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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5479658 | Face mask and face mask cover An improved face mask and face mask cover for a football helmet comprising a sheet of rigid material formed to overlie a conventional face mask. The sheet having upper and lower peripheral portions rolled to extend over the rods defining an area over whic... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479659 | Lightweight ballistic resistant garments and method to produce the same A ballistic resistant garment (10) for covering and protecting vital portions of a human body having at least two panels (28, 30) which are adjacent and overlie one another in which each panel comprises at least two layers of ballistic resistant material ... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479660 | Exercise glove An exercise glove includes a generally rectangular palm structure with one end being slightly curved and the other end having a generally straight edge for fitting comfortably under the middle joint of the fingers. A pair of straps with hook and loop conn... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479661 | Garment having printed instructions for self-examination of the breasts An instructional upper body garment wearable by a woman and having printed instructions thereon for self-examination of the breasts for detection of cancer or tumors. The garment includes two rectangular panels affixed at the shoulders, having a central n... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479662 | Privacy covering for nursing mothers A privacy covering for nursing mothers in which an arcuately curved, resiliently flexible flat strip is hemmed into a central portion of the upper edge of a blanket or sheet type covering. A neck strap is attached to the upper edge of the covering adjacen... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479663 | Safety liner and cover assembly for a water mattress A safety liner and cover assembly for a water mattress disposed inside an external frame. The assembly includes a base composed of a sheet of flat vinyl material and a side wall extending circumferentially around the base to define a recess for receiving ... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479664 | Mattress cover A mattress cover consists of a top panel, a skirt, an edge elastic and a peripheral elastic. The top panel is adopted for covering of at least a substantial portion of a top surface of a mattress. The skirt extends outwardly from the top panel forming an ... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479665 | Automated tri-fold bed An automated tri-fold bed includes a bed frame, a mattress support that is pivotable between a horizontal configuration and a mattress folding configuration, and a mechanism for pivoting the mattress support about a transversely centered longitudinal pivo... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479666 | Foot egress chair bed A hospital bed that is convertible to a chair for patient egress from the foot end of the bed. A patient support platform has serially hinged, normally horizontal head, seat, thigh and foot panels. To convert the horizontal bed to the chair configuration,... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479667 | Ergonomic pillow assembly An ergonomic pillow assembly utilized to provide relaxing comfort and rest to a person having an upper torso problem with pain through the head, neck, and spinal assembly. The ergonomic pillow assembly includes 1) a head support assembly; 2) a thoracic su... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479668 | Revolving suntan bed A revolving suntan bed including a generally planar horizontal pedestal; an annular driving gear coupled to the pedestal; a plurality of rotatable rollers coupled to and extended downwards from the pedestal; a rigid base having a central hub axially secur... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479669 | Multi-purpose tool for IC A multi-purpose tool for IC including a body having a left portion, a right portion, and an intermediate portion fitted between the left portion and the right portion, a pair of inner arms each pivotally connected with an upper end of the left portion and... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479670 | Double-ended socket wrench for sprinkler nozzles A double-ended socket wrench is disclosed for attaching and removing sprinkler nozzles from sprinkler heads. The double-ended socket wrench includes a housing with open first and second ends and an elongate chamber extending between the ends to allow wate... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479671 | Methods and devices for installing discontinuous sheaths on cables and to cables thus sheathed This relates to a bridge stay formed by a cable (1) which itself is surrounded by a discontinuous sheath composed of identical successive tubular sections (4) having ends which fit together (at 9). This stay comprises an inextensible cablet (10) pulled ta... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479672 | Floor cleaning and polishing equipment A combined floor cleaning and floor polishing machine comprises a motor housing (1), an inclined operator handle (2), a base (3) with castors (4) and a motor-operated shaft (5) for a rotating disc (7) supporting interchangeably a cleaning pad or polishing... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479673 | Reversible scrub brush and scraper A cleaning tool with an elongated handle having a storage hook at one end and in one aspect a modified "V" shaped work piece holder at the opposite end. Optimally, the workpiece holder has bristles on a short side, a scouring pad on a long side and a scra... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479674 | Golf-shoe cleaning apparatus for attaching to a golf bag A golf shoe cleaner 10 is provided for attachment to a golf bag base 20. A brush 12 having an array of bristles 34 thereon, is removably attached to a brush retainer 14. The brush retainer 14 is hingedly attached to an attachment bracket 16. The brush ret... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479675 | Hand trowel assembly An elongated dovetail tongue on the top surface of the trowel blade slips endwise into a closely conforming groove formed in the base of the removable handle until its end abuts a shoulder at the end of the groove. The tongue is longer than the groove, an... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479676 | Vacuum cleaner A canister-type vacuum cleaner is provided in which various electrical functions of the vacuum cleaner may be controlled by the user with controls on the hose handle, whether the hose is attached to the suction port or the blowport. The primary exhaust po... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479677 | Caster device A caster device for supporting a push cart includes a cap member having a flat top fixed to the push cart and a circular side wall. The circular side wall of the cap member has an inwardly curled lower edge. An inverted and truncated conical ring member h... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479678 | Locking hinge A hinge includes a first clevis (30), defining a vee-block support (12) and a first limiter surface (44, 46, 48). A cylindrical hinge shaft is supported by the vee-block (12). A second clevis (140) is affixed to the shaft, whereby the second clevis may ro... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479679 | Fiber batt feeding apparatus for a fiber processing machine An apparatus for feeding a fiber batt to a fiber processing machine includes a feed roll; a feed table formed of a plurality of separately movable feed table segments each cooperating with the feed roll and defining therewith a nip through which the fiber... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479680 | Sliver drafting apparatus A drafting apparatus for drafting a sliver in the yarn spinning machine preferably comprises upper and lower inlet rollers (2, 3), upper and lower apron belts (9, 6), upper and lower apron belt guides (10, 7) and upper and lower outlet rollers (4, 5). The... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479681 | Cargo collapse preventing device Disclosed is a cargo collapse preventing device for preventing the cargo collapse of various kinds of cargoes palletized on a cargo-handling pallet or cart by bundling them. The opposite ends of a sheet cover 1 wound around the cargoes C palletized on a l... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479682 | Clamp for paper sheets Clamp having a U-shaped body (1) for inserting objects therebetween wherein one (2) of the legs is provided with a resilient lockable lip (4) for clamping the objects concerned between the lip (4) and the other leg (3) of the U-shaped body. In this arrang... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479683 | Three-dimensional eyewinder apparatus An eyewinder system 10 has stations 100-108 for straightening, bending, measuring and transporting a wire 11 to form an eyewire 109. A controller 120 controls each station. Using information from tension and length measuring stations 104, 105, the control... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479684 | Method of manufacturing ink jet printheads by induction heating of low melting point metal alloys Disclosed is a method of manufacturing an ink jet printhead comprising the steps of: (1) coating a substantially flat lower surface of an upper piezoelectric member with a first conductive coating, (2) coating a substantially flat upper surface of a lower... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479685 | Method of producing ink jet print head A method of producing an ink jet print head includes the steps of forming separate ink paths with a predetermined pattern on a head base; fixing a vibration plate to a separate ink path side of the head base; temporarily fixing a piezoelectric element to ... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479686 | Process for producing a case for receiving a watchwork The present invention relates to a process for producing casings for time pieces and, more particularly, a process for producing casings from disposable metal containers for receiving watch movements and the resulting time pieces.... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479687 | Apparatus for joining sheets of material An apparatus for joining sheets of material employs a die assembly having an anvil peripherally bordered by a plurality of movable die segments and a spring which urges the die segments radially toward the anvil. In a further aspect of the present inventi... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479688 | Pulling tool An improved tool for pulling off a rotor of a motor from a shaft or a fan from a shaft, which improved tool is provided with hooked arms that are releasably but securely held at one end in the housing, without the use of retaining clips, so that the arms ... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479689 | Windshield expansion tool and method for removing vehicle windshields A windshield replacement tool which can be selectively inserted between the top edge of the windshield and the vehicle frame during replacement for the purpose of separating the windshield and maintaining such separation during the removal process. The me... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479690 | Tube making mechanism having a fill tube for depositing a ceramic powder into the tube as it is being made A fill tube for filling a seam-welded tube with a ceramic powder as the seam-welded tube is being made by a tube making mechanism. The fill tube has a guide tube for directing the ceramic powder from a location upstream of a seam welder to a location down... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479691 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing photographic film and photographic film cassette A photographic film cassette manufacturing apparatus, has a perforator for providing a long film with perforations and a cutter for cutting the long film into individual filmstrips to be contained in the film cassette driven synchronously with transport o... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479692 | Methods for mounting an automobile wheel on a hub assembly and lifting an automobile wheel into an automobile body Devices and methods are provided for use in lifting an automobile wheel into an automobile body. An elongated member releaseably engages an automobile wheel and pivots on the body of the automobile as the elongated member is lifted to lift the automobile ... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479693 | Automotive instrument panel installantion arrangement and method for mounting An installation arrangement for automotive instruments to be installed in an instrument panel is set up such a lower rim of an upper instrument mounting frame overlaps an upper rim of a lower instrument mounting frame when the frames are installed in an o... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479694 | Method for mounting integrated circuits onto printed circuit boards and testing An integrated circuit (IC) device is mounted onto a printed circuit board (PCB) by inducing a magnetic field of a selected strength at the surface of the PCB to temporarily hold the IC device onto the PCB. The IC device is provided with magnetic material ... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479695 | Method of making a multilayer monolithic magnetic component Magnetic components are fabricated as monolithic structures using multilayer co-fired ceramic tape techniques. Fabrication of these magnetic components involves constructing multiple layers of a magnetic material and an insulating non-magnetic material to... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479696 | Method of making combination read/write magnetic head There is provided a method for producing erase bands of varying width between tracks of information on a recording medium. In accordance with the method, a magnetic head having a write gap and trailing pole with non-parallel portions is produced. In the p... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479697 | Method for manufacturing magnetic pickup sensor A magnetic pickup sensor comprising a sensor assembly 11 and a molded resin housing 12 disposed around the assembly. The sensor assembly has a pickup coil 15 wound around an iron core 14 for detecting a change in the magnetic flux of a magnet 13, and a su... | 01/02/1996 |
