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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4507801 | Protective garment A light, conforming protective garment for athletes made of a stretch material with pockets over the areas to be protected. Pads are formed to fit the wearer, inserted into the pockets, and are held closely in place by the stretch material.... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507802 | Adaptive ballistic panel carrying garment A ballistic panel carrier garment is disclosed for adaptively receiving ballistic panels of varying configurations and sizes corresponding to the size of the garment's wearer. The garment of this invention comprises a front portion and a back portion. The... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507803 | Riding mittens Mittens for use by equestrians, designed to correctly position the reins in the riders hands while providing warmth without excessive thickness or weight. The mitten is composed of a cuff, a thumb pocket, a second pocket to encase the index, middle, and r... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507804 | Finger-guard A finger guard for protection against injury by a knife when cutting foodstuff. The finger guard extends along the back-hand face of an operator finger, and is bendable concurrently with the latter. The finger guard consists of a multiplicity of spaced-ap... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507805 | Ambulatory sleeping bag A convertible sleeping bag for use as a sleeping bag and an ambulatory garment having integral upper torso and lower torso portions, the upper torso portion having a front and back and at least two closeable openings, each having two sides when open and e... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507806 | Protective garment A protective garment of firefighters having a damage resistant outer protective shell, an inner liner having a collar and a moisture barrier either as a separate layer or incorporated in the outer protective shell wherein the outer protective shell is sec... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507807 | Work glove finger structure A work glove in which the tips of one or more fingers of the glove are made of relatively pliable, stretchable material for increased sensitivity at the user's fingertips. A ring or band of high friction material coats the inside surface of the fingers, t... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507808 | Method of manufacturing clothing A method is provided for tracing, cutting and assembling a garment part with an upper portion having the outline of an armhole and a given width, along with a lower portion with a given width. The garment part is contained in a rectangle whose width is eq... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507809 | Visor for a protective helmet A visor for a protective helmet, the visor comprising at least one transparent panel and a frame which receives substantially the entire periphery of the panel in a groove, recess, or the like carried by the frame in a manner which permits rapid changing ... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507810 | Implantable breast prostheses An implantable breast prosthesis having a shell of bio-compatible material filled with a plurality of individual, irregularly shaped cells. The shell is at least partially filled with a liquid. The cells have passageways formed therein, that preferably ha... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507811 | Toilet bowl dispenser A toilet bowl cleaner dispenser includes a reservoir for holding cleaner to be dispensed, an air cavity disposed below the reservoir, an air conduit including a portion communicating with an inlet to the reservoir, a portion communicating with an outlet f... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507812 | Dispenser for a toilet A dispenser for disinfectant, cleaning agent, coloring agent, deodorant, perfuming agent or the like adapted to be positioned in a toilet tank is formed by thermoforming from synthetic resin foil with a base having cells at least one of which is divided b... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507813 | Toilet seat and lid lock An automatically engageable and quickly and easily releasable locking device for a toilet seat and lid is disclosed. A single mounting bar attached to the underside of the lid carries a pivoted spring-biased locking arm which is released by simple finger ... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507814 | Patient lift A patient lift device of the type primarily intended for use in combination with a bed having opposing side rails and a mattress therebetween wherein the lift device comprises a continuous length of strapping, or web material. A first end of the strap is ... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507815 | Platform bed and corner connector A platform bed having a pedestal portion supporting a platform portion upon which the mattress is positioned; corner connectors are provided for connecting the side and end frame members of the pedestal and platform portions and transversely extending cha... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507816 | Waterbed with sound wave system A standard waterbed is shown having added thereto a sound wave system having four loudspeaker housings positioned within the floor pedestal of the bed beneath the supporting deck for the water-filled bladder mattress. Each of these loudspeaker housings is... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507817 | Connector and insertion tool A unique connector and insertion tool are disclosed. The connector is hollow with screw-type threads on its outer surface, an enlarged head at one end and a non-sharp configuration at the other end. The insertion tool has a non-sharp elongated shaft or pi... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507818 | Collapsible hairbrush A collapsible hairbrush comprises a base plate and a plurality of bristle supporting plates arranged in side by side parallel relationship with each other, the bristle supporting plates having upper surfaces and being rotationally situated in the base pla... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507819 | Power nozzle sudser for canister type vacuum cleaner A typical power nozzle for a canister type vacuum cleaner is modified by omitting nozzle adjustment and other components, and by adding a tank for suds solution, a suds control unit, and a modified nozzle housing bottom plate which slides on the floor cov... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507820 | Concealable handle with a slidable pivot A concealable handle for carrying an article having one or two elonated channels with a U-shaped cross-section. The handle works in combination with the channels, the handle comprising two elongated straps proportioned to fit inside the channels, one insi... