Patents Assigned to NBS, Inc.
  • Patent number: 5189953
    Abstract: An electric motor driven imprinter (60) in accordance with the invention includes a base (70) for receiving a print bearing element (62) having printing to be imprinted on a print receiving element (64) with the electric motor being mounted in the base; a head (61) pivotally connected to the base for imprinting; a movable carriage (116) mounted on the head having mounted therein a rolling platen (128) driven by the electric motor (82) to move the carriage in a first direction and a second opposite direction along a longitudinal axis with movement in each direction to one of a pair of ends of travel (110, 112) imprinting print from the print bearing element on the print receiving element; a capstan (84) which is driven by the motor; and a cable (86) attached to the capstan, forming a loop between the capstan and an idler wheel (142) attached to the head at a point along a longitudinal axis of the head adjacent an end of travel spaced farthest from the capstan and attached to the movable carriage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1993
    Assignee: Consolidated NBS, Inc.
    Inventors: Randall J. Kennedy, David A. Moritz
  • Patent number: 4452465
    Abstract: A camping trailer is provided having a configuration to cooperatively combine with a towing automobile to integrate interior compartments and spaces of each into usable space. The trailer has a wheeled chassis provided with a forwardly extending tongue assembly and hitch assembly for interconnecting with the towing automobile and carrying a body structure having a front end portion configured to detachably interconnect with the rear end of the automobile. The front end portion has a front wall surface inclined upwardly in a forward direction to complement an opposed rear wall surface of the towing automobile and is provided with a flexible bellows that is detachably secured to the towing automobile around a rear hatch-type door of the automobile. An opening in the front wall surface of the trailer body structure permits opening of the rear hatch door of the automobile by swinging movement of the door through the opening and into the interior of the trailer thereby enabling combined use of the interior spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1984
    Assignee: NBS, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert E. Bourke
  • Patent number: 3985171
    Abstract: A protective cover is provided for a golf bag with this cover including a dual compartment interior construction. The cover comprises a shell-form body fabricated from a pliable sheet material and dimensionally configured to cooperatively interfit the open, tip-end of a golf bag. Constructed in the interior of the shell-form body which is of elongated tubular shape having a closed end, is a longitudinally extending partition wall which divides the interior into two compartments for receiving the irons and the woods, respectively. A resilient securing cord is provided which extends around the shell-form body and has attachment hooks secured to each end for engaging belt loops or attachment rings fastened to the upper peripheral edge or end of the golf bag. The resilient cord extends across the body in a transverse manner at the juncture of the partition wall to cooperate therewith in maintaining the irons and woods in segregated pockets, particularly if the golf bag should be inadvertently inverted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1976
    Assignee: NBS, Inc.
    Inventors: James B. Summers, Robert E. Bourke