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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4750218 | Reversible glove construction A reversible glove construction includes a cuff portion including a pair of connected side-by-side cuff strips and a reversible glove portion which is secured to the cuff portion between the cuff strips. The glove portion is preferably made of a protectiv... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750219 | Urinal device A urinal installation includes a urinal bowl, with a flexible conduit member connected to a drainage pipe normally present in bathrooms or the like, and a means to flush the urinal with water. The urinal bowl is mountable on a support such that part of th... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750220 | Dual stage flush lifter A toilet flush tank mechanism having a lifting rod for raising a ball actuated by a pair of handles attached to the lifting rod on the exterior of the water tank. One of the handles is fixedly secured to the lifting rod to conjointly move therewith and th... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750221 | Linkage tiltable around a plurality of axes by a single push rod A push button linkage in which a lever is tiltably actuable around a plurality of selectible axes as the consequence of an axial push on a single push rod. It finds its principal application as an actuator for a flush valve in a tank type commode or urina... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750222 | Convertible seat-bed A two or three section convertible sofa bed is provided for installation in vans, campers or recreational vehicles. The convertible sofa bed is adaptable to various configurations, including motor drive, yet is comparatively easy to manufacture and mainta... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750223 | Portable crib A disassemblable portable crib with a fabric crib body having a fabric floor and fabric sides and a frame suitable for supporting the fabric crib body. The frame comprises a frame base which forms a substantially planar platform held horizontally above th... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750224 | Flexible support A flexible support acting as a cushion for the human body to sit or lie on and comprising: a plurality of hollow bodies which are disposed substantially in one plane and can be individually pressurized from inside by a flowable medium; and a solid base be... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750225 | Quilt and puppet combination A quilt and hand puppet combination comprising a sheet of material having top and bottom surfaces, a scene on the top surface of the sheet including a doorway, and at least one puppet attached to the sheet at the base of the doorway in position to be part... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750226 | Carpet laying tool and process for using same A carpet laying tool is disclosed comprising an angular member connected at one end to a carpet wedging, rotatable circular wheel, and at the other end to a carpet compressing, swivelable block member. The tool is used to wedge the carpeting being laid in... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750227 | Abrasive structures and methods for abrading fabrics An abrasive structure for stone washing garments in a wash medium and a method for abrading garments using that abrasive structure to achieve controlled abrasion of those garments are disclosed. The abrasive structure has a uniform abrasive surface which ... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750228 | Disperse dyes Disclosed are novel dyes of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is cyano, alkoxycarbonyl containing 1 to 6 carbon atoms in the alkoxy moiety, alkylcarbonyl containing 1 to 6 carbon atoms in the alkyl moiety, carbamoyl or carbamoyl which is N-monosubstitut... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750229 | Device for the washing of eggs The invention relates to a device for washing of eggs in order to remove adhering dirt in which egg transport means and egg guiding means are present. The egg transport means and egg guiding means cooperate and form egg rotation means which cause an egg t... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750230 | Golf club grip cleaner An electrically powered automated golf club grip cleaning unit for sequentially cleaning a full set of golf clubs essentially as fast as the operator can insert and withdraw the clubs from the unit. The automated unit comprises a closed, water tight housi... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750231 | Compact disc cleaner A CD cleaner includes a rotary plate on which a CD can be loaded and unloaded and which is supported so as to be capable of corotation with the CD. The rotary plate is mounted on a base so as to be rotatable about a vertical shaft. A unidirectional rotati... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750232 | Portable golf ball washer A portable golf ball washer comprising a vertical cylindrical container with one end closed and a cap on the other end for sealing the container when not in use, a piece of bristled carpet in the container which lines the vertical interior surface of the ... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750233 | Sponge mop attachment For use with a sponge mop, a pad, a frame adapted to be removably attached to the sponge mop, the frame being provided with integral structure forming one part of a two-part interlocking assembly adapted to removably attach the pad to the frame, and a loc... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750234 | Closed end wet mops Mops and process for making closed or uncut end mops particularly using single ply cotton yarn having a high degree of twist. The yarn is processed through a fringe making machine into lengths of pre-sewn fringe or processed through a wet mop making machi... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750235 | Wiper arm with helical torsion spring The invention relates to a simplified wiper arm for motor vehicles. It comprises only a channel (1), an arm extension (2), a mounting head (3), a helical spring (4) and a rivet (5) acting as articulation means between the channel (1) and the mounting head... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750236 | Track-type door hold-open device A door hold-open device is adapted to work with a conventional single-arm door closer. The device comprises a shoe moving along a track and connected to the closer operating arm. A detent in the form of a wheel is provided in the track which can be lowere... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750237 | Trolley assembly for a pocket door A trolley assembly for a pocket door system comprises a central carrier having a plurality of rollers journaled for rotation thereon. A hanger member having a bolt portion which is threadedly received by the carrier includes a laterally extending pintle. ... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750238 | Hinge A hinge has a hinge arm which is snappable onto a mounting plate by means of an intermediate member. The front of the intermediate member is engageable into the mounting plate and the rear of the intermediate member is provided with a pivot lever having a... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750239 | Apparatus for parting off portion packages from flexible tubing which contains a dividable filling material A parting-off apparatus used, e.g., to part off individual sausages from a tubing, which is continuously filled with sausage meat, comprises displacing members (9, 10; 19, 20), which can be rectilinearly moved in mutually opposite directions and have tria... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750240 | Apparatus for opening serially arranged fiber bales A bale opener is arranged for travel along a series of fiber bales and has a detaching (opening) device for progressively removing and hurling away fiber tufts from top faces of the fiber bales. The detaching device includes a generally horizontally suppo... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750241 | Cable ties A cable tie comprises a metal plate 1 from which projects a metal strap 2. After the strap has been passed around a bundle of cables to be held together the free end 7 of the strap is fed below a pair of lugs 10 and 11 and a bridge portion 3 and is then b... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750242 | Band clamp The invention relates to a clamp constituted by a band of metal comprising, at each one of its ends, complementary tightening and/or fastening means, whereas the inner end of the band comprises an extension which goes beyond the corresponding fastening me... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750243 | Shower curtain holder An hollow sphere, in accordance with the preferred embodiment of the invention, has a slot formed on a somewhat less than semicircular portion of the great circle that separates the sphere into two hemispheres. A shower curtain grommet support is spaced i... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750244 | Actuator-equipped buckle A buckle is constructed of a tongue, a base, a latch means capable of selectively taking either a latching state, in which the tongue is connectable to the base, or a non-latching state in which the tongue is released from the base, an operation means for... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750245 | Gemstone mounting apparatus and method An apparatus for mounting gemstones in prong type settings by cutting a seat in the form of an inset edge in the ends of the prongs and swaging the remaining prong material over a stone girdle, comprising a vertical support frame holding a tool driver suc... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750246 | Method of making compensated crystal oscillator Ceramic package (10) for compensated crystal oscillator has a three-layer body with a closed bottom upper cavity (24), a closed bottom lower cavity (38), and a through cavity (44) in which is mounted oscillator crystal. The upper cavity carries oscillator... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750247 | Apparatus for manufacturing a fiber reinforcement body An apparatus for manufacturing a fiber reinforcement body which is to be incorporated into a metal matrix in a fabrication technique based on a molten metal infiltration process for producing a metal matrix composite material are disclosed herein. The app... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750248 | Film and plate registration system A registration system for flexible printing plates includes a drill apparatus and a registration table which, used in conjunction, makes registration and mounting of flexible printing plates on plate cylinders relatively quick and easy. The drill apparatu... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750249 | Pipe scraping tool A pipe scraping tool for cleaning scale and other deposits from the exterior surfaces of pipes. The tool includes a plurality of inverted "U"-shaped scraper members each of which is carried by one of a series of interconnected hinged links, each link (pre... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750250 | Method of fastening drive elements of a hollow shaft Method of fastening drive elements on a hollow shaft, which comprises: pushing n drive elements with a thickness a over a hollow shaft, retaining the drive elements at mutual spacings b and in respective desired azimuthal positions by means of holding devices;... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750251 | Mat support/substrate subassembly and method of making a catalytic converter therewith A method of controlling the mount density of an intumescent mat around a frangible catalyst coated monolith of unknown but varied dimension when the monolith is installed in a catalytic converter, wherein a convolute sleeve of thin intumescent mat from a ... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750252 | Tool and method for installing twist-on rod guides A tool and method for installing and removing twist-on rod guides onto and off from sucker rods. A partially closed C-shaped jaw member lying substantially in a first plane surrounds the guide and the sucker rod allowing torque to be applied to the rod gu... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750253 | Method and apparatus for producing a flat spiral link assembly The method produces a flat spiral link assembly from at least four synthetic resin monofilament helices wound winding to winding which are simultaneously supplied for meshing engagement. Before being meshed the helices are stretched to at least three time... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750254 | Continuously operating one-sided formatting and edge shaping machine A continuously operating one-sided formatting and edge shaping machine for edge processing four sides of work pieces is driven by a continuously running primary conveying means (10). A conveying device is mounted ahead of this single primary conveying mea... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750255 | Machine for disassembling wood pallets An improved machine for disassembling all or a portion of wood pallets formed of paralleled stringers with deck boards nailed to the top and bottom edges of the stringers, the machine having a horizontal support arm onto which a stringer of a wood pallet ... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750256 | Method of assembly of an O2 sensor A method of assembling a heated electrochemical sensor (24) for use in sensing exhaust gases in an internal combustion engine (16). A tubular electrolyte member (72) having a closed end (74) is insulated from a metal shell (30). The external surface (80) ... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4750257 | Method for making a magnet transducer assembly The method of making the diaphragm includes pressing on the front face of a film at spaced apart areas to deform it progressively into a series of closely-spaced generally U-shaped projections. A manufacturing device presses the sides of the projections i... | 06/14/1988 |
