Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm G. Brian Pingel
  • Set tool and cap
    Patent number: 5711043
    Abstract: A tool adapted for use with a drill for installing screw anchors in concrete or masonry walls or the like having a sleeve type body, a bit holder slidably located in the body, a drill bit with a handle secured in the bit holder, a coil spring seated on a collar of a bit holder and extending around the bit, a set screw to retain the drill bit in the bit holder and also to serve as a means to advance and retract the drill bit, a cutout comprised of a longitudinal slot, a retainer notch, and at least one depth notch, and a driver seat capable of retaining a driver bit and further capable of releasable attachment to the sleeve type body. The attachment cap allows ready conversion of the tool from a drill to a driver and back again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Diversified Fastening Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor J. Crawford, Dennis P. Rolph
  • Gutter screening apparatus
    Patent number: 5634299
    Abstract: A flushing apparatus for collecting and removing debris from a rain gutter to permit the unobstructed flow of water through a gutter downspout. The apparatus includes a channel section forming one end of the gutter and having a pair of sidewalls, a screen member and a raised portion associated with the screen member. The raised portion is of a height sized to induce water in the gutter to drop through the screen member into the downspout. The screen member is pivotable between a normal position which prevents the debris from passing into the downspout, and a cleaning position which removes the debris from the screen member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1997
    Inventor: Claire F. Gaston
  • Rail and stile cutter
    Patent number: 5615718
    Abstract: A one-piece cutting tool having a cutting profile designed to cut both a rail and stile. The top portion of the tool cuts the rail while the lower portion of the device cuts the stile. The stile is cut with dimensions which fit into the mating alignment with the rail. The tool is also provided with a pair of bearings to guide a workpiece along the cutting tool regardless of whether the tool is being used to cut a rail or a stile. Additionally, no portion of the tool is designed to cut both the rail and the stile, which allows the tool to wear evenly and which prevents premature wear on the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Assignee: Tooltrend, Inc.
    Inventor: Carlo M. Venditto
  • Display and dispensing device with lock securing structure
    Patent number: 5606883
    Abstract: A hinged access display and dispensing device for lottery-type tickets includes a housing of box-like configuration with a door that is pivotally attached at a lower portion of the housing rear end. A lock assembly is secured in an upper portion of the door and has a head portion located adjacent the door exterior and a body portion extending from the head portion through the door. Projections are formed on the exterior of the lock assembly body portion and the door to coact with one another to secure the lock assembly in the door. In a preferred embodiment, the projections on the lock assembly are in the form of threads on the body portion and the projections on the door are in the form of tabs that extend into the grooves of the lock assembly body portion threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Assignee: Schafer Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel C. Svec
  • Laser weapon simulator apparatus with firing detection system
    Patent number: 5591032
    Abstract: A laser weapon simulator apparatus for practice in the shooting of a firearm at a target having reflective material thereon. The apparatus includes a laser beam transmitter that is actuable to emit a laser beam of short duration, a laser beam receiver for collecting and processing a reflected portion of the laser beam, circuitry for detecting the emission of the laser beam by the transmitter, and a visual display. The receiver includes circuitry adapted to produce a "hit" signal upon receiving the reflected portion of the laser beam and the detecting circuitry is adapted to produce a "try" signal in response to the emission of the laser beam. The visual display produces an output "hit" display signal upon the concurrent receipt of a "hit" signal from the receiver and a "try" signal from the detecting circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignee: Richard L. Powell
    Inventors: Richard L. Powell, W. Joe Jacobsen
  • Overrunning clutch with lubricant retainer
    Patent number: 5577586
    Abstract: An overrunning clutch having structure capable of maintaining a lubricant within the overrunning clutch during operation. The overrunning clutch is provided with an outer race and an inner race with a sprag assembly positioned therebetween. The sprag assembly is provided with sidewalls which substantially prevent the escape of lubricant between the sprag assembly and the outer race. The overrunning clutch is also provided with thrust washers which substantially prevent the escape of the lubricant between the thrust washers and the outer race, while allowing injection of a lubricant through the thrust washer and over the sidewalls of the sprag assembly to lubricate the sprags during operation of the overrunning clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Inventor: Robert A. Buckendahl
  • Dual modular hinged access display and dispensing structure
    Patent number: 5492398
    Abstract: A dual modular device for the display and dispensing of tickets is provided that includes a box type unit with two storage sections and a rear door that is pivotally mounted by a mounting assembly formed of cylindrical posts attached to each lower corner of the door and receivably journaled in cavities located in the lower rear portion of each sidewall of the unit. The door further includes side and top flanges that overlie the sidewalls and roof of the unit when the door is in a closed position to secure the sidewalls of the unit from being forced apart to gain access to the interior of the unit. The lower portion of the door also includes offset side edges to provide a door with approximately the same dimension as the inside measurement between the two sidewalls of the unit so that the lower portion of the door acts as a positioning guide when closing the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1996
    Assignee: Schafer Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher E. Schafer
  • Stackable locking display and dispensing structure
    Patent number: 5399005
    Abstract: A structure for the display and dispensing of tickets whereby top and bottom units are demountably attachable in a stackable arrangement. Each unit is of box-like configuration having a floor, a roof, a pair of sidewalls and an open rear end. A door is pivotally attached at a lower portion of the rear end and semi-permanently attachable in an opposite upper portion of the rear end of the unit to serve as a rear wall for the unit when in a closed position. The bottom unit has a front flange on the bottom portion of the front wall extending downward and rearward into a cavity in the top portion of the front wall to provide a forwardly extending lip portion engageable by the front flange of the top unit when the units are in a stacked relationship. The top unit also has a rear flange on its lower rear portion that extends through at least one opening in the roof of the bottom unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Assignee: Schafer Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher E. Schafer
  • Hemostatic safety catheter-cannula assembly
    Patent number: 5380305
    Abstract: A hemostatic safety catheter-cannula assembly for the prevention of contamination by blood during vascular insertion includes a catheter-cannula having a flexible catheter-cannula tube connected to a base that includes a one-way valve member biased to normally prevent fluid flow through the catheter-cannula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1995
    Assignee: Jerry D. Rockhold, Jr.
