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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6457179 | Helmet mount for night vision device A helmet mount for a night vision device with a goggle horn for attachment to the helmet mount is disclosed. The helmet mount includes an adjustable socket assembly for mounting goggle horns with varying dimensions therein, and a break away latch assembly... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457180 | Headgear for shielding ultraviolet rays An ultraviolet rays shielding hat having a sun visor is disclosed. The hat includes an elastically circular band having an outer periphery, a plurality of guide supports attached to the side portions of the outer periphery, wherein said each guide support... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457181 | Glove apparatus and method The hand covering of the present invention has a body portion preferably substantially covering a wearer's hand but which at least partially covers the fingers of the wearer, and a limiting element preventing the wearer from grasping with the fingers. The... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457182 | Protective glove A protective glove for a human hand, the glove including five finger portions, and a finger tip portion of a plurality of the finger portions comprising wire mesh.... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457183 | Cap A cap for permitting a wearer to use the cap as a device for catching falling objects, such as baseballs, therewith. The cap includes a cap with a bill outwardly extending therefrom. The bill has a plurality of spaced apart finger holes therethrough.... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457184 | Hat with golf ball marking device A combination hat and golf ball marking device is provided. The hat includes a generally round convex-shaped body portion for placing over the a skull of a golfer. A bill member extends from a front side of the body portion and works to shade the face of ... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457185 | Easy convenience pantyhose A pair of pantyhose for aesthetic, medical and athletic purposes having left and right leg portions joined together by a lower torso portion. The lower torso portion includes a relatively large, unobstructed opening between the leg portions. The opening i... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457186 | Air cleaning device for a toilet bowl An air cleaning device of the type for deodorizing and/or masking odor from a toilet is provided. The air cleaning device comprises a housing having a cleaning section, the housing connectable to a toilet bowl with the housing being positioned within the ... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457187 | Pressurized water closet flushing system A pressurized flushing system for discharging liquid into a toilet bowl. The mechanism comprises a sealed container for storing a pre-determined volume of the liquid under pressure having an inlet for connection to a liquid supply source under pressure an... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457188 | Water and sewage evacuation assembly An evacuation assembly for a receptacle, which is traversed by a flowable substance drained through a discharge outlet, includes a housing removably attached to the receptacle and having a channel receiving the substance in case of the blocked outlet of t... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457189 | Pool liner retainer with cap A retainer for a pool liner has an elongate retaining element includes a longitudinal holding channel for accommodating a liner bead, the channel having an upper wall with a downwardly extending second flange, a rear wall and a bottom wall with a forwardl... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457190 | Child's wide-based 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. The base portion is sufficiently larger than the top shelf por... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457191 | Dual outlet faucet A faucet has a base formed with a outwardly open cavity and a pair of confronting open outlet ports opening into the cavity. A sleeve fitted over the base at the cavity has an inner surface directed radially inward at the base, and is rotatable on the bas... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457192 | Air bed with elevated and self-expanding support structure A collapsible bed (10) having an air mattress (14) and a support frame (18). The support frame (18) includes a number of frame members (32), which are joined by pivot assemblies (36), such that the support frame (18) as a whole expands outwardly from a ce... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457193 | Baby blanket A baby blanket preventing a baby from removing the blanket from the body of the baby. The baby blanket includes a sheet of material having a reinforcing section embedded within a lower portion of a perimeter of the sheet of material. The reinforcing secti... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457194 | Bed linen holder and method An apparatus and method for securing a bed linen proximate a mattress includes a planar member with at least one tapered portion that is adapted to receive a portion of a bed linen therein. In use, the bed linen is urged into the tapered portion and is se... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457195 | Head and neck support A pillow and method of using the same is presented for providing comfortable lateral, fore and aft support for an individual's head and neck while the individual rests in a seated, prone or supine position. The pillow is elongated and generally cylindrica... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457196 | Rotating infant mattress An infant care apparatus such as an incubator or infant warmer having a mattress for supporting the infant on an infant platform that can, at times, by fully rotated 360 degrees to obtain full access to the infant. In the incubator, a translation platform... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457197 | Swift connection joint between airbags The present invention relates to a Swift Connection Joint Between Airbags. This invention includes a device named swift connection joint, instead of the air-pipes that are used in conventional air mattresses. The swift connection joint consists of first m... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457198 | Portable golf ball cleaning device A portable golf ball cleaning device including a housing having a hollow interior. The housing has an opening therein exposing the hollow interior. The opening is dimensioned for receiving a golf ball therethrough. The housing has a plurality of bristles ... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457199 | Substrate processing in an immersion, scrub and dry system A system and methods for substrate preparation are provided. In one example, a wafer processing system includes a system enclosure that contains wafer processing apparatus within an isolated wafer processing environment. The wafer processing apparatus inc... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457200 | Pressure-sensitive cleaning sheet, image-forming material having cleaning part, and method of cleaning image-forming apparatus A pressure-sensitive cleaning sheet is disclosed which comprises a substrate, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on one or both sides of the substrate, and a porous screen disposed on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The cleaning sheet is su... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457201 | Training toothbrush This toothbrush would operate normally only when the user brushes in a correct manner. It has a brush member slidably mounted to a handle. A latching arrangement is provided between the brush and the handle such that when the toothbrush is operated incorr... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457202 | Sweeping machine brush mounting assembly An improved brush assembly for mounting on horizontally rotating brushes on street sweeping machines. A circular disk carries brush holders holding bristles in the desired configuration. The brush holders are clamped to the disk by a clamp having a clamp ... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457203 | Bucket insert and wash bucket An insert has an upper and lower portions used in conjunction with a variety of sizes of a wash buckets and a wringer to eliminate the contamination of clean wash solution with dirty solution during the moping process. The insert allows for a separation o... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457204 | Device for dust removal from a moving paper web A device for removing dust from a moving paper web, where the dust is carried in a boundary layer of air that runs with the web, includes a first separating box mounted across the web running direction. The first separating box has a collecting duct exten... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457205 | Vacuum cleaner having a plurality of power modes A vacuum cleaner has a plurality of operating modes is provided. The vacuum cleaner includes a power control system having at least one sensor for automatically sensing a change in the operating mode of the vacuum cleaner and for generating a mode signal.... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457206 | Remote-controlled vacuum cleaner A remote-controlled vacuum cleaner comprises a vacuum cleaner vehicle designed to be positioned and moved in any direction relative to a surface (e.g., a carpet) to be cleaned, and a handheld remote control device including a control element (e.g., a joys... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457207 | Stop arrangement for a pivotable door Stop arrangement (1) for stopping a door which is pivotable about an axis of rotation (5), the stop arrangement includes a first member (10) which, is connected to the door and is adapted so as to interact with a second member (11) connected to a body par... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457208 | Attachment device and method for assisting in the winding of a rounded turn knob A device and method for engaging a rounded knob so that the knob can be turned in a more rapid and ergonomically efficient manner. The claimed invention includes an auxiliary handle device. The auxiliary handle device includes a hub and a handle that exte... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457209 | Method of directly determining setting values for the application point of regulation in a regulated draw frame A method of directly determining setting values for an application point of regulation in a draw unit for drafting sliver includes the following steps: Obtaining at least three measured values of a quality-characterizing magnitude, such as the CV value, o... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457210 | Buckle and band with this buckle A band has an engaging projection part at one end, and an engaging grooves at the other end to adjust the connection in an annular shape. The band is movable forward but not movable backward relative to the other under the condition that the engaging proj... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457211 | Hose wire-clamp arrangement A hose wire-clamp arrangement includes a hose clamp (1) that comprises a helical, resilient wire, which is angled outward nearly radially or circumferentially at at least one end portion (3) and at one further portion (6). To allow the hose wire-clamp (1)... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457212 | Method of making hose clamps with internal clamping surfaces devoid of steps or gaps and products made by such method A method for manufacturing an open-type clamp and clamps made by such a method with an arrangement assuring gap-free and stepless internal clamping surfaces which include one of a female and male configuration at the end of the inner clamping band portion... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457213 | Tack for button The present invention provides a tack which prevents puckering phenomenon from being generated when the tack is pierced into cloth and enables a firm engagement between the tack and a boss portion of a button. In the tack for button, a cylindrical post st... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457214 | Tamper-resistant cord lock apparatus A cord lock apparatus includes an open-ended housing and a slide member slidably received at least partially in the housing and movable relative to the housing between a cord locking position and a cord releasing position. The slide member includes cord e... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457215 | Bracelet clasp A clasp for bracelet comprising a body whereof one of the sides is fixed to or integral with one of the ends of the bracelet and whereof the opposite side comprises a retaining element cooperating with a coupling member comprised by the other end of the b... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457216 | Buckle for a wristwatch A buckle for a watchband comprising a first arm having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end of the first arm is hingedly coupleable to first watchband portion; and a latch, the latch extending from a surface of the first arm; a second arm h... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457217 | Component attaching device A component attaching device for attaching a component to an attaching member is formed of a first attaching section to be attached to the attaching member, and a second attaching section connected to the first attaching section to be attached to the comp... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6457218 | Plastic clip A plastic clip of unitary, one piece construction, and a method for making the same is disclosed. The clip includes a first leg of a first thickness, a second leg of a second thickness, and a bridging section joining the first leg and the second leg, the ... | 10/01/2002 |
