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A pizza mold for forming a plurality of concentric raised ridges of dough (i.e., crust) on the surface of a pizza pie.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5303423 | Face shield/mask combination Face shield for protecting a wearer's face from spatters. The shield includes a flexible, transparent portion sized to cover the face and a flexible spacer portion for contact with the wearer's forehead to provide adequate clearance of the transparent fle... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303424 | Swimwear vent for water skiers A boxer-type swim suit for a water skier in which the suit has at least one rear panel, a liner attached thereto along a waistband, a band attached to the rear panel and an elongated strip having its upper edge joined to the rear panel and its lower edge ... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303425 | Inflatable clothing apparatus The inflatable clothing apparatus is designed to provide an inflatable (on position) and deflatable (off position) convection cooled clothing. The apparatus contains a spiralled inner tubular structure attached to the inner portion of the shirt and the in... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303426 | Sweatband - earphone system A sweatband and earphone system utilizing a head sweatband preferably formed of an elastic fabric having internal pockets defined therein for receiving earphones connected to a radio or tape player. The sweatband comfortably and securely maintains the ear... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303427 | Combination hat and bag A hat/bag combination article formed from a tubular member having a closed end and an opposed open end with a drawstring closure. The article can be attractively and inexpensively made from strips of pile fleece to provide a warm and stylized lightweight ... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303428 | Combination of a strap and of a strap spreader The disclosure herein describes the combination of a strap and of a strap spreader for use in combination with goggles wherein the spreader is defined by a surface that fits the contour of the back of a wearer's head. The body includes points of attachmen... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303429 | Connecting element between WC seat/lid and WC bowl A connector rotatably joining the toilet seat/cover permits rapid attachment to a toilet bowl without the use of tools and without leaving securing members on the toilet bowl, whereby the closing of clamping components in the existing, seat mounting holes... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303430 | Conversion kit for adjusting the height of a flush toilet A spacer for a flush toilet is an insert block locatable between the base of a toilet pedestal and the floor. The spacer has a passage therethrough from top to bottom constituting a soil pipe extension and located to mate with the soil pipe and the toilet... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303431 | Composting toilet A composting toilet comprising an outer shell with an attached toilet seat, a composting space adapted to the interior of the outer shell and a ventilation duct attached to the outer shell. The composting space is a rotatable drum, into which solid toilet... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303432 | Convertible futon frame A convertible furniture frame is disclosed which is intended for use with a futon or other resilient cushion. The convertible frame includes opposed arm or end frames interconnected by front and back rails to define a rigid rectangular frame. Seat and bac... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303433 | Convertible rocking cradle A convertible rocking cradle is equipped with a mounting base and a cradle body that can be locked together or unlocked so as to permit the cradle body to be reciprocally rocked in the longitudinal direction by way of a motor; or the cradle body secured t... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303434 | Bed tent A bed tent (10) with a support portion (16, 18, 30) is erected over a bed and a canopy portion (12) draped over the support portion (16, 18, 30). The canopy portion (12) may be connected to portion (12) provides an enclosure having an open bottom surface ... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303435 | Self-inflating camping mattress having a tapered profile Camping mattress having a head section and a foot section adapted to be rolled up for carrying, and being tapered in plan view such that at least one of the sections decreases in lateral dimension toward its outer end and the mattress is wider toward the ... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303436 | Anti-decubing mattress pad A mattress pad primarily intended for use with a standard hospital bed frame to reduce the development of decubitus ulcers or bed sores in patients using the pad. The pad is multi-layered and includes a cover or casing containing interior strata of a plas... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303437 | Multi-function and automatic sick bed A multi-function and automatic sick bed, which comprises left and right elevating mechanisms, front and rear elevating mechanisms, each of the aforesaid elevating mechanisms includes motor, gears, screw rod and connecting rod; each such elevating mechanis... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303438 | Integral polyethylene rotation molded children's cot A strong, lightweight, one-piece rotation molded children's cot having a base, four side walls, and a cot surface. The cot surface contains grooves which serve to collect liquid waste from a child's bed-wetting accident, so as to sanitarily separate the c... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303439 | Multipurpose bicycle tool kit A bicycle tool kit which provides either a number of open end or box style wrenches in a plate-like web attached to an end of an elongated handle. Attached to the top of the handle is a chain link remover for repairing broken links of bicycle chains. The ... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303440 | Process for applying, impressing or removing liquids or substances A process for applying and/or impressing or removing of aqueous liquids on or from a surface or a thereon guided weblike by means of a roller pressed against this surface or web includes pressing the working roller having over its entire working width an ... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303441 | Method and apparatus for delivering metered quantities of fluid Method and apparatus for jet printing, e.g. of textile fabrics, are disclosed. Metered quantities of fluid, e.g. dye, are supplied in a succession of discrete small quantities through capillaries in boards which can be angled relatively to a moving fabric... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303442 | Machine for lasting side portions of shoe uppers A side (or heel seat and side) lasting machine comprises two lasting rollers (232; 232') arranged one at either side of a shoe support (20) by which a shoe is supported bottom up. Each roller (232; 232') has a helical rib arrangement (294) which, when rot... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303443 | Dock leveler hold-down system A hold down device for a dock leveler employs a pair of telescoping members sliding with respect to each other. One member is coupled to the deck and the other to the leveler frame. A resilient member biases the telescoping members toward each other but p... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303444 | Rigid skirt for bristles of submersible suction cleaner The invention provides an automatic swimming pool cleaner which is self propelled over underwater surfaces by a pivoting oscillator. The pool cleaner includes a row of bristles extending from the housing from scrubbing the surfaces to be cleaned. Surround... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303445 | Detachable hand trowel A trowel handle having a blade, one or more upright supports mounted on that blade and a handle adapted for detachably engaging that support is disclosed. The handle includes a channel having tapered sidewalls configured to form a wedge-like engagement wi... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303446 | Manually engageable paint roller A roller style paint applicator incorporating a mechanism which will cause an axial rotational force to be exerted to the paint roller in order to facilitate the distribution of paint to the roller during paint saturation. The mechanism also will allow th... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303447 | Hose and tool rack for upright vacuum cleaner and method for mounting same A rear mounted hose and tool rack is provided for an upright vacuum cleaner. The hose and tool rack receives and maintains various tools and attachments within a confined envelope and maintained rearwardly of the lower handle assembly of the vacuum cleane... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303448 | Hopper and filter chamber for direct forward throw sweeper In a direct forward throw sweeper, improvements related to a door for closing the opening into the hopper permit backing away from a debris receptacle with the hopper door open after dumping a load of debris without damage to the machine. An attachment pa... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303449 | Thread inhibiting caster assembly A single leg caster assembly is disclosed. The assembly includes a wheel retaining hub and axle which support a bearing and wheel. A portion of the axle and a portion of the wheel retaining hub act as thread guards to inhibit thread from becoming tangled ... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303450 | Caster for use on mobile hospital beds and the like A caster wherein the wheel frame and the wheel can be locked in a first axial position of a post which is installed in an upright support serving to turnably mount the frame. When the post is moved to a second axial position relative to the support, the w... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303451 | Thermoplastic and low modulus thermoplastics for appliance handles A handle assembly for use with doors of household refrigerators includes an elongated stiffener member in the shape of a channel having a base and projecting sides. A number of apertures are spaced along the base. Each end of the member is formed with off... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303452 | Wool card The present invention concerns a wool card applicable in the field of the textile industry. The card is characterized in that it is equipped with at least three Morel rollers (1), in that it does not have an intermediate comb and in that the tangential ve... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303453 | Textile machine A textile machine is provided with apparatus for preparing the trailing end of a lap and a leading end of a fresh lap so that each end has a reduced fiber mass per unit length of lap in the prepared end. These lap ends are thereafter superimposed and join... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303454 | Textile machine comprising a plurality of drafting units arranged next to one another in a row In the case of a textile machine comprising drafting units that are disposed next to one another, the bottom cylinders are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the machine so that they continue along several or all drafting units. The continuous bott... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303455 | Apparatus for making a fiber lap An apparatus for forming a fiber lap from fiber tufts includes a fiber opener having an input formed of a fiber feeding mechanism and a series of sawtooth rolls through which the fiber material introduced by the fiber feeding mechanism consecutively passe... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303456 | Open spring safety pin A safety pin having an axially extending coil type torsion spring, thereby avoiding pinching fabric to which it is attached. Alternative embodiments provide arrangements assuring alignment of the wire sections of the safety pin with the head. In one alter... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303457 | Method for packaging microelectronic frequency selection components A package for a frequency selection component includes a base, a thermoplastic die attachment, and either a soldered or low- melting-temperature glass lid attachment. These techniques can be employed in either a leadless chip carrier or a single layer cer... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303458 | Method and apparatus for detecting and compensating thermal growth in machine tools In summary, therefore, this invention is directed to a thermal growth detector and compensator for detecting and compensating for relative movement between a work holder of a machine tool and a tool holder, that includes an elongated rod made of a materia... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303459 | Method for manufacturing precisely focused collimator A method for manufacturing single focus and cone beam collimators with precisely focused focal line or focal point. The method includes the steps of: forming a collimator body by using a metal casting process; measuring a displacement of a focal position ... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303460 | Dewiring apparatus for bales A bale dewiring device uses a bale splitter to sever the strapping of the bale atop the bale and a movable hook to engage the strapping beneath the bale for retraction thereof to one side of the bale where the strapping is removed from the hook.... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303461 | Thermal protection for electrical machines Long thermal paths and the resulting slow response times in sealed and electrically insulated thermal sensors may be substantially reduced by insulating and sealing the sensor (26) by a method which includes the steps of providing (30) an electrostatic fl... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5303462 | Wire crimping machine A wire crimping machine automatically adjusts the crimping means to the proper crimp depth for a selected size of wire and the size of the contact to be crimped onto the wire. The size of wire to be crimped is selected by the operator. As a wire is insert... | 04/19/1994 |
