Patents Represented by Attorney David P. Kelley
  • Patent number: 6981888
    Abstract: A lockable electric power cord adapter has a unitary housing containing male plug blade receiving member therein wherein each blade receiving member has a pivotable locking member mounted thereon. The blade receiving member has a hole therein for allowing a barbed end of the locking member to pass therethrough and engage a hole in the male plug blade in the locking position. An actuator has actuating lugs thereon which pivot the locking members to an unlocked position when the actuating member is pushed against a biasing spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Piranha Plugs, LLC
    Inventors: Michael O'Keefe, Michael Mueller, John Witzigreuter
  • Patent number: 6875040
    Abstract: A lockable electric power cord adapter has a unitary housing containing male plug blade receiving member therein wherein each blade receiving member has a pivotable locking member mounted thereon. The blade receiving member has a hole therein for allowing a barbed end of the locking member to pass therethrough and engage a hole in the male plug blade in the locking position. An actuator has actuating lugs thereon which pivot the locking members to an unlocked position when the actuating member is pushed against a biasing spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Pirana Plugs
    Inventors: Michael O'Keefe, Michael Mueller, John Witzigreuter
  • Patent number: 6848356
    Abstract: An improved ice cream blending apparatus has a hopper support system that incorporates a hopper guidance mechanical linkage that supports the linear motion of the hopper and translates non-linear circular motion of the operating handle into the linear motion of the hopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Inventor: Peter Michael Mueller
  • Patent number: 6843616
    Abstract: An erosion control device is a panel formed of spaced horizontal and spaced vertical rods joined together to create a frame upon which is mounted a sheet of silt fencing material. A plurality of such panels may be rotatably joined together to form different configurations of erosion control fencing. The panels are reusable and the silt fencing material may be replaced thereon. The silt fencing material may be used to form a pocket for sand, thus forming a sandbag at the base of the panel for controlling water flow. The panel may have affixed thereto at the base a narrow metallic strip for cutting into the ground as the panel is forced downward thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Inventor: Donald Eugene Sychra
  • Patent number: 5806933
    Abstract: A head rest and restraint assembly has, as its principal component, a padded, shaped arm which has one end thereof contained in a mounting member. The contained end has a splined portion thereon which is adapted to mate with an interior splined portion of the mounting member, which comprises a hollow cylinder. Adjustment of the angular arm is accomplished by pushing the end of the arm into the cylinder against the force of a coil sprint until the splines dis-engage, allowing rotation of the arm, when the arm is released, the spring forces the splines into re-engagement, thereby fixing the angular orientation of the arm. Pairs of arms mounted in brackets, for example, can be used with existing vehicular headrests, or a replacement or new head rest may be formed with bores to accept and hold the mounting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Inventors: Leslie Tsui, Christopher A. Tsui
  • Patent number: 5098644
    Abstract: An apparatus for the consolidation of spent nuclear fuel rods within a storage pool uses a robot in conjunction with long reach tools to remove spent fuel rods from a rod assembly and transfer them to a fuel rod consolidation canister. A movable curtain within the canister aligns and locates the rods for most efficient use of space. A tool guide plate enables the long reach rod grasping tool to locate each rod in the fuel cell accurately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: Nuclear Assurance Corporation
    Inventor: John D. McDaniels
  • Patent number: 5000642
    Abstract: A multistory parking garage has an elevator constrained to move vertically within a central core to reach a plurality of vertically stacked parking cells. A vehicle transport carriage mounted on the elevator rolls the vehicle from the elevator into an empty parking cell and returns to the elevator or rolls a vehicle from the parking cell onto the elevator. The carriage includes resilient members for engaging and disengaging the underside of the vehicle without damage thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: Matex Gear and Pump Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Nobuhito Matoba
  • Patent number: 4903394
    Abstract: A method of making a cornice board assembly in which the assembly has a face board, a dust board, and a pair of side boards made of expanded plastic foam material. The boards are joined together by means of a water based cement, with their edges in alignment, and the assembly is mounted on support brackets by means of thumbtacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1990
    Inventor: Beverly R. Roberts
  • Patent number: 4883637
    Abstract: A closure arrangement for spent nuclear fuel shipping container has a lid member with a peripheral groove in its outer edge, the lid member being adapted to rests upon a shoulder within a bore at the mouth of the cask. The lid is forced into sealing engagement with the shoulder by a plurality of radially disposed wedges extending from the inner wall of the cask into the peripheral groove. The wedges are moved by bolts extending through the wall of the cask and cam the lid down against the shoulder as they are forced into the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1989
    Assignee: Nuclear Assurance Corporation
    Inventor: John D. McDaniels, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4827139
