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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5220689 | Sportglasses with cheek covering portions A pair of sportglasses comprises a large, curved polymer lens (10) sized and shaped to shield the front and sides of the face from harmful solar radiation which may cause accelerated skin aging and skin cancer after repeated exposure. The lens has main po... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220690 | Thumb guard novelty device A flexible sheath is arranged to receive a thumb therewithin, wherein the sheath is directed to a sheath strap, and the sheath strap is secured to a mounting band, with the mounting band arranged for mounting to an individual's thumb adjacent a first end ... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220691 | Knee protecting device A knee protecting device for a carpet installer which engages the kicking pad of a carpet stretcher during the installation of carpets. The knee protecting device reduces trauma to the carpet installer while striking the kicking pad of the carpet installe... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220692 | Driver's apron An apron that may be worn by the driver of a vehicle protects his clothing from spilled food or beverage, or falling cigarette or cigar ashes, while he is eating and/or smoking as he is driving. The apron can be put on and taken off with one hand making a... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220693 | Toilet seat positioner A toil seat positioner 34 attachable to the underside of a toilet seat for the purpose of manually positioning the toilet seat in a sanitary manner. The positioner's base structure 30 with shaft 48 facilitates coupling of the grasping portion 34 for rotat... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220694 | Anchoring device and method for anchoring a toilet to a broken water closet ring An anchoring device is provided for use in reseating a toilet atop a broken water closet ring having a circular, annular radial flange, a portion of which is missing. The boundaries of the missing portion define a gap in the flange. The anchoring device i... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220695 | Adjustable air and water entrainment hydrotherapy jet assembly A hydrotherapy jet assembly capable of operating in either an air entrainment mode and/or a tub water entrainment mode. The assembly incorporates a valve including a rotatable control member which allows a user to selectively vary the amount of supplied w... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220696 | Tub with inflatable seal door For a tub which provides access through a side door, an inflatable seal is employed with the fluid connection to the seal being provided through the door hinge structure. In one embodiment, sensors are provided in conjunction with the water level in the t... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220697 | Handle assembly for shower nozzle assembly A handle assembly for a shower nozzle assembly having a slide bar for being vertically mounted on the wall in a bath, a shower nozzle slidably mounted on the slide bar and a clamp for releasably clamping the shower nozzle in a predetermined adjustment pos... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220698 | Patient support tables A surgical operating table has a cover resiliently supported on a base assembly and microswitches that detect displacement of the cover to prevent lowering of the patient support platform. The base assembly has a castor plate and a base plate which is low... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220699 | Surgical face mask support apparatus and method A facial support mask supports the face of a patient in the prone position during surgical procedures in spaced relation above a support surface and in a variety of selectively fixed positions relative to the torso and the support surface. The mask has a ... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220701 | Painter's tool A universal multi-function tool in the form of a painter's knife is provided in which the tool includes a slender pivoted, elongated element with a sharp tip for puncturing caulking tubes and an integral pusher bar specially adapted for contacting glazing... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220702 | Paint brushes with multiple stiffness bristles A watercolor brush, used to draw fine lines wherein the core of this brush is composed of short thick sable hairs with long stiff bristles dispersed therein and the outer surrounding portion of this brush is composed of long fine sable hairs. An oil/acryl... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220703 | Combination of optical connector cleaner and holder jig To microscopically clean the ferrule end surface of an optical connector simply, uniformly and securely, the optical connector cleaner comprises a cleaning cloth woven with ultrafine fiber less than 0.1 denier; a casing formed with at least one opening fo... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220704 | Ergonomic tool support apparatus and material removal system This invention is a portable support apparatus comprising a mounting frame or yoke which can be supported about the hips of a worker or be attached to a machine or robot. A pivoting assembly pivots a rod having one end secured to the pivoting assembly to ... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220705 | Furniture floor glide A floor glide for furniture and the like includes a concavo-convex disk having an arcuate convex lower surface, a concave upper surface defining a central cavity, a resilient pad fixed to the disk upper surface within the central cavity below the edge the... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220706 | Air damper An air damper utilizing only recirculating internal air for dampening in one direction of movement an openable object includes inner and outer cylinder members, primary and secondary shafts, first and second controllable orifice structures, primary and se... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220707 | Tool reach extender with locking assembly A tool reach extender includes a pair of elongated, telescopically coupled, first and second, extension members and a locking assembly for releasably locking the members in a selected position. The second member is slidably received within the first membe... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220708 | Self-trimming shield for a door heel A self-trimming shield for the gap between a hinged door heel and its casing, includes a unitary strip of length approximately equal to the height of the door and made up of a sequentially arrayed plurality of elongated parallel panels. Opposite end panel... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220709 | Rope tightening device A device (10) to assist manual tightening of a rope passed over a load on a vehicle. In use, the device (10) is first attached to the rope by passing the rope from the upper side of the device (10) through guide (12) to the lower side, then passing the ro... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220710 | Cable clamp A clamping assembly constructed to hold an electrical cable or tube in a fixed position includes retaining and clamping members. A first surface of the retaining member, which may be made from a compliant material, has raised and lowered portions in a par... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220712 | Snap tooth lock device with quick unlock mechanism A component with an unlock mechanism is unlockably locked with respect to another component by a resilient snap tooth engaging in a hole defined in the other component. To unlock the components from each other, the unlock mechanism is pulled between the c... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220713 | Apparatus for use with a safety belt An improved apparatus for interconnecting safety belts includes a buckle member which receives a tongue member to interconnect the safety belts. An indicator and ejector assembly has a visually readable indicia which changes from red to green as the tongu... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220714 | Apparatus for removing residual roving from roving bobbin An apparatus for removing a residual roving attached to a roving bobbin to obtain a blank bobbin, including a rotary driving device for rotating the roving bobbin alternately in a forward direction and a reverse direction, and a device for completely remo... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220715 | Printed circuit board processing apparatus A printed circuit board processing apparatus includes: a plurality of printed circuit board processing machines (A) arranged side by side, in each of which a printed circuit board (W) placed on a table (4) and a tool held by a single spindle (13) are caus... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220716 | Tools for disassembling universal joints Tools for the disassembly of a universal joint comprise two embodiments, a pull-type tool and a push-type tool. In the pull-type tool, a pulling force is exerted on a yoke member other than the yoke member from which a journal bearing is to be removed, an... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220717 | Method of making capsules of dehydrated sludge and apparatus therefor Disclosed is a method of making capsules of dehydrated sludge which can omit conventionally required unit operations, reduce or eliminate the cost of the equipment and power, heat energy and consumables required for operation, and assures simple operation... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220718 | Programmable fixture and assembly cell A programmable or flexible fixture for holding a plurality of details comprising an assembly during assembly processes thereon comprising an elongated base supported in a predetermined position, a plurality of positioning units located at spaced locations... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220719 | Method of making game racket frame A method of making a game racket frame comprises the use of a tubular body of aluminum alloy consistent with a shape of a racket frame. An annular recess is provided respectively at the mid-point of the left-hand half of the head frame and at the mid-poin... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220720 | Method to precisely position electromagnetic relay components An electromagnetic relay 38 (FIG. 2 ) includes a cylindrical core 42 concentrically positioned within a coil assembly 40 and press fit into a frame 50, a resiliently mounted armature assembly 56, and electrical contacts 66,68, one mounted on the armature ... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220721 | Method for mounting an electrical brake motor A method for mounting the rotor and the brake of an electrical brake motor whose brake comprises a plate (4) which can be axially moved between the rotor (2) and a backplate (5) due to the opposing actions of the magnetic field and of a spring (8). The me... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220722 | Quick height change adjustment for tube expander A mechanical tube expander having a construction which facilitates a machine setup prior to coil assembly without necessitating the machine operator to leave a control panel, this being due to all setup and locking features being accomplished from the con... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220723 | Process for preparing multi-layer printed wiring board Disclosed is a process for preparing a multi-layer printed wiring board including the step of forming a through hole and an external layer circuit on a laminated board of double-sided or multi-layer construction. Then the laminated board is coated over th... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220724 | Method of securing surface-mounted devices to a substrate A method for mounting Surface-Mounted-Devices ("SMD's") on a substrate, e.g. a PC board, involves warming an adhesive containing conductive particles from a room-temperature solid state to a warmed fluid state, applying said fluid adhesive to the substrat... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220725 | Micro-emitter-based low-contact-force interconnection device An interconnection device is disclosed for providing electrical connection between two conducting elements that requires less applied force than a standard ohmic connection device of the same connection area. A surface of at least a first conducting eleme... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220726 | Method for manufacturing an electrically connectable module An electrically connectable module is manufactured from a substrate of an electrically insulating polymer matrix doped with an electrically insulating fibrous filler capable of heat conversion to an electrically conductive fibrous filler to form a fiber-d... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220727 | Method making cam shafts A method for making cam shafts wherein a plurality of cam lobes (12) are positioned along a hollow tubular shaft (18) and are subsequently secured thereto by expanding the shaft (18) outward, into engagement with the cam lobes (12). The shaft (18) is expa... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220728 | Blade for blade exchangeable razor A blade for a blade exchangeable razor is provided which realizes easy use and smooth haircutting. The razor is adapted to exchangeably support a blade by a blade holder. The blade comprises a thin blade portion having an edge and a back support including... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220729 | Hand-held wire saw A hand-held power saw has a main housing and two guide housings telescopically interactive with the main housing and having facing open distal extremities. A motor and associated drive pulley are associated with the main housing. Paired idle and alignment... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5220730 | Adjustable alignment device An adjustable alignment device is provided, which includes two workpiece-receiving members which are movable relative to each other to support a workpiece, so that it may be horizontally aligned with the cross hairs of a comparator.... | 06/22/1993 |