    Inventor: Ahmed F. Ghouri
  • Newspaper vending unit
    Patent number: 5363987
    Abstract: A vending machine is designed to dispense multiple copies of a publication one at a time. The machine includes a storage member adapted to temporarily store multiple copies of a publication in a face-to-face orientation, a suction assembly formed of at least one suction cup that is adapted to seize and transport the front most copy of the publication to a dispensing position, a valve assembly associated with the suction cup to cause the cup to vent when in a dispensing position to dispense such copy into a delivery chute, and a slidable backplate biased to continuously urge the remaining copies of the publication forward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: Seven, Ltd.
    Inventors: Danny E. Crawford, Gene A. Hall, Dennis A. Jendro, Dennis P. Rolph, Danny L. Nelson, Paul D. Elst, Gregory E. Erlandson, Jack T. Mowry, Robert L. Neiss, Craig K. Loebig, Richard A. Helms
  • Landscape timber system
    Patent number: 5283994
    Abstract: A modular landscape timber system used generally to construct retaining walls and boxed gardens having a plurality of vertically aligned layers of modular first members having ends with ball and socket joint portions that interfit with one another, a plurality of braces, and a plurality of spikes that are driven through the braces on an incline to fasten the ends of the timber members together with a resulting joint that resists rotational movement. The system further includes a deadman joint that serves to maintain the vertical alignment of the layers of first members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1994
    Assignee: Callison & Associates XXI, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas A. Callison
  • Animal feeder having animal actuated feed transport device between hopper and trough
    Patent number: 5275130
    Abstract: An animal feeder is actuable by an animal to provide and dispense an individual portion of feed thereto. The feeder includes a feed transport that is contained between an upper drop hole in the bottom portion of a hopper and a lower drop hole so that when the feed transport is actuated by the animal, feed is transported from the upper drop hole to the lower drop hole to fall into an animal feed station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1994
    Assignee: Agri/$ense, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory A. Muckler
  • Mobile cart
    Patent number: 5267750
    Abstract: A mobile cart including a wheel mechanism and a handle mechanism attachable to a specially designed container for golf clubs and accessories, or attachable to a specially designed golf club container receiving bracket where the wheel mechanism and handle extends to provide for semi-upright support and wheeled locomotion of the cart. The wheel mechanism provides a means for collapsing one wheel from its operating position toward the top or open end of the container and the other wheel toward the bottom or closed end of the container and where each wheel when collapsed is adjacent and approximately parallel to an elongated wall of the bag. The handle collapses from its operating position to a collapsed position internal to or adjacent to the container. The club container includes upper and lower elements attachable to the ends of elongated support tubes which are covered by a fabric to form a bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1993
    Inventor: Michael R. Thompson
  • Vehicle suspension member
    Patent number: 5265902
    Abstract: A suspension member for a frame of a vehicle that permits a coil spring and a shock absorber to be attached as a unit to the vehicle frame and a control arm pivotally attached to the frame. The control arm is attached to the frame so that the suspension member extends between the frame and the control arm, and the coil spring and shock absorber can be adjusted concurrently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Inventor: Roy A. Lewis
  • Three-point hitch guidance control
    Patent number: 5246077
    Abstract: A horizontal guidance control system for a standard three point tractor hitch is disclosed. The system employs the use of a manual control element which actuates a pair of hydraulic cylinders contained in a pair of hydraulic adjusters. The control element causes the extension of one cylinder and the retraction of the other cylinder, thereby causing controlled horizontal movement of a pair of pull links of the tractor hitch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1993
    Inventors: Larry E. Tjaden, Leonard E. Tjaden
  • Casement window
    Patent number: 5245788
    Abstract: An improved tip-in casement window has an outer frame, an inner sash, and elongated gasket strips. When the sash is assembled in the outer frame, an operatively continuous seal around the sash is created through the use of a downward facing gasket strip, thereby greatly increasing the insulative capability of a tip-in casement window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1993
    Assignee: M & G Manufacturing Company Inc.
    Inventor: Harry M. Riegelman
  • Paper towel dispenser
    Patent number: D336582
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1993
    Inventor: Robert B. Harrison
  • Newspaper vending machine
    Patent number: D353841
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: Seven, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael G. Krol, Mark O. Snyker
  • Dice game box
    Patent number: D357284
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1995
    Inventor: Randy W. Patterson
  • Boat
    Patent number: D378507
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1997
    Assignee: Schafer Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher E. Schafer, Betty L. Schafer