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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4887315 | Food spill catching and serving device A device (10) for catching spills when foods are eaten in a moving vehicle is described. The device includes a tray (11) and a strap or straps (12a or 12b) which hold the tray in position across the chest (C) of the person (P). Preferably the tray is used... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887316 | Hood-type garment A hood-type garment for enclosing the head and face for protecting hair and makeup during dressing. The garment is a mesh-type fabric and has a zipper, Velcro.RTM. or tape closure to facilitate egress and ingress. An elastic band is attached to the base o... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887317 | Cold weather system A cold weather system for keeping a wearer comfortable in a temperature of about -60° F.-+40° F. and winds up to 100 miles per hour; utilizes a shirt, pants, parka and wind shirt and wind pants. A sleeping bag and moisture handling pad/deicing cloth are... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887318 | Shoulder pad A one piece elongated shoulder pad comprised of a rubbery material for use with a shoulder strap, which comprises a base having a top, a bottom, and opposed first and second longitudinally extending sides, said first side being narrower than said second s... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887319 | Unitary contiguous face and neck protector all weather cover for hard head gear The present disclosure is directed to a weather protective unitary contiguous substantially flat face and neck cover for use with hard head gear. The cover has an outer layer of non-stretchable waterproof highly reflective nylon having a liner of thermall... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887320 | Dual-visor assembly with selective left-handed or right-handed actuation A dual-visor assembly in which the inner and outer visors are capable of selective left-handed or right-handed actuation to suit a particular operator or operating condition. The inner-visor actuator comprises a lever arm that extends laterally beyond a s... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887321 | Sanitary toilet seat cover A novel toilet seat cover is provided herein. The cover comprises a water-impermeable, very light weight, easily disposible paper, the paper being in the form of a porous paper coated only on the reverse side thereof which is adapted to face the toilet bo... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887322 | Automatic toilet seat lowering apparatus A toilet seat lowering device for a hinged seat and cover assembly. The device is either made of resilient material or is a spring-like mechanism which is placed on the cover of a toilet near the hinge. When the seat is manually raised the device is compr... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887323 | Bathtub hand rail A bathtub hand rail having a molded plastic body with a hand-grip portion and a lower portion. A lip extends downwardly from the lower portion, and has a first surface for placement against a first side surface of the bathtub side wall. A second surface o... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887324 | Curtain retaining apparatus A one-piece molding grips a shower curtain by locking a marginal portion of the curtain between a rib on one arm and a groove on a second arm. The arms are swingable about a third arm through living hinges, and the first arm is adapted to be affixed again... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887325 | Patient positioning apparatus A Patient Positioning Apparatus comprises a hoist and pulley assembly suspended on a frame above a bed, and connectable through adjustable straps and clamping means to a sling which is positioned under the patient. When the rope connected to the hoist and... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887326 | Suboccipital pillow A suboccipital pillow 10, for applying hot and/or cold treatments to the neck and suboccipital areas is provided, having a generally crescent shape, one side of which is fitted with a lightly insulated pocket 15a and the other side of which is fitted with... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887327 | Paint brush ferrule cover A two piece cover for the ferrule of a paint brush is provided which is formed from a rubber composition and includes (a) a cover ferrule section having a hose (b) and a hook which is intergrally formed with a plate. The hook extends through a hole in the... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887328 | Device for brushing sealing surfaces of enclosure access holes A device for brushing the sealing plane of access holes in enclosures comprises an assembly which rotates about a main axis coaxial in use with the hole. On a mount at the end of this assembly is a brush eccentric to the main axis and which is rotated abo... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887329 | Low profile roll cleaning apparatus and self aligning bearing used therein Methods and apparatus for automatically cleaning a roll for handling sheet stock while in service, including single ended reciprocally actuated scrubbing of a fully roll surface width polishing surface swingingly engaged with the roll surface to provide e... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887330 | Washer attachment for a suction cleaner An attachment for the intake hose of a suction cleaner for dispensing liquid to the surface to be suctioned, near the intake to the suction nozzle. A liquid supply tank is supported near the suction nozzle. A valve dispenses the liquid. In one embodiment,... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887331 | Self-retained one-piece pivot bushing A pivot bushing comprises a tubular body defining a bore adapted to receive a pivot pin and includes a radially enlarged peripheral flange and at least one resilient finger extending radially outwardly from one end of the body and facing toward the periph... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887332 | Semi-automatic stuffing machine, casing brake and turret assembly An improved stuffing horn and casing brake combination in a stuffing machine comprises a stuffing horn defining a second horn portion with second-horn-portion outer dimensions reduced in comparison to the first-horn-portion dimensions of a first horn port... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887333 | Harvesting, shucking and eviscerating clams at sea A sea-going vessel has mounted on its deck a clam processing plant which includes in sequence a steamer, a clam crusher, a seawater washer, a brine separator, an eviscerator and a chill tank. Special valves are constructed to feed and discharge clams from... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887334 | Clamping assembly with side entry connection of a clamp unit to a band A clamping assembly is disclosed for constricting an object, such as hoses or the like. The clamping assembly includes a clamp unit and, preferably, a roll formed band. The clamp unit includes a pair of spaced, parallel shelves. A longitudinal gap is crea... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887335 | Closure for closing plastic bags and the like A closure for closing plastic bags or the like consists of two clamping legs connected together via a joint and a lock for holding the clamping legs in mutual engagement, the one clamping leg being provided with a recess extending along the axis of the cl... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887336 | Conveyor belt clamp A conveyor belt clamp is made up of a pair of parallel plates which hold a belt between them. Tension is applied by a tensioning bar which is fixed across arms attached to and projecting outwardly from each plate. A hydraulic ram applies the tension and t... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887337 | Cord cinching device The disclosure herein describes a device for cinching a cord; it comprises an outer body, having a cord entrance and a cord exit, and an inner body having a channel allowing the cord to extend from the entrance to the exit and a pair of opposite gripping ... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887338 | Shear trap hook and loop fastening system An improvement to hook and loop fastening systems of the type comprising one portion composed of backing material having a hooked surface thereon and another portion composed of backing material having a looped surface thereon. The improvement allows for ... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887339 | Strip material with tab-like parts for forming fasteners A strip of polymeric sheet material adapted to cut into lengths to form releasably engageable pieces of a fastener. The strip has a row of tab-like parts bent along bend lines out of the plane of a main part of the strip to define an opening through the s... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887340 | Elastic fixing roller A fixing roller for use in the fixing stage of a fixing apparatus such as a copying machine provided with multiple rubber and/or fabric layers of certain thicknesses and hardnesses surrounding a core member to improve the copying characteristics of the ro... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887341 | Method and apparatus for fitting component sections A method and apparatus for fitting, by a manipulator, a cylinder head to an engine block in proper registry relative to each other through engageable locating pins and recesses prior to assembling rigidly with a plurality of coupling bolts into one whole ... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887342 | Device to force open the door of a safety deposit box The present disclosure describes a device to force open the door of a safety deposit box having a lock. The device comprises a key having an end terminated by a portion extending in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the key, the end be... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887343 | Method and apparatus for roller leveler In a roller leveler having a number of work rollers, an improvement is proposed when a junction of metal web passes. Position detecting circuitry detects the junction of the metal web to output a detection signal. In response to the detection signal, an a... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887344 | Method of mounting a torque converter on a transmission A method of mounting a torque converter on a transmission comprises the steps of setting the transmission to have the tubular members extending horizontally, holding the torque converter by holding means which is movable in vertical and horizontal directi... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887345 | Turret apparatus In a turret apparatus with an automatic tool changer a turret head is rotatably provided on a body. The turret head has two main shafts arranged with an interval of 180 degrees about a rotary shaft. The two main shafts being disposed with an intersectiona... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887346 | Method for making an ultra-high frequency transition between two orthogal guided structures and ultra-high frequency device with a transition of this type A method is disclosed for making an ultra-high frequency transition between two orthogonal guided structures and an ultra-high frequency circuit comprising a transition of this type wherein, in a first milling stage, a face is cut out of the mass in the a... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887347 | Method of producing a contact spring structure of an electromagnetic relay A method of producing a plurality of individual contact spring assemblies for use in an electromagnetic relay in which movable and fixed contact springs for each assembly are held by a molded resin base comprises the steps of caulking a first set of conta... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887348 | Alkalline cell battery and method for manufacture thereof This invention relates to a cell construction for alkaline batteries, to alkaline batteries utilizing such cells and to methods for the manufacture thereof. Each cell has a positive electrode, a negative electrode in the form of a paste contained within a... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887349 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing electrode for battery A method of manufacturing an electrode for a battery comprises steps of preparing a substrate formed by a metal porous body having three-dimensionally continuous pores, a slurry mainly composed of active material powder to be filled into the pores of the ... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887350 | Handling apparatus and methods This invention relates to handling apparatus and methods and in particular, but not exclusively, to the handling of groups of battery plates. Thus handling apparatus 10 includes a main upright 11 supporting a transport mechanism 12 from which depends a plurali... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887351 | Pick and place nozzle with concentric grooves The present device is directed to a nozzle tip for the head of a pick and place device for arranging electronic components as desired on a substrate. The tip permits both first and second vacuum areas to be selectively generated, thus facilitating the pic... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887352 | Method for making matrix lead frame A system of a plurality of lead frame matrices of standard width to obviate readjustment of matrix handling means of integrated circuit device assembly machinery. A standard width for each lead frame matrix is achieved by incorporating spacing elements in... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887353 | Conduction cooled module connector system and method of making A connector system incorporating a heat sink positioned between a pair of circuit cards terminated in a pair of joined receptacle units. A method is disclosed of connecting a daughter card to a receptacle unit, testing that subassembly, and then securing ... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4887354 | Method of manufacturing an elongate article A method of manufacturing an elongate article, in particular an optical cable which comprises a carrier member having channels or bores and is provided with elongate elements, for example, optical fibres, the elongate element being inserted into the end o... | 12/19/1989 |
