Patents Represented by Attorney Allen D. Brufsky
  • Patent number: 4055871
    Abstract: A silencer device for a door or a window includes a P-shaped element having a head portion with an opening therethrough and a tail portion having a plurality of longitudinally aligned apertures therethrough. The tail portion is mounted onto the door jamb by screws extending through the apertures, wherein the head portion extends forwardly of the door jamb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1977
    Inventor: John T. Morton
  • Patent number: 4055855
    Abstract: A hospital gown including at least two panels removably secured about the front and back of a patient to form a garment having a pair of sleeves and an upper torso enveloping portion. Straps are provided in the interior of one sleeve for holding an I.V. tube and a pocket is sewn to the front of the torso enveloping portion to hold a medical diagnostic instrument which can be connected to the chest of the patient through an opening in the torso enveloping portion adjacent the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1977
    Inventors: Alexander C. Ragone, Inez Ragone
  • Patent number: 4054789
    Abstract: A vehicular warning light mounted in a storage position on a bracket in the interior of the trunk of a motor vehicle. The bracket is attached to the trunk cover. Upon lifting the trunk cover and closing a switch mounted on the dashboard of the vehicle, a flashing red light is activated and a latch retracted to enable the light to pivot to a use position in a substantially vertical plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1977
    Inventor: Frances Romanelli
  • Patent number: 4054730
    Abstract: An insulated battery cover to protect a vehicle storage battery from cold weather including a pair of substantially L-shaped insulated plates which are the mirror image of each other provided with bendable tabs on the short legs of each plate inserted through slots in the long legs of the other one of each plate and bent to lock the cover around a battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1977
    Inventor: Salvatore Crifasi
  • Patent number: 4054178
    Abstract: A gardening tool that includes a handle portion having a plurality of tines depending therefrom and a second plurality of tines of shorter length, which are adjustable in alternating arrangement with the longer tines. Each tine of the second plurality of tines includes two telescoping portions surrounded by a clamp with a variably tapered internally threaded section. The variable taper within the clamp facilitates the clamping together of the two telescoping portions of the tine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1977
    Inventor: Ferron Boothe
  • Patent number: 4054396
    Abstract: A template holder for clamping a template to a workpiece including a pair of parallel rods mounted one above the other on a spacer block, the upper rod is connected to a template. The lower rod is pivotably connected to the spacer block and is connected to a backing block spaced from the template. The template is positioned on a workpiece and the backing block pivoted to a position beneath the template and work pieces to clamp the workpiece between the template and backing block. With the template locked in place, it is used to mark, cut, or in the drilling of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1977
    Inventor: Charles E. Cassidy
  • Patent number: 4054342
    Abstract: A hospital cabinet including a pivotal panel which is channel-shaped to cross-section and slidably receives a planar board for use in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1977
    Inventor: Amy Cook
  • Patent number: 4054323
    Abstract: A plurality of L-shaped brackets spaced about the inner circumference of a hubcap have a slot for receiving one of a plurality of L-shaped lugs projecting outwardly from the exterior surface of a wheel to prevent the hubcap from being pryed from the wheel. A lock on the hubcap has a reciprocable projection received within a rectangular slot on one of the wheel lugs to preclude relative rotation of the hubcap and wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1977
    Inventor: Edson Lewis
  • Patent number: 4054166
    Abstract: A cover for carrying a Christmas tree so that needles on the tree falling from the tree are retained in the cover. A flexible sheet is wrapped around the tree and has overlapped edges secured together by snap fasteners. Straps strung through belt loop adjacent the top and bottom edges of the sheet draw the cover tight. A drop cloth is removably secured to the bottom of the cover by a zipper to catch needles and may be draped around the base of the tree when in use. A pair of carrying handles are connected to the sheet or alternatively, an adjustable strap is looped over the ends of the tree and cover for toting the tree and cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1977
    Inventor: John J. Burke
  • Patent number: 4052790
    Abstract: A pea and bean cutter has a semicircular slot with a cutting blade protruding part way into the semicircle. A pea or bean pod moved longitudinally through the slot has its skin longitudinally sliced without marring the peas or beans within.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1977
    Inventor: Albert S. Carle
  • Patent number: 4052955
