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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4555811 | Extensible microfine fiber laminate An extensible water impervious laminated material having an improved hydrostatic head at higher extension is described. A preferred embodiment comprises an inner creped hydrophobic microfine fiber structure sandwiched between and bonded to two reinforcing... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555812 | Light weight pack for attaching to the clothes of a hiker This invention is directed to a method and an apparatus for converting, preferably, outdoor clothes to a pack by means so that a hiker can carry small and medium sized items. This invention, in many instances, eliminates the need for using a pack board by... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555813 | Slip resistant gloves An improved abrasion and cut resistant surface is provided for work gloves, work shoes and like wearing apparel. The surface of the invention provides a porous surface particularly useful in work environments where it is necessary for a workman to use glo... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555814 | Method of forming cloth into three-dimensional shapes and the articles produced by that method A novel process is disclosed in which garments and other cloth items are formed into their predetermined three dimensional shapes. Unfinished cloth is used to construct a shell which is then completely finished while maintained in the shape of the final p... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555815 | Protective helmet with releasably connected protective breathing mask In addition to protective helmets, a breathing protection is required time and again. This purpose is served by a protective breathing mask. It must be made possible to put the mask on in a simple way with one hand, but reliably and in combination with th... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555816 | Ventilated helmet A cyclist's helmet incorporates a dome shaped top wall structure, opposite side wall structures, a front opening for forward viewing, a lower front wall structure which extends forwardly and a rear wall structure. It also includes: (a) a frontward facing ... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555817 | Prosthetic foot and ankle joint A foot and ankle joint for a prosthetic appliance has a foot block, an ankle base, and a joint mechanism. The joint includes a resilient block of material such as rubber which is positioned between the foot block and the ankle base. A flexible cable is se... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555818 | Waste line trap A waste line trap is provided to prevent foreign objects and debris from being flushed through commodes into waste line systems. The waste line trap has a solid cylinder with continuous outer and inner walls. A plurality of angled fins are spaced equidist... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555819 | Holder for cleaning and/or colorant products intended to be hooked from the edge of a WC bowl A holder comprising a sealed container provided to receive a water-soluble active, solid composition and to protect it against the direct erosion by water susceptible to penetrate in the container. The holder including a basin having a predetermined volum... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555820 | Drain pipe system A system for clearing clogged drain pipes comprising a drain pipe section either straight or P-trap, having a closeable side inlet adjacent the upstream end of the pipe, means to connect the side inlet to a source of pressurized water, an anti-backflow de... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555821 | Sofa-bunk bed combination A sofa-bunk bed combination with the lower bunk-sofa seat surrounded by side panels. Upstanding, lateral side elements are located toward the rear at the lateral sides of the lower bunk. There is a back board at the top of the upright side elements of the... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555822 | Knife system with removable-accessory handle lock A knife system with symmetrical "U"-section swing handles has a removable, integral accessory detachably force fitted to it to lock the handles together in blade-exposed or use-position, and to serve as a scraper, a pair of offset screwdrivers providing f... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555823 | Machine for the automatic carding of uppers for footwear A machine for the automatic carding of uppers for footwear, having a locking unit of the last formed by two parts, one for locking the last in the heel-zone and the other to support the toe, and positioned on a carriage movable on a bedplate; a template p... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555824 | Debris collection system for street sweepers A street sweeper has floating support apparatus for supporting both a pick-up broom and a pair of laterally and forwardly disposed gutter brushes beneath a sweeper framework and for providing controlled broom and brush pressures on the surface being swept... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555825 | Hydraulic cooling system for vacuum street sweeper A hydraulically actuated vacuum street sweeper (2) of the motorized vehicular type includes a vacuum system (12) with a vacuum blower (14) for suctioning debris, and a cooling system (50) utilizing otherwise wasted exhaust air from the blower for cooling ... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555826 | Hydraulic control system for vacuum sweeper trucks A hydraulic control system for a vacuum sweeper truck including a hydraulic pump coupled to the truck's engine, a reservoir of hydraulic fluid, a hydraulic fan motor, a hopper actuator, and a valve assembly having three operative positions. In a first pos... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555827 | Convertible cabinet support The present invention relates to a retractable undercarriage formed preferably by three supporting members, two of which are leg members and the third a wheel member. The support members are moved to either move the leg members into supporting position an... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555828 | Guiding system for movable suspended partition walls A guiding system for movable suspended partition walls comprising a main guide rail and two or more branch guide rails each extending from one side of the main guide rail to define two or more directional change points, a plurality of retainers movably di... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555829 | Supporting stays for swingable windows having friction and sliding pivots A window stay comprises a pair of mounting plates, one being adapted for mounting to a window frame and the other being adapted for mounting to a window sash. The frame and sash mounting plates are coupled together by first and second arms, the first arm ... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555830 | Adjustment device for a ski boot A device for progressively adjusting the relative positions of two elements, comprising a rack (5), a control knob (4) rotatably mounted on a support (3) above the rack and having its lower face turned toward the latter, a spiral rib (15) centered on the ... