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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5184351 | Versatile patient gown The versatile patient gown of the present invention provides access to the entire torso, front or back without removing the gown by opening the releasable butterfly sleeve closures and cotton ties. The gown has multiple uses as a regular patient gown, a s... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184352 | Molded plastic belt with integral locking mechanism A locking mechanism is integrally formed with a plastic belt or other flat band article where opposed end portions of a flat band need to be connected together. One of the band end portions has a lock housing mechanism at a free end thereof. The lock mech... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184353 | Golf glove construction Providing highly visible, readily identifiable indicia on the rear surface of a golf glove in association with the knuckle area, a unique and highly useful golf glove is attained which enables a golfer to immediately realize the position of his knuckles o... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184354 | Protective head and eye gear Headgear for athletes such as basketball players includes a head encircling strap assembly and an eye/nose protective assembly. The strap assembly includes straps extending around the user's head and under the chin and provides padding at strategic places... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184355 | Water closet blowing warm air and water closet unit attachable to toilet room A sitting type water closet including a toilet bowl having an inner side and an outer side; a warm air duct for conveying warm air, formed on a first lower portion of the outer side of the toilet bowl as one piece therewith; a warm air outlet, disposed at... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184356 | System for automatically covering swimming pools and method therefor A system for deploying and retrieving a cover over a swimming pool. The cover is wound onto a motor driven reel. A guide spindle aligns the cover onto the reel during the winding process. A spool, also driven by the motor, has a tow rope wound on it. The ... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184357 | Automatic swimming pool cover with a dual hydraulic drive system A hydraulic drive system is described for automatic swimming pool cover systems in which a first hydraulic drive provides torque for both resisting cover drum rotation during cover extension across the pool and rotating the cover drum for cover retraction... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184358 | Bathing tub construction with removable side wall The bathing tub assembly includes a removable side wall panel which is slidably engageable with a slot along the edge of an opening through the side wall of the tub. A special seal construction for the panel edge and slot prevents leakage of the contents ... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184359 | Stool-type apparatus for sampling and assay of urine with swingable carriage A toilet system (10) with urine assay function is disclosed which comprises a toilet stool (12) having a toilet bowl (14) and a small urine-sampling cavity (52). A frame (42) is mounted on the toilet stool to support a testing sheet handling and transfer ... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184360 | Child's playhouse with bed on top A platform bed assembly, to be used by a child as a sleeping area and a play area, the bed assembly includes a lower base structure structured and disposed to resemble a large scale version of a toy article such as a van or house. The platform bed assembl... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184361 | Sleeping bag storage apparatus An elongate rigid tubular member is arranged for securement adjacent an end portion of a sleeping bag, to include an elastomeric strap arranged to receive the sleeping bag between the strap and the tube. Rolling of the tube as a central core relative to t... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184362 | Pillow case with three dimensional design The appearance of a pillow case is changed to make the pillow case more aesthetically pleasing for a child's use. Preferably, this is accomplished by forming a pillow case from a first sheet and a second sheet comprised of cloth material. A three-dimensio... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184363 | Support bed with drop-out sections for medical analysis A patient-supporting bed (20) especially adapted for cardiac sonography is provided which includes a frame assembly (22) and mattress (24) which are configured to present a pair of marginal, axially offset access openings (49, 54) and a corresponding pair... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184365 | Method and apparatus of a positioning system for airway management A positioning system provides for airway management of a supine subject. A number of bags are provided for supporting the head and lower neck/upper shoulders area of the subject. Once the bags are positioned under the subject, each bag is pressurized usin... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184366 | Aircraft cargo handling system An on-board aircraft cargo handling system comprises a plurality of tines which are mounted within a cargo ramp and beneath its surface and are capable of extension aft of the ramp across a truck bed or the like. The tines have a plurality of rollers exte... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184367 | Sweeping machine having a housing which comprises two separable housing parts A sweeping machine having a housing which comprises two housing parts that can be separated from one another. One housing part is used for the bearing of two circular brooms. The other housing part is constructed as a receptacle for sweepings. An arrangem... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184368 | Toothbrushes A toothbrush includes a plurality of bristle holders spring-urged outwardly from the brush head. In one described embodiment, the springs are produced by a planar strip of elastic material stamped with a plurality of spirally-extending slits pressed out o... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184369 | Non-contacting automotive dryer control circuit A drying apparatus (10) for a vehicle washing system maintains blower air bags (18) a predetermined distance from the vehicle without contacting same providing forced air against the vehicle. Ultrasonic sensor (66) are provided on front and back sides of ... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184370 | Detergent injection type vacuum cleaner A vacuum cleaner of a detergent injection type uses a part of the suction force of a vacuum impeller actuated by a main motor to pump detergent to a remote cleaning implement. To this end, the vacuum cleaner includes a rotation device disposed in a passag... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184371 | Vacuum cleaner accessory The present invention provides a vacuum cleaner accessory to be attached to a vacuum cleaner by means of a vacuum cleaner hose. In a first operative configuration, the accessory is designed to facilitate vacuuming of spaces that are accessible from any gi... