Patents Represented by Attorney Paul H. Gallagher

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  • Lock box and stand
    Patent number: 5632458
    Abstract: A stand including a base and a standard made up of common tubular elements. An L-shape bracket is detachably mounted on the top of the standard. A lock box is mounted on the bracket. The bracket alternatively can be detached from the stand and mounted on a wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1997
    Inventor: Mark Tollerud
  • Tilting mechanism
    Patent number: 5626073
    Abstract: A lift truck having horizontal arms straddling the kettle it is to lift, carry, and tilt. On the outer end of each arm is a tilting unit, one being a drive unit, and on the other an idler unit. These units grip the handles of the kettle. They are symmetrical, but otherwise identical. Each includes a swinging pendant latch, which yields on engaging the kettle handle, and then swings back into latching position. The units and the arms have interengaging elements preventing sliding of the kettle when it is in tilted position. A magnetic switch is included for shutting off the tilting driving motor when the movable parts are not in safe position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1997
    Assignee: Savage Bros. Co.
    Inventor: William A. Bauer
  • Holder for storing papers
    Patent number: 5620257
    Abstract: A holder made up of a back support and a plurality of pockets. The back support is of single thickness, and the pockets are of double thickness. The back support is of paper but has a cross bar at the top for mounting the device, and the pockets are substantially entirely of paper. The back support and the pockets are secured together by adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1997
    Inventor: Michael C. Hendershot
  • Socket wrench set
    Patent number: 5592861
    Abstract: A socket having a recess in its front end fitted over a nut or bolt head, and an internal key, smaller than the recess, slidable in the socket forwardly through the socket to the exterior. The key fits in an internal socket in the nut or bolt head, and is retracted automatically in cases where there is no internal socket in the nut or bolt head. Two forms are disclosed, in one, the internal is insertable into and removed from the socket through the rear end, and in the other, through the front end. In one form, the socket can be used in the case where a nut is run down on a bolt a great distance, leaving a long extension of the bolt beyond the nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Inventor: Thomas C. Barmore
  • Jewelry beads including main beads made up of small beads
    Patent number: 5590546
    Abstract: Main beads for stringing, each including a rigid central armature, and a string of small beads wrapped thereon, and secured thereto. The small beads provide most of the decorative effect of the main bead. End caps of resin are formed on the ends of the armature. Resin is also used in certain cases in securing the small beads to the armature. Color is used in certain cases, on the armature, which shows through the resin and the small beads. The small beads are arranged in selectively different patterns. One form of device includes an arrangement constituting a brooch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Inventor: Valerie Hector
  • Ratchet wrench
    Patent number: 5582080
    Abstract: The wrench includes a body with a head and a radial handle. The handle includes a rear segment adjacent the head and an outer segment for gripping by the hand. Mounted in the head is a spindle for releasably holding a socket, and a ratchet pawl. A pair of links are mounted in the body of the handle, one for each the releasing function and actuating the ratchet pawl, extending through the rear position and having pushbuttons exposed to the exterior at the juncture of the segments, for actuation by the same hand that holds the wrench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Inventor: Thomas C. Barmore
  • Patient's hand immobilizer
    Patent number: 5560375
    Abstract: A main panel of aluminum shaped to the hand, with side tab segments for bending over the wrist and the main part of the hand. It includes a layer of sponge material glued to the aluminum layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1996
    Inventor: Joseph R. Kabanek
  • Shampoo shield
    Patent number: 5551088
    Abstract: A single sheet of plastic material having a head opening notch at a front end, thus forming horns at the sides, the horns having free ends directed inwardly toward each. Detachable securing patches are applied ought he free ends of the horns. The side edges of the sheet, at the rear end, are folded over and stitched together, forming a tube. The horns are detachable applied to the head of the patron, forming a channel leading rearwardly to the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1996
    Inventor: Sharon Stepp
  • Socket wrench set and fastener
    Patent number: 5520075
    Abstract: A one-piece socket having a hole therethrough with a rear recess for receiving the shaft of a driver tool, and a front recess for receiving the head of the workpiece (bolt) to be worked on. The hole includes a small segment for securing a key therein, the key being adjustable to extend into the front recess, and therebeyond to the exterior, selectively. The front recess engages convex surfaces on the workpiece and the key engages concave surfaces thereon. In an alternate form, the key is fixed and extends only into the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Inventor: Thomas C. Barmore
  • File card interacting with other, identical such cards
    Patent number: 5503488
    Abstract: A single file card, a plurality of which, all identical, are used in a stack, with adjacent ones arranged oppositely. The card has cut out conformations forming tabs at the side edges, oppositely positioned in adjacent cards. The top edge has tabs including a plurality of small tabs and a single large tab, non-symmetrically arranged to expose inscriptions on alternate cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1996
    Inventor: Victor M. Chinchar
  • Stuffed doll formed from a single sock
    Patent number: 5498194
    Abstract: The skin of the stuffed doll is taken from a single sock. The toe of the sock is cut off, and the upper part of the leg portion is cut off, and the resulting lower portion forms the skin of the head, body and legs of the doll. Another piece of the sock cut off at the top forms the skin of the arms of the doll, the arms being sewn to the body. A cincture is used for shaping the head. A hat and a dress may be included if desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1996
    Inventor: Sandra Altier
  • Composter
    Patent number: 5490604
    Abstract: A plurality of identical wall panels connected together by removable rods driven through holes in adjacent corners of adjacent panels and into the ground. The device includes a cover which is shaped to fit four wall panels. Also, a greater number of panels can be used. The wall panels and cover each is a molded plastic member. The entire device consists of the wall panels, the cover, and the rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1996
    Assignee: Shape Plastics Corp.
