Patents Represented by Attorney C. Hercus Just
  • Patent number: 3977638
    Abstract: A halter type nursing bottle support comprising a flexible strap adapted to be extended around the neck of a person holding an infant in one arm, and a flattened loop of elastic strip material being secured to one end of said strap in coaxial relationship therewith and adapted to be extended around the midportion of a nursing bottle to support the same in suspended manner from the neck of the person holding the infant. Snap-type fastening means connect the opposite ends of the flexible strap together in adjustable manner to determine the preferred position of the nursing bottle relative to the neck of the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1976
    Inventor: James M. Woodard
  • Patent number: 3976155
    Abstract: A tile laying cart comprising a simple base frame composed of a pair of elongated channel members connected in transversely spaced relationship and the opposite ends thereof comprising the forward and rearward ends of said cart, a chest and chin-supporting pad member which is narrower at the forward end than at the rearward end is mounted for vertical adjustment relative to and above the forward portion of said base frame member and the upper surface of said base frame member comprising a supporting means for a stack of tiles to dispose the same conveniently for access to the occupant of the cart. The rearward portion of the base frame member also supports a transverse knee-supporting pad member so that when a worker is disposed in kneeling position upon the knee-supporting pad member and chest-supporting pad member, the worker may propel the cart by operation of his toes while leaving both hands and arms free for manipulation incident to laying tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1976
    Inventor: Abner S. Esch
  • Patent number: 3971312
    Abstract: An adjustable squeegee holding device for a silkscreen printing frame, which when installed upon the rear frame member of a silkscreen printing frame provides a convenient place to support and retain an inked squeegee when the same is not in use during silkscreen printing operations as well as additionally providing a silkscreen printing frame counterbalance means when the frame is in a raised position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1976
    Inventor: Othmar Carli
  • Patent number: 3971195
    Abstract: Control means for the feeding of crop material from a header and condensing auger to the forward, inlet end of an upwardly and rearwardly extending elevator having an endless flight therein, said control means comprising plates connected to the inlet end of said elevator to restrict the width thereof and thereby prevent crop material from being engaged by the outer edges of said endless flight in said elevator, thereby preventing the accumulation and backfeeding of crop material along opposite side edges of said elevator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1976
    Assignee: Sperry Rand Corporation
    Inventor: Edward W. Rowland-Hill
  • Patent number: 3967275
    Abstract: A clamp-type mount adapted to be clamped to an outwardly extending rod-like member such as a rear view supporting arm projecting from one side of the cab of a truck and including a pair of similar clamping members having opposed grooves in the adjacent faces of the clamping member to receive said rod-like member, and one of said clamping members having a seat formed thereon for the reception of an electrical insulating coupling member which is attached by a short threaded rod member to said one clamping member against said seat therein and the outer end of said coupling member being threaded to receive a threaded end of a metallic antenna rod and clamp a metallic connector against the outer end of the insulating coupling member for connection of a hot wire thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1976
    Inventor: Harold H. Wagman
  • Patent number: 3965333
    Abstract: Temperature control means for a curtain-type wrapping or banding machine to prevent excess ambient temperature thereon by employing switch-actuating means responsive to even very small changes in the expansion and contraction of the elongated heating element on the heater bar of the machine which co-acts with the anvil thereof to effect sealing of either a web or bands of thermoplastic synthetic resin material around various types of objects of various sizes and also re-constitute the web or bands into continuous form incident to severing the sealed web or bands from the supply material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1976
    Assignee: Elsner Engineering Works, Inc.
    Inventors: Bertram F. Elsner, Frank Elsner, Jr.
