Patents Represented by Attorney Connolly Bove Lodge and Hutz

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  • Lightweight golf club with elastomeric head
    Patent number: 6117022
    Abstract: A golf club having an elastomer head which is easily constructed of relatively inexpensive components making the club particularly suitable as an introductory golf club for teaching the game of golf to youths, is described. The club comprises a metal insert configured to a desired shape, an elastomeric material molded around the metal insert, and a pad at the back of the striking head. A shaft is attached to the metal insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: STX LLC
    Inventors: William C. Crawford, Jackie L. Davis
  • Dartboard
    Patent number: 6116607
    Abstract: A dartboard comprises a grid frame having sectors being provided with at least a receding guide opening at two lateral opposite sides thereof respectively; gliding plates having at least a projecting slide block extending out of two opposite lateral sides thereof respectively to slidably accommodate to said receding guide opening; soft target plates being inserted into, filled with, and fixed in the receiving recess; and a front metal grid having a rear end assembling with the front end of said grid frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Inventor: Kun Lin Cho
  • Process for the distillation of alcohols
    Patent number: 6117277
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the purification of C.sub.3 -C.sub.10 -alcohols by distillation, by distilling the alcohols at 150 to 200.degree. C. in the presence of 10 to 1000 ppm of alkali metal hydroxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Celanese Chemicals Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Zgorzelski, Peter Lappe, Kurt Schalapski, Wilhelm Gick
  • Method of forming a gift wrap article
    Patent number: 6115999
    Abstract: A gift wrap article is formed by providing wrapping material which is padded and waterproof. The inner surface of the wrapping material has a cohesive coating, while the outer surface has a layer of gift wrap decorative design. The article is placed on a portion of the inner surface of the wrapping material and the wrapping material is applied over the article so that the article is between and completely surrounded by two layers of the wrapping material. The layers of the wrapping material are squeezed together to cohesively secure the inner surfaces of the two layers together and form a closed package with the article within the package and with the gift wrap outer layer visually exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: The Crowell Corporation
    Inventor: Robert W. Adelman
  • Heat-stable iron oxide yellow pigments
    Patent number: 6117228
    Abstract: Pure-coloured iron oxide yellow pigments having a silking index of less than 5 and a heat resistance of greater than 220.degree. C. in polyethylene for at least 5 minutes are obtained by oxidation of metallic iron with nitrobenzene in an acid medium in the presence of compounds of elements chosen from main groups 3 and 4 of the periodic table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Bayer AG
    Inventors: Wilfried Burow, Wolfgang Oehlert
  • Photographic film package with lens
    Patent number: 6118942
    Abstract: A photographic film packaging unit (1) which is provided with a lens (2) and which comprises at least one device for making an exposure, and which comprises a light-tight film housing on which the taking lens (2) is mounted, a film cartridge (10) which is enclosed in the light-tight film housing and which contains an empty spool (13), and a rolled up film (12), one end of which is attached to the spool core of the empty spool (13), wherein the film packaging unit (1) contains a motive spring (14) which is tensioned before being put into operation and which acts on the empty film cartridge (10) so that after each exposure the motive spring is released to such an extent that the film (12) is wound into the film cartridge by one frame and the shutter is made ready for release again, is distinguished by its particular convenience of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Naamloze Vennootschap
    Inventors: Hermann Luhrig, John Sykes
  • Versatile ultrahone sharpener
    Patent number: 6113476
    Abstract: A versatile ultrahoned sharpener includes a stop assembly which contains an inner hardened structure such as being made from metal or ceramic to serve as a positive limiting stop if the knife being sharpened cuts excessively into the plastic stop assembly of the sharpener. The sharpener also includes a manually actuated abrasive surfaced unit for cleaning or shaping the surface of at least one of the sharpening wheels in the sharpener. The sharpener further includes various bearing structures for effectively mounting the motor driven shaft which rotates the abrasive coated disks of the sharpener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: EdgeCraft Corp.
