Patents Examined by Willmon Fridig
  • Patent number: 5192093
    Abstract: An indicia card storage device is provided which consists of a pair of planar opposed covers, an elongated sheet having a plurality of foldable panels with indicia thereon and a foldable pull strip on a lower edge of the bottom panel. A mechanism is for securing an upper edge of the top panel of the elongated sheet between an upper edge of the covers, so that the panels can be folded up and stored between the covers, until the pull strip is unfolded and pulled out unfolding all the panels for viewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1993
    Inventors: Andre L. Zeisky, Maurice Grunfeld
  • Patent number: 4974685
    Abstract: An installation tool for installing a cup-shaped freeze plug in an engine block's bore. A reciprocable hammer nose connectable to a power source repetitively hammers the freeze plug to drive it into the bore. One feature includes a hammer stroke adjustment system which permits the stroke depth of the hammer nose into the block's bore to be adjusted by the tool's user in order to seat the plug at a pre-determined depth in the bore. Another feature includes a housing particularly sized and configure to cooperate with a freeze plug of the type having a minor diameter base section adapted to be slip fit into the block's bore and a major diameter rim section adapted to be pres fit into the bore, the plug's rim being received internally of the housing when the plug's base is slip fit into the bore, and when the housing is engaged with the outer surface of the engine block so as to align the plug and the tool and the bore properly prior to hammering the plug's rim into the bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Assignee: SDI Operating Partners, L.P.
    Inventor: Norman D. Coffenberry
  • Patent number: 4898248
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for tightening rotatable fastener elements including a source of pressurized fluid, a first rotatable actuator having a rotatable output shaft operable in response to fluid flow through the first actuator, first control to allow the first actuator shaft to operate to a first fluid pressure established by the pressure of the source of pressurized fluid, switching device operable in response to the attainment of the first fluid pressure, to supply pressurized fluid to a second rotating actuator device connected to operate the output shaft through a portion of a rotation in response to the attainment of the first pressure to secure the fastener to a selected torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1990
    Inventor: Owen R. Thompson