Patents Represented by Law Firm Barlow & Barlow
  • Hummingbird and lepidopterous feeder
    Patent number: 5269258
    Abstract: An interchangeable feeder in the form of a dish container has a central ant trap with a surrounding moat. The moat has drain holes for excess fluid and surrounding the moat is a feed trough. A cover with a central aperture encloses the feed trough and a plurality of apertures through the wall of the cover allow access to the feed trough. In one form the cover has at least one tray like depression for the reception of fruit or other material that will attract an insect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Inventor: Arthur C. Brown
  • Security seal apparatus
    Patent number: 5269568
    Abstract: A security seal device is shown formed of plastic material generally in the shape of two hollow half cylinders connected together by a longitudinally extending living hinge and having apertured end faces. Spaced, opposed lips are formed in laterally extending shelves attached to each half and a locking pin is received between the lips and projections formed in the pin received in detents formed in the lips to lock the two halves together. The device is used by placing a joint formed between first and second members within one of the halves with the first and second members placed through respective end face apertures. The other half is then pivoted to close the cylinder and the locking pin is inserted. The device can then be reopened only through physical damage by breaking the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: Product Solutions
    Inventor: Michael G. Courturier
  • Display stand apparatus
    Patent number: 5267656
    Abstract: A display stand having identical top and bottom members having a plurality of panel member seats formed about their periphery. The seats have guide members and a lip which interlocks with a wall edge formed in each vertical panel member. Each vertical panel member is provided with suitable attachment means for mounting articles of merchandise to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1993
    Inventor: David G. Nichols
  • Golf shoe and golf club cleaning device
    Patent number: 5230117
    Abstract: A golf shoe and golf club cleaning device particularly adapted for attachment to a golf bag or other convenient surface. The device includes a brush handle having soft bristles embedded in one face thereof and stiff bronze bristles embedded in an end wall that extends out of the general longitudinal extent of the handle at an angle thereto. The handle is tethered to a golf bag by a spring loaded cable that retracts into a casing and the cable is removably attached to a golf bag. By this arrangement, the brush is securely fastened to the golf bag or other convenient surface during normal play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1993
    Inventors: Ronald W. Johnson, Robert N. Johnson
  • Beverage container carrier apparatus
    Patent number: 5221002
    Abstract: A beverage container carrier is shown formed from a single piece of rigid plastic material having two rows of container receiving apertures extending between a hinge end and a latch end. Separations are formed in the walls between apertures in each row and in the latch end in alignment with each row. A latch is formed in the latch end for each row of apertures. The longitudinal side portions are adapted, in the unlatched condition, to spring away from the center spine to receive containers and to snap back into a latched position to grip containers placed in the apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1993
    Inventor: Richard S. Garganese
  • Method of molding a display card
    Patent number: 5215700
    Abstract: A method of molding a display card for jewelry which has a pair of posts protruding from at least the rear face thereof that serve as gripping members for pin formed jewelry articles. The posts have bores that are formed with a wide mouth for ease of insertion and the bore tapers to a small gripping portion to hold the jewelry pin. A decorative layer overlies the central area of the card and is frictionally held in place by the posts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1993
    Inventor: Richard S. Garganese
  • Bird feeder having a non-rotatable perch with protective sleeves
    Patent number: 5215039
    Abstract: A bird feeder having a feeder unit for retaining seed and the like is provided with a perch of polygonal cross section that is tightly retained in the wall of the feeder unit. A soft pliable surface is provided on the perch that is apparently more appealing to the birds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1993
    Assignee: Aspects, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert E. Bescherer
  • Display card
    Patent number: 5197596
    Abstract: A display card for jewelry has at least one and preferably a pair of posts protruding from at least the rear face thereof that serve as gripping members for pin formed jewelry articles. The posts have bores that are formed with a wide mouth for ease of insertion and the bore tapers to a small gripping portion to hold the jewelry pin. A decorative layer preferably overlies the central area of the card. The decorative layer may in some versions be frictionally held in place by the posts. In another form, an integral compartment is formed on the card to store jewelry parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1993
    Inventor: Richard S. Garganese
  • Rod cooling system
    Patent number: 5196156
