Patents Represented by Attorney Robert K. Youtie

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  • Valved bag with sealing flap
    Patent number: 4430752
    Abstract: A valved bag including elongate facing outer walls peripherally secured together except for an unsecured end region, an inner wall between the outer walls extending across the unsecured region and secured to one outer wall partially across the unsecured region to leave an access passageway, extensions on the inner and other outer wall extending across the unsecured region and secured together to close the unsecured region, and a sealing flap exteriorly of the inner wall extension and the adjacent region of the secured outer wall and secured thereto for removable sealing engagement with the later by internal pressure of the bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1984
    Inventor: Norman K. Miller
  • Article handling apparatus
    Patent number: 4413720
    Abstract: Apparatus for handling quantities of articles, such as containers, including an input conveyor having guides for channeling the articles into rows or files longitudinally of the conveyor, a gating station operable to open the channels for passing a transverse row or rank of articles and close the channels for stopping input feed of the articles, a transverse row or rank of articles being adapted to be operated upon when stopped, and an exiting or removal station downstream of the gating station for receiving from the latter a rank of articles when the gating station is open and removing the received rank of articles when the gating station is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1983
    Inventor: Frederick W. Pfleger
  • Poultry cutting apparatus
    Patent number: 4407046
    Abstract: An apparatus for cutting poultry including a carcass carrying mandrel shiftable into and out of a carcass loading position, a clamp movable toward and away from the mandrel for clamping and releasing a carcass on the mandrel and movable with the mandrel in its clamping condition, and cutters for cutting the carcass on the mandrel at different positions of mandrel movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1983
    Assignee: Precision Automation Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Stanley Wright
  • Toilet paper storage dispenser
    Patent number: 4407459
    Abstract: A storage dispenser for toilet paper comprising an open ended enclosure including a central guide member about which paper rolls are circumposed and guided along between inlet and outlet ends of the enclosure, the guide having one end free at the inlet of the enclosure and having its other end connected to the enclosure; an end wall across the inlet end of the enclosure in detachable interfitting engagement with the free end of the guide; and slide means mounting the end wall slidably to the enclosure for movement of the end wall away from and toward the inlet enclosure end and out of and into interfitting engagement with the free guide end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1983
    Inventor: Thaddaues H. Wormly
  • Method of processing waste cement kiln dust to make a soil treatment composition
    Patent number: 4402891
    Abstract: The processing for reconditioning of waste cement kiln dust to reuse the valuable metal salts thereof as a combination soil conditioner, liming agent and potassium-enriched fertilizing material, wherein water is admixed with the waste dust in a carbon dioxide-containing atmosphere to primarily reduce the alkalinity of the dust and to secondarily granulate the mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1983
    Inventor: Joseph L. Kachinski, Jr.
  • Belt and method of manufacture
    Patent number: 4399568
    Abstract: A belt and method of manufacture wherein belting strips and buckles are fed in timed relation to an assembly station, the buckles including arms which are clinched about respective belt strips at the assembly station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1983
    Inventor: Frederick W. Pfleger
  • Door edge for attachment to a train door and the like
    Patent number: 4349710
    Abstract: A door edge including an elongate hollow resiliently flexible body for securement to a door generally in the plane of the door, the body having an outer wall remote from the door of a cross-sectional configuration generally sinuous or corrugated, and a compression actuable switch extending longitudinally within the hollow body for actuation upon compression by a trough or depression of the sinuous outer wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Inventor: Norman K. Miller
  • Domestic inventory system
    Patent number: 4344644
    Abstract: An inventory system including a display panel marked with a series of words for items to be inventoried, the panel markings having a certain characteristic appearance, such as being the same color, a plurality of checks or markers removably secured to the display member covering respective indicia or markings and having additional indicia or markings of the same connotation as the covered indicia, respectively, the additional indicia or markings having another characteristic appearance the same as each other but different from that of the first mentioned indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1982
    Inventor: Paul S. Somogyi
  • Cable stripper with peeler
    Patent number: 4339967
    Abstract: Apparatus for stripping sheath from cable wherein rotary cable feeding wheels include knives or cutters for longitudinally slitting the sheath, and a peeler is located to engage in a sheath slit to spread the sheath and peel the latter away from the cable core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1982
    Inventor: William B. Greenberg
  • Apparatus for preventing damage by voltage interruption
    Patent number: 4339779
    Abstract: Apparatus for use with an environmentally controlled electronic system to prevent damage by supply line voltage reduction in which an air conditioning motor is connected across the supply line to the electronic system, a device is connected in the supply line upstream of the motor connection for sensing power flow in a direction away from the electronic system when the supply line voltage is reduced and the motor operates as a generator, and a switch is interposed in the supply line between the motor connection and power supply which opens in response to reversed power flow to direct power from the motor operating as a generator to the electronic system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1982
    Assignees: A.C. Manufacturing Company, Computer Power Systems Corp.
