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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5815871 | Ramp member for loading docks A ramp member for a loading dock has a bridge member with a forward and and rearward end. The rearward end is connected to the loading dock so as to be pivotable about a horizontal axis. An extension plate is connected with a first end by a pivot connecti... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815872 | Pressure overload indicator system for power toothbrushes A power toothbrush has a brushhead mounted at one end thereof, the brushhead including a base mounting element for bristles which extend from one surface thereof. Extending from the opposing surface of the base mounting element is a pressure contact membe... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815873 | Retractable golf utility device The present invention is directed to a unique golf accessory, which in its most basic form comprises three fundamental parts; (a) a golf club/cleat brush; (b) a recoilable wire or tape and housing therefor; and (c) means for attaching the brush to the rec... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815874 | Brush with foamed plastics handle A brush with a one-piece plastic brush body produced by injection moulding comprises a head covered with bristles and a dimensionally stable handle with a larger cross-section than the head, the brush body being made from an elastomer mixed with a foaming... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815875 | Bi-positionable toothbrush A bi-positional toothbrush comprising a brush head member rotatably mounted to a handle by a cylindrical pin. The brush head member includes an array of bristles at a forward end and terminates in an essentially flat angled surface at a rearward end. The ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815876 | Apparatus for cleaning and polishing a surface A cleaning and polishing assembly having a compressible main body with a releasable attachment material on one face and a fibrous working surface on its other face. The fibrous working surface is composed of fibers having a trilobal cross-section. The cle... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815877 | Brush with retractable bristles A compact, self-cleaning brush having minimal number of components and being easier to assemble which makes the design more cost effective. The bristles of the brush are mounted between a base and a sliding actuating member which are constructed so that a... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815878 | Sweeper device A sweeper device including a head, a stick mounted on an upper surface of the head and a sweeping sheet detachably attached to the head, a pair of clamping members being provided in a transversely symmetric relationship with respective inner ends thereof ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815880 | Cleaning robot The robot according to the present invention sequentially performs a collecting operation in which dust and particles on the floor are collected, and a cleaning or waxing operation. The cleaning robot includes a moving unit including driving wheels or cra... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815881 | Universal vacuum cleaner A universal vacuum cleaner comprising an inlet aperture, cylindrical top cover, a cylindrical liquid container, a centrally placed outlet pipe, a nozzle, a detachable pick up tray, an air pump, and a central outlet pipe. The cylindrical top cover is posit... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815883 | Vacuum cleaner and a handle for suction lines thereof The problem with suction lines on vacuum cleaners is that the connected vacuum hose must be lifted during when the suction pipe is rotated. To eliminate this problem, the invention teaches that an elbow is interposed between the suction pipe and the sucti... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815884 | Dust indication system for vacuum cleaner A vacuum cleaner includes an optical dust sensor for detecting a quantity of dust which sensor is provided at a predetermined position of a suction path for sucking air by a suction force of the vacuum cleaner, whereby an output signal is supplied to a di... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815885 | Caster structure for cases A caster structure for cases including a coupling frame and a plurality of rollers. The coupling frame is comprised of a curved plate and two protective covers extending from the lateral edges of the bottom side of the plate such that they define a cleara... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815886 | Hinge device for covers A hinge device is provided for pivoting a cover to a base housing and is designed such that when the cover is in a closed position it does not easily come off the base housing when subjected to external force yet the cover is easily and readily removable ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815887 | Air-assisted introduction of fiber sliver before the nip of calendar disks A process and device are provided to introduce a fiber fleece through the nip of a pair of calendar rollers. Pressurized air is directed to a cylindrical segment of a sliver guiding system down stream from a tapered conical section so that the pressurized... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815888 | Apparatus for exchanging coiler cans at a fiber processing textile machine A coiler can handling apparatus includes a platform rotatable about a substantially vertical platform axis for rotating a coiler can standing thereon; a travelling coiler can exchanger for moving a coiler can onto and moving a coiler can off the platform;... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815889 | Process and device for regulating drafting equipment, in particular in carding machines A method of regulating a drafting arrangement, in which measuring signals are acquired at a feed end of the drafting arrangement, compared with a set value to provide a differential signal, and an adjusting signal for the control unit of a variable speed ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815890 | Apparatus for measuring the thickness of a running sliver in a sliver producing machine An apparatus for measuring the thickness of running sliver includes a body having inner walls defining a funnel-shaped cavity through which the sliver passes; a contact finger having an end portion for contacting the running sliver at the narrow end of th... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815891 | Cable tie with bent barb A cable tie includes an elongate generally planar strap and a head. The head of the cable tie includes an aperture therethrough for insertably accommodating the strap. The head of the cable tie also includes a barb embedding surface adjacent the aperture ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815892 | Profile clamp A profile clamp includes a clamp band that has a first axial end, a second axial end, a first circumferential end portion and a second circumferential end portion. A first flange depends from the first axial end. A second flange depends from the second ax... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815894 | System for handling long items The present invention is directed to a system which facilitates the handling of segments of elongated members in their broken down condition. In particular the application of the invention offers significant advantages of economics, convenience and flexib... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815895 | Remote control latch system A latch system for joining a first strap section or section of flexible support to a second strap section or section of flexible support. Attached to the second strap section is a rod that is adapted for insertion into the latch system, and for releasing ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815896 | Method and apparatus to provide improved and more efficient napping of fabrics made from spun yarns A method and apparatus for loosening, cutting, and abrading a web of textile fabric having spun yarns containing wrapper fibers. The textile fabric web is directed under high tension around pairs of rotatable, small diameter tubes coated with abrasive par... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815897 | Planter cremation vault This invention is basically a planter combined with a cremation vault. The planter portion of the planter cremation vault is a cylindrical tube with a closed bottom. Within that tube is fitted a liner which is also a cylindrical tube with a closed bottom.... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815898 | Casket A casket comprises an outer structure, a tray and an insert. The tray is formed of corrugated fiberboard having a corrugation extending in a first direction, while the insert is formed of corrugated fiberboard having a corrugation extending in a second di... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815899 | Method for making a spectacle frame A method for manufacturing a spectacle frame includes molding a frame having two extensions formed in the side portions. The extensions each has a groove for receiving a spring and a ball and each has a lateral channel intersecting the groove. A pair of l... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815900 | Method of manufacturing a surface acoustic wave module A surface acoustic module is stable, and its operation frequencies can be varied with high precision. A method of manufacturing the surface acoustic module prevents the module's electrodes from being broken during separation of a sheet of modules into ind... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815901 | Apparatus for expansion forming of tubing forming of tubing A frame member of rectangular cross section with rounded corners is formed by expansion of a tubular blank within a die cavity having an inner portion of corresponding cross section and an outer transition portion which is of smoothly continuously curved ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815902 | Rotary transfer machine The rotary transfer machine for machining a workpiece using fixed-cycle control has a centrally disposed rotary indexing table which is driven according to a fixed cycle, can rotate about a vertical axis and at the outer circumference of which a plurality... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815903 | Packaging system A packaging system is provided wherein a support structure such as a container, bin or rack having a free edge is converted into an apparatus for at least temporarily storing one or more objects in a suspended manner. The system generally includes at leas... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815904 | Method for making a stent The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a tubular medical device for insertion in a body. The method includes the step cutting a plurality of cross-sectional pieces or layers from a flat sheet. The pieces are cut so as to define inner ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815905 | Method of covering and protecting a flower pot and floral grouping A covering for a flower pot with a floral grouping disposed therein and extending a distance above an upper end of the flower pot wherein the flower pot has a lower end and an outer peripheral surface. The covering includes a sheet of material having an u... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815906 | Method of blind riveting, blind rivet with an expansion section and a device for performing the method The present invention concerns a self-cutting blind rivet/expansion rivet without draw nails in the core of the rivet, a method for blind riveting/expansion and an apparatus for performing the method, together with a function for expansion by a combinatio... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815907 | Method of forming a rim construction for a rotor A method for constructing a rotor for an energy storage apparatus includes the step of fabricating a rim having an inner diameter and an outer diameter. The method also includes the step of bonding at least one lamina panel to the rim at the inner diamete... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815908 | Method and apparatus for producing a metal tube containing a light waveguide with an excess length A method and apparatus for producing excess lengths of light waveguides in relation to a metal tube containing the waveguide comprises an arrangement for forming a metal tube and an arrangement for inserting the light waveguides into the metal tube at a g... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815909 | Method of making a thin film magnetic head including protected via connections through an electrically insulative substrate A method is provided for fabricating a thin film magnetic head including a plurality of layered components. One or more vias are formed through an electrically insulative substrate which includes first and second opposed major surfaces. The via includes a... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815910 | Method for manufacturing a magnetic head A method for manufacturing a magnetic head recording and reproducing information on or from magnetic recording media such as a video tape, includes the steps of preparing a chip core having a contact surface with which a magnetic tape contacts and on whic... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815911 | Apparatus for assembling photo film cassette A cassette (110), to be loaded with a photo film strip, has a photo film passageway (119) through which a leader (123) of the photo film strip (23, 111) is drawn out of a cassette shell. On a spool (112) is retained a trailer (124) of the photo film strip... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815912 | Circuit board support assembly A circuit board locating assembly for locating a circuit board during a manufacturing operation such as a solder paste printing operation performed on the board, the locating assembly comprising a tooling platen for supporting during the operation a plura... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815913 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing a heat exchanger A method of manufacturing a heat exchanger with a plurality of radiation fins which are stacked on a plurality of hairpin tubes or straight tubes includes the steps of clamping bent portions of the hairpin tubes or one ends of the straight tubes in such a... | 10/06/1998 |
