Patents Represented by Law Firm Bielen & Peterson
  • Steering mechanism for a boat
    Patent number: 5172648
    Abstract: A steering mechanism for a boat utilizing a hull which is provided with a rudder apparatus. The rudder apparatus has an end portion extending outwardly from the boat hull with top and bottom portions. The rudder apparatus may be turned or flipped transversely relative to the boat hull and/or twisted such that the top portion of the rudder apparatus and the bottom portion of the rudder apparatus are moved transversely and oppositely relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1992
    Inventor: George Isham
  • Rotary engine with variable displacement
    Patent number: 5168846
    Abstract: A rotary engine having an epitrochoidal engine component and a supercharger component connected to the engine component by a variable transmission, the engine component having valve plugs for varying the effective displacement of air compression according to engine load and speed, the engine component having a regional combustion chamber design and fuel injection system designed to improve the timing and completeness of combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1992
    Inventors: Marius A. Paul, Ana Paul
  • Knee brace with pivot lock
    Patent number: 5168865
    Abstract: A knee brace utilizing first and second brace members and first and second elements which are interlinked to one another. The first and second brace members are adapted for attachment to the femoral and tibial regions of the leg. The first and second brace members each include a first and second second portion. The first element pivotally connects to the first brace member at a first pivot and to the second brace member at a second pivot. The second brace member also pivotally connects to the second element at a third pivot. The second element pivotally connects to the first brace member at a fourth pivot. The first and second elements may sandwich or bracket the first and second brace members, which are generally positioned in a coplanar relationship. Position of the first brace member relative to the second brace member permits selected translation between these brace members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1992
    Assignee: Orthopedic Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Radcliffe, Steve Lamb
  • Bar puller for automatic lathe
    Patent number: 5165313
    Abstract: A bar puller for a numerically controlled turret lathe having a mounting member for mounting the bar puller to one of the stations of a rotary turret on the lathe, the bar puller having a pair of gripping jaws that are pivotally mounted between clevis plates on pivot pins and biased by a plurality of compression springs, the jaw blocks carrying adjustable gripping members that engage the end of a bar stock and draw the bar stock in the chuck on displacement of the turret carriage with the gripping jaws being released by further displacement of the turret carriage after a chuck has been secured on the stock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1992
    Inventor: Robert Karr
  • Continuous external heat engine
    Patent number: 5165238
    Abstract: A thermal engine utilizing a positive displacement rotary expander and preferably a positive displacement rotary compressor in conjunction with an external substantially steady-state thermal source, such as a continuous fuel combustor, the external source heating a high pressure gas that is directed from the thermal source to the rotary expander wherein the gases expand driving a rotor in the positive displacement rotary engine before discharge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1992
    Inventors: Marius A. Paul, Ana Paul
  • Container raceway
    Patent number: 5154270
    Abstract: A raceway for guiding containers relative to a structure utilizing a yoke which is anchored to the structure. Elongated rods are each fastened in spaced relationship to the yoke structure by a clamp. The clamp includes a body portion with a slot for holding each of the rods while extending a portion of each of the rods beyond the body of the clamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1992
    Inventor: Raymond Camezon
  • Method and composition for chip sealing a roadway
    Patent number: 5153026
    Abstract: A method and composition for chip sealing a roadway utilizing a coating containing a parent binding material. Stone chips are then spread onto the parent binding material to form a composite having an upper surface. A liquid composition is then applied over the upper surface of the composite. The liquid composition includes an emulsion of liquid asphalt, a lignosulfonic acid salt, and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Inventors: Wendell Reed, Jeffrey Reed
  • Doctor-blade assembly for flexographic press
    Patent number: 5150651
    Abstract: An improved doctor-blade assembly for a flexographic press having an ink metering roller, in which the doctor-blade assembly includes an ink fountain having elastomer seals to improve end sealing of the ink fountain and to improve division of the fountain into discrete sections without cross bleed of different inks, and in which the assembly includes protective guard boots on an actuating mechanism that displaces the ink fountain into operating position with an ink metering roller to prevent crusting of ink in the actuating mechanism, affecting alignment of the assembly in the operating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1992
    Inventor: Carlos R. Flores
  • Method of protecting vehicle finishes
    Patent number: 5144736
    Abstract: A method of protecting the finish on a vehicle employs the immersing of a sheet of waste cellulose fiber material in an aqueous bath to render the sheet of cellulose fiber material pliable. A form in the shape of a portion of the vehicle to be protected is provided and the sheet of pliable material is placed over the form. The pliable cellulose material is dried to add rigidity to the same in the form of a shield. The finished shield is then placed on a vehicle to protect the finish characteristics such as exterior paint, trim, glass, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1992
