Patents Represented by Attorney Frank B. Robb

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  • Tree surround
    Patent number: 4932157
    Abstract: A tree surround which is provided to confine shredded or bark material at the base of a tree for the purpose of retaining moisture and likewise prevent the growth of weeds thereby maintaining neat appearance of the tree area, the surround being made from tire carcasses, specifically the sidewalls thereof which would normally be a problem to dispose of and costly to otherwise destroy, the shape of the sidewall and the contact of the severed outer periphery with the ground making possible use of power equipment to trim weeds which may grow near such periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Inventor: Nathan B. Shimp
  • Resiliently supported toilet seat
    Patent number: 4924531
    Abstract: A toilet and seat construction to provide for use by a person, to resiliently assist in raising and lowering the person from sitting to standing position, and vice versa, including a framework to guide the movement of a seat support member and provide means to grasp at each side to facilitate such movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1990
    Inventor: Nick J. Square
  • Electrical outlet and switchbox positioning device
    Patent number: 4901447
    Abstract: A device for positioning an outlet or switch box on a wall member for connection and use in the electrical system, the device having parts to grip and locate a box of any preferred form in various positions both inwardly and outwardly and upwardly and downwardly while the box is being secured in its preferred location within the wall construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1990
    Inventor: Larry E. Gottschalk
  • Dowelling jig
    Patent number: 4884926
    Abstract: A dowelling jig having provision for simultaneously clamping workpieces in which dowels are to be inserted, wherein the jig comprises a pair of movable clamping elements, movable toward and from a stationary element, and arranged for uniform movement in that manner by a screw member which causes the clamping action to be effected simultaneously with each of at least two workpieces, the elements being connected by links which in turn provide for drilling in guides at the ends thereof, the drill guides being movable on axes which are maintained in alignment by the linkage arrangement thereof, the links causing parallel, simultaneous movement of the drill guide means whereby the drilling for dowels is uniformly spaced in each workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1989
    Assignee: Leichtung Inc.
    Inventor: Jeremy H. Gibson
  • Spathiphyllum cultivar `Gorgusis No. 1`
    Patent number: PP6964
    Abstract: A Spathiphyllum cultivar of taller, wider habit with few suckers, longer, broader and darker, more shiny leaves, and white flowers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1989
    Assignee: Oglesby Plant Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: James J. Georgusis
  • Asparagus plant--`Jersey Titan`
    Patent number: PP6969
    Abstract: An Asparagus plant having tolerance to rust (Puccinia asparagi), root rot (Fusarium oxysporum), and crown rot (F. monilioforme), with good vigor and very high branching aspect producing high quality and quantity of marketable yield spears in hot weather, having tips which remain closed when others tend to open prematurely, and having a high rust rating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1989
    Assignee: Rutgers University
    Inventors: J. Howard Ellison, John J. Kinelski
  • Apple tree named Pioneer Mac
    Patent number: PP7002
    Abstract: A McIntosh type of apple tree discovered as a chance seedling in a cultivated area near Marlboro, N.Y., noted because of the resemblance of its fruit to the McIntosh but having more attractive, glassy, red skin, and the absence of speckling and russetting, later maturity and firmer fruit, the comparison being made to an unpatented variety known as the Rogers McIntosh growing in an orchard in which it was discovered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Assignee: Adams County Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Ernest B. Greiner
  • Apple tree "Ginger Gold"
    Patent number: PP7063
    Abstract: A variety of apple tree originating as a chance seedling of unknown origin discovered in a replanted Winesap orchard near Lovingston, Va., the variety producing glossy yellow green apples with good keeping qualities, early in the season and in fact substantially earlier than other quality yellowish apples, the new variety also being distinguished because of the smooth glossy skin free from russetting which is common on yellow skinned cultivars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1989
    Assignee: Adams County Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Clyde H. Harvey
  • Peach tree named Lady Nancy
    Patent number: PP7069
    Abstract: A new peach tree variety which originated as a natural limb mutation of the cultivar `Jerseyqueen`, producing late maturing, large, globose to ovate, very firm fruit, having a strong red skin color, with white flesh and a yellow suture line just under the skin, long storage life, slow softening flesh, the tree being large, very vigorous, and moderately productive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1989
    Inventor: Medio DeMarco
  • Amelanchier candensis "White Pillar"
    Patent number: PP7072
    Abstract: An Amelanchier canadensis tree grown in a cultivated area of a nursery near Princeton, N.J., which tree is distinctly columnar in overall appearance in contrast to other Amelanchier canadensis trees which are much more spreading, the instant variety being resistant to leaf spot fungi which causes defoliation of the usual Amelanchier trees in warm, humid weather, and the very abundant blooms of the tree which substantially hide the branches, the fall colors of its leaves providing a mixture of reds and purples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1989
