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Wearable Device For Feeding and Observing Birds and Other Flying Animals
A device for feeding and observing flying animals comprising a hat, a support mounted on the hat and extending outward from the hat, and a feeder mounted on the support.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5048161 | Connector with lock onto panel A connector having an improved mechanism for its lock onto a panel. A housing of the connector has a wall on which a sliding rail capable of slidingly fitting onto guide rails of the panel is provided. A flexible engagement member having an engagement pro... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048162 | Manufacturing thin wall steel cartridge cases High strength, high precision thin-walled cartridge cases are manufactured from a metal of interest selected from low alloy and carbon steels utilizing an extrusion and heat treating process. The cartridge blanks are extruded to a length greater than that... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048163 | System for processing semiconductor materials A system for processing the surface of semiconductor material for annealing and etching purposes. The system established a high intensity ultraviolet light which is repetitively pulsed to rapidly raise the surface temperature of the semiconductor material... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048164 | Vertical heat-treatment apparatus having boat transfer mechanism A vertical heat treatment apparatus heat-treats wafers horizontally carried in a boat while keeping the boat vertical in a reaction tube. The apparatus includes a system for transferring the wafers between the boat and wafer carriers, a system for loading... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048165 | Method for controlling the sensitivity and linearity of capacitive transducer systems Inherent capacitive-type nonlinearities in a capacitive displacement transducer can be eliminated or reduced by the introduction of an oppositely-sensed nonlinearity. The oppositely sensed nonlinearity is introduced by selecting a diaphragm thickness to d... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048166 | Method of making rigid-flexible multilayer board system Mounting only electronic parts on a printed circuit board puts a limit on the mounting density. According to the invention, electronic parts are mounted on a flexible board. This flexible board is then mounted on a printed circuit board to thereby increas... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048167 | Method for restoring used mattresses A process has been devised for restoring full-sized innerspring mattresses by removing the end of the mattress cover to expose the coils, inserting resilient blocks of material into the spaces between adjacent rows of coils whereby to extend the full leng... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048168 | Ceramic transport shaft with metal end cap, particularly for glass melting furnaces, with heat expansion compensation A ceramic transport shaft for a furnace includes a ceramic shaft member and a metal end cap into which an end of the shaft member is fitted with an annular gap between the shaft member and the end cap. A sleeve fills the gap. The shaft member, the end cap... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048169 | Hose-repair tool The invention contemplates a unit-handling tool, suitable for field use, for selective extraction or assembly of an end fitting to an end of flexible hose. The tool features a cylindrical anvil which is sized for running clearance with the bore of the end... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048170 | Apparatus for fitting flexible strips A tool for fitting a channel-shaped sealing strip onto a flange running around a door opening, such as of a vehicle, comprises a body supporting a channel-shaped guide. Initially, the guide is used to pick up a completely closed loop of the strip, a keepe... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048171 | Method for converting barrel type units into free standing merchandising displays for holding chilled products A method for converting a barrel type unit into an assembly for holding chilled products, particularly, barrel units having an upper annular portion of a smaller circumference as compared to other annular portions thereof, the barrel unit also including t... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048172 | Method for converting a "backhoe" to a "crane" using a "true free fall" hydraulic winch system A conversion backhoe-to-crane type system, including preferably a box type, 50' boom and two, hydraulically driven cable or line winches, the hoist one of which is mounted directly on the crane-like boom. The winches have "true free fall" characteristics,... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048173 | Automatic weight application machine A machine is provided for automatically applying a balance correcting weight (44)-and-clip (46) assembly to a vehicle wheel-and-tire assembly (12). The machine includes a conveyor (20) portion for conveying the wheel-and-tire assembly (12) to which the ba... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048174 | Method and apparatus for lining a buried pipe with a polymer lining A liner 30 of polyethylene housing an SDR of 33 or less is pulled through a die 36 and through the pipe 10 and allowed to revert to the internal diameter of the pipe. The force of pulling is half the yield strength of the liner or less. The die has an ent... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048175 | Method for grounding pole structures in thin film magnetic heads A thin magnetic read/write head is electrically grounded. The pole pieces or core of the thin film head is electrically connected to the base substrate of the thin film head. Electrical connection is through a conductive stud extending through a base coat... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048176 | Method of making a radiant heater A radiant heater with partly embedded and otherwise projecting heating coils (16) is produced in that the coils (16) are placed in grooves (14) of a tool or mold (13), the interior of the heating coils is partly filled with a filling material (17) and the... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048177 | Generator rotor slot wedge tool A method and apparatus for the assembly and disassembly of dovetail shaped wedges into and from the coil slots of dynamoelectric rotors using a fixture attached to a rotor shaft coupling in a selectable radial position so as to be aligned with a rotor slo... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048178 | Alignment--registration tool for fabricating multi-layer electronic packages Disclosed is a method of forming a multilayer microelectronic circuit package. According to the disclosed method, the first layer of the package has features that are brought into proximity to an optical system which is adapted for imaging a surface of th... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048179 | IC chip mounting method An IC mounting method and its resulting structure, such as an IC card is provided. An IC card includes a metal plate formed with at least one hole, and an IC chip is located fixed in position in the hole with a filler material filling the gap between the ... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048180 | Method of bonding a semiconductor device with a substrate An improved tape automated bonding is disclosed. A heater head employs a heat conducting member and a bonding tip member. The heat conducting member formed of a material, such as molybdenum or tungsten, has a U-shaped contour which comprises a pair of hal... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048181 | Method for making thick film circuit housing assembly design A housing and a pressure seal structure for use with a thick film circuit having a pressure sensor and terminals includes a base plate below the thick film circuit, a top housing above the thick film circuit covering the pressure sensor and an intermediat... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048182 | Methods for fabricating pattern rolls A pattern roll especially adapted to form, in an in-line manner, peripheral edges of an article having substantially constant geometry and the pattern roll's method of fabrication are described. A bounded surface region is defined on at least a portion of... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048183 | Method of making and repairing turbine blades The turbine blade tip clearance control system presently used with existing turbine blade uses an abradable seal material with a conventional squealer tip. Others use a thin, coating added to the tip of the blade. The present turbine blade tip control sys... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048184 | Slot blade holder A slot blade holder is provided and consists of a mechanism for securing the rear flange of a standard single edge razor blade at its central aperture transversely within a slot in the forward flattened end of a handle, so that the front cutting edge of t... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048185 | Hand actuated nippers A pair of circular cutting dies each has a sharp peripheral cutting edge surrounding a cavity, and a connecting pin extends through center holes within the dies to support each die for rotation. One projecting end portion of the pin has a cross hole recei... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048186 | Shear guard A guard for protecting a finger from the blades of a pair of shears is disclosed, and includes a band of rigid yet formable planar material disposed in a ring-like configuration. The band has opposed wide and narrow ends with a gap therebetween adjustable... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048187 | Whip type weed cutter A cutter attachment for a mono-filament type trimmer implement including a trimmer support shaft and a cutter in the form of a rotatable mono-filament used for lawn trimming mounted at a free end thereof. The cutter attachment has a base secured to the tr... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048188 | Rabbet cutting tool A cutting tool for cutting a rabbet along the edge of a board material for constructing a rabbet joint which includes a body or holder. The body positions a cutting blade in two slots defined by the body. The blade is positioned in the slots so that the e... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048189 | Wallboard cutter A wallboard cutter according to the teachings of the present invention is shown as including an open housing comprising an inverted channel with rollers extending partially into the channel at either end to facilitate the movement as the channel is drawn ... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048190 | Rectangular hole cutter A rectangular hole cutter according to the teachings of the present embodiment of present invention is wholly shown as including a two-member cam device within a housing with a base plate, for vibrating one of three sets of alternate cutting blades to saw... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048191 | Razor blade technology A process for forming a razor blade includes the steps of providing a ceramic substrate, mechanically abrading an edge of the ceramic substrate to form a sharpened edge thereon with facets that have an included angle of less than thirty degrees; thermally... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048192 | Wheel position gauging device A wheel position, e.g., alignment, gauging device which mounts to a rear sidewall of a tire is disclosed. The device has a tripod, preferably of cast metal, with each of its three legs contacting the outside sidewall of the tire. The legs meet at a flat s... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048193 | Archery bow sight An archery bow sight apparatus having a sight bar with at least one front sight that is adjustable to a fixed position relative to the sight bar, and a rear sight that is independently pivotal to maintain a vertical alignment with the ground, which combin... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048194 | Position sensing probe A probe for use in co-ordinate measuring comprises three orthogonal spring parallelograms, each with a respective scale and read head, for measuring the location of a workpiece-contacting stylus. The probe also has a trigger sensor in the form of a piezoe... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048195 | Apparatus and method for alignment of adjacent surfaces An apparatus for aligning adjacent surfaces for coplanarity and angle is described. The apparatus comprises a base plate, a plurality of support legs coupled to the base plate, a plurality of depth gauges coupled to the base plate, an angle coupled to the... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048196 | Position sensing arrangement in a working device A guided working device (1) is driven by an operable traction motor (2) for movement along a travel rail (3). The working device carries a driver (4) provided with articulated heads for a measuring carriage (5), which measuring carriage always travels the... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048197 | Apparatus and method for measuring pitch diameter An apparatus and method empolying a notched precision caliper in conjunction with a transfer tool such as a conventional dial gauge caliper having ball-point type contact surfaces to provide a direct quantitative indication of a threaded member's pitch di... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048198 | Shutter system for shielding a coated substrate during a radiation-curing process A shutter system cooperatively associated with a high temperature lamp-reflector assembly for curing a photosensitive coating on a substrate moving adjacent the lamp-reflector block comprises a reflector block having a cavity within which is mounted a hig... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048199 | Dewatering composition A dewatering composition for use in dewatering coal and other ores, comprising a sulfosuccinate, a non-ionic surfactant and a defoaming agent.... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048200 | Process and apparatus for dehumidifying wet air Wet air preferably from a liquid ring pump is dehumidified by the use of a desiccant liquid absorber. The heat released by condensation of water vapor in the absorption liquid will be taken up by the air. The air is further heated by water vapor produced ... | 09/17/1991 |