    Inventor: Edward Hanson
  • Fruit harvesting device
    Patent number: 5142854
    Abstract: A device for harvesting fruit for biological entities such as a tree or bush utilizing a frame member. The frame member includes a first cutting edge portion and a second cutting edge portion which is linked to the frame member. The first and second cutting edge portions are positioned adjacent one another and form a converging channel which is capable of severing attachment of the fruit attached to the tree. Handle means is also included for permitting the user to grip the frame member and capture fruit in the channel portion formed by the first and second cutting edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Inventor: Jose A. Chua
  • Nitrogen test kit for physical training
    Patent number: 5137692
    Abstract: A nitrogen test kit for determining the relative level of nitrogen of a user who is involved in a health program where diet and exercise are monitored and adjusted for optimizing physical development, the kit including a plastic stick having a reagent zone on which is included a reactant such as urease, and a pH indicator such as bromthymol blue, used in conjunction with color chart blocks representing a range of urea nitrogen concentrations, wherein the user's urine nitrogen content can be determined by comparing the altered color of the reagent zone of an exposed test strip to the color chart and compared with a personal baseline level, developed from a number of tests under controlled conditions, for determining the present protein nitrogen turnover and approximate balance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1992
    Inventor: Robert Fritz
  • Intraocular lens
    Patent number: 5133751
    Abstract: An intraocular lens utilizing an optical portion which is capable of vision correction. The optical portion connects to a flexible body which includes a fissure permitting said flexible body to unravel into to an element having a relatively narrow transverse dimension. The flexible body is also capable of reforming into a substantially unitary element having a relatively large transverse dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1992
    Inventor: Jon Bayers
  • Turbine blade unit
    Patent number: 5122033
    Abstract: A gas turbine blade unit for use in a blade assembly in a gas turbine engine having a combustion chamber in which fuel and air are burned to produce combustion gases, the turbine blade assembly having internal channels for mixing liquid and air within the blade unit for discharge as a vapor-air mixture into the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1992
    Inventor: Marius A. Paul
  • Nut shelling machine
    Patent number: 5115733
    Abstract: A nut cracking machine constructed to crack nuts of different size in a continuous operation is provided, the machine having first and second disks that are spaced apart with opposed tapered faces forming a narrowing gap therebetween, the first disk being rotated on a first axis and the second disk being rotated together with the first disk on a second axis slightly skewed from the first axis such that the face of one disk is oblique to the face of the other disk and when rotated together, the gap between the faces of the disks has a wide sector and a narrow sector. The machine includes a feed mechanism to feed nuts of different size to the space between the disks where the space is widest, the nuts advancing between the tapered faces until the nuts are engaged by the disks and are then transported to where the gap narrows, the disks compressing the nuts therebetween and cracking the shells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1992
    Inventors: Wilfred C. Frederiksen, Sun Y. Kim
  • Resistance mechanism for exercise equipment
    Patent number: 5110118
    Abstract: A resistance mechanism for exercising equipment that includes a frame structure on which is mounted a positive-displacement rotary pump, the pump having a housing with a rotor that pumps fluid through a closed circuit which includes a reservoir and conduit leading to the pump and conduit leading from the pump to the reservoir. The pump rotor is connected to an actuator for rotating the rotor and pumping fluid through the circuit with the circuit having a valve to constrict the conduit leading from the pump to vary the force required to pump fluid through the closed circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1992
    Inventor: Timothy Winey
  • Engine block and bearing assembly
    Patent number: 5107809
    Abstract: An improved engine block and crankshaft bearing assembly with an arrangement of the engine block and the bearing assembly that simplifies casting of the engine block, with the block having cylinders and a crankcase with opposed spaced support structures in the crankcase for mounting thin profile, forged steel upper bearing caps between adjacent cylinders with the upper bearing caps spanning the spaced support structures and coupling to conventional bearing caps for at least the main bearings of the crankshaft between the end bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1992
    Assignee: Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Chung M. Suh
  • Channel cap extrusion for glass block and the like
    Patent number: D326329
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1992
    Inventor: George Ballstadt
  • Baby bottle holder or the like
    Patent number: D326524
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1992
    Inventors: Kola Lawal, Karen Lawal
  • Chair frame or similar article
    Patent number: D327990
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1992
    Inventor: Scott Glendinning
  • Display stand or similar article
    Patent number: D327996
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1992
    Inventor: Donald R. Warfield