Patents Issued in November 2, 1976
  • Patent number: RE29020
    Abstract: .[.A carriage movable by a power unit along a track carrying a drive shaft connected sequentially to a plurality of drill rods. The drill rods are supplied by spaced apart transversely movable rack assemblies having upwardly opening spaced recesses therein. Transverse, spaced apart support arms are mounted for pivotal movement in vertical planes about a common axis selectively to an upper position in alignment with the drive shaft and to a lower position beneath the drill rods carried by the rack assembly. The rack assemblies are moved to position drill rods sequentially in alignment with the path of movement of the support arms..]..Iadd.A drilling apparatus and more particularly a drilling apparatus adapted for drilling holes into the side of a mass of earth and including thereon improved drill rod carrying and transfer means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1974
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Joy Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: David L. Moody, James B. Loftis
  • Patent number: RE29021
    Abstract: Hydraulic underground mining system adapted to operate through a small diameter well bore and into a subterranean body and including a mining capsule carried on the lower end of an elongate support structure. The mining capsule includes a liquid jet nozzle at its upper end for forming a laterally directed jet stream to impact material in the ore body and to pulp the same into a slurry. An orifice having a grate for preventing entry of excessively large material is positioned below the jet so that freshly pulped slurry flows into the orifice, the latter being connected to an elongate positive displacement pump mounted below the orifice. Suitable hydraulic power means are provided for operating the pump and for progressively moving the jet stream .[. .]. .Iadd.through .Iaddend.at least a portion of an arc. Fixed liquid jets are also provided at the pump inlet for flushing and priming and to the lowermost portion of the capsule and to facilitate movement of the apparatus in the well bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Marcona Corporation
    Inventors: William R. Archibald, John J. Gilbert
  • Patent number: RE29022
    Abstract: A self-flushing irrigating valve formed, at least in part, of an elastically deformable material which, when subjected to differential pressures below a preselected value, occupies an open position forming a passage for the flushing of water therethrough; and when subjected to differential pressures above a preselected value, forms a constricted passage for trickle flow of water therethrough. The valve, when in its trickle flow condition, tends to effect further constriction on further increase in differential pressure thereby tending to produce a uniform flow rate through a range of effective pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1974
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Inventor: Lloyd Spencer
  • Patent number: RE29023
    Abstract: An aircraft having a wing provided with a semicircular recess in its trailing edge. A powered rotor rotatable about the axis of the recess and having blades whose tips extend close to the semicircular edge below the upper surface of the wing. The rotor produces direct upward thrust on the aircraft and also creates low pressure over the wing and higher pressure below the wing to augment the direct upward thrust of the rotor. Centrifugally moving air impinges on the edge surface of the recess to produce forward thrust. .Iadd.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Inventor: Frank S. Malvestuto, Jr.
