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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7657948 | Pivotal shower device A shower device includes a hollow frame having a coupler for engaging with a wall-mounted shower supply pipe and having two tubes attached to two end portions, a housing having a chamber formed by an outer peripheral wall and having two openings for rotatably receiv... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657949 | Hollow shower panel A device for showering and the like has a body having a front wall, a peripheral wall and an open rear side with an edge configured to abut against a wall, hose means associated with the body for supplying water for taking a shower, a throughgoing receptacle formed ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657950 | System and method for providing tempered fluid The present invention is directed to methods and apparatus for tempering the temperature of a liquid in a fluid conducting system. More particularly, some embodiments of the invention relates to tempering the temperature of water supplied to a fixture from a water h... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657951 | Support and transfer apparatus for transport of an incapacitated individual A patient transport apparatus includes a sling for movement of a person from or into a vehicle seat supported by a dual legged horizontal frame mounted on rollers or wheels with a generally vertical, telescoping post having a cantilever arm extending therefrom. A ca... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657952 | Supplemental exercise mat Provided is a mat supplemental to an exercise mat including a cushion portion for assisting in execution and/or maintaining of a select body position (e.g., a stretch, yoga pose, or Pilates pose). The supplemental mat may include a strap detachable from the cushion ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657953 | Birthing bed calf support A limb support coupled to a patient-support apparatus includes a multi-axis pivot mount having a first joint mounted to the patient-support apparatus, an arm coupled to the first joint on a first end for pivotable movement thereabout, and a second joint coupled to a... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657954 | Head and face covering apparatus A head and face covering apparatus includes a flexible housing that defines a pillow case and is U-shaped. The housing includes a central portion and a pair of arms extending away from the central portion. The housing has an elongated opening therein. A pillow is re... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657955 | Nursing pillow with privacy panels and integrated carrying case A nursing pillow with integrated privacy panels that provide privacy to mothers while breast feeding infants. The pillow is U-shaped having a soft filler material and a pillow case. A neck strap helps keep the pillow close to the mother. The infant is supported on t... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657956 | Patient support This disclosure described a patient support having an air permeable layer, a plurality of inflatable bladders, a pressure-sensing assembly and a controller. In one embodiment, a combination of transverse bladders and vertically oriented can-shaped bladders is provid... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657957 | Vertically-storing dock leveler apparatus and method A dock leveler for bridging the gap between a loading dock and the bed of a vehicle parked at the loading dock. The dock leveler is configured for installation on the top of the dock and is designed to rotate from a vertically-stored raised position to at least one ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657958 | Method and apparatus for holding adhesive coated roller cleaning substrates An exemplary embodiment of a substrate cleaning apparatus includes a hand held hand roller including a roller cleaning member rotationally mounted in a handle and having a tacky peripheral contact surface, the tacky peripheral contact surface adapted to transfer for... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657959 | Releasable paint roller cover retainer A paint roller including a roller cover retainer that is releasable to permit a roller cover to be easily removed. The device includes a locking lever pivotable relative to the frame which actuates retainers located within the roller assembly. The locking lever also... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657960 | Quick release connector for dual-sided buffing pad A quick release attachment for a power buffer having a rotatable spindle includes a buffing pad assembly and a quick release connector adapted to join the buffing pad assembly to the spindle. The buffing pad assembly includes a mounting plate and a buffing pad affix... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657961 | Vehicle windshield cleaning system Apparatus and method for providing a heated cleaning fluid to a vehicle surface. The apparatus has an inlet port for receiving an amount of fluid; an outlet port for dispensing an amount of heated fluid; a heating element coil or tube covered with a plastic sheath t... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657962 | Wiper motor An assembling operation of a wiper motor is facilitated. An output shaft and a gear shaft of the sector gear part are connected by a swinging plate. A first slidable contact member is mounted on a tip of the output shaft, and a second slidable contact part is mounte... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657963 | Wiper motor By reducing thickness of a slidable contact member which is attached to an output shaft and a sector gear part and slidably contacts with a gear case, a wiper motor is downsized. A motive power conversion member comprises: an arm part rotatably connected to the worm... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657964 | Lift off tank handle latch A cleaning apparatus for cleaning a surface includes a base portion for movement along a surface and a handle pivotally connected to the base portion. Additionally the apparatus includes a solution tank, a recovery tank, both removable mounted to a handle, and a suc... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657965 | Surface cleaning with cleaning fluid supply shape memory alloy actuator A surface cleaning apparatus comprises a fluid delivery system including a supply of cleaning fluid and a fluid recovery system for drawing dirty cleaning fluid from the surface to be cleaned. The apparatus can comprise a passageway that passes heated motor cooling ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657966 | Clean exhaust air upright vacuum An upright bypass type vacuum base section pulls from a suction chamber surrounding the bag. ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657967 | Brush vibrating apparatus for vacuum cleaner A brush vibrating apparatus for a vacuum cleaner. The brush vibrating apparatus includes a brush provided in a head portion of the vacuum cleaner and reciprocating and rotating for separating foreign substances from an object to be cleaned; support units provided on... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657968 | Walker wheel interface An improved wheel interface for walkers that includes a spring interface connection between the frame of the walker and the wheel assembly. The walker is able to better absorb shocks that occur when encountering an obstacle such as a curb, allowing the user to avoid... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657969 | Hubless castor wheel construction, particularly for furniture articles An improved hubless castor wheel construction, particularly for a furniture article and the like, comprises a rotary element which is pivotably supported by a support element to be associated with a furniture article, said support element comprising two half-shells ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657970 | Device for preventing door slamming A device for preventing door slamming including a housing that has a bore formed therein, a control element that slides in the bore, the control element having a bore formed therein, a plunger that slides in and out of the bore of the control element, the plunger be... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657971 | Virtual hinge A support system includes a frame member and a cover magnetically coupled to one another proximate an edge of the cover and in an aligned state. The cover is rotatable with respect to the frame member without any structural coupling therebetween while the frame memb... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657972 | Handle attachment assembly One embodiment of a handle attachment assembly formed in accordance with the present invention is provided. The handle attachment assembly may be used for removably attaching a handle to an elongate shaft having a proximal end and a distal end. The handle attachment... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657973 | Handle adaptor for transport carts and the like and associated method A handle adaptor for transport carts includes a block-shaped lower member with first, second, third and fourth upper surfaces with inner edges. The inner edges are disposed below the inner edges of the first and second upper surfaces. A fifth upper surface is formed... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657974 | Knob structure A knob structure includes a holder, a steel ball, an elastic metallic piece, a swiveling element and a connecting element. The holder has at least one through hole. The steel ball is slidably placed inside the through hole. The elastic metallic piece and the swiveli... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657975 | Endless boot fixing band and manufacturing method thereof The rotation of the band in relation to a boot to be fastened is prevented, so that reduction of the boot-fastening force is prevented, thereby preventing leakage of grease from a boot to be fastened, and so that boot-bands can be manufactured simply. An endless boo... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657976 | Hanger A hanger allows a height position of an object to adjusted easily after the object is hung when hanging the object using wire rope. The hanger includes wire rope inserted through a lock case and has a wire grip mechanism and a hook, wherein a height position of the ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657977 | Belt clamp and carrier A belt clamp with a pivotal article carrier attached thereto includes a base and a cover hinged together at the top. The cover includes a passageway at the lower end to accept a barb-like fastener integral with lower end of base to lock clamp closed. A tongue projec... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657978 | Safety buckle A safety buckle includes an intermediate buckle member, which has two opposite receiving holes and two smoothly arched grooves on the top and bottom sides in each receiving hole, and two connecting buckle members each having a plug insertable into the receiving hole... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657979 | Buckle switch and buckle device To provide a buckle switch and buckle device wherein a first switch section and a second switch section are unitized to provide improved assembling workability and increased production efficiency. As a tongue plate is inserted to a buckle body to move a slide... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657980 | Fastener for a lace A fastener for a lace includes a metal base, two clamp assemblies, a pull unit, and an anchoring member. Each of the clamp assemblies includes a substantially U-shaped member which has two opposite arms pivotally connected to the metal base, a U-bend connected to th... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657981 | Casket with combination shelf, drawer, and/or alcove memorialization feature A casket comprises a shell, a cap closable on the shell, and a dish assembly mounted to an underside of the cap. The dish assembly comprises a cap panel, and either a) an alcove structure formed in the cap panel and adapted to receive an ornament for display when th... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657982 | Suction device for liquids, in particular hydroentangling machines The invention relates to a suction device for liquids in hydroentangling machines, in which more than one water bar, which generate jets of liquid, are allocated to the exterior of the suction device. The suction device consists of a suction tube comprising one or m... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657983 | Method of producing a topology-optimized electrode for a resonator in thin-film technology In a method of producing an electrode for a resonator in thin-film technology, the electrode of the resonator is embedded in an insulating layer such that a surface of the electrode is exposed, and that a surface defined by the electrode and the insulating layer is ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657984 | Robot positioned welding tip dresser A robot positioned welding tip dresser assembly includes a pivot arm pivotally mountable on a welding gun apparatus. The pivot arm is pivotal about a pivot point. A welding tip dresser is mounted on a distal end of the pivot arm. A first retaining tab extends from t... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657985 | Modified boiler wall tube tool A boiler wall tube tool has a first clamp member positioned about one side of the boiler wall and a second clamp member positioned about the opposite side of the boiler wall. The first clamp member has recess or recesses, each recess receiving one of the tubes there... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657986 | Method of making a folded condenser tube A method of fabricating a condenser tube having a pre-determined tube length and multiple channels including the steps of forming an aperture in a flat strip of metal; moving the flat strip through a plurality of forming operations to fold into an enclosed tube cont... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657987 | Methods for the attachment of a functional element to a sheet metal part A functional element for connection to a sheet metal part, and a method for connecting a functional element to a sheet metal part. The functional element includes a head part, a tubular rivet section extending from the head part and a tubular guide section disposed ... | 02/09/2010 |
