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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4736466 | Protective face guard This invention relates to a protective face guard employing a grillwork such as used in a catcher's mask and particularly an eye shield which is detachably fastened between a forehead pad and the grillwork for shading the eye of a user.... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736467 | Operating room clothing system A system of operating room garments including two-component scrub pants with an elastic waist band and elastic bands in the mid-thigh area to define a containment zone between the two and knit cuffs at the ankle area, to be worn under a tabard for maximum... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736468 | Method of forming a brief A method of producing panties, briefs, or the like from seamless knit tubular blanks. First and second tubular blanks are slit longitudinally along the entire length thereof and when opened out flat define first and second panels. A third tubular blank su... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736469 | Headgear for slalom racers The headgear comprises at least one annular band for surrounding the head and possibly completed by a cap. At least the frontal-lateral part of the band includes a thick, shock-absorbent structure of resiliently-compressible foamed material. This structur... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736470 | Lifting assembly for lid and seat structures of a toilet A lifting assembly for the lifting of both a lid and seat structure of conventional design normally placed in covering relation to the open mouth of a toilet bowl wherein utilization of the toilet assembly necessitates the lifting or positioning of at lea... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736471 | Toilet light A toilet light assembly which is mounted on the underside of a lid for a toilet and has a bulb which is energized by a gravity switch with movement of the lid from a lowered to a raised position.... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736472 | Toilet seat latch A latch mechanism for a hinged cover such as a toilet cover comprising a base which is mounted on the bowl of the toilet, a latch bar which is pivotally mounted on the base and movable between a horizontal position which interferringly overlies as the toi... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736473 | Pressure drain cleaner A pressure drain cleaner including an integral nozzle, coupler and hose attachment fitting with the coupler being sized and shaped to connect to pipes of plumbing systems and to receive a suction attachment that will grip drains of the plumbing systems an... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736474 | Rescue transportation device A rescue transportation device having an inflatable support member with a generally horizontally extending main section and an inclined section adjacent to one end of the main section extending upwardly and outwardly therefrom. A cover is adapted to exten... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736475 | Abrading machine for disk shaped surfaces A surface finishing apparatus for disks and the like characterized by an eccentric spindle of small diameter engaging the inner circumference of a disk; a drive mechanism engaging the outer circumference of the disk to rotate the disk around an axis paral... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736476 | Wall bed mechanism An improved wall bed lifting mechanism for providing the support and pivotal motion of both a bed and headboard structure of conventional design about a transverse axis wherein the mechanism accommodates the storing of a bed and fixed headboard in vertica... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736477 | Knee pillow A pillow (1) which may be placed between the knees (22, 26) of a leg (20), so as to prevent chafing between the knees when a person is required to recline on their side for a long period of time. The pillow (1) is generally rectangular in plan form, and i... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736478 | Waterbed sheet The waterbed sheet assembly 25 includes a top sheet 28, and a bottom sheet 26, with the sheets sewn together along their bottom edges. A corner pocket structure 30 is formed on the corners of the bottom sheet, and each corner pocket structure includes a c... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736479 | Method and cover board for harvesting honey in free beekeeping A method of beekeeping in which a super is placed on a queen excluder positioned over the brood chamber of a bee colony, the super having a bottom cover and a top cover board which are provided with slots and which are initially loosely fitted. Comb mid-r... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736480 | Cable wire testing pliers The pliers form a cable wire testing tool. At the front end of a working portion (11a), a blade-type piercing member (18) is adapted to leave, in closed condition of the pliers, a free space relative to a surface of the other leg (12) serving as an abutme... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736481 | Method of manufacturing screw fasteners A bi-metallic screw fastener blank for a self drilling and tapping screw and a process for making it are disclosed. The screw blank comprises a member made of a first material and has a head member and a shank member adjacent to the head to which is affix... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736482 | Pipeline pig bypassing assembly A pipeline pig bypassing assembly is provided which remvoes a pipe pig from a pipeline system and which reintroduces a pig into the system when a second pig enters the assembly. Preferably, the bypassing assembly includes a tubular receiving means connect... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736483 | Duster holder simultaneously decorated with duster feather A duster holder includes a base board, an overlying board shorter than the base board fixed on the upper portion of the base board, a receptacle formed on the lowest edge of the base board, and a duster inserted in between the overlying board and the base... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736484 | Windshield wiper system In a windshield wiper system for motor vehicles the contact pressure of the wiper onto the window is adjustable while the wiper is moving. For this purpose a multi-part actuator driven by an electromotive adjusting device and guided in a bore of the wiper... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736485 | Windshield wiper system This invention relates to a windshield wiper system in which, in order to relieve the wiper lip in the parking position of the windshield wiper, a magnet becomes effective whose force is without contact opposed to the contact pressure which in known manne... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736486 | Connecting device for a pantograph wiper arm A connecting device for a pantograph-type wiper system wherein the connecting device comprises an actuating arm, a first element for rotatably mounting a wiper blade to the actuating arm, a control arm and a second element for connecting the first element... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736487 | Windshield wiper arrangement A force responsive, variable length push rod for connecting the motor and windshield blade of a windshield wiper unit. The variable response push rod includes a pair of members connected at one end to the motor and windshield blades respectfully and overl... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736488 | Paint drip pan A paint drip pan and method for constructing same. A base member has an aperture therethrough within which to receive a painter's wrist. A glove member may be located within the aperture and secured to the base member. A plurality of fingers integral with... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736489 | Portable hand vacuum for picking up small metal particles A jet pump vacuum device for picking up debris includes an elongated tubular vacuum member having an input end and an output end and a high pressure air tube for discharging a jet of high pressure air into said elongated vacuum member at a point therein b... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736490 | Locking hinge A bracket hinge and bracket members (10, 10') with a spring biased and movable locking member (30). The locking or latch member (30) has ear parts (38, 39) received in locking openings (25, 25') where wedging surfaces (40, 41) on the ear parts cooperate w... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736491 | Flush mounted, fully concealed cabinet hinges A flush mounted hinge assembly for use in applications where the hinges are to be fully concealed and where the doors abut one another or an adjacent structural member, includes a cabinet mounted bracket, a door mounted bracket, and a housing pivotally mo... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736492 | Apparatus for boning animal legs, like thighs of slaughtered chickens Prepared parts of edible fowl, such as thighs of slaughtered chickens, are deboned by loading the parts in a plurality of pans (23) of a pan conveyor (22) with the lengths of the bones approximately parallel to one another extending across the direction o... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736493 | Apparatus for separating waste from textile fiber processing machines An apparatus for separating fiber waste from an air stream includes a duct guiding a waste-laden air stream; and a stationary collecting vessel communicating with the duct for receiving the waste-laden air stream from the duct. The collecting vessel has a... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736494 | Magnetic button for articles of clothing, leather goods, and the like The magnetic button comprises magnetically cooperating male and female elements each having a rivet element for attachment to a respective flap of an article and at least one holed plate wherethrough the rivet element is passed and clamped between one fac... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736495 | Slide fastener with prefabricated coupling element A sliding clasp fastener having woven supporting tapes and woven-in prefabricated rows of interlocking members each formed helically from a plastics monofilament, in which the interlocking members, seen in a projection on the plane of the sliding clasp fa... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736496 | Closure for thermoplastic containers A method for providing a wide-track integral thermoplastic closure for film or sheet stock. The closure includes ribs on either side of an element of the closure to provide the wide-track effect to assist one in ease of interlocking the closure elements. ... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736497 | Buckle, especially of safety belt for a motor vehicle This buckle is characterized by a device stressing a locking member (5) towards its locking position and a device for ejecting a bolt consist of a first elastic element (20), one end of which intended to interact with the bolt when it is inserted or eject... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736498 | Tentering chain guide track for roller-supported tenter clamps The guide track for a tentering chain carrying roller-supported tenter clips or clamps has two band-shaped flexible parallel guide rails extending horizontally along the edge of a material web, but protruding in an upright or on-edge manner perpendicular ... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736499 | Equipment for unraveling threads from a fabric Equipment for unraveling threads out of a fabric, in particular cross-threads in the end areas of fabrics produced for papermaking machines, comprising an unraveling assembly including a sensor head for determining the precise course of cross-threads to b... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736500 | System to draw and texturize partially oriented yarn An air texturing system for partially oriented yarn in which a draw block of aluminum or other suitable material is employed to provide two stages of drawing for the yarn to be textured. The draw block has an inlet offset from the outlet to provide for on... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736501 | Electric stripper An electric stripper comprising a pivotal arm carrying a cutter blade and pivoted to a rotary housing. The cutter blade is movable toward or away from the axis of rotation of the housing by the pivotal movement of the arm. The arm is pivotally movable by ... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736502 | Tool for removing the jacket from electrical cables A tool adapted for removing the outer protective jacket from an electrical cable of the type comprising a plurality of central coaxial conductors surrounded by a layer of insulating material, an inner sheath of conductive material surrounding the insulati... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736503 | Clutch shoe construction and method of making same An improved clutch shoe of the type that is mounted on the rotor of a centrifugal clutch for coupling engagement with an outer clutch housing. The shoe is formed by two similar L-shaped shoe half sections which are stamped of sheet metal. Each shoe half s... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736504 | Alignment method for pressure welded bladed disk A method for manufacturing bladed disks, or blisks, for turbines by press welding of blades or outer airfoil elements to blade stives or inner airfoil elements on a disk is characterized by the provision on the outer and inner airfoil elements of flanges... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4736505 | Apparatus for replacing MacPherson struts A method and apparatus for use in repairing or replacing parts of the suspension system, such as a MacPherson strut of an automobile which suspends a frame or passenger compartment from a lower portion which includes the wheels and the axle. The apparatus... | 04/12/1988 |
