Patents Represented by Attorney Billy A. Robbins
  • Patent number: 7628708
    Abstract: A golf swing instruction aide adopted for attachment to the shaft of a golf club to measure or control the amount of wrist cock of the golfer during the golf swing. The aide includes first and second arcuate members one of which is adopted to be affixed to the shaft of a golf club and the other of which is movable to the first arcuate member and includes indicia to show the amount of relative movement and further includes apparatus to restrict relative movement to a desired amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Inventor: Michael Metz
  • Patent number: 7494260
    Abstract: A lamp having at least a portion of a body formed of translucent material defining a hollow chamber within which a low light level light bulb is housed. A portion of the body is removable to provide easy access to the light bulb for removal and changing when required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: Lamps Plus, Inc.
    Inventor: Dennis K. Swanson
  • Patent number: 7461956
    Abstract: A lamp having a body which defines a hollow chamber and is constructed at least in part from translucent material has one or more night lights directed upwardly and supported therein. The body includes a top crown which is held in place by a lock ring secured upon threads of a coupling device. Access to the upwardly directed night lights is obtained by removing the lock ring and moving the top crown upwardly to provide access to the hollow chamber so that one may insert his or her hand into the hollow chamber to remove and replace the lamp. The top crown is then replaced and the lock ring again secured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Lamps Plus, Inc.
    Inventor: Dennis K. Swanson
  • Patent number: 4232738
    Abstract: Isolation of native petroleum surfactants for lowering interfacial tensions in aqueous-alkaline systems. Petroleum of the type having reduced interfacial tension with water at high pH is subjected to fractionation by distillation including distillation under vacuum in the temperature range of 100.degree.-200.degree. C. to recover a surfactant fraction of the petroleum distilled in that temperature range. The fraction can be further concentrated by removing benzene-soluble components to obtain an ether-soluble residue having a density greater than water. The fraction alone, mixed with petroleum, or enriched with the residue, or the residue mixed with petroleum, can be injected as a slug into a subterranean oil reservoir to enhance tertiary recovery by alkaline water flooding. The amenability of a reservoir for alkaline flooding can be determined by separating the native surfactant fraction and measuring its interfacial tension with water at the proposed alkalinity of the floodwater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1980
    Assignee: University of Southern California
    Inventors: Teh F. Yen, Paul A. Farmanian
  • Patent number: D326756
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1992
    Assignee: Atlantic Richfield Company
    Inventor: Robert A. Milliken
  • Patent number: D341013
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Assignee: Atlantic Richfield Company
    Inventor: Robert A. Milliken