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Patents Published on 12/19/2000


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6161220Insulating garment
A wrap-around insulating garment for the thigh and buttocks region. The garment, similar to a kilt, is worn over the clothes, and serves to insulate the buttocks and thigh regions from cold and wet weather. The garment has a cutaway in the front which all...
12/19/2000
6161221Goalkeeper's glove with a latex layer
A goalkeeper's glove included up and inner hand portions, and a latex covering, at least regionwise, the inner hand portion, with an outer surface of the latex layer forming an outer surface of the inner hand portion, with the latex layer being formed of ...
12/19/2000
6161223Pants separable at crotch for style mixing
A pair of pants that is easily separable at the crotch into right and left leg portions. Each leg portion is selected from a set of various styles to flexibly create a custom mixed or matched style for a given wearing of the pants. A closure system is pro...
12/19/2000
6161224Removable applique apparatus
A decorative applique that is removably affixed to a garment including collars (removable or permanently attached), pockets and accessories (such as hats, pocketbooks and shoes) which can be removably affixed to such as a user's garment, for example a blo...
12/19/2000
6161225Shield structure of helmet
A shield for a helmet includes an inner shield and an outer shield which are fixed and held while their mutual sealing characteristics are positively assured and wherein the inner shield and the outer shield can be separated from each other. A shield 2 is...
12/19/2000
6161226Baseball chest protector
A baseball chest protector with shoulder guards extending over both shoulders of the wearer, to which adjustable straps are attached. The shoulder guards extend just slightly outward of the wearer's shoulder, such that the shoulder is protected but the gu...
12/19/2000
6161227Portable hand cleaning device
A hand cleaning device includes a housing having an inner cleaning compartment. A pair of access openings are formed in the housing and communicate with a pair of cleaning chambers within the cleaning compartment. A reservoir is provided in the housing be...
12/19/2000
6161228Portable sink apparatus and methods of manufacture and use thereof
Portable sink apparatus attachable to an external, portable reservoir capable of containing a supply of fluid and attachable to an external, portable reservoir capable of containing spent or waste fluid, and methods of manufacture and use thereof....
12/19/2000
6161229Powered lift toilet seat with armrests
An apparatus is disclosed having a frame, front and rear guides rigidly secured to the frame and having front and rear channels passing therethrough, angling rearwardly from top to bottom. A toilet seat is operably connected to the frame and is movable be...
12/19/2000
6161230Putty plate for faucet fixture
A faucet fitting system having interchangeable components useable in both single handle and dual handle faucet fixtures. The component system is designed to allow the same putty plate with breast plate, waterway spout, aerator and mounting nuts to be used...
12/19/2000
6161231Sleeper sofa with an air mattress
A sleeper sofa incorporating an air mattress including a telescoping mattress frame for supporting a mattress support subassembly consisting of hinge panels. The hinges used to connect the panels limit the angular range of motion of adjacent panels to plu...
12/19/2000
6161232Invalid lifting device
The invalid lifting device comprises a first mast upstanding from a first elongate chassis member and a second mast upstanding from a second elongate chassis member which is parallel or substantially parallel to the first chassis member. The lifting devic...
12/19/2000
6161233Chassis
A chassis comprises two legs extending in parallel spaced apart relationship and a cross member connecting the two legs together. The cross member comprises first, second and third tubular members. The second member is telescopically extendible and retrac...
12/19/2000
6161234Lying surface with lamellar grid
The invention concerns a lying surface with upper cushioning body and at least two upper and lower lamellar grid, arranged parallel to each other, which are placed on elastic body in each case extending in the longitudinal direction, wherein the lower lam...
12/19/2000
6161235Bed sheet securing device
A bed sheet securing device that includes a number of fasteners in connection with a harness for holding the corners of a bed sheet in place over a mattress. A number of additional fasteners are provided that are securable to the bottom edge of a flat cov...
12/19/2000
6161236Height adjustable bed and method of operation thereof
A height adjustable bed on a floor provides a two stage continuous adjustment system and method of operation thereof. An upper frame is raised from a lowermost position to a maximum intermediate position with a first set of legs resting on the floor. The ...
12/19/2000
6161238Wraparound orthotic base, composite adjustable cushion using same and method of measuring fit of the adjusted cushion to the user's shape
A cushion comprising an orthotic base which has a flexible body of sufficient strength to support a user while conforming to the buttocks and legs of the user and pillars on the bottom of the base to support the same and being of desired height and positi...
12/19/2000
6161239Infant positioning device
An infant positioning device that is an elongated sleeve filled with polymeric pellets to a predetermined fill density to enable the device to be adaptable to conform to the contour of an infant to aid holding the infant in a optimum position for the well...
12/19/2000
6161240Shock-absorbing cushion
Shock absorbing cushion structures are disclosed which are formed by upper and lower sheets peripherally sealed and formed to define a series of intercommunicating air chambers therebetween. In particular there is disclosed a shock absorbing shoe insole o...
12/19/2000
6161241Mattress vents
A mattress ventilator is formed by a disk of sheet metal drawn with an array of tubular protuberances having tubular cross-sections which are very small compared with the area of the disk, open ends of the tubular protuberances being retrovertable by a di...
