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...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4768231 | Protective headgear A water sports headgear of high durability and buoyancy being stretchably retained on the wearer's head. A visor of a closed-cell foam type material is provided for protection from the sun. The visor is attached to the lower front of a head-surrounding st... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768232 | Combined cap and baseball mitt A combination baseball cap and baseball glove forming an object-catching head covering. A mitt is attached to the crown of the cap preferably above the brim. The mitt can be in the shape of a rectangle, mitten or glove and fabricated from the same materia... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768233 | Firefighter's garments having removable but detectable liner A firefighter's garments include a coat and trousers. Each of these garments has an outer shell and an inner liner. The inner liner has a section secured thereto which is attached to the outer shell and which serves as an important part of the outer shell... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768234 | Ski glove with a protector The glove with the protector wherein the protector provided on the back of the glove is constituted by a multiplicity of protector elements, each protector element has its margin curved, the margin being gradually inclined, possesses the sliding surface, ... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768235 | Cold weather mask and hood A cold weather mask and hood (10) made of a flexible insulating layered material (39) which covers the wearer's entire head, shoulders and upper chest. A partially detachable face portion (11) contains a lens receptacle (13) which holds removable lens (15... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768236 | Sportswear having detachable towelling means Sportswear having readily accessible towelling means which are detachably and invisibly anchored to the waistband of the garments is disclosed. The preferred garment design is for tennis shorts which includes at least one, and preferably two, quick-releas... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768237 | Toilet plunger A toilet plunger comprises a resiliently deformable plunger element, a tubular handle element which is connectable to a supply of pressurized water, a shutoff valve on the handle element, and a check valve element for preventing the inadvertent backflow o... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768238 | Bifurcated saliva collector This patent relates to a bifurcated vessel for the collection of saliva comprising: (a) a receptacle open at one end and divided into two chambers for holding liquid; (b) an open edge portion angularly disposed integral with one of said chambers to consti... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768239 | Bath lift device A bath lift device for lowering or raising a person in a bathtub includes a planar base for mounting on a bathtub bottom; a parallelogram-type chair structure for laying flat on the base structure or standing on the base in an erect position; an inflatabl... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768240 | Pivotable foot board for nursing home bed Manually operated foot board to selectively conceal or expose hand cranks for mattress adjustment in a nursing home bed.... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768241 | Self contained, mobile intensive care bed structure A self contained, mobile intensive care bed structure adapted to carry a plurality of devices for monitoring and/or providing treatment to a patient in the bed structure and including built in direct current lines and outlets, communication lines and outl... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768242 | Bed assembly Described briefly, according to a typical embodiment of the invention, a floor-mounted stationary base frame supports two traveling frames. One of the traveling frames comprises the mattress support frame. The other comprises the side and end walls of a s... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768243 | Latch for a drop side crib An improved latch for a drop side crib having at least one drop-side movably disposed between two crib ends includes locking means carried by the movable side for engaging at least one of the ends to fix the position of the side with respect to the ends. ... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768244 | Slat-grate furniture spring A slat-grate furniture spring in which carrying elements spaced apart along each longitudinal member of a support frame are located in gaps between resilient slats which are spaced apart and have carrying elements on their undersides. Elastic strands are ... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768245 | Pillow with book in pocket A children's pillow and book combination includes a pillow of conventional construction with a pocket for receiving a book. The cover of the book contains some indicia, design or color representing the content or subject matter of the book or simply ident... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768246 | Apertured orthopedic head pillow In an orthopedic pillow in accordance with the present invention comprises a unitary body of foam or other resilient material with a deep generally hemispherical depression or aperture. The aperture receives the back of a user's head in such a manner that... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768247 | Travel Pillow A travel pillow comprising a pillow casing having compressible material contained therein which is selectively removably positioned within a flexible plastic bag. One end of the flexible plastic bag has a zipper or the like to enable that end of the bag t... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768248 | Health pillow construction and method therefor The improved health pillow construction for receiving the head and neck of the user in a resting position comprises a cover having a first and second wall, and a partition interposed between the first and second walls so as to define a first and second ch... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768249 | Patient support structure An improved patient support structure comprising an articulatable frame, a plurality of elongated inflatable sacks, some of the sacks having one or two comfort slots therein, a low pressure compressed air blower and a plurality of pipes for carrying gas f... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768250 | Fluidized bead bed A fluidized bead bed includes a mattress having an outer, liquid-impermeable layer to prevent body fluids from passing into a bed tub holding fluidized beads and contaminating the beads. The bed tub includes apertures near its upper edges to exhaust press... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768251 | Mattress pad A mattress pad particularly adopted to prevent decubitus ulcers of a person laying thereon wherein there are a head section and a feet and legs section having similar top configurations and an intermediate torso support insert section therebetween of a to... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768252 | Fitted sheet A fitted sheet comprising top, side and end panels for covering the top, sides and ends of a mattress with adjacent ends of the side and end panels connected together to form vertical corners and with the lower portions of the side and end panels extendin... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768253 | Sleeper sofa mattress A sleeper sofa mattress includes a foam body with an opening for the receipt of a spring assembly. The spring assembly is positioned in the foam body so as to rest between hinge lines that allow the mattress to be folded into the sleeper sofa. A support s... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768254 | Paint scraper tool A paint scraper for removing paint from wooden or other soft surfaces without damage to such surfaces includes a shaft and a blade oriented at a slightly obtuse angle with respect to the axis of the shaft and a concave deflecting shank extending from a bl... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768255 | Chimney cleaning device A device for cleaning a chimney flue having four side walls which comprises a rigid enlongated shaft, a fixed mounting plate means attached at one end of said elongated shaft, four scraping blades attached to said mounting plate means so as to collectivel... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768256 | Ultrasonic wiper An ultrasonic wiper for conveying a fluid off of a windshield glass of a vehicle characterized by comprising ultrasonic oscillators which excite progressive waves in the glass in a predetermined directional movement.... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768257 | Vehicle windshield wiper A vehicle windshield wiper, whereby a blade is supported on a lever member hinged to a fixed support and designed to swing about a pin by virtue of a linear actuator, an output member of which consists at least partially of a screw connected to an electri... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768258 | Handle extension for a manual implement such as a gardening, cleaning or like tool A connecting ring which is screwed with a collar in a passage of a tool handle provides a connection of the tool handle with an extension. The edge of the collar is provided with locking teeth and the interior wall of the tool handle in the passage is pro... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768259 | Mounting plate, in particular for hinges A hinge mounting plate on which a hinge arm is fastenable is adjustable in one direction and fastenable to a furniture part, for example a furniture side wall, by means of fastening screws extending through elongated holes in the mounting plate. In each e... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768260 | Food patty molding machine A food patty molding machine of the horizontally reciprocating mold plate type, using a plunger type food pump, has its food product storage hopper set off to one side, horizontally offset from the mold plate and its drive and also clear of the food pump ... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768261 | Shirred casing delivery apparatus for meat packing system An apparatus for delivering the end of a shirred casing to the nozzle of a meat packing system where the casing is connected to the nozzle to be stuffed with meat extruded from the nozzle includes a support for supporting the shirred casing from the inner... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768262 | Apparatus and method for textile strand drafting A novel fiber drafting system disclosed according to which a textile fiber strand is passed through a plurality of pairs of drafting rollers wherein one of each pair of drafting rollers includes a circumferential groove for receiving the fiber strand and ... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768263 | Automatic lock slider for slide fastener An automatic lock slider for a slide fastener includes a locking prong spring-biased to protrude into a Y-shaped guide channel in a slider body. The locking prong is urged downwardly to engage a coupling head of a coupling element in an intermeshing regio... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768264 | Wax paper clamp for pots A clamp apparatus (10) for use in combination with a flexible sheet (30) of material (31) to cover a cooking receptacle (40) to prevent the splattering of foodstuffs in the interior cavity of a microwave oven (20), wherein the clamp apparatus (10) compris... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768265 | Apparatus for straightening of weft threads in textile fabric Apparatus for straightening distorted weft threads comprising a number of flexible rods (1) which form a roller shell (2) around a shaft (3). In the center of the roller shell (2), the rods (1) are connected articulatedly with a disk (5) disposed on the s... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768266 | Method of making an ink jet printer transducer array A transducer array for an ink jet printing apparatus includes a plurality of discrete transducer elements, each of which are comprised of a poled ferroelectric material arranged and bonded along one face thereof to a rigid substrate by a thermoplastic cem... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768267 | Method for assembling a gas circulation block provided for metallurgical vessels During the assembly of a gas circulation block, encased in sheet metal, a conical sheet-metal sleeve is placed onto a shaped block which is in the form of a truncated cone and made of a refractory material, then a sheet-metal cover provided with a gas sup... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768268 | Method for manufacturing a single-piece type valve sleeve A method for manufacturing a single-piece type valve sleeve, includes plastic-working a workpiece thereby to form in the workpiece a blind bore and a plurality of grooves in the surface of the bore and extending lengthwise of the bore, plastic-working a p... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768269 | Quick change collet and removal tool A workpiece holding collet is provided with at least one tool receiving aperture located in each collet segment. A changing tool having mating fingers is inserted into the collet, when it is in its compressed condition in a chuck. The chuck is then opened... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4768270 | Installation tool for helical coil inserts A tool for use in automatically installing a helical coil insert to a preselected depth in a tapped hole formed in a workpiece. The tool includes a tubular tool body carrying an insert near its lower end, and a mandrel in treadedly received in the tool bo... | 09/06/1988 |
