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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5117509 | Sport glove An improved athletic glove having superior gripping properties is disclosed generally comprising a palm piece and a back piece joined together to fit the human hand. The palm piece is made of a sheet of leather material prepared by a chrome tanning proces... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117511 | Liquid disposal automotive accessory Liquid disposal accessory means and method for motor vehicles. Undesired liquid or fine particulates, preferably in fluidized form, are disposed from the driver and/or passenger compartment through a funnel with a drain tube to the exterior or a collectio... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117514 | Improved toilet-tank flapper valve An improved toilet flapper valve (10) designed to directly replace either a conventional toilet flapper valve or tank ball valve. The valve (10) allows a toilet user to selectively determine the quantity of water used for a toilet flush by controlling the... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117521 | Care cart and transport system A care cart and a hospital bed having mating bases to permit the care cart to nest with the hospital bed. The combination of cart and bed can be rolled from place to place to transport the patient and the cart can be removed from the bed while maintaining... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117522 | Leg pillow A pillow for use in supporting the legs of a person in bed comprises an I beam of resilient foam material having a V notch located towards one end thereof. The apex of the V notch locates proximate one of the flanges whereby it acts as a hinge for flexure... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117525 | Take-apart drive-over bridge with cantilevers between its drive-overs A take-apart drive-over bridge with cantilevers between the drive-overs. The two sections of drive-over (4) associated with each section of the bridge constitute, along with the section of cantilever (5) between them, a transport unit and are simultaneous... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117530 | Material clearing device A device for clearing material is shown which includes a blade having an upper portion and lower portion, the lower portion being made of resilient material and the upper portion made of rigid material. The blade includes a middle area, and two sides. A h... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117531 | Suction or blowing apparatus A suction or blowing apparatus and/or pneumatic conveying apparatus for different types of dust and bulk material. The apparatus includes two tubes arranged one within the other, wherein propellant air is admitted to the inner tube. To increase the suctio... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117534 | Method for detaching tufts from fiber bales A method of removing fiber tufts from a top surface of a fiber bale with a travelling opening device includes the steps of moving the opening device along the top surface of the fiber bale toward and away from a stationary wall face against which a vertic... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117542 | Seaming machine to manufacture an insertion-type seam for making a cloth belt endless The invention is directed to a method of manufacturing an insertion-type seam for making a cloth belt, especially a wire cloth, endless, in which the warp ends of each cloth side are interwoven with an auxiliary warp strip, and to a seaming machine for ca... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117549 | Automotive door panels and method of assembly therefor An improved interior automotive door panel assembly including integrally molded fasteners adapted to being connected to openings formed in the outer metal door structure. In an alternate embodiment the interior door panel assembly including the integrally... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117550 | Method of making a mixing tool A method of making a tool defined by an elongate shaft medially mounted to a paddle at its lowermost terminal end. The paddle includes an elastomeric body formed of a flexible memory retentent material, including reinforcing members mounted at each side a... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117551 | Tool-carrier vehicle for inspecting and/or maintaining bolt holes in the cover of a steam vessel or the like The present invention relates to a tool-carrying vehicle for transporting a tool and positioning it over bolt holes in a flange of a vessel, and for moving the tool in translation and/or rotation, the vehicle comprises: a tool-carrying elevator column extendin... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117552 | Machining center A machining center having a bed that supports a work table, a carriage movable along the bed, an upright column moveable across the carriage, a machining head movable vertically on the upright column and a tool magazine with a tool changer. The bed is des... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117553 | Method of assembling rotor magnets A rotor assembly for an internal permanent magnet rotor comprises a plurality of interior laminations stacked to form a substantially continuous internal core and a plurality of external laminations stacked to form a substantially continuous external core... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117554 | Tab routing method and apparatus A method and apparatus are disclosed for handling multi-board panels in order to liberate therefrom individual circuit boards which may or may not have been prepopulated with the electrical components. Each panel is supported above a receiving tray on a t... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117555 | Modular system and method for populating circuit boards A chip placement system of modular construction is provided for simultaneous population of circuit boards with component chips. A plurality of chip placement modules are provided, each having a conveyor means for receiving a planar from an adjacent one of... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117558 | Hand-held rotary barbecue rotisserie The hand-held Rotary Barbecue Rotisserie" includes an elongated shaft having multiple prongs on which wieners, marshmallows, or other food is impaled for cooking. The shaft end opposite the cooking prongs is formed in to an eccentric crank handle, this cr... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117561 | Rotatable gauging plate for a fastener dimension measuring machine A gauging plate for measuring fastener dimensions includes a rotatable plate having a plurality of openings for measuring fastener dimensions. The plate is rotatable to permit alignment of openings with a measuring member to enable the measurement of dime... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117563 | Heat recuperator from clothes dryer In a device for recuperating heat from a clothes drier, the combination of a heat exchanger with cross streams comprising a pack of facially opposed heat exchange surfaces defining therebetween a plurality of open ended channels in which a stream of a rel... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117564 | Continuous vacuum treatment system An improved vacuum treatment system includes containers for accommodating articles to be treated, a tunnel-like casing in which a plurality of the casings can move contiguously, a driving device for making the containers move in the casing, a plurality of... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117565 | Glove drying apparatus A glove drying frame configured as a human hand is formed of a wire mesh hollow body to accommodate a glove thereon, with the hollow body mounting a support clip to a wrist portion of the hollow body to permit suspension of the hollow body permitting free... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117569 | Greeting card The specification discloses a new and improved greeting card comprising a first translucent panel having indicia thereon and a second panel connected to the first panel and with an opening which defines an image thereon. The translucency of the first pane... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117570 | Device for pick-up and assembly of elements of identification of cables and electrical applicances A support and fixation device supporting a marker carrier (101) comprises a tubular cover (101a) and a tubular housing (101b). The tubular housing is furnished with a retaining section running substantially parallel to lengthwise direction of the tube for... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117576 | Adjustable depth fishing float A fishing float or a bobber is designed which permits remote adjustment of fishing line depth beneath the bobber without removal of the bobber or float from the water. By use of the fishing rod to manipulate a ball and ball seat attached to the bobber, th... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117578 | Plant field vacuuming apparatus A vacuuming apparatus simultaneously vacuums a plurality of parallel rows of plants for removing of insects. A plurality of side-by-side vacuum units are mounted on a mobile support including a tractor-mounted lift to be releasably attached to the front o... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117579 | Method and apparatus for applying fixed nitrogen to plants An electrical ion emitting farming implement to be moved over a field of crop planted in earth for above ground atmospheric treatment of growing plants comprising a frame. A series of bell-shaped members are mounted at spaced intervals on a boom across it... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117581 | Pallet system for container-grown plants The system includes an efficient, closed irrigation system in conjunction with insulating components for minimizing the harmful effects of extreme changes in ambient temperature, moisture and chemical concentrations in plant containers. Mechanisms are pro... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117586 | Frictional sash balance and jamb liner A sash balance apparatus for vertically slidable window installations, in which a friction shoe is disposed in a channel formed by a jamb liner extending along each side of the slidable sash and a connecting member extends between the sash and the frictio... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117587 | Sealing structure Sealing structure for providing a seal between the perimeter of a door and a surrounding structure such as a door frame. The sealing structure is preferably formed as a tri-part extrudate and is particularly useful in providing a seal for a structure (e.g... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117588 | Semi-automatic dressing accessory A dresser apparatus for dressing a grinding wheel to a desired cross sectional shape, the apparatus including a dresser frame connected to a stationary dresser base, and a slider block slidably connected to the dresser frame. A follower frame is mounted t... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117593 | Underground storage silo for emergency supplies An underground silo for storing emergency supplies includes a cylindrical body portion having a closed bottom and side walls and an open top with a flange around the top, a convex cover configured for mating with said open top and having a flange for mati... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117598 | Molding strips for mounting a flexible covering onto a support surface Molding strips are provided for use in frame assemblies for supporting and securing fabric or material sheets on substrates such as walls for decorative and acoustic purposes. An outside corner molding strip is provided, as well as molding strips for use ... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117611 | Method and apparatus for packing layers of articles An apparatus for packing closely-arranged articles into a receptacle includes a rigid funnel having inwardly sloping walls and a downwardly projecting flexible skirt means attached to the funnel. The flexible skirt comprises a plurality of flexible planar... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117612 | Method and apparatus for controlling the movement of cross-welding jaws of a tubular bagging machine In order to avoid in a tubular bagging machine the disadvantages resulting from the state of the art through a cam-plate control of cross-welding jaws, it is suggested according to the invention, that the control of the movement of the cross-welding jaws ... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117615 | Apparatus for tightening a strip around a package The apparatus (4) manually operable with a tightening lever (16) has a cutting station (8), a tightening station (10) and a clamping station (12). The latter has a clamping arm (18) mounted on an eccentric shaft (20) and having a clamping shoe (40) throug... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117617 | Spindle assembly A spindle assembly for the cutter blade of a rotary lawn mower includes a spindle rotatably mounted in a fixed housing by means of a pair of spaced apart tapered roller bearings. Lip seals are provided at the upper and lower ends of the housing and there ... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117618 | Gathering chain adjustment mechanism for forage harvester row crop attachments A row crop attachment for forage harvesters has a plurality of row crop divider units arranged side-by-side on a base frame to define a plurality of crop conveying paths. A pair of gathering chains are arranged to pass through each crop conveying path fro... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117619 | Air-floated apparatus with centrifuge raceway The present invention describes an air-floated apparatus comprising a wheel-less housing having a skirt extending around a lower edge thereof and having an air-inlet opening in an upper portion thereof, the housing further including a discharge port. The ... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5117627 | Method and device to protect a propulsive catalytic bed from degrading passed through by a fuel The method consists, by briefly and periodically interrupting feeding of fuel with the aid of the electrovalve (1), of creating sudden pressure oscillations in the injection chamber (3), these oscillations expelling the impurities in a pasty or possible s... | 06/02/1992 |