  • Patent number: RE29024
    Abstract: .Iadd.A parachute for use in descents over water having upwardly facing pockets some of which fill with water as the parachute is dragged over the water to aid in the deflation of the parachute. .Iaddend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1974
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: The Walter Kidde & Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Richard Arnold Reffell
  • Patent number: RE29025
    Abstract: A light reference system for generating .[.a collimated beam of light and converting.]. and projecting .[.the same as.]. a relatively intense fan-shaped or diverging plane of light from an operator manipulatable device on a machine or a vehicle to an object or opening which may be positionally referenced to the device in a selected predetermined relation by operator control of the machine or vehicle and manipulatable device, thus enabling the operator to observably locate a sharply defined resulting line of light so as to establish such selected relation. The light reference system is capable of a number of different embodiments or forms, a few of which are disclosed herein. An exemplary embodiment of the machine or vehicle with which such a system is combined herein is of a fork lift truck vehicle on which the light reference system in various forms is mounted on the elevatable load handling device or fork carrier for generating .[.a collimated beam of light and for converting the same into.].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Clark Equipment Company
    Inventor: Howard C. Hansen
  • Patent number: RE29026
    Abstract: Embrittlement machining apparatus having an electrolytic container, an anode, a workpiece immersed in the electrolyte forming a cathode, a cutting head adjacent the workpiece and a conduit for supplying an embrittlement agent adjacent the workpiece and adjacent the cutting head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Rosenthal
  • Patent number: RE29027
    Abstract: This invention concerns linear, curable polymeric materials prepared by reaction of a polyepoxide with an excess of di-2-oxazoline, and to cured products produced therefrom which are particularly suited as self-adherent corrosion and chemical resistant coatings for metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventors: John A. Alford, Ben A. Tefertiller, Jr., Donald A. Tomalia
  • Patent number: RE29028
    Abstract: The invention relates to heat-curable pulverulent coating agents, frequently also called powder lacquers, which are suitable for applying a coherent coating which possesses excellent properties after heat-curing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Themistoklis Katsimbas
  • Patent number: 3988780
    Abstract: Reinforced body armor and the like is fabricated by securing a plurality of layers of material, having qualities resistant to ballistic penetration, along paths spaced within a selected predetermined range, so as to restrict movement of the fabric layers in lateral and longitudinal directions and to compact the layers in an elastic mass thereby to provide improved resistance to penetration of the material by a ballistic missile and to partially stiffen the material so that shock waves and the force of impact of the missile are distributed over a relatively large area adjacent the point of impact of the missile to reduce back target distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1971
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Inventor: Richard A. Armellino
  • Patent number: 3988781
    Abstract: A belt closure for a surgical gown includes a back belt member attached to the free edge of a back closure panel and a side belt member attached to the side of the gown, the gown being closed by tying the two belt members on the side rather than the front of the gown. The side belt member is housed in an open-ended storage sleeve and is folded so that its free end projects forwardly where it may be grasped easily by the wearer, with a loop of the belt extending rearwardly from the sleeve where it may be easily grasped by a non-sterile assistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Will Ross, Inc.
    Inventor: Phyllis J. Horan
  • Patent number: 3988782
    Abstract: Arteries and veins of umbilical cords are hardened and shaped by processes described. Prostheses in the form of tubes, patches and conduits are prepared from the shaped vessels. The prostheses are used as reinforcements and replacements for vessels, ducts, intestines and urinary bladders. The processes result in products which have vanishingly low antigenicity and thrombogenicity, are resistant to infection and which may be stored indefinitely for use when needed by a surgeon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Inventors: Irving I. Dardik, Herbert Dardik
  • Patent number: 3988783
    Abstract: A prosthetic ligament for replacing one of the collateral ligaments of the knee joint. The prosthetic ligament includes a bridge member for extending across the knee joint, a first connector member for securing the first end of the bridge member to the lower end of the femur, and a second connector member for securing the second end of the bridge member to the upper end of the tibia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Richards Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventor: James T. Treace
  • Patent number: 3988784
