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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4543667 | Sun visor A sun visor for attachment to a pair of eyeglass temples includes a bill member having a substantially flat, rigid stiffening member formed with a substantially concave inner edge and a substantially convex outer edge. A top and a bottom material covers t... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543668 | Disposable torso covers Disposable torso-cover sheet stock consisting essentially of a roll of flexible sheet material having defined therein, by transverse lines at which said sheet material is readily severable, a plurality of disposable torso covers of rectangular shape, each... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543669 | Combination toy and garment A combination toy and garment comprising a toy portion and a garment portion attached together to form an article of clothing such that when the garment portion is enfolded by the toy portion the combination takes the shape of a stuffed toy.... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543670 | Sleeve attachment for multilayered protective coat There is disclosed a novel sleeve attachment of a multilayered protective coat comprised of an outer shell and an inner thermal liner, the sleeve attachment including a detachable, innersleeve wristlet assembly comprised of a wristlet and a flexible inner... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543671 | Heated mitten A mitten having a pouch disposed in its interior which is supported by the mitten so as to be moveable relative to the hand of a user. The mitten is provided with an opening in its exterior which communicates with the interior of the pouch whereby a heati... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543672 | Belt construction A belt or other band-like article adapted to be worn around the waist, hips or other body part of a user and with or without a separate buckle. The belt includes a length of material having a free end and a loop loosely retained at its other end. The belt... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543673 | Vaulted intraocular lens Vaulted intraocular lens including a method and apparatus for vaulting universally an intraocular lens incorporating any geometrical configuration of closed or open loops attached to a lens such as a plano-convex or the like. The vaulted intraocular lens ... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543674 | Water saving insert for toilet tank An insert installed inside the toilet tank arranged and constructed to decrease the amount of water held in the tank. While the amount of flushing water used for each flush is appreciably less than it would be without this insert in place, the bulk of tha... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543675 | Vehicle seat-bed extender An improved seat-bed assembly for a vehicle. The assembly includes seat, back and extender supports and corresponding linkage to allow conversion from seat form to a full-sized bed.... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543676 | Method of liquid treatment of textile fiber material Textile fiber material is dyed particularly quickly, uniformly, and gently by evacuating it unitl dry in a treatment vat, whereupon the dyeing liquor is introduced into the vat, avoiding any initial condensation in the fibrous material. This is achieved b... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543677 | Airtight telescoping rigid conduit An airtight telescoping rigid conduit is disclosed which includes rigid tubular sections which are coupled together using multiple bearings and a pressure actuated resilient seal ring. The tubular sections are constructed with a heat insulating foam core ... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543678 | Feedyard sweeper A feedyard sweeper for sweeping and cleaning animal feed bunks. The sweeper readily adaptable for mounting on different types of tractors and other vehicles. Brooms mounted on the sweeper are used for cleaning all sides of the feed bunk and can be used fo... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543679 | Toothbrush assembly combining a handle with a replaceable brush assembly and a replaceable oral hygiene device A toothbrush assembly combining a toothbrush handle, a brush assembly releasably engageable with a head end of the handle, and an oral hygiene device releasably engageable with the tail end of the handle. The head end of the handle has a recess formed the... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543680 | Blackboard eraser handle A detachable handle for use on erasers having absorbent material attached to a flat, rigid backing plate such as the common blackboard eraser. A "C" shaped rigid strap contains "C" shaped notches in the ends thereof. These notches are disposed to face one... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543681 | Remotely operated chimney cleaning apparatus A chimney sweeping device is disclosed. The device includes a frame which is mounted on the flue at the top of the chimney. The top section of the frame is enclosed on its three sides and top and has a pair of trap doors hingably mounted on its bottom sid... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543682 | Windshield wiper device for motor vehicles In a windshield wiper device each wiper blade has a wiper element with a lip applied to a windshield to be wiped and a back portion held in an elastic rail made from elastic plastics. The wiper element is secured on the elastic rail against mutual displac... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543683 | Device for cleaning stays A cleaning unit including a stay cleaning means such as a brush is mounted in the housing and is permitted to freely rotate around the axis of the stay. When the housing is moved up and down the length of the stay in a fixed angular position, the cleaning... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543684 | Apparatus for cleaning plastics forming mold faces An apparatus for cleaning plastics forming mold faces comprising composite brushes each consisting of a vibratory brush adapted to be vibrated in a vertical direction or in unspecified directions by a vibrating mechanism, and a rotary brush annularly surr... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543685 | Caster A cast with an inherent function of automatically changing the direction of a wheel (11) is selectively stopped. A severe shock applied to the wheel (11) cancels the lock on the wheel (11) against the change of direction. In response to such shock, a whee... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543686 | Furniture hinge having a spring biased pivoting pressure member A hinge with a closing mechanism includes a hinge arm connected with a hinge casing by two hinge links. The internal hinge link is a two-arm lever pivotable around a hinge axle on the hinge arm. A pressure member is pivotably mounted on an arm of the inte... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543687 | Tapered nesting hinge A butt hinge has a pair of tapered leaves connected together by a removable pivot pin, an outer leaf having tubular portions at each end thereof for reception of the pivot pin, and having a central cut out area for reception of an inner leaf having an inn... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543688 | Animal skinning holder In an animal skinning holder including a bracket adopted for securement to a supporting surface, a base plate incorporating wedge connecting device may removably support the bracket to the supporting surface. A pair of arms extend forwardly from the brack... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543689 | Method and apparatus for removing cheek meat from the skulls of slaughtered animals Cheek meat is removed from the skull of a slaughtered animal by a method and apparatus wherein the skull is held at a given orientation in a skull-holding device; a hook is brought into engagement with the cheek meat; and, an actuator produces forcible re... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543690 | Apparatus for forming fiber felts An apparatus as disclosed for controlling the distribution of fibers in a fiber felt forming process, which comprises a guide duct through which a gas current with felt fibers entrained is directed. The gas passes through a perforated conveyor, which reta... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543691 | Hose clamp Clamp of the type constituted by a wound-over metal band, a first end of which is provided on its external face with an oblong patch of transversely extending scores or teeth, the width of said patch being preferably less than that of the band, whereas th... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543692 | Clasp for ornaments A clasp for an ornament including a clasp body connected to one end of the ornament, and an engaging member connected to the other end of the ornament. The engaging member is adapted to be lockingly secured in the clasp body. The clasp body is divided int... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543693 | Safety belt buckles A buckle for a safety belt has a body in which a passageway is provided for receiving a tongue and a latch member movable transversely of the passageway between a latching position in which it engages with the latching formation to retain the tongue in th... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543694 | Lock for safety belts Lock for safety belts with a belt lock and an insertion tab which can be detented at a latch, which latch can be moved transversely to the insertion direction when the insertion tab is inserted, preferably by the latter itself into the open position again... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543695 | Jewelry clutch A clutch is disclosed consisting of two parts, the first part being a tubular shell closed at one end, the shell having therein a resilient female clutch member that is held in position by lips on the open end of the shell. A male member is provided which... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543696 | Device for separating and delivering individual heddles or drop wires to a draw-in position The invention relates to a device for individually separating heddles arrayed in a pack on slide rails. It is assumed that the heddles are of a magnetizable material. One magnetic plate is mounted at each of the opposite sides of the pack, these plates be... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543697 | Low friction drafting system for yarns Low friction drafting system for yarn and having in sequence a driven feed roll, a low friction freely rotatable hot roll for preheating the yarn, a low friction freely rotatable hot roll for thermally stabilizing the yarn, a driven output roll, with tens... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543698 | Setting for a precious stone and a method of mounting the stone in the setting A setting comprising a mounting, a stone and fastening elements, said mounting containing at least two smooth bore holes spaced apart a distance to receive between them the stone and said fastening elements each comprising a head of larger diameter than t... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543699 | Apparatus for assembling slatted venetian blinds Apparatus, for positioning a venetian blind ladder cord (or the like) and for guiding the slats of a venetian blind between individual rungs of a multiple cord cross-rung, is described. Specifically, this apparatus applies a force to a rung of a non-activ... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543700 | Method of detachably securing an explosive charge container in a hollow carrier for a perforating device The invention provides a subterranean well casing perforating gun device which employs shaped explosive charges to perforate the well casing. The device generally defines an outer tubular housing assembly concentrically insertable in the well and defining... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543701 | Method of attaching a fastener to a panel A method of attaching a metal fastener, such as a stud-bolt, to a panel. The fastener includes a self-piercing annular projecting wall defining a recess having a bottom wall and an inner side wall defined by the annular wall. The method includes locating ... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543702 | Fully automatic method and apparatus for assembling stick-type cosmetics Assembly of stick-type cosmetics such as lipsticks is fully automatized by highly coordinated operation of a pair of robots each accompanied with sequential operational units arranged within the ambit of its operational terminal so that sticks and bottles... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543703 | Method of field assembly of a selected number of shaped charges in a well casing perforating gun A method and apparatus effecting the perforating of a well casing and the gravel packing of the perforated areas of the well casing of a combined perforating and gravel packing apparatus. This desirable objective is accomplished by a perforating gun const... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543704 | Method for anchoring a machine element coaxially on a rotary shaft A method of mounting a machine element on a shaft by means of a device which fits between the interior cylindrical bore of the machine element and the outer surface of the shaft. The device has a sleeve formed of three separable segments, the inner surfac... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543705 | Axial-lead component sequencing and inserting apparatus The present invention involves a method and apparatus for feeding axial lead components directly from a sequencer to an insertion head, while eliminating direct supplying of components to the insert head via a prededicated inventory such as reeled tapes o... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4543706 | Fabrication of junction field effect transistor with filled grooves Junction field effect transistor, specifically a static induction transistor and method of fabricating. A low resistivity N-type layer is formed at the surface of a high resistivity N-type epitaxial layer which has been grown on a low resistivity N-type s... | 10/01/1985 |