    Abstract: Cooling system for use in a rod rolling mill having a laying reel and an elongated conveyor onto which the rod is deposited in a pattern of overlapping offset rings, the conveyor having a section consisting of spaced, parallel transverse shafts bearing radially-extending disks whose arcuate upper peripheries support the rings in driving relationship for movement of the rod along the conveyor and for introducing cooling air under the rings for flow in a confined space thereunder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1993
    Assignee: Engineered Production Increase, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles H. Gage, Alfred R. Leger
  • Cable terminal protector
    Patent number: 5191172
    Abstract: Cable terminal protector, consisting of two generally rectangular main members joined at one end by an integral live hinge for movement from a face-to-face closed position to an open position, there being a central pocket formed in each main member for forming an enclosure. Cable channels are formed in the ends of the members to clamp a cable when the main members are in the closed position and means are provided for locking the main members in the closed position, while sealing surfaces surround the pockets and to cooperate, when the main members are in the closed position, to prevent foreign matter from entering the enclosure and to provide complete electrostatic encapsulation when a conductive material is used for the protector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1993
    Inventor: Richard S. Garganese
  • Toy glider
    Patent number: 5176559
    Abstract: A toy glider is shown having a unitary wing formed of closed cell resin material disposed in a slot formed in a fuselage in which a weight is located to place the center of gravity of the glider at a point which, along with selected flexibility of the wing, produces a cyclical up and down flapping type of movement of the wings when placed in flight above a threshold velocity. The glider has no horizontal stabilizer and the fuselage has a force-receiving surface adapted to accommodate the distal portion of a person's finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1993
    Inventor: Stephen Lane
  • Adjustable pressure ear clip
    Patent number: 5170644
    Abstract: An ear clip is disclosed that includes a jaw hinged to a base member to which an ornament may be affixed. The jaw is provided with a spring tongue that engages the base member and normally urges the jaw in one direction. The end of the spring tongue is provided with a plurality of notches and the end portion is bent from a plane of the jaw at an obtuse angle to insure positive engagement of the base member with the notches. Additional depressions on the inner face of mounting or pivot ears may be provided for additional positive adjustable engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Inventor: Anthony S. Calabro
  • Ball recovery system
    Patent number: 5141226
    Abstract: A tennis ball recovery system utilizes an elastic screen (15) suspended from a back stop at an angle and is joined to a trough that lies on the ground by means that allow the screen (15) to pivot as the trough is moved to a storage position against the back court fence (12). In the operative position the screen is at an angle with respect to the vertical. The trough has a frontal wall (18) that rises at a small angle to the ground and this wall terminates in a lip (22) that lies over the bottom wall (17) of the trough. A feed screw (31,31') fits in the bottom of the trough to feed balls retrieved to a central point where they are discharged into a bucket (42).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Inventor: Peter A. Cavanagh
  • Ozone generator
    Patent number: 5137697
    Abstract: An air purifying apparatus that has an ozone generator which generates plasma field in the ultraviolet region. It utilizes a pair of electrodes in the form of plates that are separated by an insulator. The plates are connected to a high-voltage transformer through diodes in such a way that only a negative and less positive charges appear on the plates. The generator is provided with a self-cleaning apparatus in which the circulating air fan that is provided for normally forcing air through the electrostatic plates may be turned off for a period of time and the ozone generated by the plates at that point in time will tend to combine with the contaminates and oxidize the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1992
    Assignee: Quantum Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: James R. Lathan, Michael J. Ferrante
  • Sealing jaws
    Patent number: 5131213
    Abstract: A sealing jaw apparatus for a plastic film wrapping machine has essentially spaced heated sealing jaws with a reciprocal knife located therebetween. The jaws operate against a heated elastomeric bed that has a longitudinal slot to receive the knife during the cutting operation. The arrangement provides a sealing of thermoplastic film and a severing thereof at a considerably lower temperature then the melting point of the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1992
    Assignee: Shanklin Corporation
    Inventors: Frank G. Shanklin, Robin G. Thurgood, Francis X. King, Jr.
  • Dental mirror
    Patent number: D329899
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1992
    Inventor: Munir Rihani
  • Hummingbird feeder
    Patent number: D330097
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Assignee: Aspects, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert E. Bescherer, Barry D. Colvin
  • Digital caliper
    Patent number: D332921
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Assignee: Central Tools, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard L. Victor, Sr.
  • Plate
    Patent number: D337480
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1993
    Inventor: Adolf Zabner
  • Embossed plate
    Patent number: D339268
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Inventor: Adolf Zabner