Patents Represented by Attorney Frank B. Robb

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  • Measuring device
    Patent number: 5168637
    Abstract: A measuring device having a vertical column and a horizontal foot extending therefrom, the column having an indicator block adjustably slidable thereon, an indicator plate on the block for engaging a tool to operate on a workpiece, and indicia on the column related to the plate to establish the position of the tool with relation to different surfaces of the plate, and scribing portions on the plate to mark a workpiece when the column is moved with relation to such workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1992
    Assignee: Leichtung, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeremy H. Gibson
  • Hand-held knife sharpener
    Patent number: 5163251
    Abstract: A handy knife sharpener comprising two symmetric side frames connected together to hold two crossed abrasive rods therein for sharpening cutting tools, wherein the peripheral edge thereof comprises a hand-hold portion at one end for comfortable and positive grip, a bevel slot at the top for supporting and guiding the knife to be sharpened, a sloping surface portion at an opposite end at right angle relative to said bevel slot for stopping against the ground of a work table. The position of each abrasive rod can be changed once it is worn at a fixed area on the peripheral grinding surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1992
    Inventor: David Lee
  • Sound creating training device
    Patent number: 5107793
    Abstract: A training device to create an attention getting sound by striking a surface with the device, the material from which the device is formed producing a relatively loud sound but without painful impact irrespective of the striking vigor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1992
    Inventor: John Tymkewicz
  • Marking, gauging and dowel drilling device
    Patent number: 5054969
    Abstract: A device for marking centerlines of wood board edges to facilitate drilling dowel holes in the edges of different boards to provide matching, with parts to locate holes and hold such boards while drilling is performed, and where holes in the same relationship in such boards are desired, and a guide or guides for drilling such holes to provide for matching the same so that dowels may be inserted in corresponding holes to maintain the boards in connected relation with the planes of the board surfaces coinciding where desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Assignee: Leichtung, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy H. Gibson, Lawrence E. Buehner, Paul J. Collander
  • Coin receiving incentive device
    Patent number: 5052616
    Abstract: A device or article to receive and display coins received and accumulated as incentives for accomplishing various tasks which are indicated to be performed, which may be carried out on days or other preferred intervals. The article is intended to be hung or otherwise displayed as a continual reminder of the existence of the tasks and the accomplishments of the same, and so provided with a sufficient number of pockets to receive a substantial number of coins and to relate the same to a variety of tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1991
    Assignee: Gordon Warren Co.
    Inventor: Allen E. Joyce
  • Dual dowelling jig
    Patent number: 5051042
    Abstract: A dual dowelling jig having clamping parts for a pair of boards or the like with articulating connections at the ends of the parts which connections include drill guides, the drill guides being arranged to locate holes in the boards precisely opposite one another and equi-distantly spaced to in turn provide for the insertion of dowels in holes drilled through the guides and subsequently locate the boards for gluing and thus fastening them in planar and edge to edge alignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1991
    Assignee: Leichtung, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeremy H. Gibson
  • Anti-kickback hold down device
    Patent number: 4976298
    Abstract: An anti-kickback and hold down device having provision for mounting on and removal from a saw availed of for ripping material, primarily wood, and including a spring pressed wheel to engage the material being ripped, thus enabling ripping of wood of widely varying thickness, and preventing reverse movement of the wood caused by the saw itself, and effected by ratchet elements controlling the wheel operation, which are able to be positioned in varied longitudinal alignment, as well as to release or disable the ratchet at will, axial alignment of the wheel providing for holding the material being ripped, against a fence or like guide during the ripping operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignee: Leichtung Inc.
    Inventor: Jeremy H. Gibson
  • Boat support means
    Patent number: 4944633
    Abstract: Boat cradle and storage construction including a plurality of substantially identical support units each availing of a central column comprising a support element and brace parts connected to the column and a base member of chevron shape with an adjustable ram in the column extending upwardly, and a pad at its end to engage the bottom of a boat or the like, the arrangement of the column and brace parts being such as to reduce space required for storage of the units when not in use and yet the base member shape provides stability, the arrangement of the brace parts being important from the standpoint of the overall assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1990
    Assignee: Jos. Dyson & Sons, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank B. Robb
  • Asparagus plant
    Patent number: PP7311
    Abstract: A cloned variety of female Asparagus plant embodying great uniformity of all characteristics which include vigor, rust tolerance, yielding of a high proportion of large "jumbo" spears, maintaining good plant stand, resistance to crown rot under adverse low, wet field conditions and superior volume of quality spears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1990
    Assignee: Rutgers University
    Inventors: J. Howard Ellison, John J. Kinelski
  • Ficus benjamina `Citation`
    Patent number: PP7680
    Abstract: A sport of Ficus benjamina Exotica, presenting tightly or deeply curled foliage which in cross-section is V-shaped in contrast to the usual flat leaves of the known Ficus benjamina, the overall appearance of a bush of my new variety showing a general aspect of rather tightly curled appearance and thus denser whether as bush, shrub, pillar or standard tree form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Inventor: Bret T. Wood
  • Jasmine multiflorum `Tiffany`
    Patent number: PP7719
    Abstract: A Jasmine plant of generally classic form and other characteristics, readily distinguishable however, by the extremely variegated leaves which have random patterns of yellow colors varying from simple border coloration to intricate designs, no two of which seem to be identical, though usually all leaves are variegated more or less extensively, and the plant has the usual white flowers of delicate fragrance when in bloom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1991
    Assignee: Hidden Acres Nursery Inc.
