Patents by Inventor Paul R. Bird

Paul R. Bird has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20090127027
    Abstract: A scaffold securing device for securing scaffold boards. The device includes: first elongated arm member, an L-shaped second elongated arm member, a chain member, and an elongated connection member. The first elongated member includes two arm member end and an aperture. The L-shaped second elongated arm member is rotatably coupled to the first elongated arm member and includes: a pair of arm portions and an aperture. The elongated arm members are substantially flat. The chain member is coupled to the first elongated arm member. The elongated connection member, in the form of a swivel pin, connects the elongated arm members together by insertion through the apertures. The swivel pin includes an elongated body portion, a head portion, and an elongated lock portion. The second elongated arm member is rotatably coupled to the second arm member end of the first elongated arm member by hinging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventor: Paul R. Bird
  • Patent number: 5349890
    Abstract: A heated knife has a motor adapted to drive the knife against a cutting block with the web inbetween. The knife body is metal and has a cutting edge with side surfaces at an obtuse angle to each other. The knife is formed with a lengthwise bore which houses a Calrod capable of heating the knife up to about 950.degree. F. The knife body has relatively thin lateral ears spaced from the heater and which receive support bolts from the opposite ends of a driving yoke by which the motor drives the knife. This arrangement reduces the amount of heat withdrawn from the knife.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1994
    Assignee: Scovill Fasteners Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Butkus, Paul R. Bird
  • Patent number: 5329683
    Abstract: A setting apparatus directs a reinforcing tape in a perpendicular direction to the path of movement of the fabric. It comprises a machine frame, a support plate, a setting punch and die, a reinforcing tape supply under the plate and tape feeding belt for feeding the tape which is automatically activated by the punch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1994
    Assignee: Scovill Fasteners Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Butkus, Paul R. Bird
  • Patent number: 5261515
    Abstract: A mechanical disconnect for the pedal operating rod of an attaching machine comprises a stationary trip slide having a downwardly inclined cam surface and a housing enclosing the trip slide and reciprocable thereon. The housing is connected to the clutch operating rod. The housing also includes a transverse trip spacer pin and a latch having a follower nose engaging the cam and a central L-shaped opening receiving the pin in the horizontal leg of the opening. A spring urges the latch toward the slide. When the pedal is depressed, the latch pulls down the housing so that the clutch activating pull down rod moves away from the clutch dog. Further downward movement of the pedal cams the latch away from the slide so that the spacer pin aligns with the vertical leg of the "L" permitting the housing to pop up and the pull down rod to engage a clutch dog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Assignee: Scovill Fasteners Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Butkus, Paul R. Bird
  • Patent number: 5199635
    Abstract: A container for holding pourable contents includes an exterior surface, an interior surface, an interior for holding contents and a reclosable pour spout mounted on the container. The pour spout includes a flange member having oppositely positioned first and second sides. An aperture extends through the flange member and the second side of the flange member is secured to the outer periphery of the wall of the container. An extension is connected to and extends axially away from the outer surface of the container and the extension has an aperture extending therethrough that communicates with the aperture in the flange member. A stem is connected to and extends axially away from the second side of the flange member. The stem has an aperture extending therethrough that communicates with the aperture in the flange member and the pour spout is positioned on the container such that the stem extends through the opening in the wall of the container and into the interior of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Assignee: Capital Spouts, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert S. Abrams, Joseph H. Miller, Paul R. Bird
  • Patent number: 5169374
    Abstract: A spout is attached to a wall of an article, such as a paperboard container, by pushing a stem of a spout longitudinally through a pre-formed hole in the article and against an inclined face of a flare tool so that a portion of the stem is bent laterally outwardly and into the path of a staking tool. The staking tool is displaced so that the face thereof bends a laterally outer section of the bent portion against the wall of the article while leaving a laterally inner section of the bent portion spaced longitudinally from the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1992
    Assignee: Capitol Spouts, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert S. Abrams, Joseph H. Miller, Paul R. Bird