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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 |
| 4592256 | Combination ratchet and spinner wrench A combination ratchet and spinner wrench having a normal ratcheting capability and a free-spinning mode that can be used to easily and quickly pre-tighten a nut or bolt prior to final tightening or to remove a nut or bolt after it is initially loosened by... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592257 | Hand-held screw driving device with adjustable depth stop A hand-held device for driving screws into a receiving member or material includes a housing and an axially extending depth stop mounted on the front end of the housing. The depth stop is adjusted in the axial direction relative to the housing by an actua... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592258 | Manipulating device for performing remotely-controlled work with a tool The invention is directed to a manipulating device for remotely-controlled anipulation of tools such as an impact wrench or the like. The device includes a support structure for the tool and suspension means for engaging a load hook of a crane pulley or a ... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592259 | Method for controlling the position of the cutting edges of longitudinal web cutting blades and a longitudinal cutting apparatus utilizing the same A method for positioning coacting circular cutting blades in a slitting device for a web of material characterized by moving the pair of blades which are mounted on separate carriages along rails extending transverse to the direction of movement of the we... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592260 | Band cutting machine The frame of the band cutting machine comprises an arm cross consisting of four arms. Each arm supports a fabric feeding roller which is movable back and forth of the arm. The movement of the rollers is carried out by means of threaded spindles extending ... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592261 | Cutting device for extra fringe of laminated glass interlayer A cutting device comprises an endless band cutter extending between two pulleys, a sliding piece slidingly contacting with the rear face of the endless band cutter to remove adherent from the endless band cutter, and a side plate so arranged as to separat... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592262 | Remote control system for a musical instrument or instruments This invention relates to a remote control system for a musical instrument or instruments. In particular the control system comprises at least one keyboard having a plurality of keys each coupled to means for sensing key operation and key velocity or forc... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592263 | Electro-mechanical stringed bass machine A stringed bass machine is disclosed in which vertical bass guitar strings are struck by hammers and are not plucked or strummed. An electrically operated upright piano action receives power from an external control box having an on-off switch. A musician... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592264 | Violin family instruments with integrating tonal arm There is disclosed a bass fiddle of the violin family of instruments having a sound box made from blown fiberglass reinforced resins and wood top plate. An integrating tonal arm is located in the upper chamber of the sound box and eliminates overtones in ... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592265 | Foldable leg rest for stringed musical instrument A foldable leg rest for a stringed musical instrument, the instrument including a body portion having a substantially planar lower surface when the instrument is oriented in a playing position. The leg rest includes a base member for attachment to the low... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592266 | Guitar strap hook A guitar strap hook particularly adapted for attachment of straps to wooden guitars. The hook mounts on the side of the guitar against the heel portion of the neck. A screw is angled through the base of the hook and the side of the guitar and then into th... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592267 | Pressurized fluid operated cylinder The cylinder includes a cylindrical body and two heads made rigid therewith by means of connection rings interposed between the cylindrical body and a cylindrical member rigid with the heads and extending inside and parallel to the cylindrical body. The r... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592268 | Method of making and apparatus for composite pistons A composite piston structure and a method of making same is disclosed. A piston member, carrier member, and ceramic facing member are formed, the piston member being comprised of a material selected from plastic and metal having a density of less than 0.1... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592269 | Static vent device A static vent for a vehicle such as a bus wherein the interior of the vehicle is continuously vented to the atmosphere in such a way as to prevent the ingress of rain water to the vehicle compartment.... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592270 | Smoke and fire protection system for elevators A smoke and fire protection system is disclosed for elevators in a multistory building having an elevator hoistway therein, with an elevator cab having vertical movement therein. The hoistway is preferably enclosed at the top to prevent discharge of smoke... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592271 | Louvered vent A vent assembly characterized by a rear member having a perforated rear surface, and a front member having a front surface formed into a number of louvers. The side portions and bottom portions of the rear member are bent into L-shaped flanges which engag... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592272 | Assembler for enchilada shells Flexible sheets of foodstuffs, such as a tortilla, are prepared for cooking by automatically wrapping each tortilla around a perforated inner cooking cylinder and telescoping an outer cooking cylinder over the so-wrapped inner cylinder. The wrapping and t... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592273 | Apparatus for making bread Apparatus in accordance with the invention includes an endless belt conveyor having an insulated bottom belt and a pair of insulated, opposite side belts having longitudinally spaced apart, transverse slots therein for receiving removable electrically con... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592274 | Stretching and moulding machine for pasta filata cheese The machine continuously produces pasta filata cheese by stretching curds while adding hot water then moulding the pasta filata obtained into cheese such as mozzarella, provolone, etc. The curds are sprayed with hot water by nozzles (52, 55) and are pushed by ... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592275 | Method and apparatus for recovery of useful feed values from animal waste A separator for reclaiming valuable nutrients not digested by livestock has an inclined bed with closely spaced slots therein and delivery means for a mixture of liquid and solid animal waste material to the bed's upper part for gravity flow along the inc... