Patents Examined by Judith L. Olds
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Patent number: 4729297Abstract: Improvements are disclosed for a cooking device having a base with an opening in the center which is placed over the burner of a stove, a wire grid supported over the base and spaced therefrom which supports food to be cooked, and a lid which rests on the base over the wire grid. One improvement is a frusto-conically shaped support which supports the cooking device over the burner and which has holes in the side thereof to allow the device to be used with an electric stove. Another improvement is a removable plate which is interposed between the base and the wire grid which catches drippings from the food, and thus prevents unwanted odors and smoke.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 1986Date of Patent: March 8, 1988Inventor: Morad Iranzadi
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Patent number: 4727626Abstract: An improved fiber control for an apron drafting system of a spinning frame is disclosed which includes a rear pair of rolls (3, 6) a middle pair of rolls (2, 5), and a front pair of rolls (1, 4). A silver guidance zone is formed between upper apron 8 and lower apron 11 around rolls 5 and 2, respectively by which sliver is guided in a prescribed path. The guidance path may be configured especially to the fiber type and length by transverse projection elements (17, 18, 19) which engage lower apron 11 and are displaceable. The projection elements are displaceable perpendicular to and along the length of the sliver guidance zone and may be made to contact lower apron 11 to provide a desired shape for control of the sliver.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1985Date of Patent: March 1, 1988Assignee: Platt Saco Lowell S.A.Inventor: D. Ricardo M. Vinas
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Patent number: 4720875Abstract: A baseball or softball glove comprising front and back walls joined together to form thumb and finger stalls, a web between the thumb and the first finger stall, upper lacing interconnecting the thumb stall, web and finger stalls at their upper ends, and lower lacing interconnecting the thumb stall, web and finger stalls between their upper and lower ends. The lower lacing comprises a plurality of reaches of lacing lying in generally parallel planes extending generally at right angles to the finger stalls and spaced at intervals along the finger stalls, each reach running continuously along a curvilinear path, as viewed from above the glove, through openings in the thumb stall, web and finger stalls. The depth of the web relative to the thumb stall and the first finger stall and the spacings between individual finger stalls are readily adjustable by tightening or loosening the reaches of lower lacing.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 1987Date of Patent: January 26, 1988Assignee: Figgie International Inc.Inventors: Roland N. Latina, Robert L. Clevenhagen
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Patent number: 4720026Abstract: A sewing assembly including a needle, a loop secured to the trailing end of the needle, and a driver member in the form of a thimble adapted to fit on and over the finger of the user and including a hook portion extending upwardly from the main body portion of the thimble and adapted to be inserted into the seat defined by the crotch defined at the juncture of the forward end of the loop with the trailing end of the needle. The loop thus coacts with the needle to facilitate ready threading of the sewing assembly, to define a seat for receipt of the hook portion of the driving member, and to provide cam surfaces to guide the hook portion into firm seating engagement with the seat at the trailing end of the needle. In an alternate form, the driver member is in the form of a finger ring and the hook portion extends upwardly from the main body of the ring.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1986Date of Patent: January 19, 1988Inventor: Arnold I. Feuerman
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Patent number: 4698847Abstract: An apparel structure based on the movement of muscles during movement of the body, and a process for making such apparel, includes an apparel structure constructed to be comfortable and to have excellent adaptability to movement without tension or slack. It also provides excellent shaping-up effect, can be applied to various kinds of apparel and is particularly suitable for female underwear and shaping-up wear. It is suitable particularly for working wear, sportswear, leisure wear, etc., in which the extent of movement of the body is large, irrespective of male or female.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1986Date of Patent: October 13, 1987Inventor: Hiroshi Yoshihara
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Patent number: 4694507Abstract: A mechanism for opening and closing a window closure member (12) in a welder's helmut (10) by movement of the welder's chin. The helmet is provided with a chin engaging member (18), (20) which is attached to one end of an arm (24) by a rod (26). The arm (24) is pivotally connected to the helmut. As the welder lowers his chin against the chin engaging member, a roller (30) attached to the other end of pivoting arm (24) applies an opening force via rod (26) to the lower inner face of the window closure member (12) thus forcing the closure member to swing open about hinges (14). The chin engaging member is biased against the welder's chin by a spring (40). Thus an upward movement of the welder's chin will allow the window closure member (12) to return to a closed position.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1986Date of Patent: September 22, 1987Inventor: Steven M. Owen
