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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4578821 | Body armor for women An article of woman's body armor comprises a carrier garment such as a T-shirt or undervest with front and rear pockets for receiving armor insert panels of soft flexible bullet-resistant material. The front insert panel has slits extending from the side ... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578822 | Visor A visor type article includes a relatively rigid arcuate shaped band member, an adjustable elastic strap cooperative with the band member in a manner to encircle the wearer's head with the band member engaging the wearer's forehead, and a replaceable viso... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578823 | Safety hand protector The present invention is a two-part interconnected protecting device which when properly used will enable the user to release a pressure cap or close a valve while simultaneously preventing the hot spraying fluid from striking the user. The first part is ... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578824 | Garment fastening A garment fastening arrangement comprising a plurality of lengthwise adjustable waistbands, belts, straps, cords or ties arranged in co-operative sets of interengageable belt portions, with at least a pair of associated interengageable rear belt portions ... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578825 | Smock or gown The invention comprises a gown (10) having a front unit (11) with a pair of identical front panels (12), (13) arranged in reverse relationship whereby the front unit (11) has an open neck and overlapping front flap portions (22), (22') which may be partia... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578826 | Process for the manufacture of protective hand coverings A flexible, microporous, hydrophobic and oleophobic protective handcovering and a process for its manufacture. The process generally comprises the steps of immersing a fabric shell having the configuration of a human hand in a liquid slurry comprised of i... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578827 | Waistband adjuster A waistband adjusting element for garments such as trousers, which provides for greater flexibility in the adjustable connection of overlapping waistband sections, is disclosed. A detent rail is attached to the inner waistband member and has a movable sli... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578828 | Outergarment A novel and useful pants-type outergarment having a crotch opening and a padded fly attached to the interior of the outergarment on one side to the crotch opening seam line, beginning at a front placket of the outergarment and extending to the back waistb... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578829 | Elevated toilet seat including clamping means A toilet seat is disposed in an elevated position relative to the bowl of a conventional toilet. The toilet seat has a plurality of clamps disposed around its underside. Each of the clamps engages the toilet bowl, whereby the toilet seat is securely maint... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578830 | Lifting device for stool cover The present invention relates to a lifting device for stool cover, and in particular to one comprising a bracket having a lug at one end and a supporting portion at the other end, an upper rack slidably fitted with the upper part of the supporting portion... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578831 | Toilet fixture Disclosed is a toilet fixture, and supporting structure therefor, especially well adapted for use on marine vehicles, such as yachts or other pleasure craft. The supporting structure provides extra lateral support for the pedestal upon which the toilet bo... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578832 | Plastic shower enclosure A shower stall is vacuum formed with excess height and with two horizontal raised bands. Horizontal cuts are made at the lower boundary of the bands and the cut sections are treated so that each lower section may be overlapped behind the band location of ... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578833 | Therapeutic oscillating bed An oscillating hospital bed having an oscillating frame for oscillating about a longitudinally extending axis and a patient support mounted on the oscillating frame for controlled pivoting of the patient support about a transverse axis. Securing devices a... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578834 | Innerspring construction An innerspring construction including adhered strings of pocketed coil springs is provided together with a method of manufacture. Each string is defined by a series of coil springs connected and encased by a fabric cover. The strings are connected to each... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578835 | Tool or set of tools An operating part, essential to the starting-up or use of a power-operated device (1), e.g. driven by an engine or a pressure-medium, is made in the form of a tool-carrier (4). Permanently attached to the tool-carrier (4) is at least one tool, preferably ... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578836 | Method of dyeing carpet The method of dyeing a continuously moving carpet pile fabric with a heated base color dye and either thereafter applying other color dyes onto the base color or applying the other color dyes prior to the base color, all of the dyes being fixed by the hea... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578837 | Apparatus for cleaning tee forms A cleaning apparatus (10) is disclosed for cleaning the leg sections (16) of forms such as a double leg form (12). A plurality of individual cleaning brushes (76) are positioned along the length of a brush shaft (64). The brush shaft (64) and cleaning bru... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578838 | Sluice for cleaning bodies A sluice for cleaning bodies includes a sluice housing having two substantially hemispherical housing halves, flanges each being disposed on a respective housing half for interconnecting the halves, substantially radially projecting stubs disposed on each... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578839 | Automobile windshield wiper An automobile windshield wiper in which the wiper arm is detachably coupled with the wiper blade by overlap contact of a bent end portion of the wiper arm with a correspondingly bent portion of a leaf spring placed in the wiper blade. To improve sureness ... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578840 | Mobile vacuum machine A vacuum cleaning machine for cleaning and removing industrial wastes, including hazardous waste products, mounted to the chassis of a truck having a collection tank thereon, including a flexible boom coupled to the collection tank and projecting forwardl... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578841 | Apparatus for automatically stunning animals to be slaughtered Apparatus is provided for automatically electrically stunning animals to be slaughtered. The apparatus includes two V-shaped restrainers, where the second restrainer runs faster than the first restrainer to automatically space the animals apart. A pair of... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578842 | Method and apparatus for compacting shirred casing A method and apparatus for compacting strands of shirred casing by applying substantially equal and opposite forces simultaneously to both ends of the strand. In one embodiment this double-ended simultaneous compaction is achieved by compacting the strand... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578843 | Strap connector and method of making the same A strap connector and method of making the same. The connector includes a latch socket and a latch pin which have an interference fit. The socket and pin form a connector which has a hinge action. The method of forming the connector includes injection mol... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578844 | Coupling system The present invention discloses a unique, self-aligning, quick-releasing coupling system capable of releasably joining male/female items for permanent or temporary joining. One or preferably two jaw members are supported for movement between capturing and... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578845 | Web edge decurling device A device for removing curl, folds and the like from a moving web in which opposing banks of elongate fins cooperate to define a web passageway therebetween. The banks of fins are preferably associated with top and bottom plates, respectively, that may be ... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578846 | Apparatus for rivet attachment Apparatus for attaching a device or element or the like to a work piece such as a panel or the like. Support structure supports a carriage which carries drill mechanism, liquid applicator mechanism, and rivet injector mechanism. The support structure also... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578847 | Roll A roll has a rotating roll shell and a stationary beam extending longitudinally through the shell and leaving an annular space between it and the inner periphery of the shell. A longitudinal chamber having a supply pipe for pressure fluid is formed in the... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578848 | Method for the manufacture of flanged bearings A method of forming a flanged bearing from a strip having a steel backing and a lining of bearing metal. Firstly, an aperture is formed in the backing, then a collar is punched out of the strip material surrounding the aperture. Finally, the collar is bla... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578849 | One-piece yoke thrust bearing for a piston and connecting rod assembly and method utilizing said bearing A method of assembling a piston, connecting rod, wrist pin, and yoke thrust bearing is disclosed wherein the method comprises the steps of disposing between the piston and connecting rod, a one-piece yoke thrust bearing thereby providing a bearing surface... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578850 | Method of manufacturing a heat exchanger In order to provide a simple and expeditious method of manufacturing a heat exchanger which comprises a plurality of heat exchange tubes in substantially parallel, spaced apart stacked relationship, with the end portions of each heat exchange tube being s... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578851 | Tool The tool comprises a frame with a roller rotatably mounted thereon. A molding contacting element is also positioned on the frame in such a way that when the base surface of a hard resilient molding engages said molding contacting element and the opposite ... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578852 | Methods of assembling field subassemblies A field subassembly is assembled by positioning two coil supports adjacent respective core end faces of a ferromagnetic core. The core-engaging surfaces of the coil supports and the core end faces have respective surfaces which are uninterrupted by projec... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578853 | Method of making a stack of electrical sheet-metal lamellae with aligned winding slots, particularly armatures for dynamo electric machines To provide for precise alignment, with easy assembly of stacks of lamellae which form, for example, the armature of a dynamo electric machine, so that the winding slots will be aligned and the lamellae held together by frictional engagement and interlocki... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578854 | Wall repair device and method The present invention relates to a repair device for planar surfaces, such as drywall panels, wherein the repair of holes in a panel can be performed without a laborious and time-consuming process whereby a portion of the drywall must be removed or the en... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578855 | Article and method for connecting a remote air cleaner to a carburetor or an engine fuel metering device or system A flexible connection from a rigid air inlet device to a rigid air cleaner inlet duct or a flexible connection from an air cleaner rigid outlet duct to a resonator rigid inlet duct or from a resonator rigid outlet duct to a fuel-air mixture metering devic... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578856 | Method and mold for making a dual-lip shaft seal with one spring urged lip A dual-lip shaft seal with two PTFE sealing members bonded to a molded elastomeric body, and a method and mold for its manufacture includes an elastomeric body bonded to the radial flange of a metal case and provides (1) a shaped lip with a garter spring ... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578857 | Tamperproof package A tamperproof package comprising a container having a neck and an annular radial flange beneath the neck and a plastic closure removably interengaged with the neck. The closure has a top wall and a peripheral skirt. A plastic pilfer band interengages the ... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578858 | Insulated metal edge guard and method A process for making an insulated metal edge guard comprises extruding plastic insulating metal material onto a flat strip of metal as the strip is pulled through an extruder, coiling the insulated strip while still in the flat, uncoiling the coiled strip... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578859 | Implant mask reversal process A reverse mask is formed after the first ion implantation step by applying a second masking material to at least fill the opening in the first mask layer and removing the second mask material to reveal at least a portion of the first mask layer. The first... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4578860 | Apparatus for manufacturing iron core Three leg tablelets are disposed on a vertically movable truck extending in parallel spaced relationship in a longitudinal direction with a yoke tablelet located along one side of the truck in a cross direction. Two parallel spaced conveyors are disposed ... | 04/01/1986 |