    Abstract: There is disclosed a protective cover having a base member adapted to engage and mate with the peripheral lip of a sink whereby the opening and the edges thereof are covered and protected, the base member having a plurality of projections extending therefrom into the sink opening and adapted to engage the innerside surfaces of the sink to align the base member in the sink opening. An elongated rod is attached to the base member and extends into the sink opening, the rod having a resilient plug mounted thereon which is adapted to engage and seal the drain opening of the sink and to mechanically support the base member over the sink opening and in engagement with the peripheral lip of the sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignees: Gary Harding, Patricia Garfield
    Inventors: Marvin E. Reedy, Roy D. Shook
  • Patent number: 3988785
    Abstract: A valve seat of an integrated valve seat and closure member assembly is secured by waterproof sealant over the upper end of a flush valve seat portion in a flush tank, the waterproof sealant preferably constituting the sole support for the integrated assembly in the flush tank. The closure member is hingedly connected to the valve seat through a rigid frame which is partially removably telescoped by a resilient material closure portion thereby mounting the closure portion of the closure member hingedly movable downwardly toward and upwardly away from a sealing position with the valve seat. An outwardly depending C-shaped leg on the closure portion of the closure member which inwardly telescopes the closure member frame provides a lower, relatively flat, sealing surface for sealing downwardly against the valve seat in the closure member sealing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1974
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Inventors: Adolf Schoepe, Fredric E. Schmuck
  • Patent number: 3988786
    Abstract: An auxiliary mechanism whereby the water release from a toilet tank can be controlled and limited at each operation. A second handle is provided, the use of which permits only a restricted amount of lift of the flush valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Inventor: Erick Lehfeldt
  • Patent number: 3988787
    Abstract: A two-way valve operated by a pressure differential existing in the fluid lines controlled by the valve for use in swimming and therapeutic pool systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Inventor: Donald D. Colee
  • Patent number: 3988788
    Abstract: A device is provided for cleaning a water-flushed toilet bowl and toilet seat. The cleaning device is characterized by spray means secured to the toilet seat lid means, for dispersment of a cleansing fluid and drying means secured to the underside of said lid means and positioned above the bowl for dispersment of a drying agent. The cleaning device is further characterized by the addition of guide means for guide the respective fluid (cleaning fluid or drying agent) onto the toilet seat for drying thereof or cleansing thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Inventor: Karl Aue
  • Patent number: 3988789
    Abstract: A resilient synthetic resin toilet seat which includes a preformed stiffening portion having an internal foamed core. The core is enveloped in an infoamed self-skin. A cushioning portion is molded thereon and has an internal foamed core enveloped in a tough but resilient self-skin unitarily extending from the top and sides of said stiffening portion. A resilient synthetic resin toilet seat lid having an internal foamed core enveloped in an unfoamed skin, a method of making the seat and lid by molding, as well as molds for use in such molding, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1972
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: New Century Products, Inc.
    Inventor: George W. Blount
  • Patent number: 3988790
    Abstract: A normally-deflated, readily-flexible, inflatable pad which underlies a bed patient can be inflated to raise that bed patient and to gently but firmly hold that bed patient in raised position. When that inflatable pad is inflated, it defines a recess at the lower surface of the center thereof into which the supporting surface of a portable support can be moved; and that inflatable pad and that portable support can thereafter hold the bed patient at a desired level relative to the bed on which that inflatable bed normally rests. When the supporting surface of the portable support subsequently is removed from the recess at the lower surface of the center of the inflatable bed, that inflatable pad can be deflated to lower the bed patient. A pressure transducer, between the supporting surface and the carrier therefor, develops a signal while that supporting surface underlies and holds the inflatable pad and the bed patient; and a readout responds to that signal to indicate the weight of that bed patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Inventors: Milo F. Mracek, Ronald J. Bauer
  • Patent number: 3988791
    Abstract: A sleeping bag having double shells, an inner shell and an outer shell both open at one and the same side, each preferably differentially cut so that the sleeping bag is narrow at the bottom or foot end than at the upper end, and having insulating material between said shells, said shells being closed along said open side by a pair of off-set slide fasteners, said off-sets providing effective closing off of any leakage through the fasteners of the warmed air inside the sleeping bag and the entry of cold air from the outside and providing both a dead air space between said double fasteners and insulated pads to cover the two closures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Snow Lion Corporation
