Black Decker Inc.

General Electric Company

Gary E Van Deursen

Don R McCloskey

Charles Z Krasznai

Robert Osit

Richard B Kosten

Alvaro Correa

Sally A Hattle

Gregory K Hoffman

John C Shalvoy

Daniel Kwok

Tony Tam

Philip A Torbet

A device comprising a housing including first and second housing members. The first housing member is selectively rotatable relative to the second housing member between first and second operating positions. The longitudinal axis of the first housing member is disposed at a substantially 90.degree. angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the first housing member when in the first operating position. The longitudinal axis of the first housing member is disposed substantially coaxial with the longitudinal axis of the second housing member when in the second operating position. An actuator includes a locking arm selectively engagable with the first housing member for retaining the member in a selected operating position when in engagement therewith.

Device having rotatable head

Rechargeable flashlight

Attachment for a hand mixer

Combined smoke alarm activated light and mounting bracket

Electrically powered can opener

A filter assembly for a vacuum cleaner of the type having a motor, a housing enclosing the motor, a fan driven by the motor for producing a vacuum, and a canister removably attached to the front end of the housing and having an intake nozzle for reception of foreign matter, liquid and air drawn into the canister in response to the vacuum developed by the fan. The filter assembly includes an air permeable filter member disposed within a framework. The filter member includes a front wall. A hollow member extends axially from the front wall towards the open end of the canister. The hollow member is readily graspable by a user when the canister is removed. The filter assembly further includes a filter housing disposed within the canister and having a front wall. A member axially extends from the front wall towards the open end of the canister and is accessible by the user when the filter is removed from the filter housing.

Filter assembly for a vacuum cleaner

Carafe

Electric mixer

Iron or similar article

A hair roller clip of a one piece self-adjusting member with components including a substantially straight base leg, a pivot connected top leg of semi-circular formation with a plurality of formed teeth, and with the base leg being a continuation of a second semi-circular formation pivot connected to the top leg. An over center spring member is pivot connected at each of its ends to the respective semi-circular leg formations on opposite sides of the connection between the leg formations. Thus, hair wound on a roller is secured so the roller clip snaps in closed hair securing and in open hair releasing positions on the roller. The entire roller clip is formed as a single integral one-piece polypropylene plastic with each pivot connection being a 'living hinged' web.

Hair roller clip

Retractable hair curling brush or similar article

The invention relates to an adjustable hair curler of general spool or roller shape with a pair of telescoping elongated tubes axially and rotatably movable relative to one another. A pair of nested larger diameter end caps is secured at each end of each tube with the roller generally resembling a spool. Each pair of caps includes a first cap with plural spiralled cam slots radiating from its center and a second cap nested in the first with a plurality of corresponding or equal number of straight cam slots radiating from its center. The nesting caps are rotatable relative to each other and the caps at each end are connected together by a plurality of toothed elongated curler segments. Each segment has structure at each end cooperating with the cap slots such that by rotating the end caps in opposite directions the segments are radially cammed to change the curler roller diameter. Additional structure locks the cap rotation at any desired roller diameter. All the components are molded plastic except the inner elongated tube is aluminum to absorb heat as a central thermal mass for curling hair on the curler roller.

Adjustable hair curler

A foldable mirror has a peripheral two-piece frame with an offset supporting leg and a pair of oppositely disposed hinges connecting the pieces together. The frame includes stacked channels forming an E in cross-section with the hinges at the center end of the E so the frame folds book-like to form a compact small structure. When folded, the stacked channels form a single enclosed large channel that preferably extends completely across the frame. A non-glass single flexible sheet of reflecting mirror material is secured in the frame between the hinges with the hinges centerline in the same plane as the reflective surface. The arrangement is such that, on folding, the mirror forms a tear drop fold disposed and protected in the large channel across the back of the mirror to prevent permanent mirror distortion.

Foldable mirror

The invention relates to a food processer of the slicer/shredder type having a power base L-shaped housing and a second feed chute offset from the upstanding base and rotatably attached to the L-shaped housing to extend above it in an operative positive position over the L with the chute foldable in a box-like position for compact and convenient storage. A cylindrical hollow cutter disposed in one end of the chute and an axially aligned cylindrical outlet with a detachable spout is disposed adjacent the cutter. A clutch around the shaft rotatably connects the chute and housing together and the shaft is slanted down up to 10.degree. below and over the L-portion with housing and chute having abutting spaces offset substantially the same amount from the vertical for food to easily exit the outlet. An interlocking control connects the clutch so the chute is partly rotated from the vertical operative position in one direction about the shaft for removal and cleaning and/or it may be rotated substantially 180.degree. in the other direction from the vertical while aligning the chute and housing together box-like for compact inoperative storage. A pusher is provided in the chute to force food against the cutters and locking the chute in inoperative position.

Food processor

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Upper Saddle River, NJ, United States of America

Gary E Van Deursen