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Patents Published on 05/17/1988


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4744106Engineering cap with structure of fan device
An engineering safety cap for providing both security and ventilation. The cap according to a specific embodiment comprises a top portion, sides and an open bottom which together define an inner compartment. The top portion has a circular opening defined ...
05/17/1988
4744107Safety helmet and detachable accessory
A safety helmet includes a helmet shell, at least one accessory, and at least one plug connection for connecting the accessory to the helmet shell being detachable with a given opening force, each plug connection including an elastic plug having a socket ...
05/17/1988
4744108Bathtub drain apparatus
A bathtub drain having a fixed body at the tub overflow opening a rotational member extending through the fixed body and having a rear portion behind the fixed body, a non-axially positioned linkage attachment point on the rear portion of the rotational m...
05/17/1988
4744109Gas-sealing insert for floor drains
A gas-sealing insert for floor drains. The insert comprises a cover for sealing a floor drain opening except for a hole passing through the cover, and tubing suspended below the cover for receiving water passing through the hole. The tubing, at one end, s...
05/17/1988
4744110Automatic drain sealer
An automatic drain sealer is provided for halting an infestation of insects and gas escapement into a residential or commercial enclosure from a sewer line via a drain of a sink or basin receptacle....
05/17/1988
4744111Knock-down commode
A portable knock-down toilet structure includes a base, vertical side, front and rear walls, and a top wall. The vertical walls each have slots in the lower edge portion thereof which engage clips on the base to detachably secure the vertical walls to the...
05/17/1988
4744112Collapsible solar-heated hot tub
A collapsible, gas-inflatable hot tub which is for use in locations where hot water is not accessible or where hot baths are not available. The water of the hot tub is solar heated by making the walls of the water-holding receptacle black, and by providin...
05/17/1988
4744113Toilet training aid and method
A toilet training aid comprising a porous sheet of papers having a normally invisible picture imprinted thereon is attached to the rim of a toilet bowl over the mouth thereof whereby the attention of a child is attracted to use the toilet as the picture b...
05/17/1988
4744114Crib construction including hanger bracket
A crib assembly (10) includes a bedstead (12), spring frame (20), and hanger support bracket (30). The hanger support bracket (30) is fixedly secured to the end post (14) of the bedstead (12). The hanger support bracket (30) includes a base portion (32) a...
05/17/1988
4744115Patient mover
An apparatus for moving a patient from one supporting surface to another supporting surface, having a pair of rigid panels positioned apart from one another sandwiched between an upper and lower cover sheet which are attached together retaining the panels...
05/17/1988
4744116Stretcher
A compact stretcher is disclosed which is erectable upon requirement. In a preferred embodiment, stretcher poles each consist of a tube of textile material impregnated with a moisture-curable polyurethane which is received within an impervious outer cover...
05/17/1988
4744117Prop-like positioning device for hemiside reclining persons
Prop-like positioning devices for hemiside reclining persons and including: a bolster or other lofty pillowy structure extending along a longitudinal-axis and being in longitudinally extending attached relationship to a flexible apron member extending len...
05/17/1988
4744118Disposable fitted crib or bed sheet
A fitted sheet for covering a standard crib or bed mattress. The fitted sheet is developed from a single rectangular blank of non-woven fabric material, the sides of which are folded in along parallel longitudinal fold lines to form a folded-in sheet whos...
05/17/1988
4744119Method of making a two-piece capped lug nut
A production method for a two-piece capped lug nut which consists of a nut and cap which is attached to the top. The top of the nut has a grooved, serrated or roughened surface and a protrusion for positioning. When the cap is positioned on the nut, the c...
05/17/1988
4744120Shoe support for shoe upper conforming machine
A combined heel end assembling, backpart moulding and heel seat lasting machine comprises a shoe support for supporting a shoe bottom uppermost. For gripping and tensioning the shoe upper on its last prior to the combined operation taking place, two gripp...
05/17/1988
4744121Loading dock and hydraulic system therefor
A hydraulic system is provided for a loading dock installation wherein the latter has a plurality of independently operable dock levelers arranged in spaced relation along the loading dock. Each leveler includes a hingedly mounted deck member or ramp and ...
05/17/1988
4744122Scrubbing apparatus for vehicles
A scrubbing apparatus for automobiles and other vehicles has three baskets of scrubbing curtains arranged in generally side-by-side relation transverse to the passageway through which the vehicle moves. The width of the curtains of the inner basket is pre...
05/17/1988
4744123Device for scraping the outer surface of a tube
A device for shaving material from the outer surface of a pipe including a chuck for securing the device to the end of the pipe, a drive shaft having its axis coincident with the pipe axis and a fixed plate immovably secured to the drive shaft perpendicul...
05/17/1988
4744124Music tooth brush
A music tooth brush comprises a hollow brush hair stock, a touch switch containing the hollow part of said brush hair stock, a brush hair board floatingly mounted on the brush hair stock, and a hollow grip handle bar containing the music IC, batteries and...
05/17/1988
4744125Door closer transmission including an eccentric pinion
A door closer is described in which transmission characteristics which change in dependence on the closing angle can be realized either by two pistons disposed coaxially within one another and displaceable relative to one another, or by eccentric toothed ...