12/19/2000
6161242Mops
A strip mop has a head (101) comprising a holder (103) which is attached to the mop handle (104) and in which a replaceable strip assembly (126, FIG. 21) is located. The strip assembly is formed from layers of absorbent web material cut into strips (102) ...
12/19/2000
6161244Toothbrush
The invention relates to a toothbrush (20) with a brush head which can be secured on a brush handle (24) by a bayonet catch (26). The bayonet catch comprises a locking pin (28) which is mounted in the front end of the brush handle (24) in such a way that ...
12/19/2000
6161245Brush-ware with adjustable bristle hardness
The brushware comprises a bristle carrier and bristles fixed thereto, which are either arranged singly or in bundles and whose hardness is adjustable. A particularly simple, space-saving and hygienically satisfactory setting of the bristle hardness is obt...
12/19/2000
6161247Mirror cleaning system
A mirror cleaning system includes a mirror with an exposed front surface and a mirror support assembly. A pair of vertically extending hollow, fiberglass pipes include an interior actuator and an exterior guide secured with respect to the support assembly...
12/19/2000
6161248Wiper blade for vehicle window panes
A proposed wiper blade serves to clean the windshields of motor vehicles. The wiper blade (10) has an elongated rubber-elastic wiping strip which can be placed in contact against the windshield to be wiped and which is held substantially parallel to the l...
12/19/2000
6161249Windshield wiper frame and connector assembly
A windshield wiper frame connector assembly for a windshield wiper assembly for motor vehicles which accommodates different size wiper arms, wherein the assembly accommodates connectors adapted to receive a hook type wiper arm, or a pin type wiper arm, or...
12/19/2000
6161250Dustless regenerative air sweeper
A closed-loop Regenerative.RTM. air sweeper is provided which constitutes an improvement of that disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,512,206. The sweeper of the latter patent is provided as an integral portion thereof, whereas a conversion, a "dustless" mechanis...
12/19/2000
6161252Foot released open door holder
A door holder assembly used to maintain a door in an opened position. The assembly is made up of a door stop, a locking plate mounted on the door and a floor mounted door holder. The door stop and the door holder are fixed to the floor while the locking p...
12/19/2000
6161253Three-section type retractable handle
A three-section type retractable handle, which includes two fixed sleeves, two intermediate tubes respectively moved in and out of the fixed sleeves, two inner tubes respectively moved in and out of the intermediate tubes, a hollow handle connected betwee...
12/19/2000
6161254Device, particularly reduced, for the elasticizing of an ear-piece for spectacles
An ear-piece assembly for connecting an earpiece to a spectacle frame. The ear-piece assembly having a box with an opening in a hinging side wall. A tie-rod hinge having first and second hinge ends and a center portion located between the first and second...
12/19/2000
6161255Pressure hinge device for glass door or panel
An indexing hinge particularly useful for glass shower doors. A mounting member is mountable to the supporting structure around the opening to the shower. For example, this could be at the top and bottom of the opening to the shower. Another mounting memb...
12/19/2000
6161256Drill handle cover
A handle cover which facilitates holding a drill is disclosed. The cover has an upper cover portion surrounding the rear and side portions of the barrel portion of the drill; and, a lower cover portion surrounding the rear and side portions of the handle ...
12/19/2000
6161257Process for can delivery and removal at a textile machine
A given plurality of empty round (cylindrical) cans are brought by a can carrier into an empty can magazine of a textile machine which produces a band output. These cans are taken from the can carrier, one after another, to be filled at a filling station ...
12/19/2000
6161258Spinning machine having a plurality of spinning stations
An arrangement for condensing a drafted fiber strand is arranged at each spinning station of a spinning machine. The condensing arrangements each comprise a transport surface which transports the fiber strand over a suction slit of a suction device. A joi...
12/19/2000
6161259Measuring instrument with a holder
A mobile measuring instrument that can be worn on the body of persons with a springless holder (1) for detachable fastening to pieces of clothing, with the following features: a plate (8) has a recess (9) with a cutout on one of two shorter sides; a flat ...
12/19/2000
6161260Pharmaceutical tablet designed for easier breaking
A pharmaceutical tablet, with a break line aligned along a long dimension of the tablet, such that a twisting action, in which parts of the tablets on opposite sides if the break line are subjected to a rotational twisting force in respectively opposite s...
12/19/2000
6161261Fastening tension strap with integral handle extensions
A flexible tension strap comprised of a resilient material with integral handle extensions located at each end of the strap providing the user with a hand-hold during the stretching of the strap to ease the connection and disconnection of the strap....
12/19/2000
6161262Clamp assembly
A clamp assembly for installation at any position along the length of a slot defined by surfaces of a host structure or other structure. The clamp assembly either can receive a mounting rod for supporting objects or can itself include a mounting rod for s...
12/19/2000
6161263Sock pair retention apparatus
A sock pair retention apparatus includes a resilient membrane which includes a plurality of resilient flap members formed within the membrane. The resilient flap members are oriented in a common plane when in a relaxed mode and are deformed out of the pla...
12/19/2000
6161264Safety hook
A safety hook that includes a hook portion having a hook body with a shank portion, a nose portion and a mouth between the shank and the nose portion, a gate having a closure and at least one web portion along a plane is mounted on the hook body. The web ...
12/19/2000
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