  • Patent number: 3964492
    Abstract: A rotor for axial flow combines having an auger of predetermined length on one end thereof which, when rotated, feeds crop material to the main portion of the rotor which coacts with a concave and grate to thresh and separate grain from the crop material. The auger has a spiral flight provided with a smoothly curved peripheral edge and in order to minimize wear of said edge and also provide increased aggressive engagement of the auger with crop material, a series of similar projections are detachably connected to said flight adjacent the peripheral edge thereof, in circumferentially spaced relationship to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1976
    Assignee: Sperry Rand Corporation
    Inventors: John B. Crego, Everett C. Cowan, Jr., John D. Riffanacht, Larimer J. Knepper, Edward W. Rowland-Hill
  • Patent number: 3963095
    Abstract: A vehicular mounted, multiply-articulated aerial lift and ladder assembly comprised of a terminally affixed and partially enclosed platform member pivotally connected to a linked parallel bar assembly having a ladder section as the outward longitudinal element thereof, wherein the linked parallel bar assembly is in turn pivotally connected to the uppermost end of the extension member of a vertically displaceable dual-membered main extension ladder assembly which at the lower end thereof is pivotally attached to a horizontally rotatable platform affixed to a supporting structure upon the vehicle, the entire combined aerial lift and ladder assembly heretofore described having displacement powering means entirely operable from a control panel within the platform member, whereby a person occupying the platform may accurately position and maintain himself in an extended aerial work location within the horizontally oriented platform member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1976
    Assignee: Cam Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Melvin R. Hedges
  • Patent number: 3963112
    Abstract: A windguard for the upper end of an upstanding grain discharge conduit having an auger therein and including a tubular wall of larger diameter than said conduit and surrounding the upper end thereof in radially spaced relationship thereto, the upper end of said tubular wall extending beyond the upper end of said conduit to provide a wind shield or guard, whereby when the auger is operated to discharge grain from the upper end of said conduit, it will fall through an annular space between said tubular wall and conduit, out of contact with wind blowing past said conduit. The tubular wall preferably is axially adjustable relative to the upper end of said conduit in order to accommodate different discharge rates of grain and/or different amounts or velocities of wind blowing past said conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1976
    Assignee: Sperry Rand Corporation
    Inventor: John B. Crego
  • Patent number: 3961430
    Abstract: An inflatable backup pad adapted to be mounted upon the ironer rolls of an industrial type ironer and having opposite ends detachably connectable, in combination with a roll cover adapted to surround the exterior surface of said pad and the ends of said cover also being detachably connected to define the outer operative surface of the ironer roll, said cover being distended to its full circumference when said pad is inflated and thereby cause said pad to frictionally engage both the ironer roll and said cover to prevent appreciable relative movement therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1976
    Inventor: Dan D. Mazzolla
  • Patent number: 3958766
    Abstract: A forage harvester having a rotatable cutter head co-acting with a shear bar is provided with means to rotate the cutter head stepwise for inspection of the knives of the cutter head without manually engaging the same. The means for advancing the cutter head also provide tension applied against the knives of the cutter head incident to the same being ground by a rotatable grinding wheel to re-bevel the surfaces of the knives adjacent the cutting edges thereof for purposes of producing effective operating engagement of said grinding wheel with said knives during such re-bevelling of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1976
    Assignee: Sperry-New Holland Sperry Rand Corporation
    Inventor: Joe E. Shriver
  • Patent number: 3957287
    Abstract: A book cover formed from synthetic resin and comprising a unitary rectangular sheet having an intermediate back panel integrally connected to cover panels, the intermediate back panel being more flexible than the cover panel and adapted to extend across and be adhesively connected to the spine of a book to form a complete book. Headbands of limited thickness are provided at opposite ends of said intermediate back panel to position the spine of a book therebetween and said cover also being provided with thin flexible hinge portions that connect the back panel to the inner edges of each of the cover panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1972
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1976
    Assignee: The Maple Press Company
    Inventors: Lewis William Hall, Joseph E. Wisotzkey
  • Patent number: 3957058
    Abstract: An axial flow combine is provided with substantially horizontal rotor units which co-act with concaves that are complementary to the lower portions of said rotor units and are parallel thereto. The front end of the concaves normally are supported by bracket members which are not readily disconnectable from the front end of said concaves. The present invention includes brackets which are readily disconnectable from the front end of said concaves and a support therefor, whereby the concaves may be readily removed from the forward end of the threshing and separating chamber under circumstances where replacement or interchange of the concaves are desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1976
    Assignee: Sperry-New Holland
    Inventor: John J. Komancheck
  • Patent number: 3955786