    Inventor: William N. Simon
  • Patent number: 3988792
    Abstract: An inflatable structure which includes a resilient wall with cuts, of the type comprising a print of allusive drawing on one of its surfaces, wherein said structure is composed substantially of an inflatable cushion having in the outer surface of one of its sides a resilient panel of considerable thickness attached thereto, and on the opposite side said cushion having a valve with cover for the admission of air or gas to inflate said structure, and in that the resilient panel of considerable thickness projects peripherally some distance beyond the edge of the cushion forming a flange and that it includes on the same wall attached to the cushion, near the edge thereof a slot, and includes a rigid support plate with ribs near the edges thereof which engages the slot of the flange of said resilient panel, and may include an adhesive for better attachment to the rigid support; said rigid support including also a perforation which coincides with the air or gas admission valve to permit the inflation of the structu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Inventor: Charles Klein
  • Patent number: 3988793
    Abstract: A mattress device designed for treating a pregnant woman by releasing the pressure ordinarily produced by the pregnant uterus and the abdominal wall on the abdominal aorta, thereby helping to prevent complications of pregnancy, such as toxemia and fetal distress. The device comprises a thick mattress-like member having an inflated ring extending through the mattress with a chamber formed on the central portion of the ring. The chamber is open at the top for receiving the pregnant uterus of a woman lying in the prone position, with her abdominal wall floating freely in the chamber. The inflated ring is filled to an air pressure which provides a body support that compensates for the heavier weight around the midsection. The combination of the variable air pressure of the ring and different sizes and shapes of such ring permit a mattress support well adapted to the varied sizes and shapes of the pregnant uterus while also enabling the abdominal wall to float freely in the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Inventor: M. Maurice Abitbol
  • Patent number: 3988794
    Abstract: A surfboard having a resilient bottom panel which extends rearwardly beyond the rigid deck, this being accomplished preferably by splitting the rear portion of the board along the siderails to define a rigid rear deck spaced above a reinforced resilient panel defining the rearward continuation of the board bottom, there being a watertight flexible tailpiece fitted around the deck and over the bottom panel to form a smoothly contoured termination of the board at the rear and retain the hydrodynamic advantages of a conventional surfboard. The advantage of the invention lies in the ability of the trailing portion of the board bottom to flex in response to varying water pressure beneath as the board is being maneuvered, and one or more adjustable lever arms limiting the upward flexure may be provided beneath the rear deck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Inventors: Robert C. Tinkler, Michael R. Tinkler
  • Patent number: 3988795
    Abstract: A conventional type of life preserver has a rectangular shape, with a circular neck receiving opening adjacent the upper end and a slit extending from the bottom of the opening to the lower edge of the preserver. The invention comprises a strap having one end thereof immovably molded into the preserver and extending from one side edge of the preserver to the slit. A pair of oppositely directed D-ring fastening members are mounted on the strap in recesses directed inwardly from opposite sides of the preserver adjacent to the slit. The portion of the strap past the D-rings slidably extends through a sleeve which is molded into the preserver from the slit to the opposite side edge. The strap has an elongated portion which extends around the body of the wearer, with a buckle on its end which may be selectively attached to either of the rings, depending on the direction in which the preserver is facing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Inventor: James H. Robertson
  • Patent number: 3988796
    Abstract: A method of making toothed lock washers from sheet material wherein the lock washer bodies are blanked from the sheet material with adjacent outline configurations of the lock washers in close proximity within the sheet material, whereby the unused portions of sheet material between the outline configurations is minimized and sheet material is conserved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Triangle Tool Company
    Inventor: Rudolph Schmidt
  • Patent number: 3988797
    Abstract: A tennis shoe outsole, a tennis shoe, the method of making the outsole and the method of making the tennis shoe. The outsole has a preformed abrasion-resistant insert therein in an outer region thereof. The method of making the outsole is by injection molding the outsole adherent to the insert which is held in position in an outsole cavity mold by indexing pins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Uniroyal Inc.