    Abstract: A spent nuclear fuel shipping basket has a plurality of tubes of corrosion resistant material, each tube being adapted to contain a spent nuclear fuel rod assembly. The tubes are arranged in a geometric pattern within a circular cask, and are totally independent of each other, with neutron poisoning material between adjacent tubes. Filler blocks of heat absorbing material which may also contain neutron poisoning material are inserted into the empty spaces between the tubes and the wall of the cask, and are independent of both tubes and wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: Nuclear Assurance Corporation
    Inventors: Alan H. Wells, Thomas C. Thompson
  • Patent number: 4813944
    Abstract: A disposable multi-purpose absorbent pad has a top layer of adsorbent material, a second layer of absorbent material, and a third layer of liquid impermeable material, the layers being joined at the edges of the pad forming a peripheral seal. The underside of the third layer is coated with a foam material covering the area within the peripheral seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1989
    Assignee: Glen Kyle Haney
    Inventors: Glen K. Haney, Victor Kramer
  • Patent number: 4813025
    Abstract: A system for monitoring the safety and location of individuals includes a portable transceiver worn by each individual and a base control unit for sending interrogation signals to the individual units. The interrogation signals are transmitted through both air and water, and the individual units transmit a response through the medium through which the interrogation signal was received. The base unit measures both the elapsed time from transmission to reception and the incoming phase angles of the response signal, and converts these measurements to indications of distance and angle between the base unit and the individual transceivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Assignee: David B. Rowland
    Inventors: David B. Rowland, William W. Smith, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4792399
    Abstract: A liquid collecting and retaining device consists of a tubular, triangularly shaped casing of a material substantially non-porous to granular solid matter and which is permeable to liquids, which is partially filled with a material that collects and retains liquids passing through the casing, and which is incapable of itself passing through the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1988
    Assignee: Glen Kyle Haney
    Inventors: Glen K. Haney, Victor Kramer
  • Patent number: 4664580
    Abstract: A multistory parking garage has a central core defined by four vertical columns, and a plurality of pairs of columns, each pair defining a plane parallel to the plane defined by pairs of vertical columns, defined bays containing vertically spaced parking cells, each cell adapted to hold two vehicles. An elevator is contrained to move only vertically within the central core, is enterable from any of four directions, and is capable of carrying two vehicles at a time, preferably in a nose to tail orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1987
    Assignee: Matex Gear and Pump
    Inventor: Nobuhito Matoba
  • Patent number: 4446689
    Abstract: A multi-unit telecommunication cable is disclosed in which the twisted wire pairs of the unit are presented adjacent the conductive cable sheath at irregularly spaced locations. The cable may be made by modulating the amplitude and/or frequency of the oscillations of the faceplate employed in twisting the wire pairs together in forming the cable units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1984
    Assignee: AT&T Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tommy G. Hardin, Bruce C. Vrieland
  • Patent number: 4445355
    Abstract: A rod mill guide tube has a channel member of U-shaped cross-sectional configuration to which a cover member of T-shaped cross-sectional configuration is fastened whereby no seam edge is presented which a rod passing therethrough may contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1984
    Assignee: Nassau Recycle Corporation
    Inventors: Mieczyslaw Budzich, Forest G. Fitz, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4442582
    Abstract: Component materials of an article having a metallic element encased within a brittle bulb are reclaimed by passing the article between two rotating rollers spaced apart a distance less than a dimension of the bulb but greater than a dimension of the metallic element thereby shattering the bulb without altering the structure of the metallic element. The shattered brittle bulb material is then separated from the metallic element as with a magnetic separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1984
    Assignees: AT&T Technologies, Inc., Nassau Recycle Corporation
    Inventors: George Foo, Raymond W. Grodkiewicz, Stanley E. Kubis, Gordon C. Lindsay
  • Patent number: 4426255
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for insulating wires with pulp are disclosed wherein wires embedded in pulp ribbons supported upon an endless transfer belt are passed through radio-frequency electromagnetic fields generated by oscillators tuned to resonate at a high voltage level whenever a wire is not present and thereby energize a wire break alarm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1984
    Assignee: Western Electric Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Benson F. Bachus, Georg C. E. Dornberger
  • Patent number: 4423589
    Abstract: A multi-unit telecommunication cable is disclosed in which the twisted wire pairs of the unit are presented adjacent the conductive cable sheath at irregularly spaced locations. The cable may be made by modulating the amplitude and/or frequency of the oscillations of the faceplate employed in twisting the wire pairs together in forming the cable units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1984
    Assignee: Western Electric Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Tommy G. Hardin, Bruce C. Vrieland
  • Patent number: D313174
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1990
    Assignee: Robert P. Cheatham
    Inventors: Igor Samoilovich, Robert P. Cheatham