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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4616365 | Wrap A wrap comprising a plurality of fabric segments. The segments are joined together to form a substantially conchiform or clam shell three-dimensional shape. A kit which can be assembled into the wrap and a pattern for the segments of the wrap are also dis... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616366 | Placket A dress shirt redesigned to fit, and be put on, like a knit shirt having a partial stationary placket extending from the collar opening on the shirt and a pseudo placket extending to the bottom thereof and containing buttonholes and buttons to maintain th... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616367 | Headband with detachable lenses A headband with detachable lenses wherein the lenses are movable laterally to accommodate an individual's inter-pupillary distance and also angularly to accommodate the individual's forehead angle.... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616368 | Sanitary cleaning apparatus A sanitary cleaning apparatus is disclosed, which comprises a cleaning water discharge device, a functional device including another cleaning water discharge device or a private parts dryer, a member for turning on and off the cleaning water discharge dev... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616369 | Aquatic turbulence suppression device A device (15, 18) for use in a body of water (10) as one of a plurality of such devices assembled in axial alignment with one another along a restraining element (16) to suppress incident wave turbulence, the devices having a hub (19, 119) adapted to rece... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616370 | Furniture An article of furniture having three panels each of which has a pair of spaced members which are interconnected by transverse members, two pairs of spaced members being interconnected by pivots and the other pairs of spaced members being interconnected by... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616371 | Bed for baby carriages This invention is a baby carriage bed (1) of the so-called "box type" which is basically in the form of a box as a whole comprising a bottom wall (2), a front wall (3), a back wall (4), and left-hand and right-hand side walls (5, 6). In such box-shaped be... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616372 | Method of operating counter flow cycling washing machine When both colored and white wash are to be laundered together, one has the problem that pigment particles are transported from the colored pieces to the white pieces and the white pieces are discolored. This problem will be eliminated in a novel counterfl... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616373 | Loading and unloading ramp unit for railway convoy train A loading unit is mounted on a railway flat car to load and unload heavy wheeled, tracked or towable vehicles at any desired point along the railway right-of-way. The ramp unit enables vehicles to be loaded and unloaded one after the other along apron ext... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616374 | Microfloss toothbrush A dental toothbrush has a brush head comprised of nylon mesh or interlaced or fused loops. The brush head may be arranged in rows and in combination with ordinary, well-known bristles. By varying the design of the interlaced mesh and thickness of nylon, t... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616375 | Cleaning device for jet pipes in TiO2 reactor A device for cleaning pipes and the like which comprises a shaft positioned in the pipe, and on the shaft a number of diamond-shaped elements which scrape the inner surface of the pipe as the shaft moves within it.... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616376 | Means for cleaning a blade of a window glass wiper of a vehicle The invention relates to a means for cleaning a blade of a window glass wiper of a vehicle. The means comprises at least one wiping edge (6) provided on the outer surface of the glass (2) within the area of motion of the wiper blade (6), whereby the blade... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616377 | Recycled liquid cleaning system The cleaning system includes a pressure vessel containing a cleaning liquid pumped out of the pressure vessel and into a dirty tank. Cleaning liquid and dislodged contaminants are sucked up from the dirty tank by a partial vacuum created above the cleanin... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616378 | Means for mounting floor pickup nozzle to dolly for vacuum cleaner A mounting means secures a floor nozzle to the front of a wheeled dolly base which supports a vacuum cleaner that is connected to the outlet of the nozzle by a flexible hose. The mounting means includes a plate having struts extending therefrom to opposit... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616379 | Concealed pull handle A handle assembly for trailing luggage which includes a tube housing a handle and two mounting members connected to the ends of the tube for mounting the tube inside the luggage. The handle is normally biassed to extend outward and is locked in its retrac... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616380 | Poultry holding mechanism with improved bottom pressing means A mechanism for holding slaughtered birds in a poultry cutting machine has a support member for engaging and supporting the bird, and rump engaging members which are spaced inwardly of the legs of a bird. The rump engaging members are movable in a forward... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616381 | Ova harvesting system An ova harvesting system is provided as an adjunct to a poultry evisceration line to collect ova from slaughtered fowl. Ova are removed from the poultry carcass and placed in cups located immediately below the carcass to minimize loss. A cup conveyor carr... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616382 | Shrimp-peeling machine according to the method The invention comprises a completely automated mechanical method and process for shelling shrimp meat completely and undamaged from boiled shrimps. Toward this end, the machine is so designed and constructed that it can comprise a plurality of adjoining p... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616383 | Belt buckle A belt buckle plate having a rear face formed with a pair of axis-defining pivots one of which is a radially closed eye and the other of which has a radially open slot. A loop adapted to engage through the end of a belt has a short pintle and a long pintl... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616384 | Flag frame and clamp A clamp which can be used separately to connect two rod-like members together at any angular relationship, can be used in conjunction with a frame for connecting a frame supporting rod thereof to the rod of a tripod or other rod or post-like member. The c... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616385 | Rotary synchronous cross drilling attachment What is proposed is a drilling attachment for use with a machine tool that rotates a workpiece in which the drilling apparatus is moved into an operative position to the workpiece by means of the machine tool slide and is rotated with the workpiece so tha... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616386 | Apparatus for cutting and preparing cables Apparatus for cutting and preparing cables use a grip head having a cable gripping device which is swingable by a drive between end positions delimited by a shock absorber and which is mounted on one end on a shaft rotatable about an axis extending rectan... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616387 | Method of manufacturing spherical and cylindrical bearings A bearing assembly having bearing surfaces pre-loaded towards each other, the bearing surfaces being originally made in slightly non-conforming geometry and dimensions over the majority of their surface areas in sliding engagement, the areas of the bearin... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616388 | Process for producing a hydrodynamic bearing having internal foil cartridge The invention provides a process for producing hydrodynamic bearings for supporting and guiding rotary machine shafts. The process consists of pre-manufacturing a self-contained cartridge formed of thin foils, each fixed to its two next adjacent foils at ... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616389 | Manufacture of camshafts A camshaft is prepared from separately formed cams and a shaft. The cams may for example be formed by sintering. The cams are provided with holes which are under-sized and are provided with serrations. They are located on a correspondingly shaped dummy sh... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616390 | Superdensity assembly method and system for plastic heat exchanger resists large buoyancy forces and provides fast melt down in phase change thermal storage Superdensity assembly method and system for coiled tubing bundle plastic heat exchangers resists the large buoyancy forces occurring due to ice build-up on the multiple tubes and provides fast melt down in phase change thermal storage tanks. The coiled tu... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616391 | Apparatus for making heat exchange tubes Improved method and apparatus for making finned tubing from difficult to work materials such as titanium and stainless steel uses spaced sets of finning discs on a plurality of arbors to form a tube against a mandrel having different diameters under each ... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616392 | Bladder mandrel for hydraulic expansions of tubes and sleeves A bladder mandrel utilizing a sleeve of Pellethane.RTM. to effect tube expansions is disclosed herein. The sleeve which forms the bladder of the mandrel terminates in sealing beads which include fluid-capturing recesses. When the beads of the sleeve are s... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616393 | Apparatus and method for rolling a metal matrix composite plate or sheet An apparatus and method for rolling metal matrix composite material is disclosed. The material is confined within an aperture in a frame member during the rolling process. The frame member has deformation properties compatible with that of the metal matri... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616394 | Method of lock capping A utility cylindrical lock set having a series of pin tumbler bores accommodating a plurality of pin stacks and biasing springs is provided with an improved cap. The external surface of a cylindrical lock body includes a cap-receiving groove crossing the ... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616395 | Railroad track fixation method and apparatus A method and apparatus for laying a railroad track includes laying, in tandem, a series of pre-cast concrete slabs on a prepared track bed, the slabs being isolated from the bed, and from each other, by rubber isolation pads, and the slabs having cavities... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616396 | Wire length varying device in combination with apparatus for making electrical harnesses A wire length varying device for an apparatus for making electrical harnesses, with the device comprising a tension pulley unit located on a wire supply path. The tension pulley unit constantly urges the individual wires to return in a counterflow directi... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616397 | Magazine for replaceable tools and operation method of indexing tools using the magazine A tool magazine for an automatic machine producing various machining operations with the aid of machine tools held by a machine spindle. The magazine for replaceable tool is adapted to hold a plurality of tools each in tool holding mechanisms being held o... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616398 | Toolholder for a machine tool A toolholder is provided for a machine tool having a magazine containing several toolholders from which a selected toolholder can be taken by means of an arm and introduced in a working position in a rotating receiving means of the machine tool. An arm wi... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616399 | Method of manufacturing an insulated gate field effect transistor A method of manufacturing an insulated gate field effect transistor has first and second impurity doping processes for forming source and drain regions. In the first doping process, an impurity is lightly doped in the source and drain forming regions in s... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616400 | Process for fabricating a double recess channel field effect transistor Using a process constructed in accordance with the teachings of this invention, a double recess, N+ ledge field effect transistor may be formed using a single masking step. Two layers of photoresist of differing types are formed on the surface of an N+ ep... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616401 | Method of fabricating an insulated gate type field-effect transistor A method of fabricating a MOS device is disclosed, in which, after formation of a gate electrode and source, drain regions, conductive material films are formed by selective CVD on the exposed surfaces of the gate electrode and source, drain regions. The ... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616402 | Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device with a stacked-gate-electrode structure A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device with a stacked-gate-electrode structure which includes; forming source and drain regions in the surface portion of a semiconductor substrate in a spaced-apart relationship, forming a floating gate such that... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616403 | Configuration of a metal insulator semiconductor with a processor based gate A method for fabricating a metal insulator semiconductor includes first forming a substrate (10) having an array of switching elements formed therein. A plurality of deformable Indium pads (16) and (18) are then formed on the surface of the substrate and ... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4616404 | Method of making improved lateral polysilicon diode by treating plasma etched sidewalls to remove defects An improved lateral polysilicon diode in an integrated circuit structure is disclosed. The diode is characterized by low reverse current leakage, a breakdown voltage of at least 5 volts, and low series resistance permitting high current flow before being ... | 10/14/1986 |