    Assignee: Newplant Associates
    Inventor: William Flemer, III
  • Impatiens plant `Dapper Dan`
    Patent number: PP7130
    Abstract: An impatiens plant of the variety known as "Duet" in which the double deep red flowers are contrasted with foliage which is basically the usual green of impatiens leaves, but is provided with variegations in the form of yellowish white borders of varying widths extending around the edge of each of the leaves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1990
    Inventor: Daniel Simchock
  • Malus hupehensis named `Cardinal`
    Patent number: PP7147
    Abstract: A Malus hupehensis tree providing abundant red flowers and small, very glossy red fruits, having resistance to defoliation in hot humid summers and to leaf injury from apple scab fungus or mildew which severely affects other similar trees in an adjacent area, the tree growing rapidly and displaying a wide spreading crown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Assignee: New Plant Associates
    Inventor: William Flemer, III
  • Asparagus plant named `Jersey Princess`
    Patent number: PP7155
    Abstract: A female asparagus plant selected for, earliness of production vigor and high yield, disease resistance to rust (Puccinia asparagi), tolerance to root rot (Fusarium oxysporum) and crown rot (F. moniliforme) and numerous extremely tall summar stalks, reaching a height of 2.7 meters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Assignee: Rutgers University
    Inventors: J. Howard Ellison, John J. Kinelski
  • Amelanchier laevis "Majestic"
    Patent number: PP7203
    Abstract: An Amelanchier laevis tree having exceptionally vigorous growth, reaching twice the height of prior known Amelanchier laevis trees during the same growth period, the growth being tall and narrow, blooms exhibiting long, drooping racemes with many white flowers, new foliage of dark, reddish orange color becoming thick and dark green, as they mature, with resistance to hot, humid weather.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignee: Newplant Associates
    Inventor: William Flemer, III
  • Dogwood tree--`Galaxy`
    Patent number: PP7204
    Abstract: An interspecific F.sub.1 hybrid of the species Cornus kousa and Cornus florida exhibiting large overlapping white bracts and floriferous in a period from about May 18 to about June 3, the floral display ending about the time plants of C. kousa begin their floral display, plants of this cultivar being similar to its seed parent, C. kousa, as regards its upright vase shaped habit when youngbut intermediate plants of the two parent species in the nature of the overwintering flower budds, together with freedom from infestation by dogwood borer and "dogwood decline".
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignee: Rutgers University
    Inventor: Elwin R. Orton, Jr.
  • Dogwood tree "Aurora"
    Patent number: PP7205
    Abstract: A hybrid of Cornus kousa Hance and Cornus florida L. providing a new large-bracted dogwood, which is an exceptionally vigorous, highly floriferous, small, flowering tree, more nearly like C. kousa, being upright in habit rather than low and spreading like C. florida, yet more fully branched and spreading as compared with C. kousa and having a period of floral display that is intermediate to C. florida and C. kousa, exhibiting highly textured, rounded and overlapping white floral bracts that are larger than those of either parent plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignee: Rutgers University
    Inventor: Elwin R. Orton, Jr.
  • Dogwood tree `Rutfan`
    Patent number: PP7206
    Abstract: A hybrid of Cornus kousa and Cornus florida providing a new large-bracted dogwood, which is a vigorous, highly floriferous, small, flowering tree, more nearly like C. florida, the plant being low and spreading rather than upright as C. kousa, yet more densely branched and foliaged close to the ground as compared with C. florida and having a flowering period intermediate that of the parental species.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignee: Rutgers University
    Inventor: Elwin R. Orton, Jr.
  • Dogwood tree -- `Stellar Pink`
    Patent number: PP7207
    Abstract: An interspecific hybrid of Cornus kousa and Cornus florida, which is a large bracted, vigorous, highly floriferous, flowering tree, most nearly like its parent C. kousa, which plant is upright rather than low and spreading as in C. florida, the instant plant being more fully branched and spreading as compared with C. kousa, with a period of floral display that is intermediate to C. kousa and C. florida, exhibiting attractive pink bracts unlike those of any other hybrid of C. kousa.times.C. florida.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignee: Rutgers University
    Inventor: Elwin R. Orton, Jr.
  • Dogwood tree `Constellation`
    Patent number: PP7210
    Abstract: An interspecific hybrid of C. kousa and C. florida, being white-bracted and very floriferous, the floral display from May 17 to June 1 being intermediate to that of plants of C. florida and C. kousa and also exhibiting an upright habit typical of plants of C. kousa but more vigorous, the size at maturity usually being larger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1990
    Assignee: Rutgers University
    Inventor: Elwin R. Orton, Jr.
  • Acer palmatum "Crimson Prince"
    Patent number: PP7217
    Abstract: A seedling of the variety Acer palmatum "Bloodgood" (an unpatented variety) noticeable for its vigorous growth, deeper red color in the summer, greater height of growth as compared with other "Bloodgood" seedlings of the same age, cold hardiness and non-susceptibility to tip die-back of the summer growth, from cold winters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1990
    Assignee: Newplant Associates
    Inventor: William Flemer, III