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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5222256 | Knee or elbow pad A knee or elbow pad comprising an inverted U-shaped stable member and two trapezoidal curved movable members symmetrically combined with the stable member by means of rivets to function as pivots to permit the movable members to move to spread or contract... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222257 | Protective garment A protective garment for use as overalls or trousers or as a pullover or jacket is made of a rectangular blank having two overlapping panels which are connected to each other along the two longitudinally extending marginal portions of the blank and, if ne... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222258 | Hospital garment with quick release mechanism An improved medical garment is provided which consists of a flexible fabric shell for enveloping a portion of a body and two limbs of a patient. The flexible fabric shell has a first overlapping openable seam on the front covering the portion of the body,... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222259 | Shirt with removeable basketball hoop A basketball hoop (60) mounted on the front (18) of a shirt (10) to provide a basketball game, is described. An aperture (24) through the front of the shirt serves to mount a bracket (58) to connect the basketball hoop to a support (44) housed inside an i... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222260 | Toilet cover closure device Disclosed is a toilet seat cover closure device responsive to the flow of water in a toilet tank during a flushing operation to operate a push pin to urge the cover from a substantially vertical position to a horizontal position over a toilet seat on a to... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222261 | Shower screen A folding shower screen comprises an attachment channel member (3, 18) adapted to be secured to a wall (2), e.g., at one end of a bath (1) in general co-planar alignment with the outer side (7) of the bath, a hinge (4) disposed at a lower end of the attac... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222262 | Waterbed mattress with baffles A waterbed mattress includes a watertight envelope having a top, a bottom, and sides, which envelope defines a cavity for water. Anti-wave material such as fiber or foam, or anti-wave structure such as hydraulic inserts, is disposed inside the watertight ... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222263 | Upholstered element with continuously unidirectionally shapable flat internal frame Upholstered element formed with an interior, particularly a cushion, mattress or similar includes a quadrangular, substantially flat structure having a plurality of flattened and coplanar bar-shaped members interconnected along their longitudinal sides by... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222264 | Mattress construction A conventional mattress construction which includes a series of interconnected BONNEL type coil springs together with top and bottom covering layers of fabric and padding is modified by the insertion into some of the coils of a circular cylindrical core m... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222265 | Lid prying tool A lid prying tool is disclosed having a handle at one end, a hook at the other end, and a first fulcrum located in between. The tool further includes a knife edge, and a second fulcrum located between the handle and the knife edge. In one embodiment of th... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222266 | Process and apparatus for the space dyeing of hanks of fibre or yarn A process for the space dyeing of yarn (particularly yarn containing at least 10% of natural fibres) suitable for use in carpets, the manufacture of textiles and for hand knitting, involves a series of nozzles across the path of a conveyor carrying transv... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222267 | Industrial rag cleaning process for the environmentally safe removal of petroleum-based solvents A cleaning process for industrial rags to remove petroleum-based solvents in an environmentally safe manner comprises a series of steps. The industrial rags are initially subjected to high speed forces in a rotary drum to physically extract liquid solvent... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222268 | Pocket eyeglass cleaner apparatus A "U" shaped framework includes spaced parallel frame plates, with the frames formed of a memory retentent material to maintain the frame plates in a parallel relationship to receive an eyeglass lens member therebetween. Each frame plate includes a cooper... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222269 | Propane tank cleaning machine A mac provided for cleaning a propane tank or the like during rotation of the same about its axis while being rotated upon a carriage when the carriage is reciprocated into and out of a cleaning chamber, the cleaning is achieved by two brushes which clean... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222270 | Electromagnetic motor brake unit for rotary drain and sewer router An apparatus for routing a passageway in a conduit includes an elongate cable for direction into a conduit passageway. A cable supply drum contains a supply of the cable and is rotatable about an axis, there being a length of the cable projecting to outwa... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222271 | Speculum cleaner A cleaning apparatus for cleaning speculums of the type which are generally conically configured and which having an insertion end. The housing has an inner cleaning area and a closure with an opening to provide access to the inner cleaning area. At least... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222272 | Brush Plural through-holes are placed at a certain interval spacing on and along the grip of a brush to avoid slipping. Brush teeth and hard materials are implanted in a brush teeth implantation portion of the brush to facilitate the circulation of blood. The b... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222273 | Washing brush for washing rollers for motor vehicle automatic washing systems A washing brush for motor vehicle automatic washing system washing rollers comprises a plurality of plate-like elements including sets of bristles, which can be wound about a supporting roller and arranged near one another in an axial direction, each plat... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222274 | Windshield wiper arm, in particular for motor vehicles A windshield wiper comprises a housing in the form of a U, carrying a pivot pin which cooperates in a recess formed in a driving head, together with a spring carried by a support element, with the said spring acting between the driving head and the shroud... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222275 | Blower vacuum A portable hand-held blower vacuum apparatus (10) having a hinged inlet cover (24) with a handle (26) disposed at one end of the cover (24). The cover (24) is moveable between a closed position where the cover spans an air inlet opening (20) and an open p... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222276 | Vacuum cleaner for on floor and off floor suction cleaning An upright vacuum cleaner having an off-the-floor suction hose attachment port located in the passageway connected to the agitator chamber or front nozzle with a suction generating means, and having a sliding door for closing off the passageway intermedia... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222277 | Intermittently and reversibly operable hot wax energized hinge A powered hinge powered by a hot wax linear actuator, which can provide for bi-directional rotation of the hinge as the consequence of sequential and intermittent energizing and deenergizing sequence of the actuator.... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222278 | Tongue assembly A vehicle safety apparatus for restraining movement of a vehicle occupant or a child seat includes a tongue assembly and belt webbing which is selectively extensible through the tongue assembly along either a first path or a second path. The first path in... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222279 | Buckle having increased holding power when under load A buckle including a female receptacle member having a tubular body, an interior channel therethrough and being open to the channel on a portion of the tubular body, a male latch member having at least one arm member for insertion within the channel throu... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222280 | Metal clip for closing mailing envelopes and the like A metal clip is provided for closing mailing envelopes. The clip consists of three functional groups: a central body, two lateral closing flaps, and an anchoring device. The anchoring device has at least two triangularly shaped prongs bent out from a pred... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222281 | Molded coffin A water and weather resistent coffin is made of a layer of hardened plastified fiber mat and a second layer made of hardened end-grain balsa core panel. The side walls of the coffin are connected to the bottom wall by a pair of squares along each side wal... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222282 | Method for reducing thickness of a high-strength low-ductility metal foil on thin strip element A thin strip or foil element of titanium aluminide, nickel aluminide or high strength titanium alloy material is inserted between a metal carrier strip and a metal top lid strip having one end welded or otherwise secured to the carrier strip to be passed ... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222283 | Machine tool An improved combination mill-lathe type machine tool including a work piece carrier carrying an elongate work piece on a turning axis; an elongate rotatable cutting tool carrier with an inner end and rotatably carrying a cutting tool on a rotating axis; a... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222284 | Apparatus for making co-axial cable Conventionally co-axial cable is made in a continuous extrusion machine by continuously extruding an aluminium tubular cladding (1) through an annular die and simultaneously continuously introducing a core (4), comprised of a conductive wire surrounded by... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222285 | Pallet storage device and a pallet exchange device for a machine tool, and a lathe with an automatically removable pallet A plurality of pallets for exchanging and fixing workpieces are placed on a plurality of respective tables supported vertically with spacing between one another, and the tables are rotated to transfer a required pallet to the predetermined exchange positi... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222286 | Modular reclining/tilt chair and method of making A modular reclining/tilt chair and method for assembling it are disclosed. The modular reclining/tilt chair includes a simplified actuation mechanism which significantly reduces system complexity and weight while providing improved comfort to the seat occ... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222287 | Method of making a compartment door for recreational vehicles An assembly for enclosing an opening to a compartment in an exterior wall of a recreational vehicle is provided. A door that covers the opening to the compartment is insulated for maintaining an interior of the compartment at a temperature substantially s... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222288 | Method for forming a spiral-wound flexible piping Flexible piping includes a first, spiral-wound band forming an inner winding and a second, spiral-wound band forming an outer winding in covering relationship over the inner winding. Inner and outer spiral-wound bands of insulating material are wound betw... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222289 | Method and apparatus for fastening A method and apparatus (10) for fastening upper and lower workpieces (20, 22) without movement of the workpieces. The apparatus is provided with a frame having upper and lower portions (24.1, 24.2) carrying upper and lower riveting ram assemblies (26, 28)... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222290 | Apparatus for attaching hinges to doors and jambs A machine for attaching hinges to a door and jamb member in an automatic or semi-automatic manner with the door edge and jamb face positioned in a generally vertical plane. The machine comprises a framework with a movable and longitudinally positionable c... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222291 | Method of making unit heads for divisional-type thermal head A method is provided for making unit heads from a material head. The unit heads are used to constitute a divisional-type thermal head. The material head includes an elongate insulating substrate carrying a longitudinal array of heating dot portions, and a... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222292 | Hand tool for applying electrical connectors A portable hand tool is provided for applying at least a two-part electrical connector having insulation displacement conductive elements to an insulated electrical cable. The tool includes a manually grippable frame, with a loading die on the frame for r... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222293 | System for placing an object on a carrier and method A system, including a method and cognate apparatus, places an object on a carrier with great accuracy. Three prepositioned pins on a holder engage a corner portion of the carrier formed between adjacent side edges of the carrier to provide the corner in a... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222294 | High isolation packaging method A microwave circuit high isolation packaging technology involving the fabrication of a single-piece baseplate containing microwave circuits, the fabrication of a single-piece framework, and the assembly of the baseplate structure to the framework structur... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5222295 | Method for repairing diesel engine cylinder blocks A method and apparatus for restoring the dimensions of a worn engine cylinder block (11) to "as new" condition by the selective removal of spaced portions (20) and (30) of the cylinder block (11) followed by the replacement of the removed portions by spec... | 06/29/1993 |