05/17/1988
4744126Combined pull and carry handle
A combined pull and carry handle comprises a one-piece part adapted to be retained within an aperture in a panel or the like having a face portion adapted to engage the front of the panel when the one-piece part is retained within the aperture, an opening...
05/17/1988
4744127Door hinge
A door hinge is disclosed including a door mounting bracket and a body mounting bracket interconnected by an intermediate member pivotably attached to each bracket. A locking arrangement including a pivotable locking arm on the intermediate member simulta...
05/17/1988
4744128Apparatus for molding a food product
A food product mold apparatus for producing a food product, for example resembling the shelled meat of shellfish, including two elongated mold halves which when fitted together form a series of multiple food product mold cavities. Devices are provided for...
05/17/1988
4744129Holding device
A holding device which is adapted to be flanged to a machine for filling and for automatically twisting off sausages and which acts on the front end of a twist-off nozzle of the machine via a brake ring housing for effecting automatic twisting off. For pr...
05/17/1988
4744130Method and device for producing a cone-shaped meat product
With the device and method, ground meat is pumped through an elongated discharge tube into a plastic bag at the bottom of a frustoconical-shaped mold casing. The mold casing cooperates with a pneumatic or air inflatable elastic resilient piston that cause...
05/17/1988
4744131Apparatus for handling fish fillets for the purpose of quality inspection
The invention concerns an apparatus which can be utilized for the quality inspection of fish fillets and enables the detection of faulty spots resulting from processing deficiencies, such as skin or fin remainders, blood spots, bones, as well as from para...
05/17/1988
4744132Lock ring assembly and disassembly method
An improved lock ring and spreader tool affording a method of removing the lock ring from a circumferential groove on a rim, the lock ring serving to retain a tire flange in position on the rim, the lock ring being split with juxtaposed ends each having a...
05/17/1988
4744133Fluid-tight slide fastener stringer
A fluid-tight slide fastener stringer has a fluid-tight tape chiefly made of rubber or synthetic resin on which tape a series of discrete coupling elements are supported along an inner longitudinal margin of the tape. The tape margin is folded so as to pr...
05/17/1988
4744134Safety belt buckle, particularly for automobiles
This buckle, which is particularly for automobile safety belts and is intended to fix in a movable manner a side thereof to a fixed point in the body of the vehicle, comprising a hook assembly and a bolt (19) which is connected to the side to be fixed, wi...
05/17/1988
4744135Alignment adjustment tool for a vehicle door
A tool for adjusting the alignment of a vehicle door within its opening comprises a plate which has a recess at one end for engaging over the striker pin on the door jam and a second pin at a rearward end for engaging into the lock mechanism of the door. ...
05/17/1988
4744136Process for manufacturing end weighted bats
A method for manufacturing a baseball or softball bat formed of hollow metal tubing having a short weight plug of hard rubber anchored at the extreme end of the striking portion of the bat by a knob protruding from the weight plug through a hole in the en...
05/17/1988
4744137Method of making double wall storage tank for liquids
A method is described for manufacturing a rigid double wall tank from a rigid single wall cylindrical inner tank, in which a substantially rigid sheath is formed over a male mold which has a configuration generally similar to that of the inner tank and pr...
05/17/1988
4744138Method of manufacturing a high-voltage current transformer
A high-voltage current transformer of the head design with a column made of insulating material which supports the head housing. The primary lead is approximately U-shaped, whereby only its horizontal base passes through the central opening of secondary s...
05/17/1988
4744139Apparatus for automatically adjusting the worktable of an electronic components insertion machine
An apparatus for automatically fixing a printed circuit board to a predetermined position on a worktable of an automatic electronic components insertion machine having a non-shiftably arranged reference positioning pin and a shiftable positioning pin whic...
05/17/1988
4744140Alignment and insertion tool for connectors
A tool for mounting connectors onto a printed circuit board. More particularly, the tool includes a pair of pins mounted in a holder. A connector is placed on the tool with the pins passing through holes therein. Thereafter, the connector leads are accura...
05/17/1988
4744141Apparatus for automatically inserting leads on electrical and/or electronic components into corresponding holes in a substrate
The apparatus comprises two carriages 4, 5, movable in opposite directions F1, F2, and operable in an operating station S below a substrate 100. The carriages comprise corresponding bushes 23, 24, movable perpendicularly relative to the substrate 100, and...
05/17/1988
4744142Cable guide assembly for use with electrical connector applying machines
There is disclosed herein an apparatus for applying an electrical connector to a multiconductor cable. The apparatus includes a supply means for carrying and dispensing flat multiconductor cable. A drive receives cable from the supply and delivers the cab...
05/17/1988
4744143Covering for an electrical connector
A method and apparatus for sealing exposed portions of an electrical connector is disclosed. A sealing member is formed directly onto the housing of the electrical connector to seal the exposed portions of the electrical contacts therein. The sealing memb...
05/17/1988
4744144Oscillating razor
A hand held, oscillating razor for wet shaving which comprises an internally operated eccentric for forcibly, rapidly vibrating the cutting blades. Preferably the razor comprises an elongated, generally tubular housing adapted to receive a carriage which ...
05/17/1988
4744145Hair parting and grasping cutter
A hair parting and grasping cutter providing means for parting, grasping, lifting and cutting a person's hair conveniently by one hand operation, comprises a frame (20), an upper shear (40), an upper shear casing (60) and a lower shear (70). The elongated...
05/17/1988
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