Patents Examined by Werner H. Schroeder
  • Patent number: 5172570
    Abstract: A patterned fabric includes weft threads 3 and a fabric ground whose warped threads 2 are laid in a first area 4 in chain stitch and in a second area 5 in another stitch form. The second area 5 alternates with the first area 4 both in warp as well as weft direction. This provides, despite patterning by the warp threads, a surface stable fabric. The process for forming the patterned fabric is such that the fabric, after production, has a longitudinal extension of no greater than 25% and additionally is provided with a longitudinally stabilizing, stability improving arrangement step.A warp knitting machine for the production of fabric 1 comprises a weft insert magazine and two jacquard guide bars. In substantially each working cycle a portion of the guides lay chain stitches and the remaining portion of the guides lay other stitch types. Substantially each guide lays sequentially chain stitches as well as other stitch types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1992
    Assignee: Karl Mayer Textilmaschinenfabrik GmbH
    Inventors: Heins Wade, Gerhard Bergmann
  • Patent number: 5172424
    Abstract: A protector for the under finger of a quilter is made from flexible vinyl having a slightly roughened upper surface and a thickness of about 13 mil. The back of the protector is provided with an adhesive so that it may be attached to the under finger easily. In the preferred embodiment, a number of protectors are provided on a strip from which a single protector may be detached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1992
    Inventor: Jean S. Adkins
  • Patent number: 5172837
    Abstract: A device for washing a ball cap in a dishwasher formed from a male top frame assembly and a female bottom frame assembly that nest together in a stacked formation. The front ends of the respective frame assemblies are pivotally secured to each other and there is structure for latching their rear ends together. There is a sufficient spacing between the respective frame assemblies when they are assembled together so that a ball cap placed between them is not wedged therein but free to move about. The ball cap device has been designed to be placed in a conventional dishwashing machine for washing a ball cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1992
    Inventors: Harold W. Finney, Jr., John D. Forthey
  • Patent number: 5172458
    Abstract: The invention relates to the production of non-woven fabrics in which an array of weft threads is created and then combined with a substrate, which may in itself comprise a set of warp threads. In the method according to the invention, the array of weft threads is formed by traversing a weft carrier which has a plurality of weft guides, across the weftspace between two sets of weft retainers. At the end of each traverse, the weft carrier is jogged (that is to say moved in the warpwise direction), so that at the next traverse, it lays a further set of weft yarns across the weftspace, and the weft yarns are hooked around the weft retainers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1992
    Assignee: James Dewhurst Limited
    Inventor: Paul Cooper
  • Patent number: 5172427
    Abstract: A fingerless mitten is provided for allowing all the fingers of a hand to reside within a single defined cavity to maximize the benefits of body heat and for allowing all the fingers of the hand to be easily freed from the defined cavity while the mitten remains on the hand. A sleeve of material has coaxially aligned open ends such that one's hand can enter a first open end of the sleeve and pass freely through a second open end of the sleeve. Flap means are provided in cooperation with longitudinal portions of the sleeve and a portion of the second open end of the sleeve, whereby the single defined cavity is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1992
    Assignee: Four Corners Corporation
    Inventors: Peter J. Van Bergen, James C. Stewart
  • Patent number: 5170534
    Abstract: An apparatus for treating a fiber bale having a soiled surface. The apparatus includes a cleaning device arranged for engaging a bale surface to remove soiled material therefrom and a displacing arrangement for effecting a relative motion between the fiber bale and the cleaning device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: Trutzchler GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hans-Jurgen Marx, Andreas Kranefeld, Ferdinand Leifeld, Josef Temburg
  • Patent number: 5170508
    Abstract: A golf glove has a glove body including a back member and a palm member, and a binding band. The binding band has a wide base portion for preventing the back of the hand inserted in the glove from bending backward, an intermediate portion for preventing the thumb from bending backward contiguous with the base portion, and a narrow end portion continuous with intermediate portion for preventing the thumb from bending. A pair of detachable surface fasteners are secured to the back of the base portion and to the back member. Another pair of detachable surface fasteners are secured to the back of the end portion and to the palm member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: Kawada Industrial, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Kawada
