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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5009323 | Tamper indicating closure having a rotary seal A closure including a standard threaded cap having a tamper indicating band depending from the cap skirt by frangible webs. The tamper indicating band has an inwardly directed bead which cooperates with a flange on the container neck which allows the band... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009324 | Closure having thermally responsive water washing slots A closure is provided with slots through which wash water can flow to wash food particles from the interthread space between the closure and a container, after the closure has been secured onto the container. At room temperature the washing slots are esse... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009325 | Cap of vent nozzle A cap for vent nozzles comprises a main cap part turnably mountable on a lower nozzle member to adjust a passage through the vent nozzle, the main cap part having an inlet opening formed to communicate with an ambient atmosphere and allow air to come into... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009326 | Insulated container system for shipping perishable products An insulated container for shipping perishable products is provided. An insulated container system (10) includes a telescoping container having a top (14) and a bottom (16). The top (14) and bottom (16) are each formed from a rectangular sheet (28) of cor... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009327 | Towel or cloth container A container for a towel, cloth, or the like is designed to provide protection and yet enable the towel or cloth to be readily deployed when required for use. The invention, is characterized by an enclosure (4) with an access opening (6) therein, and a cor... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009328 | Article cassette for a vending machine An article cassette for a vending machine has a horizontal conveyor for supporting articles one behind another in a row behind an outfeed station and for feeding the articles step by step towards the outfeed station. The outfeed station at its forward end... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009329 | Dispensing apparatus An apparatus for dispensing articles is disclosed. The apparatus includes a storage rack associated with a vertically disposed conduit proximate an outlet of the storage rack. A carriage adapted for a manual or spring-assisted upward and downward displace... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009330 | Golf ball vending machine A machine that vends a predetermined number of golf balls when activated by a coin or token-operated slide mechanism. A large plurality of golf balls are placed in a hopper and the balls are fed from the hopper, one at a time, into an elongate pipe that d... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009331 | Apparatus for separating elongated contaminants from a stream of material A method and apparatus for removing elongated contaminants from a stream containing pellets and elongated contaminants. The method comprising flowing the stream through a snagging zone in which the contaminants are snagged.... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009332 | Output hopper apparatus A card output hopper apparatus (20) receives cards (82) and delivers them to a preselected card tray (42). The output hopper rotatable deflector (52). The deflector (52) is situated in a recieving position to deflect a delivered card (82) toward a card tr... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009333 | Jewelry holder kit The invention is a jewelry holder kit and process for its use. The kit comprises: a stock pad consisting essentially of resilient foamed polymer readily penetrable by and having depth sufficient for retaining a penetrating part of the object to be held th... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009334 | Anti-pilferage fixture A display device comprising a peg board and a rod extending therefrom for supporting a plurality of aligned items is provided with an anti-pilferage fixture. The anti-pilferage fixture is formed of a cage-like structure supported from the peg board and di... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009335 | Display device for flat articles A device for displaying flat articles, such as a book, gramophone record, card etc., which device is substantially provided with a frame 1 and a number of horizontally extending carrier elements 6 for these particles supported by the frame, whereby each c... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009336 | Structure of a multipurpose, hand-held swivel type stationery case Provided is a multipurpose, hand-held swivel type stationery case, which comprises a swivel casing swiveling on a base and having a slotted, trapezoidal pen rack mounted on its top for holding a variety of writing or drawing devices, and a handle releasab... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009337 | Automotive parts support rack An automotive parts support rack for holding objects such as automotive parts, the rack being temporarily located on a substantially horizontal surface of a vehicle. The automotive parts support rack has a frame having a substantially rectangular configur... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009338 | Indicator cap for a medicine bottle Disclosed is an indicator cap for indicating each time a bottle is opened and re-closed having an outer cover shaped in the manner of a conventional bottle cap with a window in the top piece of the cap. The cap is designed to be attached to the sealing ca... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009339 | Method of and an apparatus for venting a filling plant A method of venting a plant for filling containers (2) with an apportioned quantity of liquid without air inclusions by means of a dispensing pump (9) in which two control valves (11', 12') disposed at the outlet from a filler pipe (4) are intermittently ... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009340 | Packaging container using a system of fermentation to produce a propulsive gas In a packing container (1a) provided with a distribution valve (7), a chamber is provided enclosing the starting components of a system (9) for the anaerobic fermentation of sugars using yeasts, which produce the carbon gas forming said propulsive product... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009341 | Decorative condiment shakers A decorative condiment shaker is provided for holding and dispensing seasonings such as salt and pepper. The shaker includes a body member having a base and integral condiment container. A top includes a fastening ring for engaging the container. A decora... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009342 | Dual liquid spraying assembly A dual liquid spraying assembly comprises an outer container containing at least two separate compartments for two different liquids, a spray pump dispenser for mounting on the outlet of the container, and a valve assembly mounted between the compartments... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009343 | Automotive tool This is an automotive tool which has a head, a container and a flexible hose connection with the container. The container has a nozzle and a pump. The hose connects the nozzle of the container to the head. The head has a blade which extends longitudinally... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009344 | Bulk material handling apparatus A bulk material handling apparatus comprising a spreader and a double sealed rigid container for dusty solid materials wherein the first seal may be removed from the container and the container may be inverted and lowered into and fixed in the top of the ... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009345 | Chute closure apparatus An apparatus for closing a chute includes a chute for dispensing a granular material. A gate assembly is mounted for controllably opening and closing the chute and includes a bridge member with a curved gate attached to it. The gate assembly is movable be... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009346 | Sling mountable pouch for firearms A gun sling mountable pouch suitable for carrying gun cleaning rod sections and accessories has an elongated pocket with a top opening and side flaps extending therefrom that wrap around behind the pocket to form a sleeve-like, tubular opening through whi... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009347 | Wrist holster A wrist holster including a wristband, a transversely extending pouch for accommodating a canister for a protective gas, a foldback closure for the pouch secured by a pressure sensitive fastener, an extended strap at one end of the wristband, a buckle car... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009348 | Knife sheath of tough flexible material A knife sheath of tough flexible material, comprises a back wall, a front wall attached at its periphery to said back wall to form a knife-receiving pouch, and a pair of laterally spaced slits in said front wall for receiving a wearer's belt, said slits b... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009349 | Lifting and carrying device A lifting and carrying device is adapted for support on a user's body and permits the user to lift and carry articles of various size, shape and weight. An elongated and relatively soft shoulder and neck yoke carries a tie loop in the area of each end por... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009350 | Retainer assemblies for elongated objects A retainer assembly can be clamped to a support crossbasr, such as is provided by a vehicle roof rack, and is able to retain an elongated member, such as an extension ladder, on the roof rack without the use of tools, clamps, tie-downs, etc. Each retainer... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009351 | Sheet-material dispensing box The new free end formed when a portion of flexible sheet material is severed from a roll contained in a box is prevented from retracting into the box by frictional engagement between the free end and a strip of abrasive material near the cutting edge moun... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009352 | Apparatus for conveying dielectric sheets In an apparatus for conveying dielectric sheets used in copying machines, etc., sheets are held by electrostatic adhesion on the surface of a conveyor when such surface is electrically charged and thus conveyed by the conveyor, wherein a dielectric layer ... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009353 | Cable tensioning device The cable tensioner has a pair of elongated platforms mounted side-by-side on a base with each having drive and driven geared pulleys with geared idler pulleys therebetween arranged along the edge of the platform confronting the other platform. A geared e... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009354 | Automatic riveting machine Rivets are delivered from a feed chute to a transfer location and blown through a feed tube to a loading device. The presence of a rivet is sensed both at the transfer location and at the loading device and a fault indicator is operated in the event a riv... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009355 | Electric stapler An electric stapler including tension springs which prevent a second staple from entering a staple supply position of a magazine when a first staple is jammed therein. The tension springs are connected between the arm of actuating links and connecting rod... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009356 | Removable magazine for staple guns Staple guns include a striker and a removable magazine housed by a pair of side plates. The removable magazine is substantially elongated and "U" sectioned to contain staples. The removable magazine is slidable against the staple gun by means of a plurali... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009357 | Joining of ceramic components to metal components The invention provides a method of joining together a ceramic component and a metal component. According to the invention a surface of the ceramic component is metallized with a metallizing metal to form a metallized layer thereon. The metal component is ... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009359 | Process for joining workpieces of metal or ceramic by boundary surface diffusion The following steps are performed for joining workpieces of metal or ceramic to each other by boundary surface diffusion at the junction location. After laying together the surfaces at which the workpieces are to be joined together, a layer is applied to ... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009360 | Metal-to-metal bonding method and resulting structure A method and resulting structure is disclosed in which a metal-to-metal bond is formed by heating the surfaces to be bonded in an oxidizing ambient atmosphere until the desired bond is achieved. Heating takes place at 700° C.-1200° C. and bonding may be... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009361 | Protective cover for a file folder The protective cover of this invention includes a pair of cover panels separated by one or more score lines. The protective panels cover the panels of a file folder, and inner flaps along at least the top and bottom edges of the cover panel receive the co... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009362 | Quick-assembled folding carton with reinforced bottom that locks in position A folding carton formed from a blank sheet of carton material comprises an improved carton bottom section having three flanges that are connected to three sides of the carton bottom section and are arranged to extend at a right angle to the carton bottom ... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5009363 | Bridge separated tray and blank for forming it A tray formed from a unitary paperboard blank. The tray has at least one pair of parallel troughs whose ends are closed by end forming flaps carried by the trough bottoms. A longitudinal arch in the general form of an inverted V in transverse cross sectio... | 04/23/1991 |