    Inventor: John F. Kalbach
  • Crimp tool with station for right angle terminal
    Patent number: 4337542
    Abstract: A terminal crimping tool including a pair of elongate members movable toward and away from each other and having longitudinal facing regions provided with a recessed configuration so as to be spaced apart when moved toward each other, and a pair of facing regions at one end of the longitudinal regions having a complementary receiver and indentor for crimping a terminal barrel with its connector between the first mentioned pair of facing regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1982
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Werner C. Theiler, Sr.
  • Solid fuel burning internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 4336771
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine adapted to burn solid fuel including a piston-and-cylinder assembly including a valved inlet for combustion supporting air, a valved outlet for exhaust of combustion products, ignition means and a fuel valve for retaining a quantity of solid fuel out of the cylinder and opening on pressure reduction in the cylinder by piston movement beyond top dead center to introduce the quantity of fuel into the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1982
    Inventor: Charles M. Perkins
  • Tilt rod support for a Venetian blind
    Patent number: 4333510
    Abstract: A support for mounting a tilt rod in the head rail of a venetian blind, including a bottom wall or base for resting on the bottom wall of a head rail with depending retainer means for snap retaining engagement through the bottom of the head rail, a pair of spaced side or end walls upstanding from the base and having aligned cut-outs extending downwardly for rotatably receiving a tilt rod, and resiliently deflectable projections extending into at least one cut-out for snap passage therebetween and releasable retention thereby of a tilt rod in the associated cut out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1982
    Assignee: Marathon Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Mark A. Fox
  • Security device for motor vehicles and other d.c. electrical systems
    Patent number: 4323878
    Abstract: A security device for motor vehicles and other d.c. electrical systems responsive to use of the system wherein an alarm or other security element is connected across the source, a relay has its switch connected to the alarm element and its coil connected to a switch maintained open in the stand-by condition responsive to maintained voltage of the d.c. source or battery, the switch closing responsive to lowered d.c. voltage to energize the relay coil and close the relay switch to actuate the alarm element, and delay means controlling the time required by the relay coil switch to assume its open stand-by condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1982
    Inventor: Anthony J. Luzynski
  • Toilet paper container and dispenser
    Patent number: 4322042
    Abstract: A toilet paper storage dispenser including an upright enclosure having a central paper roll guide for placing toilet paper rolls into the upper enclosure end circumposed about the guide and withdrawing the rolls from the lower enclosure end journaled on the guide, a lateral extension on the lower guide end and an upstanding connector from the extension rigidly connected to the enclosure, a swingable lid or top wall over the upper enclosure end, and releasable interfitting formations on the inner side of the top wall and upper end of the guide for restraining the latter against movement out of its central alignment within the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1982
    Inventor: Thaddaues H. Wormly
  • Permanent wave maintaining apparatus
    Patent number: 4318419
    Abstract: Apparatus for maintaining a permanent wave upon hair growth without reprocessing previously waved hair, including a core or spool for winding up a previously waved hair end portion and having a spool enlargement on one end, an enclosure having an opening and a slot extending from the opening for receiving the hair wound spool with the enlargement closing the enclosure opening and the hair extending through the slot, and a flexible seal along the slot retained in closing engagement therewith by externally wound hair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1982
    Inventor: Nathan J. Puckett
  • Inclined bicycle storage rack employing channel with midpoint frame shackle
    Patent number: 4316544
    Abstract: A bicycle rack including a forwardly inclined framework having an upper front wheel receiver and a lower rear wheel receiver, and a shackle carried by the framework for releasable retaining engagement with the frame of a bicycle having its wheels in the wheel receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1982
    Inventor: Irv Goldstein
  • Vehicle theft prevention device
    Patent number: 4317108
    Abstract: A device for electrical connection in an internal combustion engine, including a heat sensitive time delay switch connected in the ignition circuit to open, and/or connected in an alarm circuit to close after a predetermined period of engine operation, and a hidden disabling switch to disable the time delay switch for legitimate engine operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1982
    Assignee: Taylor Lock Company
    Inventors: Jerome Schwartz, George J. Infante
  • Magnetic switch
    Patent number: 4311981
    Abstract: An electric switch magnetically activatable including a Hall Effect sensor with a permanent magnet fixed on one side of the sensor and magnetic shielding interposed between the sensor and fixed magnet to direct flux away from the sensor, such that an operating magnet upon movement toward and away from the other side of the sensor cooperates with fixed magnet to produce an increased magnetic field through the sensor to activate the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1982
    Inventor: Anthony J. Luzynski
  • Thread winder
    Patent number: D268969
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1983
    Inventor: Catherine L. Stadtmiller