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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5027798 | Water jet teeth flossing apparatus A dental water jet flossing apparatus comprises an elongated, flexible tubing attached at one of its ends directly to a household water supply, preferably at a point where water temperature can be controlled, as at the water outlet pipe mounting a shower ... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027799 | Limb supporting device for arthroscopic surgery A limb holding device designed to be attached to an operating table to immobilize a patient's arm or leg during arthroscopic surgery or the like. It provides for distraction of the hip joint or other joint being worked on, and also provides for reduction ... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027800 | Man's erection truss A man's erection truss to be temporarily worn by a man, helping him to acquire and to maintain his turgidity during copulation is provided by a manufacturer in a kit requiring final fitting and completion by the man, with or without the assistance of a ph... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027801 | Orthopaedic gel pad assembly An orthopaedic gel pad assembly includes a layer of gel, with a backing layer behind it, an apertured pad extending around the layer of gel and a thin plastic film extending over the front surface of the gel. The plastic film controls the configuration of... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027802 | Multi-mode digital traction system A digital traction system is disclosed in a hand application. A common traction plate spanning the length of the fingers and breadth of the hand may be mounted in a dorsal or is a palmar position. In the palmar position, the traction plate is anchored clo... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027803 | Orthopedic splinting and casting article Disclosed is an orthopedic article adapted to immobilize a body part having a flexible substrate having opposing surfaces impregnated with a curable compound, and a cover having a flexible sheet and a fluorochemical or a silicone disposed on the surfaces ... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027804 | Bandages A substrate suitable for use in a water hardenable orthopaedic splinting bandage is formed from a knitted fabric in which the yarn running along the length of the substrate is from a heat shrinkable yarn so that after heat treatment the substrate is stret... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027805 | Snorkel assembly A snorkel assembly of this invention includes a face mask and an elongated flexible air pipe having one end connected to the face mask. A floating body is connected to the other end of the air pipe to expose the other end to the atmosphere.... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027806 | Medication delivery system phase two Improved, compact apparatus for use in inhaling pharmaceutical aerosols. The apparatus increases aerosol deposition to the bronchiolus while it limits deposition in the oropharynx. The volumetric flow rate is limited by the use of orifices in the far end ... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027807 | Protective garment cooling device A protective garment or suit made of fluid impermeable material for use by workers in toxic and hostile environments having an air cooling deivce that divides air from a single airline supply into two separate fractions, one to provide respiratory air at ... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027808 | Breath-activated inhalation device Upon inhalation of air from the interior of a housing, a flexible diaphragm-type valve exposed to the ambient air surrounding the housing is moved inwardly due to the difference in ambient air pressure to that in the housing to expose the interior of the ... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027809 | "Peeper" performance hand held nebuilizer attachment with adjustability of expiratory pressures and expiratory restriction An attachment for a prior art, hand-held, aerosol generating nebulizer, which enables the patient by flexing a flexible hose containing adjustable exhalation holes to control range of passive to active exhalation resistance, and which also contains a one-... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027810 | Self-contained emergency breathing apparatus A self-contained emergency breathing apparatus is provided comprising a hood (10) surrounding substantially sealingly the head of a person and comprising an assembly (18) formed of a cylinder of breathable gas at high pressure, a pressure reducer, an ejec... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027811 | Tracheostomy chamber having adapter for suction capability A device which adapts to the neck of a patient who has undergone a tracheostomy. It is useful in supplying humidification and oxygenation upon inhalation and to exhaust the outgoing exhalation gases and secretions upon exhalation. It is characterized as a... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027812 | Tracheal tube for laser surgery A cuffed tracheal tube for use in intubation of a trachea of a patient during laser surgery involving the head or neck of the patient, includes a flexible aluminum conduit, and an expandable cuff carried at one end of the conduit and including a body of s... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027813 | Rate responsive pacemaker apparatus having an electrode interface sensor A variable rate cardiac pacer apparatus is responsive to the physical activity of the patient. A source of alternating current carrier signals of a predetermined frequency is coupled to the pacer housing. At least one sensing electrode is coupled to the c... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027814 | Implantable medical device employing an improved waveform digitization network An implantable medical device includes electrodes coupled to a patient's heart and sensing circuitry having inputs connected to the electrodes for sensing analog cardiac electrical signals from one of the atrial or ventricular channels. The sensing circui... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027815 | Dual chamber pacemaker with adaptive atrial escape interval A dual chamber pacemaker having an atrial escape interval which is varied on a beat-to-beat basis in response to the measured time from a ventricular event to the next atrial sensed event. Additionally, a portion of the atrial escape interval is bifurcate... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027816 | Hemodynamically responsive system for and method of treating a malfunctioning heart A system for and method of treating a malfunctioning heart is based on hemodynamics, the pressure at a site in a patient's circulatory system being sensed. A signal is developed representative of short term mean arterial pressure (MAP) or right ventricula... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027817 | Statistical based display for positron emission tomography scans In a medical imaging system a patient is injected with a radiopharmaceutical spontaneously emitting positrons and a PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scan is taken along parallel planes of a portion of the subject's body to produce a slice image composed... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027818 | Dosimetric technique for stereotactic radiosurgery same Stereotactic radiosurgery is facilitated by a technique for computing the doses at various points within the patient's body. In particular, the doses are computed at a relatively high density of points within a fine dose grid and at a relatively low densi... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027819 | Measurement of visually induced biomagnetic responses A biomagnetometer measures the magnetic field produced by the brain as a result of a visual stimulus delivered by a display device such as a cathode ray tube (CRT). The output signal of the biomagnetometer is filtered to remove noise introduced by the ope... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027820 | Device for the three-dimensional focusing of an ultrasonic beam A device for the three-dimensional focusing of an ultrasonic beam, comprising: a phased array (100) has a cylindrical shape with a generatrix X'X, and which comprises M×N elementary transducers which are arranged in a curved matrix consisting off M rows ... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027821 | Ultrasonic imaging apparatus In the ultrasonic imaging apparatus according to the present invention, ultrasonic transducers provided in a probe for corresponding channels are driven and caused to propagate ultrasonic waves by a standard signal generating circuit, transmission delay c... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027822 | Echography probe with improved connection circuit When making curved bar probes it is necessary, particularly at high frequency, to provide circuits for the connection of piezoelectric elements of the bars which are compatible with the curvature imposed to the bar after it has been fabricated flat. The i... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027823 | Gas flow valve, and automatic sphygmomanometer using same A gas flow valve is provided in a pressure operated part to obtain an air flow velocity conforming to a change in pressure. A main body comprises a resilient member and is tapered from a base end to a distal end thereof to form a wedge-shaped portion at t... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027824 | Method and apparatus for detecting, analyzing and recording cardiac rhythm disturbances Apparatus for detecting, analyzing and recording cardiac events includes a patient-wearable monitor detecting cardiac events and cardiac rhythm and processing information indicative of those events and rhythm to detect presence of a disturbance in the mon... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027825 | Self-contained stethoscope transmitter A self-contained stethoscope transmitter comprises a pickup head including a housing which defines a precordial dome formed thereinto for contact with a patient whose bodily sounds are to be observed and/or monitored, and electronic circuitry positioned w... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027826 | Allergy testing method and apparatus An allergy testing method and apparatus for testing a patient for a plurality of allergies at substantially the same time, comprises a carrier for receiving a plurality of allergen applying devices, each allergen applying device including a source of an a... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027827 | Vacuum biopsy apparatus The vacuum biopsy apparatus includes a syringe having a side wall defining a chamber. It further includes a vacuum tube receivable within the syringe chamber. The vacuum tube has a septum at one end. The septum is shaped and dimensioned received within th... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027828 | Sensory discriminator having body-contacting prongs A sensing device for determining the sensory responses of the human skin to evaluate the fiber-receptor nervous system of the human body, primarily in connection with the measurement of the ability to discriminate separate points of touch of the hand. The... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027829 | Apparatus for diathermy treatment and control A method and apparatus for therapeutic deep heating of musculoskeletal tissues are characterized by an improved transducer that serves simultaneously to couple the power from the generator into the patient and to sense the therapeutic response for treatme... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027830 | Method of preparing a cervical cap A contraceptive cervical cap or form therefor, and a method for producing the same.... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027831 | Prophylactic with glans penis stimulation A male prophylactic has a tubular pouch with a closed end and an open end and an integrally formed pouch on the pouch at the closed end defining a spaced pouch on pouch for a sensitive undersurface portion of the glans penis. The pouch on the pouch is con... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027832 | Surgical drape support apparatus A support and drape apparatus which is attached to an operating room table for retaining fluid excess during surgery. The support is a framework of two lateral members and a transverse member attached to each lateral member such that a perimeter is formed... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027833 | Extrication and spinal restraint device An extrication and spinal restraint device for use in emergency rescues, an onsite medical aid where potential back, neck and shoulder injuries may exist includes a jacket of flexible material arranged to extend the entire length of a victim's spine, neck... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027834 | Stapling process for use on the mesenteries of the abdomen The process, described herein comprise stapling a patient's mesentery and omentum with two, three or four rows of staples, the rows being substantially parallel to each other, the staples in all the rows having the same crown size with alternate rows stag... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027835 | Apparatus for pneumatic transportation of particulate material such as tobacco An apparatus for transporting particulate material, such as cut tobacco, including a duct having an inlet for receiving material to be transported, an outlet for transported material, air inlet zones in the duct wall for the passage of air under pressure ... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027836 | Insulated smoking article The present invention preferably relates to an insulated smoking article which is capable of producing substantial quantities of smoke, both initially and over the useful life of the product, without significant thermal degradation of the aerosol former a... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5027837 | Cigarette A cigarette includes a longitudinally segmented combustible fuel element, and a substrate carrying tobacco extract and glycerin positioned physically separate from the fuel element. The fuel element is composed of a carbonaceous material and is extruded i... | 07/02/1991 |
