Patents Represented by Law Firm Fidelman, Wolffe, and Waldron
  • Prune juice production using cellulase
    Patent number: 4371552
    Abstract: The disintegration process for prune juice production is improved through cooking prunes until substantial disintegration has taken place followed by treatment with cellulase, e.g., the cellulase of Trichoderma reesei, and optionally with a pectinase, which allows for good yield recovery of prune juice through centrifugal separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1983
    Assignee: Novo Industri A/S
    Inventor: Laurence H. Posorske
  • Reversed forceps for microdisc surgery
    Patent number: 4369788
    Abstract: Forceps of the alligator jaw type, that can be held by a surgeon in a reversed backhand grip while observing the movable jaw during microlumbar discectomy, comprise three linkage devices for resisting twisting forces that tend to separate the sliding arms during removal of gristle. These devices are a slide slot within the rigid arm member in combination with a butt portion of the slideable arm member, a pivot slot within the slideable arm member in combination with a lug portion of the pivotable handle member, and a pin portion of the locking pin member in combination with aligned holes in the slideable arm member and pivotable arm member. The third device simultaneously keeps the forceps in assembled relationship; yet its removal instantly permits disassembly thereof. These three devices are combined within a very compact part of the instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1983
    Inventor: Harold J. Goald
  • Pancreatic spasmolytic polypeptide
    Patent number: 4370317
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel purified polypeptide which is recoverable from porcine pancreas glands. The amino acid composition of the said polypeptide has been determined to be as follows:Trp (2), Lys (4), His (1), Arg (5), Asx (10), Thr (3), Ser (9), Glx (12), Pro (12), Gly (6), Ala (6), Cys 1/2 (14), Val (7), Met (2), Ile (3), Leu (1), Try (2), Phe (7), wherein the determinations are subjected to the usual error of .+-.10 percent of the indicated figures. The partial amino acid sequence comprising a total of 45 amino acids from the N-terminal, is believed to be: ##STR1## wherein pyrGlu (residue 1) stands for pyroglutamic acid. The purified polypeptide is of utility as a medicament, for example as a spasmolytic agent, as an agent for treatment of gastroduodenal ulcers and as a diagnostic aid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1983
    Assignee: Novo Industri A/S
    Inventors: Klavs H. Jorgensen, Karin D. Jorgensen, Lars Thim
  • Device for storage and dosed delivery of liquids
    Patent number: 4368593
    Abstract: A device for the storage and dosed delivery of liquids, comprising a tank for containing a liquid, the tank having at least one opening for filling with the liquid and for discharge of the liquid from the tank, the tank being movably mounted in relation to a surrounding vessel so that the opening can be brought into a lower, operative, position, the liquid then passing from the tank into the surrounding vessel until the level of the liquid in said vessel reaches the level of said opening, the device then maintaining this liquid level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1983
    Inventor: Wolfgang Blaicher
  • Method and apparatus for straightening leads and verifying the orientation and functionality of components
    Patent number: 4367584
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided to form leads of components prior to insertion into a printed circuit board while, at the same time, straightening bent leads and testing the electronic functioning of each component through the use of a controller which electronically simulates the operating mode of the component. The orientation of the component is also tested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1983
    Assignee: Universal Instruments Corporation
    Inventors: Stanley Janisiewicz, Michael M. Levie, Andrew J. Czebiniak
  • Electronic part with an insulating cover
    Patent number: 4367371
    Abstract: An insulating cover formed of a synthetic resin material to be placed, as necessary, over an electronic part which has been automatically mounted on a printed circuit substrate. The insulating cover can be installed on the part easily and with proper fit, has good insulating properties and provides dust and sound proofing functions. The cover cannot be freely slipped off of the part by vibration and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1983
    Assignee: Shinagawa Shoko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshinobu Nakamura
  • Motion picture film having digitally coded soundtrack and method for production thereof
    Patent number: 4366217
