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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4737994 | Garment for protecting wearer against bone fracture A garment for protecting a wearer against bone fracture resulting from accidental falling comprises an undergarment to which is applied pocket-forming fabric comprising a pair of portions forming pockets positioned so as to overlie opposite hip regions of... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4737995 | Child's hospital uniform A two part hospital uniform for children having a gown with selectively severable shoulder portions, an easy fit neck and pockets which gown may be used alone or in conjunction with unisex trousers.... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4737996 | Seat-bed conversion assembly An improved seat-bed assembly providing a seat unit and a back frame support, both of which are interconnected by a controlled linkage that, coupled with a guided movement of the back frame support, will convert the assembly from a seat form to a full len... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4737997 | Patient transfer device A method of moving a person from a bed to a wheelchair employs a seat section and a conveyor section. It includes the steps (a) fitting the seat section to the rear of said person who is lying on his side on the bed, (b) rolling the seat section and said perso... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4737998 | Cellular waterbed mattress assembly A waterbed mattress is provided with a plurality of separate, free-standing cells, arranged in a "honeycomb" pattern. The cells are preferably hexagonal in plan. Each cell is provided with its own fill valve and is removably encased in its own protective ... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4737999 | Maternity mattress The present invention is directed to a mattress for pregnant women which has a main mattress section of the conventional configuration, but with an opening therein for serial, adjustable cushions for abdominal support. A plurality of inflatable and deflat... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738000 | Bowling lane maintenance apparatus The present invention provides a bowling lane maintenance apparatus moving on a bowling lane along the length thereof to effect a maintenance and thereafter traversing to the adjacent bowling lane across a division capping therebetween to effect a similar... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738001 | Canine and feline toothbrush This application relates generally to animal tooth brushes specifically designed for cleaning the teeth of animals whose teeth and mouth shape is different from human, and whose gums are more sensitive. This will enable pet owners a means of offering oral... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738002 | Hinge mounted doorcheck Hinge mounted doorstops which include channel members having a normally horizontal perforated web and normally vertical opposed flanges on opposite sides of the web mountable on top of door hinge hubs, engaged by the top hinge pin, edges of the flanges en... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738003 | Door opening/closing hinge device A vehicle door opening/closing hinge device comprises an outer link having one end connected to a first pillar pin and the other end connected to a first door pin, an inner link disposed longitudinally apart from the outer link and having one end connecte... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738004 | Tuna butchering method An automated butchering method and system for separating the edible loin portions of transverse tuna slices. Each transverse slice of the principal loin bearing section of a tuna is viewed or scanned to produce electrical signals representative of the bou... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738005 | Adjusting device for operating elements of cards or carding rollers An adjustment device is provided with a regulating element and with a bearing which receives the operating element. The bearing is supported on a fixed guiding surface and, by means of an adjustment surface, on the regulating element. The bearing can be m... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738006 | Net mending device A device for mending a broken cord in a sports net. The device includes a pair of ferrules having deformable flaps that can be crimped onto the broken cord ends. The ferrules can be connected with each other by a flexible cord element gripped by sleeves o... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738007 | Clip for stacked sheets A clip for securing together a stack of sheets, the stack having a height, or thickness, which can vary over an extended range, the clip having opposed clamping legs spaced apart and extending parallel to one another, a web interconnecting the clamping le... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738008 | Apparatus for forming a non-rotating metal strip helix Apparatus for forming a non-rotating helix of metal strip. The apparatus includes a store for the strip rotatable about the axis of the helix. The store has a radially inwardly facing circumferential opening from which the strip is withdrawn by guide shoe... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738009 | Coaxial cable tap A connector and cable preparation fixture to provide a coaxial cable tap while the cable continues to pass signals. The apparatus of the present invention attaches the cable tap without shorting the conductors and without significantly changing the coaxia... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738010 | Method of producing a sheet or plate-shaped structure as the bearing material for slide bearings A method of producing a plate-shaped bearing member for sliding bearings, the structure being composed of a patterned body of supporting bearing material and a lubricant, utilizing a galvanoplastic fabrication step, the method including: producing a mold ... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738011 | Method of manufacturing composite sliding material A method of producing a composite sliding material having a sliding portion with a sliding surface is disclosed. A base material billet for the sliding portion is prepared and then at least half of the outer peripheral surface of the base material billet ... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738012 | Method of making a cam shaft A cam shaft made from lobes having irregularly shaped apertures spaced along the longitudinal axis of a hollow tubular shaft. The method of making the cam shaft includes the steps of: inserting a hollow tubular shaft through the apertures of a plurality o... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738013 | Method and apparatus for attaching a ring-like part to the outer periphery of columnar material The present invention provides a method and apparatus for attaching a ring-like part to the outer periphery of a columnar material, as, for example, in the assembling of a catalytic converter. The columnar material is positioned and supported with its axi... