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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4506389 | Tie construction A novel tie construction of enhanced stability of shape and smoothness comprises a support layer extending along the entire inside of the tie substantially complementary to the periphery of the front fabric material of the tie, the layers being folded tog... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506390 | Maternity garment A maternity garment is disclosed, which comprises an expandable waistband portion of elastically shirred material which completely encircles the garment and a body portion depending from the expandable portion. The expandable portion has a narrower vertic... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506391 | Chaps Two main pieces (3, 4) each include a leg encircling portion (6) and an upper portion (12, 16). Each leg portion (6) has a side zipper (8) with a cover flap (10). The front of the leg portion (6) is a downward continuation of the upper portion (12, 16). U... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506392 | Athletic undergarment The present invention comprises an athletic undergarment having trunk and leg portions woven from a sheer, resiliently elastic material and foot portions knit from heavy compressible yarn. The leg portions are permanently secured to the interior of the fo... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506393 | Method of prosthesis design A prosthesis is fitted to a body structure into which it is to be inserted by establishing an initial prosthesis shape and thereafter withdrawing the shape from the body structure in a sequence of defined increments and determining, for each increment, th... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506394 | Cardiac valve prosthesis holder An implantable device which is suited for implantation into a human or animal heart for receiving and removably holding a valve prosthesis is described. The device comprises a ring structure which is adapted to be fixed to the tissue around the orifice of... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506395 | Prosthetic foot A prosthetic foot includes a core of incompressible material which has a bottom side sloping upwardly from a toe region towards the rear end of the foot, a wedge-shaped heel element which is applied to that bottom side and formed of a soft, resilient mate... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506396 | Comfort pillow for pregnant females A comfort enhancing assembly for providing abdominal and back support is formed of a first pillow and a second pillow which are connected by two overlapped flexible connector panels by a plurality of hook and loop type connector strips on each panel.... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506397 | Waterbed construction A waterbed comprising a foundation having a rigid horizontally extending base and a rigid support member of substantially rectangular cross section fixed on the periphery of the upper surface of the base and substantially laterally completely enclosing a ... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506398 | Water bed sheet A bed sheet for water beds which is substantially rectangular in configuration and dimensioned to cover the top of the fluid-filled mattress. Integral extensions project from the four sides of the sheet and are adapted to be draped over the mattress and p... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506399 | Method of making strut nuts A method of making a nut adapted for use in combination with a structural member commonly known as "UNISTRUT". The structural member or "UNISTRUT" as in one face, a longitudinal slot bordered by inwardly projecting flanges. The nut has serrations in one f... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506400 | Electrically operated toothbrush The invention relates to an electrically operated toothbrush with oscillating motion, whose angle of oscillation can be adjusted. This is a easily achieved by the fact that the rotation of the electric motor producing the motion can be reversed by pole changin... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506401 | Bristle pig cup For use with a mandrel supporting a plurality of cups, an improved pipeline pigging cup is set forth in the preferred and illustrated embodiment. The cup is equipped with a large protruding lip around the periphery, and has a reinforcing member in the lip... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506402 | Apparatus for cleaning a dipstick Disclosed is an apparatus for selectively cleaning a crankcase dipstick as it is withdrawn from the crankcase. The apparatus includes a pair of wiper lips, a spring biasing the wiper lips apart, a pair of handles for manually manipulating the wiper lips t... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506403 | Cleaning apparatus A cleaning apparatus includes a mop with a rotatable wiper, a pail having a reservoir for cleaning liquid, and a motor-driven wringer mounted upon the pail for receiving and rotating the wiper of the mop at relatively high speed to extract cleaning liquid... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506404 | Disposable sponge A disposable sponge device used principally for cleaning surgical instruments and including a flexible base sponge member having opposed side and end edges and a pair of upright flexible sponge members attached to and projecting from the back surface of t... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506405 | Floor treating machine A floor treating machine adapted to operate as a floor scrubber and a floor polisher or buffer includes a main housing or support frame structure from which extends a brush housing assembly. The main housing contains a combined solution and recovery tank,... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506406 | Attachment tool for a vacuum cleaner hose An attachment tool for a vacuum cleaner hose is disclosed taking the form of an elongated flattened tubular housing; one end being adapted to connect to a vacuum cleaner hose, and the other end terminating in a flattened air intake opening. One flat face ... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506407 | Releasable hold-open device for a door closer A releasable hold-open device for a spring-impelled, regulated door closer has a door motion follower adapted to be releasably held in a door-open position. An actuator is arranged to retain or release the follower under control of a permanent magnet that... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506408 | Ratchet hinge structure The present invention relates to a structurally uncomplicated, lightweight and inexpensive variable position hinge structure. The hinge structure comprises a male component, a portion of which comprises a relatively raised and non-raised portion, and a fe... