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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4682371 | Protective eye patch A socket-shaped, lightweight, substantially rigidly framed, improved eye patch is provided that is to be adhesively, securely mounted on a surrounding bone structure of an eye. It is constructed to conform to the facial structure of a wearer, has hidden a... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682372 | Protective apron A protective apron that covers the chest, belly and crutch area of the body of used by a butcher to protect against knife wounds. A hinge assembly on the apron that allows the butcher to bend forward without substantial restriction.... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682373 | Collapsible hat construction A collapsible hat construction wherein the body and brim of the hat are capable of being folded to generally curved planar condition, and subsequently rolled to furled condition. The outer peripheral band of the hat is provided with an auxiliary strap sel... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682374 | Protective ear covering A protective ear covering has a self-fastening strap to fasten to the goggle strap of ski goggles or to a fabric headband. The ear protector's outer edge includes wedge-shaped riser to accommodate an ear's outward projection, while the inside rim of the p... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682375 | Sofa-bed assembly A sofa-bed assembly comprising a series of sections pivoted to one another in succession and foldable between a collapsed sofa condition and an extended bed condition. A supporting linkage includes a control link pivotally connected to one of the sections... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682376 | Delivery bed A delivery bed has a seat part supported on raisable and lowerable side-pieces. A leg-support has side tubes which are journalled for axial movement on forwardly and rearwardly located pairs of support rollers journalled on bolts attached to the side-piec... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682377 | Device for transferring immobile persons A device for lifting or lowering an invalid patient for movement between wheelchairs and/or beds, chairs, commodes and automobiles is disclosed which has a base, an upright, and a patient support member pivotably secured to the upright. A pivoting element... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682378 | Body support, such as a mattress Body support consisting of a number of tubular or sheath-shaped air chambers extending one next to the other in the transverse direction of the support and connected to one another, whereby the upper surface of each air chamber is provided with one or mor... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682379 | Mattress pad and fitted bed sheet The fitted bed sheet (22) and mattress pad (30) are connected together along the side edges (47 and 48) of the pad by stitching (49). The length of the pad and bed sheet are the same so that the foot and head portions (32 and 33) of the pad extend into an... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682380 | Box for beekeeping for the creation of a bee colony, change of queen from a hive in activity and partial restriction of brood rearing A box for beekeeping is disclosed which is adapted to be entirely fitted into a superhive, or into an upper honey chamber, or into a hive body, such that any frame with which it is fitted takes the place of a frame of the superhive or hive body. The box m... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682381 | Spike forming method The present invention relates to a method for forming a blank railroad spike using a series of cold forming dies. A workpiece is introduced into a first die to form a first stage spike having a squared end and a thick cylindrical shank. The first stage sp... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682382 | Weather seal for a loading dock pit A sealing mechanism associated with a dockboard for providing a weather seal for the pit in the loading dock during a loading operation. The sealing mechanism includes a pair of guide tracks mounted on the vertical front face of the dock, and a frame is m... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682383 | Combination joint raker and jointer A combination joint rake and jointer tool for raking and smoothing mortar in the joints of brickwork is described herein. The tool is used for removing excess mortar and for smoothing the remaining mortar. The tool has an elongated tool body having a medi... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682384 | Vacuum generating system for hand-held vacuum cleaner The vacuum generating system for a hand-held vacuum cleaner comprises a fan or impeller having backwardly curved arcuate blades extending between preferably frusto-conical wall portions of front and rear fan shrouds. The front fan shroud is associated wit... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682385 | Method and apparatus for automatically suspending sausages from a bar A chain of linked sausages is suspended from a bar in equally spaced loops by continuously discharging the chain of linked sausages while the chain is formed into into loops, suspending the loops of sausages directly from the bar a rearward end of which i... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682386 | Poultry breast filleting system Previously eviscerated poultry carcasses with wings and saddle removed are moved on a series of carcass carriers (20) along a processing path with protrusions (32, 33) extending into the wing sockets of the carcass to hold the carcass on the carrier. A se... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682387 | Apparatus and method for stripping casing from sausages An apparatus and method for stripping the casing from casing enclosed sausage sticks includes an indexing device which moves sausages in an arcuate path during which the front end of the sausage stick is severed. The sausage sticks are then moved horizont... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682388 | Textile flock feed control system and method A control system and method for controlling the rate (Y) of fiber input (24) into a delivery system (28) in response to sensed fiber quantity (56) is disclosed. The control system generates a step control signal (C,D) in response to first deviations about... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682389 | Garment connector A multi-piece garment connector is provided for interconnecting related garments or the like so as to prevent accidental separation of one from the other, as during laundering. The connector comprises male and female elements connectible temporarily to re... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682390 | Buckle and body restraint system for a vehicle A restraint harness attachable to a vehicle lap belt and having a waist strap, shoulder straps and a crotch strap with a looped segment through which the shoulder straps and lap belt passes. A buckle for the harness receives the fittings on each end of th... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682391 | Cable harness assembly apparatus Cable harness manufacturing apparatus comprises a pair of rails defining a linear path through a workstation where a press terminates ribbon cable to connectors in connector receiving fixtures independently journaled to the rails. A first stop on the path... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682392 | Anvil insert for fastener machine An improved apparatus for drilling, countersinking, inserting and forming the head of a rivet in a workpiece comprising a base which holds a lower anvil assembly in correct linear relationship with an upper ram assembly; a lower anvil body mounted on the ... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682393 | Support roller A roller for supporting the rotating drum of a clothes drier or similar appliance includes a hub which is molded from a suitable polymer and a rubber tire which fits around and is interlocked with the hub. The tire is of uniform cross-sectional configurat... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682394 | Bedding and seating product having double twist coil spring and method and apparatus for manufacturing the same A bedding foundation box spring having novel double twist coil springs interconnecting a wooden base frame and a top wire grid. The coil springs each comprise a single length of wire having a middle section located in a diametral plane of one end convolut... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682395 | Device for pushing wheel flange hubs and splined flange hubs of motor vehicles out of a shaft bearing A device to push a wheel flange hub or splined hub of motor vehicles out of a shaft bearing press-fitted in a bearing cylinder is of simple design and easy to handle and, in addition, adjustable to different diameters of various bearing cylinders. The dev... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682396 | Centering/positioning apparatus for wafer and vacuum chuck A method for centering a semiconductor wafer on a vacuum chuck having a centered shaft. A shaft centering tool which is contained in pre-existing openings in a housing surrounding the shaft is used to define the desired location of the shaft. A second dev... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682397 | High temperature pressure vessel inspection procedure A method of inspecting a tube header bore comprises scoring an oxide scale layer within the bore using a hard scribing tool. The bore is then cleaned using one or more honing brushes having flexible bristles with carbide tips. After sufficiently cleaning ... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682398 | Method for removing ford ignition pin type cylinders A method of removing Ford pin ignition lock cylinders in Ford motor vehicles is provided and consists of using three different types of tools, one guide tool, one cutter, and one shim. One guide tool that has pin portions for engaging the pin holes on the... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682399 | Method and tool for removing the nut which secures a faucet to a sink A method of and tool for removing the nut which is in threaded engagement with exterior threads on the inlet end of a faucet to secure the faucet to a sink uses a tool which has at one end a hollow cylindrical portion terminating in cutting teeth and at t... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682400 | Terminating apparatus Apparatus for mass terminating discrete wires to a connector preloaded with terminals connected to a carrier strip comprises a press having a vertically movable upper tooling package aligned above a termination station and a lower tooling package movable ... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682401 | Multiple processing machine The present invention relates to a multiple processing machine having a punch press for punching a sheet-like workpiece and a ram-operated forming press for performing a variety of forming operations such as bending, shearing, and drawing on the workpiece... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682402 | Semiconductor device comprising polycrystalline silicon resistor element This invention relates to a semiconductor device having a resistor element of polycrystalline silicon and method of manufacturing the device. The resistor element comprises a first conductive layer made of a first polycrystalline silicon layer and island-... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682403 | Method for interconnecting the active zones and gates of CMOS integrated circuits A method for interconnecting the active zones and/or gates of CMOS integrated circuits. The method comprises, during the formation of the gates in a first conductive coating, defining in the latter the dimensions of the connections to be produced, and whe... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682404 | MOSFET process using implantation through silicon A simplified small geometry MOS process incorporates a tungsten shunt layer on the thin silicon gate electrode layer allowing reduction of the thickness of the silicon layer and the use of an implant through the layer to form precisely controlled shallow ... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682405 | Methods for forming lateral and vertical DMOS transistors A transistor is provided which includes an electrical contact (122) formed in a V-shaped groove (118). Because of the unique shape of the electrical contact, a smaller surface area is required for its formation thus rendering it possible to construct a tr... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682407 | Means and method for stabilizing polycrystalline semiconductor layers Implantation of oxygen or nitrogen in polysilicon layers to a dose above about 1015 ions/cm2 retards rapid grain boundary migration of conventional dopants such as B, P, As, Sb, and the like during dopant activation. Pre-annealing of... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682408 | Method for making field oxide region with self-aligned channel stop implantation A process is described for forming semiconductor device which include forming step of coating of silicon oxide derivative before ion implanting step: The coating prevents unnecessary extention of channel stop regions thus produces high speed and high curr... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682409 | Fast bipolar transistor for integrated circuit structure and method for forming same An improved bipolar device is disclosed having a polysilicon emitter formed over a base region of a silicon substrate with oxide spacer portions formed on the sides of the emitter and metal silicide portions formed over the base region adjacent the oxide ... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682410 | Process of making a dynamo electric machine The commutating poles of vehicular-type d-c motors, for example for trolley buses or trolley cars, are made by winding, on edge, a copper strip, permitting the wound copper strip to resiliently, spring-like expand so that the individual spiral loops there... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4682411 | Wire identifying sleeve applicator A hand tool for applying identification sleeves to electric wire including a sleeve mandrel, onto which identification sleeves are threaded, and a mandrel stripper including a retainer to hold one end of the mandrel and a stripper guide to slide along the... | 07/28/1987 |
