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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6339843 | Protective garment adapted to be selectively configured A protective garment comprises an outer shell, which provides abrasion resistance and puncture resistance, a thermal liner, and a liner including a moisture barrier. Each liner being adapted to be separately and detachably attached to and within the outer... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339844 | Peaked cap A baseball type hat includes a main body portion formed by a plurality of pie shaped panels secured to one another and a front bill secured to the main body portion of the hat. The main body portion of the hat has a lower edge provided with a head band. T... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339845 | Wearing apparel with venting apparatus A venting arrangement for apparel such as sportswear, casual wear, technical wear, and the like. The venting arrangement of the invention is particularly suitable for venting of outdoor apparel and sporting equipment such as wind breakers and winter sport... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339846 | Pocket for portable telephone in clothes This invention relates to a pocket for portable telephone in clothes. The pocket is provided in cloth such as front body cloth or sleeve cloth in a jacket, and front body cloth or back body cloth in slacks. The pocket comprises a lower section provided ho... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339847 | One piece garment with boot portions of adjustable size A garment includes a pants portion having a waist region and two pant legs, each of the pant legs including a leg connected end joined to the waist region and a leg free end having an end wall which closes the leg free end, so that the waist region and tw... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339848 | Belt sleeve system and method A readily installed and rapidly detachable flexible sleeve system for belts, as well as a method for its manufacture, into which a belt having a buckle with a tongue can be inserted and secured by the tongue to cover the entire front surface of the belt w... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339849 | Soccer helmet A soccer helmet includes a generally dome-shaped padding layer and a generally dome-shaped shell layer fitting over and attached to the padding layer. The padding layer might have a substantially uniform thickness of approximately 3/8 inches. The shell la... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339850 | Toilet including an apparatus supplying detergent to the water tank The apparatus consists of a mechanism for supplying water to the toilet and flushing water into lavatory, a vessel with solid cleaning detergent in a saturated solution, a portioning mechanism and a water supplying mechanism. The portioning mechanism supp... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339851 | Toilet seat A toilet seat includes a seat ring (10) and means (14, 15, 16) for positioning the same relative to a toilet bowl. The positioning means include at least one pair of interconnected arms (14, 15) which are movably mounted on the seat ring (10) and capable ... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339852 | Bidet toilet seat A bidet toilet seat has a plurality of spaced-apart nozzle holes disposed at a frontal lower portion of the seat and adapted to provide a plurality of water streams extending generally horizontally and at limited upward inclination to contact intimate are... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339853 | Combination hydrothermal bath and bidet A combination hydrothermal bath and bidet that is one-piece, made of porcelain, and has a base portion, a front portion, a rear portion, a pair of side portions, and a seat portion. The base portion rests on a floor. The front portion extends upwardly fro... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339854 | Steam cabinet and method of manufacture A personal steamer comprising an assembly of three pieces: a base tub and liner tub and a lid. The liner tub is body-shaped to form a foot, a seat, a back and side walls forming a steam enclosure. A lid, hinged at the foot, can be pivoted to a vertical, l... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339855 | Crib or bed with fully accessible patient surface and side rail positioning mechanism therefor A crib apparatus comprises at least one side rail connected to a frame along a bed surface for enclosing the bed surface. A positioning mechanism is provided at each of the side rails for positioning a respective side rail. Each of the positioning mechani... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339856 | Playyard with height adjustable feature A collapsible playyard having a frame capable of being in an extended position and a collapsed position comprises one or more latches provided on upper frame member, lower frame member, and vertically extending rail of the frame respectively wherein verti... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339857 | Spring arrangement for mattresses A spring arrangement in which the springs are coil springs and are disposed in adjacent rows with the coil springs in each row being spaced apart along the length or across the width of the arrangement, and wherein interconnecting or lacing wires intercon... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339858 | Hammer with holder A hammer tool that has a handle member with grip and head ends. The head end includes a head assembly mounted thereon at an angle to give a user sufficient clearance for his/her hand grip when using the claw assembly built-in in the face. A blade assembly... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339859 | Control system for a filtrate splitting device An adjustable splitter valve and control system for a pulp washing apparatus is provided that automatically regulates the filtrate flow from a pulp washer or thickener to control the filtrate characteristics such as volume, dissolved solids or suspended s... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339860 | Glasses wiper structure Glasses wiper structure including a clamp body, two wiping units and two fixing members. The clamp body has two clamping arms on two sides. A free end of each of the clamping arms is formed with a recess having a perforation at a certain position. The rec... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339861 | Vacuum cleaner power cord system A manually retractable electric power cord system for a mobile appliance, such as an upright vacuum cleaner. The power cord, in combination with the mobile appliance, comprises a coiled power cord that has a memory to restore its coiled shape when in the ... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339862 | Single-handed folding device (II) A single-hand folding device comprises a slidable pressing device having racks, drawing cams having teeth on their peripheries, slidable keys for performing locking operation and wires with one end fixed to the drawing cams and another end fixed to the sl... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339863 | Multi-step positioning device of trunk pull rod A multi-step positioning device of a trunk pull rod has a pair of pull rods at two sides thereof. Each pull rod has an inner upper rod and an outer lower rod therein. The rod body has two sides of round arc shapes. After engaging, the round arc portions o... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339864 | Mounting plate for cabinet hinges The invention consists of a mounting plate for cabinet hinges, a baseplate fastened on the cabinet body and an adjusting plate that can be fastened to the cabinet hinge's baseplate, so that a secure fastening of the catch connection results. In order to a... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339865 | Cord fastener This invention provides a cord fastener wherein a tightening cord is threaded through or an end of the tightening cord is nipped thereby, the cord fastener being captured and fixed easily with stability on the surface of a down jacket with hood and the li... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339866 | Method and apparatus for a removable nametag or insignia A removable nametag or insignia that is placed on a uniform or garment with a hook-loop system like the product sold under the registered trademark VELCRO. A flexible backsheet is sewn or otherwise attached to the garment or uniform piece with a set of lo... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339867 | Lace fastener A device for fastening a flexible tie has a hollow body provided with a guiding channel that forms a funnel for a translationally movable blocking element, this blocking element being subject to the constant action of an elastic element. The hollow body i... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339868 | Cutting tool and shrink fitting method for the same A cutting tool including a tool holding portion and a tool. The tool is configured to be inserted into a hole of the tool holding portion. The tool includes a tool main body, a guide portion, and a shoulder portion. The tool maim body has a tool outer dia... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339869 | Method of making a golf club head A golf club head is formed with a unitary, one-piece body including a top crown, sole plate, face plate and side skirt. The side skirt includes an opening, and a cap is configured to cover the opening. Preferably, the cap is connected to the side skirt by... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339870 | Method of manufacturing electrical windings A method of manufacturing electrical windings, according to which it is possible to manufacture, with high efficiency, the electrical windings differing in function and capable of performing the functions required of the respective windings. In the steps ... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339871 | Method of manufacturing rotary electric machine's stator A method of manufacturing a stator of a rotary electric machine is comprised of the following steps: providing a plurality of U-shaped basic conductor segments and a plurality of U-shaped connection conductor segments; forming the U-turn portions and stra... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339872 | Method of making a merged magnetic head that includes a write head with single-sided notched first pole piece A single-sided, notched write head is provided for writing narrow erase band servo tracks as well as a double-notched write head, and for writing data tracks better than a double-notched write head. The single-sided, notched write head writes a narrow era... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339873 | Method and system for assembling indoor units of air conditioners along conveyor lines Indoor air conditioner units are manufactured by pre-assembling evaporators and supplying the evaporators to a plurality of unit assembling stations, whereby at each unit assembling station, the evaporators are assembled with other air conditioner element... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339874 | Assembling apparatus assembling body side of automotive vehicle An assembling apparatus assembling a body side of an automotive vehicle includes: a moving body provided in a transfer line; a clamp device mounted to the moving body fixing and positioning a body side outer in an upright position in which the body side o... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339875 | Method for removing heat from an integrated circuit A heatsink interface material for securing a heatsink to an integrated circuit includes a core material having an adhesive forced into opposing surfaces of the core material. It is preferred that an intermediate region of the core material be free of adhe... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339876 | Method for assembling an inner core/cylinder block assembly for linear compressor A method for manufacturing a linear compressor which has a cylinder block with a compressing chamber and an inner core which has a plurality of electric steel plates disposed around the cylinder block. The method includes punching each of the electric ste... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339877 | Method and apparatus for refurbishing a valve seat in a fuel injector assembly An apparatus and method of refurbishing a valve seat disposed at a predetermined angle relative to the centerline of an associated valve bore in a workpiece wherein the apparatus includes a support structure on which the workpiece is located such that the... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339878 | Method of repairing an airfoil A method for repairing an airfoil is provided that includes the steps of: (a) determining repair regions of the airfoil that are likely to be damaged during a period of operation; (b) creating a stress profile for the airfoil that considers dynamic, stead... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339879 | Method of sizing and forming a cooling hole in a gas turbine engine component A method for accurately sizing and forming the cooling holes of an air-cooled gas turbine engine component on which a protective diffusion coating will be deposited. The method generally entails drilling a hole in a surface region of a substrate, and then... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339880 | Process for manufacturing heat sink In a process for manufacturing a heat sink comprising a heat dissipating base plate and a multiplicity of tonguelike fins formed on an upper surface of the base plate, a heat sink blank of aluminum extrudate is formed which has a part for forming a thick ... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339881 | Ink jet printhead and method for its manufacture A method of fabricating a printhead for use in an ink jet printing device which includes providing a substrate having at least one substantially planar surface. An array of heating elements are formed on the surface of the substrate and addressed with a c... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6339882 | Flush valve A flush valve is adapted for placement through a hole in the bottom of a toilet tank. The valve seat has an axis with a lower section adapted to extend through the hole and an upper section defining an opening generally perpendicular to the axis. A first ... | 01/22/2002 |
