Patents Represented by Attorney Eric P. Schellin
  • Patent number: 4911318
    Abstract: The skid device of the present invention includes two skid plates having a rectangular configuration. Each of the skid plates are mounted underneath a flatrack container along an underside longitudinal edge portion of the flatrack. The mounting to the underside is through a plurality of linkages having one end secured to the top of each of the skid and the second end secured to the underside of the flatracker container. The linkages are dimensioned and provided with a drive for progressively lowering the skid whereby the flatrack container rests on the skids when so desired. Locks are provided whereby the linkages may be locked at one of several altitudes. The drive also returns the skid to its folded position in confronting relationship with the underside of the flatrack container and the latter rests on two beams spaced from a longitudinal centerline of the flatrack container. The drive is generally disposed to drive the respective linkages of both skids simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignee: American Coastal Industries
    Inventor: Frank W. Bishop
  • Patent number: 4909937
    Abstract: In an integral filter (F) for separating fluid components which filter can be enclosed in a surrounding housing (1,2) with fluid connections (A1 l to A3, 10) the permeable tube jacket of which filter consists of several tubular filter elements (K1, K2) with different filter qualities whose cross sections are stepped in such a manner that a smaller filter element is surrounded by a larger filter element, optionally with formation of an intermediary space (Z1), and in which the two tube ends are enclosed by closure and connection adapters (15, 20, 21, 22, 27, 31) and can be adapted to fluid chambers (13, 14) of the housing, sections of the total filter (F) can be selectively tested for integrity, supplied with and emptied of fluid and filling substances via an intermediary space (Z1) between two filter elements (K1, K2) which intermediary space can be separately controlled and loaded from the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1990
    Assignee: Sartorius GmbH
    Inventors: Jurgen Hoffmann, Joachim Stinzendorfer
  • Patent number: 4910495
    Abstract: A dipstick with automatic warning device consisting of a tube positioned in a dipstick housing of an oil pan, indicia disposed on the tube indicating ADD and FILL of the oil pan, sets of elecrical contacts disposed internally of the tube, one set proximate the ADD indicia and one set proximate the FULL indicia. A plastic cap located below the ADD indicia and having a bore therethrough for passage of oil from the oil pan cap internal of lower end of the tube. A conductive float ball within the tube to bridge respective sets of electrical contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1990
    Inventor: James M. Sullivan
  • Patent number: 4907179
    Abstract: An electronic balance with a digital display for the exact display of the weighing result, with an quasi analog display for the estimated display of the balance (gross) load, whereby the a quasi analog display consists of at least one horizontal band of activatable points (7), and with a taring operation, that suitable activatable segments (8, 10) be located within, directly above or directly below the first horizontal band of activatable points (7) with which such suitable segments a "T" symbol (9) can be activated at a plurality of positions along the first horizontal band and that the "T: symbol be activated during taring at the horizontal position which corresponds to said tare weight on the horizontal band (7) of the quasi analog display while a horizontal bar formed by suitable activation of activatable points indicates gross weight. This makes it possible to display in a simple manner the relative position at which taring was performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1990
    Assignee: Sartorius GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Oldendorf, Franz-Josef Melcher, Christoph Berg
  • Patent number: 4899824
    Abstract: Device comprised of a screen (2) adapted to be secured in combination to fixtures of a horseshoe (1), and of a pre-forming plate (3) which cooperates with the whole surface of the horseshoe, and which is fastenable in a temporary manner to the screen to permit the injection of a thermoplastic material in the interior of the whole internal volume of the sole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Assignee: Societe AMF
    Inventors: Jean F. Techer, Jean P. Onnis
  • Patent number: 4900441
    Abstract: In a small filter with a one-piece plastic housing (1) manufactured with injection-molding technology in which a filter membrane (6) is located which is connected on its edge in a leakproof manner to the housing (1), the filter membrane (6) is covered at least on one side on the edge area (6") to be sealed by the injection molding which hardens in the injection molding form and is anchored in this injection molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Assignee: Sartorius GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Graus, Michael Schutzler
  • Patent number: 4898253
    Abstract: An electronic balance for dosing, with a measured value receiver, a digital signal processing unit, a digital entry keyboard for entering the theoretical value of a dosing, with a theoretical-weight memory and with a digital display unit with several positions after the decimal point, that switching means are present which determine the highest-value decade in which a number in the display is not equal to zero and that these switching means regulate the decoding of the display in such a manner that all zeros to the left of this decade up to the units decade are represented as a small zero "o" whereas prezeros in the 10 decade, 100 decade, etc. are entirely suppressed in a known manner. This makes possible a quasi-analog representation of the measured value which is attained in the units decade, the 10 decade, the 100 decade, etc. by means of the known suppression of prezeros even in the case of balance displays with positions after the decimal point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1990
