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Pillow with retractable umbrella
A pillow assembly having a supporting assembly and a retractable umbrella assembly that is easily transportable and allows a user to support his/her head while covering their face from sunlight.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6148722 | Compact disc and recordable compact disc thermal transfer printer A thermal printer for printing onto circular objects includes a housing that mounts a platen and a carrier for the circular object, and a separate removable and latchable carriage carrying the printhead and positionable on the housing to retain the printh... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148723 | Weather resistant signage and a process for fabrication thereof A process of fabricating weather resistant signage by screen printing indicia on a UV-treated impregnated polyester protective film using a Cellosolve acetate-based ink. The resulting sign is extremely resistant to solar UV, thus preserving the indicia br... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148724 | Selective flexographic printing A web of paper is printed with selective non-variable information and vastly different variable information on portions of the paper web which are ultimately separated into discrete documents. At least one ion deposition print unit and a number of flexogr... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148725 | Rubber cylinder sleeve for offset web-fed rotary printing machines A cylinder sleeve for all offset web-fed rotary printing machine comprising a carrier sleeve having a joint location and about which is arranged at least one compressible layer, also having a joint location. Another layer of non-expandable material may be... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148726 | Tubular blanket and printing machine using tubular blanket The present invention relates to a tubular blanket which comprises a main blanket section having at least a portion coming into contact with a printing-made web and a remaining blanket section other than the main blanket section. The remaining blanket sec... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148727 | Wet printed media output management system A printer having a system to manage the output path of wet printed media is disclosed. In such a system, the wet printed media are held for a time before being ejected into an output tray to avoid the smearing of the wet print markings made on the media. ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148728 | Method for cleaning a printing plate and apparatus for cleaning the printing plate A method and an apparatus for cleaning a printing plate for fabricating an alignment film in which the printing plate is dipped into an internal container filled with a solvent and a predetermined vibration is transmitted to the printing plate so as to re... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148729 | Missile severance device A missile severance device for severing a structural surface member of a body is constructed of a pair of plate members separated by a collapsible liner member ring. An explosive charge is contained with the volume defined by the pair of plate members and... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148730 | Method and apparatus for controlled small-charge blasting by pressurization of the bottom of a drill hole Rock and other hard materials, such as concrete, are fragmented by a controlled small-charge blasting process. A cartridge containing an explosive charge is inserted at the bottom of a hole drilled in the rock. The explosive charge is configured to provid... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148731 | Expansion projectile An expansion projectile (1) with a projectile body (2) forms a central arbor (3) at its end face and a collar (4) coaxially surrounding the arbor (3), where the collar (4) has an outer shape (6) tapering towards the free collar edge (5), and between colla... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148732 | Railcar track cleaning system A track cleaning system mounted on a railcar and comprising track rail cleaning nozzles, leaf removal nozzles and third rail cleaning nozzles. Each of the nozzles may provide a fan-shaped spray pattern diverging to either side of a central axis and having... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148733 | Type E railway coupler with expanded gathering range A Type E railway freight car coupler having an expanded gathering range is achieved by attaching or forming an extension wing extending diagonally outward from an outer end of the gathering arm to thereby provide an extension to the angled gathering surfa... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148734 | Elastomeric bearing with softening spring rate A railway car side bearing includes a lower housing member, an upper housing member spaced apart from the lower housing member, and an elastomeric spring member interposed between the upper and lower housing members that buckles upon application of vertic... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148735 | Light weight gondola car A light weight gondola car having side walls constructed of a plurality of upper and lower sheets with a longitudinal stiffener being formed from lower portions of the upper and lower sheets. A bolster transition stake joins the side sheet, top chord, bol... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148736 | Vertically integrated service and storage system A molded single unit laboratory vertically integrated service and storage system may be affixed to a laboratory work surface area. The unit includes a plurality of supporting struts with each strut having a foundation securable to the laboratory work surf... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148737 | Display shelf A new display shelf for resting objects on the top of a water bottle on a water cooler. The inventive device includes a platform designed for resting on the top of an inverted water bottle on a water cooler. The upper surface the platform has a lip upward... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148738 | Steering wheel mountable laptop table In a laptop table adapted to be mounted on a steering wheel, a basic body has at one end spaced hooks forming a support structure for supporting the base body on the steering wheel and a table is mounted on the base body so as to be height adjustable and ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148739 | Adjustable ergonomic support for computer keyboards A keyboard positioning system, either alone or in combination with other computer aids, which is ergonomic in design and allows for height adjustments to accommodate operators of different anatomical sizes, yet presets the angle of palm rest and angle of ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148740 | Load carrying lightweight pallet for spacecraft A lightweight pallet especially for holding payloads in a spacecraft has a sandwich construction with a core grid of longitudinal carrier beams and cross-connectors mounted between a top flat sheet metal plate and a bottom flat sheet metal plate and a bot... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148741 | Table with adjustable table top portions The table has a table top portion (A) intended for use as a working surface and a table top portion (B) intended for use as an additional supporting surface. The two table top portions (A,B) are adjustable in height conjointly or separately. The vertical ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148742 | Apparatus for disposing of hypodermic needles A needle incineration apparatus for disposing of hypodermic needles comprises an insertion aperture (26) through which a needle to be destroyed may be introduced into the apparatus, two electrodes separated by a gap that is aligned with the insertion aper... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148743 | Air nozzle for a furnace An air nozzle for introducing secondary air into a furnace and including a housing provided with an inlet at one end thereof for receiving air and an outlet at the other end thereof for discharging the air. A damper is disposed in the housing in the path ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148744 | Coal firing furnace and method of operating a coal-fired furnace A method of operating a pulverized coal-firing furnace so as to achieve no more than a predetermined variation in the instantaneous vertical velocities of the flow exiting a combustion chamber of the furnace is provided. The method includes, in one variat... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148745 | Method for the combustion of vanadium-containing fuels Method for the combustion of vanadium-containing fuels that makes use of the extremely high reactivity of the vanadium-containing fuels for combustion in a dust furnace. To avoid disadvantageous slag caking in a combustion area and in particular in the vi... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148746 | Method and apparatus for application of anhydrous ammonia In a method and apparatus for applying anhydrous ammonia fertilizer to soil, a soil penetrating knife produces a substantially continuous elongated furrow in the soil for receipt of the anhydrous ammonia; a dispensing tube associated with the knife dispen... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148747 | Equalizing gauge wheel mechanism for row crop planter unit The wheel arms of a planter row unit are mounted to the row unit frame for independent pivotal motion. The ends of a saddle link are received in sockets formed on gauge wheel arms; and a yoke (or ring-shaped link) pivotally mounted to the frame engages a ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148748 | In-line seed treating unit for air seeders An in-line seed treating unit is provided for an air seeding implement to coat seeds carried by a flow of air through a product distribution line before being planted into the ground. The in-line seed treating unit includes a cylindrical housing having in... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148749 | Work-sheet feed device for sewing machine A work-sheet feed apparatus in which an X carriage is coupled integrally with a coupling member. A rear end portion of a holder support is coupled to the coupling merber via a coupling mechanism that supports the holder support pivotally about an axis par... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148750 | Sewing needle holding unit The needle head 7a of the sewing needle 7 is inserted in the needle insertion hole 12c of the needle holding portion 12. The contact element 14 is inserted in the through hole 13a formed in the through hole portion 13. The operation screw 15, which is for... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148751 | Vibration and drag reduction system for fluid-submersed hulls A system for reducing hydrodynamic drag and vortex-induced-vibration ("VIV") in a bluff hull. In a bluff hull that is designed to be at least partially submerged in a fluid, such as water, the hull has an internal area for holding or transferring fluid. W... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148752 | Cargo ship The cargo ship (SL) as seagoing or inland waterway ship or pushed lighter, is fitted with a pallet high bay shelving system which has both sides of at least one bay row (RG) has a number of storage bays (cells) (1) placed either above one another or side ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148753 | Reconfigurable foresail A system is provided for changing the shape of a foresail from a spinnaker shape to a Genoa shape through the utilization of a tensioning line which runs from the head of the spinnaker shaped sail to its tack. Tensioning of this line provides that the fla... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148754 | Boat keel/hull protector A protective device to be installed onto the keel or hull of a watercraft, such as the pontoon of a pontoon boat can be easily installed by a boat owner without professional assistance. Furthermore, the protective device is securely attached to the bow of... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148755 | Removable underwater fairlead and method In a broad aspect, the invention relates to a new design for a fairlead that is capable of being remotely uninstalled from and then reinstalled on an offshore drilling and production vessel, while the vessel is in its moored position, in the event that th... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148756 | Method and mechanism for dynamic trim of a fast moving, planning or semi-planning ship hull A mechanism and method for dynamic trim of the floating position of a fast moving, planing or semi-planing ship hull is suggested, wherein a fully submerged hydro foil (1) is pivotally arranged in a stem portion of the ship and continuously adjustable rel... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148757 | Hydrodynamic and reinforced catamaran hull design An air propelled boat. It is provided with a pair of catamaran hulls, each having a unique catamaran hull design particularly adaptable for travel over land, water, ice or snow. Each catamaran hull has a pair of centered concave flutes extending from the ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148758 | Boat anchor An anchor for a marine vessel has a shank pivotally connected to a fluke allowing pivotal movement therebetween about a pivot axis within a range of motion. The anchor also has a pivot control member engageable between the shank and the fluke to regulate ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148759 | Remote ROV launch and recovery apparatus A remotely operated ROV service vessel. The remotely operated vessel utilizes dynamic positioning. The vessel is remotely controlled by radio telemetry, preferably modular in construction, and may be semi-submersible. The vessel contains a radio telemetry... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148760 | Extendible parking guide with overhead track The extendible parking guide with overhead track is an improved parking guide device for positioning a motor vehicle in an enclosed garage or similar parking area. The extendible parking guide includes a set of varying length rods which can be assembled i... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148761 | Dual channel gas distribution plate A multi-channel faceplate 200, that in some embodiments is monolithic, is provided as a portion of a gas delivery system to a process chamber 100. At least two sets of gas pathways are disposed through a faceplate and allow for independent delivery of sep... | 11/21/2000 |
