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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5749096 | Helmet with high performance head and face protection utilizing complementary materials A structure formed of a composite material and a support material, the support material being integrally coupled to the composite material by an insert molding process to form an integral structure, and protective head gear, such as a welding helmet, weld... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749097 | Three digit fingernail protector A finger and thumb protector providing two sheaths for fingers and one sheath for the thumb of a user working with solvents. The sheaths are connected by a tether. The protector is formed from a thin, flexible, elastic material impervious to solvents, suc... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749098 | Foldable garment attachment assembly A fastener assembly for tubular garments utilizes hook and loop fasteners for quick, secure releasable engagement. Pairs of hook and loop fasteners are positioned around the cuff section of a sleeve and a glove to provide a mating relation to prevent cold... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749099 | Draining disposable fluid-tight ear protector A protective enclosure for the human ear which entirely encloses the ear except for a first opening sized to receive the outer ear and a second, lower, opening to act as a drain or weep hole, the weep hole having the ability to shed any liquid that is abl... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749100 | Open toe sock An open toe sock that includes a foot engaging portion, a leg engaging portion, a thin resilient circumferential band, and a skid resistant sole. The foot engaging portion has a heel area, an open toe area that is disposed in front of the heel area of the... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749101 | Men's padded brief A padded brief especially for men comprising a garment shell having a front side and a rear side and at least one pad removably mountable on the rear side of the padded brief.... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749102 | In-line sewage pump An automatically activated pump for advancing mixed fluid waste from a toilet for disposal at an elevation above the toilet utilizes a flow sensing blade disposed within an intake conduit. The blade is joined to an activation finger located outside the co... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749103 | Toilet seat having a sanitary lifting surface A substantially annular toilet seat having a lifting surface which remains sanitary throughout a range of toilet seat positions between a toilet bowl and a toilet tank. The seat has a hinged end and an outer perimeter wall. The outer perimeter wall has a ... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749104 | Ergonomic toilet seat assembly for adults and children A toilet seat assembly having a pivotal toilet seat and a pivotal toilet seat insert to overlie rear and side portions of the opening thereof to facilitate safe and effective use by children. A seat insert body defines an outer peripheral recess and a sup... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749105 | Drain assembly A drain assembly which improves on the durability, economy and ease of manufacture and maintenance of previous drain assemblies. The drain assembly has a cartridge that threads onto a drain body. A spud or stopper slides up and down along the cartridge to... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749106 | Portable spa with access stairway set into indentation within side walls A portable spa is provided wherein an external axis stairway is provided within an indentation in one of the sidewalls of the tub.... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749107 | Spa apparatus with hanging structural liner The method of providing a spa tub, and comprising providing a load-bearing tub side wall having an inner side and an outer side, the tub having an interior to receive liquid; the tub side wall provided to include at least two wall sections, spaced about t... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749108 | Spring to metal rail assembly A spring assembly comprising a frame, a plurality of metal rails secured to the frame and a plurality of spaced spring modules secured to the rails. Each of the rails comprises a top portion and two sidewalls extending downwardly from the top portion and ... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749109 | Inflatable blanket having selective air flow patterns The present invention relates to blankets for use with forced air convection systems, wherein the blankets include means to provide air through selective areas of the lower sheet of the blanket. In particular, perforations are provided through the lower s... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749110 | Box spring wrap and dust ruffle system A box spring wrap and dust ruffle system is disclosed. The box spring wrap is fabricated of a material to which hooks, of a hook-and-loop fastener system, may be attached. The wrap has a length selected so that it is long enough to wrap around two sides a... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749111 | Gelatinous cushions with buckling columns A cushion that includes a cushioning element. The cushioning element has a number of substantially parallel elongate columns formed in a gelatinous cushioning media. The columns are configured so that when a force is applied to the cushioning element in a... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749112 | Invalid bed guard sheet An invalid bed guard sheet is presented for use with invalid beds having raisable guardrails. The guard sheet has a standard flat horizontal sheet which is placed over the mattress. Continuously attached to the sheet are left and right guard pads which ma... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749113 | Drywall tool An apparatus for cleanly and easily removing nails from drywall has a shaft portion with a narrowing portion having a first end attached to the shaft portion and a second end having a width narrower than the width of the narrowing portion first end. The n... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749114 | Poultry house cleaner apparatus The present invention provides a poultry house cleaner apparatus that is adapted to easily, quickly and efficiently clean, scrape and remove the manure of the chicken from the side walls of the chicken houses. This poultry house cleaner apparatus is adapt... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749115 | Rotatable head hairbrush A hairbrush is disclosed having an elongated, generally hollowed handle having a receiving cavity and a separate brush head having a connection end. At the inside base of the receiving cavity is a first blade slot for retaining one end of a flat, elongate... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749116 | Tongue hygiene device A tongue hygiene device to be used with a mildly abrasive cleanser, the tongue hygiene device having a generally elongate handle section and a generally disk-shaped cleansing section. The handle section is ergonomically designed to allow the user to effec... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749117 | Paint applicator having an improved working tip A device for application and manipulation of paint on a substrate includes a handle having a distal end and a proximal end, and a working tip attached to the distal end of the handle. The working tip is a flexible, non-porous extruded material having a di... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749118 | Heated wiper blade The present invention is a heated wiper blade comprising an elongated blade and a heating element connected to the electrical system of a vehicle. The heating element utilizes a material with a positive temperature coefficient of resistance placed between... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749119 | Windshield wiper blade deicer A windshield wiper blade deicer (22) comprising an assembly (24) for lifting and lowering two spring biased wiper arms (12) of a pair of windshield wipers (10) repeatedly with respect to a windshield (16) of a motor vehicle (18). Snow, ice and slush (20) ... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749120 | Control device, particularly for steam-generating appliances for household and/or industrial cleaning The control device for steam-generating appliances has at least one component having a variable internal volume that is accommodated in the handle of a fixture of the steam-generating appliance, and is filled with a nonconducting fluid. The component has ... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749121 | Wheel and housing for table leg A wheel assembly for the tubular end of the horizontal member of an inverted T-shaped table leg comprises a cylindrical housing which plugs into the tubular end. A recess in the housing opens through its cylindrical wall at an opening which subtends an an... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749122 | Interior door closer and method A hidden door closer is based upon the positioning of a torsional spring adjacent the hinge edge of a door, which door has a hollow interior hidden closer portion with a closer mounted in an access opening so that the torsional spring and its housed assem... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749123 | Safety device This invention relates to a safety device, and in particular to a safety device for a sliding panel, such as a patio door. The safety device includes an abutment (20), a carrier (21), for the abutment (20), a mounting arm (22) for the carrier (21), a pivo... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749124 | Hinge for notebook computer This invention relates to a hinge which needs only small force to be turned in one rotational direction and relatively larger force to be turned in the opposite direction. The hinge comprises a pair of hinge members each having a cylindrical end and a fix... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749125 | Hinge bracket for a cabinet door A hinge bracket assembly for a flipper door comprises a bracket body to which a pair of spaced rollers are fitted along an edge thereof. The rollers are spaced slightly from a flange portion of the bracket body to define slots therebetween. A hinge arrang... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749126 | Device for guiding and coupling the sliding flat with the drive belt in a flat card A carding flat and a system for guiding and driving it in a card with moving flats driven by toothed belts, in which coupling between the flats and belts is achieved by a form fit between cavities and projections without fixed retention means, so enabling... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749127 | Easily adjustable fastening belt for holding a dive knife An easily adjustable fastening belt for holding a dive knife including a belt and a male and a female fastening means separately connected to two ends of the belt. A length of the belt near the end having the female fastening means connected thereto is pr... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749128 | Extensible clasp for a bracelet The extensible bracelet clasp is of the unfolding buckle type. It includes a first assembly (1) comprising a cap (3) and a push-piece (5) adapted to slide on a second assembly (2) in order to adjust the length of the clasp. Such second assembly (2) compri... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749129 | Molded surface fastener, and method and apparatus for manufacturing the same A molded surface fastener is manufactured by supplying molten resin to the circumferential surface of a die wheel rotating in one way to mold a substrate sheet blank and a multiplicity of substantially straight and inclined engaging element blanks in an i... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749130 | Child-proof seat belt buckle assembly A locking seat belt buckle assembly is configured for placement and operation within a standard seat belt buckle and tongue. In one embodiment, the seat belt buckle includes a latch that engages the tongue and a latch release plate to disengage the latch ... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749131 | Transport device for a continuous moving sheet, in particular stretching device for a plastic film webs An improved transport device for a moving material web, in particular a stretching system for plastic film webs which is in particular suitable for high circulating speeds, is distinguished by the fact that a guide rail system (3) comprising at least one ... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749132 | Method of fabrication an optical waveguide A method for diffusing titanium into a single-crystal lithium niobate substrate and guided wave devices produced therefrom provide improved mode match with coupled fibers. Preferably, the titanium diffusion occurs at a diffusion temperature for a time bet... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749133 | Method and apparatus for forming strings of pocketed springs Methods and apparatus are provided for forming strings of springs enclosed within pockets having flat overlapping side seams avoiding problems with false loft in mattress construction.... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749134 | Slide fastener repair system A slide fastener repair system including a method in which an opening is formed in a slide fastener to create a gap in a row of fastener elements, removing the slide fastener slider through the opening, positioning a replacement slider on the teeth of the... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5749135 | Method for extruding integral seat back frame A method for producing a U shaped seat back frame from a single extruded blank. The blank's cross section is nearly circular, but with a pair of short, flattened off crests that create a pair of concentric arcs, in cross section. Over a length of each end... | 05/12/1998 |
