Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Carothers & Carothers
  • Lighter
    Patent number: 4749351
    Abstract: A hand-held smoker's lighter having a flame shield that defines a transverse opening in which a venturi effect increases the velocity of air flow to draw the lighter flame deep into a smoking pipe bowl for pipe lighting and a top opening through which the lighter flame projects for cigarette and cigar lighting, and further incorporating a novel inner body structure that is interfitted within a casing and includes novel flint retention and storage structure, and a novel spring bias structure which cooperates with the casing to provide enhanced positive closure of a hinged lid portion of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1988
    Assignee: FGM Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Frederick G. Mahoney
  • Pressure adjustment apparatus
    Patent number: 4747398
    Abstract: An adjustment apparatus for adjusting the pressure applied in the multiple cells of an inflatable medical garment with the pressure adjustment being achieved by a drive apparatus interconnecting adjustable pressure regulating devices, the drive apparatus and the respective pressure regulating devices including adjustment elements which permit adjustment of each pressure regulating device independently of others of the pressure regulating devices such that the drive apparatus may be utilized to adjust, in unison, multiple pressure regulating devices having selectively variable pressure differential relationship between any pair of the multiple pressure regulating devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1988
    Assignee: Wright Linear Pump, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward S. Wright
  • Endotracheal tube holder
    Patent number: 4744358
    Abstract: An endotracheal tube holder including an endotracheal tube platform portion having a clamp for clamping an endotracheal tube into a tube channel wherein the tube platform portion is supported with respect to the patient's head by the face plate frame secured to the face of a patient by a harness worn on the head of the patient. The endotracheal tube holder is secured with respect to the patient's face with portions thereof bearing on the upper and lower jaw portions of the patient's face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1988
    Inventor: Gerald E. McGinnis
  • Adjustable handle on a hand implement
    Patent number: 4727618
    Abstract: A hand implement having an adjustable handle which is selectively movable by operation of improved retention means therefor to any of a variety of use positions, each of which corresponds to a handle position perpendicular to one of a plurality of abutment faces located in non-parallel planes, and a reversable tool head in such a hand implement to selectively provide, for each handle position, either right hand or left hand tool orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1988
    Inventor: Frederick G. Mahoney
  • Air filtering apparatus
    Patent number: 4726365
    Abstract: An aircraft emergency apparatus including a disposable air filtration mask for short term breathing in normally disabling breathing conditions, and the combination of such an air filtration mask with other aircraft emergency apparatus to enhance accessability and use thereof by aircraft occupants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1988
    Inventor: Richard Jablonski
  • Electric automotive fuel heating system
    Patent number: 4723065
    Abstract: A fuel preheating system for an internal combustion engine wherein a preheater includes a body member having defined therein a pair of serially connected, generally parallel bores defining a flow passages through which a flow of fuel may be passed for heating thereof by elongated electric heaters extending within the passages and including a heating element encompassed by helical coils of a heat exchange structure. At least some of the coils of the heat exchange structure define plural tortuous flow paths extending generally axially of the heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1988
    Assignees: Howard E. Meyer, Donald D. Munroe
    Inventor: Howard E. Meyer
  • Thrust mechanism for mill roll bearing assembly
    Patent number: 4714360
    Abstract: A bearing thrust assembly for the support bearings of a roll in a rolling mill including novel longitudinal slack take-up and thrust application structure, a novel locking mechanism for positive retention of the desired thrust adjustment, and a novel assembly of thrust elements that permits installation and removal of the thrust assembly endwise over the free end of the roll neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1987
    Inventor: Andrew Petros
  • Method and apparatus for recovering liquids from a well bore
    Patent number: 4700783
    Abstract: A well bore is provided with novel and improved apparatus for practice of an improved method for recovery of liquids from the well wherein a quantity of liquid is elevated by repeated discrete steps upwardly through the well bore under the impetus of gas pressure with the size of the elevation steps being determined by the magnitude of gas pressure available in the well and wherein each level or step in the well is substantially continuously exposed to ambient atmospheric pressure whereby no substantial resistance to the stepwise upward flow of liquid is encountered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1987
    Inventor: Paul C. Baron
  • Concealed mounted push bars and grills
    Patent number: 4692962
    Abstract: A push bar assembly or the like having a plurality of bars retained by extruded mounting members which receive the ends of the bars whereby the mounting members may be secured in fixed, spaced relationship to a structure to captively retain the bars, and further having cover or cap elements which are retained with respect to the bars and the mounting members to conceal both the ends of the captively retained bars and the securing elements by which the mounting members are secured in fixed, spaced relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1987