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738014 | Apparatus for moving plate fin coils from station to station A method and apparatus for supporting a partially formed plate fin heat exchanger at a tension expansion station and for moving the heat exchanger into and out of the expander station.... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738015 | Industrial robot with automatic centering The horizontal movement actuators 3 of an industrial robot arm 2 are deenergized after an initial engagement between a workpiece 8 grasped by a robot hand and a base member 10 disposed on a support table 12 so that any axial misalignment between the workp... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738016 | Method and apparatus for gapping slide fastener chain Continuous or other lengths of flat back plastic filament coil slide fastener chain is gapped in such a manner that the tape ends produced by the gapping are scrap-free and undamaged. The slide fastener chain to be gapped is held in a laterally taut state... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738017 | Method for removing automobile parking brake cable from a lever An automotive parking brake cable and lever removing tool includes a prying device secured to one of the handle members of a locking pliers. The prying device has a lever arm that pivots with respect to the locking plier handle member to cause movement of... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738018 | Combined bending and cutting machine for metal sheet and plate A combined bending and cutting machine suitable for bending and cutting metal plate has a frame and a female bending die holder extending transversely across a lower part of the frame and supported thereby. The female die holder has a transversely extendi... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738019 | Wire stripping and automatic wiring device A wire stripping apparatus with a mechanism which cuts lead wire to a specified length, and peels off the covering of both ends of the wire before wiring it; through the attachment of a supply finger which conveys the wire to a predetermined position on t... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738020 | Method for manufacture of laminated parts Elongated thin strip stock is blanked to form interlocking laminas for electric motor or generator rotors or stators at successive blanking stations. At a final assembly station the laminas are stacked and pressed into interlocking relationship. In respon... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738021 | Method of making a slant gap thin-film head Slant gap magnetic heads, comprised of back-to-back wedges, are produced by an inventive procedure: Bars of discrete coil-wound thin-film heads--which bars are, cross-sectionally, L-shaped--are stacked with respect to each other. By dicing through the sta... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738022 | Vehicle assembling-and-feeding system A vehicle assembling-and-feeding system comprises an engine/suspension feeding line which travels through an engine assembly line and a first suspension assembly line for assembling one of front and rear suspensions to feed the engine and said one suspens... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738023 | Hooking apparatus for a removable constriction plug This hooking device is fastened to the choke plug (8) for guide tube (2). comprises of catches (54) regularly arrayed along the periphery of the flange (9) of the choke plug (8) and hooks to the upper spacer (4S) of the guide tube (2). It is kept in the ... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738024 | Method of making a heat dissipating assembly A heat dissipating assembly for solid state component and control circuitry therefor including a first printed circuit board [45] having a printed circuit thereon for making connections with electronic components [47], fixing the components to the first c... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738025 | Automated apparatus and method for positioning multicontact component Automated positioning apparatus for positioning multi-contact components on a circuit board utilizes automated members having a high degree of repetitive movement but not in themselves accurate, such member being relatively inexpensive. A positioning memb... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738026 | Method for making an electrical contact A precision apparatus for controllably shearing a thin workpiece of electrically conductive material to make electrical contacts of the character having specially configured spaced apart tongues adapted to mate with plug connectors of standard design. The... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738027 | Apparatus for stripping insulation from electrical cable Methods and apparatus for stripping insulation from low profile high performance cable are disclosed. The apparatus includes hand-held tools with an aperture at each end for sequentially slicing or cutting predetermined layers of insulation from the cable... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738028 | Pizza cutter According to the invention, a pizza cutting device is provided comprising an elongate handle, a cutting wheel with a peripheral cutting edge and a hub having a bore with a central axis and structure for removably assembling the handle with the cutting whe... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738029 | Numerically or manually controlled moving carriage drafting machine A numerically or manually controlled moving carriage drafting machine with digital X-Y position and angle indication, input keyboard, ruler holder and lowering mechanism for tubular pens or similar writing instruments at the drawing head is particularly c... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738030 | Arrangement for compensating for play in measuring systems The invention relates to an invention for compensating for play in a measuring system in which a measuring arrangement is connected via a mechanical transmission system to a body, the movement of which is to be measured, and in which the measuring result ... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738031 | Method for establishing the driving direction of a vehicle with an electronic compass A method for establishing the driving direction of a motor vehicle is suggested with an electronic compass which is provided with a magnetometer having two probes being turned by 90° with respect to each other and an evaluation circuit. For establishing ... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738032 | Inertial pendulum A pendulum has a weight suspended from a bar at an essentially frictionless pivot near the center of gravity of the weight.... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4738033 | Rapid change holder for probe pins A mount on the probe head of a coordinate measuring machine is described. For rapid change of a probe pin carrier, accommodating at least one probe pin, which is drawn against a bearing which clearly determines the position of the probe pin carrier in the... | 04/19/1988 |