    Inventor: Roger Tornero
  • Patent number: 3988798
    Abstract: A self adjusting brush arm assembly comprising a brush, a brush holder bracket extended into a tension bracket, the said tension bracket being connected to a spring spool by a NEG'ATOR spring, the said spring spool being assembled and mounted on a stationary bracket, the said stationary bracket being attached to a sprocket; a first and second pair of movable web members, said first and second movable web members being mounted between the said brush holder bracket and the said stationary bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Inventor: Henry J. Kratt
  • Patent number: 3988799
    Abstract: Apparatus useable by a bather for facilitating the scrubbing of the back including a wall mounted, conventionally controlled, electric motor enclosed within a substantially water tight housing; a flexible shaft component having a rotatable flexible shaft element interconnected with the shaft of such motor to be rotatably driven thereby; and a brush arm component having an elongated hand grip section, an elongated body section interconnected therewith, and a head section interconnected with such body section thereof carrying a rotatable shaft element extending therefrom perpendicularly to the longitudinal centerline of such hand grip section thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Inventor: Hubert E. Strickland
  • Patent number: 3988800
    Abstract: A caster for furniture and the like has a ground-engaging rolling member, an upright mounting fork which rotatably mounts the rolling member and a support element which projects upwardly from the mounting fork and is formed with an upright passage. A mounting arrangement mounts the fork on the support element so that the fork can turn about an upright axis, and a pin is longitudinally shiftable in the passage of the support element between a plurality of positions. An arresting arrangement serves to arrest the fork against turning about the upright axis, and includes a first set of teeth provided on the support element and a second set of teeth provided on the pin. These teeth extend parallel to the upright axis and are engageable with one another in dependence upon the position of the pin in the passage to prevent turning of the fork about the upright axis when they are in such engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Albert Schulte Sohne KG
    Inventor: Herbert Sachser
  • Patent number: 3988801
    Abstract: A sliding door includes a roller lifting mechanism provided by horizontally spaced bell cranks to which rollers are connected and which may be pivoted downwardly to engage a door track for raising the door so that it may be laterally moved to one side of the door opening. The lifting mechanism includes a cam element which is manually rotated to exert a push force on the bell crank levers for pivoting the same into the lift position. A modified version of the lift mechanism includes a linkage arrangement which exerts a pulling action on the bell cranks for achieving the lifting function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: John W. Hutchison
  • Patent number: 3988802
    Abstract: A retractable handle assembly for an equipment housing includes a generally U-shaped handle. The side members of the handle are slidably mounted to the housing by means of guide pins which ride in elongated slots on mounting blocks attached to the housing. A communicating slot on the mounting block allows the handle when fully extended to pivot about the guide pins away from an underlying surface so as to be more easily grasped. When retracted the handle is flush with the side panels of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Baxter Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: James G. Bruni, John W. Goodin
  • Patent number: 3988803
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for centering slaughtered carcasses. The apparatus is meant to be used at the cleaving of slaughtered carcasses, for instance, of pigs, which have been cut open where a stationary support rail is provided for suspending the carcass from its hind legs, said apparatus comprising a first member for engagement with the hind legs of the carcass for symmetrically pressing said hind legs against a stationary horizontal first support rail for initially centering the carcass. Furthermore, the apparatus comprises a second support rail adapted for preventing rotation of the carcass preferably in the nature of a horizontal second support rail, and a second member for engagement with the lower jaw of the carcass, said second member being pivotally movable along a centering line in order to finally center the carcass and being operable by means of a power device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Meat Industry Technique mit Aktiebolag
    Inventor: Karl-Erik Ingemar Hamark
  • Patent number: 3988804
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for shirring sausage casings in which in the method the casing is moved in a direction of its longitudinal axis and while so moving has a force applied to shirr the casing which moves about the longitudinal axis of the casing. At the same time that the force is applied to shirr a force also is applied to oppose the movement of the casing. Also, the casing may be restrained against twisting about its axis upstream of the application of the shirring force. The apparatus includes rollers for forwarding a collapsed casing, an annular element adapted to rotate about the longitudinal axis of the casing to shirr the casing and a backing element adapted to hold the forward end of the casing in a fluid, tight manner and having a passage through which an inflating gas may pass to inflate the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1972
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Richard Regner, Gerd Schug
  • Patent number: 3988805
