Patents Represented by Attorney Ellis & Venable
  • Patent number: 6102459
    Abstract: The present invention is a vacuum valve assembly that creates vacuum on demand. The assembly has a body with a fluid inlet port, a fluid outlet port, a fluid flow channel extending between the fluid inlet port and the fluid outlet port, a vacuum port, a low pressure channel extending between the vacuum port and the fluid flow channel, a sensing member receiving channel, the sensing member receiving channel extending between the fluid flow channel and the low pressure channel, and a flow occlusion chamber that intersects the fluid flow channel. There is a sensing member with a fluid flow regulation portion and a sensing portion. The sensing portion is adapted to be movably received by the sensing member receiving channel. The sensing member is movable from a closed position to an open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Inventors: William V. Pabst, Bertrand S. De Pecker
  • Patent number: 6024374
    Abstract: A device, or attachment, that allows a person to manually transport small to medium-sized trailers that have a mechanism for receiving a trailer hitch. The device, which attaches to the flat bed portion of a standard dolly, comprises an angled trailer hitch that attaches to the topside of a first substantially flat plate at an obtuse angle with respect to a front end of the first flat plate. There is a second substantially flat plate that is generally parallel to the first flat plate both plates attach to each other at back ends, respectively. The two flat plates are separated by a distance that allows a third flat plate, typically a part of the dolly, to be inserted and secured between them. Once the device is attached to the dolly, a user engages the trailer hitch portion of the present invention to a trailer, and manually transports the trailer using the dolly as the mechanism for directing the trailer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Inventor: Delton Friesen
  • Patent number: 6018580
    Abstract: An automatic telephone number dialing circuit powered from a standard telephone network wire for storing telephone numbers using non-volatile memory including a one-touch dialing device that enables a user to automatically dial a plurality of telephone numbers that are pre-programmed in non-volatile read only memory of an integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Inventor: Leonard J Nellessen