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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4644588 | Eye shield cap for infants This eye shield cap is formed of tubular knit stretchable open mesh fabric and includes a crown which snugly fits the head of the infant with a turned hem portion extending around the lower edge of the crown and adapted to extend behind the head and acros... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644589 | Self administrable garments for arthritic persons A self donning garment for use of a person with limited movement of his arms or legs. The garment in one preferred embodiment comprises a shaped undergarment which has been vertically split along the frontal midline and has, applied to the opposed central... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644590 | Halo shirt A garment apparatus (10) for use in combination with a halo apparatus (200); wherein said garment apparatus (10) comprises a front opening garment unit (11) having an elongated lateral front opening (50) and an elongated lateral back opening (60) which ac... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644591 | Soft sculpture face mask A soft sculpture face mask is extremely lightweight, breatheable and capable of being easily and inexpensively manufactured. The construction of the mask allows for an unlimited variety of face mask designs utilizing basically the same materials. The mask... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644592 | Disposable floor mat Disclosed is a mat for temporary use on a surface subject to exposure to a highly aqueous environment. The mat includes a water repellent mat member having a surface adapted for frictional engagement with a human body part. A non-hygroscopic, fully releas... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644593 | Variable support cushion for supporting anatomical body weight A variable support apparatus for supporting anatomical body weight. A supporting cusion, such as a mattress or a seat cushion, is provided with at least one relief device at a given location normally under a particular anatomical body area of a user. The ... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644594 | Patient transport device A patient transport device which is characterized in one embodiment by a flat rail bed having spaced, parallel, upturned rails on opposite sides, with a seat slidably disposed over the rails by means of rollers rotating in the rails on spaced axles carrie... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644595 | Portable motorized bed lift apparatus A portable motorized bed lift apparatus is provided for enabling a prone patient who is disabled, handicapped, an invalid, or the like to raise himself to a sitting position with the weight of his upper body portion substantially over his hips without the... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644596 | Resilient surface for sitting and lying furniture, preferably for beds A bed includes a support structure having longitudinally extending bearing beams on which a spring member rests. The spring member includes a plurality of side-by-side modules, each having upper and lower resilient, flexible strips held apart by a plurali... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644597 | Air mattress with pressure relief valve An air mattress is equipped with a one-way air pressure relief valve operable to limit the air pressure in the air mattress to about 1 psi to prevent seam separation and blowout. The mattress has top and bottom walls joined to side and end walls with edge... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644598 | Fitted comforter for infant In an infant-safe comforter fitted to the foot end of a crib mattress, the grasping power of the two boxed corners of the comforter on the corners of the mattress is controllably reduced by limiting the extent of an elasticized central segment of the free... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644599 | Bed cover lifter A device for keeping bedclothes off the bodies of patients, particularly burn victims and those who are bothered by the weight of bedclothes, comprising six multisectional arms composed of removable, extendable sections that may accomodate all widths. Two... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644600 | Extension handle for wrenches An extension device for receiving the handle of a wrench so as to assist in the rotation thereof includes a generally flat handle portion, a generally flat offset portion coupled to the handle portion and offset therefrom and first and second stirrups cou... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644601 | Method and apparatus for applying evaporable finishing means or textile material Applying evaporable finishing substances such as high-refinement media, dyes and optical brighteners, by evaporating the finishing substance and transferring to the textile material in the vapor phase via a line system. Smudging or smearing and re-evapora... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644602 | Machine for automatically carding soles of footwear The machine carries out the operations of roughening, reducing, straightening and the like on soles for footwear. The sole is automatically transferred under a processing unit by a carrier moving stepwise and provided with a plurality of driving blocks. A... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644603 | Plumber's snake A snake which can be power driven through a clutch or manually rotated with a crank. The coiled wire body terminates in a nose cylinder which has coils which are of a larger diameter, constant diameter, and expanded terminating in a cylinder snag tip cut-... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644604 | Roller paint applicator for wrought iron railing A paint applicator is disclosed that employs a pair of elongated prongs, each prong having a roller end on which a paint roller is rotatably mounted, and a handle end that is movably connected to the handle end of the other prong. The prongs are spring bi... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644605 | Stick vacuum cleaner A vacuum cleaner convertible between an upright vacuum cleaner and a portable hand carried vacuum cleaner. The conversion is accomplished by means of a handle pivotally mounted for selective movement between an open position extending from the body of the... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644606 | Lawn/garden blower/vacuum The present invention is directed to an internal combustion engine-powered, blower/vacuum device. The device has an air chamber with an axial air inlet and a tangential air outlet. The engine rotatably drives the impeller, and is controlled by a throttle.... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644607 | Device for applying a strand of sausage or the like to a smoking rod In order to be able to fully automatically deposit a sausage strand (1) in turns on a smoking rod (2), the strand of sausages (5) reeled off a portioning device (4) with the aid of a rotating carrier finger (12) is first "wound up" on a feeder arm (14). T... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644608 | Thigh deboner An apparatus and method for removing the meat from the bone of a poultry thigh or other poultry piece having an elongated bone, includes a conveyor for moving the poultry piece along its longitudinal axis. A peel-down assembly extends along the conveyor a... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644609 | Spinning machine drafting frame In order to make possible automatic restart of a spinning machine drafting frame after strand breakage in an easy way, a movable blocking member is insertable between the drive roller of the lower feed belt and the lower feed belt in the direction of the ... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644610 | Disc shaped holder with an expandable center hole A disc shaped holder device with an expandable center hole wherein the invention has a circular bead around its circumference and an internal centrally located access hole of convenient diameter, and an internal membrane completely filling the area betwee... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644611 | Snap hook A snap hook comprises a base member having a J-shaped hook and a flexible member, and a slider mounted on the base member for movement in directions perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the base member to open and close the J-shaped hook, wherei... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644612 | Panel retainer A resilient clip is provided for retaining a projection formed on a panel into an opening in a support structure. The clip has a "V" or "U" shaped lead portion provided with locking legs for retaining the projection in the lead portion and a pair of centr... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644613 | Locking slider for slide fastener A locking slider assembly for a slide fastener includes only a slider body, a locking spring and pull tab. The three components can be automatically assembled substantially without component deformation. In one embodiment, the pull tab includes an eccentr... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644614 | Plastic fastener for spacing and supporting two plates A fastener has a first plate-like base portion provided with an upright portion united by a hinge portion to an L-shaped portion terminating in a second plate-like base portion. The second plate-like base portion can be turned about the hinge portion to b... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644615 | Lock for safety belts Lock for safety belts, comprising a lock housing enclosing a lock mechanism having a release member for manual operation, and a member of lock tongues which can be inserted into the lock housing for co-operation with the lock mechanism. The lock mechanism... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644616 | Safety belt buckle device with automatic unlocking The device comprises automatic unlocking means for a fastening member connected to the belt and actuating means for the unlocking which are sensitive to a parameter of the state of a movable structure in which the safety belt is installed. The automatic u... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644617 | Releasable locking coupling or support device A releasable locking device comprises a tubular housing (180) having a pair of rotary pawls (182) mounted therein. The angular position of the pawls are controlled by spring-loaded balls (183). A line (179) passing through the housing has a collar (184) t... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644618 | Lock for safety bells Lock for safety belts having at least two hip strap parts and two shoulder strap parts, said lock comprising a lock housing to be attached to one hip strap part and enclosing a manually releasable lock mechanism (18), a lock tongue (11) to be attached to ... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644619 | Method for producing complex objects by multidirectional deposition of thread The invention concerns the production of three-dimensional thread packages. Vertical rods (11) are maintained in a stationary arranged network by engagement through perforated plates (12,13). A thread (10) is deposited from above this network by a shuttle... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644620 | Draw texturing and entanglement apparatus for yarn Apparatus for the effective manufacturing of bulk yarn employing fluid and comprising two assembled blocks of simple geometric form. The apparatus is characterized by a yarn path part having a polygonal cross section which is defined by planes arranged in... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644621 | Chilled yarn guide An improved high speed process for texturing continuous filament yarn is provided wherein the improvement comprises cooling the yarn, subsequent to texturing and prior to applying tension, by contact for at least 4 milliseconds with a curved surface at a ... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644622 | Apparatus for air entangling a plurality of advancing yarns An apparatus is disclosed for simultaneously air jet entangling a plurality of advancing multifilament yarns. The apparatus includes a plurality of elongate air jet beams, with each beam having a longitudinal air passageway extending along its length, and... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644623 | Method of making a rotatable molding element for selectively aperturing thermoplastic film An apparatus for the manufacture of selectively apertured thermoplastic sheet or film, comprising a rotatable molding element means for receiving the film and which means has a predetermined pattern therein wherein as the film is contacted with the rotata... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644624 | Method for manufacturing a flanged half bearing A process for the manufacture of half bearings with flanges rigidly connected thereto, made of a steel plate with an antifriction layer, in which the plain (i.e. not yet flanged) half bearing and a pair of flanges are produced and worked separately, and s... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644625 | Plier tool for making an improved electrical connection The method of providing an improved soldered electrical connection includes the step of providing a ring over an electrical wire and a terminal which are to be soldered together, and then compressing the ring to form a mechanical connection between the wi... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644626 | Forming of metal articles Metal articles are shaped by contacting a metal blank with a diaphragm of plastically deformable metal which may be superplastic aluminium and urging the diaphragm against the blank and against a mould so that the diaphragm and body are deformed. The moul... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4644627 | Method of making double wall storage tank for liquids A double wall tank for the storage of liquids is manufactured from a rigid, cylindrical single wall inner tank by applying a primary spacing material to at least a portion of the exterior surface of the inner tank, applying over that inner tank exterior s... | 02/24/1987 |