    Abstract: A method for shucking and cleaning raw uncooked shellfish of the bivalve type including the steps of opening the bivalve by feeding the shellfish between a moving belt and a stationary plate in order to provide a shearing force. Other steps in the method include, separating the meat from the shells, eviscerating the meat, grading the meat and separating and drying the viscera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Edgar E. Griffis
    Inventor: Roger C. Martin
  • Patent number: 3988806
    Abstract: An apparatus for removing trash from seed cotton. The comingled seed cotton/trash are conveyed by air velocity into the housing of the apparatus wherein they are made to follow the outer curve of the top panel until arrested by a spiked rotating beater cylinder having a first grid section disposed thereabout for expelling the rushing air and the entrained minute pieces of trash. As the beater directs the remaining portion of cotton/trash toward a rotating primary saw drum, the larger pieces of trash gravitate into a bypass hopper from which certain structure reclaims the seed cotton which may be comingled therewith. The reclaimed seed cotton is redirected onto the primary saw drum which also engages and holds the seed cotton being thrown thereon by the beater cylinder. A portion of the seed cotton impaled upon the primary saw drum has considerable intermediate size pieces of trash comingled therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Inventor: Woodrow W. Bledsoe
  • Patent number: 3988807
    Abstract: Herein disclosed is an improved tooth structure adapted for those paired control rollers of a rotary drafting apparatus, which are positioned adjacent to the paired front or drafting rollers of the drafting apparatus. The tooth structure has each of its teeth so contoured that the angle contained in the back or trailing side between the front or leading-side face of the tooth and the tangent, which is taken in the backward direction from the leading edge of the particular tooth to the dedendum circle of the control roller where the tooth is formed, is preset equal to or larger than a right angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignees: Chubu Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha, Masakazu Shino
    Inventors: Shigekazu Ueda, Masakazu Shino
  • Patent number: 3988808
    Abstract: A separable fastener including a stud component and a latching sleeve component, the stud component being arranged for installation, in a sheet member having a rectangular opening, by limited insertion and rotation; the latching sleeve member being installed in a second sheet member, having a rectangular opening, by axial movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Hartwell Corporation
    Inventors: L. Richard Poe, Clifford A. Davis, William R. Bourne, Jr.
  • Patent number: 3988809
    Abstract: A shoulder strap retainer comprising a U-shaped member disposed in a horizontal position and having upper and lower legs. The lower leg is disposed on the shoulder of a garment. At least one post extends from the lower leg through the garment and is received in a clutch retaining means. A shield member having an ornamental upper exterior surface is secured to the upper leg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Inventors: Robert B. Powell, Elizabeth S. Powell
  • Patent number: 3988810
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a jamming cleat for quickly securing the end of a rope, cable or cord. Such a cleat is disclosed in my U.S. Pat. No. 3,574,900. In that known device one end of a cord is held between the walls of a V-shaped groove and the walls are formed with ridges sloping in such a way that the greater the load on the cord the more securely is the cord held in the groove. In the present invention means are provided whereby the cord may be passed around an object and then both ends secured in the cleat. For this purpose the cleat is formed with a fairlead serving to hold the cord in a position such that one end can be engaged in the V-groove with greater certainty and also with an anchorage for the other end of the cord.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Inventor: Reginald John Emery
  • Patent number: 3988811
    Abstract: The belt buckle embodying this invention is composed of the handle, shank and tines of a table fork. The face member of the buckle is the fork handle, and the fork shank is curved to place the tine portion of the fork rearwardly of the face member. If a conventional four tine fork is employed for making the buckle, the two outer tines are bent to form a loop for attachment to one end of a belt strap, and the two center tines are joined at their free ends and bent to provide a hook adapted to engage a hole in the other end of the belt strap. Thus an integral one piece belt buckle is produced by utilizing an entire table fork.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Inventor: Melvin S. Bakula
  • Patent number: 3988812
    Abstract: An adjustable fastening device comprises a slider and a rack which cooperate to adjustably fasten two parts of an article, or two separate articles, together. The slider has a guide ridge formed centrally on the internal surface of the top wall of its body, the guide ridge being adapted to be slidably received in a groove extending between two longitudinal rows of intersticed teeth on the rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1974
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Yoshida Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Kanzaka
  • Patent number: 3988813
    Abstract: A slide clasp for coupling the ends of a chain and including a sleeve in which a slide member is received, the slide member having hook portions formed on the ends thereof for receiving the ends of the chain, and being movable relative to the sleeve for exposing a hook portion for the coupling or uncoupling of an end of said chain relative thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: KMC, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph J. Korcey, Jr.
