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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4583246 | Scavenging apparatus for life support suit helmet An apparatus for scavenging vomitus from the interior of the helmet of a life support suit comprises a normally furled mask (10) defined by a sidewall structure (20) connecting to a suction conduit (90). The mask is expanded into registry with the mouth o... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583247 | Garment including composite insulation material A composite interlining sheet material for garments and the like is disclosed. The composite interlining sheet material comprises a substantially continuous internal layer of porous material having low heat conductivity and high resilience. The internal l... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583248 | Insulated glove An insulated ski glove having an outer shell formed to surround the hand is disclosed. A portion of the outer shell is fabricated from a material which is permeable to water vapor and impermeable to liquid water. The glove is lined with a material having ... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583249 | Waistband assembly A waistband assembly is provided including a woven stiffening strip having a smooth fused edge. The edge may be formed by an ultrasonic slitting process as the strip is made with a high thermoplastic content. Sufficient warp yarns are provided within the ... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583250 | Device for the removal of foul air from toilet bowls This invention is an amendment of patent application Ser. No. 06/612,847 filed May 22, 1984 relating to the method of extracting objectional odors from toilet bowls utilizing its present structures and installation. A powered exhaust fan attached directly... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583251 | Seat bath unit A seat bath unit for elderly, frail or otherwise handicapped persons is provided wherein a sidewall of the bathtub is displaceable for complete opening to the seat part for access thereto. A catchment trough beneath the bathtub is provided for receiving t... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583252 | Sponge bath and rinse platform A sponge bath and rinse platform on which the user (patient) lies for cleansing. The device is formed with a peripheral wall (defined by side walls, a head end wall, and a foot end wall) and a central area having a number of specially contoured areas for ... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583253 | Baby sleeper for automobiles A baby sleeper mountable on an automobile seat in conjunction with an existing standard seat belt, comprising a base having a surrounding inflatable tubular wall; an arrangement of straps mounted on the underside of the base, terminating in aligned loops ... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583254 | Low tension waterbed mattress with aesthetic appearance A low tension waterbed mattress has a top with a plurality of expandable folds molded therein so that the top wall stretches when a user lays on the mattress so that the user is not laying on a taut sleeping surface. The folds have an aesthetic appearance... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583255 | Massage arrangement of the pneumatic type This disclosure relates to a massage arrangement of the pneumatic type comprising a mat body provided with a plurality of juxtaposed air chambers, said mat body being subjected over the entire or local surface to repeated rhythmic wave motions involving e... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583256 | Tool for connecting a tube to a local junction box A tool for making a plug connection between a plastic tube and a plastic case for electrical conductors has a cutting head which is designed to encircle the shell of a tube and which can be turned relatively to the tube. Extending into the interior of the... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583257 | Welding torch cleaner for robotic welding A baseplate carries an axially-advanceable rotating cutter. A V-block and clamp head are aligned on the plate to locate and secure a robot-positioned welding torch nozzle in a vertical attitude. After clamping the nozzle in position, the rotating cutter i... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583258 | Flue cleaner and mounting attachment Flue cleaning apparatus comprises a bladed scraper head suspended by cable in a flue from pulleys on a mounting attachment secured at the top of the flue so that the cable can be operated from outside of a building of which the flue forms a part, to move ... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583259 | Wiper blade refill A refill unit for a windshield wiper blade having a resilient wiping element and a backing member with sidewardly extending flanges. A wiper blade superstructure has at least two articulated yokes or holders with claws on one of the yokes or holders engag... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583260 | Combined vacuum cleaner and steam iron A combined vacuum cleaner and steam iron comprising a housing having a substantially flat bottom, which housing being provided with a chamber for containing water and another chamber for collecting dust, a heating device mounted in the water chamber by wh... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583261 | Hinge assembly for connecting a door to a frame of a furniture body A hinge is mountable on the frame of a cabinet and includes a base plate, an intermediate part and a hinge arm. The intermediate part is held in slide grooves in the base plate, and the intermediate part and the hinge arm are held together by a screw.... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583262 | Spring hinge One leaf of a spring hinge has a center knuckle and the other leaf has aligned top and bottom end knuckles which are spaced apart. The center knuckle of the one leaf fits between the two end knuckles of the other leaf and is maintained in alignment with t... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583263 | Skewering device A skewering device comprising a frame structure defining a magazine adapted to receive a cartridge, a cartridge adapted to receive food to be skewered and thereafter loaded into the magazine, and a skewering assembly carried by the frame structure operati... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583264 | Stuffing apparatus having casting article engaging and rotating means A stuffing machine having a displaceable connector engagable with a cored casing article held in a stuff position for communicating the cored casing article to a discharge outlet of the stuffing machine. The machine further has a centrifugally operated dr... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583265 | Device for processing fish heads The invention concerns a device for processing fish heads, especially for separating pieces suitable for human consumption, especially the cheeks, the chin flesh and the tongue resp. the gills, the latter being unsuitable for human nutrition. The device i... