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Pillow with retractable umbrella
A pillow assembly having a supporting assembly and a retractable umbrella assembly that is easily transportable and allows a user to support his/her head while covering their face from sunlight.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4556991 | Protecting veil for welding helmets Apparatus is described for protecting a welder in association with a standard welding helmet of the type which is open at the top and back of the helmet. An elongate flexible veil comprising fire resistant fabric material is provided having a width across... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4556992 | Protective hand pad, and method of making same A protective hand pad fabricated from a sleeve of elastic fabric, and a preformed pad element. The sleeve is initially cut from an endless tube of the elastic fabric. A thumb hole is cut into the sleeve adjacent one end, and the preformed pad element is i... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4556993 | Convertible sunvisor cap A cap has a releasable rear portion of a crown which is swept forward while the crown is compressed to convert the cap to a sunvisor. A tab connected to the rearward edge of the crown has a fastener at its distal end to connect with a fastener on the viso... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4556994 | Fullface-type helmet A helmet comprising a shell having a viewing window defined in a front portion thereof and a mouth opening defined therein below the window, a windshield detachably mounted on the shell for covering the window, and a mouth cap detachably mounted on the sh... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4556995 | Goggles for sports A frame for surrounding and holding the lens of goggles for sports comprises an upper frame member, opposite side frame members and a lower frame member which are formed integrally. A protector is provided along the front portion at least of the upper fra... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4556996 | Heart valve An artificial heart valve includes tapering flaps which are suspended to pivot between open and closed positions.... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4556997 | Apparatus for driving medical appliances A self-propelled wheelchair type artificial heart driving apparatus for giving freedom of movement to those patients who require an auxiliary artificial heart. Various safety devices are provided to avoid danger due to erroneous running of the wheelchair ... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4556998 | Artificial intraocular lenses and method for their surgical implantation Improved artificial intraocular lenses for surgical implantation to replace a damaged natural lens in an otherwise functional eye of a patient are described; the improvement comprising forming the lens, so as to have a minimum diameter of about 2 mm and a... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4556999 | Apparatus for removing noxious fumes and gases from a commode bowl and preventing their escape to the immediate vicinity Apparatus for removing and preventing escape of noxious fumes from a commode bowl has a plurality of circumferentially arranged radially inwardly directed air inlet passages adjacent the bowl rim for the intake of ambient air surrounding the commode. A pl... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557000 | Toilet-tank discharge valve A toilet-tank discharge valve has a main-valve body that can be lifted off of its face, by release-activating an auxiliary valve with an activating mechanism, as a consequence of negative water balance in an associated discharge compartment. A supplementa... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557001 | Skimming device for swimming pool A skimming device for removing debris from the water surface of a swimming pool is formed from a skirt member of net material. Buoyancy material is mounted on the one edge margin of the skirt member and weights are mounted on the opposite edge margin of t... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557002 | Bathtub elevator A bathtub elevator consists of a floor frame, two tonglike guiding linkages, a lifting plate and two flexible lifting tubes, which are adapted to be filled with water under pressure. By means of a manually controllable valve, the flexible lifting tubes ca... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557003 | Shower mirror apparatus A shower apparatus includes a mirror mounted in a housing which forms a plenum behind the mirror. All of the shower water is made to flow through the plenum to heat the back of the mirror and thereby through convection heat the reflective front surface to... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557004 | Waterproof shower module with tile-ready inner surfaces A prefabricated shower module with a bottom and low side walls and a slightly lower front wall which has a horizontal outward projecting lip. The bottom preferably has a gentle downwardly sloping pitch leading to a drain hole with recesses for a strainer,... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557005 | Leaf cutter bee larvae extracting device A hive section of plastic or wood moves along an upper raceway with the board immediately following the inner board, being supported on the underside by a support which is shaped to follow the contour of the cross section of the board for maximum support.... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557006 | Method for setting and pretreating a cloth A method for setting and pretreating a cloth by a continuous process which comprises supplying a long cloth soaked with a treating solution continuously into a steamer body by piling up several sheets one on top of the other, separating these sheets, and ... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557007 | Anchor socket An anchor socket for bridge cables having bundles of stranded steel wires. It has a plurality of ribs formed on its inner wall. The larger the inner diameter of the ribs, the smaller the distance from the point where the cables are fastened.... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557008 | Dock leveler seal construction A seal construction for a dock leveler having a platform with opposite sides which moves vertically relative to the sides of a pit, including a pair of curtain members each having first and second opposite edges, with the first edges removably attached to... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557009 | Carbon electrode cleaning system An electrode cleaning apparatus wherein a carbon electrode is cleaned in a two-step process, the first step being a rough cleaning operation wherein scraper elements scrape the electrode at a first station, and a second step wherein the electrode moves be... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557010 | 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... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557011 | Fixture to support adhesive paper rollers on roller brushes for dusting clothing articles A device for removing dust and lint from clothing using adhesive coated rollers includes a pair of disc-like supports for the roller and are supported on a shaft. A second pair of disc-like members are also provided on the shaft positioned outwardly from ... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557012 | Wiper appliance Wiper appliance with a pressure device arranged between wiper head and shaft with pressure plate and counter pressure plate which pressure device is actuated through the intermediary of a lever system, and with a traction device for the wiper cloth. In a ... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557013 | Vacuum coupled squeegee attachment A squeegee attachment for a wet/dry vacuum cleaner having an elongate cleaning head and a deformable blade inserted into the head such that the blade barely extends past a lower portion of the cleaning head which forms part of a suction part, the blade ef... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557014 | Method and apparatus for processing similar workpieces of varying shape, points of contour and dimension Class workpieces, such as hog carcasses, of varying dimension, points of contour and shape are moved from storage on an overhead rail conveyer hanging vertically head down and are driven through break-up stations at a constant speed. Driven side belts mov... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557015 | Poultry halving machine Birds transported by an overhead poultry shackle line suspended by their hocks are led into engagement with bird orientation devices moving with a horizontal endless conveyor element below and parallel to the path of movement of the overhead shackle line.... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557016 | Washing apparatus for the internal rinsing of poultry carcasses Apparatus of the carousel type, which is disposed at a turning point of a conveyor belt, comprising a stationary central part which includes a vertically placed drum round which a frame has been suspended so as to be concentrically rotatable, the said fra... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557017 | Apparatus for filleting meat from poultry breast sections An apparatus and method for deboning or filleting the meat from a poultry breast section which is characterized by a plurality of mandrels spaced along a moving endless chain conveyor and each adapted to receive a poultry breast section. After loading of ... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557018 | Meat former apparatus An improved apparatus and process is disclosed which is adopted for controlled displacement of chunk, sectioned and formed meat products during a forced meat encasement process. More particularly, the improved apparatus and method of the instant invention... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557019 | Automatic portion-cutting method and machine An automatic portion-cutting machine measures the shape of a fish fillet, calculates its corresponding volume and weight, and cuts the fillet to create portions of a predetermined size. In the preferred embodiment disclosed herein, fish fillets are advanc... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557020 | Device for aligning fish A device for arranging fish in uniform head-tail alignment comprises a rotating gripping device of radially arranged pincer-like gripping elements. These form a vertical slot into which the fish led tail end first are introduced. Following the rotation of... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557021 | Laying out and opening of fiber bales A method of textile fiber bale opening wherein fiber bales are laid within a circle on the floor in a predetermined arrangement and are opened by a beater which rotates about the center of the circle and sweeps over the tops of the bales to loosen and str... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557022 | Drafting means for textile machine such as spinning machine A drafting device for a spinning machine, in which a plurality of loading devices for top rollers is provided, by which each top roller is held in a weighting arm in such a state as being displaceable independently from the other roller without disturbing... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557023 | Tie strap, particularly for tying elongated objects A tie band, particularly for tying elongated objects, such as wiring harnesses, which consists of a strap tongue toothed on both sides, a toothed clamp wedge, and a clamp head which receives the clamp wedge and the strap tongue which is to be clamped and ... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557024 | Clamp for hose, tubing, or the like A unitary, flexible, and resilient clamp for applying clamping forces to the exterior surface of objects such as coolant hoses, tubes, or the like. The clamp has a generally arcuate cross-sectional configuration and includes a flexible band in the form of... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557025 | Automatic seaming machine A method of and a means for the automatic seaming of fabric ends to form an endless papermakers and like fabric which teaches the enlargement of the shed of a sheet of yarns, controlled by a jacquard mechanism (93) by shed fingers (98, 113) engageable wit... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557026 | Method for producing an interlaced multifilament yarn Method for producing an interlaced multifilament yarn by rubbing and scratching a material multifilament yarn with a rotary rough surface member and with such intensity that individual filaments constituting the filament yarn are not substantially broken,... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557027 | Slide fastener chain apparatus of manufacture Gaps in molded polymer fastening elements secured to inner edge portions of coplanar support tapes are formed by cutting legs of the coupling elements in planes coplanar with the inner edge portions of the support tapes leaving remanents of the molded pol... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557028 | Composite inflatable crown roll An inflatable crown roll for a rolling mill is made entirely from castings and has a cavity of very small radial dimension. In one embodiment the arbor is cast in the usual way. Its surface bounding the cavity is coated with a refractory composition that ... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557029 | Core capping apparatus A capping head for a core-capping apparatus adapted to fix conforming sleeves within tubular fiber cores is constructed from a one-piece cylindrical shell having a bore therethrough to accommodate axial sliding movement of a partially conical, power actua... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4557030 | Multipurpose apparatus and method for tuning and grooving a ski A multipurpose ski apparatus is presented which may be used to tune and groove a ski. The apparatus may be easily held by a person's hand. It has a file on its upper end for filing the bottom side of a ski, a metal scraper for scraping the bottom of the s... | 12/10/1985 |
