Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Flanagan & Flanagan
  • Patent number: 6772971
    Abstract: A shredder includes a cutting unit frame and a cutting shaft rotatably supported in the cutting unit frame and carrying a multiplicity of cutting disks, rotatable with the cutting shaft for shredding an item in cooperation with a further tool. The cutting unit frame has two opposing side parts extending parallel to the cutting shaft and two fronting parts extending transversely to the side parts and the cutting shaft. Each fronting part has upper and lower fronting part elements attached to one another and extending between and separately attached to the side parts and internally capturing one of two bearings therebetween such that the bearings rotatably mount the cutting shaft in the cutting unit frame and are removable with the cutting shaft upon removal of only the upper fronting part elements from the cutting unit frame without bringing the cutting unit frame out of adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Inventors: Udo Becker, Igor Plahuta
  • Patent number: 6746213
    Abstract: A pad plunger assembly, for use in gas well tubing, includes an elongated mandrel having opposite ends and a longitudinal axis extending between the opposite ends, a pair of opposite end members each attached to one of the opposite ends of the mandrel, and a seal-forming pad subassembly disposed about the mandrel and between the opposite end members thereon. The pad subassembly has an outer exterior surface of an annular concave configuration formed by opposite end portions of the outer exterior surface being disposed farther radially outwardly from the longitudinal axis of the mandrel than an intermediate portion of the outer exterior surface is disposed radially outwardly from the longitudinal axis of the mandrel such that a frictional seal which generates reduced friction is provided on the interior wall surface of the gas well tubing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Inventor: Jeff L. Giacomino
  • Patent number: 6739957
    Abstract: A surface abrader apparatus includes a casing, a motor mounted on the casing, one or more working tools, and an operating mechanism mounted to the casing and supporting the working tools outside of the casing. The operating mechanism is drivingly coupled to the motor for causing an impacting movement of the working tools against a workpiece in response to selected operation by the motor. The operating mechanism includes one or more elongated shafts reciprocally mounted in the casing parallel to one another and having same one ends extending from the casing, a drive shaft rotatably mounted in the casing between and parallel to the shafts and rotatably driven by the motor, and coil springs and cam elements for causing lifting and releasing of the shafts and the working tools, such as impact abrading heads, mounted on the same one ends of the shafts to produce impact movements of the tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Inventors: Clayton R. Peterson, Steve Sanders
  • Patent number: 6712226
    Abstract: A wall or ceiling mountable bracket, used in pairs, for storing and displaying board-based recreational equipment includes a generally U-shaped body having structurally-reinforced elongated front and rear portions and a spacer portion extending between and rigidly interconnecting them so as to hold them in a spaced apart relationship which forms an elongated channel between them being open at one end and along opposite sides and closed at an opposite end for receiving board-based recreational equipment in the channel. The bracket also includes structures providing access through the body to facilitate fastening the body with its rear portion located against a support structure. The access providing structures define at least two bores, one through the rear portion and the other through the spacer portion and through segments of the front and rear portions aligned with and connected to the spacer portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Inventor: James E. Williams, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6701565
    Abstract: An electric toothbrush includes a handle, a brush head defining a brushing plane, and a guide arrangement supported by the handle and, in turn, supporting the brush head to undergo movement along an endless path of revolution having an axis extending substantially parallel to the brushing plane such that the brushing plane is maintained in the same orientation relative to a surface of a set of teeth throughout movement of the brush head along the endless path of revolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Wik Far East Ltd.
