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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5630229 | Zipperless wetsuit A zipperless wetsuit constructed of a plurality of panels of material, some of which are stretchier than others. A majority of an upper body region of the wetsuit is constructed of panels of highly stretchable wetsuit material which utilizes a central lay... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630230 | Cooling cap element A cap element mainly composed of a three-layer fabric, the three-layer fabric member including: a mesh-like front surface fabric; a waterproof back surface fabric; and a non-woven fabric formed of water absorptive high molecular fibers, which is sealed be... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630231 | Gathering clip for gown train A gathering clip for bridal and other gown trains, capes, and other trailing components of formal wear, is removably securable to the inside structure of the garment along a back central seam allowance therein, thus being completely hidden from view when ... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630232 | Nether garment having a fly front and method of making same Drawers or briefs made from a knitted tube flattened to provide a front panel and a rear panel with a top waist opening and a pair of bottom leg openings. The front panel has a linear fly opening having a pair of fabric fly flaps coextensive in length wit... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630233 | Vehicle toilet vent apparatus A tank ventilation exhaust fan having the unique ability to provided positive exhaust on a continuous basis while diluting the contaminated air and vapors, being emitted by the tank, with fresh air at a ratio in excess of five to one. A mixing chamber wit... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630234 | Bidet assembly A bidet assembly for use with a toilet having a toilet seat is disclosed. The bidet assembly provides a bidet seat to be coupled rotatably to the toilet to be movable between a raised position and a lowered position over the toilet seat on the toilet bowl... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630235 | Bathtub drain repair seal A seal for covering cracks around a drain fitting of a bathtub. The inventive device includes a flexible planar circular member having a circular center aperture directed therethrough which can be adhesively secured about a drain conduit of a bathtub and ... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630236 | Lavoratory assistance device Lavatory assistance device for supporting and assisting persons having difficulty in sitting or standing. A stationary frame (5) is maintained in place by two jack-screws (29) pressing on the ceiling. Two moving connecting rods (25, 26) actuated by a cyli... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630237 | Foam filled inflatable mat with a peripheral air duct An inflatable mat has an upper fabric layer, a lower fabric layer, an airtight space formed between the upper fabric layer and the lower fabric layer, an inflation valve and an air duct located on the periphery of the airtight space such that the air duct... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630238 | Bed with a plurality of air therapy devices, having control modules and an electrical communication network A bed includes a base frame, a deck coupled to the base frame, an electrical communication network, an air handling unit mounted on the base frame, a plurality of air therapy devices located on the bed, and a plurality of control modules. Each control mod... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630239 | Orthopedic pillow and method of using it An orthopedic pillow for helping to correct and helping to prevent hyperkyphosis and rigidity of the thoracic spine and for returning the normal lordotic cervical curve comprises a base panel having a first end portion, a second end portion, a left top su... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630240 | Cushion body structure comfortable to sit In a cushion body structure of a car seat, which is made by fastening a skin material to a cushion material by using a planar fastening material, an impregnation layer made of a foamed body is not produced. In the cushion body structure, a planar fastenin... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630241 | Combination pliers A combination pliers structure for cutting and skinning wires including a press handle mechanism having an elbow means for controlling an inner jaw means and an outer jaw means. The outer jaw means in located adjacent to the inner jaw means. In use, the p... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630242 | Seat belt cutter A seat belt cutter comprising an upper surface member, a lower surface member which is longer than the upper surface member, a gripping handle member constituted of the upper surface member and the lower surface member, a hammer member having a sharply po... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630243 | Toilet cleaning device with cleaning pad A plastic tool with a handle and trigger at one end and a pair of jaws (one of which is moveable) at the other end which are inserted into a biodegradable paper cleaning pad filled with cleaning/disinfectant and/or deodorant materials. The lower jaw of th... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630244 | Elastic toothbrush An elastic toothbrush comprises a head, a neck, a connector, and a handle. A slot and a groove are on the upper surface of the handle. An elongated recess is on the lower surface of the handle. An anti-skid rubber infills the slot. A rubber mark infills t... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630245 | Implement for personal cleansing and method of construction A personal cleansing implement comprises a tubular piece of hydrophobic diamond-mesh scrim, which is stretched to expand the diamond mesh, gathered along a longitudinal axis of the tubular piece of scrim to form circumferential pleats, and heat set in an ... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630246 | Floor cleaning apparatus with flap having wear indicator The present invention provides an apparatus for cleaning floors. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes four wheels, two of which are steerable wheels, and a steering mechanism that permits the two steerable wheels to turn to a degree that allows very ... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630247 | Leaf collection box with dust recirculation A leaf collection apparatus includes a vacuum generating apparatus for collecting leaves. An enclosure for holding leaves is connected to the vacuum generating apparatus. The enclosure includes a screened opening. A dust shroud is connected to the enclosu... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630248 | Door closer with semi-automatic latching A door closer employing a cylinder having an end attachable to a door or door frame and slidably retaining a piston biased by a spring to a maximum retracted position in the cylinder. One end of a rod is attached to the piston and the other end extends fr... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630249 | Sliding screen door closing device A device for closing a sliding screen door is disclosed. The inventive device includes a housing mountable proximal to a sliding screen door. A retractable cable resiliently extends from the housing and couples with the sliding screen door to effect closi... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630250 | Drawbar device A drawbar device comprises a first sectional handle, a second sectional handle coupling with the first sectional handle, an upper seat disposed under the sectional handles, a push button disposed in the first and second sectional handles, a first and seco... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630251 | Sliver guide assembly including a sliver guiding device and a sliver preformer An apparatus for measuring sliver thickness in a drawing frame includes a sliver guiding device having converging inner wall faces for bringing a plurality of simultaneously introduced slivers together to form a sliver assembly constituted by side-by-side... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630252 | Cable tie having an improved strap body The cable tie includes an elongate strap and a head having an aperture therethrough for insertably accommodating the strap. A locking barb is movably supported in the head and is engagable with the strap in a manner which permits insertion of the strap th... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630253 | Boot and adjustable closure therefor A boot and a boot closure device adapted to bring two flaps of the boot close together including a control lever borne by a plate affixedly connected to one of the flaps, a rack connected to the other flap including a complementary arrangement for adjusti... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630254 | Suspension lug and locking element for a carrying strap A carrying strap having a suspension lug which is attached at one end in a loop of the strap, is in the shape of a U and includes in the part of the lug lying in the loop, two open legs bent symmetrically at right angles to each other. The legs lie opposi... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630255 | Hose clamp The invention concerns an improved hose clamp consisting of an outer annular tightening band (1) which is provided with a tightening device (3, 4), and of a resilient band (2) which extends along the inner face of the tightening band (1). The resilient ba... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630256 | Buffer clip A buffer clip for preventing the generation of an uncomfortable sound and wherein an impact force absorbing member does not separate from the clip due to vibration or the like. The buffer clip is inserted and fitted into a mounting hole formed in a concav... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630257 | Versatile adjustable fastener system A versatile adjustable fastener system for securing loads of widely varying geometries, sizes and weights to a variety of objects is disclosed. The system essentially includes an elastic rope of a given diameter and length and four accessories, preferably... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630258 | Magnetic buckle The present invention features a magnetic assembly which has one half formed by one male magnetized part and the other half formed by one female magnetized part, both of which mate together, using very close tolerances so that there is no space noticeable... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630259 | Neckerchief slide A method and apparatus for retaining neckerchiefs scarves, handkerchiefs, bandannas, and/or other deformable items is disclosed. One embodiment of the invention is a neckerchief slide comprising a body having a cavity through it. A first post and a second... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630260 | Method and apparatus for discharging fabric from cloth spreading machine A running carriage (33) delivers, spreads, and piles a sheet material to be spread to form a piled sheet material (24), while running on a spreading table (22) of a cloth spreading machine (21). The piled sheet material (24) is placed on an underlay sheet... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630261 | Air bag for use in a motor vehicle and method of producing same An air bag of the type utilized in a vehicle occupant restraint system is constructed of a plurality of panels of uncoated fabric. Respective of the panels have been processed to achieve a selected air permeability with greater accuracy on a lot-to-lot ba... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630262 | Yarn laying-on-guide for electronically controlled sample warper An electronically controlled sample warper capable of warping yarns on a warper drum, with windings of the yarns neatly layered one above another in regular order, thus enabling the yarns to be readily rewound on beams on a weaving machine even when the w... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630263 | Manufacturing method of expanded mesh In an expanded mesh of this invention, a latitude skeletal element composing a mesh has a length which is substantially not elongated from a state of a sheet-shaped material. For this reason, the expanded mesh is not bulged like a barrel. Namely, it is fl... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630264 | Apparatus for inserting insert members An apparatus for inserting one or more insert members comprises the steps of holding sleeve-like insert members onto insert holders, transferring the insert holders between metal molds which are apart, pivotably moving the insert holders so that the axes ... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630265 | Wine barrel reconditioning method and apparatus A method and apparatus for reconditioning wood wine barrels. An open wine barrel is placed on a barrel rotator stand and positioned into a planer-cutter apparatus. Cutting parameters are set, and a horizontal screw advances the cutter into the barrel, cut... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630266 | Method and apparatus for making integral support plates for chair seats A method and apparatus for making a plurality of integral support plates for chairs, involving passing a strip of metallic material along a forming line and carrying our a series of operations on the strip, including: piercing and lancing holes, removing ... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630267 | Method of manufacturing a particulate collector assembly The particulate collector assembly 10 removes solid particulates from a gas stream. The assembly 10 includes an outer housing 12, an intermediate housing 40, and interior housing 54 to form therebetween a clean gas chamber t14, a particulate-laden gas cha... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5630268 | Process for manufacturing taper point surgical needles A process for manufacturing surgical needles from solid, cylindrical needle blanks. A plurality of needle blanks are cut from a roll of wire and mounted to a flat carrier strip. The carrier strip then indexes each needle blank to a grinding station where ... | 05/20/1997 |