  • Patent number: 5170732
    Abstract: A bobbin comprises a hollow hub adapted to cooperate with a latch and post on a bobbin casing housed in a sewing machine. The latch and post enter the hub and guide the bobbin into place in the sewing machine. Thread previously wound around the hub is adapted for paying out for use in the sewing machine. Before the bobbin is inserted for use in the sewing machine, a membrane is placed across the hub at one axial end to seal that end and form a reservoir within the hub, and a lubricant such as sewing machine oil is added to the reservoir. Another membrane is placed across the hub at the other axial end of the hub to seal that end and completely seal the oil within the reservoir. When the bobbin is inserted into the bobbin casing, the latch punctures both membranes, the post guides the bobbin so that it is properly seated within the bobbin casing, and the sewing machine oil contained in the reservoir drains out and lubricates the sewing machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Inventor: Herbert G. Gordon
  • Patent number: 5170648
    Abstract: A yarn feed device for circular knitting machines includes a yarn guide (12) by which the yarn (4) is fed to to the knitting implements (3) of the knitting machine from the side. For reliable feed of the yarn the yarn, guide has a downwardly open guide channel (26) with an exit section (29). The channel angle (b) is smaller than the yarn angle (a), at least at the exit section. A passage (14) passing through the yarn guide is provided as a further yarn guide, of which one bounding wall preferably has a yarn threading opening (31) in the form of a slot opening to facilitate threading the yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: Sipra Patententwicklungs-und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Kurt Junthner
  • Patent number: 5170507
    Abstract: A preformed necktie has an insert with a pair of connected diverging closed conduits interconnected by a support. A slide post extends from the support proximate the lower ends of the conduits. A tie portion is wrapped about the insert to form a knot and to become the front tie panel. The two ends of a neck-embracing loop have corresponding zipper panels and pass through the conduits to be joined by the slide and form a rear panel of the tie. The neck embracing loop is tightened or loosened by movement through the knot and slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Inventors: Gordon B. Langford, Shane C. Mast
  • Patent number: 5170647
    Abstract: A flexible cable support is provided in a flat knitting machine for supporting power supply cables. The flat knitting machine comprises a carriage that reciprocates along a needle bed. The flexible cable support and the power supply cables are connected at one end to a terminal unit on the needle bed at a position representing approximately the middle of the travel path of the carriage. The other end is connected to the reciprocating carriage. The flexible cable support is composed of a series of joint sections pivotally connected to each other forming a continuous flexible support so that, as the carriage reciprocates, the cables supported on the flexible support are allowed to freely bend and move with the carriage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: Shima Seiki Mfg. Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Shima, Shigeaki Nishibata
  • Patent number: 5170577
    Abstract: An electric steam iron having a heating baseplate (1) and a vaporization chamber (2), and further including a plate (7) on which are fixed or formed at least part of the device (3) for feeding water to the vaporization chamber (2), an assembly (4) for regulating the flow of water and components for regulating the heating temperature and the electrical connections. The plate (7) and parts mounted thereon are preassembled and then assembled as a module into the iron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: Seb S.A.
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Brandolini, Gilles Reguillon
  • Patent number: 5171182
    Abstract: A garment having the combined appearance of a brassiere and a camisole is provided with a camisole top, the brassiere function of the garment being provided by non-stretchable shoulder straps that extend across the interior of the breast cups, and, which are securely connected with the brassiere frames, the shoulder straps extending on a diagonal of the breast cups, portions of the breast cups being reinforced to provide for the support of the weight of the breast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: Wacoalamerica, Inc.
