Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5274846 | Cushion having multilayer closed cell structure A cushion or pad comprises a first layer of a first synthetic cellular material having a first average cell volume and a second layer of a second synthetic cellular material having a second average cell volume at least ten times greater than the first ave... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274847 | Nose protector A device to protect the wearer's nose from sunlight, to be attached to glasses or goggles. The device is constructed from a single piece of flexible, creasable sheet material, and has a nose shield and a strap extending from the top of the nose shield. Th... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274848 | Camouflage system An improved camouflage system is provided which consists of a garment worn by a person, and a structure is for producing an effective camouflage. A mechanism is for attaching the camouflage structure in slightly overlapping rows to the garment for conceal... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274849 | Firefighter's garments having minimum weight and excellent protective qualities A firefighter's garment as disclosed herein may be a coat or trousers or a vest. The garment has an outer layer, an intermediate layer, and an inner layer. A spacer element or elements are positioned between two of the layers of the garment. The spacer el... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274850 | Firefighter coat with removable hood A firefighter coat having an outer shell which includes body and collar portions, an inner thermal liner having body and collar portions, and a hood including a rear portion having strips of hook and loop fastener material, located on opposing surfaces, f... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274851 | Protective garment with a resilient support A protective garment incorporating radiation resistant materials has a resilient support for conforming to and supporting the weight of the garment across the back of the wearer. The support is a wide resilient band having a first end connected at a first... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274852 | One piece, open seam wrapping garment for covering and uncovering the human body on-demand The present invention provides a one-piece, open-seam garment which encompasses the head, covers and conforms to the body and limbs of the wearer, and provides on-demand access to one portion of the covered body and limbs without uncovering the remainder ... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274853 | Adjustable shirt collar An adjustable shirt collar has an integral tab extension on the stand element of the collar. The extension has a length to it to span the distance across the necktie space on the front of the shirt from underneath one end of the shirt collar element to a ... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274854 | Athletic support short An athletic support short is made of resilient, stretchable fabric and has an interior pouch extending between a waistband and the bottom of the crotch to receive a hard, protective cup. The pouch has an opening at its top and a releasable closure for ret... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274855 | Siphon flushing mechanism and method A siphon flush mechanism is provided for a conventional commode water storage tank in which a siphon metering valve is utilized to control the level of water contained within the flush mechanism. An arcuate flexible connector tube is lifted by the action ... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274856 | Portable hygenic apparatus The portable apparatus comprises an elongated body adapted to be mounted on a toilet seat and including a stem terminated by an upwardly-directed nozzle adapted to be located in the center of a toilet bowl and below the rim thereof. A clamp is releasably ... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274857 | Bath and shower device with a bath tub and a related shower partition A bath and shower device with a bathtub (1) and a related shower partition (4) attached to a wall (2) above an upper edge (3) of the bathtub (1), the bathtub (1) having a bottom (5) with a planar base (6) and the shower partition (4) having several segmen... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274858 | Shower soap system A shower soap assembly is provided for mounting to a shower head fixture. The assembly has open opposite ends and soap holding screens mounted within for holding a cake of soap. When soap is desired, the housing is moved to a down soap loaded position suc... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274859 | Shower splash shield A bathtub shower splash shield member which includes a shower curtain holding structure adapted for use with a bathtub for preventing water from a shower head from splashing between a wall and the adjacent side of a suspended shower curtain, member compri... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274860 | Water conserving shower assembly A water conserving shower assembly utilizes a novel distributor connected to a domestic water line carrying hot and cold water combined in a predetermined ratio. A piping system carries water from the distributor and terminates in a shower head. The pipin... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274861 | Gray water recycling system A gray water recycling system directs gray water from a fixture to either a sewer line or a holding tank. The system includes a drain valve assembly that is controlled at the fixture and that selects between allowing water to flow into a drain pipe and th... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274862 | Patient turning device and method for lateral traveling transfer system A fabric device (50) useful in turning over a patient (60) while lying on a bed (22) equipped with a lateral traveling transfer system (30) or bedside pulling device (70). The fabric device (50) consist of a middle section (52) on which a patient (60) lay... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274863 | Child's hammock A hammock for a child's cot, stand or frame which provides a relatively soft and rockable surface on which to lay a resting or sleeping child. The hammock comprises a generally rectangular shaped frame shaped to fit within a cot or to be suspended from a ... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274864 | Knock down litter board A composite litter board is made from two separate rigid board members that are adapted to be releasably secured to each other by two rigid partial sleeves with C-shaped cross sections that have narrow openings.... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274865 | Cooling device One aspect of the invention is a cooling pillow comprising a flexible pouch and thermal transfer fluid composition hermetically filled in the pouch. A second aspect of the invention is a cooling device which comprises a pad having a flexible pouch and a t... