Patents Represented by Attorney Allan D. Mockabee
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Patent number: 4450782Abstract: A method of producing a dimensional scallop stitch to provided a petal-like effect wherein a bar of thread, attached at spaced ends to a piece of cloth, provides an anchor for a series of loops of thread, wherein the loops are formed by passing a threaded needle repeatedly beneath and around the bar of thread with the outer ends of the loops spaced from the bar of thread and the loops interlocked with a next succeeding loop, filling the bar of the thread with loops until those portions of the loops at the bar are closely confined and the outer ends of the loops are unconfined, whereby a petal-like unit is produced which stands away from the cloth supporting the bar of thread.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1983Date of Patent: May 29, 1984Inventor: Liliana Tortell
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Patent number: 4413991Abstract: A method of an apparatus for hypodermically injecting at least two liquid medicaments which are kept separate from each other until use, and then causing them to be merged into a single pressurized flow stream in the lumen of a single hypodermic needle. Also, a liquid medicament ampule for plural medicaments, and a hypodermic needle carried in the ampule and isolated from the medicament compartments until use, to prevent possible corrosion of the needle by either or both of the medicaments.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1982Date of Patent: November 8, 1983Inventors: John B. Schmitz, William L. Schmitz
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Patent number: 4372638Abstract: An electrical connector for vehicle fuse blocks having recesses with fuse blade connectors to removably receive blades of fuses lying in the upper portions and above said recesses wherein the electrical connector comprises a strip of conductive metal bent upon itself to provide an upstanding connector tab above the fuse elements with spaced parallel legs extending downwardly at each side of the fuse element and into a fuse block recess to be frictionally held between one of the spring contact elements and a wall of the recess.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 1981Date of Patent: February 8, 1983Inventor: Lawrence J. Sohler
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Patent number: 4354052Abstract: Panel construction for prefabricated patio enclosures wherein a channel-like housing is formed in the inner side to receive electrical conductors, the channel being formed in part by a frame portion of the panel having a cross web and at least one secondary web extending at an angle thereto to define walls of the housing, and wherein the secondary web or webs fix the spacing between two cross webs to provide a fixed width aperture adapted to removably receive a closure strip which retains and conceals the electrical conductors.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1980Date of Patent: October 12, 1982Assignee: C-Thru Aluminum Awning Co.Inventors: Stanley J. Albany, Robert Lizardi, Jr.
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Patent number: 4316463Abstract: A hypodermic injection device including an injector and a medicament and needle ampule wherein the needle is initially isolated from a possibly corrosive medicament, but wherein the needle is movable to a position in flow communication with the medicament only at the moment of injection, and an injector device into which the ampule can be loaded under controlled conditions of needle entry force and depth, medicament entry into tissue being accomplished while the needle is moving in its penetration of tissue.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1981Date of Patent: February 23, 1982Assignee: Vac-O-Cast, Inc.Inventors: William L. Schmitz, John B. Schmitz
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Patent number: 4306669Abstract: A livestock ration transport and storage system includes an upright cylindrical body of open wire secured at its bottom on a conventional wooden pallet, a flexible plastic liner sack in the cylindrical body filled with alfalfa pellets or other livestock ration, the upper end of the sack being closed about a ventilation tube, and the plastic liner being capable of being ruptured in the area of one or more of the openings in the lower portion of the wire body to give access to the ration contained in the liner; the filled unit being liftable on the tines of a fork life vehicle to load it on a truck for transportion to a consumer for delivery at that point in place of an empty container.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1979Date of Patent: December 22, 1981Inventor: Tobias H. A. Grether
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Patent number: 4288886Abstract: An air broom for suspension from the hand of the user while standing wherein a power unit and an air impeller connected to and driven thereby support an outwardly extending hollow wand whose weight and leverage are coordinated with that of the power unit and air impeller so that the wand is cantilevered at an outward and downward angle with its remote end adjacent the ground. The apparatus is designed for flowing with a sweeping action and for gathering with a suction action.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 1979Date of Patent: September 15, 1981Inventor: Frederick Siegler
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Patent number: 4253667Abstract: A golf ball putter wherein the mass of the putter head is distributed along the line of swing or stroke of the putter as distinguished from distribution of the mass of the putter head transversely to the line of the stroke of the club, the shaft being connected to the head at a point centrally of the length and width of the head, the head having a striking face defined by a transversely extending web which projects laterally of the main body of the head, the principal mass of the putter head being confined to said main body, the lateral extent of the striking face relative to the main body being such that a golf ball is engaged by a "sweet spot" throughout a major transverse extent of the striking surface, the head being provided with a cavity for weighted elements such as shot held in place by a matrix, and the cavity being closed by a rectangular panel extending longitudinally of the lie of stroke of the putter in a direction normal to the striking face and comprising an aiming stripe.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1979Date of Patent: March 3, 1981Inventors: Jack L. Clark, William T. Naud
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Patent number: 4060723Abstract: A flashlight assembly including a cylindrical housing defining a battery compartment and a separated lamp compartment with a circuit controlling switch located entirely on the outside of the cylindrical enclosure, the lamp compartment lying in a separate part of the cylindrical enclosure which is threadedly connected to the main portion of the enclosure, there being an electrical connector between the switch unit and the lamp and socket unit which extends from the switch on the outside of the enclosure to the interior of the lamp compartment and remains entirely outside the battery compartment.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 1976Date of Patent: November 29, 1977Assignee: Kel-Lite Industries, Inc.Inventor: Norman C. Nelson
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Patent number: 4037839Abstract: A police baton or the like of telescoping tubular sections normally carried in a collapsed telescoped condition and extensible by releasing a safety lock in the handle and exerting pressure upon an eject button to release a catch and permit an internal expansive helical spring to telescopically extend the sections of the baton, operation of the safety lock and of the eject button being accomplished by movement of those elements in readily distinguishable directions of operational motion.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 1975Date of Patent: July 26, 1977Inventor: Norman C. Nelson
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Patent number: 3998500Abstract: A drill bit construction of the rotary cutter type in which cutter journals extend downwardly from the bit body and toward each other at an angle, the provision of bearing sleeves removably mounted on the journals and rotary cutters removably and rotatably mounted on the bearing sleeves, permitting the replacement of the bearing sleeves or the customary roller or ballbearings and also permitting replacement of the rotary cutter itself if the latter has become worn or damaged.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 1975Date of Patent: December 21, 1976Assignee: Smith International, Inc.Inventor: Robert L. Dixon
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Patent number: D281337Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1983Date of Patent: November 12, 1985Inventor: Terry B. Cutler