    Inventor: Valerie L. Heinen
  • Patent number: 5170731
    Abstract: An adjustable needle-craft implement comprises an elongated graspable barrel having a longitudinally extending bore communicating between opposed ends of the barrel. The barrel includes a longitudinally extending plurality of mutually spaced apart transverse slots communicating with said bore's interior and form a barrel indexing rack. An elongated hollow cylinder supports a hollow tubular needle at one end thereof. The cylinder has a resiliently mounted cylinder indexing rack with transversely extending processes thereof that are adapted to be engagable in selective axial register with corresponding ones of the transverse slots in the barrel indexing rack. The cylinder is adapted to be received internally of the bore, in releasably lockable, longitudinally slidable relation therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Inventor: George E. Walker
  • Patent number: 5170646
    Abstract: The tubular knit product with a pocket and a method for forming the pocket using reciprocating motion in tubular knit hosiery manufacturing. The method uses a circular knitting machine fed by a plurality of yarn feeds which all participate in the formation of the pocket by a reciprocating motion. During the reciprocating motion, part rows of stitches from yarns of the various feeds are formed in a sequence on a course. For the next preceding opposite course, the part rows of stitches from the yarns of the various feeds are formed in a sequence which is opposite. For each subsequent course, the sequence is opposite to the preceding course, and the course direction is opposite (reversed). On each successive reversed course, the yarns of the various feeds form rows which progressively decrease in a first part of the construction of the pocket and progressively increase in a second part of the construction of the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: Meritex S.r.l.
    Inventor: Franco Gariboldi
  • Patent number: 5170509
    Abstract: An accessory item including a cap having a cut-out through which the wearer's hair may rearwardly extend. A decorative hair band is attached to the rear of the cap. In an alternate embodiment, a hair piece is attached to the hair band to simulate a natural braid or ponytail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Inventor: Lynnabeth Leopold
  • Patent number: 5170502
    Abstract: A protective eyewear assembly includes a protective eyeglasses portion including a protective lense portion and a frame portion, a corrective lense assembly including a corrective lense frame, a pair of corrective lenses in the corrective lense frame, a nose pad assembly on the corrective lense frame, and a clip assembly for releaseably securing the corrective lense assembly on the protective eyeglasses portion. The clip assembly preferably includes a clip portion on the protective eyeglasses portion and a tongue portion on the corrective lense frame which is releaseably securable in the clip portion for securing the corrective lense assembly to the protective eyeglasses portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: Uvex Winter Optical, Inc.
    Inventors: Erich Hegendorfer, Richard W. Canavan, John G. Mathews
  • Patent number: 5170645
    Abstract: The direct drive circular knitting machine has a main structure rotatably supporting a needle cylinder having a needle cylinder axis. An electric motor is provided for rotating the needle cylinder with respect to the main structure about the needle cylinder axis. The electric motor has a rotor rigidly and coaxially connected to the needle cylinder, and a stator located adjacent to the rotor and supported by the main structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: S.F.I.M. S.r.l.
    Inventors: Francesco Lonati, Ettore Lonati, Fausto Lonati, Tiberio Lonati
  • Patent number: 5170511
    Abstract: In an air intake device in a helmet, an air introducing unit is comprised of a base plate, a cover, and a shutter contained in a shutter chamber defined between the base plate and cover, and the base plate is detachably secured to a mounting plate within a cap body at a point facing to an inlet hole in the cover. If an air intake device mounted to the cap body to ventilate the inside of the cap body becomes dirty due to the entering of dusts, muds or the like the shutter and the like of the air intake device can be removed and readily cleaned by washing with water or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: Shoei Kako Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Eitaro Kamata
  • Patent number: 5170503
    Abstract: A protective garment for shielding a wearer from snake bites upon the lower portion of the leg is disclosed. The garment is a legging made of woven fabric which will protect against snake bites even when the snake has fangs longer than the thickness of the material. The legging has two separate side edges extending all along its length and includes a strap, fabric fastener strips, and snap and socket fastener in order to provide adjustability, prevent gaps between the side edges, and minimize the risk that the fabric fasteners would become separated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: Thomaston Mills, Inc.
    Inventors: George H. Hightower, Jr., William R. Conine, III