    Inventor: Klaus Hafemann
  • Patent number: 6699099
    Abstract: A novelty article includes a base member, an elongated member mounted thereto and made of resiliently flexible material tending to assume an unrolled extended condition when unrestrained by an outside force and being manually rollable upon itself so as to bring opposite portions into contact with one another as the elongated member is rolled upon itself to a rolled-up compact condition, and elements on the elongated member for detachably attaching together the opposite portions thereof when brought into contact with one another such that upon release of the elongated member from the rolled-up compact condition these elements will detach from one another and concurrently generate a drag effect on the detaching of the opposite portions of the elongated member which limits the elongated member to undergoing a controlled progressive unrolling action from the rolled-up compact condition to the unrolled extended condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Inventor: Kevin D. Ledford
  • Patent number: 6692374
    Abstract: A retrieving device includes a support bracket and an expandable ball holder member which has a pair of arms with outer end portions capable of being flexed away from one another and having oppositely curved configurations, and an intermediate structure rigidly interconnecting inner end portions of the arms and pivotally connected to the lower end of the support bracket such that the expandable member is pivotally movable between a first position in which it extends alongside the support bracket and a second position in which it extends outwardly from the lower end of the support bracket such that when the retrieving device is used to retrieve a golf ball with the expandable member in the second position the outer end portions of the arms thereof are forced against the golf ball causing their outward flexing from one another to fit around and support the golf ball for lifting it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Inventor: Kenneth G. Colbo
  • Patent number: 6692014
    Abstract: A load hauling trailer assembly adapted for on and off road use includes a towable mobile chassis, a storage container body mounted on the mobile chassis and having an open top, a top cover having an outer side and being mountable on the storage container body and movable between opened and closed positions relative to the open top of the storage container body, and a carrier rack mounted on the outer side of the top cover and adapted to carry gear thereon when the top cover is mounted on the storage container body and moved to the closed position. The mobile chassis includes a frame structure, a pair of wheel subassemblies, and suspension and frame structure height adjustment subassemblies mounted to and extending transversely of the frame structure and mounting the wheel subassemblies to the frame structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Adventure Sports Products
    Inventors: Robert M. Grosso, Joseph J. Martin, Chip Webster
  • Patent number: 6672977
    Abstract: A multi-functional golf accessory includes an elongated shaft, a handle attached to an upper end portion of the shaft, a ball teeing mechanism mounted to a lower end portion of the shaft, a trigger mounted to the handle, a motion transmitting rod extending through the shaft and coupling the handle with a pair of pivotal arms of the ball teeing mechanism for operating the arms for placing and releasing a ball and tee in a teed position on the ground, a tee height setting device and a ball retrieving device mounted on opposite sides of a housing of the ball teeing mechanism, a lying tee retrieving device and a standing tee retrieving device mounted to the ball retrieving device, and a quiver element removably storing a ball marking element mounted to the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Inventors: Kenneth G. Colbo, Marvin L. Zsupnik
  • Patent number: 6669449
    Abstract: A pad plunger assembly includes a central mandrel having externally-threaded opposite ends, collars defined about the mandrel inwardly adjacent to the opposite ends and having circumferentially spaced recesses formed in the collars, end members having inner ends with internally-threaded bores threadably removably attached to the externally-threaded opposite ends of the mandrel, and inner annular flanges attached to and extending axially from the inner ends of the end members and adapted to receive the collars such that, for locking the end members onto the mandrel, the end members are threadably screwed onto the opposite ends of the mandrel and then the flanges are crimped so as to force circumferentially displaced portions thereof into the collar recesses thereby locking the end members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Inventor: Jeff L. Giacomino
  • Patent number: 6637619
    Abstract: A machine for vending products include a housing, an magazine indexing drive mechanism in the housing and drivingly coupled to a product storage and dispensing magazine at spaced apart lower and upper portions of the magazine, a plurality of ball bearings rotatably supporting the magazine on a product separation fixture in the housing, a resiliently yieldable mechanism supported on the separation fixture and having a spring-biased pivotally-movable flap operable to impart a positive downwardly-directed force on the lowermost product that will push it downward toward an opening in the housing, and portions of the housing and the separation fixture defining a path for passage of products to the opening which is located outwardly of and bypasses the drive mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Inventor: Kil Jae Chang
  • Patent number: 6626071
    Abstract: A multi-functional hand tool assembly includes a handle with tool attachments. The handle has opposite ends with opposite holes extending therethrough. The tool attachments are removably, interchangeably and reversibly insertable into the handle ends and each has a middle section and end tool sections connected to and extending in opposite directions from opposite ends of the middle section. Each middle section is identical to one another and has a continuous exterior surface which matches a continuous interior end surface defining each hole in a handle end such that the middle sections can snugly fit through the hole in either handle end so as to mount the tool attachments in non-rotatable relationships with the handle ends such that the tool attachments will turn with turning of the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Inventors: Eric S. Kesinger, Donald A. Kesinger
  • Patent number: 6613292
