Patents Assigned to LaFont Corporation
  • Firewood systems
    Patent number: 4281697
    Abstract: An apparatus for converting a log into firewood including a remotely controlled log carrier bed, a log cutter and a log splitter and log conveying systems that allow the log to be converted into firewood in one continuous operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1981
    Assignee: LaFont Corporation
    Inventors: Leo L. Heikkinen, Charles L. Lundborg
  • Firewood systems
    Patent number: 4173237
    Abstract: An apparatus for converting a log into firewood including a remotely controlled log carrier bed, a log cutter and a log splitter and log conveying systems that allow the log to be converted into firewood in one continuous operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1979
    Assignee: LaFont Corporation
    Inventors: Leo L. Heikkinen, Charles L. Lundborg
  • Portable automobile rim crusher
    Patent number: 4083394
    Abstract: An apparatus for removing the rubber tire casing from the steel rim of an automobile wheel which comprises a set of hydraulic cylinders and wedge shaped members which simultaneously converge on the tire casing and wheel to deform the tire rim into the figure of a three-leaf clover so that the tire rim can easily be removed from the inside of the casing. The wedge shaped member includes means for gripping a tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1978
    Assignee: LaFont Corporation
    Inventors: Leo L. Heikkinen, Kenneth D. Danielson, Charlie L. Lundborg