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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4514861 | Golf gloves A golf glove is provided wherein the lateral sides of outer and inner wall members of finger compartments thereof are respectively sewn together as twisted in a direction opposite to the direction of and in an amount substantially equal to the amount of t... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514862 | Gun recoil protector A versatile recoil protector for protecting a persons shoulder during shooting of a gun. The protector is made of a main body portion which fits over the shoulder and is held in place by suitable strap means. An arm protector is secured to the main body p... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514863 | Sock A sock is described which can be worn in a boot or other situation where an ordinary sock is likely to sag, wherein the sock is constructed to resist such sagging. The sock includes an elastic sock body and a strip-shaped stiffener sewn to the outer surfa... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514864 | Safety helmet, especially for users of automotive vehicles The safety helmet has a viewing opening which can be covered by a visor. Several vent openings and air passage openings are arranged at the chin protector of the safety helmet. Such openings terminate together into an air-collecting chamber provided on th... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514865 | Stemmed femoral component for the human hip A stemmed femoral component for the human hip for which fixation is provided in one embodiment by bony ingrowth and which may be easily removed for replacement thereof by an osteotone. The two-piece component includes a stem which is elongated and has on ... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514866 | Buoyant metering dispenser A buoyant dispenser for periodic delivery of a metered quantity of a dispensable material comprises a container having a central receptacle to hold the dispensable material, buoyancy means such as pontoons straddling the receptacle, a cover in fluid-tight... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514867 | Wheel chair with displaceable seat panel A seat construction for a wheel chair includes a pivoted central panel and a handle and linkage for pivoting the panel from an occupant supporting position to an open position which enables the wheel chair to be wheeled over a conventional toilet for use ... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514868 | Bathtub The invention is concerned with a bathtub having a bottom wall, a pair of sidewalls and opposed first and second end walls integrally formed with the bottom wall, the second end wall being angularly inclined outwardly to define an abutment surface against... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514869 | Top member for a vehicle seat A top member for a vehicle seat includes a top layer, wadding and a wadding cover laminated to one another. Rigid button core members having outer circumferential portions are interposed between the top layer and the wadding or between the wadding and the... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514870 | Fire resistant lap protection blanket A fire resistant lap protection blanket (20) to be placed across the lap of the driver or passenger of a vehicle to protect clothing from tobacco burns or soiling includes a fire resistant material dimensioned to substantially cover the lap to interrupt d... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514871 | Waterbed convertible cap A universal, convertible, padded end cap for a water bed railing permits the joining of a supplementary end rail to any of a number of available padded water bed side rail designs providing in each case a smooth, decorative, functional corner joint and se... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514872 | Escalator tread cleaning brush An improved escalator tread cleaning brush (12) is disclosed for use in cleaning the steps (14) of an escalator (10). A brush bar (28) forming a portion of the brush (12) mounts first, second and third sets of bristles (44, 46, 52). The first set of brist... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514873 | Equipment for cleaning remnants of carbon blocks Apparatus for cleaning bar-mounted remnants of carbon blocks includes a machining station defining a working position. A breaking device is provided for loosening incrustations adhering to the remnants at the working position. The individual remnants are ... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514874 | Device for automatically controlling the suction power of a vacuum cleaner A device for automatically controlling the suction power of a vacuum cleaner, in which at least one diaphragm-actuated vacuum switch is so arranged in the vacuum region of the vacuum cleaner that, depending on the variation in the air pressure as a result... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514875 | High capacity filter for floor cleaning machines and the like A high capacity filter and filtering system for a floor cleaning machine is provided. The floor cleaning machine comprises a frame, wheels supporting the frame on the surface to be cleaned, a rotatable sweeping brush carried by the frame, and a hopper car... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514876 | Injection moulded bag closure Bag closure comprising two bag carrying bars interconnected at their ends, closure means or handle parts, which are connected to the upper sides of the carrying bars and, at least one of which is connected to the associated carrying bar via a flexible con... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514877 | Stove damper handle A handle for a stove damper or the like includes an elongated rod mounted in a boss secured to the handle member. The handle member is disposed at an angle to the rod. The rod is mounted in the boss in such a manner that axial, rotational and pivotal move... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514878 | Reversible adjustable torsion door closer A torsion spring door closer assembly for use with a in-swinging, out-swinging, right-handed or left-handed door. The door closer assembly is reversible so that it can be easily adapted to the various door styles above. Further, the closing force provided... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514879 | Suspended feather picker with rotatable sections Two banks of feather pickers 65 and 66 are suspended from overhead parallel support beams 22 and 23 on opposite sides of the path of travel of a series of poultry carcasses moving along an overhead conveyor system. A pair of movable frame members 30, 31 a... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514880 | Formation of nonwoven webs or batts from continuous filament tow or yarn strands A method and machine for forming nonwoven batts containing refractory fibers such as carbon, glass, ceramic or metallic fibers, includes a conveying table (12) provided with scalloped rollers (90, 92) which separate tows of filaments (16) and spread the f... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514881 | Method and apparatus for reducing fiber bales Process and apparatus for reducing the material of rows of fiber bales by means of a milling device reciprocating between two rows of bales. The milling device can be rotated 180° to transfer the milling device between the rows of bales whereby fibers ca... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514882 | Device for retaining in side-by-side relationship flexible tying means such as shoelaces A device for retaining in side-by-side relationship flexible tying means such as shoelaces comprises two relatively rigid clamping members and a relatively flexible linking member joining the clamping members. The linking member is adapted to permit the c... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514883 | Object-simulating belt buckle A belt buckle comprising a body adapted to be connected to a belt for wearing on a user and having a structure which simulates a known object having a movable component, for example an automobile, bell, or animal such as a bird. An element is movably conn... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514884 | Double-slider fastening lock The invention relates more particularly to a double-slider fastening lock including a catch plate having a long hole capable of inserting a head of a corresponding slider, a cover body having several windows on the side portion and having a hole correspon... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514885 | Clip with two stable positions of the clothes pin type The invention relates to a clip made of plastic, in one piece, consisting of two articulated arms (1,2), one of the ends (4) of which serves as jaws and the other end (5) as a lever arm, and of an upper elastic component (10) forming a spring, which compr... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514886 | Unit for positioning a venetian blind ladder and for guiding the slats of the blind thereonto A unit for positioning a venetian blind ladder tape and for guiding the slats of a blind between individual rungs of a rung pair of a ladder tape, said unit comprising two body portions, a guiding member on each body portion, each guiding member locating,... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514887 | Roll for use in calendars or the like A calender roll wherein a hollow rotary cylindrical shell surrounds a stationary carrier and the latter supports a set of hydraulic cylinder and piston units serving to urge the external surface of a bearing element toward the internal surface of the shel... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514888 | Apparatus for installing a tension coil spring An apparatus (40) for installing a coil spring (30) under tension between the discharge electrode wires (20) of a rigid-frame type electrostatic precipitator (10). The installation apparatus (40) comprises a longitudinally elongated support rod (42), firs... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514889 | Spring clip inserter tool A tool (30) for facilitating insertion or removal of a C-shaped spring clip in a burnable poison rod, or the like, includes an outer member (38) secured to a front handle (32) and an inner member (40) extending through the outer member and the front handl... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514890 | Tool assembly for removal and installation of freeze plugs The tool assembly enables installation in and removal from a combustion engine block of freeze plugs. The puller component has a plug penetrating point which is forced through the plug to define an opening. Spreader segments associated with the point can ... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514891 | Method of conversion of vehicle bodies A vehicle body of the convertible or targa type and the method of converting such a body from a sedan type vehicle body in which a reinforcing structure is disposed within the passenger compartment and is fastened thereto to form a centrally extending str... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514892 | Machine tool A machine tool having a gate-type construction and provided with a tool magazine (11). The tool magazine (11) is mounted between a pair of support portions (3a) of a gate-shaped column (3) and above a work support table (2). The tool magazine (11) is comp... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514893 | Fabrication of FETs A method of fabricating field effect transistors which includes control of threshold potential by an ion implantation limited to the active channel area. The active channel area is defined by a photoresist pattern. Ions are implanted into the exposed area... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514894 | Semiconductor integrated circuit device manufacturing method In a semiconductor integrated circuit device composed of insulated gate field-effect transistors, the improvement comprises the fact that insulated gate field-effect transistors having gate insulating films of substantially equal thicknesses are arranged ... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514895 | Method of forming field-effect transistors using selectively beam-crystallized polysilicon channel regions A method of manufacturing MOS field-effect transistors using a wafer (40) having a polycrystal or amorphous semiconductor layer formed on an insulator comprises a step in which an energy beam (44) is applied to the semiconductor layer by scanning the beam... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514896 | Method of forming current confinement channels in semiconductor devices Semiconductor light emitting devices, lasers and LEDs, are described in which the current flow channel is narrower near the top surface of the device and wider at its bottom near the active region. Also, described are several attenuation masks for fabrica... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514897 | Electrically programmable floating gate semiconductor memory device An N-channel, double level poly, MOS read only memory or ROM array is electrically programmable by floating gates positioned beneath control gates formed by row address lines. The cells may be electrically programmed by applying selected voltages to the s... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514898 | Method of making a self protected thyristor The present invention is directed to a thyristor self-protected against overvoltage by the avalanche mechanism, the protection resulting from a laser scribed ring shaped groove cut in the top surface of the thyristor and extending into one base region of ... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514899 | Apparatus with optical projector for assembling a wooden structure Wooden structures are assembled from a plurality of wooden elements with interposed metallic connectors, by assembling the wooden elements on a work table provided with a rectangular grid. The image of the structure to be assembled, with a superposed grid... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4514900 | Apparatus to manufacture heat exchanger finned tube The present invention comprises an improved heat exchanger finned tube and method and apparatus for producing elongated segments of the finned tube comprising knurling the outside surface of a central tube of heat conductive material, forming strip stock ... | 05/07/1985 |