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555831 | Catch for safety belts of air, water, and land transport means An improved catch for safety belts embodying releasable locking of the catch tongue with a releasing element which by means of a pushbutton is manually movable to slide counter to a return spring and release a locking mechanism, and an automatic release s... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555832 | Buckle assembly Disclosed herein is a buckle assembly suitable for use in a vehicle seat belt. The buckle assembly includes a clinched anchor block fixed on a wire and having an interlocking portion projecting downwardly therefrom, a buckle base having a bottom wall defi... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555833 | Mechanical plug drill A device for removing plugs from plugged tubes in a steam generator including a frame having a substantially flat plate, with a hollow drill bit mounted thereon and movable generally perpendicularly with respect thereto from a storage position to an opera... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555834 | Connector fitting with an electrical heating wire A connector fitting in the form of a sleeve for use on synthetic resin pipes has heating wire let into its inner face for heating the sleeve material and the ends of the pipes to be joined so that a fusion weld is produced. In order to have the wire so fi... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555835 | Process for producing propellers A method is provided for the fabrication of a steel propeller which is designed to have a final shape and size consistent with a conventional propeller design. The resultant formed propeller includes n individual blades, each having boss segments. When th... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555836 | Method of making a prototype from concept drawings A method of making prototype vehicles by first building a skeletal body of interlocking substantially rigid templates on a frame. The frame is built of tubing members and panels to precise specifications and is fitted with wheels to facilitate transportin... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555837 | Method of making an improved water heater tank assembly An improved water heater tank leg support assembly includes a plurality of legs formed from a generally rectangular blank by bending the sides of the blank to form a shearing action vertical support member which is spaced by the base. A boss or depression... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555838 | Method of installing self-attaching fasteners The present disclosure relates to self-piercing fasteners, such as studs, bolts or nuts, the method of attaching such fasteners to a panel and fastener installation apparatus, including the installation head and die button. The fastener includes a self-pi... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555839 | Method of interference-fitting male and female members A method of interference-fitting either a male or female resilient member to its corresponding female or male member using a hollow mandrel cooled to preferably cryogenic temperatures which freezes a compressed resilient member to at least its glass-trans... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555840 | Process for positioning and aligning dies A process and an apparatus for accurately locating and aligning dies on base plates is disclosed. The alignment of the dies is made by assembling a pair of the base plates in the form of a die set using jigs to be inserted into openings of the respective ... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555841 | Pipe aligning tool A tool for aligning pipes to be secured in an end-to-end relationship which includes a strap to be secured around the end of one pipe and a lever engaging the strap, the lever having a foot to engage and deform a portion of the other pipe.... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555842 | Method of fabricating VLSI CMOS devices having complementary threshold voltages For optimal performance, the threshold voltages VTP and VTN of the p- and n-channel transistors in a CMOS device should be the respective complements of each other. In polysilicon-gate devices, this can be achieved by adjusting the c... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555843 | Method of fabricating density intensive non-self-aligned stacked CMOS A stacked CMOS structure is disclosed which uses buried N++ source and drain for the non-self-aligned bulk N-channel driver devices together with an oversized polygate on which a non-self aligned P-channel load device is made from a second layer of poly o... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555844 | Part turnover attachment for automatic machine tool There is provided by this invention a part turnover attachment for use with an automated machine tool comprised of a chuck for supporting the tool in the rotatable spindle of the machine tool and a rotatable pickup mechanism that attaches to a workpiece. ... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555845 | Temperature stable self-protected thyristor and method of producing The present invention is directed to a process for providing overvoltage protection to a thyristor and to the thyristor so protected and comprises contacting the space charge region of the forward blocking junction of the thyristor with an electrical cont... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555846 | Method for the manufacture of an electrochemical storage cell as well as a storage cell produced by this method Method for the manufacture of an electrochemical storage cell of the sodium and sulfur type, with at least one anode space and one cathode space as well as an alkali ion conducting solid electrolyte separating the two, where at least one cathodic current ... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555847 | Connector insertion tool Connector insertion tool for mounting to a press having a magnetic chuck and mass inserting a plurality of contact pins depending from a connector into a printed circuit board comprises a body having bores therethrough and two rows of insertion fingers ex... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555848 | Defense weapon A defense weapon, comprising a toe boot which fits over the toe of a wearer's shoe and held securely in place by straps, one on each side of the toe boot, which are carried to the rear of a person's shoe, there tightly fastened and held by a belt and buck... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555849 | Battery powered portable saw A portable electric circular saw which operates on a rechargeable battery is disclosed. The circular saw comprises a housing for accommodating a motor driving a circular saw blade operatively connected thereto, the rechargeable battery supplying electrici... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4555850 | Hand plane, in particular a hand plane machine designed as an electric hand tool machine A hand plane, especially a hand plane machine, is provided with an adjusting and indicating arrangement for the planing depth. A wedge which is located before the tool element of the hand plane machine is adjustably fixed to an inclined base surface of th... | 12/03/1985 |
