Patents Represented by Attorney Theodore B. Roessel
  • Patent number: 4327631
    Abstract: A rotary lautering machine is provided vertical blades, each blade having a pivotally attached sweeping foot. The sweeping feet are rotated from a first lautering position to a second sweeping position by pressure exerted on the feet by material in the lautering vessel. When the lautering machine rotates in one direction, the feet pivot to the lautering position. When the machine rotates in the opposite direction, the feet pivot to the sweeping position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1982
    Assignee: Henry Balfour & Co.
    Inventors: David K. Smith, Nigel Harlow, Samuel W. Maxfield, James Mitchell
  • Patent number: 4318683
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for forming indicia on the outside of a roto-molded plastic container during the roto-molding process wherein a template bearing a mirror image of the indicia is removably affixed to the interior wall surface of a mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1982
    Assignee: Sybron Corporation
    Inventors: Warren D. Fishbaugh, W. Lawson Batty, Jr., Frank J. Freedman
  • Patent number: 4314734
    Abstract: Cabinet drawers are supported by members projecting from the sides of the drawers into slots defined by guide rails at the sides of the cabinet. Notches in the guide rails permit the drawers to pivot into an inclined position when the drawers are opened. This makes objects within the drawers more visible and accessible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1982
    Assignee: Sybron Corporation
    Inventor: Hans C. Grunert
  • Patent number: 4314396
    Abstract: A separable blade agitator has a glass coated drive shaft and a glass coated impeller interference fitted to the end of the shaft in a gasketless, glass surface to glass surface joint. The interference fitting of the impeller to the shaft is accomplished by super cooling the end of the shaft with nitrogen or the like so that it can be inserted into a glass coated bore in the impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1982
    Assignee: Sybron Corporation
    Inventors: Erwin J. Nunlist, Howard G. Coleman, Edward S. Harrison
  • Patent number: 4292968
    Abstract: A power supply provides direct current to electrodes attached to a patient. The positive electrode is at least partially silver and releases silver ions as a result of the electric current. Silver ions have known bactericidal properties and may be used to treat infected living tissue. Tissue may, however, be damaged by voltages in excess of 1.1 volts. Accordingly, the power supply has two modes. Under normal conditions the power supply has a constant current output. If the voltage between the electrodes reaches a reference voltage of not more than 1.1 volt, the output is changed to a constant voltage mode, abruptly limiting the output voltage. A mode indicator may be incorporated in the supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1981
    Assignee: Sybron Corporation
    Inventor: Franklin H. Ellis
  • Patent number: 4291280
    Abstract: A conductive object detector having an eddy current killed oscillator, wherein the oscillator output is stabilized by means of a proportional plus integral controller. The controller proportional gain is set low and the integral time long, hence a conductive object near the oscillator will "kill" it, whereas the controller will minimize the effect of temperature or aging on the oscillator output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1981
    Assignee: Sybron Corporation
    Inventor: George A. Gardner
  • Patent number: 4286948
    Abstract: PCT No. PCT/DE78/00027 Sec. 371 Date June 15, 1979 Sec. 102(e) Date June 11, 1979 PCT Filed Oct. 16, 1978In dental treatment apparatuses with a plurality of instruments which are connected to a supply component across spirally coiled supply lines attached to the apparatus at an upper level, and with a mounting for the instruments disposed at a lower level, it is required that the instruments be able to be removed from and inserted into the mounting comfortably and without mutual disturbance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1981
    Assignee: Sybron Corporation
    Inventor: Helmut Pietschmann
  • Patent number: 4279356
    Abstract: A quick opening manhole cover including a clamping flange (16) which captures the ears (48) of a locking ring (46) upon rotation of the locking ring with respect to a manhole cover (40). The manhole cover has an O.D. less than the I.D. of the manhole for axial movement into the manhole. A gasket (42) about the manhole cover is clamped between the locking ring (46), manhole cover (40) and against the manhole surface upon axial movement of the manhole cover towards the locking ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1981
    Assignee: Sybron Corporation
    Inventors: Franklyn J. Amorese, Vincent J. Piarulli