    Abstract: An emergency balloon device includes a balloon member clamped onto a gas cartridge, wherein the gas cartridge is removably received into a cartridge holding section which is also capable of holding a plurality of smoke bomb cannisters. The cartridge holding device is removably received into a sleeve member which is secured to an end of a flexible cable; the other end of the cable is secured to a weighted base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1977
    Inventor: Nathan Haushalter
  • Patent number: 4052071
    Abstract: A board game including a large playing board with a center area showing a map of a country such as the United States, with states, cities, time zones and other features, the perimeter or marginal border of the playing board being divided into a large number of playing boxes, each marked with a direction of play for the player, depending upon which box he enters his marker into under guidance of the dice which are cast by the players. The game includes a quantity of play money, airplane tickets for movement from different cities to others, travel cards for similar movement, and luck cards for good and bad luck plays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1977
    Inventor: Jack Siegfried
  • Patent number: 4052034
    Abstract: A baking pan insert that is especially adapted for the baking of cupcake and the like and is adapted to allow the baker to fill each cupcake with a differing filling while the same are already in the pan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1977
    Inventor: Josephine Marceno
  • Patent number: 4051597
    Abstract: A saw guide device includes a planar element having a pair of sides, a forward end, and a rear end. A flange member is affixed at an obtuse angle to the forward end of the planar element. An L-shaped member is affixed to each side of the planar element, wherein each L-shaped element is tilted inwardly over the planar element. The shoe of the saw is adapted to be received on the planar element. A block element is affixed to a bottom rear center of the planar element, wherein the block element is received into the saw cut rearwardly of the saw blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1977
    Inventor: Louis Cardoza
  • Patent number: 4051838
    Abstract: An oven having a slidable rack. A handle is connected to the rack and projects exteriorly of the oven for movement in an elongated slot in an oven side wall. Movement of the handle in the slot will enable the rack to be slid into and out of the oven chamber without touching the rack. Cooperating pins on the rack and the oven cover pivot the cover to an open position as the rack is slid forwardly by its handle to a stop position wherein the pins return to an abutting relationship to limit further movement of the rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1977
    Inventor: Cheryl Pinckney
  • Patent number: 4052065
    Abstract: A catapult comprising a stand and a spring-mounted plunger receives a projectile which is struck by a bat having at least one flat side to propel to the projectile into the air where it is struck again by the bat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1977
    Inventor: Jose Rodriquez
  • Patent number: 4051734
    Abstract: A meter for measuring the acceleration and deceleration of an object in "G" including a pendulum having a weight at one end and a pointer at the other end associated with a fixed scale. The pendulum is calibrated and adjusted relative to its rest position on the scale so that when put in motion or when stopped will indicate the acceleration or deceleration of the object on the scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1977
    Inventor: Reginald R. Skinner
  • Patent number: 4049339
    Abstract: Eyeglasses used to provide depth simulation when worn to view a planar picture on a movie screen. The temples and frame of the eyeglasses are made from substantially rectangular opaque plastic and transparent, triangular shaped lenses are positioned in the frame adjacent a nosepiece cut therein. The lens and frame arrangement allow each eye to view the screen except for the corresponding edge thereof so that when the total picture is seen through both eyes the sensation of depth perception is realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1977
    Inventor: Antoine Ledan
  • Patent number: 4049036
    Abstract: A vehicle window cover that includes a sheet of semi-flexible material having air spaces or interstices therein; the sheet generally contains a plurality of voids or recesses between two opposing layers; and straps or the like to affix the same to the vehicle window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1977
    Inventor: Paul A. Gebhardt
  • Patent number: 4048731
    Abstract: A gameboard having a square array of different colored adjacent squares is slidably received in a box containing a plurality of square holes formed by upright criss-crossed partitions. The squares on the gameboard are positioned beneath one of the holes. Different colored balls, corresponding to the colors of the squares on the gameboard, are dropped through a funnel mounted above the box and come to rest in one of the holes. The balls are replaced by correspondingly colored marking discs. The process is repeated until all squares on the gameboard are covered with the discs and then the mathematical probabilities of a particular ball landing on a particular square are compared with the actual occurrence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1977
    Inventor: Anastasia Baguioro