Patents Represented by Attorney Daniel Jay Tick

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  • Back up alarm system
    Patent number: 4141009
    Abstract: Electrically conductive leads electrically connect a relay, a source of electrical energy and a radio transmitter for transmitting radio signals in a back up circuit with a burglar alarm. The relay is electrically connected to the electric circuit of a burglar alarm system and is maintained unenergized by said system so that the relay is normally open. When an electrical conductor of the burglar alarm circuit is energized, the relay is energized and closes the back up circuit to actuate the transmitter to transmit radio signals indicating that an electrical conductor of the burglar alarm circuit has been energized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1979
    Inventor: Eugene W. Fowler
  • Vehicular desk unit
    Patent number: 4139217
    Abstract: A board-like desk member has a planar writing surface and a spaced opposite parallel planar back surface. A fastening device affixed to the back surface of the desk member removably affixes the desk member to the steering wheel of the vehicle in juxtaposition with the steering wheel and parallel to such wheel whereby a person seated behind the wheel may comfortably use the desk member as a desk. A ledge member extends across the desk member and is slidably mounted thereon for movement from top to bottom thereof. A securing device releasably secures the ledge member to a desired position on the writing surface of the desk member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1979
    Inventor: Gerald A. Jamison
  • Electrically heated kitchen utensil
    Patent number: 4139760
    Abstract: An electrically heated kitchen utensil has a thermally insulated handle provided with an internal electric heating unit adapted to releasably receive and heat a kitchen device, such as a knife, spoon, scoop, dipper or spatula. The heating unit comprises a pair of spaced parallel electric heating elements defining an channel which receives the shank of the kitchen device. The kitchen device is releasably secured in the channel by interengaged teeth on the shank and a spring biased pivoted member forming the bottom of the channel. The kitchen device is released by a release push button acting on the pivoted member to disengage the teeth. A rheostat is provided to regulate the heat output of the heating elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1979
    Inventor: Minnie V. Banks
  • Gas discharge display apparatus
    Patent number: 4138626
    Abstract: A first glass substrate supports a plurality of electrodes arranged in concentric circles. A second glass substrate supports a plurality of shift electrodes arranged radially. The substrates are positioned face to face with a specified space between them filled with an ionizable gas. The radially arranged shift electrodes are periodically connected to common buses each connected to a corresponding one of a plurality of shift driver circuits equal in number to the buses. At least one of the shift electrodes is selectively connected to a write driver circuit and to one of the shift driver circuits. When the one of the shift electrodes is energized by a signal from the write driver circuit, discharge spots are generated at the intersection of the one of the shift electrodes and the concentrically arranged electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1979
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Unotoro, Yoichi Ueda, Yasunari Shirouchi, Hideo Yamashita, Sei Sato, Kenji Murase
  • Outboard motor carrier
    Patent number: 4136806
    Abstract: A vertically extending support post is affixed to a support member extending from the chassis of an automotive vehicle beyond the rear of the body. A flattened elongated ring is affixed to a square U-shaped bracket which is affixed to the support post in an area intermediate its top and bottom. The ring extends horizontally. A board-like motor support member is affixed to the bracket. The motor support member supports an outboard motor mounted thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1979
    Inventor: Adam Wisz
  • Wood-burning stove
    Patent number: 4136665
    Abstract: An airtight combustion chamber in a house has a draft hole formed through a first end and a draft door movably mounted thereon to selectively open the draft hole to a desired extent, controlled by a thermostat. The wall of the second spaced opposite end of the combustion chamber has a steel stove door movably mounted thereon. The second end coincides with a doorway formed through a chimney wall which is common with the house. Wood is supplied to the stove through the stove door for combustion. The products of combustion are removed from the stove via the stove door. The stove door has a smoke pipe extending therethrough into the chimney and a damper on the end of the pipe. Heat from the fire in the airtight chamber escapes into the house through decorative screens above and in front of the stove, simultaneously warming rock or brick walls at the sides of the stove and a rock or brick wall of the house.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1979
    Inventor: Peter U. Steffen
  • Van roof ventilator
    Patent number: 4136605
    Abstract: An opening is formed through the roof of a van. A sealed airtight air chamber is affixed to the roof inside the van and completely covers an area surrounding the opening. A watertight container is mounted in the air chamber beneath the opening in the roof for collecting rain falling through the opening. Air exhaust hosing extends from the air chamber to the roof and floor inside the van.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1979
    Inventor: Curtis D. Johnson
  • Pull tab opener
    Patent number: 4133228