    Abstract: A miniature magnetic base flagstaff for vehicle bodies comprised of a geometrically configured base plate member to which is affixed an upwardly extending flexible flagstaff appropriate for attachment thereto of a miniature flag of suitable type, and to the underside of the base plate member there is affixed a plurality of geometrically arranged elastomeric magnet members containing a dispersion therein of permanently magnetized ferrous particles which are secured to the underside of the base plate member. Said flagstaff assembly is particularly suitable for use in ceremonial vehicular convoys, such as funeral processions, wherein the vehicles comprising the convoy traditionally fly a miniature flag attached thereto which identifies each respective vehicle as being a unit of the convoy procession and the purpose therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1976
    Inventor: James J. Duddy
  • Patent number: 3950907
    Abstract: A radius member adapted to be connected to the corners of a swimming pool at the intersections of adjacent sidewalls, and having a flexible radius strip extending in a concave arc in said corners, the opposite edges of the radius strip engaging said sidewalls substantially tangentially so that a thin waterproof lining for the swimming pool may be disposed against said sidewalls and the arcuate inner surface provided by the radius strip and thereby minimize the possibility of damage to said lining at the corners of the pool. Several embodiments of means to connect the radius strip to the corners of the pool are included herein, one of these being of a relatively permanent nature and another being readily detachable from the pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1972
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1976
    Assignee: Fox Pools, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald E. Dahowski
  • Patent number: 3950867
    Abstract: An ironing roll reflector, pad, and cover means adapted to be mounted upon vacuum cylinders of industrial type ironing machines and having, as respective components in the preferred embodiment thereof; a sheet of heat reflective material provided with a plurality of perforations therein and having one end affixed to the cylinder and circumferentially wrapped around the cylinder so that the plurality of perforations therein communicate with the openings provided in the cylinder: a second component comprised of a resilient porous pad member directly overlying said heat reflective sheet and having one end thereof affixed to said cylinder coincident with affixed end of said reflective sheet circumferentially wrapped around said heat reflective perforated sheet member to form a single thickness of resilient padding upon the cylinder; and a porous fabric cover member having one end thereof affixed to the free terminal end of said resilient porous pad member and also circumferentially wrapped about the pad member to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1976
    Inventor: Dan D. Mazzolla
  • Patent number: 3946461
    Abstract: A machine designed to automatically section poultry breast members by means of reciprocally operated rotating circular knife blades which respectively engage and selectively section a poultry breast member indexed to and clampably held in cutting position at the respectively selective knife stations in one of three ways; a two-way cut comprised of a single longitudinal severing of a poultry breast member into two halves, or a three-way cut comprised of an initial keel cut of the breast member at one knife station followed by a longitudinal severing into halves of the remainder of the poultry breast member at another knife station, or a four-way cut comprised of an initial transverse severing of the poultry breast member followed by a longitudinal cut at yet another knife station of the two laterally severed breast member sections into halves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1976
    Assignee: Victor F. Weaver, Inc.
    Inventor: Eugene G. Martin
  • Patent number: 3943939
    Abstract: In a combine having a header to cut crop material and an elevator to deliver the cut crop material to auger means in an undershot manner for feeding the same to threshing rotor of an axial flow combine, there is provided an adjustable transition or feed plate between the upper end of the elevator and the forward end of the rotor means to adapt the combine to accommodate crops of different types of texture, bulk, character and moisture content and prevent back-feeding of the crop material down the elevator. The adjustment is readily made manually and externally of the combine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1976
    Assignee: Sperry Rand Corporation
    Inventor: Edward W. Rowland-Hill
  • Patent number: 3940085
    Abstract: A collapsible reel comprising a pair of similar flanges connected by a tubular hub composed of at least a pair of similar segments, similar bosses being affixed to a planar surface of each of the flanges, said bosses having arcuate grooves in the peripheral surfaces thereof and the opposite ends of the concave surfaces of the hub segments having arcuate ribs thereon complementary in shape and size to the grooves in said bosses for reception into said grooves, thereby interlocking the flanges to the hub. Bolt means extending through portions of the hub segments and into other portions engage nuts in said other portions to secure the hub segments in operative relationship with each other and interlock to said flanges. The abutting edges of the hub segments also have interfitting lugs and recesses to align the same with each other and insure a cylindrical outer surface on said hub to receive material to be wound thereupon between said flanges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1976
    Inventor: Kenneth E. Campbell
  • Patent number: 3937356
    Abstract: A rectangular shaped food products storage and transfer vessel having an integral sanitary top rail structure triangular in cross-section and formed by being bent downward from the upper edges of the respective side-wall panels of the vessel, the lowermost depending edges of the rail members thus formed being joined to the upper external sidewalls of the vessel by means of a continuous exposed weld and the sidewall rail structure terminal positions at the respective upper external corners of the vessel being closed by separately formed corner members weldably affixed thereto to form a continuous closed rail structure about the upper open periphery of the vessel and thereby provide an easily cleanable reinforced protective top edge member for the vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1976
    Inventors: Jacob Schmidt, Sr., Jacob Schmidt, Jr.