    Inventor: Norman Alexander
  • Gas power plant
    Patent number: 5471975
    Abstract: A casing having an upper compartment and a lower compartment; it has a top opening for holding a candy kettle, and a refractory burner in the upper compartment under the kettle. A blower and fuel supply means are in the lower compartment. The burner is of large capacity for fast cooking, and the burner includes construction and controls of compact arrangement to accommodate large capacity and small space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Assignee: Savage Bros. Co.
    Inventor: Rudeger Wilke
  • Checker type game utilizing interfitting game pieces
    Patent number: 5472208
    Abstract: A game board, similar to a checkerboard, includes 10 squares on edge, and two sets of playing pieces, including 10 in each set moved by opposing players on opposite sides of the board. The players move the pieces toward each other, and perform capturing steps. The playing pieces are rings and pegs, and in the capturing steps, the rings and pegs are interfitted to form a stack. The pieces are so shaped that they can be stacked to indeterminate heights, including as many as 20 in a single stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Inventor: William J. Berry
  • Gas power plant
    Patent number: 5471974
    Abstract: A casing having an upper compartment and a lower compartment. The upper compartment includes a burner and a structure for accommodating a candy kettle. The lower compartment incorporates a pressurized fuel means, including a blower, a manifold with an air-fuel mixer therein. The manifold is of large capacity and size, and is constructed for occupying a relatively small space, thereby providing high capacity burner means for a small candy cooker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Assignee: Savage Bros. Co.
    Inventor: Rudeger Wilke
  • Spherical composter
    Patent number: 5470747
    Abstract: A sphere or globe of two hemispheric parts detachably secured together. One of the parts has a loading/unloading hole, and a cap snap-fitted in the hole to close it. Each part, except for the cap, is a one-piece molded article, and the cap is a one-piece molded article. The parts have ribs for strengthening and providing limited stability against rolling. The sphere can be rolled for stirring the contents therein, and for moving it to different locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1995
    Inventor: Joseph Sikorski
  • Arm board for gurney
    Patent number: 5443233
    Abstract: A flat stiff and strong board having an inner end under the patient on a gurney, and an outer end extending laterally beyond one side of the gurney. The outer end supports the arm of the patient. The board has spaced legs forming the inner end thereof, and conformations in its outer end facilitating handling thereof, and positioning of attendants and supporting a basin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Inventor: Joseph Kabanek
  • Disposable toothbrush
    Patent number: 5425591
    Abstract: A brush head mounted on a handle that is tubular and forms a reservoir for the toothpaste. The reservoir is closed to the brush head, and at its rear end has a nozzle. The handle includes a flexible member which is bent to move the nozzle onto the bristles of the brush head. A removable cap normally closes the nozzle. In one form an enclosure sleeve encloses the handle and flexible member. A cap is removably mounted over the brush head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1995
    Inventors: Thomas J. Contreras, Norma I. Padro
  • Digital laser encoder/recorder/player, utilizing ellipsoidal memory medium
    Patent number: 5425016
    Abstract: A rotatable memory medium having a memory surface of ellipsoid surface defining two foci. A laser beam is directed to one focus and then reflected to the memory surface, and from the latter to the other focus where a sensor is positioned. The memory surface has a memory track of spiral shape, and the laser beam reflected to the memory surface is so reflected by a T-mirror, and the source of the laser beam remains stationary. The ellipsoid memory surface assumes a plurality of different shapes, such as one-half of an ellipsis on one side of a plane containing both foci, or generated about either an internal axis or an external axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1995
    Inventor: Hal Sutker
  • Shelf structure
    Patent number: D359182
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1995
    Inventors: Judy Von Gunten, Lee von Gunten