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A vest or belt is integrally formed with tubular, pet receiving passageways which extend around the wearer's body and terminate in pocket-like chambers for feeding and retrieval.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6089115 | Angular transmission using magnetorheological fluid (MR fluid) An angular transmission using magnetorheological fluid (MR fluid) to transmit movement between two (2) shafts not aligned on the same axis to each other to provide an infinite variable ratio instead of the fixed ratios present in known prior art gear driv... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089116 | Gearing stage In a gearing stage, a driving first wheel has a ferromagnetic profiled rib which is circumferential in one thread, whereas a second driven wheel has permanently magnetic profiled ribs which are disposed in a multi-start manner and which extend only over a... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089117 | Ball screw device A ball screw unit comprising a screw having a helical ball rolling groove on the outer peripheral surface thereof, a nut assembly having a load zone formed of a helical load rolling groove opposing to the ball rolling groove of the screw and a no-load zon... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089118 | Shifting device for an automatic transmission A shifting device for an automatic transmission of a vehicle has a manual shift mode which permits a driver to manually change a speed ratio by displacing a shift lever in an upshift direction or a downshift direction in a manual operation lane from its n... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089119 | Motor vehicle pedal arrangement A pedal arrangement for a motor vehicle having a bulkhead (10) which forms a barrier between an engine compartment (C) and a passenger compartment (H) for a driver and passengers. The pedal arrangement includes a transverse brace (32) which is rigid in be... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089120 | Vehicle operating pedal unit In a motor vehicle operating pedal unit with a pedal lever pivotally mounted in a pedal housing and a return spring connected to the pedal lever which is pivotally supported by a bearing sleeve inserted into a bearing bore of the pedal housing, a pedal po... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089121 | Rotational vibration damper A rotational vibration damper, especially for arrangement in a drive train of a motor vehicle driven by an internal combustion engine, comprises first and second damping components that are rotatable together as well as relative to each other around a com... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089122 | Connecting structure between bicycle pedal and cleat, bicycle pedal and cleat A connecting structure between a bicycle pedal and a cleat, comprising hooks pivotably supported by a pedal body for engaging and releasing the cleat, and an urging device for urging the hooks toward engaging positions. The object is to allow the cleat to... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089123 | Structure for use in drilling a subterranean formation A method of manufacturing a drill bit or other drilling-related structure used for drilling into subterranean formations is herein disclosed where a blank is formed by placing a ferrous metal powder such as steel into a mold, sintering the ferrous metal p... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089124 | Electric bottle opener An electric bottle or jar lid opener which loosens threaded lids from jars or similar containers having screw-type lids. A base member supports a vertical support which supports a travel arm, which in turn supports an electric motor. The motor 38 is posit... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089125 | Combination wire stripper A combination wire stripper, which includes two pressure bars each having a fixed end pivoted to each other and a free end, two wire stripping cutter assemblies symmetrically provided at the free ends of the pressure bars for stripping the insulator of a ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089126 | Size-adjustable belt wrench and methods Adjustable size saddle type single loop belt wrenches are disclosed which do not bite sharply at a corner or the like into the side of an object comprising a flexible, non-metallic belt, both ends of which are free, but one end being equipped with a clasp... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089127 | Modified wrench A wrench is provided including a handle and at least one end extent coupled to an end of the handle. The end extent includes a cut out defining an inner periphery formed of an inboard portion with a smooth substantially arcuate configuration with a predet... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089128 | Wrench for inaccessible fastener A tool is provided for removing and replacing an engine mount in a vehicle that can fit between an air conditioning compressor and the upstanding stud on the engine mount to unscrew the nut on the stud and remove and replace the engine mount without remov... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089129 | Adjustable wrench An adjustable wrench including a fixed jaw, a movable jaw, a gear, an engaging block, a switch button and a grip. When tightening or untightening a nut with the adjustable wrench, it is unnecessary to repeatedly draw up the wrench and fit the wrench onto ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089130 | Adjustable wrench having weight reducing structure An adjustable wrench includes a handle having a fixed jaw and a movable jaw disposed on one end and having a shank extended from the fixed jaw and a beam extended from the shank. The shank and the beam each includes one or more weight reducing depressions... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089131 | Ratcheting wrench for driving an element with a hexagonal head, in particular a bolt or nut A ratchet wrench having an open end (18) defined by front (20) and rear (22) jaws, in relation to a driving direction. The jaws are linked by an intermediate arcuate web (24). Each jaw includes an engagement surface (30, 36) for engaging the front half of... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089132 | Screwdriver with dual cam slot for collated screws A screwdriver for driving collated screws including a slide body coupled to a housing for reciprocal displacement in a cycle including a retraction stroke and an extension stroke. A lever pivotably mounted to the slide body carries at one end a cam pin re... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089133 | Screwdriver The present invention is related to a screwdriver in which a shaft lever with polygon socket is inserted into the central hole of the screwdriver handgrip so that a turning shaft to facilitate force application is plugged from the rear end of the handgrip... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089134 | Multi blind trim machine A multi-purpose blind cut-down apparatus for cutting a blind having a head rail and closure elements. The cut-down apparatus has a blind holding plate with a blind component opening and a closure element opening for holding the head rail and closure eleme... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089135 | Method and apparatus for bucksawing logs Previous methods of bucksawing logs slow the throughput of a sawmill in that the conveyor line is stopped while a given log is bucksawed to length. The present invention provides an apparatus for bucksawing a log which improves the throughput speed by a) ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089136 | Media control technique for cutting operation on a printer A cutter assembly which traverses across a media path to make a linear cut on the media includes a pair of cooperative rotary cutting blades. An upper rotary blade is mounted for passive rotation while a lower rotary blade is directly coupled to a lower d... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089137 | Paper punch A paper punch has an inner punch and an outer punch movably received with respect to each other. The outer punch has a first contour punch so as to be able to punch a hole in a piece of paper with the same contour as that of the first contour punch, and t... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089138 | Rotating, drivable cutter A cutter rotatably drivable about a rotational axis for cutting articles including printed products and lengths of flexible materials including paper, plastic, fabric, leather, and metal, includes a drive shaft; a circular knife holder which has a hub, wh... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089139 | Porous nozzle projectile barrel A porous barrel, projectile passageway, or tube as a type of supersonic nozzle for projectile propulsion therein and method for optimizing projectile velocity therethrough. The porous barrel features a barrel wall containing holes, passageways, or otherwi... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089140 | Brake booster A brake booster which permits an axial relative movement between a power piston and a valve body is disclosed. An arrangement is made which prevents a brake reaction from being transmitted to a brake pedal. As an alternative therefor, pseudo-reaction impa... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089141 | Plunger pump for water jet loom The straightness of the piston of a water jet loom plunger pump for discharging water under a high pressure is maintained to allow its smooth movement with respect to the cylinder. For this, a roller guide is arranged at a reciprocal piston actuating mech... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089142 | Piston head for a hydraulic shock absorber A piston (3) for a hydraulic dashpot for motor vehicles, mounted on one end of a piston rod (1) and dividing a cylinder (5) into a two compartments (6 & 7), with two groups of lines (8 & 9) arranged more or less in concentric circles and more or less para... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089143 | Mashed potato machine A machine that is set up with the required potatoes, milk, butter and other seasonings for mashed potatoes and that when turned on proceeds to boil the potatoes, add the flavoring ingredients and whip the potatoes to a degree set by the user.... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089144 | Household electric flat bread maker and skillet A household electric flat bread making appliance has a heated lower pressure plate fixed to a frame, an upwardly biased upper heated pressure plate pivotally mounted on the frame, and a heated skillet mounted on the frame in general vertical alignment wit... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089145 | Cooking apparatus The invention concerns an apparatus for cooking food. There is a plastic housing with air flow holes, heating elements, a metal conductive pan with additional holes to allow airflow to enter the cooking chamber, a cylindrical riser, and a lid.... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089146 | Temperature sensing device for food storage container A temperature sensing device for a food storage container accurately detects the internal temperature of a storage chamber to achieve an accurate on/off control for heating and cooling cycles by minimizing a temperature fluctuation existing in the storage... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089147 | Process for pressing materials A process is disclosed for pressing a material selected from materials of vegetable and animal origin. The process includes the steps of mechanically compressing the material of vegetable or animal origin while simultaneously vibrating the material at an ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089148 | Fixed stroke power press safety stop block A fixed stroke power press safety stop block, manufactured of a light weight metal or plastic sufficient to withstand the dead weight of a ram and an attached upper die shoe preventing inadvertent downward movement of said ram. The stop block manufactured... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089149 | Screen printing machines A screen printing machine has article supports for articles to be printed, a displacement mechanism for displacing the article supports in succession around an endless path of travel and printing stations distributed along the path of travel and each havi... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089150 | Stencil printing machine with conveying means having suction In a stencil printing machine, one surface of a stencil sheet with a perforated image is placed in contact with an upper surface of a printing material. Ink is provided on the other surface of the stencil sheet. Suction force is exerted on a bottom surfac... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089151 | Method and stencil for extruding material on a substrate A stencil for use in fabricating semiconductor devices is disclosed that has an aperture having a first portion extending from a first side thereof and a second portion extending from a second side thereof to minimize the shear stress between the material... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089152 | Stencil printing method and stencil printing machine In a stencil printing method, an image on a printing material is formed by forcing ink to pass through perforations formed in a stencil sheet and to transfer onto the printing material. The method includes preparing ink transfer device having a surface ma... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089153 | Device for applying wetting agent to a cylinder of a rotary printing machine An economical device for applying a wetting agent in the form of small droplets to a cylinder includes nozzles which are supplied continuously with pressurized wetting agent arranged along the cylinder. An adjustment element in the spray area of the nozzl... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6089154 | Thin film forming device A thin film formation apparatus includes a printing roll having an elastic letterpress of resin or rubber fitted at a part of a surface of a cylinder part and, an intaglio roll rotating while facing the printing roll, thereby transferring ink to a surface... | 07/18/2000 |
