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Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher
A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5771531 | Vacuum for animal feces A vacuum is described which includes a housing having first, second, and third openings, a vacuum motor connected to the first opening of the housing, an elongated tube connected by one end to the second opening of the housing, and a receptacle removably ... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771532 | Suction sweeping machine A suction sweeping machine includes a filter arrangement for collecting debris from a fluid stream. The filter arrangement comprises an outlet leading into the filter arrangement, a container, preferably in the form of a plastic bag, for collecting debris... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771533 | Door stopping device A door stopping device is disclosed. It includes a fitting seat secured on a lower section of the door near the floor and a door stopper. The door stopper includes a base seat formed with a receptacle section for receiving a magnet and a pivot section, a ... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771534 | Slider block assembly for a vehicle window A slider block assembly and method for making the same are disclosed. The slider block assembly is for use with an elongate guide channel having a pair of laterally spaced apart side walls and a pair of axially spaced apart base walls joined to the side w... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771535 | Lawn and garden handle A utility handle for use with a plurality of implements. The handle includes a shaft portion and a handle portion, the handle portion including a plurality of grip portions. The grip portions positioned such that the user may grasp the handle in a variety... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771536 | Handle assembly for grill A handle 10 includes a strap 12 having a central portion 14 and a pair of legs 16 depending therefrom. The central portion 14 is substantially covered by an insulating material 18 which extends down a portion of each leg 16. The insulating material 18 has... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771537 | Handle device adapted to be attached to two mounting holes A handle device is adapted to be attached on an article having an upper wall with two spaced mounting holes. The handle device includes an elongated mounting plate, an elongated carrier strap, two resilient slide members and a blocking member. The mountin... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771538 | Lubricated hinge pin A lubricated hinge pin having a hollow cylindrical body forming a grease reservoir. A plurality of ports are provided through the cylindrical body to lubricate an object pivotally attached to the pin. A grease fitting is provided at one end of the pin.... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771539 | Torsion friction spring hinge The present invention is a spring hinge for generating torque. The spring hinge includes a shaft and a single helical element. The shaft has a surface with an outer diameter and is capable of rotation. The single helical element is wrapped about the shaft... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771540 | Equilibrated hinge with variable frictional torque A hinge that provides equilibration and variable friction for a display screen or a laptop lid. In the preferred embodiment, a torsion rod provides a restoring force which increases as the lid is moved either direction from its vertical position. A fricti... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771541 | Apparatus for cleaning fibers The invention provides an apparatus for cleaning fibers by means of revolving rollers, the fiber mass being divided, expanded, and recombined while being successively transferred over at least three rollers, the outer surface of at least one of the roller... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771542 | Minimum-value seeking autolevelling optimation process A process for direct ascertainment of setting values for point of autolevelling and/or amplification application (R, K) of a draw frame or carder with adjustable drafting of fiber sliver in which the autolevelling of the adjustable draw frame or carder is... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771543 | Length adjustment device for a folding arm type bracelet clasp This adjustment device comprises an adjustment link (6) provided with two parallel articulation axes (5,7) transverse to a bracelet, each serving to connect this adjustment link to two elements of the bracelet forming an endless attachment. This adjustmen... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771544 | Belt adjusting device for a vehicle safety belt system A belt adjusting device comprises a belt webbing having a free end and a tensioned section. The belt adjusting device further comprises a holding part provided with a through passage for a belt webbing and a contact surface adjacent to the through passage... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771545 | Garment strap retainer A garment strap retainer for use in retaining a strap of one piece of garment in a relatively fixed position with respect to another piece of garment and includes a first resilient member having a first end, an intermediate portion and a second end, a sec... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771546 | Pull tab for slide fastener slider A pull tab of a slide fastener slider includes a pull tab body formed of extruded thermoplastic synthetic resin having an internal hollow portion extending longitudinally or transversely therethrough, and an uneven outside surface which provides an orname... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771547 | Tenter clip cleaning method and apparatus A method and apparatus is disclosed for ejecting a loose film edge from a film stretching clip by directing a jet of fluid such as air through a channel in the clip and between adjacent clips at or before release of a film from the clip and also after rel... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771548 | Casket A flat-lid casket has a bottom, two opposing side walls connected to opposing sides of the bottom, and two opposing end walls connected to the opposing end of the bottom and to the two opposing side walls. Each of the two opposing end walls has a main pan... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771549 | Casket shell structures A casket shell comprises an elongated inner box and an elongated outer box. The inner box is congruently disposed in the interior region of the outer box and a core is sandwiched between the inner and outer boxes. The core includes a top surface attached ... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771550 | Method of lining sheet metal casket with liquid impervious liner and casket with liner constructed by such method A method of lining a casket with a liquid impervious liner comprises the steps of providing a casket shell having a pair of side walls, a pair of end walls and a bottom wall, providing a plastic liner having a pair of side walls, a pair of end walls and a... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771551 | Tool for punching and riveting including a combination cylinder A combination punch and rivet tool, the tool being adapted to be mounted on the end of a robot arm, the tool comprising a C frame having two opposed sides, a punch die mounted on one side of the C frame, an anvil slidably mounted on said one side adjacent... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771552 | Method for assembling and curing golf clubs An apparatus and method for first reliably and accurately aligning the shafts of golf clubs in consistent orientation relative to corresponding club heads during assembly thereof, and second for performing inductive curing on the aligned golf club. A golf... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771553 | Precision and quick affixing method for flexible automated assembly An error reduction and accommodation method and system can be used in an automated assembly environment. This method and system use a simple localized calibration process devised to improve similarity between an actual device and a simulated model when an... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771554 | Parts assembling equipment and process In an assembling line for assembling parts successively on engine base being moved on a conveyor, the conveyor comprises a plurality of conveyor divisions. Between two adjacent, i.e., preceding and succeeding, conveyor divisions, a self-running vehicle is... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771555 | Method for producing an electronic component using direct bonding An electronic component includes a first substrate and a second substrate. A first conductive layer constituting a terminal electrode is formed on a first surface of the first substrate. A first insulating layer is formed on the first conductive layer. Th... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771556 | Acoustic wave device and manufacturing method A method for making an acoustic wave device. The method has steps of providing a substrate suitable for acoustic wave devices and processing the substrate to provide a patterned metallization thereon. The patterned metallization includes an acoustic wave ... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771557 | Concrete internal metal stitching An internal metal stitching method for repairing cracks in concrete comprising the steps of cutting slots to facilitate metal stitching brackets installed in saw cuts every two feet and at alternating angles to the crack. The concrete is marked using a st... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771559 | Removable heat sink assembly process for a chip package The process of the invention employs a post type fastening member that provides, at one end, an insertion friction connection to the circuit card and at the other end, extending through the heat sink, a compression spring means that urges the heat sink to... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771560 | Method for the continuous casting of long products and relative continuous casting line Method and continuous casting line for the continuous casting advantageously, but not only, of long products such as billets or blooms, whereby the solidification of the cast product (16) is completed at a position downstream of the outlet of the mould (1... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771561 | Convertible multistation press A multistation press has a three-axis transfer provided with transport rails onto which carrier rails are placed. The carrier rails carry grippers for the workpieces. During the tool change, the carrier rails are deposited on corresponding receiving devic... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771562 | Passivation of organic devices A method of passivating organic devices positioned on a supporting substrate including the steps of overcoating the organic device with a low temperature deposited film of dielectric material, and sealingly engaging an inorganic layer over the dielectric ... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771563 | Method and device for producing conductor bars for dynamoelectric machines In the method for producing conductor bars for dynamoelectric machines, the conductor bars are inserted, with a main insulation (4), applied when dry, into a pressing device with the interposition of a separating film, are pressed to size in said pressing... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771565 | Method of making a dimple compensated laminar stack An apparatus and method for manufacturing laminated parts from a plurality of laminas, in which the laminas for forming the laminated parts are blanked from strip stock material. The laminas and are then cut and stacked to form the laminated part. The app... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771566 | Method of manufacturing a rotor which includes embedded permanent-magnets An electric motor including a permanent-magnet rotor having embedded magnets held in place by several segments. The embedded magnets are secured by segments including non-circular openings near their centers. Several non-magnetic, non-conductive bars exte... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771567 | Methods of fabricating continuous transverse stub radiating structures and antennas Methods of fabricating a porous ceramic composite having voltage-variable dielectric properties. The composite is made as follows. A polycrystalline ferroelectric powder, which is a ferroelectric perovskite such as barium strontium titanate, for example, ... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771568 | Method for manufacturing a head suspension having electrical trace interconnects with reduced capacitance A head suspension assembly, for use in a magnetic rigid disk storage device, has an electrical conductor adherently secured along the length of the suspension and insulated from the surface of the load beam by means of a layer of dielectric insulating mat... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771569 | Manufacturing method for magnetic head suspension A magnetic head suspension, wherein the interconnection wiring is integrated with a spring-like metal suspension member, is manufactured by first preparing a laminated plate comprised of a flexible insulating base sandwiched between a resilient metal laye... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771570 | Method of manufacturing a slider/suspension having an improved crown sensitivity For a slider having convex curvature along its length, or "crown", a method for reducing fly height variation due to crown by shifting the peak of the crown toward the leading end, and the resultant slider structure. In a preferred method, peak shifting i... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771571 | Method for manufacturing thin film slider with on-board multi-layer integrated circuit A thin film slider with an on-board multi-layer integrated circuit includes a substrate with an air bearing surface and a substantially parallel upper surface spanned by a deposit end. A magnetic head being formed at the deposit end, positioned to magneti... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5771572 | Apparatus for assembling an air bag unit and an inflator into an inflator-air bag assembly An apparatus is provided for assembling an inflator and an air bag unit into an inflator-air bag assembly. The apparatus comprises a frame and a holder device coupled to the frame. The holder device includes a movable nest adapted to receive an air bag un... | 06/30/1998 |
