Patents Represented by Attorney David P. Kelley
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Patent number: 6981888Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 8, 2005Date of Patent: January 3, 2006Assignee: Piranha Plugs, LLCInventors: Michael O'Keefe, Michael Mueller, John Witzigreuter
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Patent number: 6875040Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 30, 2004Date of Patent: April 5, 2005Assignee: Pirana PlugsInventors: Michael O'Keefe, Michael Mueller, John Witzigreuter
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Patent number: 6848356Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 14, 2003Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Inventor: Peter Michael Mueller
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Patent number: 6843616Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 8, 2003Date of Patent: January 18, 2005Inventor: Donald Eugene Sychra
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Patent number: 5806933Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 24, 1997Date of Patent: September 15, 1998Inventors: Leslie Tsui, Christopher A. Tsui
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Patent number: 5098644Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 22, 1990Date of Patent: March 24, 1992Assignee: Nuclear Assurance CorporationInventor: John D. McDaniels
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Patent number: 5000642Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 15, 1989Date of Patent: March 19, 1991Assignee: Matex Gear and Pump Co., Inc.Inventor: Nobuhito Matoba
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Patent number: 4903394Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 30, 1988Date of Patent: February 27, 1990Inventor: Beverly R. Roberts
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Patent number: 4883637Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 25, 1988Date of Patent: November 28, 1989Assignee: Nuclear Assurance CorporationInventor: John D. McDaniels, Jr.
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Patent number: 4827139Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 20, 1987Date of Patent: May 2, 1989Assignee: Nuclear Assurance CorporationInventors: Alan H. Wells, Thomas C. Thompson
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Patent number: 4813944Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 5, 1988Date of Patent: March 21, 1989Assignee: Glen Kyle HaneyInventors: Glen K. Haney, Victor Kramer
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Patent number: 4813025Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 12, 1987Date of Patent: March 14, 1989Assignee: David B. RowlandInventors: David B. Rowland, William W. Smith, Jr.
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Patent number: 4792399Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 3, 1987Date of Patent: December 20, 1988Assignee: Glen Kyle HaneyInventors: Glen K. Haney, Victor Kramer
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Patent number: 4664580Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 16, 1985Date of Patent: May 12, 1987Assignee: Matex Gear and PumpInventor: Nobuhito Matoba
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Patent number: 4446689Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 31, 1983Date of Patent: May 8, 1984Assignee: AT&T Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tommy G. Hardin, Bruce C. Vrieland
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Patent number: 4445355Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 9, 1982Date of Patent: May 1, 1984Assignee: Nassau Recycle CorporationInventors: Mieczyslaw Budzich, Forest G. Fitz, Jr.
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Patent number: 4442582Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 21, 1982Date of Patent: April 17, 1984Assignees: AT&T Technologies, Inc., Nassau Recycle CorporationInventors: George Foo, Raymond W. Grodkiewicz, Stanley E. Kubis, Gordon C. Lindsay
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Patent number: 4426255Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 1, 1982Date of Patent: January 17, 1984Assignee: Western Electric Company, Inc.Inventors: Benson F. Bachus, Georg C. E. Dornberger
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Patent number: 4423589Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 2, 1981Date of Patent: January 3, 1984Assignee: Western Electric Company, Inc.Inventors: Tommy G. Hardin, Bruce C. Vrieland
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Patent number: D313174Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1988Date of Patent: December 25, 1990Assignee: Robert P. CheathamInventors: Igor Samoilovich, Robert P. Cheatham