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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5276922 | Glove with opener for a bartender A glove used by a bartender having various equipped with various devices for performing bartender's tasks. The glove has an opener attached to the upper palm area for opening beverage bottle crown caps, and a reinforced area between the thumb and index fi... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276923 | Shirt hold-down device A central elastomeric web, having concave sides to accommodate an individual's groin area, includes the central web to provide a plurality of tether webs extending longitudinally beyond the central web, with each tether web including a latch fastener for ... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276924 | Method and apparatus for disposing of body wastes There is provided a small apparatus for disposing of body wastes. The apparatus includes a stirring chamber which is connected to a discharge opening of a toilet bowl, and in which the body wastes and the absorbent are mixed together; and a rotary heating... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276925 | Retractable urinal for toilet seat A urinating aid for use with a commode having a bowl and seat including a cover with a front end and a back end. The back end is pivotally connected to the seat. The cover includes a lower lid and an upper lid pivotally connected to the lower lid for move... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276926 | Baby bath and seat A bathenette seat for bathing a baby is provided where the seat has a headrest with an opening which is sized and shaped to accept the back of the head of the baby being bathed so as to allow the washing of the back of the baby's head without allowing soa... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276927 | Radiolucent head support A head support for a patient support table having a skull securing clamp that is mounted to a non-circular support bar for selective attachment to the side rails of the patient support table. The skull clamp includes a non-circular support aperture for re... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276928 | Combination bow hoist and arrowhead wrench A combination bow hoist and arrowhead wrench comprising a flexible cord securely attached to a substantially rigid body having means to compactly and securely store the flexible cord, means for securely holding a bow for raising the bow to an elevated pos... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276929 | Screw gun router for drywall installation An improvement is provided in a screw gun used in the drywall installation industry. The improved screw gun has a conventional screw driving head at the forward end of the gun. A rear drive shaft extends from the motor of the gun, and an access member is ... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276930 | Folding transportable bridge A folding bridge comprising the two sections (27 and 28) hinged together about a hinge pin (43). The hinge being arranged such that when the bridge is folded together for transportation the sections (27 and 28) at least partially nest inside one another i... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276931 | Equipment for laying a track-supporting bridge An arrangement for laying a bridge, in which a vehicle carries a plurality of track support sections of a bridge to be laid. The vehicle has a laying device which includes a laying support with cantilevering rails traveling on rollers. Telescoping stays a... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276932 | Manually operated rotary toothbrush Improvements to a manually operated, rotary bristle toothbrush. A thumb actuated mechanism is slidably and longitudinally mounted in an essentially hollow, elongate handle and a part of the mechanism, a rack, is caused to engage at least one compound pini... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276933 | Damage resistant recirculation flap A surface maintenance machine includes a cylindrical brush mounted in the machine for rotation about a generally horizontal axis extending transverse to the direction of machine movement. A recirculation flap is attached to the machine and extends general... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276934 | Drain cleaning device A drain clearing device and method comprising an elongated flexible member for positioning in a blocked drain line with the working end of the tool located beyond the blockage and having means for enlargement or deployment of the working end after the too... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276935 | Medicament containing dental brush A medicament containing dental brush includes a plurality of parallel fibers having a medicament such as tetracycline, chlorhexidine, or sodium fluoride disposed between or within the individual fibers. The medicament is released during brushing to provid... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276936 | Apparatus for cleaning edge-perforated computer paper Paper chaff consisting of confetti, paper dust fibers or crimp lugs are scrubbed from continuous, edge-perforated computer paper between the paper supply and a printer by stationary brushes and are then captured in a collector chamber for subsequent remov... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276937 | Windshield wiper pressure increasing and warning aid A pressure increasing and warning aid for coupling to an automobile windshield wiper is provided. The device includes an opaque longitudinally extended wind pressure blade having a streamlined contour, and an illumination assembly disposed lengthwise ther... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276938 | Freon recovery workstation A freon recovery workstation including a collection tray for collecting and recovering liquid freon from the work area, forced air passageways disposed above and below the work area for drawing and receiving freon vapor, a freon-adsorbing unit connected t... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276939 | Electric vacuum cleaner with suction power responsive to nozzle conditions An electric vacuum cleaner has a main body with a blower and a dust-collecting chamber, a triac that controls the blower, a floor nozzle coupled to the main body, a sensor that senses the current in a motor in the floor nozzle that drives its rotary brush... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276940 | Vacuum cleaner train for cleaning tracks, particularly for underground railway networks A vacuum cleaner train comprises a blowing device mounted transversely and two suction devices disposed downstream and upstream of the blowing device with respect to the direction of the train. It is provided with deflectors for transversely deviating the... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276941 | Device for mounting a pair of casters to a segment of a structure of a stroller The present invention provides a device for mounting a pair of casters to a tubular segment of a structure of a stroller. The mounting device consists of a first sleeve, a second sleeve and a cushion. Generally, the first sleeve is securely attached to a ... