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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5173963 | Protective band for the hand A protective device for the hand is disclosed in the form of an elastic band having a palm portion adapted to be fitted around and cover a portion of the palm of a wearer's hand. An elastic index portion extends upwardly from the palm portion and is adapt... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173964 | Pivoted adjustable shoulder pad A shoulder pad/chest protector combination is provided for use in lacrosse or other sports in which the individual's arm is raised above shoulder level. The shoulder pad is pivoted to the chest protector by a lacing arrangement and is adjustable down the ... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173965 | Releasably attached two section gown An aggregate floor length gown including an upper section which forms a knee length gown with an ornamental lower border and a lower section with an ornamental upper border, the two sections ornamental borders releasably interconnecting to become an integ... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173966 | Coded health-care glove A health-care glove constituted of thin elastic rubber-like material and having a thumb at one side edge and a pinkie at the opposite side edge. The glove has distinctive visual indicia for immediately indicating to the user, the location of the thumb the... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173967 | Leg and arm protector A protective leg or arm covering is manufactured from a single piece of material. The material is cut into a blank having the shape to fit the purpose needed to protect the portion of the leg or arm desired. It is designed to be wrapped around the leg or ... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173968 | Article comprising an enveloping structure An article is constituted of pieces of self-cohesive, pliable plastic which form a well sealed enveloping structure which may be manually unsealed and opened for the insertion of decorative or information conveying material and then manually be closed aga... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173969 | Wooden cummerbund An arcuate wooden cummerbund with or without associated accessories. Two methods for making the wooden cummerbund are disclosed. When accessories are included, they may comprise coordinating wooden ties, matching cuff links. A storing and carrying case is... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173970 | Combined visored cap type protective helmet and pouch for bicyclists or the like A visored cap-type protective helmet for a bicyclist or the like is formed of a spherical fabric head shell defined by an outer fabric body and a matching spherical inner lining. Circumferentially spaced, generally radial fold lines join the outer fabric ... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173971 | Replacement flush valve An assembly is provided for replacing part or all of a toilet flush valve, which facilitates mounting in a variety of toilets and which enables saving of water. The assembly includes an adapter (30, FIG. 6) for mounting on older types of overflow tubes, w... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173972 | Automatic foot washer An automatic foot washer for being located on a treadable surface and including, in its most preferred embodiment, a hollow frame structure which rests on the treadable surface, bounds a central open area, and defines both a hollow inner space and a plura... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173973 | Whirlpool bathtub A whirlpool bathtub with a wireless remote control comprising a mobile transmitter separate from the whirlpool installation and a receiver affixed to the bathtub for controlling the aspiration pump and/or the blower of the whirlpool installation. The rece... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173974 | Convertible furniture An article of furniture which is convertible to form a crib, a youth bed, or an adult bed. The crib is produced through the interconnection of a rear panel, a right side panel, a left side panel, a front panel and a mattress support frame. This interconne... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173975 | Adjustable bed with side rail An adjustable bed includes a patient operated linear positioner, a rail assembly and a leg lift mechanism. The patient operated linear positioner includes a subassembly with a bellcrank which pivots by a patient operated soft strap. When the strap is pull... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173976 | Mattress cover/fitted bed sheet A mattress cover/fitted bed sheet which consists of a substantially rectangular blank of textile material with opposed sides and opposed ends. A pair of generally triangular pieces are cut out of the opposed sides adjacent the ends. Each of the triangular... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173977 | Load cell mount for hospital weigh bed A heavy patient support is mounted on a base by load cell beams forming the transducer for a scale to weigh a patient. Each load cell has a cup, a ball and an inverted cup providing the sole support for the patient support. Thus, only vertical components ... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173978 | Bed apparatus provided with bathtub A bed apparatus (1) combines a bed body (3) and a collapsible bathtub (103). The bathtub (103) is vertically collapsible to be storable in a spaced under a bottom plate (106) of the bed body (3). The collapsible tub is movable by a guide member (104) betw... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173979 | Inflatable leg and foot supporting cushion with removable padding An inflatable cushion apparatus for maintaining a person's lower leg, ankle and foot, in an elevated and substantially horizontal position relative to the person's head and upper body. The inflatable cushion apparatus includes an angled front wall for sup... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173980 | Method of continuous permanent decating and fixing of web-shaped textile products, such as woven textile, knitted textile, etc. A method of continuous permanent decating and fixing of web-shaped textile products includes the steps of moistening a textile product, treating the moistened textile product in a first moist treatment stage by guiding the moistened textile product over a... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173981 | Bridge construction kit and bridge elements included therein A construction kit for a multispan military or army bridge, comprising a plurality of bridge elements (1) which carry track lanes (10, 11), and coupling devices (15, 16) for coupling a plurality of bridge elements together to form a row of such elements, ... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173982 | Corrosion protection system A corrosion protection system for bridge stay cables comprising the immersion of the bridge stay cables in a corrosive resistant liquid retained within a corresponding cable sheath to isolate the bridge stay cables from the surrounding atmosphere, a liqui... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173983 | Electric toothbrush having spirally arranged bristles A toothbrush includes a bristle holder rotatably mounted on an end portion of a toothbrush handle and driven by an electric motor mounted inside the handle having a plurality of bristles spirally mounted on the bristle holder operatively driven for a rota... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173984 | Self-drying powered drain auger The invention is an improvement in a drain-cleaning auger of the type having a round shell made from first and second subshells and a cavity within the shell for housing a drain-cleaning snake. In the improved auger, the first subshell has an outwardly-fl... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173985 | Foot mounted scrubber device A foot mounted scrubber device is provided for use in scrubbing and cleaning selected problem areas of a floor, and along adjacent baseboard surfaces and the like. The scrubber device comprises a relatively flat sole plate, in combination with a toe upper... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173986 | Windshield cleaning system with easily replaceable nozzle and pipe A windshield cleaning system, in which the wiper shaft has a through-going bore, into which a pipe is inserted, in order to form a washing liquid channel for a washer system. A nozzle body is locked with the pipe, wherein in addition to the locking device... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173987 | Rotary air jet screen cleaning device In a vacuum cleaning system in which the top dome and receiving shell are separated by a screen, a screen cleaning system comprising an air knife having a coanda profile rotatably arranged in the dome adjacent the screen. The vacuum cleaning system is sel... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173988 | Dewatering apparatus for drop marking bottles and cans An air knife assembly is disclosed for removing water and soapy lubricants from an area of a bottle or can which is to be labeled or coded using drop marking equipment. The air knife is positioned at the correct pitch, roll and yaw angles to remove water ... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173989 | Surface sweeping machine with over-the-cab hopper dumping A road sweeper which includes a hopper between a cab and a centrifugal separator, a pair of relatively telescopically extendable and retractable members, one member of each pair being pivoted to a frame of the vehicle and another member of each pair being... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173990 | Protector for bed supports and casters; and method of manufacture Furniture, or bed support and caster protector device, consisting of a sleeve or cylindrical body constructed of a generally resilient material having a hollow center and adapted to circumvallate the bed support and the supporting caster thereof, a radial... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173991 | Door check having a link coated with moldable materials A checking mechanism for a closure member and a frame, the closure member moveable in relation to the frame, the checking mechanism comprising a housing affixed to the closure member or the frame and having an opening therewith; a link member having a cor... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173992 | Releasable double-hinge device for an automobile console box A double-hinge device according to the invention enables the lid of a console box to be smoothly opened from either of a pair of opposite edges from a closed position or conversely closed and locked form an open position by a simple operation. A shaft 3 i... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173993 | Adjustable locking door hinge A locking hinge assembly includes two butt plates or hinge leaves each having a plurality of interlocking knuckles with an axially shiftable hinge pin mating with the knuckles. A locking mechanism carried by the top of the hinge pin includes pressure and ... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173994 | Fiber cleaning apparatus with air flow deflector A fiber cleaning utilizing an alternating series of cleaning saw cylinders and doffing brush cylinders. The doffing brush cylinders transfer ginned fiber from an upstream cleaning saw cylinder to the next downstream cleaning saw cylinder in such a way tha... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173995 | Process and device for feeding a material in fibre form in a machine for preparing said material for the subsequent spinning, in particular an opener A process of and a feeding device for feeding material in fibre form to a machine for preparing the material for subsequent spinning includes a material feeding bin through which the material is continuously fed to a substantially horizontal feeding table... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173996 | Binding band tightener with bands A binding band tightener with bands comprising two buckles and three bands extended to go around the two buckles and overlaid on a piled packaged merchandise loaded in a truck and two of the bands being manipulated to tighten this tightener with bands and... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173997 | Tongue plate stopper A tongue plate stopper has a first disc having its webbing side face formed with at least one needle to be inserted through a webbing; and a second disc having a fitting portion for fitting the needle therein. At least one of the first and second discs ha... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173998 | Grab hook for attachment to a chain to provide partial link adjustment, and method of use thereof A hook for gripping chain is asymmetrical so that the effective chain length can be adjusted to a part link tightness. The attachment end of the hook is offset from the plane of the hook end, which includes the slot for receiving a link of a chain. If the... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5173999 | Holder for closed end wrenches or similar articles A device 10 is described for portably supporting a group of wrenches 11 or similar articles and for selective operation to receive or release selective ones of the wrenches 11 on a clip wire loop 19. The clip wire loop 19 extends from a rigid handle 18 to... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5174000 | Apparatus for singularizing drop-wires in warp-thread drawing-in machines A drawing-in machine for threading weaving machine harnesses is provided with apparatus for separating one at a time the drop-wires to be threaded from a stack of drop-wires. The stack of drop-wires is moved toward a stop located adjacent a slit. A select... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5174001 | Method and apparatus for finishing grooved articles Grooves in an article such as a commutator are filled with a soft brittle material before a grooved surface of the article is cut. With the grooves thus filled, the cutting is performed continuously and smoothly without involving formation of burrs projec... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5174002 | Deflection-controlled cylinder A driven, deflection-controlled cylinder includes a stationary crosshead that is surrounded by a hollow cylinder. The hollow cylinder has a projection that includes a bushing-like part which encloses the narrow end of the crosshead with a slight radial di... | 12/29/1992 |