    Abstract: A motion picture film having a plurality of digitally coded soundtracks which are colorless and transparent to visible light and which fluoresce when exposed to ultraviolet light, unexposed film for providing the product, and the method for producing the product and methods for producing the exposed and unexposed films. The soundtrack images which overlie at least a portion of the visible image area of the film are digitally coded on the film using an electrostatic imaging system to imprint a fluorescent toner. The toner may comprise a fluorescent polymer having covalently bonded 3-phenyl-7-(amido or imido)-coumarin or certain substituted stilbene or N-alkyl-4-aminonaphalimides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1982
    Inventors: George Bird, Peter A. Custer
  • Surface-effect aerofoil boat
    Patent number: 4365578
    Abstract: A surface-effect aerofoil boat having two aerofoils arranged in tandem and having a gap for a propulsion or air screw between a vertical fin and an aerodynamic rudder and wherein the aerofoils are designed as hollow bodies subdivided into compartments some of which being provided with flooding and emptying devices. The rear aerofoil seen in the direction of travel is clipped with respect to the geometry of its trailing edge in a polygonal or rounded-off manner. The gap in the plane of rotation of the propulsion or air screw is widened in its radially outer zone relative to the inner zone near the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1982
    Assignee: Gunther W. Jorg
    Inventor: Rolf Schellhaas
  • Ready-to-use bandage incorporating a coagulant composition and method of preparing same
    Patent number: 4363319
    Abstract: A prepackaged coagulant composition and method of preparing same has been devised for use in direct or topical application to wounds so as to cause superficial clotting in which thrombin is combined with special preservatives and a saline solution. A ready-to-use bandage is saturated with the resultant solution, sealed and stored so as not to lose its reactive properties with the fibrinogen in the blood when applied to a wound or cut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1982
    Assignee: Applied Medical Devices, Inc.
    Inventor: John H. Altshuler
  • Method for molding a plastic pipe
    Patent number: 4362688
    Abstract: A lower mold half is horizontally placed. The top surface of the lower mold half is provided with a first groove of any desired shape, one end of which is closed with the other end having a notch for allowing air to be blown in. An upper mold half has a bottom surface which matches the top surface of the lower mold half and which is provided with a second groove corresponding in shape to said first groove. Thus, when the upper and lower mold halves are brought into contact, there is formed a mold cavity defined by the first and second grooves. A discharging unit including a nozzle for discharging a parison is disposed above the lower mold half and the nozzle is so provided that it can rotate in either direction at a variable speed. At least one of the nozzle and the lower mold half is movably provided to lay a parison in the first groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1982
    Assignee: Excell Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsuya Nakagawa
  • Simulated shrimp meat and process for preparing same
    Patent number: 4362752
    Abstract: A product of fish meat paste simulating shrimp, prawn or lobster, prepared by mixing 1 part by weight of fish meat paste and 0.2 to 2.5 parts by weight of edible fibrous material having a three-dimensional reticulate structure, kneading the mixture and forming the kneaded mixture into pieces of a predetermined shape and size. The fibrous material may be replaced by 0.4 to 2.0 parts by weight of edible fibers of less than 0.5 mm in diameter. The edible fibrous material or fibers incorporated into the fish meat paste impart to the product a texture which gives a particular oral sensation as if real shrimp, prawn or lobster were being eaten.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1982
    Inventors: Yoshito Sugino, Norihiko Yamamoto
  • Pyridopyrimidinone derivatives
    Patent number: 4361700
    Abstract: Derivatives of pyridopyrimidinone of the following formulae: ##STR1## wherein Y is C.dbd.S, C.dbd.O, SO.sub.2, or CH.sub.2 ;Z is C--H, N, S or O;R.sub.1 is hydrogen, hydroxyl, halogen, lower alkyl or R.sub.3 ;R.sub.2 is hydrogen, aliphatic hydrocarbon, substituted aliphatic hydrocarbon or carbocyclic aryl-aliphatic hydrocarbon, wherein the substituent of the aliphatic hydrocarbon may be hydroxyl, halogen, alkoxy, carboxylic acid ester, or lower alkyl amine;R.sub.3 is ##STR2## wherein A is carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, or sulfur; R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1982
    Assignee: James S. Waldron
    Inventors: William P. Purcell, Richard D. Gilliom, Harlie A. Parish, Jr.