    Abstract: A converter for a device for supplying ammonia (NH3) into the exhaust gas flow of a combustion engine comprising a pressure-tight reaction vessel 2 for generating NH3 by heating a substance thermolytically separating NH3 under the effect of heat, and a heating unit 10 for heating the reaction vessel 2 to the operating temperature for generating the NH3, is defined thereby that the reaction vessel 2 usefully comprises in the region of its bottom an outlet 4 provided with connection means and an inlet 3, spaced apart from the outlet 4, also provided with connection means, with which connection means the interior of the reaction vessel 2 is connectable to a filling and withdrawal unit 13 for drawing off a carrier medium disposed in the reaction vessel 2, and for filling the reaction vessel 2 with new substance thermolytically separating NH3 transported by the carrier medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: HJS Fahrzeugtechnik GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Georg Hüthwohl, Bernd Maurer
  • Patent number: 6602528
    Abstract: Food packaging for packaging a food item in separate layers. The package includes a retaining member with openings to receive separating sheets between layers of food Separating sheets are removed while retaining layers of the food item from moving, just prior to consumption. The food is retained in layers in a box like enclosure integrally including the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Inventor: Peter Wells
  • Patent number: 6599260
    Abstract: A chiropractic percussor apparatus includes a main housing adapted to be held by a user, an electric motor mounted in the main housing and having a rotary output shaft extending therefrom, an extension housing attached to an end of the main housing and extending outwardly therefrom and having an outer end defining an opening, an elongated push rod eccentrically mounted at an inner end on the rotary output shaft of the electric motor and extending through the extension housing to an outer end of the push rod having a central hole, a flexible coupler assembly supported by the outer end of the extension housing and coupled to the outer end of the push rod so as to permit the outer end of the push rod to undergo reciprocal lengthwise movement and wobbling side-to-side movement relative to the outer end of the extension housing, and a percussion-applying head assembly only centrally attached to the outer end of the push rod at the central hole therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Inventors: Kevin B. Tucek, John W. Brimhall
  • Patent number: 6598991
    Abstract: A miniature flashlight device includes a housing having a cavity, a pair of magnets mounted to the housing, and a light generating assembly disposed in the cavity of the housing. The light generating assembly includes a lamp, at least one battery and a spring-loaded switch connected in an electrical circuit with the lamp and battery and activatable to electrically connect and disconnect the battery with the lamp. The magnets are arranged such that when the housing is placed on a ferromagnetic surface the magnets attract the surface with sufficient force to activate the spring-loaded switch and open the circuit, turning the device off. When the magnets are disengaged from the surface, the spring brings the switch into the closed circuit position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Lumatec Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Altman
  • Patent number: 6595357
    Abstract: A golf club organizing assembly for a golf club carrying bag includes a plurality of dividers. Some of the dividers extend in intersecting transverse relationships with other of the dividers so as to form a plurality of compartments therebetween for receiving shafts of golf clubs placed in a carrying bag. Also, some dividers are of colors different from and contrasting with colors of other dividers so as to provide contrasting colors about the compartments which improve visibility of compartments to a golfer over a case where all of the dividers are of the same color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Great Divider Golf, Inc.
    Inventors: James L. Sutter, James W. Thomas
  • Patent number: 6591737
    Abstract: A pad plunger assembly includes an elongated mandrel having a pair of opposite ends, at least one pad subassembly disposed about the mandrel and extending between the opposite ends thereof, a plurality of annular key ways and annular keys respectively defined on the mandrel and the pad subassembly, the key ways and keys interfitting with one another so as to impede the ability of a fluid to flow along the mandrel beneath the pad subassembly and adjacent to the mandrel and from one to the other of the opposite ends of the mandrel, and elements for securing the pad subassembly on and around the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Inventor: Jeff Giacomino
  • Patent number: 6582289
    Abstract: A flap disc consists of a backing plate to whose peripheral zone laminae overlapping like a fan or roof tiles are attached. In order to improve the abrasive effect of such a flap disc using less material and simpler production, the lamellae 10 consist of first lamellae 12, comprising a backing 14, a base bonding coat 15 applied to the backing, a layer of abrasive grain 16 deposited over the base bonding coat 15, and a size coat 18 over the layer of deposited abrasive grain 16, and second lamellae 20, consisting of a backing 22 and a layer 24 with grinding active fillers applied to the backing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Vereinigte Schmirgel - und Maschinen-Fabriken AG
    Inventor: Gustav Eisenberg
  • Patent number: 6576835
    Abstract: A multiple gang junction box assembly includes a main box and wire clamping devices.disposed in an interior chamber of and attached to the main box. Each wire clamping device includes a clamp housing structure attached to the main box so as to define a passage therethrough into its interior chamber and a clamp member disposed in the housing structure across the passage and flexably bendable at an upper end attached to the main box so as to enable the clamp member to undergo pivotal movement from a closed position toward an open position relative to the passage such that a lower end of the clamp member and a plurality of barbs on the housing structure can assume a locking condition relative to a wire pushed into the main box through passage that prevents the wire from being pulled back through the passage and from the main box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: OEM Systems Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory H. Ford, Oliver H. Lieder