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583266 | Process for preparation of discontinuous filament bundles and sharp-ended filaments A process for the preparation of discontinuous filament bundles, which comprises applying a drawing force and/or a shearing force to a bundle of continuous filaments while or immediately after contacting the bundle of continuous filaments with a medium ma... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583267 | Apparatus for making a fibrous web Apparatus for making a fibrous web comprises a plurality of carding drums (3, 4, 5, 6), which closely succeed each other in the direction of travel of the feed web and rotate in the same sense. An air-permeable collecting surface is provided, on which the... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583268 | Tube clamp In order to guarantee the sealing quality of a joining between a pipe socket and a tube by means of a clamp pressing a tube on a pipe wall, where the press-on power to be exercised by the tube clamp will act as uniformly as possible all over the total pip... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583269 | Towel rail clamp A clamp for gripping a towel draped over a towel rail so as to prevent the towel from sliding off the rail comprises a pair of arm members with jaw-forming portions at one end and handle portions at the other end, a pivot bar connecting the arm members be... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583270 | Rasp handle A rasp handle has an elongate body portion with a pistol-type grip extending therefrom and rasp retaining structure at its front end. Such structure includes a fixed jaw and a slide jaw constructed and arranged for sliding movement relative to the fixed j... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583271 | Method and apparatus for burnishing splines and gears using synchronously rotated gears A burnishing machine and method employing a pair of oppositely disposed burnishing gears. The invention involves the use of two syncronously driven gears which operatively engage teeth on opposite sides of a spline or a gear. In one embodiment, for genera... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583272 | Platens for printers A platen for printers is disclosed. The platen has a tubular resilient sleeve with an outer cylindrical circumferential surface. Shaft means is contained within the sleeve. The shaft means has portions exposed at the ends of the sleeve which are concentri... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583273 | Controlled deflection roll The controlled deflection roll comprises a stationary, non-rotating roll support member and a roll shell mounted to rotate about the stationary roll support member. The roll shell is not directly supported at the stationary roll support member by means of... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583274 | Method of making an airfoil An improved method of making an airfoil includes stacking plies in two groups. A separator ply is positioned between the two groups of plies. The groups of plies and the separator ply are interconnected to form an airfoil blank. The airfoil blank is shape... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583275 | Transmission direct clutch drum removing and installing tool A transmission direct clutch drum removing and installing tool for use on a General Motors Corporation Turbo-Hydromatic 400 automatic transmission. The tool comprises a round plate platform base (20) and a spacer channel (26) attached to its periphery, ea... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583276 | Method of forming and driving staples A staple forming and driving tool (10) employing a vertical front portion of a staple head base (34), and sheath (40) to provide a space for reciprocating former member (70) and driver (80). Spring (50) urges base (34) toward sheath (40) with spacer lugs ... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583277 | Method utilizing a cigar lighter socket shell driver tool A tool bit for facilitating the application of a cigar lighter socket to an apertured mounting plate in an automobile, comprising a driving member having a shank receivable in the chuck of a power tool, and a separate shouldered plug member carried by the... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583278 | Fence building aid and method A guide for aligning pickets during the building of a picket fence includes a beam having a lower straightedge against which the tops of the pickets may be abutted during installation. The beam has a length approximately that of the typical distance betwe... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583279 | Method of mounting automotive seat covers Anchor track for attachment thereto of a seat cover through intermediation of C-rings, with the anchor track having serrations for locking C-rings thereto, and being secured to bottoms of front and side channels of automotive front seat frame.... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583280 | Methods and means for sequentially measuring the times involved in a plurality of manufacturing operations and for detecting mechanical malfunctions in an automated system A series of steps are performed at a plurality of stations on a component as it is automatically transferred from one station to the next during a manufacturing operation. Means and methods for measuring and recording the time cycles for each of the steps... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583281 | Method of making an integrated circuit A method of forming in a silicon substrate an active region bounded by a field of silicon dioxide is described. On top of a mesa formed in the silicon substrate is provided a three layered structure including a first thin layer of silicon dioxide in conta... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583282 | Process for self-aligned buried layer, field guard, and isolation A process is described for producing isolated semiconductor devices in a common substrate which have self-aligned and pre-located isolation walls, buried layers, and channel-stops. The isolation walls are formed from a stacked arrangement of a dielectric ... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583283 | Electrically isolated semiconductor power device An improved power semiconductor device and manufacturing method are described wherein the external, thermally conducting, heat transfer face of the device is electrically insulated by a glassy dielectric which is intimately bonded directly to the conducti... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583284 | Method of manufacture of injection molding heated nozzle with brazed in heating element This invention relates to an improved heated nozzle for injection molding and an improved method of manufacturing it. The nozzle has an elongated body with a melt bore extending generally centrally through it. The cylindrical outer surface of the body has... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4583285 | Method of making self-supporting electrode for sea-water batteries A process for manufacturing a cathode for a sea-water battery by forming a particulate mixture of silver chloride and a substitute therefor.... | 04/22/1986 |
