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Behavior Modification Wristwatch
A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5676040 | Automatic refill brewing apparatus A sensing assembly which includes a sensing device. The sensor assembly is constructed for use with an automatic beverage apparatus. The sensing assembly is attached to a beverage reservoir and senses, by physical contact, a quantity of beverage retained ... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676041 | Coffee brewing apparatus A coffee brewing apparatus for producing a selectively flavored, liquid coffee beverage, having a housing, a receptacle, securable to the housing, for retaining ground virgin coffee beans to be brewed, a dispensing means, at least partially disposed withi... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676042 | Apparatus for producing fried food product A food material placed into a frying box 3 is immersed into an impregnation tank 50 containing a processing liquid under a depressurization in a throw-in preliminary chamber 9 and then, the substitution of the water in the food material with the processin... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676043 | Griddle assembly having discrete cooking zones A large, thin griddle plate defines discrete heating zones, so that each zone has its own temperature. The griddle plate is made of a thin, relatively low conductivity metal and received along its bottom surface substantially thick, juxtaposed heat transf... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676044 | Rotary air impingement oven A combination radiant heat, convection and rotary air impingement closed loop oven comprising an oven housing mounting a removable cooking chamber with a pair of driven spaced apart removable impingement disks. The removable cooking chamber comprising a t... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676045 | Outdoor grill An outdoor grill has a firebox positioned in a corner at the intersection of the sidewall and bottom of the grill. The firebox has a heat directing surface oriented at an angle to match the angle of the cooking rack which has a handle extending through th... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676046 | Conversion broiler assembly A conversion broiler assembly to adapt a single-sided cooking apparatus to a double-sided cooking apparatus. The conversion broiler assembly has a rear housing that is mountable to the single-sided cooking apparatus. The rear housing movably receives left... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676047 | Rotating variable height clamping device The invention uses a lost motion clamping system to provide variable height clamping from the top of a one or more stacks. The variable height clamp is then locked in place. A second clamping means then provides additional clamping from the bottom of the ... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676048 | Gas barbecue assembly A gas barbecue having a rectangular body, gas control means, a cooking grill, and a burner assembly. The burner assembly includes an elongate tube burner and a generally L-shaped tube burner having a primary tube member and a secondary tube member interse... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676049 | Apparatus for barbecue grilling of food The present invention relates to an apparatus for barbecue grilling of food comprising an outer housing (1) having a grill (2) upon which food can be placed, a radiant heat source (3) located below the grill (2), and a supply (4) of combustible gas and ai... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676050 | Cake mold A cake mold includes a base having a number of receptacles disposed thereon, and ring-shaped side parts of different diameters that are adapted for inserting into corresponding receptacles. The side parts are independent of and separate from the base. In ... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676051 | Heated warming apparatus for food products A heated warming apparatus for food products comprises, one or a plurality of food containers, a housing for accomodating the food containers, and a hot-air fan whose discharge opening leads in the housing. Since in such conventional apparatus, the hot ai... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676052 | Apparatus and method for tensioning a silk screen An apparatus and method for tensioning a screen on a roller frame are disclosed. The apparatus includes a fixture having a plurality of clamp mechanisms for releasably securing the frame to define a screen tensioning plane, and at least one double-headed ... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676053 | Method and apparatus for inking a waterless planographic printing plate A method and apparatus for inking a "waterless" planographic printing plate utilizes an ink application unit and a separating agent application unit. These two units supply conventional ink and a separating agent either directly or indirectly to the plano... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676054 | Doctor device for intaglio printing machines The invention pertains to a doctor device for intaglio printing machines with a doctor blade displaceable relative to the printing cylinder, the working stroke of which is adjustable. In keeping with the invention, a motor-driven swash plate rigidly affix... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676055 | Control device for a printing machine This invention describes a control mechanism for an electric main drive of a printing machine, whereby the electric main drive operates with a motor, a brake and a tachometer generator. The machine control of the control mechanism is connected to a multip... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676056 | Rotary printing press with a freely mountable folder In a rotary printing press with at least one folder, which comprises at least one cutting cylinder and one folding jaw cylinder, each folder is driven, due to being equipped with at least one separate drive motor, mechanically independently at least from ... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676057 | Device for mounting a roller in a printing machine A device for mounting an applicator roller of a dampening unit in a printing machine is disclosed. The device is adapted for rotatably receiving a roller journal of the applicator roller and for fixing that journal relative to the frame part of the printi... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676058 | Printing plate mounting system and method employing the same A system for mounting a flexographic printing plate having a registration mark includes a printing plate support surface having a transparent portion formed therein, a plate cylinder, means operably connected to the plate cylinder for positioning the plat... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676059 | Tram coordinating method and apparatus A method and apparatus for coordinating the movement of a plurality of oppositely directed trams operating generally simultaneously along a single, dedicated lane, including a plurality of stop-boarding areas, a plurality of corresponding by-pass lanes, s... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676060 | Floor chain transfer system The transmission system (5) contains two horizontal sprocket wheels (12 and 15) turning in the opposite sense over which run two floor chains (9 and 13) which carry protruding catch elements (10 and 14) for engaging driving pins (17) of conveyor transport... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676061 | Carrier cell for a monorail sortation system A carrier cell is provided for use in a high-speed sortation system having an I-beam monorail with vertically spaced upper and lower horizontal plates connected by a web. The carrier cell includes a cover having a horizontally-extending top surface above ... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676062 | Collapsible massage table A collapsible massage table has two sides, each side being supported by a support structure including two legs. Each leg is connected to the center of the table by a brace having an articulating joint. Two cable lines stabilize the leg structure. Each cab... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676063 | Modular pallet A modular pallet (10) comprises a pair of cushion bars (12,14), and a pair of spaced sub-frames (22,24), each having a horizontal support surface (26,38) with a pair of slots (34,36 and 50,52) in its front or rear edge, the sub-frames also having vertical... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676064 | Pallet and pallet package A plastic pallet and a method of shrink-wrapping an article onto the platform structure of the pallet. The pallet includes a plurality of legs and a planar platform structure supported by the legs and formed of upper and lower thermoformed sheets of plast... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676065 | Flatracks and load-carrying systems Sundry advantageous designs of mini-flatrack are shown. A mini-flatrack is one whose length is substantially half that of a conventional I.S.O. "6 meter" or "20 foot" flatrack. Mini-flatracks can be joined end-to-end, or have their length increased by int... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676066 | Apparatus with slanted rack on pallet for transporting glass Apparatus comprising a slanted rack on a pallet with enclosed forklift tine channels accessible from both sides and ends of the pallet; side frames providing stackability, with partial movability to allow unobstructed access during loading and unloading o... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676067 | Modular interlocking flat storage pallet A modular interlocking flat pallet comprised of elongated longitudinal and lateral members having respective lateral and end interlocking configurations. The lateral elements have either end extensions or member reception hollows and the longitudinal memb... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676068 | Versatile tables which form expandable loop assemblies Tables having tops (20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38) with two or more edge portions designed to be adjoining edges. One adjoining edge is concave with a radius r. A second adjoining edge is convex with a radius r, less enough clearance to p... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676069 | Systems and methods for controlling a draft inducer for a furnace Systems and methods for controlling a draft inducer for use with a furnace. The draft inducer includes a motor for driving a fan for inducing a draft in the furnace that causes a pressure drop across the heat exchanger of the furnace. A memory stores info... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676070 | Apparatus and methods for catalytic, low temperature degradation of medical waste and other organic materials Methods and Systems for catalyzing the oxidative destruction of animal tissues, particularly medical waste and animal and human corpses. A reaction chamber containing a fluidizable media is maintained at a temperature sufficient to cause the fluidized med... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676071 | Method and device for introducing a liquid or gaseous treatment medium into a flue gas flow A method and apparatus for introducing a liquid or gaseous treatment medium into a flue gas stream wherein a total adjustment value for controlling the amount of active substance in the treatment medium is generated by an actual value measurement of a flu... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676072 | Apparatus for automatically planting seedlings taken from a hard seedling tray A field seedling planting machine for transplanting seedlings automatically from a tray in which they have been grown in a plurality of individual cells, and planting such seedlings in a prepared ground planting position in the field, the machine having a... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676073 | Closing wheels adjustment mechanism The present invention is an adjustment mechanism to move the seed firming wheels into its correct side-to-side position. The seed firming wheels are rotatably mounted to a bracket which in turn is mounted to a wheel support member of the planter unit fram... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676074 | Garment fence for an embroidery hoop A garment fence for an embroidery hoop having an inner and outer hoop defining a sewing field and used for embroidering garments, and comprising a frame having a top and bottom edge inserted within the embroidery hoop and barrier device attached to the fr... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676075 | Presser foot coupler for sewing machines A presser foot coupler for a sewing machine allows effortless and quick mounting and dismounting of a presser foot onto the sewing machine. The presser foot coupler comprise a holding member having a receding coupling portion formed on the bottom and a sl... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676076 | Thread conditioning device An improved thread conditioning device for use as an accessory to conventional sewing machines. Included are a rectangular baseplate with a pair of upstanding projections. One of the projections near the rear portion of the plate extends upwardly and at i... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676077 | Multi-needle chain stitch sewing machine with thread severing system A multi-needle chain stitch sewing machine with a thread thread severing system and method thereof for cutting needle threads between two isolated stitched patterns of a fabric. The multi-needle sewing machine includes a plurality of loopers and respectiv... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676078 | Method and apparatus for sewing sleeves on shirt bodies A sewing machine in combination with a work piece control and advancing mechanism and a microprocessor for setting sleeves in shirt bodies. A sleeve and shirt body are manually loaded on the work piece control and advancing mechanism and placed under the ... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5676079 | Reduced drag rudder for tiller steered sailboats An improved rudder for tiller steered sailboats is disclosed wherein a rudder support member is rotatably mounted on an axial support located substantially at the waterline in the aft central portion of a boat. A rudder support guide or track is preferabl... | 10/14/1997 |