  • Preheater mounted within a well
    Patent number: 4359627
    Abstract: A preheater is disclosed which can be inserted and withdrawn from a well tube defining a curved passage, without having its heating element damaged, by utilizing the flexibility of a spirally coiled structure having increased stability of shape and excellent capacity of restoring its original shape after elastic deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1982
    Assignee: Daido Sangyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuo Takeichi
  • Thermal destabilization of microbial rennet
    Patent number: 4357357
    Abstract: Microbial rennet such as from Mucor miehei is thermally destabilized by treatment of the rennet in an aqueous medium with oxidizing agents containing active chlorine such as hypochlorites. The thermally destabilized rennet is advantageous for cheese making where absence of rennet activity in pasteurized whey is desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1982
    Assignee: Novo Industri A/S
    Inventors: Sven Branner-Jorgensen, Palle Schneider, Peter Eigtved
  • Cut and clinch head assembly
    Patent number: 4356619
    Abstract: An improved head assembly, for an electronic component lead cutting and clinching mechanism, having an improved construction for detection of lead absence or presence incorporating pivotal anvils which complete electrical circuits during the cutting and/or clinching of the component leads. The pivotal anvils cooperate with pivotal cutter-former arms which are actuated by a reciprocable driver. The driver includes a receiving and orienting tip for aligning the scrap portions of the leads for evacuation from the head assembly. Adjustable eccentric pins allow adjustment of the anvils for manufacturing tolerance corrections and for lead receiving orifice corrections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1982
    Assignee: Universal Instruments Corporation
    Inventors: Michael D. Snyder, Henry J. Soth
  • Rotary transfer assembly for high speed radial lead component sequencing and inserting machine
    Patent number: 4356949
    Abstract: Under direction of a machine controller, an endless chain conveyor is incrementally passed by a plurality of loader heads. The loader heads receive a series of components taped on a reel supplied substrate, sever individual taped components from the supply, and load the individual taped components onto clip carriers of the endless conveyor, on command, in a preferred sequence. The clip carrier mounted components are then indexed past a cutter assembly for trimming the lengths of the leads and removing the substrate, and a positioning disc assembly for positioning the components in the clip carriers before being passed to a rotary transfer assembly. The rotary transfer assembly removes individual components from the conveyor and rotates to an unload position above a linear loader, which laterally transfers the components from the rotary transfer to an insert head assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1982
    Assignee: Universal Instruments Corporation
    Inventors: Michael D. Snyder, Crawford A. Matson
  • Mutanase
    Patent number: 4353891
    Abstract: This invention relates to a class of .alpha.1,3 glucan 3-glucanohydrolase named mutanase. The .alpha.1,3 glucosidic bonded polysaccharides hydrolyzed by these enzymes, herein termed mutan, forms part of the matrix material of dental plaque.Mutanase may be produced by culturing microorganisms such as, Trichoderma, Penicillium, or Streptococcus on a glucan characterized by at least 50% alpha -1, 3 glucosidic bonds.Mutanase containing compositions are adapted for disintegrating in vivo essential structural components of dental plaque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1971
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1982
    Inventors: Bernhard Guggenheim, Hans-Rudolf Muhlemann
  • Timed diathermocautery comprising a timer unaffected by disturbances of electromagnetic origin
    Patent number: 4352357
    Abstract: Timed diathermocautery comprising the combination of a conventional diathermocautery and a timer sufficiently precise for short duration interventions, free of electromagnetic disturbances, wherein the timing capacitor is charged directly because of a drive switch with limitation of the charge duration, in said timer all of the electronic circuits being operated at higher current levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1982
    Inventor: Sergio Capurro
  • Dehydration of ethanol
    Patent number: 4351732
    Abstract: Process and apparatus for dehydrating liquid phase ethanol in an adsorber unit containing at least two towers that cycle between adsorption and desorption cycles, characterized in the desorption cycle by an indirect heating volatilization of absorbed and adsorbed liquid at ambient pressures, and by a final stages desorption under sub-atmospheric pressures. In preferred practice, an inert sweep gas at sub-atmospheric pressures assists in removal of vapors evolved in the final stages of the desorption cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1982
    Assignee: The C. M. Kemp Manufacturing Co.
    Inventors: John D. Psaras, James A. Zahniser
  • Dish and glass-rack
    Patent number: D267517
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1983
    Inventor: Kurt Krusche