  • Patent number: 4275767
    Abstract: A fluid resistor with a fluid tight structure including two planar members having a surface of each contacting in close proximity. One of the planar members has a laminated structure including a substrate and at least one thin layer of substantially uniform thickness formed on the substrate. A groove extends through the layer. The groove and the surface of the other planar member define a capilliary passageway of substantially constant depth for restricted fluid flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1981
    Assignee: Sybron Corporation
    Inventor: Norman R. Westfall
  • Patent number: 4264215
    Abstract: A symmetrical, balanced, glass coated, four bladed impeller for use in closed vessels having blades arranged so that the impeller may fit through a relatively small manhole even though the effective diameter of the impeller is substantially larger than the manhole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1981
    Assignee: Sybron Corporation
    Inventors: Erwin J. Nunlist, Vincent J. Piarulli, Franklyn J. Amorse
  • Patent number: 4262447
    Abstract: A closure for a sterilizer or other pressure vessel, the door having a compound motion to permit swinging movement on hinges and lateral sliding movement with respect to the hinges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1981
    Assignee: Sybron Corporation
    Inventors: Michael L. Schneier, Henry B. Peters
  • Patent number: 4262248
    Abstract: An electronic circuitry servicing system having an operations manual setting forth servicing procedures such as function checking, troubleshooting, and calibration, a template fitting on the circuit being serviced and providing probe access to test points of the surface and graphic information about the circuit and a test fixture for coordinating test signals and measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1981
    Assignee: Sybron Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Vincelli, Donald P. Persons
  • Patent number: 4261201
    Abstract: A wind-chill indicator including a rotameter, a thermometer, and wind chill chart arranged such that the rotameter float's position indicates the chart value expressing the "wind-chill" effect corresponding to the existing velocity and temperature of the wind.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1981
    Assignee: Sybron Corporation
    Inventor: Charlie J. Howard
  • Patent number: 4260379
    Abstract: An endodontic instrument formed by twisting a tapered blank which in cross section is ground to an oblique parallelogram, the obtuse angles of the oblique parallelogram cross section being between 105.degree.-120.degree..
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1981
    Assignee: Sybron Corporation
    Inventors: William A. Groves, Frank N. Lentine
  • Patent number: 4259066
    Abstract: A pneumatic mechanism for dental units wherein a differential pressure applied directly to the utility supply line acts to move the line to a stored position within the unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1981
    Assignee: Sybron Corporation
    Inventor: Helmut Pietschmann
  • Patent number: 4254470
    Abstract: Interpolating apparatus is provided for more accurately determining the peak position of a function, particularly a cross-correlation function derived from two related flow signals fed to an overloading counter correlation flowmeter, whereby the peak position is indicated by a set of signals corresponding to quantized values of a parameter and the apparatus interpolates the peak position from selected signals of the set. The preferred method of operation comprises computing for each of the signals an average of the quantized values of the parameter corresponding to that signal, and summing a predetermined number of these average values to obtain an indication of an interpolated value of the peak position. Various output circuits are provided for flowmeter applications to produce an output which is proportional to flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1981
    Assignee: Sybron Corporation
    Inventor: James R. Jordan
  • Patent number: 4252526
    Abstract: A single paste photopolymerizable dental restoration composition which utilizes a barium-aluminum-silicate glass filler material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1981
    Assignee: Sybron Corporation
    Inventors: Narayanan Madhavan, Frank H. Freeman
  • Patent number: D258937
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1981
    Assignee: Sybron Corporation
    Inventor: Max R. Kneer
  • Patent number: D260497
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1981
    Assignee: Sybron Corporation
    Inventors: Charlie J. Howard, Edward L. Peart
  • Patent number: D262791
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1982
    Assignee: Sybron Corporation
    Inventors: Vincent J. Piarulli, Franklyn J. Amorse, Erwin J. Nunlist