Patents Represented by Attorney Dwight G. Diehl
  • Patent number: 7568734
    Abstract: A personal regulator or device having special covers and a plurality of interior panels or pages containing various hinged structures. The hinging structures are precision expandable hinges which permit portions of consecutive panels to be functionally interactive and viewed simultaneously and/or to permit viewing of different portions of interior panels while viewing two charts attached to the device enclosures. The precision expandable hinging structures provide and allow for a plurality of charts to be viewed simultaneously and accurately registered with each other without the need of repeatedly turning between pages or panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Inventor: Richard P. Hockensmith
  • Patent number: 7171797
    Abstract: The present device is utilized by equestrian riders to maintain their horse's forehead vertical with the ground. It is made of plastic and readily attaches to the bridle on top of the horse's head, between the ears. A colored indicator is visible to the rider through an opening in the device and lets the rider know if the animal's head is vertical with the ground or if the nose is back or away from the animal's body. This device will aid the rider and horse to learn how to position and maintain the animals forehead vertical with the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Inventor: Alex Brehm
  • Patent number: 6508461
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an improved arrangement for the operation of an overhead garage door that comprises an adapter utilized for installation and periodic maintenance of the support arrangement. Also disclosed is an adapter for use with existing garage door structures, improved wrenches for use in tensioning coil springs usually found in such arrangements and a method for tensioning such coil springs when they are originally installed or during periodic maintenance of the springs. The adapter comprises a body that may be mounted upon a rotatable shaft that supports the coil springs and be non-rotatabley attached to an end of the coil spring and the rotatable shaft. The attachment to the shaft is a releasable connection and the body has splines or projecting abutment surfaces so that two of the improved wrenches according to the present invention may have their jaws closely surround and engage the splines on the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: Safe Ratch, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas P Trevorrow, Ben D. Yoder, Albert E Zuccolotto, Thomas P Trevorrow, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6363982
    Abstract: A double mortising, tenoning and dovetailing wood working machine including a base member, a sliding member and locking members. The base member is mounted on a table. The sliding member and locking members serve to precisely locate the base member relative to a piece of wood stock. The base member can be located over a piece of wood stock, locked into place and have a tenon or tail cut on the stock. The base member can then be moved horizontally over the stock, locked into position and have a second tenon or tail cut on the stock. The stock is then removed and replaced with another piece of wood stock to receive the mortise or socket joints. Through the use of the locking members and the slide member the base member can be located over the stock in the exact location needed to cut the mortise or socket joints to allow for a precise double mortise-tenon or dovetail joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Inventor: Elmo D. Nixon, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5911797
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an improved arrangement for the operation of an overhead garage door that comprises an adapter utilized for installation and periodic maintenance of the support arrangement. Also disclosed is an adapter for use with existing garage door structures, improved wrenches for use in tensioning coil springs usually found in such arrangements and a method for tensioning such coil springs when they are originally installed or during periodic maintenance of the springs. The adapter comprises a body that may be mounted upon a rotatable shaft that supports the coil springs and be non-rotatabley attached to an end of the coil spring and the rotatable shaft. The attachment to the shaft is a releasable connection and the body has splines or projecting abutment surfaces so that two of the improved wrenches according to the present invention may have their jaws closely surround and engage the splines on the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1999
    Assignee: Albentom Corp.
    Inventors: Thomas P Trevorrow, Ben D. Yoder, Albert E Zuccolotto, Thomas P. Trevorrow, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5797312
    Abstract: An assembly of elements is provided for cooking elongated foods in a microwave. The assembly having a lid, a base and a tray. Food is placed on the tray which is then placed on the base. The base contains a steam producing liquid at a level below the bottom of the tray. The lid placed on the base covering the tray and food. The assembly is then placed in a microwave. As the liquid is heated, steam passes through the tray, through apertures, over the food and out the lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1998
    Inventor: Dody Lynn Brant
  • Patent number: 5794944
    Abstract: The present device is to be utilized in fundraising projects. It has a hollow frame which supports a plastic enclosure. The enclosure has an entrance which can be opened and closed. Once a participant enters the enclosure and closes the entrance, an air blower is activated. With activation of the blower, prize money is circulated within the enclosure, which the participant tries to catch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Inventor: Le Roy Roberts