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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5557801 | Device for retaining body heat A body warmer containing a fabric shell and an interior chamber. The body warmer has a central body and two flaps joined to it; the flaps are adapted to be releasably connected to each other. The shell is preferably made from one piece of fabric which is ... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557802 | Pad assembly with releasable cushion A protective pad assembly is used to protect upper body parts of contact sport athletes such as hockey players. The pad assembly has a relatively rigid first shield and a relatively rigid second shield pivotally connected to the first shield. An inner air... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557803 | Shock absorbent protective glove A shock absorbent protective GLOVE (24) to be used as an underglove in conjunction with a baseball/softball mitt, which extends above the wrist and up the lower forearm. The hand section (22) of the GLOVE (24) contains thin quasi-liquid, shock absorbent, ... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557804 | Protective appliance A protective appliance to be worn by an individual for protecting a body part of the individual, which body part is covered by a piece of clothing, includes an inner shell part of a generally convex configuration to be arranged such that one side of the i... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557805 | Gripping aid A support aid permitting an individual with a weak wrist and hand to hold an object. The aid helps achieve a fist-like grasp about an object, without increasing pain. A sufficiently wide wrist band is provided to support a weakened wrist, wherein a grippi... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557806 | Weight-lifting glove having a securing strap and sleeve A weight-lifting glove having a support strap which is attachable to the bar of a weight to be lifted. The glove includes a glove member and the strap. The glove member has a palm side, a back side, a wrist end, a glove opening at the wrist end, four fing... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557807 | Headwear including coolant means An article of headwear for covering the head, such as a hat, cap, or helmet, including coolant means for cooling the head of the wearer, and more particularly, cooling means which provide a prolonged cooling effect. The coolant means is contained in one o... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557808 | Skirt with variable sized pleats A pleated skirt to contact with side portions of the body of a wearer in which a width of each of the pleats in contact with side portions of the body of a wearer is larger than a width of each of the pleats in contact with front and back surfaces of the ... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557809 | Toilet seat cover A cover for a toilet seat is a plurality of plastic sheet members having side, front and rear sections surrounding an opening aligned with a toilet seat opening when the cover is placed on the toilet seat to protect a person from contaminants, side member... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557810 | Portable toilet with battery operated flush assembly A battery operated flush assembly for a portable toilet. The flush assembly includes a pump and motor mounted to the toilet's seat section. A battery pack is removably mounted to the seat section and includes terminals which, as a result of mounting, beco... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557811 | Free-floating means and method for rolling pool covers In accordance with the first embodiment of the invention, a first and second tube body is provided, the first tube body resting upon the upper surface of the cover, the second tube body beneath the cover. The first and second tube bodies are plugged toget... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557812 | Waste water reuse system A waste water reuse system comprised of a first holding tank for disposition above the toilet tank of a conventional toilet, the holding tank having a waste water inlet located adjacent a top thereof, an overflow outlet located below the waste water inlet... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557813 | Knock down mattress system A knock down mattress system comprises a generally rectangular box-like shell having a bottom panel, a top panel and side panels interposed therebetween. A plurality of generally elongate bolsters are dimensioned and configured to be positioned within the... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557814 | Bed sheeting arrangement The present invention discloses a bed sheeting arrangement having a fitted lower sheet and an attachable upper covering and an edge of a sidewall remote having a continuous inelastic drawstring in a channel which is moveable in the channel. A first end of... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557815 | Convertible pillow/chair pad The edges of first and second fabric sides are joined along a seam to form an enclosure for cushion material. Tie strings extend from the seam along one end of the cushion. First and second fabric flaps are provided. Each flap is joined along three edges ... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557816 | Pillow having multiple interior volumes A down comforter includes a center region (22) and a border region (24) which extends around the comforter and defines the peripheral edge of the comforter. Typically, the center region (24) is approximately 53 to 62 percent of the total area of the comfo... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557817 | Protective cover for hospital bed rails A protective cover for removable placement over the restraining side rails of a hospital bed. The cover is made of a foamed plastic core covered by a soft material with the cover being foldable over the top of the side rail and hook and eye means position... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557818 | Utility pen-knife A utility pen-knife includes a hollow body having a partition wall, wherein one end of the pen body spaced from the partition wall includes a pen structure and a further portion of the body adjacent the partition wall includes an array of accessible repla... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557819 | Pool cleaner with weighted hose An improved pool cleaner hose assembly is provided for use in drawing water under a negative pressure from a manually operated pool cleaner device to a water filtration system for swimming pools and the like. Improvements relate to enhancements in the vie... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557820 | Apparatus for producing an ion-rich directable air stream A program controllable structure for providing program defined orientations of a nozzle for discharging ionized air onto the surfaces of a workpiece prior to a painting operation. The support structure comprises pivotal cantilevered support arms extending... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557821 | Centrifugal packingline machine Processing machinery for cleaning, scrubbing, drying, and polishing produce, such as fruits and vegetables, utilizing centrifugal force produced by the relative rotation between a produce receiving rotating disc member and an opposed stationary disc membe... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557822 | Electric vacuum cleaner An electric vacuum cleaner having a suction nozzle comprising a dust inlet formed in a bottom surface of a nozzle body and a rotary brush rotatably mounted therein along said dust inlet, wherein said electric vacuum cleaner having either or both of config... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557823 | Vacuum cleaner attachment The invention is a vacuum cleaner attachment. In detail, the invention includes a nozzle body having a hollow tubular member for connecting to the vacuum pipe of a vacuum cleaner. The side of the body turned away from the member includes front and rear op... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557824 | Furniture floor glide A floor glide for furniture and the like includes a monobloc having a relatively arcuate convex lower surface for contact with the floor and a flat upper surface for supporting furniture, and adhesive means for securing the monobloc to the bottom of furni... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557825 | Door retainer mechanism for automatically retaining access door on cabinet in opened position A door retainer mechanism on a padmounted switchgear cabinet includes a pair of elongated links coupled between an access door and housing of the cabinet. The links are pivotally connected respectively to the access door and housing and also pivotally con... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557826 | Heat insulating handle for metallic cooking pots and the like Handle of heat insulating material comprising a handle strap or a handle plate (12) and an integrally attached fastening body (16) for cooking pots, braising pots, frying pans and like pot or bath-shaped metallic kitchenware which have a respective projec... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557827 | Cabinet-wall related member for cabinet hinges A cabinet-wall member of a cabinet hinge in the form of an elongate arm which is stamped from initially flat sheet metal and shaped so that a flange is bent at a substantially right angle from each of its longitudinal edges such that the arm has an invert... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557828 | Load center door hinge element A U-shaped hinge element used to pivotally mount a door to a cover dead front of an enclosure for circuit breaker handles of a load center. The hinge element has spaced-apart wall members, and is characterized by having a projection formed out of the surf... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557829 | Vehicle multi-link hinge flush positioning arrangement A multi-link hinge assembly for a mounting a closure, such as a rear deck lid or front hood, to a vehicle body. An arrangement provides for readily adjusting the closure vertically upwardly from a position wherein the closure exterior surface is verticall... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557830 | Fastener A fastener comprising a retainer and a collar wherein one or more sheets of material may be secured between the retainer and collar, and wherein the fastener may be weighted or attached to a variety of objects.... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557831 | Process for producing a woven carbon reinforcing fabric with a high cover factor Method of making a reinforcing fabric comprising warps and woofs which are multifilament yarns made of carbon fibers. The widths W (mm) and finenesses D (d:denier) of the warps and woofs satisfy the equation: W=k.multidot.(D/.rho.)5/9 wherein k repr... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557832 | Tool for attaching and removing clip type fastener members and the like A tool member to aid in the attachment and removal of a wide variety of differently sized and shaped clip type fastener members commonly used in a wide variety of different mechanical assemblies such as in the installation and removal of the ball device a... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557833 | Puller Device A reversible pulling apparatus including multiple reversible jaw members pivotally attached to a first yoke having a pressure screw extending therethrough. A second yoke is axially extendable from the first yoke and includes the cam members coactive with ... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557834 | Method of and apparatus for assembling component parts In a method of and an apparatus for assembling units, incomplete units are moved forward along an assembly line, in progression, to successive stations for the addition of components to the unit until the unit is complete. Each unit, with machined parts, ... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557835 | Method, Rivet-Punch, for joining several metal sheets by using non-heat-treated rivets made from an aluminium alloy The invention concerns a method for riveting a packet (50) of sheets (51,52) by means of unannealed aluminum rivets made from an alloy harder than that of the relatively soft AD rivets in common use; this method is characterized by the fact that the expan... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557836 | Method of manufacturing a cube corner article A method of manufacturing a cube corner article comprises machining first and second intersecting groove sets in a machinable substrate wherein the grooves in the first set are displaced by a distance d1 and the grooves in the second set are di... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557837 | Method for repairing stator winding bars The method for repairing a connecting device for the electrical connection and for supplying and carrying away the coolant to and from the hollow conductor elements of the stator winding bars of electrical machines includes removal of the existing connect... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557838 | Methods for winding armatures having slot commutators A wire winding machine is provided that allows the connection of electric motor armature coil leads to slot-type commutators. The machine uses rotations of a flyer and rotations of the armature to perform much of the needed movement during the lead attach... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557839 | Method of fabricating an improved transducer suspension assembly A hard disk drive having an actuator assembly in which the armstack structure comprises only load beams. The load beams are assembled by stacking on a tubular member along with the movable member of the actuator motor, or other actuator drive mechanism, a... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557840 | Tube sheet locator and tube expander Apparatus for localized radial expansion of a ductile metal tube into tight engagement with a tube support sheet, e.g., for deformable member which is axially compressed by hydraulic pressure to effect radial expansion of the deformable member and the tub... | 09/24/1996 |
