Patents Examined by Richard J. Johnson
  • Patent number: 4957125
    Abstract: A tooth brushing assembly for dispensing both toothpaste and dental floss. The assembly includes a toothpaste reservoir which has a cylindrical knob at the rear thereof. A spool of dental floss is held within the chamber, and the knob has a cap and cutoff blade associated with it. Preferably, a tooth brush is affixed over the cap end of the reservoir, and a preferred method of dispensing the toothpaste with a piston is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1990
    Inventor: Merle L. Yaneza
  • Patent number: 4955746
    Abstract: A portable cleaning device for golf clubs has a reservoir for containing cleaning fluid, a scrubbing means attached to the bottom of the reservoir and a valve means for controlling the flow of the cleaning fluid into the scrubbing means. The user can control the valve by straightening the fingers of his hand while holding the device in one hand and the golf club to be cleaned in the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Inventor: Joseph M. Craigmile
  • Patent number: 4955747
    Abstract: A hand-held device for removably holding a working pad on the lower end of a container that holds a fluid, such as a cleaning compound or a liquid wax, includes attachments for dispensing the fluid and for removably securing the working pad to the container. Gripping features are provided for hand use of the device so that the fluid can be applied to a surface and the surface can be polished by hand using a single device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Inventor: Matthew A. Tarver
  • Patent number: 4953567
    Abstract: A prophylactic device used in connection with a telephone which provides a telephone user with protection from indirect contact with previous users including a sleeve for covering the telephone receiver while in use and a detachable hand covering portion for avoiding direct hand contact with a telephone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1990
    Inventor: Dale Ward
  • Patent number: 4953625
    Abstract: The adjustable blade apparatus (10) is adapted for use with an earth moving vehicle (12). It includes a support frame (20) which is pivotable in the vertical plane relative to the vehicle (12). A blade assembly (22) is rotatably secured to a connecting frame portion (54) of the support frame (20) by means of a turntable (26) and a swivel connection (27). The blade assembly (22) is moved relative to connecting frame (54) by hydraulic cylinders (28,30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1990
    Assignee: Delhur Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Samuel G. Hurworth
  • Patent number: 4950216
    Abstract: A flower pot for containing growing flowers or plants made by forming a sheet of material into a container having an upper end and a lower end with an object opening extending through the upper end and extending a distance through the container, the container having a plurality of overlapping folds for contributing to the rigidity of the container for cooperating in tending to maintain the formed shape of the container, and the container having a skirt extending a distance outwardly from the upper end of the container. After forming the container with the skirt outwardly extending therefrom, the skirt is formed in a downward direction to a position wherein the skirt is disposed generally near the outer peripheral surface of the container. When the plants or flowers are ready for shipment or display, the skirt again is formed or turned in the outwardly extending direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1990
    Assignee: Highland Supply Corporation
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • Patent number: 4950094
    Abstract: A container for dispensing a cosmetic product such as a deodorant in stick form comprises a one piece tubular body open at the top having a platform disposed therein movably by means of a dial shaft threaded into the platform. A single opening is formed in the bottom wall of the body through which the dial shaft extends and a washer forms the entire seal between the dial and the bottom wall of the body, while sealing means in the form of a contoured cap member which is disposed wholly within the body and a separate seal, or alternately a contoured flexible sealing element closes the top of the body. The container is filled through the top opening with a quantity of molten product while in the upright condition, the molten product passing through a plurality of openings in the platform to rest on the bottom surface of the container. The container is then closed by the sealing means and inverted with the product in the molten state and remains so during solidification of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1990
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventor: Charles H. Yorks
  • Patent number: 4944625
    Abstract: A powder-dispensing brush of the pressure-feed type employs a self-cleaning filter which performs an anti-clogging function, as well as a filtering function. The brush also employs a valve which can be switched between an on position and an off position in order to control the dispensing of powder from the brush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Assignee: Revlon, Inc.
    Inventors: Menachem Futter, James E. Wilson, Annette M. Golden
  • Patent number: 4944623
    Abstract: A window cleaning apparatus is set forth wherein an elongate housing includes a downwardly extending forward housing receiving a sponge-like applicator mounted therein. Adjacent an apex of a second cylindrical housing directed downwardly from the first cylindrical housing is an upwardly extending boss including a resilient wiping strip secured therein. A ratcheting handle organization effects forward positioning of a piston to direct a cleaning fluid through the applicator sponge onto a window surface to be cleaned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Inventor: Arley McNeil
  • Patent number: 4943175
    Abstract: A feed mechanism for a writing device comprising a writing medium carrier which is displaceable in a housing in a front and rear position by means of a press button. Connected with the press button is a rotatable switching element which comprises a circulating switching cam in which a carrier element engages. A spring is arranged between the carrier element and a locking element, and the locking element comprises a spring arm with a supporting surface which engages in an opposed surface at the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1990
    Assignee: A.W. Faber-Castell GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Otto Heim
  • Patent number: 4943176
    Abstract: A roller liquid applicator wherein restrictedly rotatable cylinder members store liquid and with bearing arms with an extended grip to reach all areas of a person's body, relative rotation of the members controlling the discharge of liquid through a valve and distributed by a manifold into a sleeve for application by rolling onto the person's body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1990
    Inventor: Claudia Baker
  • Patent number: 4941226
    Abstract: An elongated device for applying lotion to the body which comprises a first elongated section and a second elongated section joined together through a pivot so as to be foldable upon each other in a closed condition. An applicator head hingedly attached to the first section at the end distant from such pivot and a compartment in one of the sections for storage of a plurality of soft absorbent pads attachable to the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1990
    Assignee: Innovec, Inc.
