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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4748690 | Protective glove for use in athletics The glove of this invention is characterized by protective, non-springy, shock-absorbing cushions which cover each inner finger from its base to, at least, the first joint, and the upper palm finger pads. Two optional cushions may be provided to cover: (1... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748691 | Firefighter's coat with stabilized waterproof collar A firefighter's coat has a body section and a collar section, each of these sections has an outer layer and an inner layer and an intermediate moisture barrier layer. The intermediate moisture barrier layer is waterproof to prevent moisture flow therethro... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748692 | Necktie This invention discloses a necktie, in which a knot shaped tying member is provided separately from a necktie main body, and a rear side of the tying member is divided into right and left sides so that the necktie main body may be inserted between the div... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748693 | Glove liner An absorbent liner for wear beneath a rubber glove. A back portion overlies the back of the hand and is secured by closure pieces to the wearer's wrist. Attached to the back portion are tubular members for placement about the inner segments of the fingers... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748694 | Spring device for earcup assemblies of protective helmet An improved binaural earcup assembly for use with a protective helmet in which the earphone of each of the left and right sound attenuating subassemblies is supported by a relatively rigid member in the hard outer shell of the subassembly at a location ad... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748695 | Face shield assembly A face shield assembly having the upper part of both side peripheral portions or the upper part of both side peripheral portions and the upper peripheral portion in an eyepiece, abutted against the frame. The remaining parts of the eyepiece are fitted in ... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748696 | Safety helmet A safety helmet has a shell with a visor movably supported on both sides. By means of a bearing pin and a control pin guided along cam surfaces, the visor can be positioned over the face opening of the helmet or swung upwardly. Detents for the pins define... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748697 | Face mask with interchangeable lenses A face mask which is characterized by a soft rubber or plastic cowl provided with a track insert having pair of tracks spanning an open lens window for receiving a transparent lens slidably mounted in the tracks and closing the lens window. In a preferred... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748698 | Stool cover with smell eliminator A new type of stool cover had an air tight and hollow inside part of its seat-ring, with bottom that is fitted with drafting openings with fittings to plug up the openings. A plug system involves a support, a spring, a plug support, and a filler associate... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748699 | Water closet limited flush volume control system A float is slidably mounted on the upright overflow tube or other upright guide in the toilet tank. As the water level lowers during flushing, the float descends so that a valve actuator on the bottom of the float closes the flapper valve when the water l... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748700 | Portable animal waste device A portable device adapted for use on a toilet seat to dispose of animal waste comprising, a sensor responsive to the animal's weight to start a timer which activates a first solenoid to release a sanitized fluid into the waste container of said device, an... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748701 | Safety patient lift and transfer sling A patient support sling for use with lifting apparatus for transferring a patient between supine and sitting positions has an elongated central seat panel attached at its ends to respective transversely extending thigh and back support panels, and a secur... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748702 | Pillow designed to reduce snoring by a user thereof A pillow has two intersecting channels formed in its upper face. One channel accommodates the user's head, the other the user's neck. A relatively hard object is located in or under the first channel and also adjacent the second channel. The relatively ha... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748703 | Comforter A comforter to be used when sleeping made by joining a front cover cloth and a back cover cloth by sewing their edges together. The inside of the comforter is divided into a plurality of spaces by crosswise parting members and lengthwise parting members, ... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748704 | Multipurpose forestry implement A multipurpose forestry hand tool for felling trees having the capability of prying cuts in tree trunks, controlling the direction of fall and turning fallen trunks and limbs.... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748705 | Flame resistant polyester/cotton fabric and process for its production Flame resistance is imparted to high polyester content (50%) polyester/cotton blend fabrics by the successive application of a cyclic phosphonate ester flame retardant followed by THP/urea precondensate/NH3 and then by THPS. Commercially accept... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748706 | Multiple dye lot continuous dye range A method and apparatus for sequentially performing dye strikes on a continuous dye range from a plurality of dye lots to reduce downtime of the range. The apparatus employs two dye pans that are horizontally and vertically movable relative to the dye pad ... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748707 | Production of threaded metal rods for making U-bolts Elongated straight cylindrical metal rods are threaded along opposite end portions, and the cylindrical outer surface of the center portion of each rod is marked to form a visual indicator of the longitudinal center of the rod. The straight rods are succe... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748708 | Spike harrow tooth and method of manufacture A spike harrow tooth is fabricated by cold forming a metal blank which is provided from appropriate bar stock, the blank having a length for a single harrow tooth. The blank is placed in a first press, oriented with opposite edges of the square configurat... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748709 | Chewable mouthbrush A brush is characterized by having a central, rigid plastic core or body in the shap of a flattened cylinder with rounded ends and having imbedded in a rigid central body bristles or bristle tufts similar to the bristle tufts that are imbedded in the plas... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748710 | Butterfly sponge mop A butterfly-type sponge mop with presser plates and an actuating member pivotal relative to a center block. The mop includes a top center block which when interlocked with a bottom center block forms a plurality of bearing surfaces to enable motion of the... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748711 | Ice/snow scraping system An ice/snow scraping system includes a ribbed grip handle, shielded from ice, snow and moisture by a sleeve which is open at the rear, and a removeable scraper head. The head includes a downward biased portion incorporating the scraper's edge to provide o... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748712 | Cobweb vacuum cleaner A portable, battery operated cobweb vacuum cleaner is carried on a human's back or shoulder thereby permitting use of both hands. Extension means and other parts have an effective internal diameter whereby cobwebs do not substantially adhere to internal w... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748713 | Vacuum cleaner assembly An electric vacuum cleaner has a floor engaging unit, a generally vertically extending handle assembly pivotally affixed to the rear of the floor engaging unit, and a porous bag assembly mounted to the front of the handle assembly. The handle assembly is ... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748714 | Cleaner with belt shifting The invention comprehends a belt shifting arrangement for an upright cleaner in which belt shifting to an intermediate idler pulley is occasioned by either handle movement or pedal actuation. Either of these movements functions to cam the belt onto the id... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748715 | Adjustable roller assembly An adjustable roller assembly for supporting and leveling an appliance including a rail secured to the appliance and having a keyhole opening with a horizontal stationary base frame secured to the rail. A bracket having a bottom end is pivotally secured t... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748716 | Hinge for sleeper cab doors A hinge for a sleeper cab compartment door that pivots between open and closed positions about a generally vertical hinge axis. The door frame has a jamb adapted to support a butt hinge and the door has a hinge stile spaced from the jamb when the door is ... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748717 | Hinge A hinge is disclosed which has a barrel 12 which is screw threaded at least at its ends. A grub screw 16 is inserted into one end of the barrel and can be screwed into and out of the barrel to adjust the relative height of a pin 22 inserted into the barre... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748718 | Mounting of vehicle doors A hinge comprising a pair of hinge leaves pivotally connected together by a hinge pin, at least one leaf carrying a mounting bracket secured thereto by a single screw-threaded fixing, the fixing having a frusto-conical bearing surface which engages upon a... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748719 | Stunning of animals Electrical stunning apparatus for beef cattle or other livestock uses head restraining means to hold the animal's head in place during contact by electrodes. The animal's head is prevented from moving upwardly by a pusher which contacts the top of its hea... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748720 | Hornless stuffing method and apparatus A hornless stuffing apparatus and method wherein stuffing of casing from a shirred stick is accomplished by utilizing the shirred stick per se as a conduit for foodstuff.... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748721 | Method for gaining skin-free belly flaps of fish and apparatus for performing such method The invention relates to a method for gaining skin-freebelly flaps of fish and an apparatus for performing such method. In a fish filleting machine which processes the fish being conveyed tail first and comprises a belly and back filleting tool, a rib sev... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748722 | Gizzard harvester A gizzard harvester is disclosed having a pair of opposed conveyors for receiving a gizzard and holding the same against rotation as the gizzard is advanced onto a rotating cone spindle which both washes foreign matter from the gizzard and removes its lin... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748723 | Apparatus for gaining pinbone-free fillets of fish The invention relates to an apparatus for gaining boneless fish fillets. In a fish filleting machine which processes the fish being conveyed tail first and comprises a belly and back filleting toot, and a severing tool for releasing meat bands on either s... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748724 | Support apparatus for use in video imaging and processing of transverse fish sections A processing apparatus for use in the processing of transverse fish body sections includes a support frame and a video camera for providing a video image of a transverse fish body section to be processed when aimed at the fish body section along a presele... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748725 | Opening device for detaching fiber material from compressed fiber bales A travelling opening device for detaching fiber material from top faces of fiber bales includes two opening rollers having generally horizontal longitudinal axes oriented perpendicularly to a travelling direction of the opening device; opening elements ca... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748726 | Ski boot fastener In this rotary fastener which can be used particularly on ski boots two traction wire tensioning elements can be altered in their effective length in opposing directions by a rotary movement in one or the other direction in order to tighten or loosen shoe... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748727 | Snap fastener device A snap fastener including a conventional first headed part and a second receptor part. The receptor is of sheet-like construction and includes a planar spring panel captured within a housing. The spring panel includes a central cut-out into which fingers ... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748728 | Processes for the mechanized manufacture of jewelry comprising a plurality of small contiguous stones set in a support made of precious metal jewelry Process for manufacturing jewelry comprising the steps of mounting a metallic mounting on a movable table of a machine-tool, machining in the mounting a plurality of contiguous cylindrico-conical bores comprising a conical seating, machining in the outer ... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4748729 | Mounting a roller in a straightening machine The roller is held on a mounting sleeve through axially and radially biased spacer sleeves and conical elements; the mounting sleeve has an internal conical surface clamped against a conical surface of the drive pin, clamping being achieved by a hydraulic... | 06/07/1988 |
