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User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks
An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5878515 | Driving mechanism of music water ball A driving mechanism for a musical water ball provides a waterproof effect and enables the decoration of the water ball to rotate more smoothly and accurately. The driving mechanism includes a seat member, a silicone gasket, a central shaft rod, a fastenin... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878516 | Vehicle billboard A vehicle billboard which permits the removable attachment of a sign-bearing billboard to the existing license plate frame of a vehicle. The billboard is fixedly mounted to a supporting frame and has a flat surface upon which a design may be affixed, draw... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878517 | Signage and method of manufacturing same A sign assembly includes a sign and a bent wire bail for ground insertion. The sign is formed from a blank with adhesive strips for securing its inner surface together in a folded position.... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878518 | Sign stand with rolling base A portable sign stand with rollers and an adjustable weighted base. The base member has one or more compartments so that liquid or solid ballast can be added to stabilize the sign stand in windy conditions. Wheels are provided on one edge of the base memb... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878519 | Sign support apparatus A support and gripping apparatus for supporting traffic control signs to a concrete roadway abutment. The support has a plate which rests on the top of the abutment and which is held in place by a flange and adjustable grips which engage the abutment side... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878520 | Adjustable advertising band The new advertising band for quick and easy locking, unlocking and re-locking about merchandise is a flexible strip having a lead end section, a body section, and a tail end section. The lead end section is equipped with a lock aperture having a maximum d... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878521 | Stealth sight device A stealth sight device including a front sight that has a housing positioned on a front mounting portion. The front mounting portion is positioned along a top front end of a barrel covering of a firing arm, and being secured thereto. The housing of the fr... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878522 | Stranded wire tool A tool for attaching wire to a fishing attachment having an eye loop. The tool has an opened tapered stainless steel wire hook fit into the tool's head which can rotate with respect to a hollow handle. The handle's body may have internal ridges which enga... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878523 | Motorized reeling assembly with automatic cut-off An automatic cut-off motorized reeling assembly is provided including a fishing pole with a reel attached thereto at an inboard end thereof. The reel has a handle rotatably coupled thereto and a spool rotatably coupled thereto about an axis perpendicular ... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878524 | Fishing lure with retractable hooks A fishing lure wherein a hook is retracted within the body of the lure during casting and retrieving and is released and extended to an extended hooking position in response to the strike of a fish. The lure including a plunger slidably received within a ... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878525 | Slip sinker A slip sinker includes a nylon tube (12) having a pair of flared ends (14) and (16). A weight (20) is secured to the tube with a pair of partially closed wire loops (22) and (24) disposed at either end of the weight. The weight includes a generally flat s... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878526 | Scent dispensing electronic bug killer device A scent dispensing electronic bug killer device 10 including a housing member 20 having at least one opening 22, an electrical grid member 30, and a bait holder 40 disposed within the housing member 20 and a fan element 43 for forcibly dispersing the scen... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878527 | Installation for cultivation of plants on a conveyor belt The invention relates to a method for the cultivation of plants, comprising the following steps: a) placing root containers (2) containing a plant on a cultivation conveyor belt (4), b) allowing the plants (3) cultivated in the root containers to grow on ... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878528 | Tree protector The protector comprises two plastic moldings, fastened together to form a cone around a tree planted in a city avenue. The protector prevents salt from leaching down to the root-ball of the tree, and protects the tree from damage from snow and slush piled... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878529 | Entrance device An entrance device for placement in a facade of a building includes at least two revolving doors. Each of the revolving doors has an input section and an output section. A sliding door provides closure of the input and output sections of the two revolving... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878530 | Remotely controllable automatic door operator permitting active and passive door operation A remotely controllable door operator system permitting active and passive use of a door includes a transmitter, a receiver, a master timing sequencing mechanism, a clutch-regulated prime mover that can actively move the door, and a mechanism that senses ... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878532 | Door cartridge having a door latch mounting assembly A door cartridge assembly is provided to be installed into a vehicle door. The assembly includes a door hardware mounting panel having door components mounted thereon and being constructed and arranged to be fixedly mounted to a vehicle door; coupling str... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878533 | Heated gutter system A heated gutter system for preventing the build up of ice and snow on and in a roof gutter. The roof gutter includes a bottom wall, an upper wall, a front wall, a rear wall, and a pair of opposing ends. The upper and front walls have a space therebetween.... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878534 | Roof ridge safety device A safety device in the form of a building component (3) which has a channel (1) along which a traveller (4) may move. The traveller (4) has attachment means (5) for attachment to a safety harness. The building component (3) can be in the form of a roof ri... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878535 | System for tea service A system is provided for tea service in a modern style teahouse, the latter combining quick service with the ambiance of more traditional quiet seating. A transition area between the quick service public and quiet seating lounge areas holds an inner count... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878536 | Neonatal infant care headwall A neonatal infant care headwall fixture defining an infant care station for concentrating infant care equipment in a neonatal health care facility includes a body formed from a plurality of wall members with at least one vertically extending wall member d... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878537 | Squirrel-proof post A squirrel-proof post is composed of a post, supporting a bird feeder or bird house, an annular sleeve, a set of springs, and a means of securing the springs to both the platform supporting the bird feeder or house and to the sleeve. The set of springs wi... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878538 | Device, particularly for compensating the internal and external pressures in a double-glazing unit A device, particularly for compensating the internal and external pressures in a double-glazing unit, such double-glazing units comprising a frame which supports two sheets made of at least partially transparent material, a chamber being formed between th... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878539 | Method and apparatus for a tubular skylight system The present invention includes an improved tubular skylight system having a clear acrylic outer dome, an aluminum flashing, an aluminum light tube, an aluminum ceiling plaster ring, and a prismatic diffuser. The outer dome includes an aluminum ring around... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878540 | Utility pole base pan with drain A mounting pan for a hollow utility pole to mount the same on a concrete support is described. The pan includes an upper mounting plate for securing the same to the pole base, and simultaneously to the concrete support wherein a toroidal recess is provide... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878541 | Ceiling construction and ceiling panel A ceiling construction, especially for a large area shuttering construction for reinforced concrete ceilings, has a plurality of ceiling panels laterally abutting to each other. On a main plate of the ceiling panel, U-profiled shackles are arranged in a r... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878542 | Log siding A new log siding for installing on a structure to simulate an appearance of a log cabin. The inventive device includes a plurality of longitudinal sections adapted for coupling together in a side by side orientation and an end to end orientation on a wall... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878543 | Interlocking siding panel Siding panel for installation on the walls, soffits or other exposed surfaces of a structure having a nailing hem folded back upon itself to form a lateral edge of the siding panel and terminating in a first lip projecting outwardly from the front side of... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878544 | Stabilizing system for concrete poured walls within foam block forms An improved stabilizing system for a poured concrete wall utilizing interlocking foam blocks disposed on a foundation. The improved stabilizing system comprises a plurality of reinforcement members. The first ends of the reinforcement members are secured ... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878545 | Block, in particular shuttering block or standard block A block, in particular a shuttering block or standard block, has two longitudinal walls which form an outer wall and an inner wall. These are connected to one another by at least one transverse wall, which extends over at least part of the height of the b... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878546 | Concrete reinforcing bar connector A concrete reinforcing bar connector is described in which first and second elongated resilient clip members are formed in a substantially semi-circular "C" shaped cross-sectional configuration. The first and second clip members include opposed open ends ... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878547 | Method of wrapping a floral product with a shredded material A method of wrapping a floral grouping, preferably an orchid, with a wrapper which may be a sheet of material, a sleeve or a preformed pot cover. The wrapper is preferably constructed from a laminated material made up of at least a waxy layer and a suppor... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878548 | Corner protector for protecting the top corners of stacks of lumber A corner protector for protecting the top corners of stacks of lumber from being indented or frayed by tie-down cables in a railroad freight car, comprises a sidewall connected at its top to a top wall at right angles to the sidewall along a fold line so ... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878549 | Packages with controlled easy-open features An easy open tear control package, preferably a pouch, from a film of polymeric barrier material is disclosed. Methods and films for making of such packages are also disclosed. The easy open tear control feature arises from roughening portions of the oute... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878550 | Packets and their manufacture Infusion packets have envelopes of heat-sealable material with a looped thread within the packets to wring moisture from the packet in use. A central part of the thread loop is held in a widened region of one edge seal while the ends of the loop project t... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878551 | Full recovery reduced volume packaging system A packaging system including both methods and specific types of packaging addresses the need for a fully recoverable, reduced-volume packaging of compressible items. The system may involve initially compressing the item through folding and the like and wr... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878552 | Apparatus and method for bagging agricultural feed An improved agricultural feed bagging machine for loading feedstock into expandable storage bags. The bagging machine has a double-tapered tunnel for deploying a folded bag, stretching the bag and then releasing the stretched bag about feed that is simult... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878553 | Method and device for the spreading and fitting of empty sacks and for grasping and stacking filled sacks and for conveying them into a closure device A process and device move at least one filled sack from a suspended position at an individual filling nozzle into an upright position on a moving conveyor belt for introduction into a sack closure device, where the travel speed of the conveyor belt corres... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878554 | Efficient sheet stack packaging technique The system involves the use of shallow boxes having an integral base and lid, with the lid being foldable down to close the box as part of the automated packaging of stacks of sheets of labels or other sheet material. The system involves one or more accum... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878555 | Apparatus for wrapping articles in plastic film Apparatus for wrapping articles in film material includes a stationary frame supporting a vertically reciprocable frame which in turn supports a rotatable ring member carrying a film carriage assembly by which film is wrapped around a load during rotation... | 03/09/1999 |
