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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5115516 | Garment with neck covering A neck covering is provided for a jacket or other garment including a member attached at its central portion near the inside of the collar of the garment, with side portions projecting outwardly in either direction which can be wrapped around the neck of ... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115517 | Scarf garment A scarf garment includes an elongated strip of material with upper and lower portions connected along a foldable joint. The ends of the material strip are connectable with fasteners. In a second embodiment of the invention a hood portion is connected to t... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115518 | Article of dress An article of dress comprising a first piece and a second piece. The first piece comprises a leg covering of decorative light weight material having an upper edge and a lower edge, and capable of being worn as a single unit covering only one leg. The firs... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115519 | Garter with concealed compartment A garter with a concealed compartment is disclosed comprising a band with an outer covering providing the appearance of clothing. The garter's appearance allows a user to safely carry and conceal money and other valuables in the concealed compartment elim... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115520 | Apparatus and methods for sealing a leaking toilet tank valve An aircraft toilet system includes a holding tank and a discharge pipe which extends to a service panel located near the skin of the aircraft. A poppet valve is located near the outlet end of the discharge pipe. Leakage of fluids past the poppet valve is ... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115521 | Water conservation apparatus for water closets A water conserving apparatus for flushing various domestic and industrial vessels such as a restroom fixture commonly known as a Water Closet. The main element of this apparatus is a normally retracted controlled retraction enclosure that resists expansio... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115522 | Concealment trolley A concealment trolley for the transportation of deceased persons which includes a bogie supporting an enclosure. The enclosure preferably has an overall outward appearance resembling a piece of mobile hospital equipment. In the enclosure there is a mechan... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115523 | Convertible infant restraint device An infant restraint device is provided for securing and supporting an infant inside a motor vehicle. The device includes a shell assembly having upper and lower shell portions pivotally coupled together. The upper shell portion can be positioned in either... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115524 | Folding crib mode from cardboard material A light-weight, compact, portable knock-down crib comprised of a single flat sheet of foldable material having an integrally formed rectangular base. A pair of side wall and end wall panels are foldable on folding score lines about the base. Attachment ta... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115525 | Hammock mattress A mattress for use on a suspended hammock. The mattress, which may be filled with a fluid or a resilient material, has a convex lower surface that compensates for the natural downward bowing or sagging that occurs in a hammock suspended by its ends. Since... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115526 | Softside waterbed foundation and package A softside waterbed foundation includes a pneumatically inflatable base and a compressible collar extending around the periphery of the base. The collar extends upwardly from the base to define a cavity for a water mattress. The base includes anti-bowing ... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115527 | Support pad with spaced, parallel longitudinal channels and support elements A support for pressure sore preventation in a patient such as a hospital or accident patient is made in one piece from plastic foam material and comprises a flexible support surface defined by a plurality of discrete elongate support elements defining the... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115528 | Pillow transformable into animal character A transformable pillow is of bag-form having inner and outer faces separated by padding and, respectively, forming smooth, head supporting and animal shape defining surfaces. Turning the pillow inside out transforms the pillow into an animal character and... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115529 | Support for selectively seating and developing balance and motor control in infants A support for selectively seating and protecting an infant while developing balance and motor control in a seating position comprises a free standing support body having a substantially planar base, front, rear and opposed side surfaces. The front surface... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115530 | Rotary toothbrush An axis rotary toothbrush is provided and consists of an elongated shaft having a distal portion rotatably positioned within a handle so that a proximal portion of the shaft will extend outwardly therefrom. A bristle head is formed about the free end of t... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115531 | Aircraft washing equipment The present invention provides an aircraft washing equipment, characterized in that it comprises a sub-arm that rotates at the tip of an ascendable and descendable arm by means of a shaft with a base perpendicular to the arm, and is movably controlled by ... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115532 | Apparatus for freeing obstructions formed in a hollow surgical suction implement A preferred embodiment is directed to a system for freeing obstructions formed in a hollow surgical suction implement having first and second open ends. The system includes a fluid container having at least one opening for receiving the first open end of ... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115533 | Toothbrush with voltage tester An electronic toothbrush including a head portion at one end which is studded with bristles, a grip portion in the middle which contains a battery, and a voltage tester at the other end which is separable from the grip portion and has a tester body with c... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115534 | Rotary paint removed device The present invention is directed toward a device that is adapted to the working end of a rotating string grass trimming tool. The standard string and spool end effector of the grass trimming tool is removed and the present invention is substituted in its... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115535 | Mop for cleaning and polishing floors and other surfaces A mop for simultaneous scrubbing and polishing floors and other surfaces comprised of an upper and lower bonded-fiber sections. The upper section comprises, a plurality of joined bonded-fiber fabric layers which diminish in size from top to bottom, and ea... