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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6032365 | Slotted rotary shaver An electrically powered slotted rotary shaver which provides the clean, close shave of a hand-held razor combined with the safety, comfort and convenience of an electric shaver. The slotted rotary shaver comprises a body portion and a shaving portion. The... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032366 | Portable stripping unit A clamping unit, cutting unit, and drive unit are installed in a main body that may be carried with one hand. The cutting depth of the cutting unit may be adjusted by an adjusting wheel. A handle unit for carrying the main body is shaped and positioned su... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032367 | Cutting device A new cutting device for cutting tubing and piping. The inventive device includes a housing having separable first and second portions. The first and second portions each have an inner face and are pivotally coupled together such that the first and second... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032368 | Apple corer A hand held coring device for removing the core from a piece of fruit such as an apple, pear, or the like is disclosed. The device is constructed of a tube having a wall, a central bore, first and second ends, and at least two slots defined within the wal... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032369 | Portable trimmer including means for securely retaining stick that prevents rotation of cutting member A portable trimmer has a supporting tube with a forward end on which is mounted a cutting device. The cutting device has a case with a first hole for receiving a stick, and also contains a rotatable shaft with a threaded end. A seating member that is rota... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032370 | Portable trimmer A portable trimmer for cutting weeds comprises a cutter, a driving device for rotationally driving the cutter, a control lever for controlling power of the driving device, a braking device for stopping rotation of the cutter, and an interlocking device op... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032371 | Safety cutting device A cutting device includes a cutting blade having a cutting edge, and a shell holding the cutting blade on the inside thereof. The shell has an outer edge, and has defined therein a chamber that encompasses at least a portion of the cutting edge of the cut... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032372 | Intrinsically fenced safety razor head The various embodiments of the invention are directed to safety razor heads (1) having an intrinsically fenced unitary blade (7) oriented at a high slicing angle to the shaving direction. The unitary blade comprises a plurality of short blade edges (22) i... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032373 | Methods and apparatus for adjusting chain saw tension A chain saw includes a chain formed into a closed loop about a drive sprocket and a support bar. A first piston is operable to move the support bar radially away from the drive sprocket, and a second piston is operable to limit such movement.... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032374 | Gunsight and reticle therefor An improved telescopic gunsight is provided by combining a conventional telescopic gunsight with a reticle having a primary vertical cross-hair, a primary horizontal cross-hair intersecting the primary vertical cross-hair, a plurality of secondary horizon... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032375 | Inclination sensor An inclination sensor includes a container in which an electrolyte liquid and a gas bubble are sealed. The container has a top member with a concave surface having a radius of curvature in a first direction larger than a radius of curvature in a second di... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032376 | Pendulum line level A pendulum line level is presented which makes reading the level easier and which allows a workman to utilize a level that is calibrated in degrees. The level is essentially rectangular and has two rotating dials in the body of the level. These dials rota... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032377 | Non-spherical surface shape measuring device A non-spherical surface shape measuring device and method that measures the shapes of object surfaces that have rotationally symmetrical non-spherical surface shapes on the basis of relative deviation values from the shape of a reference surface, the non-... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032378 | Hand tool for hanging pictures A measuring tool which allows for a quick, accurate determination of the appropriate position to hang a hook or similar hanger on a wall for supporting a picture or similar object. The tool includes horizontal and vertical legs and a sliding member that m... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032379 | Tape measure A tape measure providing with an end hook fastened to a free end of a measuring tape with four rivets through two holes aligned on a longitudinal axis thereof and two holes disposed one on each side of an axial line segment between the shank portion and t... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032380 | Tape measure structure with improved brake device A tape measure structure includes a tape, an enclosure, and a brake device which further includes a release key and a first and second brake shoes. By means of the above combination, the retraction motion of the tape can be controlled by the user through ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032381 | Dovetail accessory for a dial test indicator A dovetail accessory (16) for a dial test indicator (18) having a body (20) with a dovetail tongue (22). The accessory (16) comprises a dovetail hinge member (24) to attach in an adjustable manner the dial test indicator (18) to a dovetail extension (26) ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032382 | Drying apparatus and method using IPA of a semiconductor wafer When an IPA is fed to a nozzle, a flow of the IPA passing through holes is generated. The flow becomes film-shaped and goes downward along an inner surface of a side wall of a processing vessel. Then, the flow is collected by a liquid receiving section fo... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032383 | Device for through-flow continuous heat treatment of textiles, fabric, or the like A screen drum design is known whose drum jacket consists of axially extending sheet metal strips whose widths extend in the radial direction. These sheet metal strips must be permanently attached to the end bottoms to produce the drum jacket. According to... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032384 | Method of drying moist organic material A method for drying a moist organic material which is continuously supplied in a stream includes passing hot air through the moist organic material in a part of the stream to absorb an amount of moisture, whereby the moist organic material cools the hot a... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032385 | Method for pocket ventilation and sheet support in a papermaking machine dryer section A dryer section in a papermaking machine has two reversing rolls to form a pocket between each pair of dryers in a dryer tier. The first reversing roll is a vacuum roll and the second reversing roll is a grooved roll. A blow box is disposed between the tw... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032386 | Golf shoe with removable sole A sport shoe, particularly suitable for golf, provides a shoe with a base section sole and an overlying sole that is selectively removable from the base section sole. The base section sole can be spikeless, or include one type of spikes, while one or more... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032387 | Automated tightening and loosening shoe An automated tightening and loosening shoe with rigid, semi-rigid or flexible polymer bands functioning as laces, and a tightening mechanism which operates in one direction to cause automatic tightening of the rigid, semi-rigid or flexible polymer bands t... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032388 | Thin, flexible shoe outsole with injected-through tread elements, a method of producing such an outsole and a shoe provided with such an outsole An outsole for a shoe is formed a thin, flexible, nonporous and inelastic sheet material having a pattern of perforations through it, and a plurality of tread elements of a hard, wear-resistant material molded onto a first side of the sheet material by a ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032389 | Earth mover with leveling device or fixed cutting edge earth mover An earth mover includes a fixed scraper blade and a moveable floor section. The moveable floor section can be pulled rearwardly to provide an opening between the fixed scraper blade and the forward edge of the floor section. The floor section is mounted o... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032390 | Tooth assembly for excavation bucket In an excavation bucket, the nose of an adapter has two surfaces to take the horizontal loads and four surfaces to take the vertical loads. A pin holds and locks a tooth to the adapter. Projections on the pin engage sloping surfaces of the nose. A recess ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032391 | Iron and steam brush for business use An iron having an iron main body and an electromagnetic valve which controls flow and stop of ironing steam. The iron is provided with a first tube for ironing steam, which sends ironing steam to the iron main body in open state of the electromagnetic val... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032392 | Method and device for creating an illusion of thickness from a flat image A method and apparatus for producing an illusion of depth from a flat image. The apparatus includes a plurality of sheets, each being at least partially transparent and reflective and a light source. A design media having at least one of relatively thin l... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032393 | Rotatable peg illuminated picture board An image generating board apparatus is provided, including an image display board having an array of peg ports, pegs formed of translucent and colorless material rotatably fitted into each of at least two of the peg ports, each peg having a peg distal end... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032394 | Placard holder A holder for fixing a placard to a body utilizing a mounting plate which confines the placard in a certain position. A multiplicity of pins are linked to the mounting plate and are capable of passing through the body. A backing member engages the pins thr... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032395 | Magazine loaded pump action shotgun A pump action shotgun that has been designed to accept a shotgun shell magazine that can be quickly and easily attached or removed. An aperture is formed in the bottom surface of the receiver forwardly of a trigger housing assembly aperture. The top end o... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032396 | Child safe trigger mechanism A new child safe trigger mechanism for preventing a child from squeezing the trigger of a handgun. The inventive device includes a gun having a trigger, a trigger guard, and a handgrip. A base member is extended from a portion of the trigger guard adjacen... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032397 | Comb assembly for a shoulder firearm A comb assembly is provided for a shoulder firearm which is designed and adapted to reduce rearwards and upwards recoil of the firearm towards the shooter's cheek at the time of firing. The assembly comprises a housing adapted for mounting on a firearm st... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032398 | Choke tube wrench A choke tube wrench for installation and removal of a choke tube in a shotgun barrel, such tool utilizable for a plurality of different gauge shotguns, such tool having an expandable section that fits within the choke tube and is expanded by squeezing the... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032399 | Telescoping fishing net with depth alarm A fishing net, for use by a fisherman, having a proximal end and a distal end. The fishing net comprises a handle portion and a net hoop portion. The handle extends from the proximal end toward the distal end. The handle portion has plurality of telescopi... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032400 | Fishing lure assembly A fishing lure comprises a lure body and at least one pair of arms configured to simulate the belligerent position of the raised upper arms and suspended lower arms of a crustacean.... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032401 | Fishing lure A fishing lure main body is formed from sheet metal stock with projecting tabs which, during manufacture, receive a fitting for line attachment. The tabs have inclined segments on which water acts to impart rotation to the lure. A plate on the fitting sim... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032402 | Fish hook and weed guard device A fishing assembly for reducing entanglements between one or more fish hooks and weeds found in the body of water where fish are attempted to be caught is provided. The fishing assembly includes a single fish hook or a number of fish hooks, such as a treb... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032403 | Fishhook quick releaser A hand held device for disengaging a fish hook from a fish's mouth without the need to remove the fish from the water. The device comprises a through bored tubular body having a proximal end sized for manual gripping and a distal end sized for insertion i... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6032404 | Portable bait bucket A portable bait bucket includes a built-in handle allowing it to be easily carried from place to place. The inventive bucket includes an internal chamber accessible by an opening in its top closed by a pivotable door having a plurality of openings allowin... | 03/07/2000 |