    Inventor: Wesley C. Fisher
  • Robinia `Purple Crown`
    Patent number: PP7731
    Abstract: A seedling discovered growing in a cultivated area in a row of seedlings resulting from a cross between Robinia hispida, and Robinia pseudoacacia, and noticed because of its more vigorous, narrow upright crown of branches, and particularly at the time of blooming for its abundant purple pea-shaped flowers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1991
    Assignee: Rutgers University
    Inventor: William Flemer, III
  • Dogwood tree- `Rutlan`
    Patent number: PP7732
    Abstract: An F.sub.1 hybrid of Cornus kousa Hance and C. florida L. providing a new large-bracted dogwood, which is an exceptionally vigorous, highly floriferous, small, flowering tree, more nearly like C. florida, being full and spreading in habit rather than vase-shaped as in C. kousa, yet considerably larger as compared with C. florida, and having a period of floral display that is intermediate to that of the parental species.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1991
    Assignee: Rutgers University
    Inventor: Elwin R. Orton, Jr.
  • Anthurium `Rotolante #1`
    Patent number: PP7760
    Abstract: An Anthurium cultivar of fast growth, loose somewhat spreading habit, many branches, displaying freely blooming characteristics and extreme change in color of blooms from initial development to maturity, being dark purple nearly black to ultimately a bright red, appearing to be almost a different plant by those changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Assignee: Oglesby Plant Laboratories Inc.
    Inventor: Denis W. Rotolante
  • Anthurium plant `Georgusis White Number 1`
    Patent number: PP8129
    Abstract: An Anthurium cultivar of compact freely branching form, abundant white flowers contrasting with the dark green foliage, useful as a commercial pot plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Assignee: Oglesby Plant Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: James J. Georgusis
  • Spathiphyllum `Leprechaun`
    Patent number: PP8130
    Abstract: A Spathiphyllum cultivar created by crossing parents which have the desired characteristics of free flowering for four inch pot production with leaf color of one parent and leaf shape and clumping habit from the other parent, the resulting plant having the desirable characteristics sought for commercial production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Inventor: David Fell
  • Anthurium `Georgusis Pink Number 1`
    Patent number: PP8131
    Abstract: A compact freely branching and flowering Anthurium hybrid with light pink flower color unevenly dispersed over a white background, with contrasting dark green leaves providing a flowering, commercial pot plant of distinct appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Assignee: Oglesby Plant Laboratories Inc.
    Inventor: James J. Georgusis
  • Dogwood tree named `D-184-11`
    Patent number: PP8213
    Abstract: The outstanding characteristics of the cultivar hereof comprise the white bracted display over a period of time typical of most plants of C. florida, an important distinguishing element of this new hybrid comprising the fruit which are bright red and much larger than the fruit typical for C. florida being nearly tubular or almost uniformly cylindrical in shape, the volume of the fruit being substantially greater than the volume of fruit of other cultivars, the vegetative and floral parts being winter-hardy in the region of New Brunswick, N.J.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1993
    Assignee: Rutgers University
    Inventors: Elwin R. Orton, Jr., David A. Gant
  • Dogwood tree -- named `D-376-15`
    Patent number: PP8214
    Abstract: The plant hereof is notable for its dark red floral bracts and rather small compact form of tree characterized by branching of a densely profuse form being more dense than other clones of C. florida.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1993
    Assignee: Rutgers University
    Inventors: Elwin R. Orton, Jr., David A. Gant
  • Asparagus plant named `Jersey Jewel`
    Patent number: PP8222
    Abstract: An F.sub.1 male asparagus hybrid which is moderately resistant to asparagus rust (puccinia asparagi), tolerant to root and crown rot (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. asparagi) as well as stem and crown rot (F. moniliforme), capable of producing high yields of high quality asparagus in many locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1993
    Assignee: Rutgers University
    Inventors: J. Howard Ellison, John J. Kinelski