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274866 | Process for laboratory dyeing of sample pieces Laboratory-scale dyeing of samples of lengths of material must correspond to the continuous process conditions as executed in practice in order to obtain comparable dyeing results. For this purpose, the provision is made of joining the sample piece into a... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274867 | Hydraulically operated edge-of-dock leveler A hydraulically operated edge-of-dock dock leveler including a deck plate having its rear edge hinged to the dock and an extension lip is hinged to the front edge of the deck plate. In the storage position the deck plate is located in a generally horizont... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274868 | Elevation limiter for submersible suction cleaner A suction head useful with a self-propelled submersible pool cleaner having an elevation limiter formed as an inverted, generally U-shaped pipe or bulging body connected to the suction head and being dimensioned and disposed such that when an outward extr... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274869 | Automatic chalk ash cleaner Disclosed is an automatic chalk ash cleaner including an elongated casing horizontally fastened to a blackboard at the bottom and covered with a wire netting cover, a brush assembly driven by a power drive through a transmission mechanism to sweep chalk a... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274870 | Movable head toothbrush apparatus Disclosed herein is a toothbrush apparatus including a tooth brush frame having a handle and a head frame, a head assembly and a retainer. The head frame has an interior opening with a gear rack. The head assembly includes a base having a plurality of ope... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274871 | Multiple tanks for applying lane dressing to transfer roller for bowling lane dressing apparatus A bowling lane dressing apparatus for use on a bowling alley has a carriage with a lane buffer roller. A transfer roller in rolling engagement with the lane buffer roller and in fluid communication with a plurality of reservoirs, each containing lane dres... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274872 | Handle and handled implement A handle for a handled implement. The handle has a stub, a yoke and a haft. The stub has a shank and a head. The stub has a longitudinal axis. The yoke is disposed on the shank. The yoke abuts the head axially. The yoke is free to rotate about the axis re... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274873 | Angulated bristle toothbrush A toothbrush assembly includes a handle having a toothbrush head mounted at a forward distal end of the handle, with the handle head having a head top surface. Plural rows of bristle columns are mounted fixedly to the handle head's top surface, with the b... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274874 | Endoscope cleaning and defogging apparatus A device for cleaning and defogging an endoscope. A sponge is impregnated with a composition of water, a glycol and a water soluble wetting agent. The impregnated sponge is packaged in a container designed to facilitate cleaning and defogging of the endos... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274875 | Displaceable rear windshield wiper incorporating trunk lid interaction and a rear brake light A vehicle windshield wiper system is provided which includes a body or housing within which is mounted a driving motor, a solenoid, a brake lamp as well as a pull rope. The pull rope extends between the solenoid and the windshield wiper and is guided by a... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274876 | Universal windshield wiper mechanism A portable, temporarily installable and removable windshield wiper unit provides for the clearance of windshields for motorcycles, recreational vehicles and the like not otherwise so equipped. The wiper unit contains a rotary motor driving an oscillating ... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274877 | Semi-automatic mop wringer The present invention is a unique semi-automatic mop wringer. The mop wringer comprises a hollow housing vertically movably supported on a supporting structure by a suspension mechanism. The housing is engaged with the supporting structure through a rack-... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274878 | Remote control system for central vacuum systems A remote control system for actuating a central vacuum system from a remote location such as a vacuum cleaning hose handle without the use of a separate, dedicated system of control wires. In a preferred embodiment, a small, lightweight FM radio frequency... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274879 | Two-wheel caster with shield ring A two-wheel furniture caster has a body, a shaft projecting horizontally through the body along a shaft axis and having opposite ends projecting axially oppositely from the body, respective wheels rotatable on the ends of the shaft and having outer tread ... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274880 | Door closer A door closer having a return spring for accumulating a recovering force in a door closing direction at the time of opening a door for performing a braking force by a damper at the time of closing the door which comprises a closer body internally containi... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274881 | Latching hinge A hinge for removably attaching a cover member to a container member. The hinge includes a first plate affixable to one of the members and a second plate affixable to the other of the members. A first tubular socket is formed integrally with the first pla... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274882 | Hinge mechanism In a hinge mechanism, a first hinge portion and a second hinge portion are urged toward predetermined angular relationships relative to one another. A force, directed outwardly from the first hinge portion, is applied by an axle pivotally connecting the f... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274883 | Carding apparatus with drafting and autolever device A sliver is created by directly condensing the carded web from a carding apparatus and then feeding it to a drafting set from which it is subsequently delivered by way of an autoleveller comprising sliver thickness sensing means and variable draft means.... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274884 | Maintaining a predetermined quality of sliver in a card and/or drawframe The present invention is directed to a drawframe having a sliver delivery device and a computer part for maintaining a predetermined quality of sliver, wherein there is a predetermined overproduction from a card and/or a drawframe relative to a spinning m... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5274885 | Attachment clip An attachment clip with a body having a rear member and a front member co-operating with the rear member to define an enclosed volume, a retaining member in the enclosed volume and having members projecting from the enclosed volume to enable the retaining... | 01/04/1994 |