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184372 | Vacuum assisted squeegee attachment A squeegee attachment tool for use with a wet/dry vacuum cleaner incorporating an oblong but narrow in profile suction head fitted with a very short squeegee blade providing both high suction and superior aspiration and yet reaches to the extreme edges of... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184373 | Caster with conductors between the tire of its wheel and the carrier of its wheel frame A caster wherein the metallic carrier for a plastic wheel frame is connected to the conductive tire of the wheel by a multi-section conductor system having a portion in the disc-shaped connector between the rim and the hub of the wheel, a portion which is... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184374 | Drafting unit with at least one cleaning belt In the case of a drafting unit for a spinning machine comprising several top rollers and bottom rollers, continuous cleaning belts are provided which are arranged and held in such a manner that, because of the inherent weight of at least one of the deflec... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184375 | Score card holder Disclosed is a device for holding a score card. It has three pieces: (1) a rigid, generally rectangular, planar support member having an edge portion, an inside surface, and an outside surface, and (2) a clip member 14 secured along the edge portion of th... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184376 | Child-resistant safety belt buckle A child-resistant safety belt buckle is disclosed that relies for its effectiveness on differences in the ways young children and adults think rather than on presumed (but often non-existant) strength or dexterity differences. The child-resistant feature ... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184377 | Swimming pool anchor and removal tool A fastener and removal tool adapted for manually securing and thereafter detaching two separate members in a preselected spatial relationship is disclosed. The fastener includes an elongate shaft, an inlet means mounted on a first shaft end, and a catch m... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184378 | Lacing system for shoes The invention is a lacing system for shoes employing a plurality of strips, wherein the lower ends of the strips are rigidly attached to the lower portion of the shoe and the upper portion of the strips have a lacing ring fixed thereto. The upper ends of ... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184379 | Foil stretching plant Foil stretching plant comprising a plurality of zones, more particularly a heating zone I, a stretching zone II, a stabilizing zone III and a cooling zone IV. The individual zones I, II, III and IV are designed as modules which can be installed and remove... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184380 | Method and apparatus for singularizing healds for warp thread drawing-in machine A heald singularizing system includes a selecting member (21) for the healds (LI) fed in the form of a stack (LS). The selecting member (21) separates the front-most heald (LI1) from the stack and makes it available for the drawing-in of the warp threads.... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184381 | Apparatus for producing soft node air entangled yarn An apparatus for preparing regular soft nodes in multifilamentary yarns composed of synthetic polymeric filaments includes at least two interlacers, each having a separate yarn passageway. The passageways are arranged in series so that each interlacer ope... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184382 | Pneumatically driven descaling tool A pneumatically driven impact type of descaler tool includes a manually gripped housing having a rear portion of generally circular cross-section which includes therein a pneumatically driven reciprocating piston assembly which acts as a hammer and a righ... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184383 | Precision transport roller A roller, and more particularly a precision transport roller formed of elastomeric material is disclosed. The roller is characterized in that the elastomeric material is formed into inner and outer concentric cylinders which are joined together and which ... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184384 | Folding machine In a bending machine especially for joining the edges of metal sheets by folding, the machine having a frame which provides supporting surfaces for the components to be folded and carrying a folding device consisting of several pairs of folding rollers (3... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184385 | Retainer pin remover It includes a hand starter having a rear large hand gripping element, a small leading element with a V-notch in its leading end; a hand driver constituted by a rod of a diameter similar to that of the leading element of the driver; a modified hand starter... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184386 | Method for retrofitting carbon monoxide conversion reactors Reactors for the catalytic conversion of carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide are advantageously modified in situ from axial flow reactors into substantially radial flow reactors, and more particularly into axial-radial flow reactors. To this end at least ... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184387 | Production of a shaped filamentary structure The invention is concerned with a method and apparatus for producing a shaped filamentary structure and more particularly, to filamentary structures which can be subjected to further processing to produce a carbon-carbon product. A specific use of the inv... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184388 | Method of adjusting box machine rotational clearance Box machine forming wheels are individually stabilized with a respective, frame mounted, stationary yoke disposed within the circumferential groove of a head wheel that is rigidly secured to the forming wheel. Lateral space between the yoke finger faces a... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184389 | Gyratory mantle liner assembly A gyratory mantle liner assembly for use in a gyratory crushing machine including a mainshaft to which is attached a retaining ring having a lip, a conical-shaped upper liner having a serrated and bevelled lower edge, a plurality of lower liner segments a... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184390 | Method of shaping and holding a sheet of material about a flower pot with a collar An article and method for shaping a sheet of material around an object such as a flower pot, the article comprising a ring-shaped collar adapted to be secured around the object. The collar may comprise pinch rings or barbed piercing elements, disposed abo... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184391 | Process of press fitting pipe sections together to form a pipeline This invention is a new device for installing press fit couplings to join steel pipelines. This apparatus is a joining press which fits inside the pipes to be joined and grabs them on their inside surfaces. It then pulls the pipes together, forcing the pi... | 02/09/1993 |
