Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5077836 | Headgear Headgear for mounting protective equipment such as a visor is disclosed as including a head band and a crown band. The head band includes a brow band section, side band sections and a neck band section. The side band sections are curved upwardly and incli... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077837 | Knee or elbow protector A knee or elbow protector apparatus for application to an athlete's leg or arm, comprising a flexible, relatively thin wall tube that is bidirectionally stretchable, the tube having inner and outer sides, and opposite ends and sides to be stretched when s... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077838 | Convertible outerwear garment A convertible, outerwear garment comprising a sleeveless vest with a jacket having sleeves attached to the interior of the vest at a pouch or pocket formed along a lower edge of the jacket. Panels at the sides of the jacket may be joined to the side of th... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077839 | Helmet chain strap buckle A chin strap buckle for securing a protective helmet to a wearer's head includes a female snap fastener member and a male snap fastener member which snappingly interlock together at their respective one ends in a pivotal relationship. The female member is... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077840 | Channelling apparatus for a toilet In order to reduce incidents of misdirecting urine into a toilet pan the present disclosure proposes apparatus comprising a preformed shape sustaining open channel member with an outlet to one end and a support member, preferably a generally C-shaped flan... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077841 | Hydromassaging apparatus for use in a bathtub A hydromassaging apparatus for use in a bathtub comprises a housing provided with a pump for drawing water from the bathtub to provide a forced flow of water through a flow channel leading from the pump to a plurality of spouts. Air is intermixed into the... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077842 | Shower apparatus A shower apparatus for children in which an insert tubular framework assembly is defined by a generally parallelpiped configuration. The insert framework assembly is positioned in a bathtub and is connected to the water nozzle in a conventional manner to ... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077843 | Hospital bed and assemblies of hospital care apparatus A hospital bed has, at least at its head end, longitudinally extending inflatable mattress sections on each side of the bed. When those mattress sections are deflated, that portion of the bed can be narrowed to permit a nurse to move into the vacated spac... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077844 | Mechanical apparatus for lifting and moving humans An invalid lifting device is disclosed. A mast is mounted to a frame to rotate about a vertical axis. A boom is mounted to the mast to swing with the mast and to pivot about a horizontal axis. A sling for supporting an invalid extends from the end of the ... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077845 | Bed with built-in commode A bed with a built-in commode is provided which has a bed frame, a mattress having a through-hole formed almost at the central portion of the mattress and placed on the bed frame, a commode attached to the mattress at the through-hole, a pair of inflatabl... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077846 | Crib structure A crib structure sized to support an infant therein in a prone position and specifically structured to include a first and a second crib side normally disposed in spaced apart parallel relation to one another when the assembly is in a crib configuration b... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077847 | Waterbed mattress corner and method of making same A waterbed mattress corners are reinforced by a multi-layered angle made of a plastic material which is permanently fixed to the mattress. the angle has a first leg and a second leg extending from the bottom of the mattress to the top thereof. The first a... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077848 | Wave dampened watermattress with tubes and lumbar support A tube-type watermattress has a plurality of elongated tubes disposed in a head-to-toe direction in the mattress. A wave dampening insert enclosed in each tube has a center portion which is substantially thicker than the rest of the insert to provide addi... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077849 | 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... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077850 | Multiple utility device for a key ring A utility device for a key ring which serves a plurality utilities, including key ring anchorage, bottle cap opener, screw driver, hook and item holder with respect to another object. The utility device has a generally C-shaped structure having a central ... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077851 | Method and apparatus for treating corded fabrics The procedure consists essentially of causing the corded fabric (4) to circulate in a continuous manner through a bath (3) of treatment liquid, and is characterized by the fact that the fabric (4) is subjected simultaneously to injection and spraying of t... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077852 | Loading ramps An arrangement for limiting the extent to which telescopically mounted sections (1,2,3) can be extended is enclosed in a chamber (7) between each pair of sections, so as to be out of the way of personnel handling the sections. The arrangement comprises tw... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077853 | Pool cleaner A pool cleaner is provided constructed of a body having freely moving wheels positioned thereon to contact the bottom surface of a pool, a large diverter wheel in front designed to contact the edge of a pool during operation, diverting the pool cleaner ri... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077854 | Apparatus for automatically cleaning and dispensing golf balls The invention provides an apparatus for automatically cleaning and dispensing golf balls. The apparatus has a supply chute which connects to a cleaning apparatus and to a gravity operated sorting apparatus which incorporates a dispensing apparatus which f... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077855 | Motor-driven toothbrush A motor-driven toothbrush comprises a drive unit having a motor and a transmission that simultaneously drive a shaft in rotation and a brush head extension reciprocably in a direction parallel to the axis of the shaft. A brush unit includes a brush head c... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077856 | Lint collection device A manually-operated device for removing lint particles from a person's clothing. In one form of the invention the device includes a frame structure that mounts two parallel knife elements extending transverse to the motion axis of the frame structure. As ... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077857 | Polishing tool A polishing tool for automobiles is provided having a main body of bristles and a crevice tool on opposite sides of a brush block and a handle with a further cleaning medium which has a multitude of uses including removing accumulations of foreign matter ... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077858 | Spike and cleat brush An apparatus is disclosed for removing grass and dirt from spikes and cleats mounted on shoes, boots and other foot wear. The tufted device is generally placed upon the ground and spikes or cleats are moved across the device in order to remove unwanted de... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077859 | Vehicle washing apparatus A deep pile, fur-like material is used in an automated vehicle washing apparatus to simulate a vehicle hand wash. The vehicle washing apparatus uses a resilient drum constructed of a pair of spaced apart disks and an elastic cord which extends between the... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077860 | Wiper blade assembly with arm to yoke connection A wiper blade assembly comprising a primary yoke having a central portion with transverse socket means therein for receiving a pivot pin of a wiper arm of the side mounting type. A plastics latching member is located within a recess open to the topside or... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077861 | Hose cleaner This invention relates to a hose cleaner. It is a bisected cylinder with parts hinged together and having means for retention of the parts in closed position. Brushes are applied to the interior parts of the cylinder and the free ends of the brushes form ... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077862 | Carpet cleaning machine with edge-mounted vacuum nozzle An improved carpet cleaning machine includes front and rear counter-revolving brushes for stroking substantially-dry carpet cleaning granules into and across the carpet fibers. A shroud is mounted adjacent the brushes and has a front portion and a rear po... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077863 | Carpet cleaning machine with perimeter vacuum capability A carpet cleaning machine includes a pair of counter-revolving brushes for stroking the granules into and across the carpet fibers. A shroud is positioned above the brushes, has a bottom surface spaced from the brushes and generally forms a chamber around... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077864 | Swing door hinge A swing door hinge is provided comprising a first hinge member having a projection of approximately rectangular block shape and provided with at least two engaging recesses, the first hinge member being intended to be mounted to either a wall frame or a s... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077865 | Comber lap joining device with suction head for preparing ends A textile machine is provided with apparatus for preparing the trailing end of a lap and a leading end of a fresh lap so that each end has a reduced fiber mass per unit length of lap in the prepared end. These lap ends are thereafter superimposed and join... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077866 | Belt fastener A belt strap is provided having a non-circular opening formed through one end portion thereof and a plurality of apertures formed through and spaced along the other end portion thereof. A belt fastener is provided including an adornment assembly for mount... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077867 | Belt clasp fastener device A belt clasp fastener device (10) for releasably engaging the free end (101) against the main body (102) of a belt (100). The device (10) includes an adjustable width unit (12) whose length may be varied to compensate for belts having different widths and... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077868 | Diaper or babies napkin fastener A fastener for a baby's diaper is provided which comprises a generally elastic base member having at least thre claw units spaced apart thereon. The base member can be resiliently extended and the claw units engaged with a cloth or fabric diaper to retain... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077869 | Money and credit card carrier A new and improved credit card/money clip device is provided by a base member having first and second generally opposed major surfaces. A clip for holding folded currency is defined on one side of the base member and credit card receiving area is defined ... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077870 | Mushroom-type hook strip for a mechanical fastener A mushroom-type hook strip for a hook-and-loop fastener has a flexible backing of thermoplastic resin and, integral with backing, an array of upstanding stems distributed across at least one face of the backing, each having a mushroom head. The stems have... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077871 | Safety belt fastener With a safety belt fastener for the take-up and latching of an insertion tongue having a housing and an insertion path for the insertion tongue, the insertion path being arranged in the housing and containing an ejector under spring action, having a latch... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077872 | Antitheft device An antitheft device for marking articles for sale and comprising two members, which automatically interlock one another when one member is inserted in a cavity in the other member, the first member being a rod-shaped body with a completely or partially po... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077873 | Expander for tubular textile fabric Tubular fabric that is being expanded radially outwardly by a so-called circular expander, has a tendency to develop a reduced pressure inside the volume of the tubular fabric, whereby the operation of the expander is hindered. To avoid the formation of r... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077874 | Method of producing a nonwoven dibrous textured panel and panel produced thereby A method for producing a nonwoven fibrous, flexible panel having a textured outer surface, including the steps: of providing a needled web comprised of interengaged first fibers and second thermoplastic fibers; needlepunching the web to produce the textur... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5077875 | Reactor vessel for the growth of heterojunction devices A metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) reactor vessel is provided for the growth of Group II-VI, Group III-V, or Group IV layers particularly for use in thin heterostructure devices. The reactor vessel includes a chamber having a top surface sub... | 01/07/1992 |