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Patent number: 4694741Abstract: In an apparatus for making a rolled wafer cone from a baked flat wafer blank made from a sugar-containing wafer dough, the baked wafer blank is rolled to form a wafer cone in a winding mold while the wafer blank is still in a soft, deformable state after the baking operation. Thereafter the rolled wafer cone is permitted to harden. In order to ensure the production of wafer cones having consistently exactly the same shape, it is proposed that the wafer cone which is unrestrained at least in part is shortened in the winding mold to a predetermined length while the wafer cone is adapted to be plastically deformed. For this purpose the rolled wafer cone disposed in the winding mold is subjected to a plastic deformation only at one end or only at both ends.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1986Date of Patent: September 22, 1987Assignee: Franz Haas Waffelmaschinen Industriegesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Franz Haas, Sr., Franz Haas, Jr., Johann Haas
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Patent number: 4694538Abstract: In a chute feed apparatus for carding engines, cards and like machines, there is disclosed means for changing the widthwise configuration of sheet material being fed and exiting the apparatus by changing the deformation of a constituent wall of the delivery chute shaftway. This wall has a deformable member and displacement devices and holding members which deform the wall's shaftway contours responsive to the density or thickness of the sheet material exiting so as to provide sheet material with a desired contour widthwise.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 1986Date of Patent: September 22, 1987Assignee: Hergeth Hollingsworth GmbHInventors: Akiva Pinto, Guenter Lucassen
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Patent number: 4689831Abstract: A garment which is converted into a carrying pack to be worn on an individual's back. The invention comprises a garment, a pocket on the side of the garment, and straps on the inside of the garment, the pocket being invertible such that the garment may be folded therein, forming a carrying bag and exposing straps which enable the carrying bag to be worn on an individual's back.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 1986Date of Patent: September 1, 1987Assignee: Homebodies, Inc.Inventors: Susan Greenberger, Kate B. Horwich
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Patent number: 4646390Abstract: In order to reduce the friction of the roving against the annular cover of the can receiving the roving and surrounding the rotatable coiler, the cover is rotatable about the rotation axis of the coiler.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1985Date of Patent: March 3, 1987Assignee: Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbHInventor: Jakob Bothner
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Patent number: 4646362Abstract: A disposable underpant (10, 10') comprising a front panel (11) and rear panel (12) joined together along side seams (13) to provide a three-dimensional garment having a pair of elasticized leg openings (14) and an elasticized waist opening (15), and including a bodyside liner (16), outer cover (17) and absorbent batt (18) therebetween, in which the outer cover (17) has an inner layer (30) of plastic material and an outer layer (31) of nonwoven fibrous material.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1985Date of Patent: March 3, 1987Assignee: Kimberly-Clark CorporationInventors: William M. Heran, Glen R. Fleischer, Joyce A. Damico, Paul T. Van Gompel
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Patent number: 4644591Abstract: A soft sculpture face mask is extremely lightweight, breatheable and capable of being easily and inexpensively manufactured. The construction of the mask allows for an unlimited variety of face mask designs utilizing basically the same materials. The mask is three-dimensional and, therefore, more realistic than rubber molded masks which, in any event, are hot and uncomfortable to wear.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1985Date of Patent: February 24, 1987Inventor: Mel Goldberg
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Patent number: 4630318Abstract: A baseball catching means comprises a front ply defining a ball receiving area and a lining ply disposed over a back face of the front ply. The lining ply is provided with a padding material attached to a back face thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 1985Date of Patent: December 23, 1986Assignee: Trion CorporationInventor: Akio Aoki
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Patent number: 4597108Abstract: A latex article such as a glove or girdle having a halogenated outside surface to a first degree and a halogenated inside surface to a second degree thereby providing different slippery coefficient surfaces on the outside and the inside of the article without the need of powders, resins or exterior finishes.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 1984Date of Patent: July 1, 1986Inventor: Akira Momose
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Patent number: 4587672Abstract: A cold-weather hand covering of the present invention includes a selectively shaped chemical heating element receiving chamber. In one embodiment, a fingerless glove hand covering having a substantially rectangular shaped chemical heating element receiving chamber confronting the palm side of the base of the fingers is disclosed. The fingers are warmed by so clenching the hand as to bring the fingers into direct heat receiving contact with the heating chamber, and heat transmitted thereby into the palm heats the blood and warms the fingers by circulation. In another embodiment, a mitt hand covering having a substantially heel-shaped chemical heating element receiving chamber confronting either the back surface or the front surface of the fingers including the fingertips is disclosed. The fingers are warmed directly by heat transmitted to the entire surface of the fingers and fingertips by the heel-shaped chemical heating element chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1984Date of Patent: May 13, 1986Assignee: Multi-Tech CorporationInventors: Herman Madnick, Ralph F. Goldman