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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4955087 | Combined visor and sunglasses assembly A combination sun visor and sunglasses assembly including a mounting structure designed to surround the head of the wearer similar to a headband wherein the lens structure or viewing portion of the sunglasses are positionable between an overlying, normall... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955088 | Underwear structure A male undergarment having a waistband at the top thereof, thigh encircling leg portions at the bottom thereof and a crotch portion between the leg and circling portions with the improvement in the form of a rectangular section of fabric attached at the l... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955089 | Two-piece hard hat A two-piece hard hat is disclosed which enables the hard hat to be disassembled for carrying in an ordinary brief case. The hard hat is separable along a line approximately midway along the vertical height of the hard hat into an upper crown member and a ... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955090 | Zero gravity toilet A toilet, particularly adapted for handling liquid and solid bodily waste in a zero gravity environment, including a housing with a main wall having a central waste-receiving opening therein, and a plurality of toroidal elements in close stacked relations... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955091 | Method and apparatus for a vacuum assisted toilet system A non recirculating, low volume toilet system for aircraft includes a interim storage tank connected to the toilet bowl. A waste drain leads to a gate valve which opens to a vacuum assisted luid gas separator. The separator is connected to the main waste ... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955092 | Swimming pool cover A cover for a swimming pool. Cables attached to edge area of the cover move within tracks extending along the pool side walls, such that the cover can be moved to a fully opened condition or to a fully closed condition spanning the length of the pool. Ele... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955093 | Combination bath tub shelf and bench An elongated shelf member that may be positioned across the width of a bath tub. A reading easel is pivotally hinged to the top surface of the shelf member and it may be collapsed into a recess formed in the top surface of the shelf member so that it's to... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955094 | Head-board recliner using the only one hinge A Head-board Recliner presenting the same visual aspect as the standard head-board, differing in the appearance only in that there are two large panels, the recliners, and one or more smaller panels, which fill out the horizontal width of the head-board. ... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955095 | Removable pillow top for mattress A removable pillow top for use as the top member of a bed protects the inner spring bed mattress. The pillow top has a cover, a support member, and a cushion. The cover has top and bottom walls and side walls coupled together to form an interior space for... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955096 | Anatomically contoured convoluted foam pad A foam pad containing slits in its upper surface is disclosed. In its preferred embodiment the pad is adapted to be positioned on a bed in a supporting relationship to a patient. The pad has head and foot supporting sections, each in the form of a convolu... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955097 | Belt buckle wrench A wrench is set forth comprising a fixed jaw and a movable jaw with a belt loop pivotally mounted rearwardly of the jaw pair orthogonally relative to an elongate handle organization of the wrench structure with an "L" shaped hook positioned in a spaced re... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955098 | Pot-shaped support for structures, especially bridge structures Pot or bowl-shaped support for structures, especially bridge structures, consisting of a pot for receiving a pressure pad from an elastomer upon which rests a lid, which transmits the load of the structure or the bridge resting upon it to a foundation, ab... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955099 | Movable support A movable support which includes a first axle, two stub axles which are in line with one another and which extend in opposing directions from the first axle at right angles thereto, and two hemispherical members which are mounted, with respective convex s... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955100 | Apparatus for cleaning pipelines for beverages and the like Apparatus for cleaning pipelines for beverages has a shuttle valve with a body which is formed with a sleeve for a reciprocable shuttle. The body has a composite inlet for admission of fresh liquid cleaning agent, and an outlet for spent cleaning agent. B... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955101 | Body scrubbing brush apparatus A body scrubbing brush apparatus comprises a base support, a brush panel having a front brushing surface, and means for non-rotatably moving the brush panel in a small orbital path relative to the base support. Such movement may be achieved with an hydrau... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955102 | Vacuum cleaner beater brush with a biased bristle strip A beater brush for a vacuum cleaner includes a cylindrical dowel having at least one groove helically disposed in an outer periphery thereof for receiving a bristle strip. The bristle strip has a bristle support section and a beater bar integrally formed ... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955103 | Vacuum cleaner with suction indicator A vacuum cleaner has an adjustable-height suction nozzle. A diaphragm switch is mounted in the housing inside the nozzle and determines a differential air pressure of the operating vacuum cleaner. Voltage source terminals are self-energizing with the rota... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955104 | Liquid dispensing and suctioning system for surface cleaning Dispensing within a liquid dispensing and suctioning system is controlled by pinching a flexible tube with a spring-biased actuator. The system includes a slidable extension for pulling the actuator to open the tube to dispense liquid to a surface to be c... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955105 | Vacuum cleaner A vacuum cleaner comprises a vacuum cleaner body in which at least a dust collecting chamber, an electric blower chamber, and an exhaust chamber are formed integrally and an accommodating case for accommodating the vacuum cleaner body and attachments of t... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955106 | Upright vacuum cleaner This invention relates to upright vacuum cleaners which have a detachable hand-held vacuum hose as an ascending line. The hand-held vacuum hose is coupled to a hand-held vacuum tube which serves as an extension. The hand-held vacuum tube is thereby design... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955107 | Suction cleaner A suction cleaner for use in sucking relatively large refuse, the cleaner including a suction chamber, a dust chamber communicating with the suction chamber, the dust chamber including a plurality of edged agitators having first blades, to which a second ... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955108 | Protected hinge assembly for mechanical accelerometer The invention is a hinge assembly made of two parts, specifically for an accelerometer. The first part is adapted to be attached, either directly or through a bracket, to an inertial acceleration sensor. The second part is adapted to be rigidly attached t... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955109 | Pivoting horn A stuffing horn mechanism for chub packaging machinery, utilized in association with such machinery to produce chub products by stuffing of casing with comminuted material. The stuffing horn mechanism comprises a telescoping stuffing horn, a comminuted ma... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955110 | Apparatus for collecting roe An apparatus for collecting roe has a conveyor which grips decapitated fish bodies in a lying position, with the tails of the fish bodies set in one common direction. A plurality of projections are provided on the conveyor for holding the fish bodies in t... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955111 | Travelling flats assembly for a carding machine A travelling flats assembly for a carding machine comprises two end rollers; an endless flexible belt trained about the end rollers for a circulating travel, and a plurality of clothed flat bars arranged to be entrained by the endless flexible belt for ci... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955112 | Tie clip The instant invention is a "T" shaped tie clip. The clip is designed to be used in conjunction with the tie loop commonly found on the rear surface of one of the tie ends. The top portion of the clip grippingly engages the shirt and the bottom portion of ... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955113 | Fastening means, apparatus, and methods Apparatus and methods for producing a novel fastener means of the type having a plurality of fastening means extending from bight portions 60 bonded to a backing material 48. Products fabricated with the novel fastener means. The apparatus generally compr... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955114 | Apparatus for causing the shrinking of a cloth An apparatus for causing the shrinking of a cloth, comprising a revolving drum, an endless-loop belt wound around said drum, a return roller which causes said endless belt to adhere to said drum, a flexible sheet partially winding around the belt and the ... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955115 | Buckle device A buckle device in which a lock plate is moved by an urging force to be brought into engagement with a tongue plate or, in the state of engagement with the tongue plate, it is moved against the urging force by the operation of a release button to be disen... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955116 | Method for producing tubular needle punched felt A method for producing a tubular needle punched felt, comprising the steps of: (a) overlapping not less than two long sheets comprising a web to form thin layer portions at both side edges of the overlapped sheets and a thick layer portion at the central ... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955117 | Apparatus for hot air bulking of synthetic yarn Synthetic yarn to be bulked and heat set is supplied to a plurality of ovens in coiled form and is subjected to an even hot flow of dry gaseous fluid to bulk and heat set the yarn as it passes successively through the bulking oven and the heat setting ove... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955118 | Method of manufacturing a roll of coiled, clamped barbed wire A method and apparatus for providing barbed strap coils without a core by means of a ring coiling device (50) that has no winder provides a single clamping device (96), whereby the coiling is interrupted for the placement of a clamp. A guide device (11B) ... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955119 | Multi-task end effector for robotic machining center A multiple-task end effector attachment for the articulated head of a computer controlled robotic machining center capable of imparting multi-axis linear and rotational movements to the end effector which comprises opposingly aligned master and slave rela... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955120 | Hydrostatically supported roll A hydrostatically supported roll has several hydrostatic support elements supporting the inner circumference of a rotating hollow roll. The hydrostatic elements are supported on the stationary crosshead that extends through the rotating roll to form a cle... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955121 | Method for producing a rocker arm for use in an internal combustion engine A method for casting a rocker arm made of light alloy for use in an overhead cam shaft type valve operating mechanism of an internal combustion engine, which rocker arm includes a thick-walled bearing section to be fitted on a rocker arm shaft and is inte... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955122 | Lock unit for a fluid coupling apparatus A lock system for a pipe joiner device is disclosed having a fixed-side connector block provided with at least a connector and a moving-side connector block provided with another connector for engagement with and disengagement from the foregoing connector... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955123 | Production of a shaped filamentary structure The invention is concerned with apparatus for producing a shaped filamentary structure and more particularly, a filamentary structure which can be subjected to further processing to produce a carbon-carbon product. A specific use of the invention is in th... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955124 | Sheathed cutting means apparatus and method A safe means for a cutting mechanism attachable to a remote power source and enclosed within a rigid semi-curved sheath. The sheathed cutting means of the invention is provided with a flexible power transmission means for connection to a remote power sour... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955125 | Method of forming a pizza grill A pizza supporting and baking grid structure or pizza grill is disclosed as including a self-supporting metal screen having opposed faces and an outer periphery. The metal screen preferably has an open-mesh expanded metal construction. A circumferentially... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955126 | Process for fusing steel slabs in longitudinal direction thereof A process for fusing a steel slab in a longitudinal direction thereof is disclosed, wherein when the steel slab is fused in the longitudinal direction at more than 500° C. and at a speed of more than 300 mm/min., a surface portion of the slab including a... | 09/11/1990 |
