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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6314578 | Child protecting clothes for vehicles The present invention relates to child protecting clothes for vehicles, used with a seat belt so as to protect a child sitting on a seat of an automobile from a shock of an accident. As compared with a related art child seat, the child protecting clothes ... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314579 | Personal survival vestpac An emergency survival Vestpac apparatus for emergency preparedness including a front and a back, each of which includes reflector pockets for receiving and holding emergency supplies to sustain the wearer during an emergency event. The detachable padded h... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314580 | Upper body support jacket Persons who work or engage in activities such as typing, working on a personal computer, sitting at a desk, sitting or standing, conversing on the telephone, working on a machine, or who engage in other activities which require them to remain in fixed non... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314581 | Shirt with messages under collar A shirt which can be used to discreetly convey messages to other persons. The shirt includes a body and a collar which is foldable between up and down positions. A message on the shirt is hidden by the collar when the collar is in the down position. The c... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314582 | Wind-resistant washable hat and method of manufacture The present invention provides a hat and a method for manufacturing a hat comprising a top, a band and a brim. The band has an upper portion and a lower portion, the upper portion of the band is attached to the perimeter of the top. The brim is attached t... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314583 | Sports cap having pocket on visor A sports cap, having a stretchable pocket on the entire top surface of the visor and preferably worn on the head of a user while exercising, golfing, climbing or fishing, is disclosed. This sports cap has a visor integrated along the lower front edge of a... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314584 | Massaging socks, knee-socks and tights A device for ensuring self-massaging of the foot when walking. The device includes a foot engaging surface comprising a base having raised prints incorporated thereon. The foot engaging surface is one of a standard type, a medical type, and a paramedical ... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314585 | Process of making image-displaying garments A process is provided for making a garment having at least one image at a selected position on the garment. A marker is created containing a sight point and an identification of the bounds of at least some of the pieces of the garment. The position and or... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314586 | Supplemental protective pad for a sports helmet According to one embodiment of the present invention, an improved supplemental protective pad for a helmet is disclosed. In one embodiment, the pad includes a base portion which is mounted to the surface of a helmet shell. The pad is shaped to cover high ... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314587 | Ring band adjustment structure of crash helmet A ring band adjustment structure of a crash helmet comprises a ring band, a connection sheet, a locating bar, and a pair of locating adjusters. Two ends of the ring band are connected to the locating adjusters. The locating adjusters are connected to the ... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314588 | Ring band adjustment structure of crash helmet A ring band adjustment structure of a crash helmet comprises a ring band, a connection sheet, a guide element, an adjuster, a fixing element, and a locating element. The ring band has a long groove at each end portion thereof. A dentation is formed above ... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314589 | Toilet lid safety lock A toilet lid lock for maintaining a toilet lid in a closed position. The toilet lid lock is comprised of an upper portion including a horizontally extending arm and a vertically extending stem and a base including a flange portion with slots and a sleeve.... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314590 | Drainage device A drainage device (1) for a waste water outlet (12) includes an outer tubular member (102) adapted to fit within the waste water outlet (12). An inner tubular member (103) is located within the outer tubular member (102). The interior of the inner tubular... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314591 | Hygienic odorless toilet for the blind and physically challenged The present invention 10 discloses a toilet for venting 30 malodorous odors by providing one or more air indraft members 32 connected to conduit 36 leading to an exhaust fan or air purification unit, the toilet 22 also preventing cascading water 12 over t... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314592 | Bath seat A child's bath seat having a base, a top shelf portion with a generally triangular aperture formed therein, a plurality of support members extending between the base and the top shelf portion and at least one tether extending from a support member and ter... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314593 | Sanitary fitting A sanitary fitting having a plastic holding part inserted in the underside of the fitting for rigidly fixing the fitting to a surface. The fitting has a holding part containing passages for leads and optionally fastening parts. The holding part has a hold... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314594 | Spreader bar for a hammock An improved spreader bar for spreading apart the cords which connect the body supporting member of a hammock to a support structure and suspend it therefrom is disclosed. The spreader bar is positioned adjacent each of the longitudinal end portions of the... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314595 | Interlocking bed frame with integrated ladder and safety rail systems A bunk bed or a high rise (loft) bed framing system. The framing system incorporates interlocking tubular rails and posts for constructing the framing system. The tubular rails and posts are of varying diameters which fit into corner posts. The tubular ra... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314596 | Reactive floor tiling system to protect against falls A system for inexpensively placing an active fall-protection system in a floor is described. The floor is tessellated with large octagonal tiles and smaller square tiles. Each large octagonal tile contains a sodium azide-loaded airbag that expands, upon d... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314597 | Stretcher foot pedal A pedal assembly for rotating a brake-steer shaft of a stretcher. The pedal assembly includes a yoke coupled to the brake-steer shaft to rotate therewith and a flip-over pedal having a proximal end coupled to the yoke and a distal end spaced therefrom. Th... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314598 | Printed elastomeric decorative cushion A decorative elastic cushion is manufactured with an elastomer having the physical properties of flexibility and compressibility in a range of flexibilities and compressibilities of stable elastomeric block polymer gels. A film is provided for encapsulati... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314599 | Fastener pulling tool A staple pulling plier of the type consisting of a pair of pivoting members having handles and jaws forming a head portion. The head portion has opposite side faces, and the jaws in a closed position define a substantially continuous post engaging top rid... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314600 | Multifunctional pocket tool Multifunctional knife/cutting pliers comprising two lateral sides serving as a handle for the tool and surrounding an interior space. At least one other implement is disposed in this interior space so as to pivot about a transverse axis connecting the two... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314601 | System for the control of a carbon dioxide cleaning apparatus A carbon dioxide dry cleaning apparatus and system for the control thereof is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a wash vessel, a working vessel containing a carbon dioxide cleaning medium and operatively associated with the wash vessel, a pump operativel... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314602 | Non-skidding vehicle wheel ramp A Non-Skidding Vehicle Wheel Ramp having a portable vehicle wheel ramp portion coupled to a portable anchor portion by a detachable linkage. The coupling of the portable vehicle wheel ramp portion and the portable anchor portion permits elevating a vehicl... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314603 | Car wash system A rotor for home car washing use having a radially oriented inlet at the distal end of a rotor in rotation and in movement against the car vertical sides, i.e., the larger surfaces requiring cleaning, in which washing fluid supplied through the tube flows... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314604 | Brush support The present invention relates to a support (2) for a paintbrush (1). The support (2) may advantageously be used both when you want to lay down the paint brush on a flat surface and when you want to hang the brush on a bucket. The support (2) consists of a... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314605 | Toothbrush A toothbrush having a handle and, attached at one end thereof, a head (1), the head (1) having a handle end (4), a free end (2), and a bristle-bearing face (7) with a plurality of tufts (6) extending therefrom, the tufts (6) each having a base and a free ... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314606 | Contouring toothbrush head A toothbrush having two head sections, the sections being normally biased to assume an angle with respect to each other, to thereby define a generally concave bristle tip configuration. The two sections of the head have facing ends joined by a thin bridge... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314607 | Wiper system for a vehicle A wiper for a vehicle is provided with a quadric linking mechanism wherein a main lever and a sub-lever are connected to an arm head. The range of the rotation angle of the main lever is set in such a way that the angular velocity of rotation of the wiper... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314608 | Wedge shaped neck windshield wiper blade rubber wiping element A wiper blade for a windshield wiper blade refill includes a crown located at the top of the wiper blade. The bottom of the wiper blade has a windshield-engaging lip. A neck extends from the crown toward the lip, and the neck increases in width in a direc... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314609 | Mouth powered vacuum A mouth powered vacuum is provide with a cap with a lip at a lower end attached around a mouth of a bottle. The lip is made of a resilient material, so that it can be snapped on and off the bottle without twisting. A curved intake channel is connected bet... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314610 | Vacuum cleaner bag housing assembly A bag housing assembly for a vacuum cleaner includes a rear bag housing which forms a bag cavity and a bag door which releasably attaches to the rear bag housing for enclosing the bag cavity. One of the rear bag housing and bag door is formed of a semi-ri... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314611 | Bladed disk brush roller assembly for a vacuum cleaner sweeper A brush roller assembly for a vacuum cleaner sweeper which includes a rotatable spindle having a longitudinal axis, a first end, a second end and a central portion, a first bladed disk positioned on the first end of the rotatable spindle, the first bladed... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314612 | Door hinge with a locking device based on a field force Door hinge with a locking device based on a field force, including a cylinder divided by a piston into working spaces that are filled with an operating medium whose viscosity can be changed by means of a field force. The working spaces are connected to on... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314613 | Suitcase handle fixture construction A retractable handle that can be freely moved in and out the storage tubes that are attached to the suitcase wall and in that the length of the tubes are shortened to a certain length determined by the length measurements of the suitcase wall. The length ... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314614 | Pivot brakes for doors In order to keep the braking moment in doors with a pivoting brake for the continuously progressive braking moment variation with different inclinations of the pivoting axis of the doors to the vertical within a determined range, rules given for calculati... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314615 | Closure hinge A multiaxis closure hinge for pivotally mounting a closure panel adjacent to an opening in a body to rotate about a point remote from the hinge between a closed position over the opening and an open position disposed apart from the opening is disclosed. T... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314616 | Cabinet door securement system for a face frame cabinet A cabinet door is installed on a frame member of a face frame cabinet employing a mounting bracket attached to a hinge. The mounting bracket is secured to the frame member by a mechanical fastener which is deployed in a recess projecting inwardly from the... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314617 | Reconfigurable handle A reconfigurable handle usable on a variety of implements and method of selectively reconfiguring a gripping surface of a handle are disclosed herein. The reconfigurable handle includes an elongate shaft extending along a central axis, segments retained o... | 11/13/2001 |