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115536 | Adjustable concrete finishing tool In combination with a bull float, hand trowel, groover, finisher, and the like, an elongated handle, which adjustably mounts through a bracket with the attachment means provided upon the upper portion of such a finishing tool, with the handle means incorp... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115537 | Drive system A vacuum cleaner having an improved transmission. The transmission includes speed reduction gearing and forward and reverse clutching elements which provide high power capacity, large speed reduction, durability, quiet operation and smooth power engagemen... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115538 | Vacuum cleaners A vacuum cleaner has a power brush which projects dirt particles directly into a specially formed and located vacuum nozzle in such a manner that low air consumption can be used. The vacuum nozzle has an inlet extending along the full axial length of the ... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115539 | Braking and wheel-orienting mechanism for a four-wheeled trolley A braking and wheel-orienting mechanism for a four-wheeled trolley, which includes a brake cable divided into four strands each of which drives a braking system on one wheel so as to synchronously brake four wheels, and four additional wheel-orienting wir... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115540 | Spring-loaded hinge A spring-loaded hinge suitable for eyeglass frames comprises two hollow members with respective bores and comprising at respective ends complementary articulation surfaces. The two bores open at facing orifices and a connecting part accommodated in the tw... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115541 | Hose clip A hose clip wherein a flexible annular strap can be place around one end portion of a hose and a relatively small portion (less than 50 percent) of the inner side of the strap is overlapped by the convex external surface of a deformable insert. The space ... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115542 | Hose separator clip A reusable hose separating clip comprises an elongate one piece plastic unit including a living hinge centrally located along the length thereof. The hinge forms two clip halves thereabout which are substantially mirror images of one another except for th... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115543 | Buckle for safety belt systems in vehicles The buckle for safety belts in vehicles provided with a pretensioner engaging said buckle is provided with a compensating mass which at the end of the pretensioning travel prevents a mass-inertia-induced movement of the release button in the actuating dir... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115544 | Non-wovens manufacturing process A method for producing a non-woven fabric having specific designed patterns in designated areas is shown. The method requires the use of a fine-mesh woven screen of metal or plastic threads. The desired patterns may be pressed onto the screen to form rais... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115545 | Apparatus for connecting semiconductor devices to wiring boards An apparatus for connecting a semiconductor device having multi-electrodes at small pitches to a wiring board in such a manner as to secure the alignment between the electrodes and the wiring patterns, the chips being secured to the wiring board with an i... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115546 | Complex machining machine tool A complex machine tool has a single frame having a chip collecting space at a center portion thereof, first and second spindle stocks on the frame, relatively free to move and drive in a Z axis direction and holding the chip collecting space therebetween,... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115547 | Arrangement for rolling hot-rolled wide strips The arrangement includes three casting lines arranged in front of a finishing train. The casting line in the middle is in alignment with the finishing train. The thin slabs severed from the cast strands are conveyed to the finishing train with two ferries... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115548 | Button for use on garments and the like A button wherein the deformable shank of a rivet (which carries the enlarged portion that is to pass through a buttonhole) must be caused to penetrate through a layer of textile or other carrier material and to thereupon enter a retaining device having a ... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115549 | Diagonal insertion apparatus A diagonal insertion apparatus of this invention inserts a shaft-like member into an insertion receiving component provided with a diagonal hole inclined with respect to a ground or horizontal plane and comprises a holding table or pallet for holding the ... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115550 | Adjustable O-ring port fitting for a hydraulic coupling The present invention is a hydraulic coupling and method of making the same. The coupling includes a male fitting, a female port, and a lock nut. The male fitting has external threads which receive the female port and the lock nut. The female port has an ... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115551 | Method for fitting a flexible strip The robot arrangement for mounting a sealing strip on a mounting flange comprises a robot hand supported at the end of a robot arm. The sealing strip is received by the robot hand at one point and driven through the hand to emerge at another point. Its em... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115552 | Method of making a dynamic seal for a liquid pump or spray gun To seal against liquid leaking out around a rod which is slidably movable lengthwise axially within a chamber containing the liquid through an opening in the rear wall of the chamber, a ring of thermoplastic material is placed in the chamber around the ro... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115553 | Contact lens manufacturing apparatus Apparatus for feeding workpieces (37, 38) to the collet (3) of a lens lathe comprises a loading device (12) and a magazine (10) for containing a plurality of workpieces (37, 38). The magazine (10) has an opening (11) at one end through which the workpiece... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115554 | Closet flange A closet flange for mounting a water closet and connecting the water closet to standard plumbing means leading to a soil pipe and vent assembly. The closet flange comprises a cylindrical body with upper and lower body portions and an axial bore. The upper... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5115555 | Apparatus for manipulating a high density flat cable An apparatus for terminating conductors of a ribbon cable to a dielectric housing has a movable frame member and a stationary frame member. The movable frame member has a laminated subassembly and a staking block provided thereon. A support member is posi... | 05/26/1992 |