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592276 | Printing machine with curing system A printing machine including a conveyor equipped with spaced-apart carriers for moving articles to a printing station and then to a discharge station, and an intermittently operating drive for the conveyor whereby the carriers are stopped at the printing ... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592277 | Drive for stencilling apparatus A stencilling apparatus having a single drive means operating a container fixture screen support and wiper fixture, so that the container fixture rotates and moves toward and away from the screen, and the screen moves laterally and the wiper moves toward ... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592278 | Printing apparatus An improved printing apparatus has printing units, a pair of feed rolls, a pair of pull rolls, a speed adjusting unit having a pair of rolls, and a control unit. The speed adjusting unit reciprocates linearly to advance and retreat the web in the printing... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592279 | Sheet gripper for a printing machine A sheet gripper for the delivery system of a printing machine or the like includes a clamp member adapted to be secured on a pivotable gripper shaft, and a gripper finger mounted resiliently on the clamp member and adapted to be brought into contact with ... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592280 | Filter/shield for electro-explosive devices An improved electro-explosive squib device is disclosed with filter/shield characteristics rendering the device substantially immune to electromagnetic environments, thus preventing accidental ignition of the squib device. The invention provides for adapt... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592281 | Arming and firing device An improved arming and firing device especially suited for rocket motors. An explosive donor charge is packed against a bulkhead formed in the body of the device. Shock energy generated by the donor charge and transmitted through the unruptured bulkhead s... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592282 | Charging apparatus for cartridged explosives A charging apparatus includes a charging hose, one end part of which is arranged to be connected to at least one supply of particulate or liquid explosive, and the other end part of which is arranged to be inserted into a drill hole to deliver thereto exp... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592283 | Explosive shell case An explosive shell case of the kind in which fragments are produced by bursting of the case material into a number of small particles. The case material comprises a completely dense, non-compressible material which is made with embrittling zones (4) which... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592284 | Automatic transportation apparatus making use of underground cable An automatic transportation system and the vehicles thereof for use, for example, in transporting golf clubs and related equipment around a golf course. The system includes U-shaped channel members embedded end-to-end in the ground provided with pulleys t... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592285 | Drawing table A drawing table is provided, which has a top hingedly connected at a first end thereof, to a first end of a base, so as to be pivotable between a closed position, and at least one open position with respect to the base. At least one arm, and preferably a ... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592286 | Shelf corner support structure A shelf support structure for supporting a shelf on support posts having an adjustably positionable support bracket. The bracket has a pair of spaced apart upwardly extending protruding side arms defining respective notches between its associated post and... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592287 | Folding table A folding table (10) of a type having crossing legs (16, 18 and 20, 22) at its two ends is provided with a longitudinal braces (24, 26). The legs (16, 18 and 20, 22) are pivotally connected together such that when the table is folded a space exists outwar... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592288 | Cylinder head burner The burner apparatus of the instant invention includes a forced air gas burner which directs a hot gas stream over an object to be cleaned in a burning chamber. The burning chamber includes a burner pipe for evenly distributing the gas stream throughout t... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592289 | Reducing pollutant emissions from a spreader-stoker-fired furnace by stoichiometric control Methods and apparatus for reducing pollutant emissions, and in particular, for reducing NOx and particulate emissions, from spreader-stoker-fired furnaces. A combustible material is introduced into the spreader-stoker-fired furnace and combuste... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592290 | Method of incinerating stalks, especially of straw Stalks of crop material, especially straw, are incinerated by comminuting them to pieces having a length of substantially 8 to 10 cm, pneumatically transporting the stalks to a separator in which the air is separated from the stalks and the stalks are the... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592291 | Sewage treatment method and apparatus Method and apparatus for treating sewage to reduce total solids content. Involves separating sewage sludge from sewage liquid, dewatering and compressing the sludge, subjecting the sludge to microwave radiation to reduce sludge to ash-like residue, and ad... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592292 | Method and apparatus for activating large particles The invention relates to method and apparatus for the combustion of large solid fuels. In order to improve the beneficial effect of sound on combustion are a bed of the fuel located on a grate, the bed of fuel is exposed to a high particle velocity of a s... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592293 | Method of controlling an air heater of a coal-fired boiler A method of controlling an air heater of a coal-fired boiler system comprising an air heater for heating a primary air used to dry a pulverized coal and convey it into the boiler and a secondary air to combust the pulverized coal by a heat exchange utiliz... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592294 | Knife applicator for dry and liquid fertilizer An applicator for dry and liquid fertilizer includes a knife for forming a slot in the soil, a dry fertilizer-conduit mounted behind the knife and formed into a U-shaped channel with an elongated, upright slot at the rear, and a flexible hose for liquid f... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592295 | Automatic shirt cuff manufacturing unit There is provided an automatic shirt cuff manufacturing unit comprising an overcast stitching machine, a buttonhole forming machine and a button sewing machine. The unit includes means for conveying the cuff to the overcast stitching machine, means for re... | 06/03/1986 |
