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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4893355 | Knee protector A knee protector covers the front of the knee, and extends rearwardly on both sides to protect against mechanical damage to the knee. The protector has foamed padding towards the leg for both comfort and mechanical protection, and a somewhat rigid outer s... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893356 | Air conditioned headwear having convertible power module Headwear, including all forms of caps, hats, hard hats, visor type caps, to include a switchable power module capable of converting an electric motor driven air moving means from battery power to solar power wherein the solar power panel is removable.... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893357 | Reversible hand warming muff A combination reversible hand warming muff with a belt attached to the same. The muff is composed of a cylindrical tube having inner and outer layers or surfaces and an insulative layer inbetween the above two. The combination includes a belt attached to ... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893358 | Garments having an adjustable waist A garment having a waist adjustment capability for simple and convenient changes in waist size with a minimum of motion and inconvenience. The waist adjustment feature of the present invention is formed by at least one foldable member which provides a Vel... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893359 | Vented toilet bowl An odor eliminator system for a toilet bowl is provided that is hidden from view by being built into the toilet bowl and includes an exhaust fan activated by a switch in the bathroom wall. In a modification the exhaust fan in the bathroom wall is activate... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893360 | Apparatus for positioning a seat on the rim of a toilet bowl An apparatus for positively positioning a seat on the rim of a toilet bowl to prevent the seat from accidently sliding off of the rim is disclosed. A first plurality of positioning members is attached to the upper surface of the rim, while a second plural... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893361 | Drain trap ultrasonic vibration cleaning apparatus An ultrasonic drain trap cleaning apparatus for use in a plumbing system. A drain trap is fitted with transducers which receive electrical signals from a signal generator to create vibrations within the trap thereby clearing clogging material. A flow sens... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893362 | Portable spa A portable spa having a vertically rigid side wall, and a flexible inner including inflatable seat chambers which may be connected in series for filling with a fluid and inflatable backrest chambers which are partially filled with fluid and air.... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893363 | Hanging wall table for swimming pools A hanging wall table for swimming pools is provided consisting of polyvinyl chloride tubing or the like, which forms the frame of the table and engages the above-ground pool wall by a J-shaped hanging support, and a shelf made of plastic or the like. Suct... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893364 | Water-recycling shower A water recycling shower wherein water once used in the showering process is held in a storage tank and recycled during a portion of the showering process in place of fresh water.... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893365 | Adjustable king-sized mattress The problem of a split between two mattresses is eliminated by giving each person on a king-sized bed the capability for adjusting the head and/or foot portion of the mattress to any position, without disturbing the bed partner. A serpentine "S" design is... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893366 | Crib with vibration attenuating means The risk of disturbance from children's cries is reduced if the child is subjected to mechanical vibration. This is applied to the child's place of rest by the use of a motor with imbalance. The environmental inconvenience caused by the children's cry is ... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893367 | System of separately adjustable pillows A system of separately adjustable pillows is characterized by a plurality of separately inflatable and deflatable containers which may be emptied or filled from a connected source with a pressurized fluid, via a manifold which is provided with valves for ... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893368 | Driveway scrubber A power driven driveway scrubbing apparatus formed from the following major components: an outer base housing, an inner base housing, and a push handle assembly. A pair of laterally spaced front wheels are mounted on a front axle that passes through said ... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893369 | Hand-held utensil for surface cleaning, mopping and the like A utensil for floor cleaning and other surface treatment purposes comprising a pad, e.g., of sponge releasably attached by clips to the handles of a hinged holder. The handles form a grip for enabling the utensil to be gripped for use, and also enable the... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893370 | Hand tool for cleaning smooth surfaces, in particular panes of glass A hand tool for cleaning smooth surfaces having a holder in the form of a flat box; a sponge block and a squeegee, spaced apart from and parallel to the sponge block; a swivelable handle disposed on the holder, on an incline and laterally about an axis ex... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893371 | Scouring pad A scouring pad has a toroidal core that is covered with a double layer of mesh material. The mesh is tubular in form and is formed by passing the same up through the central opening in the core of sponge-like material so that the ends of the tubular mesh ... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893372 | Free-hand towel A free-hand tubular towel has at its upper end an elastic band for encircling and gripping a user's arm at a location above or slightly below the elbow and has an enlarged lower end portion that drapes loosely over the user's hand and can be reverse-folde... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893373 | Manual wiper A manual wiper comprises an elastic base detachably wound around a finger and a wiper blade which is provided on the base in such a manner as to traverse the same and whose position is adjustable. The wiper is adapted to be attached to a finger so as to r... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893374 | Windshield wiper system In a windshield wiper system a washing liquid channel runs through a bore in the wiper shaft and extends through a bore in the cap of a wiper arm, so that in the operating position of the cap the nozzle is arranged on that side of the cap which is opposit... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893375 | Dual mode floor scrubbing machine A portable floor scrubbing machine, which preferably is battery-powered, may operate in two distinct modes: either as a walk-behind floor scrubber or as a manually-operated, scrub-and-recover system using a floor wand having a cleaning solution dispenser ... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893376 | Upright-type electric vacuum cleaner Disclosed is an upright-type electric vacuum cleaner which comprises a suction port body provided with a rotary brush and a main body case supported tiltably on the suction port body. Improvements are made in details such as the arrangement for supporting... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893377 | Stuffing horn turret machine A stuffing horn turret machine has a stuffing horn receiving turret rotatably and translationally mounted on a frame. A rotary drive, a translational drive, limit position sensors, and a controller of logic elements cause the turret to rotate and translat... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893378 | Revoving poultry thigh deboner The deboner (10, 110) carries a plurality of modules (11, 111) in a closed path through a series of processing stations. Each module includes a rotary bone holder (30, 130) that supports one end of a poultry bone (85) and a stripper assembly (31, 131) tha... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893379 | Tow steaming apparatus with adjustable steam channel cross section An apparatus for continuously steaming filament tows or fiber slivers following a stretch-break converting machine. A steam channel receives saturated steam for releasing and eliminating shrinkage from filament tows or fiber slivers in the channel. To imp... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893380 | Card clothing for flats of a carding machine Each saw tooth wire strip is provided with a plurality of angular bends forming a plurality of strip sections. The strip sections located at the leading and the trailing end of the wire strip extend parallel to the direction of fibre flow. The intermediat... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893381 | Bundling strap with two adjustable closures A flexible strap for bundling cables, electrical wires or the like comprising two elongated tape segments of differing lengths aligned parallel to each other which are joined together along a transverse seam and which have partially overlapping, releasabl... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893382 | Arrangement for a fastener for a straining device A buckle for a straining device, having a direction-changing bar adapted for the straining device, the bar extending over an area of an unobstructed space and arranged to permit the straining device to be passed through in a doubled-over form and a clampi... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893383 | Halter buckle A buckle is provided for use with a halter. The buckle includes a first coupler sized for close fitting insertion into a second coupler. A triangular shaped latch is pivotally secured within the second coupler for retaining the first coupler therein. A sp... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893384 | Shoe buckle The buckle comprises a tensioning lever (2) on which there is hinged an attachment element (14) to which there is fixed a pulling rod (13) having a threaded part passing through the attachment element (14) and retained on the latter by a button (22) screw... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893385 | Memorial vault apparatus A memorial vault apparatus for human cremated remains which includes a concrete slab having a top level surface. A first set of elongated parallel cylindrical pipes are supported on top of the level surface with each adjacent pair of pipes being equidista... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893386 | Apparatus for the production of pattern warps etc. on a cone warping machine An apparatus for producing pattern warps on a cone warping machine comprises a drum, a support, a warping reed and lease rods, means for displacing the lease rods, and a driving means for rotating the drum. There is provided a tong-type gripper (60) for s... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893387 | Roller elements for roller bearing A roller element for use in a roller bearing having a surface formed with minute recesses at random so that the ratio RMS(L)/RMS(C) will be not more than 0.8 wherein RMS(L) is the roughness mean square value in the longitudinal direction and RMS(C) is the... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893388 | Method of modifying turbine rotor discs A method for modifying an original blade supporting disc (8) which is integral with a turbine rotor (2), and which has an original outline, in order to create a modified disc (8) which has an outline different from the original outline and which provides ... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893389 | Reinstatement of lateral branch connections in relined sewers or pipes A method for reinstating branch lines to main sewers or pipes which have been relined is used in which inflatable plug seals the branch line and grout is injected via an injection pipe to fill the cavity at the junction around the liner. When the grout ha... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893390 | Method and expander for manufacturing a furnace heat exchanger and plate assembly A furnace heat exchanger and support plate assembly are joined together by a cooperating substantially elliptical rim defining an opening in the heat exchanger and an opening formed by a mating flange on a partition plate and extending perpendicular to th... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893391 | Method and apparatus for producing round-rolled parts for heat exchangers The method of making a round-rolled part for a heat exchanger comprises connecting the tubes and the irradiating elements to each other to form a rectilinear network, clamping both ends of the rectilinear network and stretching and bending the clamped net... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893392 | Method of manufacturing an improved knob by injection molding The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a resilient knob by injection molding.... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893393 | Pipe fitting assembly tool A pipe fitting assembly tool for connecting and disconnecting pipes including a pair of clamps which are attached to separate lever clamping systems which control clamping and unclamping the pipes and which are pivotally attached to scissors structured ha... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893394 | Installation apparatus for attaching a female element to a panel A method of attaching a female element having an annular riveting portion to a panel and the installation apparatus. The method includes driving a punch through the female element into a panel supported on a die member forming an unsupported cone-shaped p... | 01/16/1990 |
