Patents Represented by Law Firm Blodgett & Blodgett
  • Fly tying lathe
    Patent number: 5165673
    Abstract: A fly tying vise utilizing a rotatable sleeve and chuck for preparing and tying a fly. An engagement pin which allows a user to either close and open the jaws of the chuck or to rotate the fly in the chuck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1992
    Inventor: Brewster L. Newton, Jr.
  • Headlight system
    Patent number: 5163420
    Abstract: A headlight system for directing light to a work site including a head cap or base, a main housing mounted on the base and positioned on the forehead of the user, and a cartridge or optical housing mounted for axial rotation within the main housing, about an axis which is horizontal and perpendicular to the line of sight of the user. Light from a fiber optic conduit is directed into the housing along the horizontal axis and reflected forward by a mirror and lens system. The final direction of light is variable within a plane and perpendicular to the horizontal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1992
    Inventor: Frans G. Van Der Bel
  • Projectile carrier
    Patent number: 5164539
    Abstract: A projectile carrier for use for the muzzle loading firearm. The carrier is formed of two separate and identical halves which abut along a common vertical plane. The two halves of the carrier when combined form a circular bottom wall and a cylindrical side wall which extends upwardly from the bottom wall. The side wall has a top opening for receiving a projectile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1992
    Assignee: K. W. Thompson Tool Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Kendrick L. French
  • Electrical earring
    Patent number: 5140840
    Abstract: An electrical earring for use on a pierced earlobe. The earring includes a receptor portion for positioning on an outer part of the earlobe and which contains a light enhanced display element, such as a translucent stone. The earring also includes a transmitter portion for positioning on the inner portion of an earlobe. The transmitter portion contains a battery and an electrical lamp such as an LED which is electrically connected to the battery. An elongated light transmitting post extends from the transmitter portion through the earlobe and into the receptor portion for transmitting light from the LED to the light enhanced element of the receptor portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Inventor: Joseph M. Miceli
  • Retainer for landscape element
    Patent number: 5129627
    Abstract: A retainer for a landscape body which has a pair of base portions for supporting the bottom surface of the body, a pair of feet portions which extend downwardly from the base portion for penetrating the ground and anchoring the body to the ground, and a pair of arm portions which connect the base portions for engaging the side surfaces of the landscape body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1992
    Inventor: Eugene H. Mongeau
  • Storage bin
    Patent number: 5127524
    Abstract: A stacking and nesting storage bin which has an open top and supporting elements such as a pair of legs which extend from one side wall of the bin at a downward angle to permit the bin to assume a tilted position so that the top opening faces forwardly and upwardly. A plurality of bins of the present invention can be stacked vertically one on top of the other so that the top opening of each bin faces forwardly and upwardly and is fully exposed and unencumbered by a bin which is located above or below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1992
    Assignee: Frem Corporation
    Inventor: Robert T. Howitt
  • Fishing apparatus
    Patent number: 5125183
    Abstract: Equipment for storing and carrying fishing gear, including a pocketed apron lying inside a bucket, an elastic cord holding a rod across the top of the bucket, and a bucket handle or supporting the rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1992
    Assignee: Blodgett & Blodgett, P.C.
    Inventor: Thomas O. Tisdell
  • Coupling for a snow plow
    Patent number: 5111603
    Abstract: A coupling for a plow which includes push beam which is attachable to the front of a vehicle and a supporting frame which is attachable to the back side of the plow. The push beam has at least one forwardly extending arm at each end of the beam and a transversely extending connecting pin for each arm. The supporting frame has a pair of rearwardly extending arms. The coupling also includes a slotted mounting tab which is attached to the rearward end of each rearwardly extending arm for receiving the pins and a retaining rod which is removably attached to the tabs for blocking the downward movement of the forwardly-extending arms and preventing the pins from moving out of the slots in the tabs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1992
    Inventors: Leland P. Knowlton, Kirk A. Knowlton
  • Loading device for muzzle-loading firearms
    Patent number: 5109623
    Abstract: A charge container for use with a muzzle-loading firearm. The charge container has two parts. The first part has an elongated chamber which is open at both ends for containing a projectile. The second part has a chamber which is open at one end for containing a powder charge. The second part also has an elongated plunger which is slidably mounted in the chamber of the first part for pushing the projectile out of the chamber of the first part into the muzzle of the firearm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1992
    Assignee: K. W. Thompson Tool Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Kendrick L. French
  • Article coating system
    Patent number: 5107789
    Abstract: A system for coating articles by the use of electrostatic attraction of ionized particles which are subsequently cured. The system includes a pair of carriers for jointly carrying each article through the system, from application of the particles to the article through curing of the particles on the article. Each carrier is capable of carrying the article independently of the other. After deposition of the particles on the article the article and the carriers are conveyed through a cleaning station wherein one of the carriers is moved out of carrying engagement with the article and cleaned while the article supported by the other carrier. The other carrier is then moved out of supporting engagement with the article and cleaned while the article is supported by the first carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1992
    Assignee: Blodgett & Blodgett, P.C.
