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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4601065 | Bib with crumb catcher A baby's bib is provided with a crumb catcher designed to retain an open position due to the use of an involute semi-rigid spacer means which connects the crumb catcher to the bib.... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601066 | Fashion/exercise garment The invention features a fashion/exercise garment for use by dancers, gymnasts and acrobats. The garment has built-in warming wraps disposed at extremity portions of the garment, such as the neck, wrists and ankles. The wraps comprise elongated bindings e... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601067 | Vest A vest structure having a back panel connected to the upper portions of a left front panel and a right front panel, each of said panels being provided with inside pockets to receive cool or warm packs, and fastening means to provide a close fit of the ves... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601068 | Nursing garment A concealment garment for a nursing mother including a body covering top having a pair of parallel spaced slits or openings therein, and an attached collar depending to a point to cover the openings but being free of the top except adjacent the neck porti... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601069 | Woman's bare midriff garment It is herein disclosed a woman's bare midriff garment. The garment includes an outer shell supported about the shoulders of the wearer; the outer shell normally aligns against the inner area of the neckline and the upper breast area, the outer shell hangi... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601070 | Novelty ski hat This invention is a novelty ski cap that includes a novelty ski pole pierced horizontally through a cap and including an upwardly bent central portion fitting between an underside of the cap and a top of the wearer's head.... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601071 | Flush system A flushing system for rapidly delivering a given volume of water supplied to an accumulating chamber (5) from an automatically or manually operated valve (6) has a float-controlled discharge valve (19) which is arranged to be opened when said given volume... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601072 | Swimming pool cover A thermally insulative buoyant swimming pool cover floats on the surface of the pool for covering the pool and for retaining the heat within the pool. Sinking means, such as weights or a mechanical pull-down structure, may be secured to the pool cover alo... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601073 | Swimming pool coping system The present invention relates to vinyl lined swimming pool copings and provides an aluminum sub-coping of the concrete receptor type in combination with a fully supported PVC snap-cap which is secured in place over what would otherwise be an exposed surfa... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601074 | Furniture, particularly upholstered furniture, for transferring from a sitting position to a lying position Upholstered furniture for transferring a person between a sitting position and a lying position, in which a seating member can be extracted forward out of a stationary base. The seating member has a chassis that is supported so that it can roll. A seating... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601075 | Emergency stretcher A stretcher including an elongate pocket of flexible sheet material adapted to removably receive and retain an elongate stiffener of a width up to that of the pocket, an elongate torso girding part extending transversely across and secured to the pocket a... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601076 | Lounging/sleeping apparatus A lounging/sleeping apparatus (10) includes a combination rectangularly-shaped heavy-woven bag-like container (20) and a rectangularly-shaped flannel cover sheet (22) permanently sewn together only at a seam at the foot end of each of these elements, with... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601077 | Tool for providing access to underground valve stems A tool for obtaining access through a gate can to the end of a valve stem of a valve in a buried water main. The gate can extending from the valve bonnet to the surface may be filled with silt, dirt, or debris. The tool is cylindrical, having a helical ri... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601078 | Machine for assembling box sole footwear semiautomatically A machine is disclosed for assembling box sole footwear semiautomatically. The machine provides for carrying out a number of operations through a completely new method of footwear assembly, thus affording significant labor savings and low investment costs... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601079 | Portable bridging apparatus Portable bridge apparatus is disclosed comprising a plurality of connected bridge segments. The bridge segments are adapted to be extended outward from a base to form a bridge and then can be retracted when the bridge is no longer needed. The apparatus is... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601080 | Washing apparatus An apparatus for tumbling and cleaning articles such as rocks, clams, potatoes, other vegetables and fruits, and the like. The apparatus has a frame with a container mounted for free rotation thereon. The container has perimetric surfaces with numerous op... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601081 | Disposable utensil for cleaning and disinfecting toilet seats and other articles A disposable utensil particularly designed for cleaning and disinfecting toilet seats in public restrooms prior to their use. The utensil comprises a pad means impregnated with a cleaning and disinfecting liquid mounted to one end of a handle means. At le... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601082 | Vacuum cleaner Vacuum cleaner for use in industry and household comprising a housing and an electric motor driving the blower generating the working vacuum, and optional maneuvering means for moving a suction nozzle over the material to be cleaned. There is provided in ... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601083 | Fish processing apparatus A fish processing apparatus including an image pick-up device for producing image information of a fish and a memory for storing the image information. A cutting position of head portion of the fish is determined in accordance with the image information. ... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601084 | Means for adjusting an extractor for cotton stripper A means for adjusting the clearance between the grid plate assembly and the drum of an extractor of the type which separates trash from cotton lint as it passes through this clearance. The present means is easily and quickly installed on commercially-avai... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601085 | Water-resistant slide fastener stringer A water-resistant slide fastener stringer comprises a water-resistant support tape and a pair of rows of coupling elements mounted on opposite surfaces of the support tape. In production, the two coupling element rows are attached to one or water-resistan... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601086 | Method of manufacturing top stop-type fuel injector A top stop-type fuel injector (10") for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. A pressure-time-delivery injector body (11"), barrel (12") and cup (13") are positioned in end-to-end relation. A retainer (14") extends around the barrel and secures the ... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601087 | Method for cladding interior surfaces with externally prefabricated cladding material A method for cladding a corrosion resistant high alloy material on surfaces of crossed cavities in a vessel of a high strength metallic material forming a valve casing or the like, the method including the steps of prefabricating first and second cladding... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601088 | Method of assembling a plate-fin heat exchanger A method of assembling a plate-fin heat exchanger including the steps of providing a plurality of like substantially straight elongated plate-fins with spaced holes, bowing the plate-fins to increase their stability and accumulating a plurality of bowed p... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601089 | Process for the manufacture of heat-exchanger elements of strip-finned heat-exchangers In a finned heat exchanger, preferably of aluminum, the feed of the fins (1) are secured to tubular passages (3, 3a, 3b) formed from plates (2) that have been rolled together and then expanded. The bond between the fins (1) and the plates (2) may be an ad... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601090 | Leakproof joint construction and apparatus for making the same A leakproof joint construction for a pair of members disposed in abutting relation and method and apparatus for making the same are provided, the leakproof joint construction having part of one of the members deformed into an adjacent part of the other of... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601091 | Method of and apparatus for the height adjustment and installation of a sliding and/or raisable roof member to be fitted into an automobile In a method and apparatus for the height adjustment and installation of a slidable and/or raising, rigid roof member, to be built into a roof opening of an automobile roof, which roof member, after its height adjustment, is screwed to elements of the roof... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601092 | Method of fixing a rail on a support of timber or cast or moulded material A method and a device for attaching a rail on a timber support. The device includes a helically threaded fastener adapted to be screwed into a helically threaded borehole in the support after a rectangular metal insert is positioned in a rectangular openi... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601093 | Wire insulation stripping apparatus Wire stripping apparatus for automatically stripping insulation off a wire core, comprises: (a) a guide forming at least one opening to receive an insulated wire end, (b) at least one wire end sensor for sensing a wire end inserted through that opening, or a s... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601094 | Turning machine with an automatic tool changer A turning machine (10) having a tool changer (70) capable of automatically changing O.D. and I.D. tools. A tool block system which supports the various tools is utilized. The tool changer (70) has a pair of fingers (74) disposed at the end of a cross arm ... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601095 | Process for fabricating a Schottky-barrier gate field effect transistor A process for fabricating a Schottky-barrier gate field effect transistor, consists of forming an active layer of one electrically conductive type semiconductor crystal on one surface of a high resistivity or semi-insulating semiconductor crystal substrat... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601096 | Method for fabricating buried channel field effect transistor for microwave and millimeter frequencies utilizing molecular beam epitaxy The fabrication of high performance and reliable Buried Channel Field Effect Transistor (BCFET) using Schottky gate junction and heavily doped N layers for the source and drain electrode is described. The BCFET is composed of a semi-insulating substrate i... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601097 | Method of producing thin-film transistor array A method of manufacturing a thin film transistor array is simplified by processes to form source and drain electrodes at least of ITO film for pixel electrodes on a gate insulating film covering gate electrode and to form islands of an amorphous semicondu... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601098 | Method of manufacturing plural active regions followed by a chain step formation A semiconductor device has an active region formed on a semiconductor substrate. The opposite sides of the active region are defined by channel stoppers. The semiconductor device is made by a manufacturing process which prevents the active region from nar... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601099 | Method for manufacturing a magnetic head A magnetic head is made by forming a first half core having at least two substantially parallel plane surfaces and one lateral surface, the distance between the two plane surfaces being equal to or greater than a predetermined track width fixing one of th... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601100 | Method for making logging sleeve A replaceable insulating sleeve is disposed around the lower end of a drill string used in drilling a well. The sleeve is restrained from rotating relative to the drill string, but can be released and quickly slipped off the drill string in the field to p... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601101 | Razor system A razor system comprises a handle 10 to which a blade unit 15 can be connected by a releasable coupling, the razor handle being hollow and containing a dispenser in which a plurality of blade units are stored for attachment in turn to the handle when the ... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601102 | Guard for skinning knife A guard for the cutting edge of a knife used in slitting, eviscerating and skinning of game and the like. A concave, arcuate body includes a longitudinal slot normal to the concave body for accepting the forward cutting edge of a knife blade. The forward ... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601103 | Cutter having circular rotary blade A cutter having a circular rotary blade comprises: a handle; a blade mounting section formed on one end of the handle; a circular blade secured to one side of the blade mounting section and rotatably carried at its central portion; a slot having an openin... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4601104 | Handheld planer In order to achieve an improved chip and shaving ejection in a portable per, a small portion of the motor cooling air stream is diverted and directed through an air passage into a chip ejection channel. The volume flow of this chip ejection air stream ma... | 07/22/1986 |
