Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Daniel V. Thompson
  • Patent number: 6951408
    Abstract: A cemetery monument illuminator includes a lamp hood, at least one lamp partially enclosed by the lamp hood, a monument clamp fixed to the lamp hood, a solar panel attached to the monument clamp, and electronic circuit elements electrically connected to the at least one lamp and the solar panel, with the electronic circuit elements adapted and arranged to store energy generated by the solar panel, sense darkness exterior to the illuminator, and supply energy to the at least one lamp when darkness is sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Inventor: Timothy Wayne Stewart
  • Patent number: 6913671
    Abstract: A compact evaporation apparatus includes an evaporator vessel with a sloped, bottom chamber. A combustion chamber is mounted to a top of the vessel, with a burner mounted to a top of the combustion chamber, the combustion chamber sized to achieve total combustion of an air/gas mixture supplied to the burner before being released below a liquid surface in the vessel. At least one turbulence diverter plate is located within the vessel beneath the liquid surface, the diverter plate being a submerged perforated plate extending horizontally from the combustion chamber, such that hot combustion gasses are released below the diverter plate, and as large gas bubbles rise to the surface they pass through small perforations in the diverter plate, thereby breaking large, hot gas bubbles into small bubbles, the gas to liquid contact area being maximized to increase system efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Inventors: Danny R. Bolton, James E. Bigham
  • Patent number: 6883769
    Abstract: A clipboard has a clip with upper and lower parts joined by a hinge. The lower part includes a locking wall and spaced-apart hold-down edges. The board has at least one upstanding lock element engaged with the locking wall on the lower part of the clip. The board includes grips engaged with the hold-down edges of the lower part of the clip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Inventor: Ellis N. Shamoon
  • Patent number: 6785998
    Abstract: A vibrating fishing rod has a vibratory module mounted within a handle cavity of the fishing rod. The vibratory module is accessible through an end opening defined by end edges of the handle cavity. A switch is located in the fore grip, and an electric motor and eccentric weight in the vibratory module are activated in response to actuation of the switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Inventor: Albert H. Seidler
  • Patent number: 6644543
    Abstract: A delivery receptacle has an upper compartment having a greater depth dimension than the lower compartment, with back walls of the upper and lower compartments being substantially aligned, such that the upper compartment has an extended front section with respect to a front wall of the lower compartment to permit a bricked-in installation of the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Inventors: Bobbie J. Cox, Charles W. Langley, David E. Rankin, David S. Wick, Oscar P. Roper, Dale R. Westerfield
  • Patent number: 6644542
    Abstract: An enhanced-security delivery receptacle includes an upper compartment, a lower compartment, and a divider wall between the upper and lower compartments. A divider wall opening is sealed by an inner panel to provide enhanced security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Inventors: Bobbie J. Cox, Charles W. Langley, David E. Rankin, David S. Wick, Oscar P. Roper, Dale R. Westerfield
  • Patent number: 6634483
    Abstract: A tortilla stack indexer (10) having an exit conveyor (12) which has a exit conveyor motor (12A) engagably attached thereto. At least two transverse conveyors are in a side-by-side parallel configuration at a perpendicular position to the exit conveyor (12) positioned at a rear distal end adjacent thereto. Each of the at least two transverse conveyors includes a transverse conveyor roller positioned at front end. A stacker conveyor positioned adjacent to the front end of the at least two transverse conveyors having a stacker conveyor roller positioned at rear end. A drive interrupter is engagably positioned between the transverse conveyor roller and the stacker conveyor roller. An electric eye securely mounted under the least two transverse conveyors controls the drive interrupter to prevent collisions of stacks of tortillas on the exit conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: ITE, Inc.
    Inventor: Jose L. Longoria
  • Patent number: 6588656
    Abstract: A delivery receptacle has a divider wall between the upper and lower compartments, a divider wall opening selectively sealed by two inner pivotable panels, outer side edges of the inner pivotable panels being connected by spring-loaded hinges to a side edges of the divider wall opening for movement about the hinges between normally closed and forcibly-opened positions, and the outer side edges of the inner pivotable panels and the side edges of the divider wall opening being perpendicular to the upper compartment opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Inventors: Bobbie J. Cox, Charles W. Langley, David E. Rankin, David S. Wick, Oscar P. Roper, Dale R. Westerfield
  • Patent number: D500800
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Inventor: Ellis N. Shamoon
  • Patent number: D502013
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Inventor: Kenneth L. Kaiser
  • Patent number: D502014
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Inventor: Kenneth L. Kaiser
  • Patent number: D502019
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Inventor: Kenneth L. Kaiser
  • Patent number: D503313
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Inventor: Ellis N. Shamoon
  • Patent number: D510389
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Inventor: Ellis N. Shamoon
  • Patent number: D477382
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Inventor: Charles D. Strand
  • Patent number: D477745
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Inventor: Ellis N. Shamoon
  • Patent number: D484346
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Inventor: Ellis N. Shamoon
  • Patent number: D484744
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Inventor: Ellis N. Shamoon
  • Patent number: D486022
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Inventor: Ellis N. Shamoon
  • Patent number: D487905
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Onboard Research Corp.
    Inventors: Andrew P. Nelson, Mark L. Wilson