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 |
| 5157787 | Bed A bed comprises a base framework, an intermediate framework and a mattress framework which comprises a central frame, a head frame and a foot frame. Main rams connect the intermediate framework to the base framework for raising and lowering and tilting th... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157788 | Ventilated, heat attenuating headwear A ventilated, heat attenuating hat is disclosed including an inner mesh section that has a crown portion for engaging the crown of a wearer's head and a pair of side portions connected to the crown portion for engaging the sides of the wearer's head. Ther... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157789 | Hip protective hospital garment A hip protective hospital garment, adapted for use by individuals of all sizes, which includes a gown having a lower portion, a pair of upper chest flaps, and a pair of shoulder flaps, wherein the upper chest flaps are adjustably and criss-crossingly conn... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157790 | Firefighter garment with lumbar support A firefighter garment having an outer shell with a waist portion covering a lower back area of a wearer and a front closure, an inner liner having a thermal layer and shaped to fit within the outer shell and a support member, attached to the outer shell, ... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157791 | Sock having knitted-in carry-all compartment and method of making thereof A sock includes a foot portion and a knitted-in storage area including an inner locking cuff layer which extends upwardly further than an outer storage compartment layer. Items may be stored between the inner and outer layers, and then the locking cuff is... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157792 | Body armor vest and method of manufacture A ballistic panel carrier vest with front and rear ballistic panel carrying pockets and a trauma plate pocket has front, rear and side portions, as well as epaulets, breast pockets with flap closures and buttoned placket front opening that look like the s... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157793 | Ergonomically engineered underwear A man's undergarment ergodynamically designed to have the combined quality and characteristics of a brief and an athletic supporter and which is of scant dimensions and fits snugly about a man's body with leg openings of such size as to provide additional... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157794 | Helmet A helmet includes a cap body, a shield plate pivotally mounted at left and right opposite ends on the cap body for pivotal movement between a closed position for closing the front face of the cap body and an opened position for opening the front face, and... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157795 | Dual flush valve for water closets A dual flush valve assembly for use in the water storage reservoir of a conventional toilet is disclosed. The assembly includes a valve, a guide track, a pair of slider members, slideably mounted in the guide track and individually connected to the valve ... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157796 | Double flush toilet valve A double flush toilet valve apparatus and method for permitting full and partial flushes of a toilet water tank by providing a vent hole in the toilet flush valve float which can be opened by an extended additional force actuation of the toilet flush hand... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157797 | Bathing aid A bathing aid includes a basic frame to be inserted into a bathtub. The basic frame has a U-shaped bottom frame with legs and a rear crossbar between the legs. Two outer hydraulic cylinders protrude obliquely upward from the rear cross-bar and have upper ... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157798 | Transparent emergency eye wash fountain A transparent emergency eye wash fountain is provided having a portable unitary housing including a fold down tray carrying spray nozzle means for discharge of an eye wash fluid onto the eyes. The fluid is discharged by folding down the tray to open a val... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157799 | Zippered pillowcase A pillowcase for a king size bed pillow is provided with a releasable fastener, such as a zipper, that extends along adjacent long sides of the fabric layers forming the pillowcase. Since a pair of the short sides of the fabric layers are always open, the... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157800 | Foot section for birthing bed A foot section for a birthing bed has a central panel and two lateral plates that function, in an inclined attitude, as footrests and in a vertical attitude as posts for receiving calf supports. The calf supports are stored in holsters on the underside of... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157801 | Dock leveler having automatically actuated vehicle barrier A dock leveler has a barrier actuated by movement of the lip. The barrier is mounted for pivotable movement to be flush with the deck when the lip is extended. As the lip is lowered an arm contacts a guide plate mounted on said carrier to rotate said barr... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157802 | Pipe thread cleaning apparatus A pipe thread cleaner has cleaning heads with rotated thread brushes driven by motors on the heads. Separate heads for box and pin ends have splash shrouds with gaskets to bear on pipe surfaces. Cleaning fluids under pressure are supplied, selectively, to... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157803 | Sweeper A sweeper for sweeping the interior space of a pipe by passing the sweeper through the pipe to remove scale from the inner surface of the pipe. The sweeper includes a body made of a resilient material, such as foamed polyurethane, and a plurality of pins ... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157804 | Roll-up entrance foot mat A foot mat comprises a multiplicity of elongated rail members formed by coextrusion of a substantially rigid polymeric material and a compressible polymeric material. Each rail member has a rigid tread-supporting web portion, at least two rigid leg portio... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157805 | Method and apparatus for cleaning carpet or the like Apparatus for and method of cleaning carpet or the like in conjunction with a vacuum source and a source of pressurized cleaning fluid. The apparatus includes an elongate handle to which is attached a cleaning head. The cleaning head includes a forward wa... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157806 | Door closing piston-cylinder assembly A door closing piston-cylinder assembly which is designed to permit the door initially to move to closed position relatively rapidly but with controlled restraint until it approaches the fully closed position whereupon the door continues to move but consi... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157807 | Vibration-cushioned handle A vibration-cushioned handle, to be clamped in at one end, is designed for an electrical tool or the like. The handle has a coupling at one end for firm attachment to the body of the tool, and a coaxial handle sleeve. At least one cushioned spring element... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157808 | Coil spring counterbalance hardware assembly and connection method therefor An improved coil spring counterbalance assembly embodying a coil spring support structure that provides a cooperatively radiused restraining shoe against which the uninterrupted smooth external circumferential surface of the coil spring ribbon rotationall... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157809 | Charger for feeding a carding machine with a layer of textile fibers as regularly as possible The present invention relates to a charger for feeding a carding machine with a nap of textile fibers as regularly as possible, characterized in that the receptacle apron (5) is continuously driven at variable speed controlled by the cell (7 ) for control... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157810 | Apparatus for measuring the mass of a sliver For use in a spinning mill, the apparatus is used to even up the mass of sliver being conveyed, for manufacturing perfect roving yarns. The evening up takes place by measuring the thickness of the sliver after it has been compressed to a certain volume in... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157811 | Reclosable strip fastener with self opener An improved form, fill, seal and separate packaging machine for reclosable containers is accomplished by a plurality of stations disposed along a path of travel of a thermoplastic web including means to attach a pair of mated, resealable closure strips to... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157812 | Plastic belt fastener and method and apparatus therefor Disclosed is an integral one piece plastic fastener for securing belt ends together. The fastener has upper and lower plastic plates clasped to a belt end with integral, hollow rivets projecting from the upper plate through openings in the bottom plate an... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157813 | Shoelace tensioning device A device is provided for regulating the tension on shoelaces of the type worn in conventional footwear. The shoelace tension regulating device is mounted on the top of the shoe with which it is used, preferably by lacing the shoelace ends through a pair o... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157814 | Adjustable clamp for conductors An improved conductor clamp adapted to securely clamp conductors having various sized diameters. The clamp includes a first pair of generally rectangular bar clamping members movable in a first direction toward each other and in an opposite direction away... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157815 | Conduit clamp A snap-on clamp for securing a conduit includes an open-ended loop having interlocking clamping portions at each end. One clamping portion includes a plurality of teeth arrayed on the outer surface thereof and the other clamping portion comprises a first ... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157816 | Interconnection of cylindrical parts The parts are interconnected by means of split strap arrangement engaging clamping elements which, through wedge action engage flanges of the parts and hold them together.... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157817 | Plastic lined concrete structure A concrete structure, such as a burial vault, having an integrally bonded thermoplastic resin liner. The liner is a rigid molded product having a bottom wall and side walls and an open top. A thermosetting resin adhesive is applied to the outer surface of... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157818 | Method and apparatus for sizing and drawing a traveling textile filament In sizing and drawing of one or more textile filaments, particularly a warp sheet of multiple filaments, by successively conveying the filaments through a sizing bath, a driven squeezing mechanism, a differentially driven spaced drying roller, and a warp ... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157819 | Modular yarn interlacer A yarn interlacer is provided which, being of modular construction, possess a greater versatility for processing yarns of different types.... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157820 | Capacitor manufacturing process A method of fabricating an electrical capacitor from a wound laminate of conductive and non-conductive materials comprises the steps of enclosing the wound laminate in a sealed chamber; drawing a vacuum on the chamber to evacuate any voids in the wound la... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157821 | Method for euminating a temporary decrease in the insulation resistance of polyester film capacitors An elevated temperature induced reduction of insulation resistance of a metal-polyethylene terephthalate film capacitor is eliminated by controlled cooling through a glass transition temperature of the polyethylene terephthalate film or by elevated temper... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157822 | Plate working machine A plate working machine comprising a metal plate supporting table (1), a pair of rails (2, 3) extending along the sides of the table (1), a driven support means (4) for travel along the rails (2, 3), said support means comprising a spaced pair of support ... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157823 | Apparatus for supporting a machine tool on a robot arm An apparatus for supporting a machining tool on a robot arm is disclosed having first and second support members with the second support member attached to the first support member by torsion bar elements so as to be movable with respect to the first memb... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157824 | Opposed spindles lathe having tool rests movable in two different directions 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,... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157825 | Method of manufacturing a leaf spring mechanism In a leaf spring mechanism, a pair of triangle leaf spring units are arranged and parallel and reinforcing metal plates are fixed to apex portions of the units. The reinforced apex portions of the units are pinched and molded so that the apex portions are... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5157826 | Method for making linear mechanical lock with one-piece lock housing A mechanical lock where a rod axially translatable through a lock housing is normally gripped by a clutch spring axially fixed to the housing, and a lever is actuated for unwinding the spring to release the rod. The lock housing is formed in a single piec... | 10/27/1992 |
