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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5038407 | Device for stopping a falling snow skier A device for stopping a fallen skier. The device may be worn by a snow skier, the device having a surface which will provide a braking action against the snow if the skier falls. In a preferred embodiment, the device includes a plurality of foam blocks ar... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038408 | Work pants Pants for use when performing work in which sitting and kneeling take place frequently, as in roofing work, the pants having effective special construction in the seat and knee areas.... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038409 | Disposable garment shield and method A form fitting disposable garment shield and an automated method for making the shield from a coil of laminated material. The shield is comprised of a pair of identical crescent shaped panels joined together by a seam which is adjacent to a concave border... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038410 | Firefighter's garment having liner detection A firefighter's garment which includes an outer shell and an inner liner. The inner liner has an extension member which extends therefrom and which extends from the outer shell. The extension member may hang downwardly from the outer shell to indicate tha... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038411 | Breast-feeding cover and shoulder clip A breast-feeding garment includes a cover and a pliable shoulder clip attachable to the cover for giving the cover stability. The shoulder clip includes a back shoulder engaging portion connected to a front shoulder engaging portion by an internal deforma... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038412 | Headband with earmuffs A headband with earmuffs where, in preferred form, the headband is fabricated from a stretchable material configured to incorporate a generally flat insulative pad interiorly of that band for each of the wearer's ears. Preferably the headband is fabricate... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038413 | Sock fastening means A fastening device for securing a pair of socks together includes a first fastener attached to one sock of the pair and a second fastener attached to the other sock of the pair, said fasteners being releasably engageable with one another. The fastening de... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038414 | Full body hosiery garment The present invention provides a full body hosiery garment. The garment contains a panty portion and two tubular leg portions with adjoining foot portions. The panty, leg, and foot portions are formed of spun nylon or other pantyhose material. An upper ca... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038415 | Disperse dye composition useful for dyeing of printing hydrophobic fiber materials: mixture of pyridone mono-azo dyes and optionally a quino-phthalone A disperse dye composition comprising (a) a pyridone monoazo compound of the formula (I), ##STR1## wherein X1 and X2 are each hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, alkoxy or others, and R1 is alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, phenyl or... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038416 | Water closet water saving device and dispenser A passive dispenser having the capability of varying the amount of solution added to the toilets flush water such time the toilet is flushed. This variability of dosage is obtained by changing the volume of solution discharge during the flushing period of... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038417 | Container for distributing doses of treatment fluid A container for distributing doses of a treatment fluid to a mass of water in a toilet tank which has a level which falls and rises upon slushing of the toilet tank comprises a fluid chamber at the top, a neck at the bottom, and a dosing device mounted in... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038418 | Bathroom waste collection and disposal unit A bathroom waste collection and disposal unit for mounting on a floor of an enclosure includes a tank of unitary construction having a horizontal portion defining a refuse reservoir and a vertical portion open to the horizontal portion for refuse gases an... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038419 | Pool cover draining device An openable and closable opening is formed in a pool cover, adjacent to or at the pool cover leading edge, and a mechanism for enabling opening and closing of the cover opening is provided. Upon opening of the cover opening, water, which may accumulate on the ... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038420 | Bathing apparatus having automatic control means A bathing apparatus includes a bath tank formed in a casing having a bottom portion formed under the bath tank and a back portion formed rearwardly of the tank, the casing being in fluid communication with the bath tank through a plurality of apertures fo... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038421 | Sofabed A convertible sofabed is a sofa when closed in a sitting position and a bed when opened in a sleeping position. A retractable support structure can be telescoped from the sofa to form, in conjunction with the sofa, a bed that is longer than the depth of t... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038422 | Support structure for sofa beds, with pull-out, raisable auxiliary bed Support structure for sofa beds, with pull-out, raisable auxiliary bed, which comprises an upper frame carrying support means for a mattress and connected, by means of rods linked as a parallelogram, to two lower bars transverse to the larger dimension of... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038423 | Motorized convertible seat-bed A motorized convertible seat-bed to electrically shift the seat-bed from between its seat position and its bed position. The seat-bed including a drive unit and a pair of mounting plates connected to a seat support and back support pivotally interconnecte... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038424 | Medical mobility system A system for transferring a patient in a medical facility from one support surface to another support surface consists of a pliable web, the opposite ends of which are wound about a pair of cylindrical rollers. The cylindrical rollers are rotatably engage... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038425 | Patient chair suspension assembly A patient chair suspension assembly (10) for raising and lowering a patient from a bed and for moving the patient to other locations. The patient chair suspension assembly (10) includes rigid back (30), seat (40) and leg (50) portions hingedly attached to... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038426 | Portable bassinet A portable bassinet made of cardboard which has outer, canopy-housing and an inner box or bassinet-proper for selected insertions into the outer box. One of the four side walls of the inner box is connected to the rest of the inner box only along its lowe... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038427 | Convertible crib - youth bed A convertible infant's crib comprises a headboard and footboard, each consisting of separable upper and lower units formed of interconnecting slats and panels and having integral legs. The upper endboard units may serve to form the headboard and footboard... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038428 | Hammock having pillow and incision A pillow and a slot are added to an otherwise conventional hammock. The pillow is mounted atop the hammock adjacent a longitudinal edge, mid-length of the hammock so that the transverse axis of symmetry of hammock bisects the pillow. The slot has a predet... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038429 | Undermattress and method of manufacturing the undermattress The present invention discloses a fluid suspension undermattress and the method of manufacturing such an undermattress. The undermattress comprises a set of slats whose ends are mounted fixedly or removably for bearing on fluid suspension means.... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038430 | Attaching means for bed cross brace A bed side-guard assembly for a bed with bed frame memebrs comprises a side rail which extends generally along the length of the bed in the vertical plane. The side rail is supported by downwardly depending legs. A cross brace extends generally across the... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038433 | Anatomically conformable foam support pad A convoluted foam pad for supporting a reclining human body on a bed including an area for supporting the shoulders of a body, an area for supporting the tail portion of a body and a general support area surrounding the shoulder and tail support areas for... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038434 | Bed supported tray apparatus A bed supported tray apparatus includes a planar support plate defined by a rear and forward end edge and spaced parallel side edges. First and second mounting flanges are mounted adjacent the end edge on the respective first and second side edges mounted... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038435 | Anchor set tool A tool adapted for use with a drill for installing screw anchors in concrete or masonry walls or the like having a sleeve type body, a bit holder slidably located in the body, a drill bit with a handle secured in the bit holder, a coil spring seated on a ... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038436 | Dual position hinge A hinge rotatably connecting a paintable closure panel to a closure panel jamb of a vehicle body panel of a motor vehicle and enabling temporary extending motion of the hinge from a retracted position to an extended position, spacing the paintable closure... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038437 | Folding seat hinge assembly A pair of separable hinge assemblies mount a seat cushion on a vehicle for positioning between a rearwardly folded regular seating mode and a forwardly folded stored mode. The hinge assemblies each comprise a body-half hinge plate mounted to the vehicle b... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038438 | Automated yarn manufacturing system An automated fiber processing system for processing of fiber stock in a continuous, uninterrupted process from fiber bales to the formation of spun yarn. The system comprises fiber stock opening means and first air transport means for conveying fiber stoc... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038439 | Feed device for a card A suction tube extends in parallel between the licker-in and the feed plate of the co-direction feed device while a supply duct extends from the fiber lap delivery point to the suction tube. The suction tube and duct serve to remove dirt by suction and ex... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038440 | Cylinder roller for a textile machine with the cylinder roller having working points A cylinder for a textile machine to be used as a licker-in, main cylinder or doffer has working clothing attached to the base structure. The clothing is attached in segments that have a regular geometric shape and a width less than the cylinder width. The... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038441 | Combing machine having apparatus for changing lap rolls Two lap slivers lying one on top of the other are continuously fed to the combing tools in a plurality of combing heads of a combing machine. The first lap sliver comes from a first lap roll carried by a rear carrier device, and runs over a front carrier ... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038442 | Coupling device including a hinge pin for interconnecting conveyor belt ends A coupling device forming a hinge pin for interconnecting connector eleme secured to conveyor belt ends, has a threaded end for facilitating the driving of the hinge pin into a channel formed by the connector elements when these connector elements interm... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038443 | Jiffy sure grip line holder A jiffy sure grip line holder is provided and consists of a spring for biasing a handle end of a lever that has an end of a clothes line tied thereto away from a handle end of another lever so that the jaw ends of the two levers will come together to grip... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038444 | Molding support assembly A molding support assembly for mounting a molding strip upon a base structure such as an automobile body, wherein the assembly includes a pair of spaced fasteners mounted upon a support member in such a way so at least one fastener is longitudinally adjus... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038445 | Reinforcement clip for the corner of a panel flange A reinforcement clip is provided for the corner of a panel member to prevent damage to the panel member corner during shipment. The panel member includes at least two substantially flat relatively narrow elongated flange portions joined together at one en... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038446 | Belt buckle with interlocking dual tongue A seat belt buckle with a pair of buckle tongues. The buckle includes a spring mechanism slidably movable within the buckle housing from a position blocking engagement of a latch when a single tongue is inserted to a position away from the latch when both... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038447 | Method for producing silk felt and composition for carrying out the method A silk felt that comprises an intermediate layer of natural hair and covering layers of silk wadding or oblong. Furthermore, a method for making this silk felt in which an intermediate layer of natural hair is felted together with two covering layers of s... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5038448 | Fiber roll with polyester fiber filler An elastic fiber roll for use in embossers and super calenders has a cylindrical body supported on its cylindrical axis for rotation. The cylindrical body is formed from a plurality of compacted disk elements of a nonwoven-randomly laid, entangled mixture... | 08/13/1991 |