  • Patent number: 3988814
    Abstract: An improved multi-purpose milling machine for milling a work piece along a desired line of action. The machine includes an electronic control network for controlling the position of the cutting tool relative to the work piece along a plurality of axes responsive to commands of the operator. The electronic control network is adapted for controlling the rate and direction of rotational motion of the cutting tool relative to the work piece and the linear motion and direction of the work piece relative to the cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Inventor: Robert E. Hoffman
  • Patent number: 3988815
    Abstract: To prepare insulated conductors of a cable for termination to a connector of the type including a planar member through which a plurality of conductor receiving passageways extend in a predetermined multiplanar array, the conductors are gripped, at a point spaced from the ends thereof, between a pair of conductor holders. The conductor holders each have a plurality of teeth which intermesh when urged together to grip the conductors in an array which spatially corresponds with the predetermined array of the conductor receiving passageways. The conductor holders position the ends of the conductors between a pair of stripping blades each of which has a plurality of insulation cutting teeth which intermesh when urged together to sever the insulation on the conductors at a point between the ends thereof and the conductor holders, and to capture the conductors in the predetermined array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Western Electric Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Edwyn H. Petree
  • Patent number: 3988816
    Abstract: An improved roller, consisting in part of a cylindrical permanent magnet, for use in electrostatic record developing devices is disclosed. Of the plurality of magnetic poles formed on the cylindrical surface of the permanent magnet, two of the same polarity are positioned with an auxiliary magnetic pole of opposite polarity located therebetween. The magnetic field intensity of the auxiliary magnetic pole is from about 1/10 to 1/2 that of the other magnetic poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: TDK Electronics Company, Limited
    Inventor: Takeo Tada
  • Patent number: 3988817
    Abstract: An improved pressure roll construction for a heated pressure roll fusing apparatus. The pressure roll has an elastomeric core member made of silicone rubber covered by a rigid, flexible sleeve which can be made of metal or fluoroethylene-propylene. The sleeve is covered with an exterior coating made of silicone rubber to enhance paper handling characteristics in the fuser nip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1973
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Raghulinga R. Thettu
  • Patent number: 3988818
    Abstract: A preloaded tie rod end assembly for a motor vehicle steering system and a method for making the assembly is disclosed. The tie rod end is made by positioning the ball of a ball stud against a pair of frangible bearings within the socket portion of a tie rod end housing. A plastically deformable element is also situated within the housing. A closure member for the housing exerts a force against the bearings during the assembly operation and causes each bearing to fracture into circumferentially spaced bearing pieces. After the tie rod end is assembled, an axial load is placed upon the ball stud which is transferred to the deformable element thereby causing it to deform. The element is deformed to the extent necessary to bring the frictional resistance to rotation of the ball stud about its own axis within a prescribed torque range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventor: William D. Allison
  • Patent number: 3988819
    Abstract: Apparatus comprising a first frame having first pipe holders for gripping a large-diameter pipe and a second frame having second pipe holders for gripping a small-diameter pipe. The first frame and the second frame are movable relative to each other to insert the small-diameter pipe into the large-diameter pipe and/or pulling the former out of the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1974
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Suiken
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Sato
  • Patent number: 3988820
    Abstract: A device for removing a cylindrical ignition lock bolt from a chamber formed in the steering column housing of the type wherein the lock bolt has extending therefrom a radially biased detent engaging a recess formed in the lock chamber wherein the device urges a pair of elongated shims to depress the detent from its engaging position to facilitate the withdrawal of the lock bolt from the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Charles J. Granone
    Inventors: Carl H. Goad, William F. Hall