    Inventors: Daniel D Friel, Sr., Daniel D Friel, Jr., Robert P. Bigliano
  • Copolymers based on vinyl units and their use in electroluminescent devices
    Patent number: 6114463
    Abstract: The present invention relates to (co)polymers which contain at least one repeating structural chain unit of the general formula (1) and/or (2) and optionally repeating units of the general formula (3) ##STR1## in which L.sup.1 and L.sup.2, independently of each other, represent a photoluminescent grouping, a process for their preparation, their use in electroluminescent devices and the electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Bayer AG
    Inventors: Yun Chen, Burkhard Kohler, Rolf Wehrmann, Andreas Elschner, Ralf Dujardin
  • Process for the preparation of a polymerization and copolymerization of ethylene to give ultrahigh molecular-weight ethylene polymers
    Patent number: 6114271
    Abstract: Process for the preparation of a catalyst component for the polymerization and copolymerization of ethylene to give ultrahigh-molecular-weight ethylene polymers. Reaction of a Grignard compound with a halogenating agent, a titanium compound, a perhalogen compound and an electron-donor compound and subsequent comminution of the resultant solid to a mean particle size of from 0.5 to 5 .mu.m gives a catalyst component which, together with an organoaluminum compound, results, in the polymerization and copolymerization of ethylene, in ultrahigh-molecular-weight ethylene polymers having a mean particle diameter of from 50 to 200 .mu.m and a viscosity index of greater than 2,000 cm.sup.3 /g. The mean particle diameter can be adjusted by means of the catalyst particle diameter and by means of the catalyst productivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Ticona GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Bilda, Ludwig Boehm
  • Water-soluble monoazo compounds, preparation thereof and use thereof as dyes
    Patent number: 6114511
    Abstract: Fiber-reactive, water-soluble monoazo compounds conforming to the hereinbelow indicated and defined general formula (1) are capable of dyeing hydroxyl- and/or carboxamido-containing material, especially fiber material, such as cellulose fibers, for example cotton, or regenerated cellulose fibers and also wool and synthetic polyamide fibers in red shades and in high color strength and good fastnesses. ##STR1## where M is hydrogen, an alkali metal or some other colorless salt-forming metal, R is hydrogen or optionally sulfo-, methoxy-, ethoxy-, hydroxyl-, sulfato-, phosphate-, acetyloxy- or propionyloxy-substituted alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R.sup.1 is hydrogen, carboxyl, optionally substituted alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms or alkoxy of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, m is zero or 1, n is zero, 1 or 2 and X is a fiber-reactive radical from the halopyrimidine, dichloroquinoxazoline or fluorotriazinylamino series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Dystar Textilfarben GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Jorg Dannheim
  • Semiconductor device structures incorporating "buried" mirrors and/or "buried" metal electrodes and a process for their fabrication
    Patent number: 6111276
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device structure and crystal growth process for making the same, whereby single-crystal semiconductor layers are formed over metal or composite layers. The metal layers function as buried reflectors to enhance the performance of LEDs, solar cells, and photodiodes. The structure may also have application to laser diodes. The structures are made by a modification of a well-established metallic solution growth process. The lateral overgrowth process can be enhanced by imposing an electric current at the growth interface (termed liquid-phase electro-epitaxy). However, the use of an electric current is not crucial. The epitaxial lateral overgrowth technique was also applied to silicon growth on metal-masked silicon substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Astro Power, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael G. Mauk
  • Method and apparatus for thermocapillary drying
    Patent number: 6108932
    Abstract: A method for thermocapillary drying of substrates includes the step of elevating a submerged substrate away from a rinsing liquid. Such movement of the substrate forms a meniscus on opposite sides of the substrate. The curved raised portion of the meniscus at each side of the substrate is gently heated in such a way as to induce thermocapillary flows, which cause the rinsing fluid to flow away from the substrate so that the withdrawing substrate may be pulled out dry and clean. Heating may be accomplished by directing a warm gas onto the meniscus or by heating the meniscus with rays from a radiation/light source. Apparatus is also provided for performing the various method steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Steag MicroTech GmbH
    Inventor: An-Ti Chai, deceased
  • Low-shrinkage hybrid yarns production thereof and use thereof
    Patent number: 6109016
    Abstract: The low-shrinkage hybrid yarns comprise reinforcing filaments and matrix filaments composed of thermoplastic polymers having a lower melting point than the melting or decomposition point of the reinforcing filaments. The yarns are characterized by a 160.degree. C. hot air shrinkage of not more than 2% and a 200.degree. C. hot air shrinkage of not more than 5%. A process for producing these hybrid yarns includes the steps of feeding yarn strands moving at different speeds into an entangling jet, heating a matrix feed yarn during the feeding thereof into the entangling jet, entangling the feed yarn strands, and taking off the strands with or without shrinkage and additional heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Hoechst Trevira GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Josef Geirhos
  • Process for treating foods using saccharide esters and superatmospheric hydrostatic pressure
    Patent number: 6110516
    Abstract: In the disclosed treatment of foods or foodstuffs (particularly liquid and semi-liquid or semi-solid foods and solid foods such as meats and stews), the food or foodstuff is subjected to very high hydrostatic pressures in the presence of a saccharide ester (e.g. sucrose mono-, di-, and/or tri-C.sub.8 -C.sub.24 -fatty acid esters) at temperatures above 35.degree. C. but preferably below 60.degree. C. for a relatively short period of time (less than 60 minutes). This treatment is effective in essentially eliminating sporeforming organisms, whether in the form of spores or in the vegetative state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignees: University of Delaware, The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Dallas G. Hoover, Cynthia M. Stewart, Charles Patrick Dunne, Anthony Sikes
  • Columnar-grained polycrystalline solar cell substrate and improved method of manufacture
    Patent number: 6111191
    Abstract: The invention relates to improved techniques for manufacturing columnar-grained polycrystalline sheets which have particular utility as substrates or wafers for solar cells. The sheet is made from silicon on a setter material which supports the silicon material. The setter material and silicon are subjected to a thermal profile all of which promote columnar growth. The thermal profile sequentially creates a melt region where a thin-film capping layer grows at the top of the silicon, a nucleation region where preferential nucleation occurs at the capping-layer/molten-silicon interface, and then a growth region where both liquid and a growing polycrystalline sheet layer coexist. An annealing region is created where the temperature of the grown polycrystalline silicon sheet layer is controllably reduced to effect stress relief.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: AstroPower, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert B. Hall, Allen M. Barnett, Sandra R. Collins, Joseph C. Checchi, David H. Ford, Christopher L. Kendall, James A Rand, Chad B. Moore
  • Mop head
    Patent number: D429860
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Foamex LP
    Inventor: Denys Denney
  • Carpet cushion
    Patent number: D429939
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Foamex LP
    Inventor: Denys Denney
  • Pattern for absorbent sheet material
    Patent number: D430406
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Irving Tissue, Inc.
    Inventor: Carl W. Ingalls
  • Pattern for absorbent sheet material
    Patent number: D430407
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Irving Tissue Inc.
    Inventor: Carl W. Ingalls
  • Mop head
    Patent number: D430716
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Foamex L.P.
    Inventor: Denys Denney