatable members arranged... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498200 | Garment having concealed pouch A garment pouch for retaining and concealing small personal valuables. One or more concealed hemline pockets are provided in an undergarment shirt or blouse, the upper edges of which preferably lie adjacent the hemline. The closure for the pocket, which i... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498201 | Trouser support system A belt for supporting trousers has a lower adjustable supporting strap. Stiff members are attached to the waistband of the trousers. Supporting arms are rotatably coupled to the stiffened members and the supporting strap. When the trousers are worn, the w... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498202 | Helmet equipped with ventilator A helmet having a shell and a face shield for closing an opening of the shell and equipped with a ventilator for ventilating the space between the face shield and the face of the wearer of the helmet. The air flowing into or out of the space for ventilati... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498203 | Flood preventer for fluid filling systems A flood preventer has a pneumatically operable lockout mechanism to disable a valve actuator and prevent its repeated operation when fluid in a receptacle has reached an excess level. In the preferred embodiments the flood preventer has a latch that is re... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498204 | Adjustable position physical support system A support system is disclosed which is primarily intended to provide a sturdy and convenient means to be manually grasped by a handicapped or infirm person while raising or lowering themselves, moving from place to place, or simply to provide support in a... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498205 | Medical bed with sheet retaining means A medical bed employing a fluidized particle media is improved by clamping the sheet thereof between the hand rails and the side flanges of the bed by means of a series of latch locks engaging latch hooks extending downwardly from the hand rails.... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498206 | Vacuum head for cleaning underwater surfaces A vacuum head for cleaning underwater surfaces has a depending skirt; the head, on its underside, has a brush depending therefrom with means on the underside to support the brush, which means is spaced inward of the skirt and is provided with apertures lo... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498207 | Floor sweeper with improved drive wheel construction A floor sweeper includes a housing sub-frame having a pair of end partitions which mount a brush for sweeping debris from the floor and drive wheels for supporting the sweeper and rotating the brush. The drive wheels are mounted on either side of the brus... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498208 | Chimney cleaning system A system for drawing a wire brush the length of a chimney and including a cap structure which houses the brush when inoperable and further supports a pulley entrained chain. A brush housing is shaped to permit access to both the brush and a chain turnbuck... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498209 | Twin dental brush The present invention relates to an improved toothbrush which permits the user to brush both sides of his teeth at the same time. Through use of the Twin Dental Brush, the user can effectively brush the rear face of each tooth to thereby remove plaque and... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498210 | Brush bristle unit for brush rolls A bristle section for rotary brushes comprising a bristle-carrying channel fitting into and retained in a mounting channel which has retaining ears along its length which slide into retaining channels in a receiving and retaining channel on the brush drum... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498211 | Retractable brush A folding brush comprises a case having parallel first and second walls respectively having first and second interior faces spaced from each other to form a cavity. The first wall includes a matrix of cylindrical like slots extending between the first fac... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498212 | Flue cleaner An improved flue cleaner is provided having a scraper and an adjustable fulcrum assembly mounted on opposite sides of the end portion of an elongated rod. The fulcrum assembly includes a roller rotatably mounted on one end of a pivotable beam and is fixed... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498213 | Soot blower The disclosure is directed to a soot blower of the long retracting type. In accordance with the invention, a novel cable drive system is provided to impart a traverse motion to the lance tube of the soot blower. The cable drive system comprises a rotatabl... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498214 | Carpet cleaning apparatus with auxiliary cleaning device arrangement A carpet cleaning apparatus is disclosed which includes a new and improved auxiliary cleaning device arrangement incorporated in a conventional vacuum cleaner. The auxiliary cleaning device is movable into a carpet engaging position for frictionally engag... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498215 | Apparatus for conveying material as it is removed from rows of bales constituting spinning material This disclosure relates to an apparatus for conveying material as it is removed from rows of bales for subsequent utilization during a spinning operation, the apparatus including a generally elongated channel having an elongated longitudinally disposed sl... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498216 | Drafting apparatus in a spinning frame A textile fiber drafting apparatus is disclosed, according to which the drafting bottom rollers in each line along the spinning units of a spinning frame are arranged in such a way that each two adjacently juxtaposed bottom rollers make a single block for... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498217 | Pile fabric cutting device A rotor for cutting the loops or surface of a fabric having a plurality of segmented blades interconnected together to form a helix which when used to cut the surface of a fabric does not cause a rowing effect in the surface. The cutting blades in adjacen... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498218 | Apparatus for transmitting a tampon blank to a tampon press An apparatus for compressing a blank into a compressed tampon is provided. In the direction of its central axis, the apparatus comprises in succession a push rod, a transmitting device, a tampon press and an ejector mandrel. The carrier jaws of the transm... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498219 | Method of constructing a fiber-reinforced piston for internal combustion engines A fiber-reinforced piston for internal combustion engines, comprising a molded body of inorganic fiber forming a top land and a ring region of the piston. The molded body has a content of granulated fiber having larger particles of a particle diameter les... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498220 | Method for pre-expanding heat exchanger tube This invention is a method for pre-expanding a heat exchanger tube prior to its insertion into a tube sheet. A tubular mandrel having an elastic bladder sheath sealed at each end is inserted into the tube and positioned at the point where the tube is to b... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498221 | Apparatus for stripping packaged linear material from a forming tube The disclosure embraces a method of and apparatus for mechanically stripping linear material such as strands or groups of glass filaments or fibers from plastic forming tubes wherein the packages are defective, incomplete, or "break-out" packages. A defec... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498222 | Clinching process of buckle base and wire rope Disclosed herein is a process for clinching a wire rope on a buckle base, which comprises the following consecutive steps: subjecting a starting anchor block material and the wire rope in combination to a first clinching operation to obtain a preformed anchor ... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498223 | Method of fabrication of monolithic integrated circuit structure A body of silicon has sectors of N-type and P-type covered by silicon oxide gate layers with adjacent regions covered by a thicker silicon oxide field layer. Gate members of N-type polycrystalline silicon are placed on the gate layers to define an N-type ... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498224 | Method of manufacturing a MOSFET using accelerated ions to form an amorphous region A method for manufacturing MOSFET type semiconductor devices comprises forming a gate insulation layer and a gate electrode on a single crystal semiconductor substrate; introducing impurities in the substrate using the gate electrode as a mask; introducin... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498225 | Method of forming variable sensitivity transmission mode negative electron affinity photocathode A method of forming a variable sensitivity transmission mode negative eleon affinity (NEA) photocathode in which the sensitivity of the photocathode to white or monochromatic light can be varied by varying the backsurface recombination velocity of the ph... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498226 | Method for manufacturing three-dimensional semiconductor device by sequential beam epitaxy A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional semiconductor device which is capable of preventing the stepwise disconnection of an interconnection layer and performing a high integration thereby and which comprises the steps of: forming a polycrystalline... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498227 | Wafer fabrication by implanting through protective layer Manufacture of bipolar substantially isoplanar integrated circuit structures is accomplished by rearrangement of the conventional masking steps and by the substitution and full integration of implanting methods for diffusion methods. A uniform nitride lay... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498228 | Method of manufacturing Josephson junction integrated circuits Josephson junction integrated circuits of the current injection type and magnetically controlled type utilize a superconductive layer that forms both Josephson junction electrode for the Josephson junction devices on the integrated circuit as well as a gr... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498229 | Piezoresistive transducer An electromechanical transducer is provided, and the process for making it, which utilizes a piezoresistive element or gage which is crystallinally the same as the base or substrate upon which it is supported. The gage of the invention is a force gage, an... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498230 | Assembling brush box sub-assemblies in electric motors An electric motor adapted to be assembled automatically with the minimum of manual handling has a brush box sub-assembly having a brush box with two opposed side walls and containing a brush. The two opposed side walls are stressed to grip and hold the br... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498231 | Thin film strain transducer A strain transducer system 10 and process for making same is disclosed wherein a beryllium-copper ring 13 having four strain gages 12, 14, 26 and 28 disposed thereon and electrically connected in Wheatstone bridge fashion to output instrumentation 25. Tab... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498232 | Automatic insertion and removal device for components Automatic insertion and removal device for components, including a supply container for the components, a holding device for the components, an insertion head for taking the components from the supply container and inserting the components into the holdin... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498233 | Retrieval tool for socket contacts Apparatus for seating a very small socket contact in an electrical connector from the front side of the connector. Opposing flexible fingers, which are disposed above and below a flat wedge member and separated thereby, are extended longitudinally by plun... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498234 | Automatic apparatus for fitting objects into receptacles An apparatus for fitting receptacles at a predetermined spacing with respective substantially identical objects each having a bottom face has a plate generally centered on an upright plate axis and having a substantially planar, smooth, and horizontal upp... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498235 | Razor blade assembly A razor blade assembly comprising a blade disposed between skin engaging elements adapted in operation to engage a surface being shaved ahead and behind, respectively, of the blade, the blade being movable relative to the elements in response to forces en... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498236 | Shaving instrument complex A reusable shaving instrument complex having a safety razor member with a guarded blade and a straight razor member with an exposed blade, and a unitary handle constructed and arranged to hold and carry both of said members during use and storage.... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498237 | Hair trimmer The present invention is a cutting unit having multiple sets of tandem blades; each set being composed of a first toothed blade moved reciprocatingly in a cutting motion relative to a second tooth blade. The blades are preferably curved.... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4498238 | Transparent perspective tracing board A transparent perspective hand-held tracing board is shown for use with a sheet of transparent drawing material. This board is formed of a rigid plastic or glass panel. A measured pattern is imprinted on the panel to assist in judging distance and relativ... | 02/12/1985 |
