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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4554681 | Replaceable shoulder padding for football and the like A quickly replaceable padding for athletic gear and the like, comprised of a depressible core coextensively bonded within an envelope of impervious sanitary material and to which at least one strap is anchored by sewing to a doubler coextensively bonded b... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554682 | Convertible jacket A convertible jacket comprising a sleeveless body garment in the general form of a vest and an upper component comprising, as a unit, two sleeve portions connected by a yoke portion incorporating a neckhole and, optionally, a neckhole extension such as a ... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554683 | Protective enclosure having self-contained air supply A protective enclosure fabricated from a clear, flexible, plastic material that, in the event of an emergency, is easily positionable over the head and upper body of a wearer to protect the wearer from the adverse effects of a contaminated environment, su... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554684 | Men's combination briefs and hose A garment having a right side portion and a left side portion, with a mating mechanism applied to the left side portion and the right side portion such that each portion may mate with the other to form an entire garment but when said right side portion an... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554685 | Underwear An underwear garment or similar garment having leg shield means which are adapted to fit into both crevices located at the junctures of the legs and the pelvis to form the sides of a compartment for containing the male reproduction organs which provides f... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554686 | Polymethylmethacrylate bone cements and methods for preparing such bone cements The present invention is directed to polymethylmethacrylate bone cement that is premixed and frozen so as to arrest the polymerization reaction at a suitable point. The frozen bone cement is treated by electromagnetic radiation to insure sterility. In use... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554687 | Toilet mounted urine flow meter A urine flow meter including a toilet mounted collector is disclosed. The collector has a mouth portion which is dimensioned to fit within a toilet bowl and which has walls which slope downwardly and inwardly to a neck portion. The neck portion extends do... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554688 | Water saving system A water saving system for preventing the waste of water which falls below a predetermined temperature, which system includes a recirculating pipe line extending from an outlet faucet back to a heating device and which system is appropriately controlled th... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554689 | Strength saver commode This invention is a solid block placed between a commode and a floor to raise the commode seat; and including mounting bolts for the block and commode.... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554690 | Water distribution system for showers A water distribution system for a shower enclosure (1) including longitudinal water channels (20-24), each having an internal passage (36), and covering clips (60,70) secured to each of a pair of water channels at a corner therebetween.... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554691 | Patient lifting apparatus Lift apparatus by which invalids are translated into various positions through the use of a radio-controlled mechanism operable by the invalid from the lift transport platform. Linear actuators responsive to the radio control network operate to position a... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554692 | Adjustable box spring retainer bracket An adjustable retainer bracket for retaining a bedding foundation such as box springs on a pedestal bed base having spaced side rails and cross slats connected between the side rails, includes a retainer plate having a horizontal web connected to downward... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554693 | Mattress, box springs fabric A body support element such as a mattress, box springs or the like that exhibits non-slip qualities as to a further item freely supported thereon. A ticking fabric covers at least an upper surface of the element includes a base fabric having pairs of yarn... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554694 | Extensible shoe shaper In an extensible shoe shaper, the toe and heel are connected by means of a kinematic hinge element, formed of a plastic material strip of varying thickness applied by pressure, the configuration of which can be varied--in order to vary the extension of th... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554695 | Vehicular road block A road block for preventing unauthorized vehicles from entering a secured area comprises a pit, a span covering the pit, collapsible support members supporting the span at the trailing end of the plate with respect to the direction of vehicle access, devi... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554696 | Golf club grip cleaner An electrically powered brush assembly for the wet scrubbing and cleaning of the hand grip of a piece of athletic equipment such as the grip of a golf club. The assembly is comprised of an elongated housing including an upper compartment which is adapted ... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554697 | Ballast brooms There is described a self-propelled railroad track ballast broom machine having a first broom unit operatively mounted at the rear of the machine frame and a second broom unit operatively mounted at the front of the frame. The broom units have substantial... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554698 | Dispensing arrangement for an upright vacuum cleaner A scent dispensing arrangement is disclosed for use in an upright vacuum cleaner having a flexible air pervious bag extending along a pivoting handle thereof and an air flow generating means which produces an air flow which is exhausted to atmosphere via ... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554699 | Flexible brush A flexible brush apparatus having a flexible holder for supporting two or more brush elements which can be individually interchanged, rotated or replaced to compensate for edge bristle wear is disclosed. Flexing of the holder enables the brush elements to... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554700 | Invisible hinge means for lid and hood of a canister vacuum cleaner A vacuum cleaner structure having an invisible hinge structure hingedly mounting a hood to the vacuum cleaner body and a lid to the hood. The body defines an arcuate guide slidably receiving an arcuate slide-track for hingedly mounting the hood to the bod... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554701 | Vacuum street sweeper and filter apparatus therefor A motorized vehicular vacuum street sweeper (2) includes a hopper (14), a vacuum system (12) for suctioning debris and depositing same in the hopper (14), and a multi-stage filtration system (16) including a coarse filter above the hopper (14) and two dif... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554702 | Vacuum driven tool A rotary brush vacuum sweeper having a directly coupled disc brush and turbine wheel. The disc brush floats axially within the sweeper housing to control brush force and is in telescopic relation with rearward motor components to promote favorable air flo... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554703 | Magnetic eraser dust collector A device for use with an eraser of a rubber composition having magnetic particles dispersed therein. The device has a permanent magnet for attracting the magnetic dust created by use of the eraser. For the ready removal of the collected dust the device fu... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554704 | Corrosion resistant caster A heavy-duty caster assembly for a corrosive environment having a U-shaped metallic wheel supporting horn with a metal swivel plate rotatably mounted on the horn by a kingpin wherein both the swivel plate and the horn are coated with a permanently bonded ... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554705 | Encapsulated fiberglass mop handle A handle for use with items, such as mops and brooms, which is encapsulated in a heat shrunk PVC plastic tubing to provide a smooth, protective surface around the handle.... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554706 | Mounting plate of a hinge for mounting a door on furniture frames of varying thickness A hinge mounting plate suitable for fastening to a furniture frame is U-shaped and is laterally slideable onto the furniture frame. A distance compensating plate is provided at one of the two parallel side flanges of the mounting plate.... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554707 | Method of treating pigskin A method of producing pigskin comprises the steps of sequentially scalding the unprocessed pig carcass in a liquid bath at a temperature of substantially 57° to 59° C. for about 5.5 minutes, removing the carcass from the bath after scalding for 5.5 minu... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554708 | Method and apparatus for spraying textile fiber bales A bale opener has a horizontally back-and-forth travelling assembly, including an opening device for progressively removing fiber material from a top surface of the bale during a working pass. The bale opener is combined with a spraying arrangement includ... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554709 | Chain-driven comb head for slivers of textile fibres, particularly for drawing frames In a chain-driven comb head for drawing frames, of the type including means for directing compressed air jets at the combs, these means comprise ducts for supplying compressed air to each needle field defined by the combs and slots for generating, from th... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554710 | Tie tack A tie tack for flexibly securing a four-in-hand neck tie to the shirt of the wearer. The tie tack has a cross-bar member for inserting into the button hole of a shirt for securing the tack thereto. A flexible thread extends between the cross-bar and a rel... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554711 | Fastener assembly and mold for making same There is disclosed a mold for making a fastener assembly which is substantially less expensive to construct and maintain than existing molds. The disclosed mold uses one-half the number of ejector pins ordinarily used in molding fastener assemblies having... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554712 | Safety hooks It particularly concerns improvements on safety hooks doted with an articulated arm (1) on to the body of the hook (2) on its top part and opening externally from the hook and doted with a fastening device of the free end of the body of the hook by the fr... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554713 | Apparatus for differentially stretching, aligning and cutting sheet material Differentially stretched plastic with a dyed border along one side suitable for shaded interlayers of laminated windshields moves in an arcuate path away from a frustoconical roll of a continuously operating differential web stretcher toward an intermitte... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554714 | Moving web expanding and guiding apparatus A moving web expanding and guiding apparatus comprises, in combination, an expander device having three screw rolls arranged side by side, and a guide device having a required number of centering rolls, wherein the intermediate screw roll is movable in a ... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554715 | Method for the finishing of textile sheets A method for the finishing of textile sheets, in which textile sheets for outer wear, upholstered furniture and car seat covers, as well as for decoration, preferably made of yarns having yarn strengths typical for carded yarns and/or worsted yarns (for e... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554716 | Apparatus for tensioning and forwarding tow The improvement in a tow delivery apparatus downstream of a crimper of a jet device mounted in the laydown spout of the apparatus in the path of the tow. The jet is operated to tension and forward tow through the spout only during startup of the crimper w... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554717 | Method of making miniature high frequency SC-cut quartz crystal resonators Miniature high frequency SC-cut quartz crystal resonators are made from a plano-plano SC-cut quartz crystal wafer by chemically polishing the wafer; then chemomechanically polishing the chemically polished wafer; then chemically polishing the chemomechani... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554718 | Method of reinforcing a ceiling runner A method is provided for adding strength to a T-bar grid fabricated with a double web and capped system. The addition of strength is achieved by coating the inside portions of the T-bar with a hot melt adhesive. Cooling sets the adhesive and results in th... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554719 | Machine and method for the manufacture of an air-to-air heat exchanger A heat exchanger for transferring heat from stale air evacuated from a building to incoming fresh air employs a core made of a stack of spaced aluminum sheets that are joined along opposite edges in an alternate arrangement to define two separate sets of ... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4554720 | Apparatus and method for turning a track bushing Apparatus and method of turning a bushing of a track chain link assembly is disclosed which enables the bushing to be turned in place in the link assembly, thereby eliminating the need to disassembly the link assembly in order to effect the bushing turn. ... | 11/26/1985 |
