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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4622696 | Under helmet hood for aircrew An under helmet hood for aircrew which has a butyl rubber cowl (1) and, severed but in no way displaced therefrom, a face mask portion which includes a face mask (2) having a fixed vizor (3). The perfect butt joint remaining in the butyl rubber between th... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622697 | Ski pants cover A ski pants cover comprising a ski pant provided at the upper portion of the knee with a first retaining piece adapted to mount a cover at the ankle portion with likewise a second retaining piece for mounting the cover, said first retaining piece being hi... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622698 | Disposable bib A disposable bib for protecting the person and clothing of a user having parallel side margins, a concave upper margin, a convex lower margin, a pair of spaced apart upwardly extending straps adjoining the ends of the upper margin and an adhesive means at... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622699 | Hospital gown A hospital gown comprising a substantially quadrilaterally shaped unitary body portion, adapted to be wrapped around a patient's torso, having an inner, body-contacting surface, an outer surface, an upper edge, first and second longitudinally extending, o... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622700 | Suction ventilated helmet A forwardly longitudinally extending cyclist's protective helmet includes a dome shaped outer shell having a forward portion, a rearward portion, and a medial portion over which air flows substantially smoothly as the cyclist moves forwardly. That medial ... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622701 | Mechanical waste mechanism A rocker beam construction for use with plumbing fixtures, for insertion within a drain tube to transmit stopper opening motion from a drain actuating linkage acting at one end of the drain tube, to the stopper located at the other end of the drain tube, ... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622702 | Drain plunger An improved plunger for clearing clogged bathroom drains and the like. The plunger has apertures through the wall of its resiliently collapsible cup and a diaphragm or other occlusion member on the inside surface of the cup for alternately opening and par... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622703 | Drain fitting with frictional seal retention A fitting for coupling a drain pipe to an opening in the base of a shower or other installation where water may accumulate includes a cylindrical body fitted into the opening in coaxial relationship with the pipe and is of greater diameter than the pipe t... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622704 | Portable hygenic warm water jet having disposable nozzle tip A portable sanitary device for cleansing the lower torso of the human body by a stream of warm water extracted from a reservoir of water heated by an electrical heating device is disclosed. The reservoir of the device comprises an enclosed lower compartme... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622705 | Toddler bed construction utilizing crib converter kit This invention relates to a youth bed construction. More particularly, this invention utilizes the springs and mattresses from a conventional baby crib together with a baby crib conversion kit to build a youth toddler bed.... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622706 | Air mat apparatus In an air mat apparatus comprising a mat body having a plurality of defined air chambers, there is an air source for feeding air to each of the air chambers of the mat body and a changeover valve connected between the mat body and the air source for contr... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622707 | Survival knives with grapple capability A survival knife is disclosed including hook members which are securable to the knife and angled rearward toward the handle. A ring is provided for securing a line to the pommel of the handle, thereby making the knife become a grapple. Several variations ... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622708 | Clothes washing machines A clothes washing machine has a cabinet in which an agitator is mounted on a vertical axis and is oscillated back and forth within a perforated tub, the tub and the agitator rotating continuously in one direction to give a spin action and the perforated t... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622709 | Cleaning apparatus for pipes The present invention relates to a cleaning apparatus for a pipe which comprises at least one scraping device having a plurality of scraping segments which are made of elastic metal plates and are radially elongated around an axis of the scraping device, ... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622710 | Vehicle washing apparatus Vehicle washing apparatus comprises horizontal rotatable brushes 6,7 moveable along respective pairs of upwardly and downwardly inclined tracks 8,9 which cross over approximately midway along their lengths. In use, the first, initially lower brush 6 is en... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622711 | Rocker arm windscreen wiper system mounted on a blade by means of an adapter In accordance with the invention, the armature (17) of the windscreen wiper blade is caused to rotate in an alternating manner by a blade support arm (1) by means of a rocker arm (6) articulated on the arm (1) and on a rocker arm control member (16) which... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622712 | Wiper blade rubber A wiper blade rubber of a constant cross section, composed of at least two kinds of rubber ingredient and manufactured by multi-color extrusion molding. In a wiper blade rubber according to this invention, a lip portion thereof to be in sliding contact wi... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622713 | Fly removing system in textile machine A fly removing system in a textile machine wherein an air curtain is formed by an air ejected from a compressed air supply source and flies are conducted to a lower portion of the textile machine. At the lower portion of the textile machine, a fly collect... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622714 | Fluid stripping apparatus Apparatus for stripping rinse water from a vehicle in a car wash has a nozzle with an inlet, an elongated body portion and an outlet. The body portion converges inwardly longitudinally from the inlet to the outlet and terminates in a straight section adja... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622715 | Friction supporting stays for windows A friction stay includes a track 10 for attachment to a window frame. The track 10 has a nose portion 14 with a curved inner surface which receives the nose portion 28 of a bar 24. Bar 24 is pivotally attached to the track 10, by a link 16 joined to the b... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622716 | Door-related hinge part for a cabinet hinge The door-related part of a cabinet hinge is in the form of a cup insert having a cup part which can be sunk flush into a recess in the back of a door. On the upper, free margin of the cup part a fastening flange integral therewith extends symmetrically wi... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622717 | Portioning machine to fill molds with plastic food material and use of same An eccentrically positioned rotary piston (11) in an almost round casing (10) is driven by a pressure controlled hydraulic motor (27) with radial slots (12), guided rams (13). The radial position of the rams (13) is set with a control valve (15). A removable i... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622718 | Methods of severing sausage casings Flexible, tubular and inflatable sausage casings are cleanly severed during continuous shirring operations without formation of troublesome loose tab-ends by impinging thin, high pressure, high velocity water jet(s) against casing sidewall. Severing may b... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622719 | Clamp for hoses and the like A helically convoluted hose clamp has a central portion of rectangular cross-sectional outline, two intermediate portions of rectangular or V-shaped cross-sectional outline, and two radially outwardly extending end portions. The moments of resistance of t... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622720 | Fastening arrangement for open hose clamp A clamp structure with a clamping band having open ends and a mechanical interconnection of the open ends of the band that include at least two outwardly extending hooks in the inner band portion adapted to engage in apertures in the outer band portion; a... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622721 | Connecting device for components and for tensioning and/or control devices with belts In a connecting device for components to a belt (14), a belt connection (7) mounted rotatably in the device is used, which is connected integrally in rotation to a ratchet wheel (9) which exhibits only one tooth (10) with which a detent pawl (11) is assoc... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622722 | Wire clamping apparatus A wire gripping apparatus for use with a tensioning device to stretch wire in preparation for mounting to fence posts. An elongated rod has a slotted wire locating plate mounted at its forward end, a support plate extending along the rod and a clamping me... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622723 | Cord lock A molded plastic cord lock is formed of a molded generally rectilinear housing having a recess, and transverse through holes in the sides of the housing; and a molded insert having an integral plunger portion and W-shaped spring portion to be slidably rec... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622724 | Security clamp for cables Improved Elastic cable safety hook comprising a vertical opening in the lower part, bridgelets on either side of longitudinal plane of the hook, and contoured longitudinal imprints to facilitate engagement and withdrawal of cables.... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622725 | Fastener for mounting a circuit board or the like to a frame A fastener for mounting a circuit board or the like to a frame is disclosed. A mounting arrangement uses removable fasteners which are received by non-circular openings in the circuit board and rotated into engagement with the surfaces of the circuit boar... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622726 | Releasable fastening construction A releasable fastening construction for detachably fastening together both ends of an article such as personal ornaments which is capable of not only readily accomplishing the fastening and releasing operation but ensuring the positive and reliable fasten... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622727 | Buckle for a safety belt A buckle fastener for a safety belt including a housing having a guiding channel for guiding a tongue into and from the housing, a latching member movable transversely to the insertion channel for selective engagement and disengagement with a recess forme... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622728 | Method and apparatus for shrinkproofing tubular fabric A continuous method for shrinkproofing tubular fabric, especially knitted and the like goods, is effected so that the fabric is spread when wet, then compressed lengthwise and then dried in a shrinkproof manner. This method provides for overstretching the... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622729 | Apparatus for removing burrs from welded material A scarfing apparatus for removing a weld bead from a tube being produced by a continuous method, wherein the tube enters one end of a hollow spindle which rotatably supports a scarfing tool holder on which is mounted a tool bit. The tool bit has an arcuat... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622730 | Apparatus to mechanically stress a bolt-type fastener A plurality of jack bolts are threadedly engaged with openings in a flange on a fastener to stress a shank part of the fastener. The flange can be a collar retained on a shaft by a retainer, a nut on a threaded end of a bolt or the head portion of a bolt.... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622731 | Method for the production of a hub for a spoke-wheel Method for the rational and cheap manufacture of a high-strength, high-precision hub for a spoke-wheel, mainly for the use in a wheel chair, the hub being given, by means of injection molding of a plastic material, a central part (1) having at each of its... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622732 | Method for forming joints in pressurized fluid systems A joint assembly for use with pressurized fluid systems employs a tube that is secured to a ferrule, preferably by hydraulic swaging. During the swaging operation, a projecting end of the tube can be expanded against a die and thereby pre-sized. A sealing... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622733 | Branch wire connecting apparatus Disclosed is an apparatus for connecting at least one branch electric wire to an intermediate portion of a main electric wire. The apparatus has a stripping section in which the intermediate portion of the main wire is stripped to expose its conductor, a ... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622734 | Apparatus for the variable machining of workpieces An apparatus for the variable machining of workpieces is described which consists of a central module, which is constructed as a hollow carrier unit and which takes over the functions of the machine housing, and also of a plurality of horizontal and verti... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4622735 | Method for manufacturing a semiconductor device utilizing self-aligned silicide regions A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device of the invention comprises the steps of (a) forming a gate insulating film on a surface of a silicon substrate, and a gate electrode on said gate insulating film; (b) forming a self-aligned insulating film at l... | 11/18/1986 |