    Inventor: Richard Salisbury
  • Dual-alloy disk system
    Patent number: 5106012
    Abstract: Two pieces of metal are bonded together at a surface by placing the two pieces into contact at the surface and forging the two pieces in a die which causes substantial displacement of the metal originally at the surface in a direction parallel to and outwardly from the edges of the surface. In this way, many of the defects which are potentially present at the original surface are displaced with moving metal away from the original contact between the two pieces of metal into sacrificial ribs and the remaining defects are exposed to significant strain. A portion of the displaced metal which contains many of the defects and which forms the sacrificial ribs is removed from the resulting bonded work piece as the sacrificial ribs are removed from the work piece. The result is a bond with superior properties and with a bond surface which can be located very precisely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1992
    Assignee: Wyman-Gordon Company
    Inventors: John M. Hyzak, Timothy E. Howson, Wilford H. Couts, Jr., Steven H. Reichman, Hugo E. Delgado, Daniel D. Kruger, Michael E. Sauby, Sulekh C. Jain, Bruce P. Bardes, Richard G. Menzies, Swami Ganesh
  • Flashlight holder
    Patent number: 5103384
    Abstract: Holder for flashlight having an arcuate seat joined to a clamp by a flexible metal cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1992
    Inventor: William M. Drohan
  • Catheter with adjustable external locking bolster
    Patent number: 5092850
    Abstract: A catheter with an adjustable, external locking bolster. The catheter is for insertion into a body and includes a distal tip which is positioned inside the body, and a tubular member which is in communication with the distal tip. A portion of the tubular member exists outside the body and is provided on its outer surface with engagement elements. An external coupling has matching engagement elements for selective, adjustable securement to the tubular member. A compression element is provided which locks the external coupling to the tubular element and prevents slippage. The adjustable engagement allows a low profile, close to the skin appearance, while the compression element securely locks the external coupling to the tubular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1992
    Inventor: Shelley J. Buma
  • Syringe
    Patent number: 5088987
    Abstract: A single use syringe in which the needle is rendered inoperative by retraction after injection has taken place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Inventor: Thomas J. Noonan, Jr.
  • Instructional globe
    Patent number: 5080591
    Abstract: An instructional globe facilitates the guided or self-directed study of terrestrial geography. A globe-shaped body is constructed so that major geographical features are represented on detachable appendages. Cues are provided for the proper placement of the appendages on the surfaces of the globe-shaped body, the cues consisting of niches, embossed or printed shapes, or indentations, unambiguously corresponding to the appendages. The globe-shaped body may be build up from a skeletal framework to hold a number of blocks, the blocks together forming a spherical surface. Appropriate portions of geographical features, or portions of cues, are formed on the blocks. A number of means are shown for attaching the blocks to the framework and the segments to the body. A series of embodiments apply the invention to the problems of teaching geography to students with varying or progressing learning skills.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1992
    Inventor: Maria K. Forsyth
  • Cutter for fibrous compressible material
    Patent number: 5075974
    Abstract: A cutting tool for cutting a sheet of compressible fibrous material. The cutting tool includes a blade which forms part of a cutting assembly which is mounted on a supporting base for movement between an upper position in which the blade is located above the material to be cut when the supporting base rests on the material which is to cut to a lower position in which the cutting blade extends below the supporting base. The cutting assembly is biased to the upper position and moved to the lower position by downward pressure from the hand of the operator which also causes the supporting base to compress the fibrous material so that when the cutting tool is moved longitudinally along the upper surface of the fibrous material, the material is cut by the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Inventor: Edward T. McIlhatten
  • Investment casting process
    Patent number: 5072770
    Abstract: A method of making an investment casting by forming a pattern which has the shape of the part which is to be made and forming from the pattern a mold of elastomeric (rubber) material which has a cavity which has the shape of the of the part or casting to be made. Liquid aqueous (water) material is poured into the mold cavity and the mold is cooled so that the material is frozen (ice) to form a solid temporary pattern having the shape of the part. The temporary pattern is coated or invested with ceramic material to form a solid shell about the temporary pattern. The solid temporary pattern is melted and the resulting aqueous material evacuated from the shell to form a cavity which has the shape of the part or casting. The shell cavity is filled with molten metal which is allowed to solidify to form the casting which is removed from the shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1991
    Inventor: Daniel B. Yodice
  • Ventilation device with heat recovery
    Patent number: 5070934
    Abstract: Ventilation device for the simultaneous ventilating and exhausting an enclosed room having the capacity for the recovery of heat from the exhaust media current. The exhaust media current is given a longer flow path than the ventilation media current; particularly the flow path of the exhaust media current at the exit side of the heat exchanger has a flow deflection which includes an arc measure of more than 90.degree. degrees and preferably of about 150.degree.. Further, the flow paths of both the exhaust and the ventilation media current extend from their inlets to at least the heat exchanger in an ascending direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1991
    Assignee: Siegenia-Frank KG
    Inventor: Ekhard Kucharczyk
  • Storage bin
    Patent number: D326945
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1992
    Assignee: FREM Corporation
    Inventor: Robert T. Howitt
  • Light source for fiber optic medical instruments and the like
    Patent number: D327952
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1992
    Assignee: Instrument Research Corporation
    Inventor: Frans G. Van Der Bel