    Abstract: An elongated shaft-like member has spaced opposite first and second ends with a groove formed in the area of the first end thereof extending transversely to the member. The groove accommodates the ring-like part of the pull tab of a can. A resilient strip of material has spaced opposite first and second ends and is affixed at its first end to the shaft-like member at a point between the groove and the second end member. The strip extends parallel to the member, over the groove, and abuts at its second end the member at a point between the groove and the first end of the member for retaining the tab in the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1979
    Inventor: Clarence E. DePooter
  • Camera accessory
    Patent number: 4133607
    Abstract: A periscope unit is removably affixed to a camera with the eye piece of the camera in alignment with the top light opening of the periscope whereby a photographer looking into an eye piece at the bottom of the periscope sees through the eye piece of the camera positioned above the photographer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1979
    Inventor: Etsuo Mansho
  • Bag filling kit
    Patent number: 4133356
    Abstract: A bag filling kit has a stand with spaced opposite first and second open ends. The stand tapers down to a small neck. A funnel is insertable in the neck of the stand. A bag supporting shelf is removably insertable in the stand via slots formed through opposite ones of the side walls thereof. A flexible collar-like clasp is positionable around the neck of the stand for releasably clasping the neck of a flexible bag to the outside of the open neck of the stand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1979
    Inventor: Julia E. Dillingham
  • Roll top garage
    Patent number: 4133148
    Abstract: An enclosure of sheet material has dimensions sufficient to accommodate an automotive vehicle and a cross-section of square U-shape configuration with spaced opposite first and second open ends. Guide devices are provided at the first and second ends. First and second roll units are slidably mounted in the first and second guide devices, respectively, for selectively opening and closing the openings of the ends of the enclosure independently from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1979
    Inventor: Carrol J. Swenumson
  • Bingo card holding and marking device
    Patent number: 4133536
    Abstract: A transparent plastic sheet having a plurality of groups of circular holes formed therethrough and an adhesive coating is releasably mounted on a plurality of bingo cards releasably secured to an adhesive coating on a backing plate to permit working of the numbers of each of the bingo cards so that a bingo player may play a plurality of bingo cards simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1979
    Inventor: Charles Cole
  • Animal carcass transporting device
    Patent number: 4132427
    Abstract: A frame sled has straps affixed to members thereof for releasably securing an animal carcass to the sled. Pulling straps affixed to the sled at the front thereof facilitate pulling of the sled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1979
    Inventor: James R. McGee
  • Domestic cleaning device
    Patent number: 4131966
    Abstract: A plurality of disc-type cleaning and polishing members are removably affixable to the shaft of an electric motor outside a housing for rotation by the motor. The cleaning and polishing members include a steel wool pad, a natural hair pad, a wire bristle member, a silver polisher, a sponge, a shoebrush, and the like. The housing has a fixed handle at one end thereof and a pistol grip handle pivotally mounted thereon intermediate the ends thereof for providing a grip for a second hand of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1979
    Inventor: Jacob S. Gross
  • Console gun rack
    Patent number: 4131202
    Abstract: A console has a receiver for a gun barrel and a groove in the front of a cover to hold the stock of a rifle, when the console is open. The console has an access door in the cover to use the console to store articles when not carrying guns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1978
    Inventor: Lyle K. Hansen
  • Sound absorbing device
    Patent number: 4130682
    Abstract: A plurality of sound absorbing units are provided in alternate compartments of a lattice-type structure. Each of the sound absorbing units comprises four concave strip segments each extending from the midpoint of a corresponding one of the strip segments of a corresponding one of the square open compartments of the structure to the midpoint of a corresponding other of the strip segments of the corresponding one of the compartments to form a concave-sided square in the one of the compartments rotated 90.degree. relative to the one of the compartments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1978
    Inventor: John W. Lauko
  • Sectioned breakable vehicular safety bumper
    Patent number: 4130312
    Abstract: A main metal bumper section is affixed to, and extends between, plates affixed to the front ends of the first and second spaced parallel structural members of the chassis of a motor vehicle. A first plastic bumper section is affixed to the plate of the first structural member and extends to one side of the main bumper section. A second plastic bumper section is affixed to the plate of the second structural member and extends to the opposite side of the main bumper section. The first, second and main bumper sections are aligned to provide a single bumper in appearance having a continuous front surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1978
    Inventor: Robert L. Cooper, Sr.
  • Dishwasher indicating device
    Patent number: 4129954
    Abstract: A sign member bearing alternate messages such as "DIRTY DISHES" and "CLEAN DISHES" is affixed to a support rod removably seated in the bore of a support member affixed to the rack of a dishwasher. The sign member indicates the status of the items in the dishwasher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1978
    Inventor: James M. Hulteen
  • Flag
    Patent number: D251116
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1979
    Inventor: Harold Chaskin
  • Fish lure
    Patent number: D251126
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1979
    Inventor: Kenneth C. Alderson