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276942 | Appliance roller A roller mechanism for supporting an article on a support surface for selective movement thereon. The roller mechanism including a support member rotatably connected to the article to be supported, a bearing for providing antifriction rotation between the... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276943 | Paint can handle A handle for a paint can suspends the can securely from a ladder rung in a stationary mode in either an upright position with the can full of paint and the bottom resting upon an adjacent lower rung, or in an inclined position for easier access with the c... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276944 | Quick release hinge A quick release hinge has a base plate, a pivot arm, a connecting plate assembly and a toggle segment, through holes, bolt, pins disposed thereon, can be released quickly.... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276945 | Hinge device having directional damping A buffering device used in a hinge structure of a lid or cover, such as stool lid of a toilet stool of Western style, which is pivoted on a horizontal axis and generally opened upwards by hand and closed downwards by gravity, comprising two members such a... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276946 | Multiple bale opener In a multiple bale opener (1) comprising a transport device leading pressed fiber bales (14,16) to a horizontal reduction area (3), the transport device having a section (20) rising towards the reduction area, and a reduction device (5) moved back and for... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276947 | Device for the transportion of cans between machines or devices treating or processing fiber slivers A process for the transportation of cans between machines processing fiber slivers by means of a can conveying device. The latter is loaded and unloaded simultaneously in one position at a machine or storage facility. The cans are inspected during their t... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276948 | Buttoning device A button assisting tool having a bifurcated pronged section set at an angle to an intermediate section and joined thereto by a joinder section which establishes the angle; and a shank attached to the opposite end of the intermediate section and set at an ... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276949 | Clamping mount for motion picture lighting and rigging equipment An improved mount for motion Picture Lighting and Rigging Equipment. A strong, light-weight mount that can be quickly and securely clamped to a variety of objects of different sizes and shapes. The clamping jaw (22) (23) faces are always parallel to each ... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276950 | Closure strips for bags A string zipper, with no mounting flanges, is welded to bag material for forming zipper bags. The zipper material is fed from a driven unwind and the bag material receives the zipper material. Guides place the zipper material wherever desired with respect... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276951 | Tubular lock puller A hand-held tool for pulling the inner cylinder from a tubular lock that has become inoperative. The tool comprises a cylindrical housing carrying a threaded main shaft which has a front segment with resilient fingers. The fingers are radially compressibl... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276952 | Method and apparatus for intermediate thickness slab caster and inline hot strip and plate line A method and apparatus of making coiled plate, sheet in coiled form or discrete plate. The apparatus is an intermediate thickness slab caster and inline hot strip and plate line. The apparatus includes a continuous strip caster forming a strand of between... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276953 | Automatic, programable drilling, gluing and doweling apparatus An automatic apparatus for drilling dowel holes in a workpiece and then inserting dowels in the dowel holes is disclosed. The apparatus has a moveable carriage that moves along the side edge of the workpiece. A drilling tool and a dowel inserting tool are... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276954 | Slide mounter A slide mounter where a photographic film transparency is advanced to an operation station and is cut from a photographic film web and punch holes are punched. The cut and punched film transparency is then inserted into a slide mount at an insertion stati... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276955 | Multilayer interconnect system for an area array interconnection using solid state diffusion A method and apparatus for manufacturing large area multilayer interconnects for electronic substrates and circuit boards uses high density area array interconnections that are created by solid state diffusion. Two or more pretested subsections are electr... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276956 | Method and apparatus for arranging and inserting terminals in an electrical component and method of assembling the apparatus Apparatus for taking a plurality of terminals arranged in a first spatial configuration, and rearranging them into a second spatial configuration for insertion into a stator or other electrical component, is provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276957 | Method and system for automated assembly of parts such as plastic parts Method and system are provided for the automated assembly of parts such as plastic parts into assemblies wherein assembly pallets loaded with their corresponding assemblies are stored and vertically indexed in an accumulator station to allow a previously ... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276958 | Method of manufacturing an electromotor with laminated stator A method of manufacturing an electric motor wherein pole pieces, made of pole laminations provided with outwardly extending projections are assembled into pole piece blocks, which are provided with stator coils premounted thereon. The pole piece blocks ar... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276959 | Method of manufacturing a magnetic tape head A magnetic head includes two substrates which are provided with magnetic cores of magnetic film on their surface and are bonded on a plane so that a magnetic gap is defined between the magnetic cores, an edge part of the magnetic cores with the magnetic g... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276960 | Method for the manufacture of lead-acid batteries and an associated apparatus and associated lead-acid battery A method for the manufacture of lead-acid batteries and associated apparatus and a lead-acid battery design resulting therefrom is disclosed. The method involves providing a battery grid and pasting the grid with a battery paste such that a profiled and t... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276961 | Demountable tape-automated bonding method A Demountable Tape-Automated Bonding System for providing connections to a chip is disclosed. The chip is attached to or is held in place on a TAB frame that includes a generally flexible dielectric film which bears a pattern of conductive traces. A multi... | 01/11/1994 |