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507821 | Plastic handle assembly A handle (1) for use on a bucket of plastic material and a fastening knob (2) are integrally moulded and interconnected by a moulded fin (4). The fastening knob (2) has a head (5), an elastically resilient flange (6) slanting outwards, and a shank (7). Wh... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507822 | Automatic machine for splitting butchery animals, notably pigs The invention relates to the butchery industry. The machine comprises notably: a vertical splitting carrier mobile along a first column, a mobile horizontal carrier on the splitting vertical carrier, a splitting blade carried by the horizontal carrier, a resil... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507823 | Fish processing machine with controlling means for the processing tools A control device for the processing tools controlled by cams with regard to their start of operation and their processing course is provided in fish-processing machines. The cam comprises, as already known, a main cam and one or more cam segments adjustab... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507824 | Device for filleting beheaded fish The invention concerns a device for filleting beheaded fish. Considering the deficiencies of known machines with regard to the aligning of the fish according to the position of the lower edge of their spinal column and with the purpose of removing these d... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507825 | Self-adjusting tail breaker means A tail breaker cam assembly for use with a shrimp processing machine for aiding in the fracturing of the tail of a shrimp from the main shrimp shell, the tail breaker cam assembly including a first, fixed cam member and a second cam member pivotal about t... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507826 | Method and apparatus for opening fiber bales Apparatus for removing fiber from a plurality of bales including a carriage for movement along the bales and a head which is carried by the carriage for vertical movement to engage the bales and remove fiber therefrom during traverse movement of the carri... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507827 | Cleaning machine for fiber material The cleaning machine for fiber material has an opening roller provided with clothing. The cleaned fibers are again removed from the clothing into a suction chamber by means of a screening member containing a screening wall provided with a nose. The invent... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507828 | Bundling belt device A bundling belt member molded from a synthetic resin as a one-body device comprising a head having an opening formed through the same in the axial direction of the device and a stopper member rockably formed in the opening, and a belt member extending fro... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507829 | Light weight tensionable buckle A buckle intended for use primarily with wide, flat strapping material used in the air cargo transportation industry. The buckle has a body member and an "over-center" handle member journaled on a journal pin attached thereto such that the handle member a... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507830 | Holder for sheet-like objects The present invention relates to a rapid-action holder for sheet-like objects. While there is no lack of means for affixing sheet-like, nonrigid or semi-rigid material to wall or other surfaces, the application of such means--nails, drawing pins, adhesive... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507831 | Spring clip for tilter worm shaft A spring clip shaft connection wherein a shaft includes a transverse hole spaced inwardly from one end of the shaft, a generally U-shaped body having a leg formed with longitudinally extending proximate and distal leg portions laterally offset from each o... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507832 | Method and apparatus for the continuous treatment of yarn A method and apparatus for the continuous heat treatment of a carpet yarn or the like is disclosed, and wherein the yarn is advanced in loop form through a heat treatment chamber and then along a downstream accumulation zone. A control system is provided ... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507833 | Jet texturing nozzle A texturing device consists of nozzle (1) with a guide duct (2) and a radial bore for feeding a pressure medium terminating in the guide duct. The duct is outwardly flared with a convexly curved outlet opening (2'), and a spherical or semispherical guide ... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507834 | Drilling monitor A drilling monitor employs laser optics and an associated signal processing device to provide intelligent control capable of making the optimum decision to maintain hole quality and maximize drill life during the drilling of via holes in a circuit board. ... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507835 | Adjustable press jig for front wheel strut assembly A jig is provided including a base for support from the base plate of a hydraulic press over which a downwardly extendible ram is mounted. The jig includes a pair of upstanding supports spaced horizontally apart and with at least one of the upstanding sup... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507836 | Access door and framing apparatus for the access door's framework An access door is constituted by an outer framework adapted to be fitted in a rough opening formed in a building ceiling, wall, or the like, an inner framework set in an opening in the outer framework, a cover plate secured to the inner framework so as to... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507837 | Extractor tool An extractor tool for removing a die button from an opening in a die block into which the button has been securedly pressed. The die button has an axial opening therethrough. The tool includes a hollow expandible extractor insertable into and through the ... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507838 | Tool for removing and replacing wheelbearings A tool for removing and replacing automobile wheelbearings without removing either the axle or the bearing housing and without applying pressure to the axle. A frame is provided which is adapted to be secured to the bearing housing. An extractor is movabl... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507839 | Two-piece ear tag removing tool A pair of opposing jaws are provided and mounted for relative movement toward and away from each other. One of the jaws includes an elongated stud supported therefrom including a free end projecting toward the other jaw and the other jaw defines a pair of... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4507840 | Method for compacting nuclear reactor components A method is disclosed for the compaction of control rod blades and fuel channels of a boiling water reactor. Upper and lower portions of a control rod blade are removed from a cruciform shaped main blade structure. Each elongate tubular fuel channel of su... | 04/02/1985 |