    Assignee: Sartorius GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Oldendorf, Franz-Josef Melcher, Christoph Berg
  • Patent number: 4898207
    Abstract: An oil relief valve for lubrication systems for internal combustion engines comprising a valve body having a hollow cylindrical shape, a valve seat provided at a bottom end of the valve body, a valve plug placed in the seat, a port bored in the seat to bring the oil relief valve into fluid communication with a lubrication line which supplies oil from an oil pump to various engine parts to be lubricated, a spring mounted on top of the valve plug and adapted to urge the plug against the seat to close the port, and slits cut in the valve body and provided to bring the valve in fluid communication with an oil pan. The spring has a free length smaller than the distance of the space defined between the valve plug and the top end of the valve body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1990
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyuki Ueki, Shigeru Nishimura
  • Patent number: 4893553
    Abstract: Machine for the automatic production of meat and/or vegetable kebabs threaded onto skewers.The object of the invention relates to the sector involving the shaping or treatment of food products.According to this addition, the arrangements taking the skewers (20) are made up of a plurality of tubes (38) corresponding to the perforations of the container lid, the said tubes (38) being fixed at one end into holes made out in the thickness of a coupling plate (38b) making up a guiding and positioning assembly for the said skewers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1990
    Assignee: Emsens Antoine S.A.R.L.
    Inventor: Michel Emsens
  • Patent number: 4890246
    Abstract: In high-resolution electric balances a certain residual temperature coefficient remains even with a good correction of the temperature-dependent errors of the measured value sensor. The invention therefore is with respect to a balance with a built-in calibrating weight (standard) which responds with a new calibration switching in said calibrating weight if a given temperature changes has been exceeded since the last calibration. To this end, the balance comprises in microprocessor digital signal processing unit a separate memory area in which the output signal representing temperature value of a temperature sensor is stored during the calibrating process and also comprises a comparator which upon instruction compares the instantaneous output signal of the temperature sensor which the value stored in this separate memory area. If this difference exceeds a given amount, a signal element indicative of need to recalibrate using the calibrating weight is actuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1989
    Assignee: Sartorius GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Oldendorf, Christoph Berg, Franz-Josef Melcher
  • Patent number: 4889201
    Abstract: A drying balance is disclosed with a means (11) for supplying energy for the drying of material to be weighed located on the balance scale (6,16) and with a digital evaluating unit (23,24,25) for calculating the moisture content from the measured weight loss of the specimen and for determining the end point of the drying in which balance the digital evaluating unit (23,24,25) calculates the inflection point from the chronological course of the weight loss and derives the criterion for determining the final point therefrom. The criterion for the final point consists in that the slope of the drying curve drops below a certain value which is derived from the coordinates or the slope of the drying curve at the inflection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1989
    Assignee: Sartorius GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Oldendorf, Gunther Maaz, Klaus Nottbohm, Volker Handwerk
  • Patent number: 4884645
    Abstract: In an electric precision balance with scale on top, protected against the penetration of foreign bodies and with a low-displacement measuring system (1), a parallel-guided balance scale carrier (3) for a balance scale (11) which is guided without contact through a housing opening (4) of a surrounding system housing (2) or protective cap, the balance scale carrier (3) is designed for its part with its part running upward outside of the system housing (2) as a protective hood (8) which covers the system housing (2) at least at the top and the sides and which comprises receiving bearings (9) at the low edge (8') for intermediary members (10) which support the balance scale (11), said intermediary members are surrounded without contact by casings (12) which form foreign-body baffles open at the top and the bottom which are a component of a general housing (7) surrounding the system housing (2) and said general housing comprises drainage openings (17,17') located in its low bottom parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1989
    Assignee: Sartorius GmbH
    Inventors: Erich Knothe, Franz-Josef Melcher
  • Patent number: 4873945
