Patents Represented by Law Firm Dunlap & Codding
  • Means for securing a decorative cover about a flower pot
    Patent number: 5531058
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for securing a sheet of material about a flower pot for providing a decorative cover to the flower pot, using a band applicator with an object opening. The sheet of material is held in place on the flower pot and the flower pot with the sheet of material held there about is inserted into the object opening of the band applicator. The band applicator applies a band about the sheet of material and the flower pot whereby the sheet of material is secured to the flower pot via the band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Assignee: Southpac Trust International, Inc. as trustee of The Family Trust U/T/A
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • Paving material machine having hopper capacity and compensating tunnel capacity
    Patent number: 5529434
    Abstract: A paving material machine having a frame with an end-to-end tunnel for paving material capacity. The machine also includes an electro-hydraulic drive system using rotary transducers. In a configuration for laying down paving material, the machine has a front hopper for receiving paving material from trucks and a conveyor to transfer paving material rearward through the tunnel. A diverter plate and feed augers are mounted at the rear of the machine to regulate the paving material out of the rear of the tunnel. A lay down screed is located behind the feed augers. In order to improve turning characteristics in a system featuring a positive traction device, the drive system is connected to rotary transducers which measure the direction and degree of wheel turn. Using the input from the rotary transducers, the drive system allows a speed differential between the inside and outside wheels in a turn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Inventor: George W. Swisher, Jr.
  • Fluorokinetic analysis of diffusion from a diffusion matrix vessel
    Patent number: 5530254
    Abstract: The present invention comprises an in vitro system called the Diffusion Matrix Vessel and a method of using fluorokinetic analysis for quantifying the diffusion of a fluorescent material through the vessel and thereby characterizing the permeability of the vessel. The results obtained from the gel can be used to verify and develop protocols for investigating and treating angiopathies of the eye related to blood vessel permeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignee: The Board or Regents of the University of Oklahoma
    Inventors: Stephen R. Fransen, P. Lloyd Hildebrand
  • Floral wrapping material with varying adhesion
    Patent number: 5526933
    Abstract: A wrapping material for wrapping a floral grouping comprised of a pad of sheets of material. Each sheet of material has adhesive unevenly disposed across the upper surface of the material with the amount of adhesive being greater near one end of the adhesive than near the other end of the adhesive. Methods of wrapping the floral grouping with the wrapping material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Assignees: The Family Trust U/T/A, Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • Flower pot assembly formed from a sheet with an opening
    Patent number: 5526932
    Abstract: A decorative plant assembly and a method for making such including a flower pot or other pot or plant container, a sheet of material having an opening formed through a portion of the sheet of material and a bonding means for holding the sheet of material in a position about the outer peripheral surface of the pot. When placed about the pot, at least a portion of the sheet of material engages a portion of the outer peripheral surface of the pot. At least a portion of the bottom of the pot means is exposed through the opening in the sheet of material. A portion of the sheet of material may extend away from the upper end of the pot means to form a skirt. The sheet of material when extended about the outer peripheral surface of the pot may further comprise a plurality of folds. The sheet of material may further comprise a tubular extension extending from the lower surface of the sheet of material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Assignees: The Family Trust U/T/A, Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • Method for wrapping a floral grouping
    Patent number: 5526632
    Abstract: A material dispenser for dispensing sheets of material with an adhesive applied thereto. The material is passed through a material applicator and the material applicator includes a contact portion with adhesive in contact with a portion of the material for applying adhesive to the material. The material in one embodiment is a non-heat sealable, non-shape sustaining material and the material is wrapped about a floral grouping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Assignee: Highland Supply Corporation
    Inventors: Donald E. Weder, Franklin J. Craig, William F. Straeter, Joseph G. Straeter
  • Flower pot cover
    Patent number: D370870
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Assignee: Highland Supply Corporation
    Inventors: Donald E. Weder, Joseph G. Straeter
  • Flower pot cover
    Patent number: D370872
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Assignee: Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Weder, Joseph G. Straeter
  • Track mounted paving material machine with tunnel
    Patent number: D370917
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Inventor: George W. Swisher, Jr.
  • Flower pot cover
    Patent number: D371090
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignees: The Family Trust U/T/A, Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Weder, Joseph G. Straeter
  • Flower pot cover
    Patent number: D371091
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignees: The Family Trust U/T/A, Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Weder, Joseph G. Straeter
  • Flower pot cover
    Patent number: D371318
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Assignees: The Family Trust U/T/A, Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Weder, Joseph G. Straeter
  • Flower pot cover
    Patent number: D371319
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Assignees: The Family Trust U/T/A, Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Weder, Joseph G. Straeter
  • Flower pot cover
    Patent number: D371320
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Assignees: The Family Trust U/T/A, Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Weder, Joseph G. Straeter
  • Flower pot cover
    Patent number: D371321
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Assignees: The Family Trust U/T/A, Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Weder, Joseph G. Straeter
  • Flower pot cover
    Patent number: D371322
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Assignees: Trust International, Inc., Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Weder, Joseph G. Straeter
  • Flower pot cover
    Patent number: D371323
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Assignees: The Family Trust U/T/A, Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Weder, Joseph G. Straeter
  • Flower pot cover
    Patent number: D371324
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Assignees: The Family Trust U/T/A, Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Weder, Joseph G. Straeter
  • Flower pot cover
    Patent number: D371521
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Weder, Joseph G. Straeter
  • Flower pot cover
    Patent number: D371522
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignees: The Family Trust U/T/A, Southpac Trust International, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Weder, Joseph G. Straeter