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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 |
| 6276239 | Hand tool A hand tool for turning sockets connectable to nuts and bolts has a handle attached to a head having an inside cylindrical surface. A body joined to a member for holding a socket has a plurality of pockets facing the cylindrical surface and chord ramps at... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276240 | Multi-sized, reversible ratcheting action open end wrench An open end wrench having two heads each of which provides ratchet action, each of which accepts fasteners of different nominal sizes, and each of which imposes torque on the fastener only on flat facets and not at apices between adjacent facets. Each hea... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276241 | Laminated adjustable wrench The wrench comprises a frame having a head and a fixed jaw on the head. A movable jaw is movably carried by the head and movable toward and away from the fixed jaw. The frame, the head and the jaw are composed of stacked plates. Two of the plates of the f... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276242 | Drain compression ring wrench Described is a wrench comprising a base plate having a generally circular periphery. A plurality of teeth extend radially from the periphery of the base plate and are adapted to engage the indentations in the top of a compression ring of a base assembly. ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276243 | Electromechanical releasing torque wrench An electromechanical releasing torque wrench which includes an electronic controller (50) and transducers (32) or (34) to measure and actuate a release of the wrench with physical, audible and visual signals. In operation, the user sets the desired torque... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276244 | Cutting tool for forming parallel grooves in a tubular member An apparatus for simultaneously forming a plurality of closely spaced, parallel grooves having a web between them in a thin-walled tube is described. The apparatus includes a tube holding mechanism, a rotating cutting tool and a device for driving the cut... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276245 | Bar work loading apparatus for head traveling type vertical machine tool and bar work loading method for use in head traveling type vertical machine tool A bar work loading apparatus for loading a bar work into a head traveling type vertical machine tool. The machine tool has a headstock rotatably supporting an approximately vertical main spindle and movable in the direction of the axis of the main spindle... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276246 | Method for punching slug from workpiece A punched slug removal system for punching a slug from a workpiece and removing the punched slug. The system includes a punch having a reciprocating travel path with a transition point where the punch changes direction. A die plate has an aperture into wh... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276247 | Adjustable punch assembly with releasable locking An adjustable punch assembly includes a releasable locking means for selectively allowing relative rotation between a threadably mated punch cap and punch driver for punch length adjustment. The releasable locking means includes a locking element, prefera... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276249 | Saw blade The saw blade has a base body on which are mounted uncrossed teeth with cutting edges. The teeth are combined to form successive groups of at least three teeth and are disposed symmetrically to the longitudinal center plane of the base body. The teeth of ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276250 | Method and apparatus for separating a pipe from a cable A method of separating a pipe (1) from an elongate flexible element (2) used to pull the pipe (1) from the ground comprises drawing the flexible element (2) past or through separating means which splits the pipe (1) along its length as it passes to thereb... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276251 | Muzzle brake A muzzle brake for a gun which comprises an annular member mountable on the firing end of the muzzle of the gun, which member comprises a pair of concentrically located annular elements of which the first one is mounted stationary relative to the muzzle o... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276252 | Ammunition chambering mechanism for automatic firearms A training barrel for conversion of a firearm from normal barrel/slide partial locking operation to unlocked slide blow-back operation has an insert which provides a guide ramp for chambering rounds during the reload cycle. The guide ramp compensates for ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276253 | Cartridge clip A cartridge clip including a carrier member (1) and a plurality of propellant-containing cartridges arranged in the carrier member (1) with the carrier member (1) having at its first free end a taper (11) a width (B) of which decreases in a direction tran... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276254 | Armor systems An armor system useful, for example, as a shroud, comprising a first pliable, cut resistant fibrous layer and a second pliable fibrous layer is disclosed. The first layer is arranged to receive an impact from a large projectile prior to the second layer a... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276255 | Soft body armor Soft body armor has a ballistic panel having an interleaved construction of a generally vertically oriented plurality of layers of interleaved sheets or woven fiber cloth and sheets of cross plied unidirectional tape adjacently interleaved in an interleav... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276256 | Breechblock for barrel weapons Breechblock for barrel weapons, having a breechblock head which is guided in a breechblock guide and, by means of a control element which can be moved to and fro in a straight line and has control ramps, can be brought out of a loading position into a loc... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276257 | Working cylinder, switch valve and pressure-actuated working unit A working cylinder (A) having at least one working chamber (6, 7) defined by the cylinder barrel (1), at least one of the end sections (2, 3) and a piston (4), at least one supply port (9a, 9b) and a exhaust port (12a, 12b) for the working medium. The exh... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276258 | Pressure activated piston and cylinder unit for use in a die A pressure activated piston and cylinder unit for use with a die block is taught which provides installation and service portions at the rear face of the unit. Also provided is a pressure activated piston and cylinder unit for use with a die block, of sim... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276259 | Plunger pump An adjustable packing gland assembly mounted for adjustable engagement with packing in fluid pumping apparatus for sealing against fluid leakage about reciprocating plungers and like pumping elements also stabilizes the pumping element. A packing gland ho... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276260 | Connecting-rod/piston unit for small reciprocating machines and a motor-driven compressor or a similar reciprocating machine comprising the unit A gudgeon pin (14) is held in engagement with a bearing seat situated inside a piston (16) by retaining means in the form of a pincer element (30) with a base portion (32) fixed to the end wall (20) of the piston (16) and with two pairs of resilient jaws ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276261 | Piston assembly of a hydraulic radial piston-type machine A piston assembly of a hydraulic radial piston-type machine, an essential characteristic thereof being the arrangement of a roller element in a piston head. The portion of contact surface of the roller element lying close to a crown of the piston is alway... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276262 | System and method of Chinese tea brewing An automatic tea brewing system and method comprising a tea brewer with a water discharge hole at the its lower end, a mesh filter above the tea water discharge hole, and a teapot positioned to receive brewed tea discharged from the water discharge hole. ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276263 | Grill device with an upper grill unit capable of being retained at a half-open position or a horizontal fully-open position A grill device includes a horizontal upper grill unit with a rear side, a horizontal lower grill unit with a rear side, and a connecting unit. The upper grill unit is superposed on the lower grill unit. The connecting unit interconnects the rear sides of ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276264 | Portable batch pasteurizer A portable batch pasteurizer for pasteurization or other heat treatment of contained fluids for consumption by animals or humans provides a heat transfer coil through which hot or cold fluids are pumped to heat or cool the fluid in which it is immersed. A... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276265 | Egg poker device An egg poker device is disclosed for piercing a hole in a shell of an egg to be boiled to facilitate removal of the shell. The device includes a first member having a base and a wall extending away from the base such that the base and the wall define ther... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276266 | Multicolor pad printing system A pad printing system for applying high quality multicolor images to curved objects is provided. The pad printing system includes a substantially flat release substrate having an ink receiving surface and a digital printer having a plurality of print head... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276267 | Printing system A printing system comprises a printer for conducting stencil making and printing, a finisher such as a sorter for receiving and holding printed sheets discharged from the printer and aligning the received printed sheets, and control means for starting ste... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276268 | Drum type printer having mechanism for adjusting transverse position of printed image In order to provide a drum type printer having a mechanism for adjusting a transverse position of a printed image improved such that when a plurality of drawout type drum units are used in the drum type printer, the transverse position of the printed imag... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276269 | Guide roll for use in printing lenticular materials A guide roll (22, 24) for a printing press (10) printing an image on a flat surface (16) of a web (12) of a lenticular lens material. The other side of the material has a series of lenticules (14) formed on it which extend parallel of each other longitudi... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276270 | Ink distributton apparatus and method for anilox roll This invention is an improved apparatus and method for distributing ink in a printing press. In preferred embodiments, ink on an anilox roll is uniformly distributed on the roll by the scraping action of doctor blades against the roll surface. The blades ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276271 | Bridge mandrel for flexographic printing systems A bridge mandrel construction is provided which is simple to manufacture, light weight, and easy to mount and dismount from underlying printing cylinders in flexographic and gravure printing systems. The bridge mandrel includes a generally hollow, cylindr... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276272 | Stamp plate producing apparatus for producing stamp plate used in a stamp device Disclosed is the stamp device 11 in which the average pore diameter of the porous base plate used for the stamp plate 1 and the processed stamp plate 10 is set in a range of 10 μm-40 μm, the hardness of the stamp surface 2 is set in a range of 20°-50°... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276273 | Surfactant-pretreated printing plate substrate, lithographic printing plate and method for production thereof A printing plate precursor for direct receipt of an image-wise applied ink receptive layer the precursor having a desorbable surfactant adsorbed on at least one surface in an amount effective to improve the resolution of the subsequently image-wise applie... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276274 | Platen for a printing machine A new platen for use with a printing machine, and preferably for allowing automatic unloading of a printed article from a support surface of the platen is disclosed. The disclosed platen includes a structure for attachment to the printing machine, a suppo... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276275 | Ink fountain having sensors to determine presence of a roll of ink The density or size of an ink roll, which is formed in an ink fountain of a rotary printing press, is determined either directly or indirectly at several spaced locations. The measured values are then evaluated. A signal is generated to an ink feed device... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276276 | Thin-film optical initiator A thin-film optical initiator having an inert, transparent substrate, a reactive thin film, which can be either an explosive or a pyrotechnic, and a reflective thin film. The resultant thin-film optical initiator system also comprises a fiber-optic cable ... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276277 | Rocket-boosted guided hard target penetrator A target-penetrating aerial bomb includes a penetrator of hard steel or similar material that contains an explosive charge. A rocket motor is formed as an annular chamber and surrounds the penetrator. The bomb includes a guidance and control unit that gui... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276278 | Arrangement for combating air targets A shell for combating air targets is provided. The shell comprises a proximity fuse with up to four seeking directions together with an explosive charge arranged in the shell. One or more fragment-forming casings are arranged in the shell. The fragment-fo... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276279 | Toy vehicle track board The toy vehicle track board has a lateral extent which can be square, oval or circular, with a lateral extent or diameter of 15" to 60", one preferred diameter being 30", a thickness of 1/8" to 3/4", one preferred thickness being 5/16" and at least one tr... | 08/21/2001 |