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506409 | Single-pivot cabinet hinge A single-pivot cabinet hinge (10) for hanging doors has a cup (12) which can be fastened in a gain in the back of a door (16) and in which there is journaled one end of a pivot arm (24) whose other end bears a fastening plate (28) having a slot (30) engag... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506410 | Apparatus for the introduction of giblets into the body cavities of poultry In an apparatus for the introduction of poultry giblets into the evacuated body cavities of poultry, a plurality of cups which contain the giblets are moved into an insertion region together with the poultry, which is also moved, on a path while a plunger... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506411 | Game skinning apparatus A game skinning rack comprising a generally rectangular board having notches formed in each upper corner thereof, cam means pivotally mounted in each of said notches for tightly gripping the extremities of an animal to be skinned with a pressure that incr... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506412 | Fish skinning and scaling tool A fish skinning and scaling tool is shown having a pair of mating lever units. Each of the lever units has a curved handle portion and an elongated jaw portion. The lever units are joined at a pivot point intermediate the jaw portions and handle portions.... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506413 | Apparatus for regulating fiber quantities supplied to a textile machine An apparatus for regulating fiber quantities supplied to a textile machine as a fiber layer, comprises a sensor device for mechanically sensing thickness variations of the fiber layer at a plurality of locations along the layer width and emitting individu... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506414 | Yarn-drafting apparatus An apparatus used in combination with a yarn spinner has an upstream gripper roller assembly including at least an upstream roller pair gripping the yarn to be stretched, a downstream gripper roller assembly including at least a downstream roller pair spa... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506415 | Security seal and tag holder A combination security seal and identification tag holder for assembly onto the neck of a mail bag or the like, in which a shackle locking mechanism is provided with a housing having a locking plug which is inaccessible when the seal is assembled onto the... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506416 | Paper clip A paper clip characterized in that it is substantially formed of a hard synthetic resin such as hard vinyl chloride, and in that an arched movable member, a bottom plate and a connector plate are formed as one piece capable of being extruded in its entire... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506417 | Fastener for string A fastener for securing in position a string to be used for gathering the skirt of a coat or the open edge of a pouch, for example, is constructed of a housing provided therein with a blind cavity, a sliding member admitted into the blind cavity of the ho... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506418 | Muffler clamp A muffler clamp wherein a retainer (22) is secured to a bracket (20) by nuts (24 and 26). The bracket (22) is provided with sections (38) and the retainer (22) has a flexible central region (40) such that the clamp can be tightly constricted about and sec... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506419 | Part-fixing clip A clip comprises a male member and a female socket both molded of plastics. The male member is adapted to be detachably fastened to a substrate such as a panel of an automobile body and the female socket is adapted to accommodate the male member rotatably... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506420 | Warp beam winding frame Holding frame for a package beam of a heavy winding machine, including a right side frame and a left side frame. Each of the side frames is formed of a pair of flat sheet steel plates, with tension resistant and compression resistant spacer members interp... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506421 | Controlled-deflection roll In a controlled deflection roll comprising a rotating shell forming the working roll periphery and a stationary beam extending lengthwise through the shell and spaced all around from the inner periphery of the shell, the space between the beam and the inn... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506422 | Method of producing bearing devices for wheels of automobiles A method of manufacturing a bearing assembly for the wheels of automobiles, wherein an axle member B is ground by a first step wherein a raceway surface 5 and a cylindrical seat 6 are simultaneously ground, a second step wherein any deviation of the finis... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506423 | Method of producing a fluid pressure reducing device A fluid pressure reducing device having a core provided with a peripheral spiral groove and a pipe receiving the core. The portion of the pipe receiving the core is radially contracted so that the ridges of the spiral groove of the core intrude into the i... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506424 | Automated railroad bearing handling machine A machine for removing and installing bearings on the ends of wheel sets including a gage for measuring wheel size and for aligning the wheel sets with bearing removing or installing devices according to wheel size and for transporting the bearings automa... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506425 | Method for the hot repair of the protective layer provided on the permanent lining of a tundish of a continuous casting plant There is described a method for the hot repair of the protective layer provided on the permanent lining of a tundish of a continuous casting plant. The method can be carried out simply and quickly, with thermal losses of the tundish being largely prevente... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506426 | Pocket clip for a writing instrument A pocket clip is attached to the tubular barrel of a writing instrument and the rear open end of the barrel is closed by pressing a pocket clip part over the rear end of the barrel and pressing an integral plug portion of the pocket clip part into the ope... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506427 | Method for threading chain onto a lamp cord Method and apparatus for threading a lamp cord through links in a lamp-supporting chain, for example, swag lamps. Selected links may be chosen to receive the lamp cord, that is, every fourth link, for example.... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4506428 | Method of forming a prefabricated concrete panel Prefabricated concrete wall panel and method of forming same having a continuous peripheral metallic skeletal panel frame with its opposite sides being adjustably disposed/constrained during fabrication to provide a substantially parallelogram shaped wall... | 03/26/1985 |