    Abstract: A one-piece crankcase and cylinder block structure for V-type internal combustion engines is disclosed, which is formed by casing and comprises a crankcase with its one end wall side opened and a cylinder block including at least a pair of right and left cylinders opposed to each other at 90.degree.. The cylinders are formed to project at their skirt portion into inside of the crankcase forming a longitudinal space between the protruded ends of the skirt portions to house a camshaft. Another space is defined adjacent to the opened side of the crankcase between the protruded ends of the skirt portions to house a camshaft gear. Since the construction is such that, in casting, the directions in which the segments of mold and the cores are ejected from the casting are uniformly distributed, and the distance over which the cores and mold segments are ejected is greatly minimized. Thus, a relatively small casting machine can be employed to properly cast such a one-piece crankcase and cylinder block structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1989
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Tamba, Hitomi Miyake
  • Patent number: 4863603
    Abstract: A multilayer filter medium (6) is used for separating precipitates containing cholesterol from blood plasma which consists of at least one open filter medium (7) which adsorbs precipitate and of a microporous membrane (9) which controls the pressure conditions in the filter element, whereby the layer (7) which specifically adsorbs the precipitate is hydrophobic and the microporous membrane (9) is hydrophilic. In addition, a positively charged adsorption medium (9) is provided on the side of the microporous membrane (8) facing away from the hydrophobic adsorption medium (7). In this manner, a large adsorption area is created and kept accessible for the precipitates and for heparin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1989
    Assignee: Sartorius GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Dieter Lehmann, Heinz-Gerhard Kohn
  • Patent number: 4863276
    Abstract: An improved mixing device for mixing at least two of a plurality of pressurized liquids, the device consisting of hollow tubular member defined as having a longitudinal axis, one or two open ends and an interior wall member, one of the open ends having at least two cut-out portions generally symmetrically disposed about the axis, a segmental slot member generally radially disposed in the hollow tubular member between each of the cut-out portions for receiving a supporting projection in locking engagement therewith, and an envelope mounted on and extending about each of the cut-out portions for receiving and encompassing a conduit member terminating at and within each of the cut-out portions, each envelope being disposed, constructed and arranged for directing one of the plurality of pressurized liquids onto a proximate area of the interior wall means thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1989
    Assignee: Total Foam
    Inventors: Richard B. Kennedy, Jeffrey C. Widen
  • Patent number: 4861201
    Abstract: The object of the invention relates to the technical branch of machine-tool accessories.The adapter features a torque limiter comprising a driving means (2) provided with a plurality of radial openings (2d) and axial openings (2e) which communicate between themselves, designed so that each set of openings (2d-2e) houses two balls arranged side by side, of which one (5) contacts the profiled recesses (1b) of a tap holder (1) of correspondent number, and the other one (6), contacts the top element (7) of an adjustable elastic means housed between the tap holder and a casing (3), so as to separate the driving means from the tap holder when the determined torque has been reached.The invention is applicable to all tapping chucks or various machine-tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Assignee: Societe Francaise D'Etudes et de Realisation D'Outillage
    Inventor: Jean Cuilleron
  • Patent number: 4861801
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the treatment of depression comprising administering to a human in need thereof an antidepressant amount of a compound selected from 1-(2-fluorophenyl)-2-tertiobutylamino-1-ethanol and an addition salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Assignee: Laboratoire L. Lafon
    Inventor: Louis Lafon
  • Patent number: 4856605
    Abstract: Solar cells (5) for the supply of electric energy are located in an electronic balance in a manner suitable for the requirements of the balance and storage means for storing the electric current generated by the solar cells (5) are present. The solar cells (5) are located, for example, in a folding cover (7) which protects the balance when it is not in use and which is folded up at the start of operation. In addition, a display (9) for the state of charge of the storage means (76) is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1989
    Assignee: Sartorius GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Cornelius, Rainer Exner
  • Patent number: 4848494
    Abstract: Disclosed is a platform balance with a weighing scale, with at least two levers (2) which are mounted via spring joints (3) on support points (5) fixed to the housing, with a force summation part (6) which is guided in parallel by an upper and lower guide rod (7) and with coupling elements (4) which connect the longer lever arm of the levers (2) to the force summation part (6) that the shorter lever arm of each lever (2) is connected by a coupling element (13) to a load receiver (14), that each load receiver (14) is guided in parallel by an upper and a lower guide rod (15) and that the weighing scale (18) is supported on the load receivers (14). As a result thereof, deformations of the weighing scale or of its carrier construction can no longer affect the levers (2) and their lever arm ratio. In an advantageous embodiment the parallel guide of a load receiver (14) and the support points ( 5) of the associated lever (2) form a component which can be derived e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Assignee: Sartorius GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Cornelius, Rainer Exner
  • Patent number: D304607
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1989
    Inventor: Robert D. Bagg