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Mouthguard made at least partially from an edible candy
A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6338161 | Rippurr "the rip-away lingerie" Conforming women under and/or outer garments made with loom fabrics and processed materials. Assembled with seams of hook and loom type adhesive at left and right sides of garment and crotch, and the top end is divided by two straps affixed to garment in ... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338162 | Electrostatic grounding glove An electrostatic grounding hand covering in the form of a glove, made from a relatively nonconductive material such as acrylonitrile-butadiene copolymer, or other polymer or polymer blend, and having an electrically conductive tape on inner and outer surf... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338163 | Integral convertible glove assembly There is disclosed herein a convertible glove assembly adapted to be configured as a conventional, hand encompassing glove unit or as a partial hand encompassing unit wherein the fingers of the wearer (excepting the thumb) are exposed. The device includes... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338164 | Protective chaps Protective chaps for protecting the shins, knees, feet and chest of a wearer. The protective chaps include first and second leg portions adapted to fit over trousers of a user. Each of the leg portions has a knee portion, and a shin portion. Each of the l... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338165 | Visioned enhanced face guard for a sports helmet A headgear assembly for enhanced vision comprising of a guard assembly having an inner surface and outer surface. The inner surface includes a vision enhancing substance while the outer surface includes a light absorbing substance. The guard assembly is m... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338166 | Female urinary receptacle A urinary receptacle for use with both men and women. The receptacle includes a container. A neck portion extends through a top wall of the container. A female adaptor portion is adapted for removable coupling with the neck portion. A handle portion is fo... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338167 | Detachable toilet seat This invention is related generally to detachable assemblies and more particularly to novel hardware for easily attaching or removing portable members from stationary structures. A quick acting fastener assembly is described for attaching a portable membe... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338168 | Weight core drain covering system A drain covering system for preventing water from going down the drain. The drain covering system includes a basin that has a drain and a drain covering member that includes an outer covering and a weighted core. The drain covering member is positionable ... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338169 | Floating cover for large liquid reservoir The floating cover has a floating grid anchored to the perimeter walls of the reservoir, and floats over the liquid level inside the reservoir. The floating grid comprises a flexible keel member and an array of flexible buoyant beams affixed to the keel m... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338170 | Hand-held or fixed massage shower A water-driven whirl shower fixture including one or more spouts and one or more sponges, rolls or similar interchangeable massaging means which can be handled by the user and/or hung on the wall or the bathtub. Said water-driven fixture for having a water mas... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338171 | Sink hugger A removable protective liner for use with a sink mounted in a counter top. The liner comprises a bottom panel of a size conforming with the bottom of the sink, four upstanding side panels which conform with the upstanding walls of the sink and an adjacent... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338172 | Polymeric length and width adjustable bed frame system An all polymeric bed frame including opposing laterally spaced apart, elongated side rails, each of the side rails having first and second ends and comprised of a substantially vertical wall and a horizontal support ledge extending laterally from a lower ... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338173 | Sleeping bag with changeable parts This invention relates to sleeping bags, more particularly to sleeping bags whose outer shell, liner, and insulation characteristics may be varied through selection of various combinations that are particularly suitable for the planned usage. The sleeping... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338174 | Spring mattress A spring mattress including a number of interconnected coil spring elements, and a method of manufacturing the mattress. The spring mattress includes the coil spring elements that are interconnected by surface elements, such as strip pieces made from text... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338175 | Movable safety tunnel for use during bridge maintenance A movable safety tunnel rides on parapets within a bridge. The safety tunnel is locked in place in a respective section of the bridge while maintenance or other operations are performed on that section of the bridge. This allows the traffic to flow throug... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338176 | Manual rotary brush A hand-held rotary brush is provided with a handle, a brush head having a hollow space, a tuft of bristles mounted onto a rotary device which is loosely set within the hollow space of the brush head. When the user manually pushes the brush, a frictional f... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338177 | Windshield wiper frame with decorative strip The present invention relates to a windshield wiper frame which contains recesses punched on the right and left ribs thereof while decoration strips are fixed in said recesses in order to enhance the beautiful whole appearance and the warning effect. Addi... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338178 | Windshield wiper assembly with a spoiler A windshield wiper assembly includes a yoke having two arms each formed with two elongated openings between which there is a recess, wherein a spoiler extends from one side of the yoke and has a convex upper side and a concave lower side, a plurality of g... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338179 | Carpet rod brackets and carpet rod assemblies using the same A bracket 107 for retaining a stair rod 106 includes a first portion 301b for affixing to a stair including means 304 for securing a finial thereto and a seat 301/302 for receiving an end of the corresponding stair rod 106. A second portion 301b is rotata... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338180 | Assemblable handle for double strap bag An assemblable handle includes two elements made of synthetic material, each element connected to a strap that forms a loop. A male element has the general shape of an inverted "T" in cross section and includes a sole and a lengthwise rib. A female elemen... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338181 | Reusable produce crate A container for housing produce comprising a generally rectangular bottom, generally rectangular opposed first and second side and end walls extending upwardly and outwardly from the bottom, and a pivot member on an upper edge of the first side wall. A li... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338182 | Hinge assembly A computer has a base and a speaker pivotably attached to the base via a hinge assembly. A cable extends through the hinge assembly to electrically connect the base and the speaker. The hinge assembly includes a pair of bushings fixed to the base, a sleev... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338183 | Arrangement for condensing a fiber strand Downstream of a drafting unit of a spinning machine, a condensing zone is provided, in which a drafted fiber strand still in an untwisted state is condensed by bundling. The condensing zone comprises a stationary suction slit, over which the fiber strand ... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338184 | Manually-operated sealing tool for joining end portions of plastic strapping, seal member, and sealed joint formed thereby A manually-operable crimping tool for lockingly securing a seal member upon overlapped end portions of plastic strapping is provided with particular structure such that the resulting crimped seal member and overlapped end portions of the plastic strapping... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338185 | Helical rope clip A tie-down clip for assisting in the cinching of a rope or other flexible, elongated object. The tie-down clip has an eyelet, a rope attachment means for attachment to a rope and a helical extension extending from the rope attachment means for cooperation... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338186 | Device for retaining and/or blocking shoelaces in particular for sport shoes The invention relates to a device for retaining and/or blocking shoelaces, for sport shoes in particular. The device is in the shape of a tube portion (10), with two parts (11, 12) articulated about a hinge (13), that can be locked in the closed position ... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338187 | Method and device for producing perforated nonwovens by hydrodynamic needing A method and device produce nonwovens by hydrodynamic needling. A nonwoven with a basically clean hole structure on a drum with plastic elevations can be produced by energy-rich water jets. Depending on the thickness of the fibers used in the nonwoven, ho... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338188 | Quick change method for interchanging molds on extrusion blow molding machines A quick change system and method of interchanging molds on plastic extrusion blow molding machines is disclosed wherein a universal standard subplate is provided for use with different blow molding machines on which a variety of different mold units are r... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338189 | Method and apparatus for expansion forming a workpiece using an external deformable supporting fixture The present invention generally relates to an external cylindrical or conic section shaped fixture which is tightly fit around the same shaped workpiece prior to expansion forming to a final dimension. During expansion forming, the external fixture is als... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338190 | Method for automatically setting an air gap A two-component bracket and drive washer combination which provides secure holding of a magnetic sensor while automatically setting an optimal air gap, wherein operation is very quick, easy and reliable and wherein the air gap setting is precisely repeate... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338191 | Securement of head reset support into automobile seat frame The headrest support tubes are secured to the seat frame member not by the usual welding, but by gripping the web of the member between two rings or lock-beads swaged into the metal of the tube. The first ring is swaged-out by compressing the tube. The tu... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338192 | Component mounting machine and safety device thereof The safety device includes an opening/closing cover which isolates a takeout part and an accommodating part of a component feeder unit from each other and which has a sensor for detecting a closed state. The component feeder unit includes the component ac... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338193 | Terminal-processed structure of tape-shaped cable including plurality of coaxial cables arranged in parallel and method for processing terminal of the same A method for processing a terminal of a cable including a plurality of fine coaxial cables arranged in parallel and a terminal-processed tape-shaped cable are provided. After sheaths closer to the terminal of a plurality of fine coaxial cables are removed... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338194 | Method of making a circuitized substrate assembly with carrier having substrates therein A method of making an assembly comprised of several circuitized substrates, e.g., printed circuit boards, frictionally retained within a common carrier through the use of appropriate, paired locking means. The method is adapted for subsequent processing (... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338195 | Connection sheet and electrode connection structure for electrically interconnecting electrodes facing each other, and method using the connection sheet A connection sheet which firmly bonds electrodes that face each other together by interposing the connection sheet between the electrodes. The connection sheet comprises a first adhesive layer containing a first adhesive having an insulating property and ... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338196 | Method of forming heat sinks having fully anodized surfaces Heat sinks suitable for use, for example, as semiconductor heat sinks are formed from a unitary precision stamping consisting of at least one rail to which are attached a plurality of heat sink elements. Each of the heat sink elements is attached to the r... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338197 | Method of manufacturing multi-stage pulley The manufacturing cost of a multi-stage pulley is reduced without coaxially arranging a plurality of groove forming sections. While a portion between groove sections 103 is being pushed by a pushing roller 204, the groove sections 103 are successively for... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338198 | Pencil sharpener A pencil sharpener for sharpening carpenters pencils of the type having a generally rectangular cross-section by squeezing a base member and cover member relative to each other repeatedly while the pencil is positioned in one of two openings in the wall o... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338199 | Sensor A sensor includes a plurality of weight portions which swivel, support parts each of which supports at one end a corresponding one of the plurality of weight portions in the same direction, and a driving part which supplies driving power to the support pa... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6338200 | Syringe dose identification system The present invention may be used to dispense a dose of medication to a patient from a syringe having a barrel adapted for receiving the medication and a plunger adapted for drawing the medication into the barrel and dispensing the medication from the syr... | 01/15/2002 |
