Patents Represented by Attorney John M. Mann
  • Patent number: 5383609
    Abstract: The manufacture of fine powder from vegetable fiber materials at relatively low cost and without contamination, wherein the manufacturing system involved is equipped with a pressure roller system having a couple of pressure rollers, each having teeth of wave-shaped cross section and teeth bottoms, with both such rollers being placed opposite to each other with a minimal space in between same and arranged for synchronous revolution, and with the present invention comprising such processes as to pressure feed the vegetable fiber raw materials to said pressure roller system to mill the aforesaid raw materials with such pressure roller system, and after multiple repetition of said milling process, to pulverize flaked raw materials resulting from the aforesaid milling process with a flake breaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1995
    Assignee: Prater Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert W. Prater, Jun Ohashi
  • Patent number: 5373746
    Abstract: An all molded flowmeter assembly that is especially adapted for use in connection with medical and laboratory type equipment applications for measuring and/or controlling fluid flow and is arranged for snap-fit mounting at its ends with respect to the flow monitoring panel normally provided such equipment, wherein the assembly is in the form of a basic flowmeter body and a selection of upper and lower end caps therefor that serve the usual intake and output functioning needed for devices of this type, including as options, where the application requires a metering system, end caps equipped with metering devices for pressure and vacuum applications; the general arrangement involved is such that the resulting flowmeter assembly provided by the basic flowmeter body and user selected end caps therefor may be readily assembled, and the resulting "whole" snap-fit mounted on such usual panel after suitably sized mounting aperturing is formed in such panel, and further, the general arrangement involved does not requi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1994
    Assignee: Dwyer Instruments, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth R. Bloss
  • Patent number: 5370012
    Abstract: A device for convening rotational motion of a threaded shaft to linear motion in parallelism with the shaft and having a high load carrying capacity and operating efficiencies that are on the order of 98 percent (98%), with the device including a roller bearing nut for the shaft that is arranged to provide a linear motion unit (for the device) and a housing annular structure arranged to be fixed from rotation and including a plurality of circularly and concavely shaped thrust teeth of essentially "V" configuration 360 degrees (360.degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Inventor: Richard B. Stanley
  • Patent number: 5357067
    Abstract: A rotary position indicator for use with devices such as valves, electrical switches, and non-contact reed and proximity switches, which rotary position indicator includes a shaft rotatable about its longitudinal axis and includes a single plane adjustable cam bearing an external profile at its margin that is shaped to provide a camming portion for predetermined dwell and a camming portion for actuator of the device controlled thereby, which provides the option of adjusting the position of the cam relative to the shaft by the user manually shifting the cam in its plane to effect release of the cam relative to the shaft for rotation relative to the shaft to its new working position, with automatic releasable locking of said cam in its new working position then being effected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1994
    Assignee: Dwyer Instruments, Inc.
    Inventor: David W. Keck
  • Patent number: 5352858
    Abstract: A hermetically sealed snap switch assembly involving a housing that includes a hermetically sealed snap switch chamber in which a projecting terminal type subminiature snap action switch is mounted in slip fit association with a similar number of depending electrically conductive open ended tubes that are adapted to, prior to use of the switch assembly involved, be respectively hermetically sealed to the switch terminal that is received in same, and be respectively electrically connected in suitable circuitry at the option of the installer, with the arrangement of the assembly being such that optionally a selected one of the depending tubes, prior to such hermetically sealing of same, may be employed for switch chamber purging and backfilling purposes, after which said sealing of same is effected. Also disclosed is a method of backfilling said switch chamber (using such backfilling option) with a switch life enhancing gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Dwyer Instruments, Inc.
    Inventor: David W. Keck