Famous Patents
The ice cream cone was invented at the St. Louis Worlds Fair by Ernest Hamwi in 1904. His waffle booth was next to an ice cream vendor who ran short of dishes. Hamwi rolled a waffle to hold ice cream and the cone was born.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7231670 | Versatile scarf A versatile scarf includes an elongated rectangular neckband portion, a large half-fan shaped flap connected to one side of the neckband portion and a small half-fan shaped flap connected to another side of the neckband portion forming draping portions, and a loop c... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231671 | Adjustable leg width trousers Variable leg width trousers, offering the wearer the ability to change the diameter of the lower leg sections of the trousers near the foot end while keeping the diameter of the upper leg sections constant. Each lower leg section is formed to have a width adjustment... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231672 | Undergarment with pocket An undergarment in the form of boxer shorts includes a concealed inside pocket on the front panel for holding valuables and other items such as, but not limited to, a credit card, a membership or I.D. card, paper and coin currency and keys. The pocket hangs freely o... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231673 | Portable shower stall A portable shower stall, for allowing a person to bathe while seated in a wheelchair, for temporary installation in a kitchen having a sink having a basin and a hand sprayer. The shower stall has a frame having side panels and a rear panel that are selectively folda... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231674 | Toilet moving cart system A toilet moving cart system for efficiently moving a toilet. The toilet moving cart system includes a base for receiving a conventional toilet, a stub member within the base, a plurality of wheels attached to the base, and a handle attached to the base. The stub mem... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231675 | Pull down bed A pull down bed that pivots from a vertical, stow away position to a horizontal position for use when sleeping is provided. Weight bearing leg panels are hingedly attached to the mattress platform and swing downward and away from the platform sides when the bed is l... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231676 | Cross-rail support system for a bed frame with telescopic legs A cross-rail support system for use with a bed frame to support a mattress having at least two adjustable support leg assemblies attached to two parallel and adjacent elongate beams. The overall width of the support system is adjustable by sliding the elongate beams... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231677 | Roll-up blanket with straps and method of use A rectangular flexible fabric sheet has mounted corner holders. A horizontally oriented support is engaged with the corner holders for securing the sheet so as to enable a person to recline on the sheet. A pillow having a circular fabric outer cover is positioned at... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231678 | Side rail pad system for patient support apparatus A side rail pad system that provides modifications and components operable in association with hospital beds and the like that are designed to articulate. The system improves upon the structural shape of the side rails used in association with the articulating bed f... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231679 | Bedding assembly A bedding assembly including at least one fitted sheet having a head end and a foot end for covering a mattress at least one flat sheet having a head end and a foot end for covering said fitted sheet, and stitches connecting the fitted sheet to the flat sheet along ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231680 | Diabetic sheet support The bed cover support is designed to provide a way of supporting the sheets/blankets and preventing them from resting on the feet of an individual laying in bed. The bed cover support includes a first adjustable height bar and a second adjustable height bar which al... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231681 | Multiple position air mattress system A multiple position air mattress system for achieving various support positions includes a first mattress, a second mattress, and a bellows unit attached to the second mattress. The bellows unit is extendable for either elevating the second mattress or providing a s... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231682 | Method and apparatus for simultaneously cleaning the front side and back side of a wafer A method for cleaning a semiconductor substrate is provided. The method initiates with transferring the semiconductor substrate into a chamber. Then, a first side of the semiconductor substrate is cleaned according to a first cleaning technique. A second side of the... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231683 | Window cleaning apparatus The present invention discloses an apparatus for cleaning a window of a structure. The window cleaning apparatus includes a guide track mounted on one side of a window frame and a second guide track mounted on a side of the window frame opposite the first guide trac... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231684 | Cleaning apparatus A window cleaning apparatus includes a handle, a paddle and a cleaning element. The paddle is removably attachable to the handle. The handle includes oppositely extending end pins which are pivotally received in receivers carried on the paddle. At least one of the r... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231685 | Cleaning article There is disclosed a cleaning article including a brush portion. The brush portion has a plurality of strips and at least one layer of a fiber bundle. ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231686 | Vacuum cleaner system for motor vehicle A vacuum cleaner system is mounted inside the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle and includes a hose that is retractable into a housing for storage and a power cord that is also retractable into the housing for storage and which also includes a connector for c... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231687 | Vacuum cleaner with flow channel switch for blowing and sucking air In a vacuum cleaner, by including a casing having a certain internal space; a suction force generating unit installed in the casing to generate a suction force and discharge sucked air; a head unit combined with the casing to suck impurities on the bottom with air b... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231688 | Dirt cup for vacuum cleaner A vacuum cleaner is provided including a housing, a nozzle inlet, a suction generator carried on the housing and a dirt cup. The dirt cup includes a dirt collection chamber, a chamber inlet, a filter cavity and a chamber outlet. A filter element is received in the f... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231689 | Adjustable wheel assembly An improved wheel assembly comprises a caster swivel post that is adapted to pivot about a pivot axis transverse to the caster swivel post. A caster fork is supported for rotation relative to the caster swivel post and rotatably supports a caster wheel. The caster s... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231690 | Furniture glide with tubular flanged grommet fastener A furniture glide is provided for mounting on a terminal end of a furniture leg. The furniture glide includes a slider having an upper surface and a generally arcuate lower surface for engaging a supporting surface. A generally tubular fastener extends from the uppe... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231691 | Full overlay hinge with three-dimensional mechanical adjustment and top pins Hinge assembly for mounting a door on a furniture frame for movement of the door between open and closed positions of the door relative to the furniture frame is provided comprising a mounting plate adapted to be affixed to a furniture frame member, an intermediate ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231692 | Damping mechanism of opening and closing member, and container holder and automobile door including the same A damping mechanism for an opening and closing member that opens and closes an opening while changing a center of rotation has an arm with damped rotational speed to support a shaft part of the opening and closing member. A position of the shaft part with respect to... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231693 | Strap-tensioning device with tension indicator A strap tensioning device for anchoring a load to an anchor point, that includes a strap, a base member having a pair of arms, a handle rotatably connected to the base member, a mechanism operated by rotation of the handle for securing the strap to the base member u... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231694 | Pipe clamp with improved fastener A band clamp having a band and a nut and bolt fastener. The band includes radially-extending opposed flanges each having an aperture for receiving the bolt. The bolt has a shank that includes a neck, a threaded body for receiving the nut, and a tapered transition fr... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231695 | Apparatus for automatically locking the ship container An apparatus for automatically locking ship containers. The apparatus has a housing having a pair of housing halves which are symmetrical to each other, an operating element having a pair of operating element halves which are symmetrical to each other and assembled ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231696 | Clip A clip has a base A having a U shape composed of a pair of parallel sections, and a joining section having flexibility and interconnecting the lower parts thereof, elastic pieces respectively branching from the insides of the parallel sections in the opposed directi... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231697 | End stop for slide fastener and slide fastener having the same A synthetic-resin-made linear slide fastener has a top end stop and a bottom end stop. A coil-like or zigzag-like linear fastener element row (3) of synthetic resin is mounted on a side edge of a fastener tape (4), and then a rod-like body (6) i... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231698 | Post attachment device A post attachment device for connecting a helmet to a head and neck support. The device includes a post anchor having a base, a button, a resilient member, a post, a retainer and a catch having a slot with a larger first section connected by a channel to a smaller s... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231699 | Lace blocking device A device for blocking at least one strand of a lace or other filiform element, the device including a rotatable blocking member and a hollow body, the hollow body having a cavity for housing the blocking member. The blocking member is circular, freely rotatable, and... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231700 | Hand tool for removing push nuts The hand tool embodying this invention allows push nuts to be quickly and easily removed from axle rods and other shafts. The tool has a specialized head welded to a long handle. The tool head includes an end socket head and an extractor. The socket head has an open... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231701 | Modular PCB and method of replacing a malfunctioned module of the PCB Modular PCB and method of replacing one of a plurality of modules of a first PCB are provided. One embodiment of the method includes checking each module of the first PCB and each of a plurality of modules of a second PCB, cutting a malfunctioned module from the fir... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231702 | Connector and method of use thereof A connecting structure is provided. The structure includes a post with a first end, middle portion, and a second end, a plurality of prongs flexibly connected to the first end, extending toward the second end in a V-shape. ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231703 | Deburring method and automotive knuckle A knuckle 1 has a through hole 3 provided in a fitting hole 4 thereof. A cutting tool 9, which has a diameter being larger than that of the through hole 3 and also has a cutting part having a hemispherical leading end portion, is c... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231704 | Contact spring and socket combination for high bandwidth probe tips A high-bandwidth electrical test probe having a probe contact spring of reduced size and characteristic capacitance is presented. The probe includes a contact spring connected at one end to the input port of a probe circuit. The opposite end of the contact spring en... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231705 | Method for forming a resist pattern of magnetic device A pattern forming method includes forming a resist pattern for lift off of a first film disposed on a surface side of a base, patterning the first film by dry etching using the resist pattern as a mask, depositing a second film after patterning, removing the resist ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231706 | Method of manufacturing an anisotropic conductive film An anisotropic conductive film is prepared by winding an insulated wire around a core member to form one roll of a winding layer, placing an insulating resin film on the obtained winding layer, and repeating the step of winding the insulated wire and the step of pla... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231707 | Method of manufacturing planar inductors Method of forming a ferromagnetic layer on at least one surface of a dielectric material that may be serve as an inductive core on a printed circuit board or a multichip module. Conductive leads can form two separate coils around the core to form a transformer, and ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231708 | Method for marking fuses In a method for marking a fuse in order to allow for the rapid visual identification of certain characteristics of that fuse, the fuse is provided with: a first color-coded visual indicia indicative of an amperage rating of the fuse; a second color-coded visual indi... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231709 | Component mounting apparatus In accordance with a component mounting apparatus, a component stored in a component feeder is held by a component holding member and is then mounted in a mounting position on an object. The apparatus functions to, when a mounting posture of the component in which t... | 06/19/2007 |