    Inventor: Sam Avny
  • Container system for microwave cooking
    Patent number: 4689458
    Abstract: An improved metallic food container system especially adapted for cooking dough or pastry based foodstuffs in a microwave oven and including improved configurations of microwave opaque and microwave transparent container portions as well as an improved dome or cover structure therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1987
    Assignee: Aluminum Co. of America
    Inventors: Thomas L. Levendusky, Arthur Benson
  • Portable heater for wearing apparel
    Patent number: 4685442
    Abstract: A portable heater for generating and circulating heat in wearing apparel and consisting of a closed container for containing a liquid heat transfer medium therein and a second container which is received in the closed container and is adapted to receive a heat evolving means therein such as a combustible fuel stick of the type utilized in conventional hand warmers, the heat evolving means being received through an opening to the exterior of the improved heater assembly. A portion of the exterior walls of the second container are exposed in heat exchange relationship to the interior of the closed container for efficient heat transfer through the walls of the second container to a liquid heat transfer medium contained within the closed container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1987
    Inventor: Leonard Cieslak
  • Airbrush guidance system
    Patent number: 4683836
    Abstract: A novel and improved airbrush support and guidance apparatus which permits an airbrush to be held at a uniform standoff distance and at a preselected orientation with respect to a workpiece surface while traversing the workpiece surface in a preselected path of travel including freehand or generally curvilinear paths of travel, as well as, linear, and circular arc paths of travel, while maintaining a uniform standoff and orientation respect to the workpiece surface to provide for increased precision in the rendering of airbrush artwork.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1987
    Inventor: Peter West
  • Hand implement support apparatus
    Patent number: 4684559
    Abstract: An elongated wrap-around flexible support apparatus for supporting the handle of a hand implement with respect to the wrist and hand of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1987
    Inventor: Andrew J. Wasko
  • Oxygen blast furnace for direct steel making
    Patent number: 4670049
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for direct steel making in a blast furnace wherein a continuous flow of process ingredients including iron ore is directed in a descending tortuous path through reduction and combustion zones which are maintained in the shaft of a blast furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1987
    Inventor: John J. Kelmar
  • Tilt switch
    Patent number: 4661663
    Abstract: A novel suspended tilt switch method and apparatus for use in transporting bulk material and including a switch assembly having a plurality of parallel connected, position sensitive switch elements mounted in a predetermined configuration to provide normally open operation with actuation of the tilt switch by closing of the contacts of at least one switch element upon tilting of the switch structure in any direction from vertical to a predetermined actuation angle, and further a novel unitary tilt switch hanger which encases the electrical conductors extending from the switch to protect the conductors continuously from the switch to the connected controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1987
    Inventor: Francis P. Weinheimer
  • Billet lubrication apparatus
    Patent number: 4631945
    Abstract: A billet lubrication apparatus which lubricates an end of a metal billet prior to insertion of the billet into an extrusion press by providing for timed, relative rotary coaxial contact between the billet and a solid lubrication medium during transfer of the billet into the extrusion press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1986
    Assignee: TRACO
    Inventors: James E. Hulings, Robert P. Randall, Robert H. Maynard, James Weiss
  • Multi-line telephone system
    Patent number: 4631367
    Abstract: A multi-line, multi-instrument telephone system having no key service unit and wherein decentralized or local indicator lamp and paging circuit management functions are provided which are operative independently in each station set to operate and control the indicator lamps and paging circuits through selective local generation and alteration of control signals and comparison of the control signals with locally generated reference voltage signals to provide basis for decisions on required visual and audible indicator status. The system is connected in loop fashion with each instrument being connected across a common, multiconductor buss wherein a single conductor supports lamp supervision signaling for the multiple lines and another single conductor supports intercom status signaling, intercom audio, paging audio, and the ring signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: Lantel International Corp.
    Inventors: Frank Coviello, Michael Antico
  • Artificial potted tree
    Patent number: D288073
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1987
    Inventor: John S. Jakubek
  • Handset telephone and base combination
    Patent number: D291883
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1987
    Assignee: Outdoor Horizons, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Snyder
  • Slant board or similar article
    Patent number: D293007
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1987
    Inventor: Millie Dittig