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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4797952 | Throwaway bib A throwaway bib which due to the nature of its construction can be rinsed several times and reused as may be desired. The device comprises a two layer laminate the first of which layers is adapted to absorb moisture while the second layer is water impervi... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797953 | Nursing shawl A nursing shawl for use by mothers who nurse their infant. The shawl comprises two opposed panels joined together at the adjacent top corners by a neck band to provide a unitary shawl which can easily be placed about the mother and infant while the mother... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797954 | Shirt with security cloth A shirt including an interior panel preventing the shirt from becoming open. A security cloth having opposite ends is fastened to the vertical seams of the shirt which extend downwardly from the arm holes. The security cloth includes top ends fastened to ... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797955 | Combination pant and skirt garment A garment having a pant-like portion and a skirt-like portion is provided. The pant-like portion includes a crotch section which passes between the legs of the wearer when the garment is worn and the skirt-like portion is adapted to encircle the legs of t... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797956 | Eye shield An eye shield adapted for use either singly or in combination with a protective face mask. The eye shield includes a flexible transparent material which is generally flat in shape. A moldable stiffener is attached to the bottom edge of the transparent mat... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797957 | Swimming pool with improved wall strengthening means An arrangement comprising a plurality of wall panels connected end-to-end to form the swimming pool is strengthened and is afforded with means to retain alignment, and prevents the wall panels from buckling. Horizontal stiffening members are positioned in... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797958 | Bathtub with improved hydromassage system A bathtub is equipped with a water supply tap (11) and a hydromassage system comprising a plurality of nozzles (12) on the walls of the bathtub (10) to each of which nozzles there are supplied flows of water and air coming from respective delivery (13) an... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797959 | Sanitary unit The invention relates to a sanitary unit having an automatic cleansing cycle. The unit comprises a lockable enclosure in which a partition defines a usage zone and a maintenance zone. A bowl is mounted for rotation between a utilization position in which ... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797960 | Patient transfer arrangement An arrangement of a wheelchair with a movable seat and leg rest and a bed equipped with transfer apparatus provided with rollers, a movable sheet and lift arms, for transporting a patient comfortably across the bed to a sitting position in the wheelchair.... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797961 | Portable hammock support A portable hammock support includes a first pair of ground engaging members pivotally connected to each other and aligned with each other and a second pair of ground engaging members pivotally connected to each other and aligned with each other. The first... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797962 | Closed loop feedback air supply for air support beds A closed loop feedback-controlled air supply system for air support convalescent beds having groups of air sacs for supporting various body sections of a patient. The air supply system may be self-contained with its own air supply compressor or it may uti... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797963 | Carpet finishing tool A carpet finishing tool having a handle supporting a longitudinal shaft, the shaft being angularly cut proximate to its end to permit the mounting of a biased rotatable disk having a truncated conical outer surface and rounded edges, the edges contacting ... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797964 | Compositions for finishing textiles Preparations for finishing textiles, more especially sheet-form textiles, based on emulsion polymers of vinyl acetate and/or copolymers thereof with dibutyl maleate containing protective colloids in addition to small quantities of standard auxiliaries, wh... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797965 | Wrench with rack and segment gear linkage A wrench of the type having two handle members pivotally connected to one another at a pivot point. Each handle member terminates in a jaw member. Advancing a screw member causes one of the handle members to rotate about the pivot point so that the jaw me... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797966 | Anti-electrostatic brush An anti-electrostatic brush comprising handle means (1,3:1', 3') leading to receiving means for bristle support means (2,2') with said support means being located in the receiving means and having bristles (21, 21') extending therefrom, characterized in t... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797967 | Padded general purpose mitten and method of fabricating same A general purpose cleaning and polishing mitten is fabricated from a tubular fabric blank by seaming one end closed, filling half the blank with padding, forming another seam adjacent the padding to enclose it, everting the remaining extent of the blank o... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797968 | Vacuum cleaner head protector and duster A protective apparatus for use on the head of a vacuum cleaner, carpet sweeper, or the like, includes a strip of fabric having a length sufficient to extend along the front and sides of the head. First and second brushes are removably coupled to the strip... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797969 | Building exterior cleaning apparatus The present invention is directed to a self-contained apparatus for cleaning the vertical surface of a building exterior, including washing, rinsing and drying the windows. The apparatus is positioned by an operator above a vertical row of windows and the... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797970 | Foot-operated door security device A door security device which is mounted in the floor or other flat surface in the arc of passage of a door which can be operated solely by one's foot. The door security device includes a housing with a flange plate which is mounted in the opening of the f... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797971 | Adjusting device for a vehicle door A control mechanism for a door of a motor vehicle is described that is actuated via an inside and outside handle and comprises a piston-cylinder unit arranged between a door post and the vehicle door. It has a piston provided with passage openings for a p... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797972 | Sheet metal insert cup for cabinet hinges having a mortise centering mechanism The insert cup for cabinet hinges is made from stamped and drawn sheet metal and can be sunkenly mounted in a cylindrical mortise in the area adjacent the edge of the inside face of a door leaf. It has a tub- or trough-like portion having on its upper edg... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797973 | Bagging and apportioning machine for sausages and various bagged products The machine comprises a device for feeding the product to be bagged under constant pressure toward an outlet orifice, a filling spout and a cutoff valve placed between said outlet orifice and said filling spout. The cutoff valve is periodically moved to t... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797974 | Fish fillet retainer device A device for manually retaining a fish during filleting the fish. A piece of material, such as metal or plastics or the like, is formed into a band which is adapted to encompass a person's finger. A stem extends from the band. At the end of the stem is a ... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797975 | Process and plant for the treatment of meat of cattle or other quadrupeds The plant for semiautomatic treatment of quarters of meat of cattle or other quadrupeds comprises an overhead rail arrangement (1) at constant height forming a closed loop, a plurality of suspending arms (6) suspended at regular intervals along the overhe... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797976 | Textile fiber tuft cleaning apparatus An apparatus for separating waste from textile fiber tufts includes a substantially closed casing, a separating wall arranged in the casing for dividing the casing into a dust and waste collecting chamber and a fiber collecting chamber. The separating wal... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797977 | Picker assembly There is disclosed a picker assembly comprising a picker bar having a T-slot therein and a plurality of picker teeth. The picker teeth have bases in the slot with wedging surfaces thereon for maintaining the teeth against a surface of the bar when the too... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797978 | Multiple-card with transferring, carding and cleaning cylinder A multiple-card, so-called "tandem card" comprising, between the combing cylinder (doffer) of the first carding drum and the second carding drum, transfer means made up of doffing, carding and cleaning members which also arrange the fibres parallel to eac... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797979 | Arrangement for supplying a fiber processing machine The arrangement for supplying a fiber processing machine, such as a card or the like, with fiber flock material comprises a feed device for feeding the fiber flock material to an opening roller having needles distributed over its cylindrical outer or jack... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797980 | Waste separator for a card A card includes a main carding cylinder having a direction of rotation, a doffer cooperating with the main carding cylinder and a waste separator situated above the doffer and adjacent the main carding cylinder. The waste separator includes a knife blade ... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797981 | Process for the production of salt Process for the production of salt in which sodium chloride is crystallized in the form of spheres by evaporation of a sodium chloride brine and the spheres obtained are then broken up. The salt produced by the process is particularly suitable for the foo... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797982 | Pocket clip for writing instruments Pocket clip for writing instruments, such as ball-point pens, fountain pen caps, turning or push-button automatic pencils and the like, having an elongated clip facing which is disposed on an elongated resilient tongue of a clasp made of spring-elastic st... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797983 | Connectors for insert moulding in panels A connector is inserted moulded into a panel and a fitting adapted to support, or attach an item to the panel interengages the connector. In one embodiment the connector is a plastics socket connector which comprises a hollow boss having a substantially f... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797984 | Seat belt buckle A buckle is constructed of a base, latch piece, holding member and release member. The base has a bottom wall and side walls defining substantially L-shaped holes. The latch piece is supported on the base rockingly between a tongue latching position and a... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797985 | Method of applying a metallic guide band to a thin-walled projectile body A method of applying a metallic guide band to the body of a projectile having particularly thin walls comprises making fine particles plastically deformable by heating thereof, and spraying said heated particles at high speed onto a surface section of the... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797986 | Spur gear manufacturing process The present invention discloses a manufacturing process whereby a spur gear is cold-press molded. By means of the invention a pre-punched workpiece is loaded on a counter which is admitted to a bore in a female die having a chamfer at its inlet, pressure ... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797987 | Method of assembling a bead lock device and pneumatic tire A bead lock device includes a plurality of bows and a frame for connecting the bows together to form an annular structure. The structure is placed in the interior of a tire which is placed onto a wheel. Wheel flanges compress the bows which, in turn, effe... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797988 | Method and tool for preparing multi-conductor cable A tool for preparing multi-conductor electrical cable in a configuration for termination to and installation in a self-contained wiring device which locates the electrical cable in an anvil and a cutter assembly pierces the outer sheath of the cable and s... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797989 | Combination machine tool apparatus and pallet changing system Combination machine tool apparatus and pallet changing system includes a single changer for changing both work pieces at a work piece machining station on the machine tool and tools at a tool storage station on the machine tool. The work piece machining s... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797990 | Vertical machining center with a rotary pallet changer A vertical machining center equipped with a rotary pallet changer, the center comprising a pallet clamp unit provided along the front face of the bed, with the clamp unit holding a pallet in a vertical position, and being capable of rotating around a hori... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797991 | Vertical machining center A vertical machining center, which comprises a pallet clamp unit and a pallet conveyor unit arranged along the front face of the bed. A saddle is provided on the upper surface of the bed, with the saddle being slidable along the X axis. A column is provid... | 01/17/1989 |