    Inventor: Alicia W. Kemper
  • Patent number: 4940096
    Abstract: A three point hitch mounted on the rear of a pick up truck has a pair of lift draft arms connected to a hay bale carrier. Pivot connections having upright pivot pins attach the lift draft arms to a transverse shaft allowing the lift draft arms to be folded adjacent each other below the rear bumper of the truck. Crank arms secured to opposite end of the shaft are connected to hydraulic piston and cylinder assemblies. The piston and cylinder assemblies are operable to rotate the shaft to selectively raise and lower the lift draft arms and bale carrier mounted thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1990
    Inventor: Jerry A. Johnson
  • Patent number: 4938388
    Abstract: A glue transporting mechanism for a molten glue discharging device essentially comprising a heating element, a transporting tube and a gear to move the introduced glue strip such that the heating element means the strip and the melted glue is delivered through the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1990
    Assignee: Future Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chao Bin Yeh
  • Patent number: 4934855
    Abstract: A spray brush includes a brush head having a relatively flat panel formed with a number of openings extending therethrough. Additionally, the brush head has a number of laterally projecting fingers forming notches therebetween. The tubular handle of the brush serves as a reservoir for a supply of hair styling composition. Through the agency of a manually actuated pump mechanism, liquid is pumped from the reservoir through a nozzle reciprocally disposed in a longitudinal slot formed in the panel. Thus, the spray brush, when held in one of the stylist's hands, can be used simultaneously with a hair dryer, when held in the stylist's other hand, so that the hair styling composition can be directed onto a person's head while air from the dryer is directed through the openings and notches at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Assignee: A-Veda Corporation
    Inventor: Horst M. Recchelbacher
  • Patent number: 4934011
    Abstract: A liquid applicator device that is particularly designed for the application of sun tan lotion and the like over one's body, wherein the applicator device consists of an elongated handle having a head or paddle member located at one end of the handle so as to be received in an applicator pad. The applicator pad includes an internal cavity adapted to receive the head member of the handle in a removably secure manner whereby the applicator pad is prevented from being removed from the handle inadvertently while applying lotion to one's body, but yet can be removed manually when required for cleaning or when replacing of the pad, as required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Inventor: Christopher B. Haug
  • Patent number: 4932800
    Abstract: A compressible finger gripping device for assembly with the surface portion of an article such as a writing instrument or a shaving instrument or the like. The device includes a substantially cylindrical body formed of a compressible, elastomeric material and defined by a substantially uniform OD and ID along the axial length of the body. A plurality of ribs arranged substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the body and substantially equidistantly spaced apart from each other are carried about the I.D. The combination of the selected compressible material, the selected I.D. and OD dimensions of the body and the selected number, depth and thickness of the ribs cooperate and converge to provide a compressibility index (CI) valve for the device between about 1000 to about 18,000 gms/cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventors: Nan J. Lin, Richard J. Petrillo, John Thompson
  • Patent number: 4932803
    Abstract: A dispenser employs a container adapted for bottom-filling with a molten material which solidifies on an elevator cup to form a stick-type product. The elevator cup is moved up and down within the container by a lifting mechanism which extends through an opening in an otherwise closed end of the container. The elevator cup is provided with a sealing assembly designed to seal the opening in the closed end of the container when the elevator cup is in a retracted position, which it assumes during the filling operation and in which it preferably remains until the initial use of the dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: Revlon, Inc.
    Inventors: Harry M. Goldberger, Michael E. Radice
  • Patent number: 4932802
    Abstract: An improved nail polish bottle cover having a nail polish remover dispenser incorporated therein is provided and consists of a body member having an elongated neck with a chamber within for holding nail polish remover. A nail polish applicator is affixed to and extends away from center of the internally threaded base of the body member so that when it is threaded onto a threaded neck of a standard nail polish bottle the nail polish applicator will extend into the nail polish. A nail polish remover applicator extends from the nail polish remover and through the neck of the body member to be applied to finger nails for removing nail polish. A cap is hinged to top of the body member neck to protect and seal top of the nail polish remover applicator when the cap is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Inventor: Thomas J. Cantone
  • Patent number: RE33255
    Abstract: A rod weeder attachment for the tool bar of an agricultural implement comprises an arm portion extending rearwardly from a clamp on the tool bar defined by a pair of spaced parallel bars extending rearwardly to a transvese strut. From the strut to the ground is provided a rear arm portion the angle of which can be adjusted relative to the front arm portion. The rear arm portion carries on the lower end a ground wheel for running on the ground and providing drive therefrom. A pair of shanks at opposed ends of the strut extend down to the ground and carry at their lower ends a rod which is driven by a chain mechanism from the ground wheel. Springs allow the arm to lift relative to the tool bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1990
    Inventor: Duane C. Haukaas