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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4580296 | Combat sports equipment A suit for use in combat type sports easily secured and removable for wearing by a user's body to protect same from damage by blows which may be struck by parts of another suit. The suit includes apparatus which completely encloses a user's body and has a... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580297 | Ski pants Ski pants have a pair of protective pads formed from an elastic material, and each extending from the upper edge of the knee on one of the legs to at least the midportion of the skin. Each pad includes a knee portion and a shin portion, and has a pluralit... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580298 | Waist band extender The present invention provides a waist band extender having a strip of substantially inelastic material and a single pair of complementary closure member mounted in spaced apart relationship for mating with complementary closure members normally incorpora... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580299 | Intraocular lens One-size intraocular lens including a lens optic, one flexible secured loop and an other flexible free-end measured loop. Each loop assumes a U-shaped configuration and can be provided with an appropriate vault whether the lens is implanted into the anter... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580300 | Combined wall construction form and plumbing fixture mounting device for fire rated wall construction A security sleeve for facilitating the mounting of plumbing fixtures in fire rated masonry or concrete wall construction. The sleeve has a pair of metal plates which are spaced apart about the thickness of the wall. The plates have a plurality of holes wh... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580301 | Mattress for supporting the human body A mattress for supporting the human body, which is especially useful in hospitals or for home nursing of sick persons, comprises a body of open-cell foamed synthetic plastics material, with air passages extending up through a central region of the body. T... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580302 | Painting tool A tool for a paint can is provided and consists of an elongated shank extending from a handle that has a first structure thereon to remove the paint can lid, a second structure thereon to punch a hole in the paint can gutter so that paint will drain back ... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580303 | Bottle opener and resealer A bottle opener and resealer which is combined into a single unit wherein there is incorporated a head member having both a bottle opening recess and a bottle cap resealing recess. A corkscrew member extends from the head member. A removable protective sh... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580304 | Method of dyeing carpet The method of dyeing a continuously moving carpet pile fabric with a base color and thereafter applying other color dyes onto the base color and fixing all of the dyes without the use of steam. The dyeing process employs a dye applicator to which a heated... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580305 | Optimum pressure control Pressure control system in which the pressure in a sealed vessel is continuously measured along with the temperature of the treatment fluid to maintain a predetermined pad pressure in the treatment vessel to prevent boil off or flashing of the treatment l... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580306 | Waste line cleanout apparatus A feed control device for use in conjunction with plumbing tools of the type used for cleaning and removing obstructions from waste lines in which an elongated coiled spring wire, or plumber's snake, is advanced through the pipe and rotated. The feed cont... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580307 | Wall washing pad holder Pad holder includes a generally flat rectangular mounting plate or head having a front or bottom side to which the pad is attached and a top or back side having a plurality of spaced-apart ribs thereon terminating in a common plane substantially parallel ... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580308 | Buffing pad and method of manufacture A contoured buffing pad includes a buffing disk which is heat-formed by the method of the invention so that a portion thereof proximate an outer edge thereof forms an approximate right angle with the remainder of the buffing disk. Additionally, the buffin... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580309 | Self-contained multi-function cleaning system A compact, self-contained central vacuum cleaning machine has expandable vacuum suction and pressure capacities and variable vacuum suction. The machine performs a multiplicity of cleaning operations including dry vacuuming, wet vacuuming, hydro-extractio... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580310 | Soot blower including revolving roller assembly with modular construction The disclosure is directed to a soot blower of the long retracting type. In accordance with the invention, a revolving roller assembly is provided to support and guide the lance tube of the soot blower during its working motion along a predetermined path ... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580311 | Protective device for dust collecting devices Protective device for dust collecting devices, in particular vacuum cleaners such as wheel-mounted or hand vacuum cleaners, whereby the presence of any dust behind the dust collecting vessel, due to a damage to the dust collecting vessel, is detected by m... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580312 | Broom and suction assembly for a street sweeper A vacuum street sweeper vehicle (2) having a hopper (14) for receiving debris and a vacuum system (16) for suctioning debris and depositing same in the hopper, is provided with an intake broom and suction carriage assembly (18) on the vehicle forward of t... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580313 | Walk behind floor maintenance machine A walk behind floor maintenance machine is disclosed including a filter and filter housing that may be pivoted away to permit removal of the debris hopper. The filter may be cleaned by vibrating the filter and filter housing. Dust vibrated from the filter... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580314 | Suction cleaning device A suction cleaning device adapted to be moved over a surface to remove loose debris therefrom and for use in a system including a suction duct leading to a source of high velocity air vacuum. A frame defines a housing having a substantially closed top. A ... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580315 | Hinge assembly for compartment lid A hinge assembly for a vehicle deck lid is disclosed. The hinge assembly includes a stationary hinge member, a hinge strap secured to the deck lid and pivotally connected to the stationary hinge member, a lever pivotally supported by the hinge member at a... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580316 | Hose material to be used as sausage casing, in particular in the automated manufacture of sausage strings on a sausage stuffing machine Hose material for the continuous automated manufacture of sausage wherein tubular material for sausage casing from a supply source is axially shirred by shirring means into shirred sections, of continuously measured length; the shirred sections are stuffe... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580317 | Portable hanger for deer and other animal carcasses and methods The disclosed portable hanger comprises two cantilevered rigid support arms pivotably joined only at the proximal ends thereof at a central connection site so as to establish and maintain a predetermined included angle between the two arms during use. The... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580318 | Carding engines A carding engine comprises a carding cylinder (1) rotatable between bends (2a) at each side of the carding engine. A series of flats (20) are provided, each flat having opposite end sections, the flats being movable over an arc of the cylinder surface. Ea... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580319 | Bundling of objects Bundling of objects using a harnessing device with a locking head and a strap with teeth that are controlled by stretching. The locking head contains a pawl or tang that engages the teeth of the strap by wedging. A wedging tooth is desirably on the lockin... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580320 | Button having plastic resin head A button comprising a button head of plastic resin formed with a cavity having an internally expanded portion, and a metallic leg piece including a generally disc-shaped base larger in diameter than the inlet of the cavity and at least one leg upstanding ... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580321 | Fluid-tight slide fastener A fluid-tight slide fastener comprises a pair of slide fastener halves each including a support tape, a row of continuous coupling elements extending longitudinally along the inner edge of the tape on one side thereof, and an elastomeric sealing member ov... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580322 | Quick release fastener A fastener has a receptacle (1) and a stud (10), the receptacle (1) having a pair of clip-like legs (6) the ends of which engage in grooves (16) in the shank of the stud (10). Each of the legs (6) has a plurality of formations (8) on its inner surface, th... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580323 | Stand roller assembly for a torsionless finishing block of a continuous wire rolling mill A roller assembly for a stand of a torsionless finishing block of a multi-stand rolling mill for producing continuous wire from a round elongated rod is disclosed. The assembly is characterized by the provision of at least one bearing mounted on the drive... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580324 | Method for rounding flat-oval tubing A method for rounding a fixture receiving end of flat-oval tubing having internal transverse webs is disclosed. The webs are severed and the ends of the web severance are then reformed to reduce stress concentration in preparation for further working. The... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580325 | Winding temporary positioning apparatus for a dynamoelectric generator A winding temporary positioning apparatus for a dynamoelectric generator. The apparatus is particularly useful during rewinding of a generator of the type that has wedges maintained in grooves in the stator core slots holding the windings in position. The... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580326 | Method and apparatus for automatically threading separable slide fastener stringers through sliders A pair of separable slide fastener stringers is fed in one plane along parallel spaced paths, respectively, toward throats of a Y-shaped guide channel in a slider fixed in position. Pins of the stringers are introduced into the guide channel through the t... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580327 | Method for manufacturing and mounting organs for rotation between cheeks and the products obtained, to be more particularly used for stretching and winding the chain in the gear shift devices for bicycles and similar vehicles The object of the invention pertains more particularly to the art units of the manufacturing of rotary organs for the production and assembly of organs of plastics. The method is characterized in that toothed rotary organs (2) are made by molding directly... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580328 | Method of closing a can-type housing The invention relates to a can-type housing made of metal, as a semi-finished product, such as is used, for example, for electrolytic capacitors. Furthermore, the invention relates to a process and a device for reducing the diameter of and flanging such a... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580329 | Processing machine for workpieces A workpiece processing machine comprises a stationary main frame 10 with at least one main processing plane G. On the one side of this main processing plane there are arranged worm shafts 15, 16, 17 and 18 extending with their axes substantially parallel ... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580330 | Integrated circuit isolation An integrated circuit isolation technology wherein the nitride-sidewall methods of the prior art are improved by performing an undercut and backfill before the second nitride (the sidewall nitride which prevents encroachment) is added to the first nitride... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580331 | PNP-type lateral transistor with minimal substrate operation interference and method for producing same The invention provides a unique VLSI dimensioned PNP-type transistor and method of making the same wherein hundreds of such transistors may be fabricated on a single chip with each transistor comprising an active region surrounded by field oxide completel... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580332 | Forming a conductive, protective layer for multilayer metallization An improved integrated circuit structure, and method of making the structure, is disclosed wherein at least one metallization layer is coated with a conductive indium arsenide layer during production of the structure and an upper metallization layer subse... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580333 | Process for preventing film stripping and grooving of a commutator A process and apparatus for preventing film stripping and grooving of a dynamoelectric machine commutator. The process is usable in either repairing or initially manufacturing a high-powered, high-speed dynamoelectric machine. In the process, extra-wide b... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580334 | Method for manufacturing a commutator A disk armature for an electric, in-tank fuel pump motor is manufactured by laser welding a pair of annular disks in two concentric circles of spot welds, one near each of the inner and outer circumferences of the disks. One disk is made of malleable copp... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4580335 | Spherical rotor for electrical motors Process for the manufacture of rotors for asynchronous electrical motors with spherical air gaps. These rotors are designed as permanent magnets with low coercive force and comparably high electrical conductivity so that eddy currents can be formed as lon... | 04/08/1986 |
