Patents Represented by Attorney Robert Scobey

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  • Reclining chair
    Patent number: 4533177
    Abstract: A reclining chair having a seat portion connected pivotally at its forward end includes an arm compressible with progressive resistance to support the rear of the seat portion. The compressible arm is arranged to form with the seat portion an angle which continually decreases as the chair is reclined, and continually increases as the chair is returned to its upright position. In one embodiment, the compressible arm travels through a horizontal position so that it may be kept as close as possible to the horizontal at all times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1985
    Assignee: Knoll International, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas L. Latone
  • Tape cassette
    Patent number: 4532566
    Abstract: A tape cassette has at least one opening in a surface thereof closed by a film monolithically formed with the cassette body and which is broken by a protuberance on a tape recorder with which the cassette is used following first use of the cassette. An unbroken film is indicative of a fresh, unused cassette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1985
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Rioichi Horimoto
  • Device for riddling bottles according to the champagne method
    Patent number: 4524680
    Abstract: A riddling device for processing wine according to the champagne method, with reduced energy expenditure due to a balanced assembly. The device comprises a stand, a cradle capable of pivoting through a right angle relative to the stand, and a platform capable of rotating about an axis disposed in the middle of the cradle. According to the invention the cradle (10) is tilted under the control of a vertical screw (25) and two wheels (8) disposed at its opposite end and running on two slopes (9) on the stand (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1985
    Assignee: Methode Champenoise Automatisee-M C.A. G.I.E.
    Inventors: Roger G. Jeanrat, Pierre M. Martin, Georjes Hardy
  • Lockable moving belt anchor for passive vehicle occupant restraint belt systems
    Patent number: 4521034
    Abstract: A passive vehicle occupant restraint belt system comprises a movable anchor which is moved by a driven transfer element along a guide rail between a release location corresponding to the occupant-releasing configuration of the belt and a restraint location corresponding to the occupant-restraining configuration of the belt. The movable anchor is releasably locked to a fixed anchor at the restraint location by a cam-released pawl, an inertia device, or other suitable releasable locking means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1985
    Assignee: Takata Corporation
    Inventor: Juichiro Takada
  • Scaffolding
    Patent number: 4519475
    Abstract: Scaffolding that is intended for operations carried out at a certain height and involving horizontal forces as well as the recovery of these forces.The scaffolding includes a tower (5) consisting of at least one liquid-tight element (6) that can contain liquid ballast (9), means (1) of supporting the tower on the ground, and an operations deck (8) at the top of the tower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1985
    Assignee: Soletanche
    Inventor: Karl Bollinger
  • Webbing tensioning method
    Patent number: 4516305
    Abstract: An assembly for stretching and securing upholstery fabric or the like in place utilizes a pair of bars contained by pockets along opposite edges of the fabric. The bars are articulatedly secured at corresponding ends thereof to a framework, and are forced apart at their opposite ends by a bendable rod which engages the free bar ends and urges them apart when the rod is straightened. The bendable rod and engaged bar ends, along with an additional upholstery bar, together sandwich fabric therebetween and secure the fabric in place. The sandwich assembly is concealed by a flap of upholstery material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1985
    Assignee: Knoll International, Inc.
    Inventor: Goetz W. Unger
  • Charging device for an electrostatic copying machine
    Patent number: 4516848
    Abstract: A charging device for an electrostatic copying machine in which a tongue piece is positioned adjacent to a charging wire. A DC signal is applied to a piezoelectric element to flex the tongue piece to a position in contact with or closely adjacent to the charging wire, and a high frequency signal is superimposed onto the DC signal so as to flex and vibrate the tongue piece against the charging wire. The vibratory piezoelectric element may be fixed to and suspended from the charging wire; alternatively the piezoelectric vibratory element may support the charging wire at an intermediate portion of the charging wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1985
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeru Moriya
  • Composition for making impermeable walls and other underground structures
    Patent number: 4514228
    Abstract: A composition for making impermeable walls and other underground structures comprising water, a cement, a silica compound in a dispersed form, and an activating agent selected from the group consisting of an alkaline base and an alkaline salt of a weak acid which do not contain silica, the ratio by weight of lime to silica being less than 1 and preferably between approximately 0.3 to 0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1985
    Assignee: Soletanche
    Inventor: Daniel Gouvenot
  • LC-switched transistor oscillator for vibrator excitation
    Patent number: 4510464
    Abstract: A self-oscillating vibrator exciting circuit utilizing a drive transistor that operates in a switching mode. The ON-period of the transistor is determined by base/emitter inductance and capacitance and base/collector capacitance, while the OFF-period of the transistor is determined by collector/emitter inductance and capacitance. The vibrator is connected between transistor collector and emitter, and the ON-period frequency of the transistor is set in the neighborhood of the resonance frequency of the vibrator so that the vibrator exciting circuit oscillates generally at the resonance frequency of the vibrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1985
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Minoru Takahashi
  • Lockable moving belt anchor for passive vehicle occupant restraint belt systems
    Patent number: 4502710
    Abstract: A passive vehicle occupant restraint belt system comprises a movable anchor which is moved by a driven transfer element along a guide rail between a release location corresponding to the occupant-releasing configuration of the belt and a restraint location corresponding to the occupant-restraining configuration of the belt. The movable anchor is releasably locked to a fixed anchor at the restraint location by a cam-released pawl, an inertia device, or other suitable releasable locking means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1985
    Assignee: Takata Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Juichiro Takada
  • Transducer for stringer musical instrument
    Patent number: 4501185
    Abstract: A transducer for a stringed musical instrument includes a pair of coils mounted adjacent each string of the instrument. The coils have substantially the same number of turns of electrically conducting wire wound thereon, and the wires constituting the coils are of different gauges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1985
    Assignee: Dimarzio Musical Instrument Pickups
    Inventor: Steven L. Blucher
  • Desk
    Patent number: D277151
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1985
    Assignee: Knoll International, Inc.
    Inventor: Bruce R. Hannah
  • Combined desk and return
    Patent number: D277625
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1985
    Assignee: Knoll International, Inc.
    Inventor: Bruce R. Hannah
  • Rocking chair
    Patent number: D278283
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1985
    Assignee: Knoll International, Inc.
    Inventor: Carlos Riart
  • Table
    Patent number: D278577
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1985
    Assignee: Knoll International, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Gwathmey, Robert Siegel
  • Chaise longue
    Patent number: D279239
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1985
    Assignee: Knoll International, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Meier
  • Chair
    Patent number: D279241
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1985
    Assignee: Knoll International, Inc.
    Inventor: Niels Diffrient
  • Combined seat and backrest unit for an office chair
    Patent number: D279332
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1985
    Assignee: Knoll International, Inc.
    Inventor: Niels Diffrient
  • Combined seat and back support unit
    Patent number: D279443
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1985
    Assignee: Knoll International, Inc.
    Inventor: Niels Diffrient
  • Combined cup and coaster base
    Patent number: D279850
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1985
    Assignee: Bertwood Marketing Inc.
    Inventors: John H. Brooker, Herbert A. Brooker